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TIL Celebrities have to pay $85K to get their name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
https://walkoffame.com/generalfaqs/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pe1cny/til_celebrities_have_to_pay_85k_to_get_their_name/
TIL that Actor Ricardo Montalbán first saw his would-be wife onscreen when he was 18 and she was 15. Years later they met on a blind date, where Montalbán proposed to her that night. Their marriage lasted 63 years until her death in 2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Montalb%C3%A1n#cite_note-PeopleRandG-45
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pe2wjc/til_that_actor_ricardo_montalbán_first_saw_his/
TIL smelling your own farts could help protect against Alzheimer’s disease by correcting levels of hydrogen sulfide in aging brains
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2021/01/rotten-egg-gas-could-guard-against-alzheimers-disease
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pd9cg4/til_smelling_your_own_farts_could_help_protect/
TIL that there is a correlation between gas stoves in households and the development and/or worsening of asthma.
https://www.nationalasthma.org.au/living-with-asthma/resources/patients-carers/factsheets/gas-stoves-and-asthma-in-children
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pa4t3u/til_that_there_is_a_correlation_between_gas/
TIL that since 1985, at least 32 Catholic priests have fled the US to avoid criminal prosecution over abuse allegations
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14235
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pcdcch/til_that_since_1985_at_least_32_catholic_priests/
TIL that Cleopatra VII lived closer in time to the first moon landing than to the construction of Great Pyramid of Giza.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/so-cleopatra-lived-closer-in-time-to-the-first-lunar-landing-than-the-great-pyramids.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pbv0cd/til_that_cleopatra_vii_lived_closer_in_time_to/
TIL of Skull Chapel, a still-standing 18th-century chapel in Poland whose walls and ceiling are lined with around 3,000 skulls and the bones thousands of people who died in the 1700s. Oh and the basement has the bones of another 21,000 people as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Chapel
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pbne05/til_of_skull_chapel_a_stillstanding_18thcentury/
TIL that under the right atmospheric conditions, the Chicago skyline can be seen upside down from Michigan
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/the-perfectly-scientific-explanation-for-why-chicago-appeared-upside-down-in-michigan/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pbdh5i/til_that_under_the_right_atmospheric_conditions/
TIL that Actor Ricardo Montalbán first saw his would-be wife onscreen when he was 18 and she was 15. Years later they met on a blind date, where Montalbán proposed to her that night. Their marriage lasted 63 years until her death in 2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Montalb%C3%A1n#cite_note-PeopleRandG-45
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pe2wjc/til_that_actor_ricardo_montalbán_first_saw_his/
TIL Celebrities have to pay $85K to get their name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
https://walkoffame.com/generalfaqs/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pe1cny/til_celebrities_have_to_pay_85k_to_get_their_name/
TIL the man who stole the Mona Lisa served only seven months in prison, in part because the court psychiatrist considered him an imbecile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia#:~:text=He%20was%20sent,the%20lenient%20sentence
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pa3wk5/til_the_man_who_stole_the_mona_lisa_served_only/
TIL smelling your own farts could help protect against Alzheimer’s disease by correcting levels of hydrogen sulfide in aging brains
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2021/01/rotten-egg-gas-could-guard-against-alzheimers-disease
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pd9cg4/til_smelling_your_own_farts_could_help_protect/
#TIL SPDX license identifiers are recognized internationally by ISO/IEC 5962:2021. I've finally understood why everyone started deleting natural-language legal text in favor of SPDX without worrying about the legal implications...
TIL there was once a Tinder match on Antarctica
https://www.thecut.com/2014/02/tinder-makes-its-first-match-in-antarctica.html#:~:text=On%20a%20lonely%20December%20night,one%2C%20at%20least%20this%20year.
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1p9fznp/til_there_was_once_a_tinder_match_on_antarctica/
TIL the hit song "You're Beautiful" (2004) by James Blunt was voted as the most irritating track ever in a survey and featured in various lists of worst songs ever. Blunt himself issued a public apology for the record's overexposure, which he blamed on the record company's promotion techniques.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_considered_the_worst#1990s%E2%80%9…
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1p94voy/til_the_hit_song_youre_beautiful_2004_by_james/
TIL that since 1985, at least 32 Catholic priests have fled the US to avoid criminal prosecution over abuse allegations
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14235
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pcdcch/til_that_since_1985_at_least_32_catholic_priests/
#TIL about #GitSocial;
"Decentralized open-source Git-native social network
Share posts, follow repositories, and interact with communities using nothing but Git commits and refs."
For those with a Matrix app, the author Max R is looking for feedback in the forge federation room;
TIL that Cleopatra VII lived closer in time to the first moon landing than to the construction of Great Pyramid of Giza.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/so-cleopatra-lived-closer-in-time-to-the-first-lunar-landing-than-the-great-pyramids.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pbv0cd/til_that_cleopatra_vii_lived_closer_in_time_to/
#TIL about a data visualisation system called #Got;
"got protocol and all client side / frontend tools are open source
Mainly driven by the GotHub Team
GotHub and our work is funded by operating the GotHub.io platform and other alongside services
GotHub.io is a hosted Got-Provider"
Anyone know anything about this?
TIL of Skull Chapel, a still-standing 18th-century chapel in Poland whose walls and ceiling are lined with around 3,000 skulls and the bones thousands of people who died in the 1700s. Oh and the basement has the bones of another 21,000 people as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Chapel
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pbne05/til_of_skull_chapel_a_stillstanding_18thcentury/
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