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
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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
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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.…
TIL in 2024, during a trip with his dogs, Brandon Garrett failed to navigate a turn and plunged his truck into an Oregon ravine, trapping him in a creek. One of his dogs ran four miles back to their campsite to alert family, launching a rescue operation which led to his survival.
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the Guardian
Dog runs four miles to get help for owner who crashed car into Oregon ravine
Brandon Garrett was driving solo with his four dogs near where his family was camping, when he failed to navigate a turn
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TIL during the Greco-Italian War, Mussolini reportedly expected to reach Athens in just five days, calling it "a coffee walk". After 103 days of fighting, a Greek cartoon featured a waiter telling an Italian: "Tell Mussolini the coffee he ordered in Athens is frozen."
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The Greek Herald
The epic of 1940 in cartoons
Dr Spyridon Mouratidis tells us how art vividly showed the trials, hardships and victories for the Greeks during the Second World War.
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TIL that the average age of a millionaire in the US is around 61 years old.
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Moneywise
‘The millionaires are aging’: The average American with $1M in net worth is 61 years old — here’s why young people are having a…
Seniors have become a major spending force.
TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral
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The Hollywood Reporter
Samuel L. Jackson: How I Became an Usher at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Funeral (Guest Column)
On the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader's assassination, the actor recalls how the tragedy propelled him into activism and why he staged a lock-in that got him expelled from college.
TIL After Athens' crushing defeat at Sicily in 413 BC many of their soldiers ended up as POWs in the infamous Siclian quaries. Some of them discovered that the locals loved the work of Athenian playwright Euripides so much that they were willing to free any POW who could recite lines from his work
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GreekReporter.com
When Greek Theater Saved Lives: How Euripides Freed Athenian Prisoners in Syracuse
Following their devastating defeat at Syracuse, Athenian prisoners found an unlikely lifeline in the art of Euripides.
TIL Jake Gyllenhaal was briefly cast to replace Tobey Maguire in "Spider-Man 2" after Maguire's back injury from filming "Seabiscuit." A source close to Maguire claimed that "a year from now, the public wouldn't know the difference" between the two actors before Maguire reclaimed the role.
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Wikipedia
Spider-Man 2
2004 American film directed by Sam Raimi
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TIL that after King Constantine of Greece got ousted democratically and the country became a republic, he spent 1975 and 1976 trying to return by plotting a coup with right wing elements in the military. The plot was cancelled after discovery by the US, UK and Greek governments.
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eKathimerini.com
British wiretapping and the King’s attempted coup against Karamanlis
Documents from the Konstantinos Karamanlis archives cast light on 1975-1978 machinations to overthrow, even assassinate, the premier