Today I Learned....PartII

[row_33]

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/spider-worlds-oldest-australia-trapdoor-43-tarantula-mexico-wasp-a8326921.html

 

How on earth can you guarantee there isn't a spider somewhere on the planet that hasn't been located that is 50?

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL that although Nazi Germany sterilized or murdered 73-100% of all schizophrenics in Germany (about 220K-269K people), there were no long-term effects on subsequent rates of schizophrenia in Germany. In fact, post WWII rates were unexpectedly high.

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL that Area 51 wasn't confirmed to actually exist by the US Government until 2013.

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL in 1998, Marvel offered the cinematic rights of almost all of it's characters to Sony for a mere $25 million. Sony rejected the offer, and only purchased the rights to Spiderman for $10 million believing that movie audiences would only care about him.

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL that Han Solo was supposed to die in Return of the Jedi. George Lucas was afraid that would affect toy sales, so he changed it to an ewok party.

 

 

[KD in CA]

TIL there is a little arrow next to the gas gauge on some(most? all?) cars that points to the side with the gas tank.  Who knew?

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL that Michael Phelps has more Summer Olympic gold medals than 80% of countries in history even when taking into account countries that no longer exist.

 

 

[row_33]

3 hours ago, Canadian Bills Fan said:

TIL that Michael Phelps has more Summer Olympic gold medals than 80% of countries in history even when taking into account countries that no longer exist.

 

 

 

would have been a different 1900s if you paid kids millions to continue with their Peter Pan complex in their hobby sport well past their University years

 

 

[row_33]

Publisher Katkov at The Russian Messenger got to serialize both War and Peace and The Idiot at the same time.

 

 

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, row_33 said:

Publisher Katkov at The Russian Messenger got to serialize both War and Peace and The Idiot at the same time.

 

 

 

Big deal.  Web site owner SDS gets to serialize multiple idiots at the same time.

[row_33]

24 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Big deal.  Web site owner SDS gets to serialize multiple idiots at the same time.

 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

TIL that another exile finally made his way to the TSW   

 

Welcome @Soda Popinski

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL that Diarrhea killed approximately as many people as HIV and AIDS in 2012

 

 

[DC Tom]

Today I learned that the Ancient Athenians had a sexual position called "Crouching Lioness on a Cheese Grater."  

 

Nobody's quite sure what that position was...which is probably just as well.

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8 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

Today I learned that the Ancient Athenians had a sexual position called "Crouching Lioness on a Cheese Grater."  

 

Nobody's quite sure what that position was...which is probably just as well.

Ancient Aliens will figure it out

[ExiledInIllinois]

4 hours ago, DC Tom said:

Today I learned that the Ancient Athenians had a sexual position called "Crouching Lioness on a Cheese Grater."  

 

Nobody's quite sure what that position was...which is probably just as well.

 

130,000 drachma was paid to an Athenian porn star to keep it quiet.

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL Chadwick Boseman was accepted into a prestigious summer theater program at Oxford University, but couldn't afford to go. He secured funding through a private benefactor, who turned out to be Denzel Washington. Over 20 yrs later Chadwick thanked him in person at the premiere of "Black Panther."

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL Hugh Jackman took a pay cut to ensure "Logan" would be rated R. Since 'R-rated' films typically limit the overall audience that can attend, Jackman's reduced salary brought the budget down to an acceptable place to warrant an R rating.

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL that in 1475, Turkish law stated that it was legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he does not provide her with the daily quota of coffee.

 

 

[Canadian Bills Fan]

TIL it took Ryan Reynolds 11 yrs to get his vision of "Deadpool" made. The project overcame the failing of "X-Men:Origins" and persevered to become the highest grossing R-rated film of all time.