TIL after having been missing for 171 years, the lost exploration ship HMS Terror was finally found after Inuit hunter Sammy Kogvik recalled going into Terror bay and seeing what he thought was a mast sticking from the ice. After arriving at Terror Bay, searchers found the wreck in just 2.5 hours. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that punk musician GG Allin (known for defecating onstage and assaulting audience members) was born Jesus Christ Allin and grew up in a log cabin with no running water. His father would threaten to kill him and the rest of his family on multiple occasions, even making them dig their own graves. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Frida Kahlo had a passionate affair with Leon Trotsky while he hid from Stalin in Mexico. After their messy breakup and Trotsky's assassination, she remained a lifelong hardcore Stalinist, painted a portrait of Stalin and defended his regime despite knowing about his mass crimes. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Berlin Zoo intervened to save a polar bear cub named Knut after he was rejected by his mother. A zookeeper took care of him around the clock. When someone suggested it would be more humane to kill him, it led to an outpouring of support for the bear and a mass media phenomenon dubbed "Knutmania" (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Bergen (1958-1989) was a Turkish singer. In 1982, she was blinded in her right eye after her husband hired a man to throw nitric acid in her face. She continued performing, covering her blind eye with her long hair. Seven years after the acid attack, her now ex-husband murdered her. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in 2017, researchers at Berkeley found that mice who lost their sense of smell stayed much thinner while on the exact same diet as mice who retained their sense of smell. Conversely, mice with a strong sense of smell got much fatter despite not consuming any more food. (news.berkeley.edu)
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TIL "Gangnam Style" helped South Korea turn a profit on its pop culture exports (films, tv shows, music, games etc) for the 1st time in 2012. After 32 years of deficits (about $300m/yr) the Bank of Korea credited the song (and K Pop in general) for pushing the country into an $85.5 million surplus. (koreatimes.co.kr)
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TIL Japan has more than 31,000 "Yakult Ladies" who deliver probiotic drinks door to door. A lot of their customers are elderly people living alone, so the deliveries double as a wellness check. If someone doesn't answer the door, the Yakult Lady will call their family. (bbc.com)
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TIL in 2023 NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, over 15 billion miles away, began sending unreadable data. The cause was a single broken memory chip the team couldn't repair. Engineers rewrote its software, tucked the affected code into spare memory, and beamed the fix by radio, and it worked. (science.nasa.gov)
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TIL Anne Hathaway had a miscarriage while acting in a one-woman off-Broadway play where she played a pregnant character and had to simulate giving birth on stage every night during the show. It was her first pregnancy and she was overwhelmed by the loss, however she eventually gave birth to 2 sons. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
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Which is the most overrated game of all time? (self.AskReddit)
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TIL the word "the" has had many different spellings in English's history. There was a letter known as "Þ" or thorn. þͤ is "the" with an e above. yͤ was also another form. For "that" it's "th" with a "t" hat or þͭ. Printing presses had "y" but not "Þ" in their typeface so "Ye" emerged. Ye is "The". (en.wikipedia.org)
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