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TIL that the Razzie Awards once nominated a 12 year-old for Worst Actress (Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Firestarter) and had to rescind the nomination because of ba...

theguardian.com·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL in Islam, Jesus is foretold to return, defeat the anti-Christ, assume rulership of the world and establish peace and justice. Ultimately dying of natural ca...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL in 2006 every lock and key in a UK prison had to be changed after a TV news program aired shots of a prison key that the news crew had filmed on a recent me...

theguardian.com·31w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

TIL the people of Bermuda traditionally relied on shark liver oil “barometers” to predict weather. Small bottles of liver oil are hung outside and change clarit...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL that proponents of Prohibition were so certain that enacting it would solve all crimes in United States that some communities sold their jails after the ame...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL that Oskar Speck paddled a folding kayak from Germany to Australia over seven years. He arrived in 1939, unaware World War II had begun, and was arrested as...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL the three actors in The Blair Witch Project signed a contract with a clause that allowed the studio to use their real names "for the purpose of this film". ...

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TIL that following the success of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), Jim Carrey became the first comic actor to receive a $20 million upfront salary when he...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL Stephen King wrote The Running Man in one week and it was "pretty much" published as a first draft.

theguardian.com·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL In 1956 a Swedish sailor named Åke Viking sent out a message in a bottle that read "To Someone Beautiful and Far Away" and it ended up reaching a 17-year-ol...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL that most people only use about 1,500 to 3,000 words regularly in everyday conversation, a range known as the surface lexicon.

upperclasscareer.com·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL of Tomoaki Hamatsu, a Japanese comedian nicknamed Nasubi, who for a gameshow in the late 90s lived inside a small room for 15 months, naked, starving and al...

yokogaomag.com·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL the busiest pharmacy in the world is the Vatican Pharmacy, owned and operated by the Vatican City State. It is open to the public and is very popular among ...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL about the United States Housing Corporation, a federal agency that existed during WWI to provide housing to support the war effort. In just two years, they ...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL: the Swedish Academy was heavily criticized in 1974 for awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to two of its own members. One laureate, Harry Martinson, was...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL that Roman Emperor Diocletian issued an Edict on Maximum Prices where prices and wages were capped. Profiteers and speculators who fail to follow were sente...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL that in 1911 in what is known as the "Hayırsızada Dog Massacre" 80,000 of Istanbul's dogs were rounded up and banished to the island of Sivriada where most ...

en.wikipedia.org·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL that the shopping mall was conceptualized as an all-in-one living centre that was just one part of an urban utopia

ideas.ted.com·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL Titanic victim Jeremiah Burke threw a message in a bottle overboard that read "From Titanic, goodbye all, Burke of Glanmire, Cork". It washed ashore a year ...

bbc.com·31w·r/todayilearned

TIL that Elizabeth Anderson Sierra, an American woman, holds the Guinness World Record as the largest breast milk donor in the world, with over 10,000 liters do...

guinnessworldrecords.com·31w·r/todayilearned

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