TIL Mitsubishi made a Jeep CJ until 1998. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
While picking up my daughter from school today, I noticed an old jeep in the parking lot, but did not think much of it until I saw the tri-spoked Mitsubishi logo above the grill and did quite the double-take. Apparently a number of foreign companies were licensed to produce them after WW2.
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TIL Tarot cards were originally used as playing cards, and only came to be used for fortune telling a few hundred years later. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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TIL; in the US state of Georgia Immigrants are ok, as long as they can be exploited by business owners. (www.theatlantic.com)
Georgia prevents immigrants, causing millions of dollars of crops to rot. changes course to allow immigrants. still against immigration somehow.
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As if elephants weren't already awesome, they eat xmas trees! (apnews.com)
There’s a bit of post-Christmas cheer on the menu for elephants at the Berlin Zoo: they can chomp on Christmas trees that didn’t find a home.
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TIL Star Trek’s (1966) theme song originally had lyrics written by Gene Roddenberry, who wrote them solely to usurp half of the royalties from composer Alexander Courage. The lyrics never aired. (www.snopes.com)
And they were comically bad:...
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TIL about Hector the Convector a thunderstorm and cloud system that forms nearly every afternoon from September to March in the Northern Territory of Australia (en.wikipedia.org)
Named by pilots during the Second World War, the recurring position of the thunderstorm made it a navigational beacon for pilots and mariners in the region. A mesoscale phenomenon, Hector is caused primarily by a collision of several sea breeze boundaries across the Tiwi Islands and is known for its consistency and intensity....
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TIL of BILLBOARD LIBERATION FRONT : An artist guerrilla group that alters billboards by changing key words to radically alter the message, often to an anti-corporate message. (aussie.zone)
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TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe (news.bbc.co.uk)
TIL that according to an FBI report, Elvis Presley believed the Beatles had led young people astray “by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music” (www.theguardian.com)
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TIL most Americans belived Indians ate live snakes and monkey brains after watching Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (www.mashed.com)
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TIL many female insects mate only once in their lives. Insect populations can be controlled by releasing flocks of sterile males into the wild. Females mate with them, never give birth and simply die. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about Lloydminster, a Canadian town that lies within two provinces but is a single municipality (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Chironomia is the art of using gesticulations or hand gestures to good effect in traditional rhetoric or oratory. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL this Fun Fact: Unfortunately, Chainsaws Were Invented for Childbirth (www.pharmacytimes.com)
So… yep.
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TIL about Thomas Midgley and I wonder what's 'perfectly safe' today. (www.cnn.com)
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TIL George V Went Out Like John Belushi (www.youtube.com)
Have been on a QI binge lately, so I’ve been learning all sorts of random stuff. Here’s today’s:...
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TIL the etymology of british isles names (www.youtube.com)
Pretty interesting video …
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TIL That the Christian SNES Game 'Super Noah's Ark 3D' Started Out as a Video Game Adaptation of 'Hellraiser' and Used the Wolfenstein 3D Engine (dubvee.org)
Of all the random Wikipedia articles I stumble upon, this one definitely had me saying, “wait, what?” more than once....
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TIL the original Star Wars trilogy was influenced by the Vietnam War (www.cbr.com)
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TIL fairy dust was added to Peter Pan so that children wouldn't hurt themselves trying to fly when they got home from seeing the play. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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TIL your skin health can actually impact your overall health including heart and neurological conditions (www.bbc.com)
As the largest organ in the body, the skin can have a profound impact. The chemicals released by diseased and dysfunctional skin soon enter the bloodstream, where they wash around, damaging other tissues. Amid the ensuing systemic inflammation, chemicals from the skin can reach and harm organs that seem entirely unrelated,...
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TIL The term keystone species refers to species that define an entire ecosystem, where it would be dramatically different or cease to exist without the species. Examples: beavers, wolves, and sea otte (education.nationalgeographic.org)
A keystone species is an organism that helps define an entire ecosystem. Without its keystone species, the ecosystem would be dramatically different or cease to exist altogether....
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