Today I Learned (TIL)
en.wikipedia.org
example from wikipedia: 
From [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes) Stampede events that involve humans are extremely rare and are unlikely to be fatal.[\[5\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-Benedictus-7) According to Keith Still, professor of crowd science at [Manchester Metropolitan University](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Metropolitan_University "Manchester Metropolitan University"), "If you look at the analysis, I've not seen any instances of the cause of mass fatalities being a stampede. People don't die because they panic. They panic because they are dying".[\[5\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-Benedictus-7) Paul Torrens, a professor at the Center for Geospatial Information Science at the [University of Maryland](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland "University of Maryland"), remarks that "the idea of the hysterical mass is a myth".[\[5\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-Benedictus-7) Incidents involving crowds are often reported by media as the results of panic.[\[16\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-20)[\[17\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-21) However, the scientific literature has explained how panic is a myth which is used to mislead the attention of the public from the real causes of crowd incidents, such as a crowd crush.[\[18\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-22)[\[19\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-23)[\[20\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-24) […] [M]ost major crowd disasters can be prevented by simple crowd management strategies.[\[22\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-26) Crushes can be prevented by organization and traffic control, such as barriers. […] **Such incidents are invariably the product of organisational failures.**[\[4\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFruin20026-6)
It might be for just my instance, not sure.
A friend was talking to a young butcher telling him about how this crazy guy comes to the supermarket to BUY rotten meat! Butcher kid can't think of WTF anybody would to do with rotten meat. My friend tells him it's probably to make dog food. Later my friend find a post that talks about Four D meat: Dead, Dying, Diseased, or Down And how it is used to make dog food The link above point to a dog search on the topic
www.nytimes.com
The linked article includes animations for each of the different cases
I was browsing [Radio Locator](https://radio-locator.com/) and clicked on the Other category where among reading services and exactly one electronic station was a cluster of shopping stations. [WBIG 1280 AM](https://www.bigshoppingshow.com/)
en.wikipedia.org
[Gutzon Borglum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum?wprov=sfti1#) was the sculptor and was involved with the KKK. He was chosen because he was the sculptor of the "Shrine to the Confederacy” which was the inspiration for Mount Rushmore. Guess it shouldn’t be too surprising given the way the land was taken from the local tribes despite it being sacred. Credit to [this comment](https://lemmy.ml/comment/13010056) by u/alcoholicorn that drove me to look it up.
www.newschannel5.com
* [Too Good to Go](https://www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us) * [Flashfood,](https://flashfood.com/) where you can order groceries nearing their best by dates for up to 50% off, then pick them up in local supermarkets * [Misfits Market](https://www.misfitsmarket.com/?redirect=true&promo=240610X4) * [Olio](https://olioapp.com/en/) [Source](https://www.newschannel5.com/dont-waste-your-money/surplus-food-apps-can-save-big-money-on-groceries) Note: I haven't used any of these, I can't speak for them. I do think it's cool for the environment and people on a budget though.
www.pbs.org
Federal prosecutors once regarded Jesse Curtis Morton as a threat to national security. The FBI said the pro-jihadist website he helped found, RevolutionMuslim.com, inspired a number of terrorist plots. On that website, militant training videos, bomb-making instructions, praise for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and chat rooms for discussions among members created a multi-media stew of toxic content, they said. In 2012, Morton was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for his role in running the site. Now, just four years later, Morton is free and has been hired as a terrorism analyst at a George Washington University-based think tank.
>Blanter accompanied the Red Army to Berlin in early 1945. He was commissioned by Stalin to compose a symphony about the capture of Berlin. However, when Vasily Chuikov was meeting with a German delegation led by Hans Krebs to negotiate their surrender following Hitler's suicide, Chuikov had several uniformed war correspondents pretend to be members of his general staff in order to appear more professional and intimidating at the negotiations. But Blanter was also meeting with Chuikov at the time the delegation arrived and he could not pass as a Red Army officer as he was wearing civilian clothes. Thus, Chuikov shoved him into a closet just before the delegate entered the room. While he remained there for most of the conference, he eventually lapsed into unconsciousness from a lack of air, collapsing out of the closet and into the room just as the delegates were preparing to leave, embarrassing Chuikov and astonishing the Germans.
