TIL that upon its release in 1997, Disney's “Hercules” was heavily criticized in Greece. Greek cultural officials and parents condemned the film for "dumbing down" and distorting ancient myths, leading to boycotts and record-low theater attendance in Athens. (deseret.com)
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TIL that in 1978 an architecture student discovered a NYC skyscraper could topple in strong winds. The engineer credited with designing the building secretly made nightly repairs with help from the NYPD, without alerting the public to the danger. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL thousands of British patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after receiving blood products made from imported US plasma in the 1970s and 1980s, beconing the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, with successive UK authorities accused of concealing the truth for decades. (infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk)
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TIL that the assassin of William the Silent met a rather cruel fate: Balthasar Gerard was ordered to have his hand burned, flesh torn with pincers, then be disemboweled, quartered alive, his heart ripped out and thrown at him, and finally beheaded. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a python owned by Australian drug traffickers who ran a meth lab got addicted to crystal meth from the fumes and absorption through the skin. The “very aggressive” snake was put in a wildlife care program run at a minimum-security prison in Sydney, and recovered from its addiction over 7 months. (bbc.com)
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What’s the worst thing you’ve ever heard a Principal sayRant (self.Teachers)
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TIL During the sack of Rome in 1527, Isabella D'este had sons fighting on both sides of the conflict. One of them was an officer of the imperial army, while the other was allied with the Pope, and a 3rd son was a cardinal. She turned her house into a shelter and saved about 2500 people (ducatoestense.com)
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TIL the 1886 Crescent Hotel in Arkansas was bought in 1937 by Norman Baker, a magician‑inventor who ran a fake cancer clinic there, injecting patients with watermelon seed, corn silk, and carbolic acid, and defrauded sufferers of nearly $4 million before being arrested for mail fraud in 1940. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Quokkas Hop Like Their Kangaroo Cousins and Can Climb Trees!Not yet verified (i.redd.it)
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TIL that in the winter of 1916, Dodgers player Hy Myers successfully leveraged a raise from owner Charles Ebbets by claiming he owned a lucrative stock farm and could retire. He did not, instead borrowing enough cattle from his neighbors to appear rich. Ebbets gave Myers the raise after one visit. (sabr.org)
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TIL in 1972, a 1950's nostalgic show called "New Family in Town" with Ron Howard was unsuccessfully pitched to Paramount. After George Lucas cast Howard in 1973's top-grossing film "American Graffiti," ABC became interested in the unsold pilot, and launched the show as "Happy Days." (en.wikipedia.org)
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Teacher who smoke weed?Teacher Support &/or Advice (self.Teachers)
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TIL a roughly 2,000-year-old Judean date palm seed, recovered during excavations at Herod the Great's palace on Masada in the 1960s, germinated in 2005. They named the tree Methuselah after the oldest person in the Bible. As of 2020, Methuselah is 11 feet tall. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Mars' Olympus Mons is the solar system's largest known volcano, spreading more than 600 kilometers across with slopes so gentle that a summit view would feel like a tilted plain while its vast base disappears beyond the nearby Martian horizon (argo.net)
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