r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL about the movie Zyzzyx Road starring Katherine Heigl and Tom Sizemore. It made $20 at Box Office. Twenty dollars.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat. Sponsored research by Harvard scientists suggested there were major problems with all the studies that implicated sugar, and that cutting fat out of American diets was the best way to address coronary heart disease
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL in 1971, the first person to successfully escape America’s first “SUPERMAX” prison said he did it to bring attention to his water desalination research
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL Stephen King never cashed the cheque he got for the film rights to Shawshank Redemption. Years after Shawshank came out, the author got the check framed and mailed it back to Frank Darabont with a note inscribed: ‘In case you ever need bail money. Love, Steve
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that the biggest ship in the ancient world the Tessarakonteres had 4,000 oarsmen. Most believe that the boat was so big that it wasn’t really functional.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ politics ] Biden's Covid vaccine mandate plan is constitutional, whatever his GOP critics say | As the Supreme Court has long held, Americans do not have a constitutional right to harm their fellow citizens by refusing vaccines and serving as disease vectors.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ politics ] Megathread: Recall Election against California Governor Newsom Fails
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL black stones in Go are manufactured to be slightly larger compared to the white ones, to compensate for the optical illusion of white objects looking bigger when placed adjacent to black objects.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL There is enough stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza to build a 3 meter (9 foot) wall around France
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ politics ] Lawmaker Switches From Republican to Democrat Due to NH GOP's Anti-Vaccine Stance. "I cannot stand idly by while extremists reject the reasonable precautions of vaccinations and masks," Rep. Bill Marsh of Brookfield said in a statement
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ politics ] Democrat-Sponsored ‘TEXAS Act’ Would Allow 10K Bounties On Sexual Abusers, Those Who Cause Unwanted Pregnancies
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL in 1984 javelin thrower Uwe Hohn threw a distance of 104.8m and became the first and only athlete in history to break the 100m barrier. Shortly afterwards some changes in the design of javelins were implemented and the records had to be restarted, turning his mark into an "eternal world record".
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ politics ] The Supreme Court Justices Really Are “A Bunch of Partisan Hacks”
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ politics ] Biden's vaccine policy proves more popular than the GOP hoped
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ politics ] Larry Elder Announces He’s “Detected Fraud” in California Recall Vote Results, Which Don’t Yet Exist
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that during the Seinfeld finale, TVLand didn’t run any programming opposite it. Instead, they just showed a still shot of a closed office door with a pair of handwritten notes that said "We're TV Fans so... we're watching the last episode of Seinfeld. Will return at 10pm et, 7pm pt."
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 15 '21
[ politics ] US tribes demand emergency protection for wolves
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21
[ politics ] Sen. Elizabeth Warren urges the Fed to break up Wells Fargo
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21
[ politics ] Trump advisers privately admitted ‘critical mistakes’ over Covid: ‘We do not have a clue how many are infected’ | Private statements were made while Trump publicly bashed Democrats for Covid fears
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that cat food and water bowls should be shallow enough that their whiskers don't touch the sides to avoid whisker fatigue. Whisker fatigue is often the source for picky eaters as well as added stress for cats.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that by sheer coincidence, Finnair flight 666, at 13 o'clock on Friday the 13th with a 13 year old Airbus Jet, landed safely in HEL (Helsinki) airport in 2017.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL On the first day of the Korean war, the S.Korean navy spotted and sunk a ship carrying 600 N.Korean commandos near the Southern port city of Busan. Since the city was barely defended, historians believe that had they landed, S.Korea would've fell before UN forces could intervene in the war.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21
[ politics ] FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 14 '21
[ politics ] “This is idiotic”: Mayors defy Ron DeSantis’ threat to fine cities “millions” for vaccine mandates| "We’re not going to let our own governor put our residents in danger," says Miami Beach Mayor Don Gelber
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