Eight years after JFKโs assassination, Jackie Kennedy avoided the public unveiling of their White House portraits, but the Nixons graciously agreed to a secret, private tour for her and her kids. It was her only return visit. whitehousehistory.org/a-sโฆ
More than one out of eight Americans exhibit at least one possible sign of problematic Internet use, also known as Internet Addiction. 13.7 percent find it hard to stay away from the Internet for several days, and 8.2 percent use the Internet to escape problems or relieve a negative mood. med.stanford.edu/news/allโฆ
When France increased the price of cigarettes by 66% over an eight-year period, the smoking rate among French executives and professionals declined. However, the smoking rate among manual laborers remained about the same and among the unemployed, it increased. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artiโฆ
Since Guillermo's del Toro's first feature film Cronos, he has collaborated with Ron Perlman on a total of eight films and one television series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiโฆ
Today I learned about 8-pass Charlie, a Pakistani pilot that was notable during the war with India for not dropping his bombs in a single pass, but making eight passes bombing a selected target in each. To this day, his identity is still unknown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-Pโฆ
Although they failed to find missing pilot Steve Fossett for years, in the days following his disappearance, they DID find EIGHT other previously unidentified crash sites. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steโฆ
Eight percent of our DNA consists of remnants of ancient viruss, and another 40 percent is made up of repetitive strings of genetic letters that is also thought to have that origin. cshl.edu/the-non-human-liโฆ
Today I learned about Project GUNMAN, the discovery of primitive keylogging technology installed by the KGB into the IBM Selectric typewriters used in the US Embassy in Moscow, enabling the Soviets to steal US secrets for eight years. cryptomuseum.com/covert/bโฆ
Today I learned of Gudrid Thorbjarnardรณttir, Icelandic explorer, who sailed to America around 1000ad. She was the first European to give birth there. She also sailed across North Atlantic eight times between Greenland, Iceland and Norway. Later in her life she made a pilgrimage to Rome and back. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudโฆ
Anthony Michael Hall was the first choice to play the lead role of Private Joker in "Full Metal Jacket". Hall spent eight months preparing for the role but could not reach an agreement with Stanley Kubrick regarding monetary compensation, and was replaced by Matthew Modine. mentalfloss.com/article/6โฆ
Today I learned about the Three Emperors Dinner, which consisted of 16 courses with eight wines served over eight hours, and included Ortolan, which is a bird that is force feed and drowned in brandy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrโฆ
Today I learned about the Great Sheep Panic of 1888. On November 3, at about eight oโclock, thousands of sheep broke free from their fields and farms in southern England, running away in a panic and damaging property. It is not clear what caused this, but it happened again then next year. youtube.com/watch?v=pvXiLโฆ
Bonsai can be HUGE and don't have to be tiny. Imperial bonsai (eight-handed bonsai) can be over TWO METERS tall! Bonsai translates as "tray planting" and it just refers to plants grown in pots. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonโฆ
Today I learned of the Purple Plague, an unexpected chemical reaction between gold and aluminum. Discovered in 1970 when NASA was building the Apollo Telescope for Skylab, it caused an eight-week delay that took all of the cushion out of the telescope's delivery schedule history.nasa.gov/SP-4208/โฆ
James Earl Jones of Star Wars fame went mute for eight years until a high school English teacher coaxed him out of his silence by having him read poetry aloud to the class. smithsonianmag.com/historโฆ
John von Newmann was a child prodigy who could divide eight-digit numbers in his head by age six and learned calculus by age eight. He developed the computer architecture that virtually all computing devices use today. He became a US strategic adviser and his game theory led to the MAD doctrine. content.time.com/time/magโฆ
Ted Kaczynski (better known as the Unabomber) received an invitation in 2012, while incarcerated at ADX Florence, to his Harvard graduating class's 50th anniversary reunion. He RSVPed, noting his occupation as "prisoner" and his eight life sentences as "awards." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedโฆ
The Ethiopian calendar is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar, meaning they are currently in the year 2013. It also has 13 months, with the first 12 having 30 days and the final month made up of five to six days (depending on whether it is a leap year). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethโฆ
Today I learned about ลgon Batto (้ป้ ใใใ, or "Golden Bat"), a Japanese superhero who debuted in 1931, seven years before Superman and eight years before Batman. He is a being from Atlantis who was sent 10,000 years into the present day in order to fight evil with super strength, flight, and a rapier. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5โฆ
After his failed coup in 1923, Hitler only served eight months of his five-year sentence. This was the customary sentence for those whom the judge believed to have had honorable but misguided motives. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeโฆ
The Chimney Sweepers Act of 1788 was a British Act of Parliament passed to stop child labor, as boys as young as four were being used as chimney sweeps. The Act raised the minimum age to eight years old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiโฆ
While in 1985 about one in eight American 12th graders admitted to having used cocaine or crack, by 1991 the figure went down below 4%. verywellmind.com/cocaine-โฆ
Today I learned of Bandล Mitsugorล VIII, a Japanese kabuko actor. In 1975, he claimed he was immune to the poison and ordered and ate four fugu pufferfish livers in one sitting. He died eight hours later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banโฆ
