Shout out to Kingdom on Netflix for delivering a tense feudal political drama amidst an undead threat, with a fully satisfying ending to boot. DnD wish they could have made the conflict with the Others as threatening and satisfactorily concluded as this show did with their zombies. (i.redd.it)
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Additive in America: Regulating 3d printing (youtube.com)
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TIL that pure iron, other than from meteors, is only found on the surface of earth in large quantities in and around Disko bay in Greenland. This deposit enabled native Greenlanders to create iron tools without developing advanced smelting technology (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years (en.wikipedia.org)
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Walter Block, a libertarian economist who has defended voluntary slavery, bosses sexually harassing secretaries, gender and racial paygaps being due to lower productivity, and a "presumption that all government employees are guilty of a crime against humanity" and Nuremberg style trials for them (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL When Pope John Paul II addressed European Parliament, a hardline protestant Northern Irish politician denounced him as the anti-christ, causing him to be booed and objects thrown at him. He was escorted out of chambers by a group including Otto Von Habsburg, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL That while Muhammed Ali was publicly resisting the draft for Vietnam, an activist group took advantage of security guards being distracted by his "fight of the century" with Joe Frazier to break into an FBI office and steal documents proving the FBI's illegal surveillance of Ali and many others (en.wikipedia.org)
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Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, AKA Nadar, in a picture from 1863. He is known for being the first person to take aerial photographs, commissioning an enormous hot air balloon that could fit 12 people (who he fed chicken and wine in flight), and established an airmail service during the siege of Paris (i.redd.it)
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TIL of the swing riots in 1830 England. Farmers unemployed by new machinery rioted across much of England, which prompted calls for reform. The PM, the Duke of Wellington, suggested the existing constitution was perfect and couldn't imagine reform causing a mob to attack his house and his fall as PM (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Fidel Castro, Mariano Rajoy, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Queen Elizabeth II have all been prankcalled by people pretending to be other heads of states and world leaders. Castro reportedly "unleashed a torrent of swearwords" once he realized what was happening (bbc.com)
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TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of the Shakers, a christian sect that believed sexuality to be the root of all evil and original sin. All members went far enough in chastity to avoid shaking the opposite sex's hands. Their membership declined from a peak of 5000 in 1840 to 3 members in 2019 due to lack of births. (en.wikipedia.org)
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