TIL Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" was painted the same year that Nintendo was founded (1889)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
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#TodayILearned that the Mandarin Chinese word for bangs (the hairstyle) is 刘海 (liúhaǐ), which I found super odd because it looks like someone’s name, so I did a bit of digging.

And turns out…it is someone’s name. Liuhai was the adopted name of a prominent (legendary?) character in Daoist history, who wrote a handful of Daoist texts. He’s often known as 刘海蟾 (liúhaǐchán, literally Liuhai Toad), and he is often drawn playing with a three-legged golden toad and holding a string of golden coins, in a template known as 刘海戏金蟾 (Liuhai playing with the golden toad), and get this…he’s traditionally shown with hair bangs.

And…that’s it. “Bangs” is literally known as “Liuhai’s hairstyle”.

#chinese #mandarin #hairstyle

#TodayILearned that the Mandarin Chinese word for bangs (the hairstyle) is 刘海 (liúhaǐ), which I found super odd because it looks like someone’s name, so I did a bit of digging.

And turns out…it is someone’s name. Liuhai was the adopted name of a prominent (legendary?) character in Daoist history, who wrote a handful of Daoist texts. He’s often known as 刘海蟾 (liúhaǐchán, literally Liuhai Toad), and he is often drawn playing with a three-legged golden toad and holding a string of golden coins, in a template known as 刘海戏金蟾 (Liuhai playing with the golden toad), and get this…he’s traditionally shown with hair bangs.

And…that’s it. “Bangs” is literally known as “Liuhai’s hairstyle”.

#chinese #mandarin #hairstyle

TIL Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" was painted the same year that Nintendo was founded (1889)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ny31l0/til_vincent_van_goghs_starry_night_was_painted/

TIL there have been several documented cases where golfers were accidentally killed by the shaft of their golf club after it broke.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shafted/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nxil0p/til_there_have_been_several_documented_cases/

TIL that Worcestershire sauce was invented because John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, founders of Lea & Perrins were requested by the ex-Governor of Bengal, Lord Sandys to recreate something he tasted during his time there. The founders never visited India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce
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TIL that Worcestershire sauce was invented because John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, founders of Lea & Perrins were requested by the ex-Governor of Bengal, Lord Sandys to recreate something he tasted during his time there. The founders never visited India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nxdio1/til_that_worcestershire_sauce_was_invented/

TIL that in 1986, former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser was robbed of his pants and wallet while drugged in a Memphis, TN hotel

https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/daily-mails-malcolm-fraser-tribute-is-pants/9973306
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nx2zyy/til_that_in_1986_former_australian_pm_malcolm/

TIL that in 1986, former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser was robbed of his pants and wallet while drugged in a Memphis, TN hotel

https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/daily-mails-malcolm-fraser-tribute-is-pants/9973306
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nx2zyy/til_that_in_1986_former_australian_pm_malcolm/

TIL that DJ Mustard's given name is Dijon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_(music_producer)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nwn7df/til_that_dj_mustards_given_name_is_dijon/

TIL that DJ Mustard's given name is Dijon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_(music_producer)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nwn7df/til_that_dj_mustards_given_name_is_dijon/

TIL rolling your tongue like a taco is NOT a genetic trait

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/genetic-myth-textbooks-get-wrong
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nt7n8z/til_rolling_your_tongue_like_a_taco_is_not_a/

TIL that cremated human remains aren’t actually ashes. After incineration, the leftover bone fragments are ground down in a machine called a cremulator to produce what we call ashes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nrtir9/til_that_cremated_human_remains_arent_actually/

TIL that in 2021, Coca-Cola suffered a $4 billion drop in the market value, after Cristiano Ronaldo moved bottles of the drink out of the camera frame during a press conference and held up a bottle of water instead

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37618171/cristiano-ronaldo-snub-sees-coca-cola-share-price-fall-4bn
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nrrzjr/til_that_in_2021_cocacola_suffered_a_4_billion/

TIL rolling your tongue like a taco is NOT a genetic trait

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/genetic-myth-textbooks-get-wrong
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nt7n8z/til_rolling_your_tongue_like_a_taco_is_not_a/

TIL that the 1955 children's book "When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town" is considered to have contributed significantly to criminology in Norway

https://www.sciencenorway.no/children-criminality-literature/popular-childrens-books-from-the-1950s-contribute-to-norways-special-view-of-crime-study-says/2180561
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nr1f8s/til_that_the_1955_childrens_book_when_the_robbers/

TIL Japan now has nearly 100,000 people aged 100 or older, setting a new longevity record for the 55th year in a row. According to the country’s health ministry, as of this September, 99,763 centenarians live in Japan – and 88% of them are women.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd07nljlyv0o
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsvk8n/til_japan_now_has_nearly_100000_people_aged_100/

Today I learned that American company, IBM, provided the technology which was used to help transport millions of people to their doom in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nqrxwb/today_i_learned_that_american_company_ibm/

TIL that one of the oldest known inscriptions in German (the oldest found in Switzerland) has been read by some scholars as "lover - penis; you - vulva; receive me; (penis) penis penis"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BClach_fibula
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nocsc3/til_that_one_of_the_oldest_known_inscriptions_in/