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TIL: Oscar hosts usually get paid $15K-$25K. $15K is about the SAG – AFTRA minimum. Golden Globe hosts get paid far more than that, $100K and up.

by whatilearned March 28, 2022, 11:48 am

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TIL about Jeremy, a snail with its shell coiled to the left instead of the right, which makes it impossible to mate. An entire campaign was brought up in order to find Jeremy a lover and two candidates were found around the globe. Both rejected Jeremy and prefered to mate between themselves.

by whatilearned March 13, 2022, 2:41 am

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TIL about the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, the idea that 12,800 years ago, the resulting impacts from a comet breaking up over earth’s atmosphere would have struck glaciers and ice caps across the globe could have caused the great flood present in many ancient culture’s stories/myths

by whatilearned February 28, 2022, 6:37 pm

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TIL that to save the Hawaiian culture and people from disappearing, Kalākaua, the last king of the Hawaiian kingdom, went on a world tour in 1881, and travelled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, and he became the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe.

by whatilearned February 28, 2022, 1:16 pm

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TIL in 1966, model Nell Theobald garnered fame after she was attacked by a lion during a BMW photo shoot at the International Automobile Show. She used the money she received in the lawsuit settlement to intensify her obsessive stalking of opera singer Birgit Nilsson, following her around the globe.

by whatilearned February 5, 2022, 5:24 am

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TIL about PanAm 6039, a commercial “flying boat” that went the long way from San Francisco to New York, nearly circumnavigating the globe, in order to get home following the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941

by whatilearned January 27, 2022, 8:08 am

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TIL about the “Well to Hell” hoax. The hoax suggested a wealthy Russian man drilled a hole many miles deep into the Earth eventually finding a cavern, and with heat resistant equipment, recorded the screams of the damned. The hoax travelled the globe.

by whatilearned January 9, 2022, 4:25 pm

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TIL Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in Nov, 1895. The very next month, he took the first X-ray image using his wife’s hand; 2 months after that, X-rays were being used in multiple hospitals across the globe. By May, Thomas Edison developed the first mass-produced X-ray imaging device.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 10:33 pm

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TIL In 1969, amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst secretly abandoned the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race while reporting false positions to appear to complete a circumnavigation without actually doing so. His boat was found unoccupied; it was presumed that he committed suicide or fell overboard.

by whatilearned November 15, 2021, 11:57 pm

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TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.

by whatilearned September 11, 2021, 11:16 pm

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TIL about Ben Carlin, an engineer from Australia who, after several false starts, circumnavigated the globe in a modified amphibious army Jeep in the 1950s. At the time not many people actually believed he had done what he claimed.

by whatilearned August 5, 2021, 7:08 pm

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TIL of Pete Goss; A British yachtsman who turned back during the 1996 Vendee Globe race to save a fellow competitor, Raphael Dinelli. Goss sailed into hurricane force winds for two days to reach Dinelli; who was said to have been clutching a bottle of champagne when he was pulled from the sea

by whatilearned July 11, 2021, 5:20 pm

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