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- The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona
The Spanish city thought the design was too ugly, so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead, as a temporary landmark during its 1889 International Exposition. French critics didn’t like it much either though.
- Shakespeare's epitaph contains a curse for grave robbers.
When William Shakespeare died at 52 years old on Apr. 23, 1616, he was buried in a tomb that featured an epitaph meant to ward off grave robbers: "GOOD FREND FOR IESVS SAKE FORBEARE / TO DIGG THE DVST ENCLOASED HEARE / BLESTe BE Ye MAN Yt SPARES THES STONES / AND CVRST BE HE Yt MOVES MY BONES."
Or more clearly: "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear / To dig the dust enclosed here / Blessed be the man that spares these stones / And cursed be he that moves my bones."
- Original Big Ben Design #bigben #original #photooftheday
- The Hasanlu Lovers were found in a unique pose, which gave them their name. They were found face-to-face, with one skeleton's arm around the other, as if they were sharing a last kiss before their city was destroyed. This touching scene really captured people's imagination, and it's become an iconic image in archaeology. Even though we don't know much about these people or their lives, the pose they were found in gives us a glimpse into their final moments, showing us that love and connection are as old as humanity itself! 🥰😍 #photooftheday
- The deepest place on Earth is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. It’s 36,201 feet (11,034m) deep. That’s almost seven miles! #photooftheday
- Shakespeare's epitaph contains a curse for grave robbers.
When William Shakespeare died at 52 years old on Apr. 23, 1616, he was buried in a tomb that featured an epitaph meant to ward off grave robbers: "GOOD FREND FOR IESVS SAKE FORBEARE / TO DIGG THE DVST ENCLOASED HEARE / BLESTe BE Ye MAN Yt SPARES THES STONES / AND CVRST BE HE Yt MOVES MY BONES."
Or more clearly: "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear / To dig the dust enclosed here / Blessed be the man that spares these stones / And cursed be he that moves my bones."
- Sunglasses were originally designed for Chinese judges to hide their facial expressions in court.
Today, sunglasses serve as protective eyewear, effectively preventing bright sunlight from causing discomfort or damage to our eyes. Of course, they're also a fashion accessory.
But sunglasses were originally made out of smoky quartz in 12th century China, where they were used by judges to mask their emotions when they were questioning witnesses. #photooftheday
- Squirrels are behind most power outages in the U.S. 🔌🇺🇸🐿️🚨
The American Public Power Association (APPA) says that squirrels are the most frequent cause of power outages in the U.S. The APPA even developed a data tracker called "The Squirrel Index" that analyzes the patterns and timing of squirrels' impact on electrical power systems. Turns out, the peak times of the year for squirrel attacks are from May to June and October to November.
- The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona
The Spanish city thought the design was too ugly, so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead, as a temporary landmark during its 1889 International Exposition. French critics didn’t like it much either though.
- Before toilet paper was invented, Americans used to use corn cobs
Alternatively, they’d use periodicals like the Farmers Almanac, which was designed with a hole so it could hang in outhouses. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all.
- In the Philippines, McDonald’s serves spaghetti
Some of these weird facts are very unexpected. The pasta comes with a beef tomato sauce and a piece of “McDo” fried chicken.
- Supermarket apples can be a year old
These weird facts might have you changing the way you eat. Those fresh apples aren’t all that fresh, per say. They’re usually picked between August and November, covered in wax, hot-air dried, and sent into cold storage. After six to twelve months, they finally land on your grocery store shelves. #apple
- Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels. So he set out to straighten up one of the most immoral places he could think of: Coney Island in New York. There, he built America’s first roller coaster to give New Yorkers some good, clean fun—away from seedier pastimes.
- Honey never expires. Honey has a perfect chemical composition that makes it never spoil. Organisms can't live inside it, meaning there's nothing that can spoil in the first place. 5,000-year-old honey has been found and, in theory, is perfectly edible.
