TIL if The Bare Naked Ladies had $1m when the song was recorded, and parked it in S&P500, they'd be rich.
While $1m USD in 1988 is worth only $2.6m in 2024, if they just put it in the S&P 500 back then and left it there, it'd be worth over $44.6m today....
TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed ( en.wikipedia.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2659121
TIL the U.S. Civil War is called "The Slave War" in Icelandic ( lemmy.world )
TIL: A man rejected for police job due to scoring too high on intelligence test. ( abcnews.go.com )
Sept. 8, 2000 -- A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city....
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 that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it. ( en.wikipedia.org )
The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website....
A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
TIL: Gamergate's have interesting hierarchy and can replace the queen ( en.wikipedia.org )
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 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
About the successor of Virtual RMS ( lemmy.ml )
Thanks to this comment : https://lemmy.ml/comment/10591882
The real reason men grow beards ( www.bbc.com )
TIL that quadruple A batteries exist ( lemmy.world )
What device even uses this??
TIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or fresh ( slrpnk.net )
TIL there is no original TI-84 as the TI-84 Plus was an upgrade (like iPhone 14 to 13) to the TI-83 Plus ( en.wikipedia.org )
And yes, TI calculators have indeed been improving, apparently....
TIL The fish pepper was thought to be extinct for much of the 20th century until the rediscovery of fifty year-old seeds in a family's freezer ( www.bbc.com )
The fish pepper (named for its common use in seafood dishes) is popular today, but it nearly disappeared altogether: that it still exists is thanks to William Woys Weaver, a Maryland author and ethnographer. In 1995, Weaver discovered a jar of seeds in the bottom of a freezer that belonged to his grandfather, H Ralph Weaver....
TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing. ( lemmy.world )
TIL about the social history of Jell-O Salad ( www.seriouseats.com )
TIL Ecuador has constitutional protections for the rights of nature, and those protections are actively determining environmental legal cases. ( amp.theguardian.com )
A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros' cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area....
TIL abou the Amalgam Comics, a joint publication by DC & Marvel featuring characters that were a mix of those from both universes ( en.wikipedia.org )
About the comics: https://antifandom.com/marvel/wiki/Amalgam_Comics...
TIL a Canadian from Greece took an American version of an Italian dish and added tropical fruit to it and called it a Hawaiian pizza. ( en.wikipedia.org )
til Don Pardo worked as announcer on SNL until his death, age 96! ( en.wikipedia.org )
Dominick George "Don" Pardo Jr. (February 22, 1918 – August 18, 2014) was an American radio and television announcer whose career spanned more than seven decades. A member of the Television Hall of Fame, Pardo was noted for his 70-year tenure with NBC, working as the announcer for early incarnations of such notable shows as...
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...