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JYXlm TIL: Before electricity, theatrical groups would heat up calcium oxide, also known as quicklime, for stage lighting. This is where the expression “in the limelight” originates from. People use to literally be in the limelight.
amxM TIL Walt Disney used to visit Disneyland incognito. Wearing old clothes and a straw farmer’s hat, he would sit on rides and time them to make sure operators didn’t rush Disneyland visitors.
AXYx TIL a reporter asked the Beatles about the intentions of the songs “Day Tripper” and “Norwegian Wood” after Time reported that they were about a prostitute and a lesbian. Paul responded with “We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that’s all.”
nWXxo TIL the BIPM doesn't use a physical rod that's exactly 1 metre similar to the physical "Kilogram" specimen, instead use concise measurement of light & time defined in 1984 by the CGPM as the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 secs with time measured by a cesium-133 atomic clock.
Q096 TIL after getting lost in the desert a man tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists, he was so dehydrated his blood clotted the wounds. 9 days later he was rescued 186 miles (299km) away and had lost 40lbs (18kg) living off his urine, bats and snakes.