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TIL a woman named Lydia Abate has been "funeral tracking" for nearly 6 years — she scours obituaries to find recently deceased people, then offers grieving families a free estate clean-out service in exchange for keeping their dead relatives' vintage clothes. She hasn't bought clothes in years.
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Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.www.youtube.com
TIL that before becoming an actor, Danny DeVito worked as a cosmetologist for dead bodies at a morgue, styling the hair of the deceased. He began this after a client of his died where he worked as a beautician at his sister's salon, and her family asked him to do her hair for her funeral.
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TIL that older men are more likely to pass harmful mutations to their children, due to "selfish sperm," study finds.
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Older men are more likely to pass harmful mutations to their children, study finds
Older fathers pass harmful genetic mutations to their children at alarming rates, and scientists have just discovered why.Brain Articles (Science Aim)
#TIL att Kjell Häglund höll på med piratradio tidigt 1970-tal.
Radio 88, som startades av Anders Bjurman 1973.
Kul och intressant program.
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Kjell Höglund och radiopiraterna på Radio 88
Kjell Höglund är för de flesta känd för klassiska låtar som ”Genesarets sjö” och ”Man vänjer sig”. Men 1973 har han en annan karriär – som radiopirat! ...Sveriges Radio
TIL that the Butt plug was patented in 1892 by Dr. Frank Young as a "rectal dilator" and was intended to treat constipation and insanity
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TIL about the Matilda effect. It's a phenomenon where the achievements of women scientists and inventors get attributed to men.
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TIL that in 2009, Stephen Hawking hosted a party with balloons, streamers, and champagne, but did not send invites until after the party, but no one was there. The party was an experiment meant for time travelers to attend.
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TIL that humans shed approximately 200 million skin cells every hour. When indoors, these cells have nowhere to go and make up a significant portion of the dust found in homes.
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TIL That due to limited plumbing and water supply in Antartica, research stations use incinerator toilets. An incinerator toilet is a waterless, self-contained sanitation unit that uses high temperatures to combust human waste (solid and liquid) into small amounts of sterile, odorless ash.
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TIL over a 25-year period, a man named Tom Brown found & reclaimed about 1,200 "lost" apple varieties. His two-acre orchard, Heritage Apples, contains 700 of the rarest ones. Most of them haven’t been sold commercially for over a century and some were cloned from the last known trees of their kind.
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Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost' Varieties
Tom Brown's retirement hobby is a godsend for chefs, conservationists, and cider.Eric J. Wallace (Atlas Obscura)
TIL that in 1946 Walt Disney produced a film named "Song of the South" that was never released on DVD or streaming market due to the subject matter of slavery portrayed in the film. It also happens to be the origin of the song "zippidy doo-da".
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TIL mammals default body template is FEMALE, only when sex hormones kicks during development is gender set. That happens after the nipples are formed which is why MEN have nipples
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TIL that a mummified carrier pigeon discovered in a UK chimney in 1982 was carrying an encrypted D-Day message from 1944 that has never been decoded. Britain’s intelligence agency is still seeking the public’s help in deciphering it.
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