DQKgY TIL: The professor of psychology at UB ,Sally Farley, found that you can determine relationship status through 1 second snippets of laughter. Friend laughter is louder, more relaxed, and natural. Romantic laughter more feminine-sounding, baby-like, submissive, and less pleasant.
vPbXK TIL Yokozuna, the Iconic Sumo Wrestler, Was Not of Japanese origin.Despite being synonymous with Japanese sumo culture, Yokozuna was actually born Rodney Agatupu Anoaʻi, a Samoan-American wrestler.
J1K6B TIL that Siemens manufactured 69 trains powered by Cummins engines.
pYN9G TIL mole Robert Hanssen was caught because a tape the FBI paid $7 million in part to get contained a quote from a Patton speech, "the purple-pissing Japanese", and the agent listening to the tape remembered Hanssen using the same phrase once.
GAK1g TIL that Aladdin is actually originally a Chinese fairy tale. In it, Aladdin actually has a father, but Aladdin is so lazy that the father dies of disappointment. The mother is still alive and spends the rest of the story trying to help her son get married
16ow7 TIL Westinghouse acquired CBS in 1994, sold most of its own non media business, then renamed itself CBS in 1997
oRlnR TIL that Casanova, famous for seducing women, was a librarian
dD9R8 TIL there is an extremely rare condition, 'demon face syndrome,' in which people to see faces as distorted, horrific, drooped, or stretched. “It’s like staring at demons. Imagine waking up one morning and suddenly everybody in the world looks like a creature in a horror movie.”
KYK66 TIL about PCR, which is a technique to make billions of copies of a specific DNA from a very small sample. The mix containing DNA is repeatedly heated and cooled, this breaks the DNA molecule and then duplicates it exponentially. The secret? A bacteria living in hot springs has a special enzyme
a8EZZ TIL: Brad Pitt was banned from China for 17 years after filming Seven Years in Tibet.
ZpPOB TIL that the growing difference in car sizes in the USA means that as many as 25% of deaths would be prevented if everyone drove the same type of car — or 9,300 people/year
781K7 TIL Russia has leased a 12-mile circle of Kazakhstan named Baikonur. Its purpose is for space operations.