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todayilearned
Jul 06, 2020
TIL People with Schizophrenia in African and Indian cultures tend to have positive experiences when hearing voices. Those in the United States predominantly have violent and hateful experiences.
anthropologist tanya luhrmann
bad voices
dark voices
inner voices
new york times
schizophrenia sufferers
voices
voices alters
voices torment sufferers
todayilearned
Jun 09, 2020
TIL that in 1956, F-11 Tiger fighter plane shot itself down because the plane was literally going faster than its own gunfire.
alan green
apollo lunar module
atlantic ocean
b-47 bomber
battery acid
battle of fort sumter
blue angels
boeing b-47e stratojet
brazilian navy
bruce kulka
bruce kulka mars bluff
bruntingthorpe air base
charleston air force base
charleston harbor
chlorine gas
civil war
clarence stewart
cold war
cruden bay
cruiser bahia
daniel hough
distinguished flying cross
earl koehler
edward galway
fort sumter
georgia
grumman f11f-1 tiger
gulf of mexico
homestead air force base
howard richardson
hunter air force base
karl-adolf schlitt
kristiansand
long island
mark 6 nuclear bomb
mars bluff
mhq—the quarterly journal of military history
mk-15 nuclear bomb
new york
new york times
north american f-86 sabres
north atlantic
north sea
norway
p. g. t. beauregard
philippines
rio grande do sul
robert anderson sumter
savannah
scotland
silver star
south carolina
st. peter and st. paul’s rocks
thomas w. attridge jr.
tybee island
u-1206
u.s. strategic air command
walter gregg
wassaw sound
west point
world war i
world war ii
wwi
wwii
todayilearned
Apr 18, 2020
TIL Shirley Temple's first role at age three was in “Baby Burlesks,” a series of sexually suggestive short films. When she misbehaved on set, she was confined to a black box where she had to sit on a block of ice.
black sound booth
child star
justin bieber
miss shirley temple
new york times
pop culture
shirley temple black
title—and recent examples
writer jeff pearlman
york times news
todayilearned
Feb 12, 2020
TIL the CIA actively helped Indonesian dictator Suharto massacre an estimated 1 million suspected Communist Party sympathizers in 1965, providing training, mass media suppression, and lists of individuals whom they later acknowledged as being innocent.
actual pki member
american pilot allen
anti-colonial independence leader
armed regional rebellions
brutal anti-communist purge
brutal coup attempt
cold war
cold war goals
defiantly anti-communist policy
general suharto
high-ranking army officers
indonesia
indonesia half-a-century
indonesian activities
indonesian army
indonesian communist party
indonesian government
indonesian military leader
indonesian official records
john f. kennedy
major turning point
media coverage
national declassification center
national security archive
new york times
newly declassified documents
non-profit national security
officially-sanctioned death squads
pki
pki coup plot
powerful military leaders
radically different view
rank-and-file pki members—information
robert j. martens
suharto
sukarno mask
u.s. authorities
u.s. diplomatic cables
u.s. embassy
u.s. embassy documents
u.s. embassy officials
u.s. embassy staff
u.s. foreign policy
u.s. goals
u.s. government
u.s. military
u.s. support
united states
washington-backed right-wing putsches
wildly inaccurate propaganda
todayilearned
Nov 26, 2019
TIL that New York City has a genetically diverse rat population. 'Uptown' rats are different from 'Downtown' rats, and every neighborhood has their own distinct rats.
big green spaces
brown rats
combs
comprehensive genetic portrait
distinct rat subpopulations
distinct rats
dominant rodent population
downtown rats
female rats
genetically distinguishable groups
little rat neighbors.
manhattan’s rats
matthew combs
new york
new york city
new york department
new york mayor
new york times
rats
taco bell restaurant
uptown rats
urban rats
western european rats
york’s rats
todayilearned
Nov 15, 2019
TIL: The last living person born in the 1800s died in 2017. When she was born, the last living person from the 1700s was still alive. In other words, we all lived alongside someone who lived alongside someone who was born when George Washington was president.
19th-century longevity researchers
brave old girls
emma morano
handsome old lady
imperial guard soldier
margaret ann neve
mrs. neve
neve’s death
new york times
royal summer home
todayilearned
Oct 02, 2019
TIL that the word "soccer" was originally widely used British slang for "asSOCiation football", and didn't become common in America until they learned it from the British during WWII. It didn't become unpopular in the UK until the '80s, as a direct response to its use by Americans
association football
association football game
football
global round-ball game
new york times
new zealand herald
rugby football game
soccer
szymanski
world cup underway
todayilearned
Aug 17, 2019
TIL when Professor Robert Goddard proposed using rockets to send men to the moon the New York Times ran a scathing editorial questioning his credentials, his chair at Clark College and intelligence. In response to Apollo 11 they printed one of the most famous retractions in history.
isaac newton
new york times
robert goddard
rockets
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