- Cashews grow on the bottom of a fruit called a cashew apple. The nuts are removed individually and the fruit is often sold in juiced form. It's not the only plant that grows weird.
- Cleopatra lived closer to the time Pizza Hut was founded than to when the Egyptian pyramids were built. Here's yet another example of how our idea of history and time can get mixed up. The Egyptian Pyramids at Giza were built around 2,500 BCE. Cleopatra VII died in 30 BCE, so there's a gap of more than 2,400 years. The first Pizza Hut was founded in 1958, around 2,000 years from Cleopatra's life.
- The US Air Force lost a nuclear bomb somewhere off the coast of Georgia and it’s still missing. No one knows where it is! An Air Force pilot dropped the bomb into the water outside of Savannah, Georgia, after colliding with another plane in 1958 during a training mission.
The US Navy searched for the bomb for months, but never found it.
Today, the US Military advises that it stays in its resting place. If it's undisturbed, the bomb poses no risk, the Air Force said in a 2001 report.
- Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Speaking of how old colleges are: As symbiosa said on Reddit, it's not always easy to gauge historical timelines across different parts of the world. The Aztec Empire was founded in 1428. And the University of Oxford was founded in 1096.
- A bear that fought with Poland in World War II was promoted to the rank of a corporal.
Wojtek the Soldier Bear was released from the prison camps of Siberia only to be picked up in Iran by Allied forces. A Polish army looked after him, and he helped out with the war effort, moving ammunition during the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy.
Following the battle, he was promoted to the rank of a corporal. And after the Allies won World War II, he moved to Britain and lived in the Edinburgh Zoo until his death in 1963.
- Nintendo was founded in 1889.
No, that's not a typo. The beloved Japanese gaming company is about 100 years older than you probably thought. Decades before Pokémon and Mario, Nintendo started out as a card game company. They slowly branched out into other forms of gaming over the years.
- One teaspoon of a neutron star is equal to the weight of about 900 Pyramids of Giza.
Neutron stars are incredibly dense. They're very small — about 12.5 miles in diameter — but are about 1.5 times the mass of Earth's sun. "Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth," according to National Geographic. One cubic meter would be equal to the weight of the entire Atlantic Ocean, according to Futurism.
- There's a species of shark that can live for around 500 years.
The Greenland Shark has the longest lifespan of all known vertebrates, living an average of 272 years, and some of them can live to be around 500 years old.
- Calculations suggest that 136 billion sheets of A4 paper would be needed to print out the entire world wide web. If the printouts were piled up, the stack would be taller than Earth.
- The most forceful rollercoaster in the world is “Tower of Terror” at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the bottom of the ride’s huge drop, people experience a G-force of 6.3g, twice the G-force of a space shuttle launch.
- The packaging problems of round fruit can be solved by making them square. In Korea, some apples are grown in plastic moulds so they take on a square shape.
- It would take 19 minutes to fall from the North Pole to Earth’s core.
- A hippo’s jaw opens wide enough to fit a sports car inside.
- All the electricity powering the internet weighs the same as an apricot.
- In 1922, a team of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital, where numerous children with diabetes - often upwards of 50 - were housed in wards. Most of these children were in diabetic comas.
In what can only be described as their deathbeds, these children were waiting for a fate that, at the time, was deemed certain.
However, these scientists, brimming with determination, promptly began administering a newly purified insulin.
As they injected the final comatose child, a miracle happened - the first child who had received the injection started to regain consciousness.
And, one after another, the rest of the children also began to wake up from their diabetic comas. What was once a room of despair and imminent death had become a beacon of hope and joy.
The discovery of insulin was made by Frederick Banting and Charles Best under the supervision of John Macleod at the University of Toronto during the early 1920s.
