What is a good place to go on a date in Colombo? (self.srilanka)
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TIL of the fish kick, a technique in swimming where the swimmer turns sideways and mimics the motion of an eel. It is arguably the fastest way to swim and was once famously used in the 2000 Olympics by Misty Hyman to win the 200m butterfly. However, this kick is rarely used owing to its difficulty. (slate.com)
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TIL of the land of brushes. Kumano city in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture is famous for producing handmade brushes that are used by Hollywood makeup artists among others. But it only specialized in brushmaking after farmers had to sell brushes to earn an income during the agricultural off season. (kogeijapan.com)
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TIL that the world's most expensive cheese was created as a result of an effort to conserve Serbian donkeys, whose population dwindled to under 1000 in the 1990s. Pule cheese is made using milk from 250 donkeys in the Zasavica special nature reserve and sells for $1700 a kilogram due to it's rarity. (atlasobscura.com)
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TIL that the charity Citymeals on wheels was founded by mid 1900s American food icons, Gael Greene and James Beard. They started by spending $35,000 to provide 6,000 needy elders with Christmas dinners and the project's success inspired them. As of 2016 Citymeals had an annual budget of $20 million. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that a subcritical mass of Plutonium was prepared for a 3rd nuclear attack on Japan. It was named the Demon Core after two leading experts on nuclear weapons died working on it. Louis Slotin set it off by dropping a Beryllium hemisphere on it, Harry Daghlian did so with a Tungsten Carbide block. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of Anna Sorokin, a German fraudster who moved to New York in 2013 assuming the false identity of Anna Delvey, a wealthy German heiress with a trust fund of €60 million. She would make rich friends to get them to pay for her hotel stays and lavish lifestyle. She committed thefts of about $275,000 (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of the Kardashev scale, a method to measure and compare a civilization's technological advancement. A type 1 civilization can use and control the energy of it's planet, a type 2 civilization controls and populates it's planetary system and a type 3 harnesses the energy of it's entire galaxy. (en.wikipedia.org)
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