TIL that even though Bat Out of Hell is certified 14x platinum in the US, it never reached No. 1 on the Billboard 100.
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TIL Until 2010, blood donors in Ireland were given a free pint of Guinness to restore their iron deficiency, as the beer contains high levels of iron; vitamin B; and calcium.
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/nostalgia/blood-donor-free-guinness-ireland-32137366.amp
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TIL Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the United States and heir to the Rockefeller family fortune, died of a heart attack rumored to be caused by an orgasm during intercourse with his secretary. When he died the New York Times quipped: "Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller
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TIL Nancy Kulp (Ms Hathaway on "The Beverly Hillbillies") ran for Congress in 1984 to represent PA-09. Buddy Ebsen, who played Jed Clampett, recorded an attack ad against her for being too liberal, leading to a rift that only ended years later when Kulp was dying from cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kulp?wprov=sfla1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bd8moj/til_nancy_kulp_ms_hathaway_on_the_beverly/
TIL that Shane Stant, the man who attacked figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, asked to have his assault record expunged so he could join the Navy SEALs. He was 34 when he asked - too old to be a SEAL.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kerrigan-attackers-record-to-stay/
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TIL Filipinos make up 1/3 of all seafarers in the world.
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TIL there's a man-made borehole that drains 100 million gallons of polluted coal mine runoff every day into the Lackawanna River and Chesapeake Bay.
https://undergroundminers.com/old-forge-bore-hole/
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TIL that some women may have beards, due to polycystic ovary syndrome, an endocrine disorder that sometimes causes women to grow excess hair.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a59925/rose-geil-polycystic-ovaria-syndrome-video/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bd4ioj/til_that_some_women_may_have_beards_due_to/
TIL that infamous Manson Family murderer Leslie Van Houten was paroled in July 2023 after 53 years in prison. Patricia Krenwinkle and Tex Watson are still trying to get parole.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/us/leslie-van-houten-manson-family-released/index.html
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TIL that bones can't be found in the Titanic wreckage because the deep sea water is undersaturated in calcium carbonate, which causes the bones to dissolve
https://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/177944080/studying-earth-to-learn-about-mars
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bd313g/til_that_bones_cant_be_found_in_the_titanic/
TIL of Matthew Hopkins. A witch hunter who (Along with his colleague John Stearne) put so many people on trial for witchcraft that they beat out every witch Hunter of the last 160 years and single-handedly spiked executions from 1644 to 1647. Over 300 women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hopkins
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TIL about the Wilmington Massacre, a race related insurrection and massacre perpetrated in 1898 in Wilmington North Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre
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TIL that Markus Persson, the billionaire creator of Minecraft, never finished high school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
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TIL about Rosalía Abreu who was the first person to successfully breed chimpanzees in captivity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosal%C3%ADa_Abreu
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TIL there are 16,000 acres of sand dunes in Alaska - Kobuk Valley National Park
https://www.nps.gov/kova/learn/nature/great-kobuk-sand-dunes.htm
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TIL that the classic Prime95 stress testing software was originally created to distribute compute power to solve Mersenne primes. Which relates to the oldest unsolved problem in Math. "Do Odd Perfect Numbers Exist?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bczvy8/til_that_the_classic_prime95_stress_testing/
TIL Dan Aykroyd, Joseph Stalin, Ashton Kutcher, and Conan O'Brien were all born with.....webbed toes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webbed_toes
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TIL: At no point in the 1960s magazine profile "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" does the writer actually speak to—or interact with—Frank Sinatra
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-a-cold-gay-talese/
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TIL - The Most Remote Place on Earth is called Point Nemo and it's where most space junk goes to die.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-point-nemo
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TIL World War Z author Max Brooks balances dual fellowships at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the Modern War Institute at West Point
https://www.maxbrooks.com/about
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