tags: today-i-learned

• After 25 Years of Wondering About a Strange Dip In The Floor Beneath His Couch, a Man In Plymouth, England Finally Dug Down Into His Home's Foundation and Found a Medieval Well 10 Meters Deep, Along With an Old Sword Hidden Deep Inside
  3 March 2020 | comments | aol.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Despite Being 23 Kg (50 Lbs), Medieval Knight Armor is Actually Not as Stiff as Often Portrayed and Quite Flexible. A Knight Would Be Able To Run Full Speed In It, Fight With The Dexterity of a Common Soldier and Even Perform Acrobatics
  1 March 2020 | comments | youtube.com | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• A New Microbe Called Hemimastigote Was Found In Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix Kukwesjijk is not a Plant, Animal, Fungus, or Protozoa — It Constitutes an Entirely New Kingdom
  28 February 2020 | comments | quantamagazine.org | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• Professional Cyclists Pee While Cycling To Save Time, But are Fined If It Is In Front of Spectators or Cameras
  27 February 2020 | comments | connexionfrance.com | tags: sport, and today-i-learned
• A Group of Amateur Astronomers Around The World Hunt and Track Government Spy Satellites. Governments Classify These Top-Secret Missions, But a Group of Dedicated Spy Hunters Tracks The Satellites and Publishes The Data For Fun
  27 February 2020 | comments | supercluster.com | tags: security, and today-i-learned
• The Increasing Speed of The Remaining Aliens in Space Invaders After You Shoot Them, Was Done By Accident. Destroying an Alien Freed Up Memory Space, Thus Being Less of a Burdon on The System
  26 February 2020 | comments | thegamer.com | tags: games, and today-i-learned
• American and Russian Astronauts Onboard The International Space Station (ISS) Have Different Water Supplies. Its Because The Americans Drink Recycled Urine While The Russians Refuse To Do So. The NASA Astronauts Even Collect The Russians Urine To Increase Their Own Supply
  26 February 2020 | comments | theguardian.com | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• Spirited Away is The Only Anime Ever to Have Won an Oscar
  23 February 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: movie, and today-i-learned
• Queen Elizabeth has Met 12 US Presidents During Her Reign. Which is Over a Quarter of All Presidents Since The United States' Inception
  23 February 2020 | comments | businessinsider.com | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• Scientists Discovered In Brazil a 3,000 Year Old Termite Nation as Big as The Uk. To Build It, The Termites Moved an Amount of Soil Equivalent to Building 4,000 Great Pyramids of Giza
  22 February 2020 | comments | nola.com | tags: bugs, science, and today-i-learned
• Daniel Kish is a Blind Man Who Taught Himself To Navigate By Echolocation (Like Bats) By Making Swift Clicking Sounds That Reflected From Objects Around Him. Using These Reflected Sounds, He Makes a Mental Image of His Surroundings. He Now Trains Others To 'See' The World Like He Does
  21 February 2020 | comments | scienceabc.com | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• The Mexican Government Sent Around 500 of it's Elite Soldiers to be Trained as Commandos At Ft. Bragg (USA), In Order to Better Combat The Rising Drug Violence in The Country. After Training, Many of The Soldiers Returned to Mexico, Only to Start The Brutally Violent Drug Cartel: Los Zetas
  20 February 2020 | comments | aljazeera.com | tags: today-i-learned
• James Chadwick (Discovered The Neutron) was a Student of Rutherford (Discovered The Proton) who was a Student of Thomson (Discovered The Electron)
  18 February 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• Burrito, Which Means “little Donkey”, Gets its Name Because it Carries a Bunch of Different Things
  17 February 2020 | comments | sfgate.com | tags: foods, and today-i-learned
• The First Movie About The Titanic Came Out 29 Days After The Actual Ship Sank, Starred a Real Life Survivor Who Wore What She Had on The Night it Sank in The Production, and Resulted in Her Suffering a Mental Breakdown Shortly After its Completion
  14 February 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• It is a Myth That Bats Use Their Echolocation to Deftly Maneuver Around One Another. High Speed Cameras Show That Bats Crash Into Each Other All The Time
  13 February 2020 | comments | vice.com | tags: animal, and today-i-learned
• During WW1, a Canadian Soldier Brought His Pet Bear to Britain. He Named The Bear Winnie After His Home Town Winnipeg and Later Donated The Bear to The London Zoo Where a Boy Named Christopher Robin Liked it So Much it Inspired His Father to Write About it, Thus Winnie The Pooh
  13 February 2020 | comments | s.telegraph.co.uk | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• The Generic Silhouette in Microsoft Outlook 2010 Is Actually a Shadow Cutout of Bill Gates' Mugshot When He Got Arrested for a Driving Offense in 1977
  12 February 2020 | comments | news.softpedia.com | tags: microsoft, and today-i-learned
• In Toy Story 4 Instead of Creating All of The Individual Cobwebs By Hand, Pixer Created AI Spiders That Were Programmed to Spin The Webs Wherever The Cobwebs Needed to Be
  12 February 2020 | comments | kottke.org | tags: artificial-intelligence, and today-i-learned
• Pluto was Named By 11-Year-Old Venetia Burney. After Her Grandfather Read About The Discovery, Venetia, who Enjoyed Mythology, Said The Planet was in a Region Similar to The Dark, Remote Underworld Ruled By The Roman God Pluto. Her Grandfather Then Contacted Astronomers Suggesting The Name
  11 February 2020 | comments | astronomy.com | tags: history, science, and today-i-learned
• Gonorrhea is One of The Strongest Known Organisms, Capable of Pulling with a Force 100,000 Times Their Own Body Weight, this is Equivalent to a Human Pulling 10 Million Kilos
