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"80,000 people return to Ukraine from abroad, most of them men" | worldnews |
"Trump defends abandoning Kurds by saying they didn't help US in WWII" | worldnews |
"Father at centre of measles outbreak didn't vaccinate children due to autism fears | CBC News" | worldnews |
"Taiwan election – Tsai Ing-wen wins second presidential term, beating Beijing-friendly rival" | worldnews |
"Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the comedian who last week won Ukraine’s presidential election, has dismissed an offer by Vladimir Putin to provide passports to Ukrainians and pledged instead to grant citizenship to Russians who “suffer” under the Kremlin’s rule." | worldnews |
"Most Germans will be ‘vaccinated, cured or dead’ by winter end, says minister" | worldnews |
"Cannabis May Pose a 'Long-Term Risk' to the Alcohol Industry" | worldnews |
"Trump White House associate George Nader was convicted of child porn charges in Virgina: "And in 2003 he was convicted on 10 counts of sexually abusing underage boys in the Czech Republic, the AP reported"" | worldnews |
"Ireland: Private hospitals will be made public for duration of pandemic - The State will take control of all private hospital facilities - Health Minister: "Patients with this virus will be treated for free, and they’ll be treated as part of a single, national hospital service."" | worldnews |
"US Embassy warns Americans to leave Russia" | worldnews |
"Germany bans far-right, pro-Nazi group, police raid homes" | worldnews |
"Iran's use of ‘electric shocks’ on gay children is torture, says UN report" | worldnews |
"Coronavirus: France and Germany have announced second national lockdowns" | worldnews |
"DNA Test Shows Subway’s Oven-Roasted Chicken Is Only 50 Percent Chicken" | worldnews |
"Boris Johnson's Conservative party has received cash from nine Russian donors named in a suppressed intelligence report" | worldnews |
"Civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond, a black woman who refused to leave the whites-only section of a Canadian movie theatre in 1946 – nearly a decade before Rosa Parks’s act of defiance – has been honoured on the country’s newest $10 bill." | worldnews |
"Amazon reportedly tried to shut down a virtual event for workers to speak out about the company's coronavirus response by deleting employees' calendar invites" | worldnews |
"Video sparks fears Hong Kong protesters being loaded on train to China" | worldnews |
"TikTok reportedly waited nearly 3 hours to call police in Brazil after a teen's death was livestreamed on the platform, but the company notified its own PR team almost immediately" | worldnews |
"Carnival slapped with a $20 million fine after it was caught dumping trash into the ocean, again" | worldnews |
"France becomes first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides killing bees - France will take a radical step towards protecting its dwindling bee population on Saturday by becoming the first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides researchers believe are killing off the insects." | worldnews |
"Mueller draft report says Trump "helped Putin destabilize the United States," Watergate journalist says" | worldnews |
"Trump is “worst perpetrator of false information” in America, U.N. official monitoring freedom of expression says" | worldnews |
"Boris Johnson to make protests that cause 'annoyance' illegal, with prison sentences of up to 10 years" | worldnews |
"Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty" | worldnews |
"Ukraine President Zelenskyy signs application for EU membership" | worldnews |
"Coronavirus patients who refuse to self-isolate face murder charges in Italy" | worldnews |
"10% of the worlds population is now under quarantine" | worldnews |
"With 'Systemic Violations' of Worker Rights, US Comes in Dead Last in Labor Rankings of Wealthy Nations" | worldnews |
"Impeachment to go ahead" | worldnews |
"China has refused repeated requests by the World Health Organisation to take part in investigations into the origins of COVID-19, a WHO representative in China has told Sky News" | worldnews |
"Russian foreign minister accuses West of considering "nuclear war"" | worldnews |
"Jair Bolsonaro is denounced in The Hague for genocide and crimes against humanity" | worldnews |
"UN votes resoundingly to reject Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as capital" | worldnews |
"China Invents Rice That Can Grow in Salt Water, Can Feed Over 200 Million People" | worldnews |
"The Wuhan coronavirus has hit Xinjiang, where China has imprisoned at least 1 million Uighur Muslims. Its filthy detention camps will make inmates sitting ducks." | worldnews |
"Russian Police Major Falls From Window After Testifying Against Boss — Reports" | worldnews |
"After banning Animal Crossing, China to begin censoring online gaming by isolating Chinese players from world and requiring real-name logins" | worldnews |
""This Morning, Russian Phosphorus Bombs Were Used": Zelensky To NATO" | worldnews |
"Scotland Joins The Growing Global Movement Towards A Four-Day Workweek" | worldnews |
"Tesla Fined $16K Per Owner for Throttling Battery Capacity, Charging Speed in Norway" | worldnews |
"Canada wants clearer warnings on junk food. The US is using NAFTA to stop them: Canada is poised to be the first high-income country to put warning labels on foods high in salt, sugar, and fat." | worldnews |
