Today I Learned 🎓

2023-05-15 20:02:20 TIL that in World War 1, the American Expeditionary Forces attempted to enforce Jim Crow laws on the French to regulate the treatment of Black soldiers and officers. This was done because they were worried that these individuals were being treated with excessive familiarity and indulgence. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 17:00:34 TIL that there is one McDonald's in the continental US that still serves fried apple pies. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 16:00:57 TIL that there are at least 5 species of shark living in the Thames estuary (which runs through London), and that one of those species is venomous. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 13:02:08 TIL that Jack White of the White Stripes originally wanted to save the guitar riff used in "Seven Nation Army" for if he got the chance to make a James Bond theme song. 5 years after the song was released, he wrote the theme for the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 10:01:22 TIL that third places - areas other than the home or the workplace where humans can connect and unwind, are dying, and this is a silent killer of our communities [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 08:01:58 TIL that sharks don’t make sounds. Across 400-500 species, no one has ever found an organ even capable of producing sound. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 06:01:34 TIL that Trent Reznor was the final resident of 10050 Cielo Drive, Los Angeles, site of the Manson family murders but moved out after a random encounter with Sharon Tate's sister, who asked him: "Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house?" [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 03:00:54 TIL that many animals spend much of their time doing nothing, even those we think of as particularly busy. "If you look at a colony of ants, or bees, or any social insect really, maybe a little bit less than half of them are just standing around doing what looks like nothing." [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 02:01:17 TIL The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II. 881 Aleuts were forcibly relocated and interned in unsanitary camps in southeast Alaska, nobody was allowed to bring more than one suitcase of possessions. Troops then set fire to the villages to prevent its use by the Japanese [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-15 01:02:03 TIL James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher never met until they made cameo appearances in an episode of The Big Bang Theory [Source] Aprire / Come