They were assisted by James Collip, who played a crucial role in purifying insulin, thus paving the way for successful diabetes treatment. Their ground-breaking work earned Banting and Macleod the prestigious Nobel Prize in 1923. #herooftheday #photooftheday
- Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci in Florence - 1504 #monalisa #leonardodavinci #photooftheday
- In 1996, an unidentified 8-year-old boy slipped away from his mother, climbed over a barrier, and fell into the Gorilla Enclosure. Due to the 20 ft fall, the boy broke his hand and suffered a deep laceration to his face.
Seven gorillas inhabited the enclosure. Gorillas are known to be fiercely territorial animals. They will fight to the death to defend their families.
However, one of the gorillas, called Binti Jua, meaning "daughter of sunshine" went over to the boy and cradled him in her arms, all while her own young child was on her back.
She then went over to the edge of the enclosure and waited for the zookeepers to come and collect the child. Binti handed the child over peacefully before returning to the rest of the gorillas.
Binti received worldwide praise and received regular treats for the next few weeks. The boy and the mother have never been identified, but the boy did stay in a hospital for 4 days.
Animal behavioral experts claim that Binti used her maternal instincts to look after the child. This may have been influenced by the fact that she had her own baby Gorilla with her at the time, named Koola. #photoogtheday #memories
- Two boys show each other different skills, Kenya, 1962.
9-year-old Kevin from New York had come to Kenya to join his stepfather as guest of a Maasai tribe, where he and the chief’s son Dionni became close companions.
Kevin wrote in his diary:
“The Maasai taught me lots of things. They are very nice people and we had no problems understanding each other. They taught me to shoot the heaviest bow I have ever seen and I taught Dionni how to play baseball and write his name. He doesn’t speak any English and I learned 11 words in Swahili.” #maasai #kenya #photooftheday
- During the late 1960s, Coca-Cola orchestrated a massive birdseed display in St. Mark's Square, arranging the seeds to create its iconic logo. Within moments, hundreds of pigeons flocked to the scene, feasting on the seeds and inadvertently forming the Coca-Cola emblem. An aerial photograph captured the moment, and the image has since become a notorious piece of advertising history.
This creative stunt was not original. Coca-Cola had taken inspiration from Assicurazioni Generali, a Venetian insurance firm with its main office in the square. The company frequently used birdseed to encourage pigeons to arrange themselves into the letters "A G."
For any businesses considering a similar advertising technique, be aware that since 2008, it has been illegal to feed pigeons in Piazza San Marco. #cocacola #photooftheday
- Stalin used a large group of photo retouchers to cut his enemies out of supposedly documentary photographs.
This historic picture showed young socialists in 1897 before some of them rose to power. A young Vladimir Lenin (in the middle), Alexander Malchenko (standing, on the left) wasn't lucky: in 1930 he was executed, and replaced with a white spot.
- Anne Frank's father, Otto, visits the attic where they hid from the Germans in World War II. He stands alone as he is the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust, 1960
This picture was taken in 1960 in the Netherlands, where the Frank Family hid from German troops. The Frank family were Jews during a time when Jews were sent away to be killed in concentration camps. The Franks are one of the most well-known Jewish families during the war due to Anne Frank (Otto's daughter) writing a diary about her experiences in hiding. Her diary has been republished and has sold more than 30 million copies and has been translated into 70 languages. In her diary, she talks about life in hiding, school, growing up and her fears about the German forces in the area.
At some point, the Franks were found. There are varying accounts as to how they were caught. Some say they were betrayed, and some say there were just found by German troops when they inspected the house they were hiding in. The door leading to the attic was hidden behind a bookcase, but it is not known for sure how the Germans knew it was a false door which led to the secret hiding spot. They were in hiding for 761 days.
Anne and her sister Margot were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They died there in March 1945 due to Typhus fever as the camp had a massive outbreak problem of Typhus at the time. They died two weeks before the camp was liberated. Anne was only 16, and Margot was 19. Their parents, Otto and Edith, were sent to Auschwitz Birkenau, the worst of the concentration camps. Edith would die of starvation three weeks before the camp was liberated. Otto survived and lived until he died in 1980. Edith would be buried with him 18 years later. Their daughter's bodies were never found.
