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TIL researchers reviewed 40 episodes of the "Dr. Oz Show" and discovered that almost half of the medical advice had no supporting evidence (www.reliasmedia.com)

TIL that John Lennon's son had to buy back postcards sent to him by his father from his widow Yoko Ono (www.youtube.com)

TIL The first recorded human death by robot was in 1979 when 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker Robert William was struck by an arm of a malfunctioning one-ton robot (www.wikiwand.com)

Williams was one of three operators of the parts retrieval system, a five-story robot built by the Unit Handling Systems division of Litton Industries. The robot was designed to retrieve castings from high density storage shelves at the Flat Rock plant. Part of the machine included one-ton transfer vehicles, which were carts on...

TIL Peter Molyneux failed his first game so badly he started a baked bean export company, which got confused with a software firm and kickstarted his development career (en.wikipedia.org)

After his first game venture failed, Peter Molyneux started a baked bean export business. Commodore International mistakenly offered him ten free Amiga systems because they confused the baked bean company’s name “Taurus” with a software company “Torus”, and he used the hardware to create a database system for the...

TIL: There is a community on Lemmy that is preserving old cooking recipes. (lemmy.world)

TIL James Brown and the opera singer Luciano Pavaratti did a duet singing 'It's a Man's World' (www.youtube.com)

Thanks for the suggestion youtube

TIL researchers recorded the brain waves of a dying person, they showed patterns similar to those occurring during memory recall. (blog.frontiersin.org)

Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall, and meditation. Now, a study published to Frontiers brings new insight into a possible organizational role of the brain during...

TIL: A simple rubber glove will get pet hair out of fabrics (lemmy.world)

This works way better than you might expect.

TIL of the CLOACA PROFESSIONAL : a large art installation that turns food into feces. (aussie.zone)

👉Wim Delvoye wiki...

TIL: Cheech Marin released a children's music album in 1992 called, "My Name Is Cheech The School Bus Driver" (open.spotify.com)

TIL Spiders might dream. New study finds evidence of REM-like movement in arachnids (boingboing.net)

TIL that the Mormons have one fund worth over $100 billion (www.sltrib.com)

They are required to talk about anything over $100 million but they “didn’t want people to be discouraged about tithing to them.”...

TIL of the UNDER THE INFLUENCE series in which artist Bryan Saunders took a different drug everyday and drew a self portrait. (aussie.zone)

👉BoredPanda article with portraits...

TIL that .sucks is a valid web domain. As I post this, reddit.sucks is available. spez.sucks is available. trump.sucks is registered (get.sucks)

Apparently, they’ve been available since 2014.

TIL of RHYTHM 0 : A performance art piece in which Marina Abramović stood still for six hours while the audience could do whatever they wanted to her. (aussie.zone)

👉wiki...

TIL Mr. Tornado (Tetsuya Fujita) who created the tornado intensity F0-F5 scale was living in the primary target city when the atomic bomb was dropped but the city was spared because it was too cloudy (www.fox6now.com)

“It was a certain weather pattern that spared Fujita from that bombing, allowing him to pursue his atmospheric discoveries....

The Japanese developers of Puck-Man changed the name to Pac-Man when porting it to North America to avoid a scenario where the "P" in Puck Man would be changed to an "F", forming an obscene name.

Eyeing the game’s success in Japan, Namco initialized plans to bring the game to the international market, particularly the United States.[26] Before showing the game to distributors, Namco America made a number of changes, such as altering the names of the ghosts.[26] The biggest of these was the game’s title; executives at...