  9 February 2020 | comments | futurism.com | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• A Man Who was Paralyzed from a Surfing Accident Neck Injury was Able to Walk Again from an Experimental Treatment. Stem Cells from The Man's Own Stomach Fat were Injected Into His Spinal Cord to Regenerate and Repair The Injury
  9 February 2020 | comments | goodmorningamerica.com | tags: health, and today-i-learned
• China Earned About $8.46 for Making an Iphone 7, of The Factory-Cost Estimate of $237.45. The U.S. & Japan Each Take a Roughly $68 Cut, Taiwan Gets About $48, and a Little Under $17 Goes to South Korea. About $283 of Gross Profit from Retail Price of $649 for a 32gb Model Goes Straight to Apple
  7 February 2020 | comments | theconversation.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Alchemist Hennig Brand is Thought to Have Used Upwards of 1500 Gallons of Human Urine in His Quest to Make Gold. After He Evaporated, Boiled and Distilled it Multiple Times, it Started to Glow in The Dark And Burst Into Flames. He Had Instead Discovered The Element Phosphorus
  6 February 2020 | comments | gizmodo.com | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• Daniel Radcliffe, The Star of The Harry Potter Film Franchise, is a Recovering Alcoholic and Has Not Drank Since August 2010
  5 February 2020 | comments | telegraph.co.uk | tags: today-i-learned
• "The Great Impostor" Ferdinand Demara Posed as a Surgeon Aboard a Navy Destroyer in The Korean War and Was Forced to Perform Surgery on 16 People. He Proceeded to Speed-Read a Textbook on General Surgery and Was Able to Successfully Perform All The Surgeries Without Anyone Dying
  5 February 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: today-i-learned
• For Generations Doctors Figured The Appendix Had No Function. But Recently it is Determined that it “Acts as a Good Safe House for Bacteria“. Sometimes Bacteria in The Intestines Die or are Purged. The Appendix’s Job is to Reboot The Digestive System in That Case.
  2 February 2020 | comments | nbcnews.com | tags: health, and today-i-learned
• Attending Harvard is Free if Your Household Income is Below 65k a Year. Harvard’s Financial Aid Programs Pay 100 Percent of Tuition, Fees, Room, and Board for Students from Families Earning Less Than $65,000 a Year
  2 February 2020 | comments | college.harvard.edu | tags: today-i-learned
• Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue
  31 January 2020 | comments | ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Movile Cave in Romania That was Separated from The Outside World for 5.5 Million Years Until 1986. It is Home to 33 Species Found No Where Else on The Planet
  31 January 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: animal, environment, science, and today-i-learned
• Emerson Moser, a Crayola Employee Who Helped Create 1.4 Billion Crayons Over A 37-Year Career. Following His Retirement, He Came Out Saying He Was Colorblind
  31 January 2020 | comments | northernstar-online.com | tags: today-i-learned
• The First Person to Register for The First Comics Con, Held in New York in 1964, was George R.R. Martin.
  30 January 2020 | comments | syfy.com | tags: today-i-learned
• In 1992, Nike Made a Super Bowl Commercial Where an Animated Bugs Bunny Played Basketball With a Real-Live Michael Jordan. The Commercial was So Successful That Warner Brothers Decided to Turn it Into a Whole Movie (Space Jam)
  29 January 2020 | comments | highsnobiety.com | tags: movie, and today-i-learned
• David Schiffler, a 3 Year Old Boy at The Time, Told His Dad He Found a Dinosaur Egg Shell While Playing in The Dirt Soon After Seeing a Movie on Dinosaurs, and All He Got From His Dad was a Shrug, "Yeah, Right", But bt Turned Out To Be a Genuine Dinosaur Egg Shell!
  29 January 2020 | comments | deseret.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Canadian Researchers Discovered How To Convert Blood Types A, B And AB to Universal Donor O-Negative. They Found That Human Gut Bacteria Makes a Class of Enzymes Which React With The Non-O Type Red Blood Cells, Essentially Transforming Them Into O-Negative
  29 January 2020 | comments | cbc.ca | tags: health, science, and today-i-learned
• Pluto was Discovered by a 23 Year Old Farmboy with no Degree in Astronomy who Spent a Year Comparing Photographs of The Night Sky, Searching for a "Star" that Changed Positions. He Would Later Earn His Masters Degree and Teach at New Mexico State
  28 January 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• In 1898, German Company Bayer Introduced its New Medication Diacetylmorphine, Marketed as aA Non-Addictive Cough Medicine. It Quickly Became Very Popular. It's Now Best Known By its Trade Name, Heroin
  28 January 2020 | comments | narconon.org | tags: today-i-learned
• During The Black Death in The 17th Century, All Ships Coming to Port were Required to Wait in Isolation for 40 Days, Translated to 'Quaranta Giorni' in Italian, Before The Crew Could Come Ashore. This is Where The Term 'Quarantine' Comes From
  26 January 2020 | comments | npr.org | tags: health, and today-i-learned
• In Addition To His Sword, Ex Calibur, Legendary King Arthur Also Had A Spear Named Ron
  23 January 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: today-i-learned
• A Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 Different Combinations. Every Single of The ~43 Quintillion Combinations Can be Solved in 20 Moves or Less.
  23 January 2020 | comments | therubikzone.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Metal Music is So Popular in Finnish Culture That There's a Metal Band in Finland Targeted Towards Children. The Band is Called Hevisaurus and They are a Heavy Metal Band That Sings About Dinosaurs and Children's Stories
  19 January 2020 | comments | youtube.com | tags: culture, music, and today-i-learned
• The Camera on The SR-71 Blackbird Could Accurately Capture The License Plate of a Car from 24 Km
  16 January 2020 | comments | airman.dodlive.mil | tags: military, and today-i-learned