The largest tornado ever recorded, based on width, was the 2013 El Reno Tornado. At its peak, it reached a width of 2.6 miles and speeds of up to 301 mph. The tornado lasted for about 40 minutes and eight people were killed, including three experienced storm chasers largest.org/nature/tornadโฆ
Bill Paxton was in the crowd when President Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of his assassination on November 22, 1963. Photographs of an eight-year-old Paxton being lifted above the crowd are on display at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilโฆ
Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as President on Air Force One just two hours and eight minutes after JFK was assassinated, using a Roman Catholic missal from President Kennedy's desk, despite LBJ not being Catholic, due to the missal being mistaken for a Bible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynโฆ
Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, a two-hour drive from Kigali International Airport makes it the most accessible gorilla national park in the world. Trekking there typically lasts between four and eight hours hiking and visitors can spend one hour observing gorillas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touโฆ
In 1814 in London, the brewing vats in a brewery burst, releasing 580k to 1.4m litres of beer onto slum dwellings. Eight people were killed, five of them mourners at the wake of a two-year-old boy. The brewery almost went bankrupt but was saved when they received a rebate for the lost beer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonโฆ
In 2014, due to a glitch in the Canadian version of iTunes, a Taylor Swift song titled โTrack 3โ was released and immediately shot to the top of the charts. Fans who downloaded the song had purchased eight seconds of static noise for $1.29. time.com/3531142/taylor-sโฆ
There are eight replicas of the Statue of Liberty spread across Paris. The largest of all the replicas was a gift to the French three years after the original statue was gifted to the United States. There is also a 1:1 flame that is an unofficial memorial to Princess Diana. theearfultower.com/2018/0โฆ
The Byrds' 1966 song "Eight Miles High" was banned from radio play in several American states because it allegedly promoted recreational drug use. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigโฆ
Eight Harland and Wolff workers were killed during the construction of the Titanic five of whom have been identified. In addition to the fatalities there were 28 serious accidents and 218 minor accidents recorded by the firm. encyclopedia-titanica.orgโฆ
William Kemmler was the first person in the world to be executed by electric chair. The killing took approximately eight minutes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilโฆ
Today I learned about blue colouration in tarantulas, a trait produced by neatly arranged nanocrystals that has evolved up to eight times in tarantulas. nationalgeographic.com/anโฆ
The Bernoulli family of Basel was a patrician family, notable for having produced eight mathematically gifted academics who, among them, contributed substantially to the development of mathematics and physics during the early modern period. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berโฆ
The National Spelling Bee titled 8 Co-Champions after running out of words in a 3.5 Hour Final. Starting with 562 Contestants, the Final Eight continued for 20 Straight Rounds of Spelling Words without any errors. theguardian.com/sport/201โฆ
James Earl Jones does not appear on screen in his eight movies with the highest domestic box office gross. He provides a voiceover in five Star Wars movies, two Lion King movies, and Adam Sandlerโs Click. the-numbers.com/person/12โฆ
The relatives of John F. Kennedy's grandmother, Mary Josephine Fitzgerald - who outlived the US President by over eight months - kept her completely unaware of his assassination until she died at 98 in August 1964. cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=Dโฆ
Today I learned the difference between Mbps and MBps. When Internet providers advertise speeds of up to 100Mbps, they mean Megabits per second, not Megabytes per second. One megabyte is equal to eight megabits and therefore speeds of 100Mbps equals 12.5MBps... attplans.com/resources/diโฆ
In 2018 a 75-year-old British man pooped into a container for six to eight weeks, built a homemade pump, drove 200 miles to his former friend's house and used the pump to spray the poo all over the hallway and stairs through the mailbox. mandatory.com/the-world/1โฆ
There's a species of scorpion that loses its tail when threatened, just like a lizard. Trouble is, its anus is located at the end of its tail, meaning it may survive for up to eight months sans anus, and without ever defecating again nationalgeographic.com/scโฆ
That, during the 2017 London Bridge Terror Attack, a man fought all three attackers with his fists shouting "Fuck you, I'm Millwall". He was stabbed eight times and survived. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201โฆ
North Korea has their own basketball rules: slam dunks are worth three points, field goals in the final three minutes of the game are worth eight points, three-pointers are worth four if the ball doesn't touch the rim, and a point is deducted for missed free throws. heraldsun.com.au/sport/baโฆ
In Poznan, Poland, eight clams get to decide if people in the city get water or not. Theyโre equipped with sensors atop them that trip the water supply pumps when they close due to detecting something unsafe in the water. zmescience.com/science/poโฆ
Theodore Roosevelt was a major force in labor rights, implementing eight hour workdays and industry safety regulations, abolishing slavery in the Philippines and peonage more generally, investigating child labor claims, and establishing the forerunner to the USES, among many other things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squโฆ
Today I learned of Werner Forรmann, a German doctor who proved that cardiac catheterization (and the involved contrast materials) is safe by doing it on himself eight times. annalsthoracicsurgery.orgโฆ
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