Today I Learned 🎓


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💡 You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?

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TIL that the inventor of Fettuccine Alfredo, Alfredo Di Lelio, invented the famous pasta in 1908 primarily as a way to get his wife to eat, as she had recently given birth to their first child and thus did not have much of an appetite. [Source]


TIL that in 1932, as a last ditch attempt to prevent Hitler from taking power, Brüning (the german chancellor) tried to restore the monarchy. [Source]


TIL that 'Arniston', a British East India Company sailing ship, shipwrecked with the loss of 372 lives because the ship owners refused to buy a marine chronometer; an easy and cheap addition to her equipment. [Source]


TIL naturalization in Liechtenstein is done through popular vote, and only candidates who have actively participated in local community life for 10+ years are likely to be accepted as citizens [Source]


TIL some schools of fish are so loud due to the constant chatter that it is not only dangerous to snorkel among them -- "as loud as a lawnmower or chainsaw” -- but they can also be heard in boats above the water as a faint rumbling noise [Source]


TIL Ghana has six witch camps, housing about 1000 women. The camps exist so that women accused of witchcraft can have a safe place to live without fear of being killed by their neighbours. [Source]


TIL about the human brain is incredibly efficient and only runs on about 20 watts of power; about the same amount as a dim light bulb. [Source]


TIL the "Red Phone", which linked Washington to Moscow wasn't red, or even a phone. It was teletype when the system started in 1963, switched to fax in 1986, and secure email since 2008. [Source]


TIL during making of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan's actor Roger Clark was told that he had to do the horse lines again because "It’s a little too intimate. It sounds like you’re not talking to a horse". After hearing the recording back, the actor agreed to redo the lines. [Source]


TIL, in the year 2003, Maywood Chemical Works — now owned by Stepan Company — imported more than 385,000 pounds of coca leaf for Coca-Cola, enough to make $200 million of cocaine, all of which legally had to be destroyed, likely by incineration. [Source]


TIL about Murphy, a disabled Bald Eagle who became famous after he attempted to hatch a rock. In 2023 the keepers of his sanctuary replaced his rock with an orphaned eaglet, allowing Murphy to finally become a real parent [Source]


TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination. [Source]


TIL in 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead. [Source]


TIL about Walter F. White, an NAACP leader for over 25 years who passed as white, infiltrated lynching rings, and architected Brown v. Board of Education. Despite controversy surrounding his methods, his work exposed injustices and advanced civil rights. [Source]


TIL of hepatic pregnancy, where the site of implantation occurs in the liver. [Source]


TIL a young woman's head swelled from her usual measurement of 22 inches to 24.8 inches (and the shape of her face changed) after she used hair dye. This was because the hair dye had a chemical in it called PPD (paraphenylenediamine), which can cause serious allergic reactions in certain people. [Source]


TIL that the largest known object in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and it's 10 billion light years across. [Source]


TIL in 1975, the founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner, lent his private plane the "Big Bunny" to operation baby lift to help transport 41 orphaned Vietnamese children to New York. [Source]


TIL conjugal visits were originally enacted to convince black male prisoners to work harder in their manual labor and Mississippi first state to implement them in 1950. By 2024, only 4 states allow conjugal visits: California, Connecticut, New York, and Washington [Source]


TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that it would take humans 1 to 10 million years to perfect a flying machine. The Wright Brothers did it 69 days later. [Source]

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