"Leader of Hong Kong democracy group attacked with hammers" | worldnews |
"China says Kim Jong Un has agreed to denuclearize Korean Peninsula" | worldnews |
"US to end Russia's ability to pay international investors, "making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable."" | worldnews |
"Mexico's solution to the Covid-19 educational crisis: Put school on television" | worldnews |
"Trump leaked to the Russians that Israel successfully hacked ISIS computers" | worldnews |
"Putin's Key Man in the Artic Found Dead After Falling Overboard" | worldnews |
"The far-right Australian politician who blamed the New Zealand mass shooting on immigration was voted out of office" | worldnews |
"Russia's Only Aircraft Carrier Has Caught Fire" | worldnews |
"TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator yanked a cable causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. Worried they had killed him, everyone rushed over to find Hawking giggling at his own joke. The alarm was from an office computer losing power." | todayilearned |
"TIL Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. Then he would assign his new son in law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while his daughter took over the rule. Most sons in law died in combat, giving his daughters complete control of these nations" | todayilearned |
"TIL the FBI has struggled to hire hackers because of the FBI hiring rule that the applicant must not have used marijuana during the last 3 years." | todayilearned |
"TIL After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers."" | todayilearned |
"TIL a fan drove three hours to deliver rapper, Boozie Badazz, a much needed dosage of insulin. She refused to accept payment and instead asked for just a photo. On her way home she stopped at a store, bought a scratch off ticket, and won $10,000." | todayilearned |
"TIL that in 1916 there was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army." | todayilearned |
"TIL that the Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show" | todayilearned |
"TIL actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."" | todayilearned |
"TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%." | todayilearned |
"TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team." | todayilearned |
"TIL Costco's hot dog has remained $1.50 since it was first introduced in 1984. After the company president complained they were losing money on it, CEO Jim Sinegal put his foot down. "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you," Sinegal said." | todayilearned |
"TIL a waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her colleagues for their share. Then she was sued by the man who tipped her the ticket. Then she was kidnapped by her ex husband, and shot him in the chest. Then she went to court against the IRS." | todayilearned |
"TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's taken Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 28 cases last year." | todayilearned |
"TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him." | todayilearned |
"TIL: Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan as part of a "Work Life Choice Challenge" by shutting down offices every Friday. Productivity, measured by sales per employee, increased by almost 40% compared to the same period the previous year." | todayilearned |
"TIL Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and gave them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription read, “I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.”" | todayilearned |
"TIL that William Whipple, one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, freed his slave after signing it because he believed one cannot simultaneously fight for freedom and hold another person in bondage." | todayilearned |
"TIL A Japanese company has awarded its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks" | todayilearned |
"TIL when the Nazis burned Sigmund Freud's books he said, "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books."" | todayilearned |
"TIL many doctors have stopped calling cancer treatment a "fight" or "battle". They argue these terms misrepresent how treatment works and if treatments fail, the patient is left with guilt and a false belief they didn't "fight" hard enough." | todayilearned |
"TIL that Billy Joel never sells front row seats in order to see the real fans right in front of him. He gives them away to random people in the cheap seats so that front row isn't always just wealthy people." | todayilearned |
"TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before." | todayilearned |
"TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly." | todayilearned |
"TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!"" | todayilearned |
"TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula." | todayilearned |
"TIL that Willie, a parrot, alerted its owner, Megan Howard, when the toddler she was babysitting began to choke. Megan was in the bathroom, the parrot began screaming "mama, baby" while flapping its wings as the child turned blue. Megan rushed over and performed the Heimlich, saving the girls life." | todayilearned |
"TIL Dennis Ritchie who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of effectively every software system we use on a daily basis died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored." | todayilearned |
"TIL that everyone in Singapore above the age of 21 is automatically registered as an organ donor. Opting out from this Act will result in you being put at the very bottom of the organ priority list, should you need an organ transplantation." | todayilearned |
"TIL of Syndrome K: a fake disease that Italian doctors made up to save Jews who had fled to their hospital seeking protection from the Nazis. Syndrome K "patients" were quarantined and the Nazis were told that it was a deadly, disfiguring, and highly contagious illness. They saved at least 20 lives." | todayilearned |
"TIL “Military Grade” is just a marketing ploy. In the actual military, “military grade” means “meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least.”" | todayilearned |
"TIL there was an early 1900s act named "Sober Sue", who's draw was she never smiled. A theater offered $1000 to any one who could make her laugh, attracting big comedians. Crowds came out to watch them try, and fail, giving them a free show. Later it came out that Sue suffered from facial paralysis." | todayilearned |
"TIL BBC journalists requested an interview with Facebook because they weren't removing child abuse photos. Facebook asked to be sent the photos as proof. When journalists sent the photos, Facebook reported the them to the police because distributing child abuse imagery is illegal." | todayilearned |
"TIL Canadian researchers watched 40 episodes of 'The Dr. Oz Show' and found that nearly 40% of the medical advice is not evidence-based, and 15% goes directly against evidence." | todayilearned |
"TIL During the American Revolution, an enslaved man was charged with treason and sentenced to hang. He argued that as a slave, he was not a citizen and could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance. He was subsequently pardoned." | todayilearned |
"TIL: This year, the official Yu Gi Oh tournament hosted by Konami instituted a hygiene clause to rulebook. This allows judges to penalize players with dirty clothing or terrible odor by giving them a loss. Super Smash Bros tournament have also started implementing similar rules." | todayilearned |
"TIL that a 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets." | todayilearned |
"TIL A man created a fake restaurant on TripAdvisor and asked around for good reviews. Eventually, the fake restaurant was the #1 restaurant in London, and was being called up 100s of times daily for bookings. For a day, the man set up a “cafe” in his backyard and served frozen food to rave reviews." | todayilearned |
"TIL hundreds of love letters between two gay World War II soldiers were found and are being made into a book. In one, one of them wrote, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are."" | todayilearned |
"TIL Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroom so her guests can hold it and make acceptance speeches in the mirror without feeling self conscious" | todayilearned |
"TIL that there was a rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A Malicious rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it”." | todayilearned |
"TIL George Miller had his wife Margaret Sixel edit Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller said that she had never cut an action movie before, and he said if was edited by "the usual kind of guys, it would look like every other action movie we see." She went on to win a Oscar for her editing work in the film." | todayilearned |
"TIL: Some farmers in Bangladesh have switched to raising ducks instead of chickens, because during catastrophic floods, ducks float." | todayilearned |
"TIL Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."" | todayilearned |
"TIL an actor in Nazi Germany lost his job for being Jewish. He went to the Alps, grew a beard, and dyed all his hair by bathing in diluted hydrogen. He returned to the stage claiming to be a self-taught peasant actor and was praised by the Nazis as "proof of the superiority of Aryan blood."" | todayilearned |
"TIL Dr. Phil lost his license to practise psychology in 2006. Therefore, all guests on his TV show must sign a contract stating they are only there to receive "advice" from an individual, not a psychologist." | todayilearned |
"TIL Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has disdain for money and large wealth accumulation. In 2017 he said he didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values. When Apple went public, Wozniak offered $10 million of his stock to early Apple employees, something Jobs refused to do." | todayilearned |
"TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice." | todayilearned |
"TIL Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman." | todayilearned |
"TIL that Pink Floyd's The Wall is implied to be an endless loop. The final song, Outside the Wall, ends with the words "Isn't this where...", and the album begins with the words "... we came in?" with a continuation of the melody of the last song, hinting at the cyclical nature of Water's theme." | todayilearned |
"TIL that a depressed Manchester teen used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, and after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history to be charged with inciting their own murder." | todayilearned |
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