Photographer: Arnold Newman
- What medieval castle toilets looked like
The first modern flushable toilet was invented in 1596 by Sir John Harrington, who installed one for his godmother, Elizabeth I.
Occasionally, some brave knights would conduct sneak attacks by entering the castle via the shaft connected to the garderobe.
Throughout history, there have been a number of famous people who died on the toilet. Several of them were stabbed from below while in the process of defecating.
These people include:
- King Edmund I of England (30 November 1016)
- Jaromír Duke of Bohemia (4 November 1035)
- Godfrey IV Duke of Lower Lorraine (circa 26-27 February 1076)
- Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (4 August 1306)
- Uesugi Kenshin (19 April 1578).
- In 1922, a team of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital, where numerous children with diabetes - often upwards of 50 - were housed in wards. Most of these children were in diabetic comas.
In what can only be described as their deathbeds, these children were waiting for a fate that, at the time, was deemed certain.
However, these scientists, brimming with determination, promptly began administering a newly purified insulin.
As they injected the final comatose child, a miracle happened - the first child who had received the injection started to regain consciousness.
And, one after another, the rest of the children also began to wake up from their diabetic comas. What was once a room of despair and imminent death had become a beacon of hope and joy.
The discovery of insulin was made by Frederick Banting and Charles Best under the supervision of John Macleod at the University of Toronto during the early 1920s.
They were assisted by James Collip, who played a crucial role in purifying insulin, thus paving the way for successful diabetes treatment. Their ground-breaking work earned Banting and Macleod the prestigious Nobel Prize in 1923. #herooftheday #photooftheday
- Giant Tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets so that the frog can protect the spider's eggs from insects and the spider can protect the frog from predators. #photooftheday #spider #frog
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- Sydney Again - #photooftheday #sydney
- Paris - PHOTO OF THE DAY #photooftheday
- Snail - PHOTO OF THE DAY #photooftheday
- GM #photooftheday
- Two worlds divided, New York, USA #photooftheday
- 23 Years Ago today - Gladiator #photooftheday
- Bom dia (bd) 🇵🇹 @christina.lens and @nader.lens were on stage at @ethglobal.lens Pragma Lisbon inspiring the next generation of builders.
"In web3 social you’ll be able to have an ala carte experience. Choose your front end, moderation policy, and even the algorithm you prefer. You don’t need to build a front end, you can build premium features and users could attach to the front end that they prefer” - @christina.lens
- Introducing the Lens SDK – your new go-to toolkit to create powerful experiences & applications for the social layer of Web3.
Developers rejoice! We have lowered the barrier to entry and made it easier than ever to create innovative, powerful, and engaging Lens apps and experiences. With the new Lens SDK you can plug into the Web3 social layer with just 10 lines of code.
Pick and choose the features you want - only the components you use contribute to the final size of your app bundles. These capabilities are all handled by the Lens SDK, allowing developers to focus on their core features.
The SDK is modular and composable. It seamlessly integrates with other Web3 projects, protocols, and tools such as @litprotocol.lens to enable token-gated publications.
Mobile apps have been some of the biggest success stories on Lens. The new SDK doubles down on mobile support, starting with React Native. With the SDK, you can build polished mobile apps without underlying knowledge of the Lens API or Lens Protocol.
Come build the future on the social layer of Web3.
Get started in our dev docs: https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/sdk-react-intro and dive into our latest blog here: https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/LtJBLD6zX_P9EYdsJ2DrT9RaCbiE2vvtajF4Md6wHr0
- BabyLens for Stani's Baby 🍀
BabyLens is a gift from WhaleCode team to the most beloved family in the world, @stani.lens and @paris.lens
As you prepare to welcome your little one into the world, may you feel a sense of peace and calm knowing that you will be amazing parents.
Sending lots of love and well wishes to you both ❤️
Thank you for all the beautiful moments you have brought into our lives with the creation of @lensprotocol
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