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Security Warning (from me) – Steve Harvey is okay!

by CopyPastaArchive April 20, 2023, 12:00 pm

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TIL Harvey Ball, the man who designed the popular smiley face graphic picture, never applied for a trademark for the smiley image and only earned $45 for his work. His son once said: “He was not a money-driven guy. He used to say: ‘Hey, I can only eat one steak at a time, drive one car at a time.’”

by whatilearned April 12, 2023, 9:33 am

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TIL Donald Bellisario, the creator of the show “Quantum Leap”, served in the Marines(sgt) with Lee Harvey Oswald and interacted with him. He created an episode where it is made clear that Oswald killed Kennedy specifically because Bellisario was confident Oswald committed the assassination

by whatilearned April 5, 2023, 9:50 pm

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TIL – English physician William Harvey was a prominent skeptic regarding allegations of witchcraft. He was one of the examiners of four women from Lancashire accused of witchcraft in 1634, and as a consequence of his report, all of them were acquitted.

by whatilearned February 22, 2023, 4:37 am

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TIL that the despite being the outermost bridge in NYC and the southernmost bridge in the whole state of NY, the Outerbridge Crossing in NYC is actually named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, the first chairman of the Port of New York Authority.

by whatilearned October 30, 2022, 3:18 pm

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TIL Lee Harvey Oswald was court martialed while in the Marines for accidentally shooting himself in the elbow with an unauthorized handgun

by whatilearned July 28, 2022, 3:04 pm

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TIL that 21 November 1963, the night before JFK was assassinated, Joseph Campisi (the #2 mafia boss in Dallas) dined with Jack Ruby. Three days later, Ruby stepped out of a crowd and shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before he could face trial.

by whatilearned July 24, 2022, 9:32 am

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TIL Harvey Comics, the creators of Casper, sued Columbia Pictures, alleging their Ghostbusters logo was too similar to Fatso from the Ghostly Trio. Harvey sought $50m and the destruction of all copies of the film.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 4:44 am

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The Steve Harvey flesh light is way overhyped.

by CopyPastaArchive June 2, 2022, 8:05 pm

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TIL that John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, was an early proponent of germ theory.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 4:06 am

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TIL, the reason for many serial Killers “having three names”, such as John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Lee Harvey Oswald, is actually a convention of media reporting, under the assumption that by using the middle name people with the same first and last name will not be misidentified as the killer.

by whatilearned May 1, 2022, 2:13 am

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TIL TIL After he died Einstein’s family directed that he—meaning all of him—be cremated. Dr. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who performed the autopsy, decided to remove Albert’s brain before releasing his body to the undertakers. He stored Einstein’s brain in his home for 20+ years in Mason jars

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 8:18 pm

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