Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL Black Sabbath's debut album in 1970 began with the sound of rain and a distant church bell. 43 years later, in 2013, their final album ended with the sound of rain and a distant church bell.

Paste Magazine

Black Sabbath: 13

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favor...

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TIL that many British people don’t rinse the soap off their dishes after washing them, and this practice is actually due to a fairy liquid advertisement that promoted their soap as not needing rinsing

I cannot understand the British habit of washing and rinsing dishes in the same dirty water, and drying them without washing off the soap suds. Is this similar to having a bath and not rinsing off the soap? Am I missing something here? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find

Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find

Despite poor vision and a severe lack of thumbs, Hamlet and other pigs could learn to be gamers.

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TIL Stan Lee's blood was allegedly stolen and used to sign comics in ink containing his DNA.

Channel 13 Las Vegas News KTNV

Stan Lee's blood used to sign comic books

TMZ is reportingthat Stan Lee’s “stolen” blood was used to create a special ink and that ink was used for a hand-stamped signature.

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TIL that Marcus Aurelius is believed to have written a series of love letters to his tutor Fronto. One reading: "Farewell my Fronto, wherever you are, my most sweet love and delight. How is it between you and me? I love you and you are not here."

Early life of Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia

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TIL 10 Cloverfield Lane was adapted from a script called The Cellar that was unrelated to the movie Cloverfield.

10 Cloverfield Lane - Wikipedia

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TIL German filmmaker Werner Herzog made a short film called Game in the Sand (1964) that he refuses to release because filming “got out of hand”.

Game in the Sand - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL Beaver anal secretions have been used as a vanilla flavor substitute for certain foods and luxury cosmetics.

VICE

A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice

No, castoreum is not a cheap substitute for strawberries; it’s luxe, artisanal secretions from a beaver's rear end.

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TIL aboriginal cannibals were said to prefer the taste of Chinese people over Europeans, "because their rice-fed flesh tasted better than the salty flesh of the beef fed whites."

Aboriginal cannibalism

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TIL of Quintus Quincy Quigley, the founder of Paducah, Kentucky

Quintus Quincy Quigley - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Mona Lisa - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that Nintendo was founded in 1889.

CBBC Newsround

History of Nintendo: Where did Nintendo come from? - CBBC Newsround

Over a century ago, a small card company in the Japanese city of Kyoto was created. Little did anyone know what the legacy of that card company wou...

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TIL that tiny pocket in blue jeans was intended to hold a pocket watch

Encyclopedia Britannica

Why Do Jeans Have That Tiny Pocket? | Britannica

Answering the important questions about pants.

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL (from a YouTube video from The Paint Explainer) Warnock's dilemma is the explication of why there is no sure way to understand why nobody comments on community post you made.

Warnock's dilemma - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant who speaks 10 languages, described how numbers appear to him in terms of shape, color, and texture. For him, 289 is ugly, 333 is attractive, and pi is beautiful.

Daniel Tammet - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL between 1978 and 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Out of 31 officials who were tested, 12 accepted the bribe and were convicted https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/abscam #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eq43jp/til_between_1978_and_1980_the_fbi_formed_a_fake/

Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL there is desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been kept filled with candy since 1965. It’s called the ‘Candy Desk’.

Candy Desk - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that Hitler ensured the safety of his Jewish family doctor Eduard Bloch (who treated Hitler's mother for breast cancer at reduced cost). He was allowed to emigrate to the US in 1940.

Eduard Bloch - Wikipedia

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TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL in 1184, 60 noblemen died after a wooden floor collapsed in a church, causing them to fall into a "latrine cesspit" (liquid shit) which hadn't been emptied for a while. Their cause of death was drowning.

Toilets of the World

The Erfurt Latrine Disaster

That Time When Sixty Members of Nobility Died in a Latrine Disaster — A blog about toilets

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