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- TIL in 1993 a fan at a Chicago Bulls game won a shot to make a basket from half court for $1million and made it. The insurance company disqualified him because he played bball in college but the te...www.espn.com The time Michael Jordan helped a guy win $1 million
Thirty years ago, Don Calhoun got picked to try a three-quarter-court shot during a Bulls game. He made it, sending Michael Jordan and the Bulls into an all-out frenzy because he had won $1 million. Or so everybody thought.
- TIL that Jacksonville, Florida is the largest city by area in the continental United States at 875 square miles and was named after General Andrew Jackson who never even visited Jacksonville everrefactoid.com 6 Jaw-Dropping Facts About Jacksonville, Florida - refactoid
Jacksonville, Florida is the most populous city in both the state of Florida and the southeastern part of the United States. The city was founded …
- TIL that James Cox didn't know the value of his second-hand watch until someone admired his 'Paul Newman' style watch. It 𝘸𝘢𝘴 Newman's actual watch and Cox sold it for $15.5m + premiumrubberb.com The 1968 legendary Daytona Rolex owned by Paul Newman
The legendary Daytona Rolex owned by Paul Newman is considered a timeless relic amongst collectors and fans for decades. It appeals to people way beyond the watch world.
- TIL that on Jupiter's moon Io, tidal effects from Jupiter cause the ground itself to move up and down by 300 feet. Typical tidal range on earth is 3 feet in the open ocean.spaceplace.nasa.gov High Tide on IO! | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
What do you get when you cross an earthquake with a tidal wave?
- TIL Six years after surviving a shark attack and following repeated appeals to South Australian authorities, Chris Blowes finally won a special exemption that gave him the legal right to possession...www.bbc.com Shark attack survivor wins right to keep tooth left in surfboard
Surfer Chris Bowes lost his leg but authorities return a tooth the shark left wedged in his board.
- TIL that Venus flytraps can count the number of times an insect touches their trigger hairs, helping them optimize their response for energy conservation and effective digestion.www.bbc.co.uk Venus flytrap 'counts' to control digestion
Scientists say the Venus flytrap controls its digestion process by gauging the number of times a struggling insect touches its trigger hairs.
- TIL Georgia Tann, the “creator” of adoption, started by stealing babies from the poor and selling them to prominent socialites making millions in the process.historydaily.org Georgia Tann Abducted Children And Sold Them To Celebrities And Pedophiles, Making Millions
Georgia Tann was a pianist, social worker, and baby-napping enthusiast. How did this woman turn the public adoption industry into a for-profit scheme? And how did it take so long for her to get caught?
- TIL about how scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared.www.zmescience.com How scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared
You may have thought things like currency or money are concepts known solely by man - something which differentiates humans from animals. Some might have a sense of ownership, besides of course territory, but trading and the likes haven't been observed in any other species besides homo sapiens. An e...
- TIL a Polish charity placed a tracker on the back of a white stork to track the birds migratory habits. It travelled to Sudan before the charity lost contact. Somebody found the tracker, removed th...www.bbc.com Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork
A lost stork has left a Polish environmental charity with a hefty bill to pay.
- TIL turn signal neglect is twice as dangerous as distracted drivingwww.clickondetroit.com Society of Automotive Engineers study says turn signal neglect results in twice as many crashes as distracted driving
In a revealing new report published by the Society of Automotive Engineers this week at the 2012 SAE World Congress, an in-depth observation study of turn signal rate-of-neglect not only exposes how widespread the problem is, but how simple the solution is.<br> <br>A total of 12,000 turning and lane...
- TIL that the Ampersand used to be the 27th letter of the alphabetfactschology.com The Facts on the 27th letter of the Alphabet; the Ampersand — Facts-Chology
For at least 800 years the English alphabet had an extra letter that we collectively as a society just kind of dropped in the mid-19th century. Today we look at why.
- TIL how one Japanese artist spent six months trekking 3000 miles through Japan with a GPS tracker to spell out ‘Marry Me’ across islandswww.yahoo.com This wedding proposal set a world record in Japan
Google Earth proposal. Yasushi Takahashi proposed to his girlfriend using Google Earth and a GPS device. He was inspired by large-scale GPS art. Takahashi’s plan was to spell “Marry Me” with a heart and arrow across all of Japan. According to Google, Takahashi quit his job in order to profess his lo...
