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TIL a chicken fell off the stage and on top of a cellist during a performance of the opera Boris Godunov in the Sydney Opera House’s Joan Sutherland Theatre in the 1980s, which used live chickens in the performance. A net was subsequently installed above the orchestra pit.

by whatilearned May 5, 2023, 12:01 pm

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TIL about Andrew Kehoe, who was a Michigan farmer who became disgruntled after losing reelection as treasurer of the Bath Township school board. He subsequently murdered his wife and then detonated bombs at the school on May 18, 1927. 38 children and 6 adults were killed.

by whatilearned May 4, 2023, 4:31 am

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TIL a student in Brown University, between the years 2003-2008, changed the name of the posterior bundle into his name (Baum’s loop). This information was subsequently taught and referenced worldwide and was even included in Gray’s Anatomy.

by whatilearned April 12, 2023, 3:09 pm

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TIL that Bothie the Polar Dog is the only dog to travel to both the South and North Poles. No other dog is expected to match Bothie’s achievement of visiting both poles after the Antarctic Treaty of 1994, which has subsequently forbidden dogs from the Antarctic continent.

by whatilearned April 2, 2023, 12:45 am

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TIL Steve Comisar sold “solar powered clothes dryers” in national magazines for $49.99 and subsequently sent customers a clothesline.

by whatilearned April 1, 2023, 3:26 pm

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TIL the Carlton Tavern, based in London, was demolished by its owners after failing to obtain the necessary planning permission. The council subsequently ordered the pub to be rebuilt brick by brick. The pub was the only building in the street to survive the Blitz during WW2. It reopened in 2021.

by whatilearned March 18, 2023, 2:51 am

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TIL about Shi Yousan, a Chinese general who defected to, and subsequently betrayed, Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Zhang Xueliang, the CPC, and Japan, in that order. Eventually, when he attempted to defect to Japan again, he himself was betrayed and executed by a subordinate.

by whatilearned March 8, 2023, 1:49 am

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TIL on Valentine’s Day in 1991 during the Gulf War, the RAF attempted to airstrike a bridge in Fallujah with laser guided missiles, but they malfunctioned and hit a local marketplace. The RAF apologized and subsequently attacked the bridge again, hitting a different marketplace.

by whatilearned February 12, 2023, 7:56 am

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TIL Disney XD’s “Pair of Kings” was forced to replace co-star Mitchell Musso, who was arrested in Burbank California for drunk driving in 2011, with Adam Hicks, who was subsequently arrested in Burbank, California for armed robbery in 2018

by whatilearned February 8, 2023, 7:18 pm

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TIL that a dump truck caused a New York City elevated freeway to collapse in 1973. The truck was found to have been 9 tons overloaded and the company operating it was blamed. The contract to clean up the results of the failure was subsequently awarded to the same company.

by whatilearned December 25, 2022, 7:25 am

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TIL that in 1977 Bob Marley was diagnosed with melanoma under a toenail. He rejected his doctors’ advice to have his toe amputated, citing his religious beliefs. The cancer subsequently spread and he died of metastatic melanoma 4 years later, at the age of 36.

by whatilearned November 30, 2022, 10:07 pm

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TIL that Zimbabwe’s health minister complained that the condoms made in China were too small for its men. The Chinese condom manufacturer subsequently said it planned on making its exports in different sizes after doing “some surveys on users’ data in the region”.

by whatilearned November 27, 2022, 10:35 am

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