TIL a European "Get Some Nuts" Snickers commercial featuring Mr. T using a vehicle-mounted rotary machine gun to shoot Snickers bars at a speedwalker for being a "disgrace to the man race" was pulled in 2008 after a group in the U.S. complained that the advertisement was homophobic.
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Snickers
brand name chocolate bar made by Mars, Incorporated
TIL In 18th-century America, the typical age of marriage for middle-to-upper class white women was 22 and 26 for men.
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Submitted October 22, 2023 at 06:41PM by jumpedoutoftheboat
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Hammond-Harwood House
18th Century Marriage | Hammond-Harwood House
By Tara Owens, Educational Programs Coordinator According to U.S. Census data for 2009, the average age of first marriage for men is 28.4 and 26.5 for women. I was married in 2009, when I was 22 and my husband was 24. As a married 22-year old woman, I felt…
TIL in Mexico, alcohol sales are banned on election days, and sometimes several days before.
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Submitted October 22, 2023 at 06:45PM by m_sporkboy
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Mexico News Daily
Election ‘dry law’ means at least one dry day in most states
Keeping the peace on election day is the purpose of a law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, and most states have chosen to implement it.
TIL the former CEO of Nissan fled Japan in 2019 by hiding in an audio equipment box
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Carlos Ghosn
French-Brazilian-Lebanese businessman
TIL Ferris Bueller's Day Off was made into a TV show 4 years after the movie. Ferris's sister Jeannie, played by Jennifer Gray in the movie, was played by Jennifer Anniston.
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Ferris Bueller (TV series)
American sitcom
TIL that a study in 2010 in the UK found that "overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug...with heroin...and crack cocaine" in 2nd & 3rd places.
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Submitted October 22, 2023 at 10:01PM by tyrion2024
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TIL of Natalia Grace, a 9-year-old orphan whose adopted parents claimed she was actually a 22-year-old sociopath.
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Submitted October 23, 2023 at 12:27AM by Sebastianlim
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Natalia Grace
Ukrainian-born American adoptee
TIL Actor Danny Trejo holds the record of the most on-screen deaths of any actor, with 65 deaths to his name.
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Nerdist
Danny Trejo Has the Most On-Screen Deaths of Any Actor
Actor Danny Trejo now has the most on-screen movie deaths in the history of cinema according to research done by Movie Mortality.
TIL there’s a baseball equivalent to the Harlem Globetrotters known as the Savannah Bananas
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MLB.com
Who are the Savannah Bananas?
Drive to historic Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Ga., and you'll immediately be struck by a sense of grandeur. After passing old brick buildings lining Savannah's downtown, you'll pull between the ancient Spanish moss-covered oak trees that surround the park.…
TIL in 1857-58 the US tested camels for military use. While crossing the Mojave desert Native Americans attacked. The camel driver pulled his Scimitar and charged yelling "Bismiallah." Never having seen a camel before the Indians fled in terror thinking it was a desert demon.
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TIL the first 100,000 pressings of Tiger Woods ‘99 for PlayStation contained a video file of an early South Park short film, snuck onto the disc by an EA Sports employee.
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Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf
1999 golf video game
TIL Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles is still alive, and lives in the Center for Great Apes sanctuary in Florida, where his care is paid for by Jackson's estate
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Bubbles (chimpanzee)
Chimpanzee once owned by Michael Jackson
TIL that Charcoal toothpaste whitens your teeth by sanding off your outer enamel
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Is Charcoal Toothpaste Safe?
Charcoal toothpaste has been rising in popularity through recent years. I have been asked by many patients about its efficacy and safety. After some research this is what I have concluded: 1. Charcoal toothpaste is natural, so it must be safe, right? Charcoal…
TIL about a study that reports the effects of 30 different scents on sexual arousal. It was found that the combined scent of lavender and pumpkin pie produced the greatest increase in penile blood flow.
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American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons | The American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons (AANOS) is a Scientific and Educational Association of Orthopedists and Neurosurgeons.
Human Male Sexual Response to Olfactory Stimuli | American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons
Folk wisdom has it that various aromas are sexually enticing but no data exist demonstrating effects of specific odors on arousal (Human Male Sexual Response).
TIL in 1859 Delos Ashley and David Jack bought nearly all of the California town of Montery for $1,000. David unethically evicted his tennants and claim their products including a monestary's cheeses. Jack sold those cheese and it was so popular his buyers called them "Montery Jack's Cheese."
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Food & Wine
The Tragic Way Monterey Jack Cheese Got Its Name
Monterey Jack cheese was born in California to Spanish missionaries. This is the story of how David Jack hijacked the cheese for his own gain.
TIL About 'Eden' a reality show that aired for about a month on the UK's Channel 4. Cancelled after only a few episodes the show continued 'filming' for almost a year without telling the dwindling contestants the show had actually been cancelled.
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Eden (2016 TV series)
british reality tv series
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TIL scientists found that playing music at cheese while it ferments drastically changes its flavor profile as bacteria react to music: "the cheese that was played hip-hop had 'a discernibly stronger smell and stronger, fruitier taste'"
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NPR
Need A Can't-Miss Wheel Of Cheese? Try Playing It Some Hip-Hop
Researchers exposed cheese to different genres of music for 24 hours a day over six months to find out that hip-hop might create the tastiest cheese.
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TIL that a 2009 VH1 reality dating show titled, Megan Wants a Millionaire, was cancelled after only 3 episodes because a contestant that had made the finals & placed 3rd was charged w/ the murder of his wife and declared a fugitive before eventually being found having committed suicide.
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EW.com
The murder that changed reality TV
EW looks back at the murder of Jasmine Fiore at the hands of reality show star Ryan Jenkins.
TIL that the man who authored the NIST manual on passwords and recommended password changes every 90 days regrets doing so. Mandatory password changes on a scheduled interval are no longer recommended by NIST.
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Submitted October 23, 2023 at 03:44PM by gixk
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BBC News
Password guru regrets past advice
Advice to frequently change passwords and to muddle up words with numbers and symbols has changed.
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TIL only about 3,000 copies of Moby-Dick were sold during author Herman Melville's lifetime. It wasn't until the 1920s that literary critics began to identify the book as a great work of American literature.
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Submitted October 23, 2023 at 11:36AM by SnarkySheep
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The Life of Herman Melville | American Experience | PBS
When Melville died in 1891, his death was noted in only one local newspaper, with a brief description of the "long forgotten" author.
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TIL A Qantas Boeing 747 once carried an extra engine on its wing between Sydney and Johannesburg
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Qantas News Room
That time when we strapped an extra engine on to a jumbo
Keep up to date with Qantas' latest news and information, media releases, articles, images and more with the Qantas News Room.