TIL "slumming" was a Gilded Age tourist craze, when wealthy patrons paid guides for nighttime tours of New York’s Chinatown to watch the poor. Demand got so high that operators staged fake opium dens with hired actors so the rich would get the squalor they paid for.
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New York Almanack
Chuck Connors & Slum Tourism in Chinatown - New York Almanack
Dating from 1785, Edward Mooney House at 18 Bowery, at the corner of Pell Street in Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown, is one of New York’s oldest surviving brick
TIL that during the 1904 Olympic Marathon in St. Louis, the first-place finisher drove a car for 11 miles, the official winner nearly died from drinking rat poison as a performance enhancer, and another runner was chased a mile off course by wild dogs.
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Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24 miles 1500 yards (40 km).[1]
TIL during a delay while filming the CBS show Cover Up, to lighten the mood, actor Jon-Erik Hexum loaded one blank in the gun being used in the scene, spun the cylinder, put the gun to his head, and pulled the trigger. The muzzle force shattered his skull and he was declared brain dead 6 day later.
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Jon-Erik Hexum
American actor and model (1957-1984)
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TIL After his his death in battle against the Parthians, the head of Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus was delivered to the king of Parthia while the king was in the middle of watching a play. The lead actor then decided to grab the head and improvise by using it as a stage prop
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TIL Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica was once shown at a car showroom in Manchester.
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Tate
Guernica... In a car showroom? – Tate Etc | Tate
Tate Etc. issue 24 Helen Little on Picasso’s Guernica
TIL that Sixty-five per cent of the exploratory dives into the deep have taken place within 200 nautical miles of either the US, Japan or New Zealand. And almost all observations of the deep seafloor – around 97 per cent – were carried out by those three countries, plus France and Germany.
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BBC Science Focus Magazine
The strange reasons 99.999% of the ocean floor remains unexplored | BBC Science Focus Magazine
The Ocean is unbelievably large and hard to navigate, but are we any nearer to understanding it?
TIL that in 1978, The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton made a film based on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and its soundtrack became the first album to go “reverse Platinum;” four million copies were returned and thousands more were destroyed because of how poorly it was received.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a double album produced by George Martin,[1] featuring covers of songs by the Beatles. It was released in July 1978 by RSO Records as the soundtrack to the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which starred…
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TIL A Canadian man once held up a CBC television station because they weren’t showing the Toronto Maple Leafs game his son was playing in.
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Los Angeles Times
Sports Legend Revealed: A father of an NHL player held up a TV station to force them to show his son's game
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.
TIL one of the reasons the Missouri constitutional convention of 1861-1863 cited for voting against secession was that if they joined the Confederacy they would have “no better right to recapture a slave found in a free state than we now have in Canada”
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TIL in 1976, undisputed champion Muhammad Ali fought wrestler Antonio Inoki. Rules barred Inoki from grappling, so he spent 15 rounds on his back landing 107 leg kicks. Ali landed just 2 punches, got severe blood clots, and doctors debated amputation. The match was a draw.
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Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki
Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki, billed as The War of the Worlds,[1] was a fight between American professional boxer Muhammad Ali and Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki, held at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo, Japan, on June 26, 1976. At the time…
TIL Alfred Dreyfus, of the Dreyfus affair, served with distinction in the first world war
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Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus[a] (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair. In 1894, Dreyfus fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that eventually sparked a major political crisis in the French Third Republic…
TIL the Romans had a ritual called "evocatio": during a siege, they formally invited the enemy city's guardian deity to abandon it for the Roman side, promising a more lavish temple. It doubled as psychological warfare and mitigated the otherwise sacrilegious looting of religious images.
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Glossary of ancient Roman religion
Wikimedia disambiguation page
TIL archaeologists and historians don’t know for sure what language the ancient Trojan people spoke. Whatever language it was, it probably wasn’t Greek; the former site of Troy is devoid of Greek writings from the relevant historical period, and the current evidence points away from a Greek origin.
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Trojan language
language
TIL in 1954, the United Fruit Company (Chiquita) instigated a CIA backed coup in Guatemala after government reforms threatened their profits and exploitative labor practices.
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1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
The democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was deposed in a coup d'état in 1954, marking the end of the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian…
TIL that nearly 20% of people over 25 in Los Alamos County, have a PhD, making it the county with the highest concentration of doctoral degrees per capita in the US. It consistently ranks as one of the most educated counties in the USA.
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Los Alamos County, New Mexico
county in New Mexico, United States
TIL that the term "Patient Zero" is due to a misreading of an AIDS study by the CDC. It was actually Patient O (standing for "Out-of-California"). This patient was not the first person to spread HIV across the USA.
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WHYY
How the myth of ‘patient zero’ was made
A labeling fluke and an international bestseller shaped our thinking about public health.
TIL that despite widespread belief that different races have varying penis size, actual scientific studies where they measure the size of people's penis found no variation of penis size between different races
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Human penis size
measurement of the human penis
TIL Elizabeth I repeatedly turned down marriage proposals from Ivan the Terrible. After she refused him, he fumed that England was ruled by "boors and merchants" and mocked her "maidenly estate"—then tried courting her cousin, Mary Hastings, all while having seven wives.
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Ivan the Terrible
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич;[a] 25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible,[b] was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from…
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TIL in 2017 an apparently driverless van was spotted driving around Arlington, Virginia. A reporter found a person inside dressed as a car seat, who was part of a Virginia Tech study about self driving vehicles. The only clues were the hands sticking out from the costume, holding the steering wheel
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NPR
Car Seat Camouflage: Man Wears Bizarre Costume In Automatic Vehicle Experiment
An apparently driverless van was spotted driving around Arlington, Va., recently. The vehicle appeared to have no humans on board, and the story got stranger from there.
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TIL that Christopher Nolan's older brother Matthew Nolan is an alleged assassin who used the alias "Oppenheimer"
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Far Out Magazine
The 2008 FBI manhunt to apprehend Christopher Nolan's brother
Movie-worthy in itself.
TIL that funds from a multi-billion dollar global money-laundering and embezzlement scheme involving a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund were used to finance “The Wolf of Wall Street,” a film about global money-laundering and embezzlement.
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The Straits Times
Leonardo DiCaprio turns over Marlon Brando Oscar, other gifts allegedly bought with 1MDB funds
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has confirmed that he has turned over an Oscar won by Marlon Brando, along with other gifts, amid an inquiry into a multi-billion dollar money-laundering scheme involving a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.…