Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL Two of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band died in Motorcycle accidents 3 blocks apart almost exactly 1 year apart from each other.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Two of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band died in Motorcycle accidents 3 blocks apart almost exactly 1 year apart from each other.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that Suzanne Somers was fired from 'Three’s Company' for asking for equal pay with her male co-star, John Ritter, who was earning five times her salary.plus-squarewww.thelist.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Suzanne Somers was fired from 'Three’s Company' for asking for equal pay with her male co-star, John Ritter, who was earning five times her salary.plus-squarewww.thelist.comLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred th...plus-squarenewsinteractives.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred th...plus-squarenewsinteractives.cbc.caLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL a study from Yale found that kids who watched 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood' retained more information than children who watched 'Sesame Street.' They also had a higher 'tolerance of delay', meanin...plus-squareletslearnkids.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL a study from Yale found that kids who watched 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood' retained more information than children who watched 'Sesame Street.' They also had a higher 'tolerance of delay', meanin...plus-squareletslearnkids.comLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that A man named Göran Kropp from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Mount Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that A man named Göran Kropp from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Mount Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL Honeybee venom rapidly kills aggressive breast cancer cells and when the venom's main component is combined with existing chemotherapy drugs, it is extremely efficient at reducing tumour growt...plus-squarewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.govexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Honeybee venom rapidly kills aggressive breast cancer cells and when the venom's main component is combined with existing chemotherapy drugs, it is extremely efficient at reducing tumour growt...plus-squarewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.govLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL after losing her position in her university's anatomy department in 1938, Rita Levi-Montalcini set up a laboratory in her bedroom and studied the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos. Thi...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL after losing her position in her university's anatomy department in 1938, Rita Levi-Montalcini set up a laboratory in her bedroom and studied the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos. Thi...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL: Arctic means "Bear", and Antarctic "No bear", because the Big Dipper, "the greater she-bear", is always visible in the northern pole sky. The fact that there are Polar bears in the Arctic but...plus-squareuselessetymology.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL: Arctic means "Bear", and Antarctic "No bear", because the Big Dipper, "the greater she-bear", is always visible in the northern pole sky. The fact that there are Polar bears in the Arctic but...plus-squareuselessetymology.comLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that the reason printers refuse to print without yellow ink is because they print a Machine Identification Code on every page, leaving a unique microscopic pattern of yellow dots that say what...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the reason printers refuse to print without yellow ink is because they print a Machine Identification Code on every page, leaving a unique microscopic pattern of yellow dots that say what...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL of Dr. Jessie Lazear, an American physician who studied yellow fever under the famous Dr. Walter Reed. He allowed himself to be bitten by an infected mosquito, and died of the disease himself ...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL of Dr. Jessie Lazear, an American physician who studied yellow fever under the famous Dr. Walter Reed. He allowed himself to be bitten by an infected mosquito, and died of the disease himself ...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL actor Robert Patrick’s scrotum was briefly visible in the original cut of Terminator 2. But for the 3D re-release his balls were removed by VFX artists.plus-squarescreenrant.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL actor Robert Patrick’s scrotum was briefly visible in the original cut of Terminator 2. But for the 3D re-release his balls were removed by VFX artists.plus-squarescreenrant.comLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that Sofia—the first robot to get citizenship in any country—was given this status in Saudi Arabia on 2017. This was done in order for Saudi Arabia to position itself as a leader in AI Technol...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Sofia—the first robot to get citizenship in any country—was given this status in Saudi Arabia on 2017. This was done in order for Saudi Arabia to position itself as a leader in AI Technol...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL Crows can remember a dangerous human and share informations about them to other crowsplus-squarewww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Crows can remember a dangerous human and share informations about them to other crowsplus-squarewww.cbc.caLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that Vincent van Gogh was so in love with his widowed cousin that he held his hand in the flame of a lamp in front of his uncle while saying to him: "Let me see her for as long as I can keep m...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Vincent van Gogh was so in love with his widowed cousin that he held his hand in the flame of a lamp in front of his uncle while saying to him: "Let me see her for as long as I can keep m...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL of the Schöningen Spears, ten intact wooden spears discovered in a German mine between 1994-99. Strikingly similar to modern competition javelins, the 400,000 year old spears are the oldest wo...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL of the Schöningen Spears, ten intact wooden spears discovered in a German mine between 1994-99. Strikingly similar to modern competition javelins, the 400,000 year old spears are the oldest wo...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL a portion of earnings from "Family Guy" are donated towards the Rainforest Trust. In 2019, show creator Seth MacFarlane donated $1 million.plus-squarewww.businesswire.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL a portion of earnings from "Family Guy" are donated towards the Rainforest Trust. In 2019, show creator Seth MacFarlane donated $1 million.plus-squarewww.businesswire.comLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL - Tim Curry, famed actor from Rocky Horror Picture Show, IT and many other films/TV/stage projects,had 3 studio albums released in the late 70's/early 80'splus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL - Tim Curry, famed actor from Rocky Horror Picture Show, IT and many other films/TV/stage projects,had 3 studio albums released in the late 70's/early 80'splus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that a large proportion of the real estate agents are unable to sell a property for a price that compensates for the added cost of their commission. Additionally, selling your home without an ...plus-squarewarrington.ufl.eduexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a large proportion of the real estate agents are unable to sell a property for a price that compensates for the added cost of their commission. Additionally, selling your home without an ...plus-squarewarrington.ufl.eduLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL in 1986 the city of Cleveland, OH attempted to break a world record releasing the most helium balloons at one time and ended up killing 2 men.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 1986 the city of Cleveland, OH attempted to break a world record releasing the most helium balloons at one time and ended up killing 2 men.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agoTIL the phrase "dingos ate your baby" used as a joke in comedies like Seinfeld and The Sinpsons originates from a chilling case in Australia where wild dingos snatched a 9-week-old girl from her t...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the phrase "dingos ate your baby" used as a joke in comedies like Seinfeld and The Sinpsons originates from a chilling case in Australia where wild dingos snatched a 9-week-old girl from her t...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online bot@lemmit.onlineMBEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink