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Australians are 10x more likely to develop skin cancer than the average person

https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/skin-cancer-statistics/

TIL America had its First Native American Vice President in 1929, Charles Curtis ( lemmy.world )

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis

TIL North Koreans cannot go to Japan ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off ( animals.howstuffworks.com )

A healthy human liver contains 575 international units (IU) of vitamin A per gram while a polar bear's liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000. Signs of toxicity generally occur when approximately 25,000 to 33,000 IU are...

TIL "magic wand" translates to "baguette magique" in french ( i.imgur.com )

TIL that during the filming of Borat, Police was called 90+ times ( www.youtube.com )

And the FBI was assigned to follow the film team on reports of a "vaguely middle-eastern man with a bear in an ice-crem truck", which has to be the funniest report xD

TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop ( e360.yale.edu )

TIL The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along transatlantic cable was $10 a word, with a ten word minimum. ( www.pbs.org )

The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks' salary in order to send a single message. As a practical matter, this limited cable use to governments (transmissions from the...

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TIL Alice Walton (Walmart heir) killed a pedestrian in a driving accident and was never charged. She has also been arrested for DUI twice but never charged. ( en.wikipedia.org )

The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It's that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.

Today I learned Choice VA was created after the 2014 VA scandel. ( en.m.wikipedia.org )

TIL the very first animated feature film was "Creation" by Pinto Colvig, made in 1916. It has been lost and only a few frames remain, but Colvig went on to be the voice of Goofy and the original Bozo. ( blueprintdigital.com )

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/420d81f5-17c6-4060-b24b-2a53b609de4f.png

TIL that science does still not fully understand how cycling works ( www.cbc.ca )

TIL: About Foxfire a Bioluminescent Fungus ( en.m.wikipedia.org )

I first heard about it as being used to mark gauges on a 1770s submersible so the operator could read them in the dark....

TIL: There is a species of penguin that lives in the southern point of Africa. (African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as Cape penguin or South African penguin.) ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL: How DuPont Knowingly Poisoned Americans With PFAS For Over 50 Years ( medium.com )

A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark ( www.smithsonianmag.com )

TIL states that passed laws allowing a married person to seek a divorce without the consent of their spouse saw female suicide decline by 20 percent ( www.nber.org )

TIL: Some cephalopods can fly… ( midwest.social )

Some cephalopods are able to fly through the air for distances of up to 50 metres (160 ft). While cephalopods are not particularly aerodynamic, they achieve these impressive ranges by jet-propulsion; water continues to be expelled from the funnel while the organism is in the air. The animals spread their fins and tentacles to...

TIL Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) started out doing stand-up and was mentored by Redd Foxx. Here he is doing stand-up on The Redd Foxx show in 1977. ( www.youtube.com )

He also does a great Redd Foxx impersionation- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=490TsUYe5f4

TIL that credit card numbers are validated using Luhn's algorithm. If it doesn't work with Luhn's algorithm, it's not a valid card number.

You can read about Luhn's algorithm here

TIL: You can enter into Immersive Reader mode in (Microsoft) Edge to reduce the number of things and CSS displayed on the screen. Great for when you need to study. ( support.microsoft.com )

I found mine at the right end of the URL bar....

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