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30.04.202519:00
TIL: that despite the controversy over Ada Lovelace being the "first programmer," she was the first to realize that the Analytical Engine—the earliest concept of a computer—could act on things beyond numbers, like music or symbols, marking her as a visionary who saw the full potential of computers. [source, comments]
30.04.202516:00
TIL that only 3 weeks after their wedding, Oscar-winning actor Gig Young [who had starred in 'Rear Window' and 'The shoot horses, don't they', Etc.] murdered his wife (who was half his age), before committing suicide himself (1978). [source, comments]
30.04.202513:00
TIL that the most valuable company in Europe isn't the French giant LVMH, it's the Danish Ozempic seller (+1000% profit) Novo Nordisk [source, comments]
30.04.202502:00
TIL that during a 1966 interview as a Vietnam War POW, U.S. Navy officer Jeremiah Denton blinked the word "TORTURE" in Morse code with his eyes, secretly confirming North Vietnamese abuse to American intelligence. [source, comments]
30.04.202500:00
TIL the 1972 song "Garden Party", which has the lyrics, "you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself", is about the singer being booed at Madison Square Garden when he played "Honky Tonk Women" as a country song. [source, comments]
29.04.202520:01
TIL: Beach towels are designed to have one side for drying off and one softer, less absorbent side for sitting on. They’re also lighter weight so they dry faster than bath towels for multiple uses in a day [source, comments]
30.04.202519:00
TIL that voice activated locks that promised to only open if the correct person spoke the correct password into a microphone have been around since 1908 [source, comments]
30.04.202516:00
TIL in 1917 Italy had a Prime-Minister called 'Vittorio Emanuele' at the same time they had a King called 'Victor Emmanuel'. [source, comments]
30.04.202511:00
TIL that during a 19th-century smallpox outbreak, Mi’kmaq healers used tea from the purple pitcher plant to treat patients—and British doctors later confirmed it actually worked. [source, comments]
30.04.202502:00
TIL James Strang, leader of a Mormon splinter-group, crowned himself "king" of his church on Beaver Island, Michigan for 6 years. His "reign" was so hated by the locals that he was assassinated in 1856. His killers were kept in an unlocked jail cell and fined $1.25 [source, comments]
30.04.202500:00
TIL The longest Papal Conclave in history lasted 3 years from 1268-1271 where magistrates resorted to removing the roof of the election building in an attempt to coerce the cardinals into reaching a decision [source, comments]
29.04.202519:01
TIL of Myõki - wife of Suwabe Sadakatsu, Samurai. One day, she earned wide-reaching recognition for her skills as a battlefield commander due to her husband being passed out drunk, leading defence of their castle with success. [source, comments]
30.04.202518:00
TIL that spitting in public is punishable by fines up to £500 in the UK [source, comments]
30.04.202514:00
TIL about Clara Gantt, the widow of Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Gantt, who waited 63 years for the return of her husband's remains after he was captured during the Korean War. He passed away in captivity in 1951, but his remains weren’t identified until 2013. [source, comments]
30.04.202507:00
TIL a programming bug caused Mazda infotainment systems to brick whenever someone tried to play the podcast, 99% Invisible, because the software recognized "% I" as an instruction and not a string [source, comments]
30.04.202501:00
TIL: Scientists are finding that problems with mitochondria contributes to autism. [source, comments]
29.04.202522:00
TIL that Nikola Tesla possessed an eidetic memory but also suffered from OCD. The scientist was compelled to do things in threes, he was obsessed with pigeons and averted women with earrings. Died at the age of 86 alone into an hotel room. [source, comments]
29.04.202519:01
TIL that the gulf war inadvertently saved 200000 people in Bangladesh after US navy and Marine assets present around iraq were quickly sent to Bangladesh to conduct relief operations following a cyclone. [source, comments]
30.04.202518:00
TIL about democracy sausage. In Australia, it has become a custom to sell sausages at polling stations on election day. It's usually a fundraiser for the institution that houses the polling station, and can be their biggest fundraiser of the year. [source, comments]
30.04.202513:00
TIL that in 2010, thousands of women participated in “Boobquake,” a global online protest organized by a graduate student to mock an Iranian cleric’s claim that women who dress immodestly cause earthquakes. [source, comments]
30.04.202506:00
TIL Laurence Olivier hit Maggie Smith in the face so hard she was knocked unconscious during a 1964 production of Othello. [source, comments]
30.04.202501:00
TIL of the "Ouroboros Effect" - a collapse of AI models caused by a lack of original, human-generated content; thereby forcing them to "feed" on synthetic content, thereby leading to a rapid spiral of stupidity, sameness, and intellectual decay [source, comments]
29.04.202520:01
TIL The Great Fear of 1789, one of the events that led up to the French Revolution, started probably because peasants consumed rye contaminated with a hallucinogenic fungus called ergot and were paranoid that the aristocrats wanted to starve them. [source, comments]
29.04.202518:01
TIL a slipped disk is actually a misnomer for a herniated disk, often from lining tearing which is why it can't be slipped back into place [source, comments]
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