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- www.piquenewsmagazine.com As Canadian as possible under the circumstances
It's an ambiguous aphorism, dreamed up by a 17-year-old student in response to a contest. In 1972 the CBC's Peter Gzowski challenged listeners to complete the saying "As Canadian as..." Heather Scott answered the challenge with "...
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- http:// news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/1713201.stm
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyehlomor on 2024-09-18 22:00:17+00:00.
Original Title: TIL the alleged Goebbels quote "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." has been repeated in numerous books and articles and on thousands of web pages, yet there is no primary source for it.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/IamHongWei on 2024-09-18 20:26:04+00:00.
Original Title: TIL of the Military-First Girls, a Japanese all-women fan club of the Moranbong Band, a North Korean girl group. In an interview the club's leader said: "Just like how there are women who like K-pop and Taylor Swift, we just love North Korean culture."
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2024-09-18 20:30:40+00:00.
Original Title: TIL: In the past, coin purses showed social status by the embroidery and quality. Men would even gift their new bride a purse embroidered with a love story. Both men and women had coin purses or purses for thousands of years dating back to 3300 BC until pockets were invented for men in the 1700s.
- now.northropgrumman.com How Many Dimensions Are There in the Universe?
How many dimensions are there in the universe? The short answer is that we don't know. According to physicists, possible answers range up to 10 or more.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/dissoluti0nn on 2024-09-18 17:43:55+00:00.
Original Title: TIL that Superstring Theory posits that the universe exists in 10 dimensions with us only experiencing the first 4. The 9th dimension would allow an observer to compare all of the possible universes in history.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Voyager_AU on 2024-09-18 18:59:38+00:00.
Original Title: TIL that Polio is one of only two diseases currently the subject of a global eradication program, the other being Guinea worm disease. So far, the only diseases completely eradicated by humankind are smallpox, declared eradicated in 1980, and rinderpest, declared eradicated in 2011.
- lenspricer.com Can Dogs Wear Contact Lenses?
Discover how dogs can wear contact lenses for vision correction and eye protection. Learn about the fascinating world of canine contact lenses.
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- www.loudersound.com The life and times of Rammstein’s Till Lindemann
Late bloomer, Olympic swimmer, punk rock drummer, “extreme human being” – these are the many faces of Rammstein’s Till Lindemann
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Original Title: TIL Blue-footed Boobies (and other Boobie species) are named from the Spanish word “bobo.” The term means “stupid,” which is how early European colonists may have characterized these clumsy and unwary birds when they saw them on land—their least graceful environment.
- variety.com Bruce Lee’s Death Caused by Drinking Too Much Water, Researchers Propose in New Study
A new study has hypothesized that martial arts legend and actor Bruce Lee died from his kidney's "inability to excrete excess water."
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/waitingforthesun92 on 2024-09-18 17:12:13+00:00.
Original Title: TIL that a 2022 study proposed that Bruce Lee may have died from hyponatraemia - a low concentration of sodium in blood, which is caused by excessive water intake. At the time of his death, Lee had reportedly been existing on a near-liquid diet of mostly juices.
- https:// www.nytimes.com /1981/10/18/us/evidence-of-1980-murders-hidden-by-volcano.html
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- biaza.org.uk Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons | Biaza
The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) is the professional body representing the best zoos and aquariums in the UK and Ireland.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/QuotePuzzleheaded638 on 2024-09-18 04:23:44+00:00.
Original Title: TIL Komodo dragons can have so-called virgin births. As well as mating with males the species is parthenogenetic: in other words, the females can lay fertile eggs without any input from males. This will only reproduce identical young, however. For the species to continue to adapt, it needs to mate.
- www.britannica.com Maximilian | Archduke of Austria & Emperor of Mexico
Maximilian was an archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico, a man whose naive liberalism proved unequal to the international intrigues that had put him on the throne and to the brutal struggles within Mexico that led to his execution. The younger brother of Emperor Francis Joseph, he served as
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Original Title: TIL Vitamin D deficiency makes sun exposure rewarding, as an evolutionary mechanism to encourage animals to get enough vitamin D. Once vitamin D levels are replete, sun exposure no longer produces euphoria
- www.nbcnews.com Seven of the most bizarre CIA assassination attempts on Fidel Castro
Cuba's iconic dictator certainly provided an almost mythical adversary for what became an obsessive, error-prone campaign by the CIA.
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- www.newstatesman.com Why Norway is the best place in the world to be a writer
The Norwegian government keeps book publishers alive.
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- www.sbnation.com Horace Grant wore goggles after eye surgery to make kids with glasses feel better
Never doubt the power of goggles.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/StarryyDreaaams on 2024-09-18 05:44:40+00:00.
Original Title: TIL Even though he received surgery to correct his nearsightedness, Horace Grant continued to wear his trademark goggles on the court during his NBA career after hearing from parents that he was a inspiration to children who wore glasses.
- www.cnet.com The dark secrets of Whopper Sacrifice
One of the brains behind the wildly successful Burger King Facebook ad campaign talks about how the key to its wildfire spread was a combination of simplicity and cultural pervasiveness.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SparklinggGeeem on 2024-09-18 05:30:40+00:00.
Original Title: TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MoonnlitGllow on 2024-09-18 05:18:52+00:00.
Original Title: TIL Donnie Yen (the blind monk in Star Wars: Rogue One/star of the Ip Man films) was once leaving a Hong Kong nightclub with his girlfriend when they were attacked by a gang who had been bothering them earlier in the night. Donnie hospitalised 8 of them.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CherryyGllow on 2024-09-18 05:06:55+00:00.
Original Title: TIL President Diouf began an anti-AIDS program in Senegal, before the virus was able to take off. He used media and schools to promote safe-sex messages and required prostitutes to be registered. While AIDS was decimating much of Africa, the infection rate for Senegal stayed below 2 percent
- https:// nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /planetary/lunar/moon_tree.html
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- www.townandcountrymag.com The Incredible Six-Decade Love Story of Kirk Douglas and His Wife, Anne Buydens
Anne Douglas passed away yesterday at the age of 102.
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- https:// www.eurasiantimes.com /iran-steals-two-aircraft-out-of-europe-the-thrilling/
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Original Title: TIL about "fridging," a term coined by Gail Simone in 1999 after Green Lantern Vol. 3 #54, where Kyle Rayner finds his girlfriend murdered and stuffed in a fridge. The term highlights how female characters in comics are disproportionately harmed or killed for advancing the male protagonist's story.
- https:// www.cbc.ca /player/play/video/1.3627880
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Major-Tuddy on 2024-09-18 00:28:28+00:00.
Original Title: TIL that in 1996, Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, casually choke-slammed two protesters to the ground at a public event while making his way through a crowd. It is known as the “Shawinigan Handshake.”
- https:// www.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/12/16/offbeat.malaysia.pitt/index.html
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- nymag.com A Brief History of Presidential Food Controversies
With a new election cycle well under way, here's a look at past political flare-ups over food and drink.
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- geektyrant.com Brad Pitt and Edward Norton Recall FIGHT CLUB Being Booed By Audiences at Early Screening — GeekTyrant
David Fincher ’s 1999 film Fight Club may be a cult classic beloved film now, but 20 years ago audiences didn’t really care for it. In fact, the movie bombed at the box office and it was booed by audiences at early screenings! The world obviously just wasn’t ready for a movie like Fight Club a
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/G_Marius_the_jabroni on 2024-09-17 23:38:28+00:00.
Original Title: TIL that when “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, it got booed hard by the audience. Ed Norton said that as it was happening, Brad Pitt turned to him and said: “That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in.”
- www.aarp.org What’s the Rarest Eye Color, and Why?
About 75 percent of eye color is due the OCA2 gene, which makes melanin. However, scientists are beginning to understand how other genes play a role.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ubcstaffer123 on 2024-09-17 22:39:36+00:00.
Original Title: TIL The rarest eye color is green, as only about 2 percent of the world’s population sport this shade. About 10,000 years ago, all humans had brown eyes and over half the people in the world have them
- https:// www.npr.org /sections/therecord/2017/05/02/526538126/colonel-bruce-hampton-dies-after-collapsing-on-stage-during-his-own-birthday-con
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