TIL Bananas glow blue under black lights.
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Chemistry World
Ripe bananas glow bright blue
Bananas
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TIL the smallest hoofed animals are called Java mouse-deer, not much bigger than ordinary rats
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Java mouse-deer - Wikipedia
TIL of Project Artichoke which was a mind control program from the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force and FBI. The goal was to determine if someone could involuntarily be made to perform an act of assassination. It also studied forced addiction to morphine, hypnosis, and amnesia.
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Project Artichoke - Wikipedia
TIL: Former Red Ranger, from Power Rangers : Wild Force, is in jail over murdering his roommate with a sword. The argument involved his girlfriend.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g1czeu/til_former_red_ranger_from_power_rangers_wild/
BBC News
Ex-Power Ranger Ricardo Medina is sentenced to six years for killing his roommate
Actor Ricardo Medina stabbed his roommate Joshua Sutter to death with a sword two years ago.
TIL The Amazing Jonathan, late comedian and magician, was married to, and managed by, Anastasia Synn, a transhumanist, biohacker, and cyborg rights activist. She holds the Guinness World Record for most technological implants in the female body and has the largest magnet ever implanted in a person.
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Anastasia Synn - Wikipedia
TIL of mut'ah, a "marriage" contract lasting an hour that is practiced by Shia people which acts as a form of legal prostitution in Iraq, Iran, and other areas with notable Shia population
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fvu02h/til_of_mutah_a_marriage_contract_lasting_an_hour/
Nikah mut'ah - Wikipedia
TIL that all 8 confirmed grolar bears (grizzly - Polar hybrid) since 2006 have come from the same female polar bear
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Grizzly–polar bear hybrid - Wikipedia
TIL that mentally disabled patients at the Judge Rotenberg Center aren't allowed to talk to each-other and will get punised if they do so, employees also can't chat with other employees, it's even encouraged for employees to rat each-other out if they try to have conversation
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Judge Rotenberg Center - Wikipedia
TIL that the Centralia Mine Fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania has been burning continuously since at least 1962. It stretches across 8 miles (13km) & at depths of up to 300ft (90m). It has made the surrounding land unstable & the residents were relocated
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Centralia mine fire - Wikipedia
TIL that astronauts recycle urine and sweat into drinking water
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ABC News
NASA says 98% of astronauts' urine, sweat can be recycled into drinking water
NASA announced it can recycle 98% of the water astronauts have onboard the International Space Station, including sweat and urine, and turn it into...
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.
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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...
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
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fde4gl/til_that_many_british_people_dont_rinse_the_soap/
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
TIL Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find
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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.
TIL Stan Lee's blood was allegedly stolen and used to sign comics in ink containing his DNA.
https://www.ktnv.com/news/comic-legend-stan-lees-blood-used-to-sign-comic-books-sold-in-las-vegas
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fa6inu/til_stan_lees_blood_was_allegedly_stolen_and_used/
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."
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f8e5sa/til_that_marcus_aurelius_is_believed_to_have/
Early life of Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia
TIL 10 Cloverfield Lane was adapted from a script called The Cellar that was unrelated to the movie Cloverfield.
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10 Cloverfield Lane - Wikipedia
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”.
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Game in the Sand - Wikipedia
TIL Beaver anal secretions have been used as a vanilla flavor substitute for certain foods and luxury cosmetics.
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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.
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."
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Aboriginal cannibalism
TIL of Quintus Quincy Quigley, the founder of Paducah, Kentucky
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Quintus Quincy Quigley - Wikipedia