TIL about the SS Baychimo, a 1,300-ton cargo steamer that was abandoned in 1931 and became one of history's longest-running "ghost ships." It remained afloat and unmanned for 38 years, drifting along the coast of Alaska before its last recorded sighting in 1969.
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SS Baychimo
ship
TIL the guy who invented Coca-Cola was a morphine addict who thought cocaine would cure him. Then he marketed the result as a "brain tonic."
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Coca-Cola’s Creator Said the Drink Would Make You Smarter
Like the wine and cocaine drink that preceded it, Coca-Cola was first marketed as a brain tonic
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TIL most people in France did not speak French as recently as 1794, when only 11% of the population of France spoke fluent French. Instead, most people spoke regional languages like Occitan, Breton, Alsatian etc. French only became the majority language later on due to heavy assimilation efforts.
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French Wasn’t Always the Language of France! | Alliance Française Berkeley
TIL the Matilija Dam in California, built in 1947, once held a capacity of 7,018 acre⋅ft. However due to sedimentation by 2021 the reservoir completely silted up & the dam is no longer able to hold any water. Despite attempts to remove the dam dating back to 1964, it remains standing.
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Matilija Dam
concrete arch dam completed in 1947 for water storage and flood control in Ventura County, California
TIL the 2002 art thriller film Irréversible deliberately added an extremely low frequency 27 Hz sound to the first 30 minutes of its soundtrack to induce nausea and anxiety in audience goers. The sound is not immediately perceptible, but powerful enough to evoke a negative physical response
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Irréversible
2002 film by Gaspar Noé
TIL the Great Pyramids were already 2,500 years old when the Ptolemaic Egyptians (300–30 BCE) were around. They actively studied, documented, and restored these ancient monuments, essentially practicing archaeology millennia before the field formally existed.
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Egyptology
scientific study of ancient Egypt
TIL the Band-Aid exists because one man's wife kept injuring herself in the kitchen. In 1920, Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson rigged up gauze on surgical tape so his accident-prone wife Josephine could bandage her own cuts and burns. J&J turned it into a product.
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Band-Aid
brand name of adhesive bandages and related products
TIL about the "Endless Eight" arc of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The arc, which featured the characters of the show trapped in a time loop, featured the same episode eight times in a row with minute differences, all animated and recorded from scratch each time.
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List of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya episodes
Wikimedia list article
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TIL that Hebrew is the only successful attempt at a large-scale linguistic revival. After having largely been replaced by other languages between the 2nd and 4th centuries. It was revived as a language beginning in the late 19th century
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Revival of the Hebrew language
process of making Hebrew a lingua franca in Israel
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TIL that Empress Ma was born poor and during a famine she stole cakes to feed her husband by hiding them in her breasts. The cakes were hot and she got burns. Later her husband became a rebel commander who became Emperor and made her his Empress. He was deeply devoted to her even as an Emperor.
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Empress Ma (Hongwu)
Empress Xiaocigao (Chinese: 孝慈高皇后, 18 July 1332 – 23 September 1382), commonly known as Empress Ma (Chinese: 馬皇后), was an imperial consort of the Ming dynasty. She was the principal wife of the Hongwu Emperor and acted as his adviser in politics, exerting…
TIL that since 1993, there have been 47 incidents of Sri Lankan sports teams disappearing during overseas trips. The most famous was in 2004, when a 23-man "national handball team" vanished in Germany; it was later found that Sri Lanka didn't even have a handball federation
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Sri Lankan sporting disappearances
phenomenon in international sports
TIL for his role in Shoresy, Jared Keeso had his tooth surgically removed to look like an older hockey player.
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Shoresy Season 4 Reverses One Of Jared Keeso’s Most Shocking Real-Life Changes For The Show
Season 4 negated the real body change right away.
TIL that after 2 friends made a promise in 1992 to split the Powerball lottery jackpot if either of them ever won it, one of them actually won the $22 million prize in 2020, keeping his promise and splitting the winnings evenly between them
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Man splits $22 million jackpot win with friend, keeping nearly 30-year-old promise
Wisconsin friends Thomas Cook and Joseph Feeney made a promise in 1992 to split the Powerball jackpot if one of them ever won.
TIL that the average purity of methamphetamine in the southwestern USA is 96.9%.
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TIL Julius Caesar never said “Et tu, Brute?” during his assassination. The Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus wrote 150 years later that Caesar said nothing, though some claimed his final words to Marcus Junius Brutus were the Greek phrase “Kaì sý, téknon” which means “You too, child.”
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Et tu, Brute?
phrase said in the play Julius Caesar by the title character