Notices tagged with todayilearned, page 7

TIL Scroll Lock is actually used by e.g. Excel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock
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TIL there's a species of salamander called Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) and honestly? The name fits

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/hellbender
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TIL that "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna & Barbera was the first animated series to win an Emmy Award as an "Outstanding Achievement in the field of Children's Programming". It won the award in 1960.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Hound
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TIL the sound a whip makes when you crack it is caused by a sonic boom created when the tip of a whip moves faster than the speed of sound. The whip was also the first man made object to break the sound barrier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
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TIL a scene from The Color of Money, a movie that follows a trio as they hustle at pool halls while making their way to a nine-ball tournament in Atlantic City, and sequel to the 1961 film The Hustler, inspired the name for Doom, a popular first person shooter created by id Software in 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Money#cite_note-F2Wiw-35
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TIL about Z, the last letter of the Latin alphabet and the final letter in many contemporary languages' alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z
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TIL about Richard Huckle, described as Britain's most depraved paedophile. He had done his crime for more than a decade and had photographed and recorded his crimes. While he was serving his time, he was brutally tortured and murdered by another inmate who intended to cook and eat him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Huckle
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TIL don't stand under the Manchineel tree when it's raining because its toxins are water-soluble. Don't stand close to it, as you could inhale the toxins. Every part of the Manchineel (also helpfully referred to as Manzanilla de la Muerte, or "little apple of death") is poisonous and can kill you.

https://www.southernliving.com/garden/trees/manchineel-poison-tree
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TIL of Drapetomania, a falsely proposed mental illness based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
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TIL that people are more creative in the shower

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-03/ever-wondered-why-your-best-ideas-come-to-you-in-the-shower/103243054
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TIL The Brooklyn Bridge was inaugurated in 1883 and was considered an engineering marvel at the time. However, rumors of its weakness caused a public panic that led to the death of about 12 people. To restore confidence in the bridge's strength, P.T. Barnum marched 21 elephants and 17 camels across

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/elephants-panic-brooklyn-bridge-1883
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TIL that Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman, No Cry’ is not a comfort song for men with no women. It actually means ‘No, woman, don’t cry’, where the second ‘no’ is pronounced ‘nuh’, meaning ‘don’t’ in Jamaican.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Woman,_No_Cry
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TIL that the oral history of the Klamath indigenous people describes the eruption of a volcano and subsequent creation of Crater Lake in Oregon, events that geologists date to almost 8,000 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_Lake
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TIL that due to their long association with humans, dogs have evolved the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet, which would be inadequate for other canid species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog
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TIL about Richard Russell, a ground service agent who, in 2018, hijacked an empty Horizon Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma Airport. He flew the aircraft for over an hour, performing dangerous maneuvers before crashing it on an island, ending his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Horizon_Air_Q400_incident#Incident
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fr1fgx/til_about_richard_russell_a_ground_service_agent/

TIL the version of "Earth Angel" by The Penguins that became an unexpected hit had only been recorded by the band as a literal garage demo; drums on the track were muffled with pillows so as to not overwhelm the vocals. A neighbour's pet dog stopped many takes by barking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Angel
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TIL in 1962, the US accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs over North Carolina. Fortunately, neither of the bombs detonated.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24183879
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TIL that Nick Culkin holds the record for the shortest debut in Premier League history - just 80 seconds! Nick came on to replace Raimond van der Gouw in stoppage time against Arsenal at Highbury on 22 August 1999 and the referee blew up right after Culkin took the resulting free kick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Culkin
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TIL The Maimonides Dream Telepathy experiments were real scientific studies conducted during the 1960s and 1970s at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Led by researchers such as Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner, the experiments aimed to investigate the possibility of te

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000400030001-0.pdf
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TIL that the Equus genus, which includes horses, asses and zebras, originated in North America and only emigrated to Eurasia and Africa about 2 million years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(genus)
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