TIL Seoul 1988 was the first Olympics to have condoms distributed, with a supply of 8500 with increases ever since. However there is no research evidence that athletes competing in the Olympics would be more likely to seek out casual sex
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TIL 18th Century Norwegian swashbuckler Peter Tordenskjold once ran out of ammo during a sea battle so he sent his enemy a letter thanking him for "a fine duel" and asking him to send more ammo so they could carry on. The two crews then toasted each other's health and went their separate ways.
www.atlasobscura.com
- [](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ellrqd/til_colorado_isnt_a_rectangle_and_actually_has/) - [Author: /u/crimson_dovah](https://www.reddit.com/user/crimson_dovah) - [Link Shared on Reddit](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/is-colorado-a-rectangle) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ellrqd/til_colorado_isnt_a_rectangle_and_actually_has/)
en.wikipedia.org
- [](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1elbtiq/til_there_is_a_protein_called_pikachurin_after/) - [Author: /u/Grauburgunderin](https://www.reddit.com/user/Grauburgunderin) - [Link Shared on Reddit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1elbtiq/til_there_is_a_protein_called_pikachurin_after/)
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
- [](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eki7sm/til_that_lobsters_can_discard_their_limbs_in_a/) - [Author: /u/TelescopiumHerscheli](https://www.reddit.com/user/TelescopiumHerscheli) - [Link Shared on Reddit](https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/outreach-and-education/fun-facts-about-luscious-lobsters#can-lobsters-grow-new-legs) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eki7sm/til_that_lobsters_can_discard_their_limbs_in_a/)
> B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. > Influenced by BCPL, PL/I, TMG > > Influenced C > B was designed for recursive, non-numeric, machine-independent applications, such as system and language software. It was a typeless language, with the only data type being the underlying machine's natural memory word format, whatever that might be. Depending on the context, the word was treated either as an integer or a memory address.
detoxtorehab.com
- [](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ekb6vo/til_stephen_king_used_to_do_so_much_cocaine_that/) - [Author: /u/KaitlynDaisy](https://www.reddit.com/user/KaitlynDaisy) - [Link Shared on Reddit](https://detoxtorehab.com/celebrity/stephen-king-alcoholism-drug-addiction-and-fame) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ekb6vo/til_stephen_king_used_to_do_so_much_cocaine_that/)
neurosciencenews.com
- [](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ejyeke/til_the_hippocampus_has_a_kind_of_internal_switch/) - [Author: /u/RhetoricalAnswer-001](https://www.reddit.com/user/RhetoricalAnswer-001) - [Link Shared on Reddit](https://neurosciencenews.com/hippocampus-learning-memory-21412/) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ejyeke/til_the_hippocampus_has_a_kind_of_internal_switch/)
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Archive is background info via this [BBC post](https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20231011-in-history-how-tommie-smith-and-john-carloss-protest-at-the-1968-mexico-city-olympics-shook-the-world) from 2023, but that's just one piece. Yeah, a lot of us have seen the photo, and maybe some of us know it was during the Viet Nam War, during Civil Rights protests in the U.S. and not that long after the assassination of MLK. Maybe you even know that Muhammad Ali lost his belt and was banned from boxing in the U.S. for [refusing the draft to Viet Nam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali#Draft_resistance): > "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?" I did **not** know the [Black Power Salute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute#International_Olympic_Committee_response) got all 3 athletes BANNED from the Olympics and pretty much ruined their lives. From [NPR post for 50th anniversary](https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/10/16/657548752/those-raised-fists-still-resonate-50-years-later): > Both men received hate mail and death threats. There was discussion of stripping them of their medals. Many Americans shunned them for their silent gesture: For years, they struggled to find good jobs. Their marriages suffered under that strain. Their children were bullied at school. Employers shied away from them. > >And Smith and Carlos were banned from future participation in any Olympics for life. (They were in their early 20s in Mexico City, and this effectively prevented them from competing in other races in Munich and Montreal.) There were no offers of the complimentary stadium tickets usually offered to medaled athletes. > >(Peter Norman suffered many of the same indignities when he returned to Australia. He was ostracized, never allowed on an Australian Olympic team again, despite qualifying in several national trials.[...] Which gets us to [The White Man In That Photo](https://griotmag.com/en/the-white-man-in-that-photo/) (from 2015 -- long and worthy of a full read): > Norman was a white man from Australia, a country that had strict apartheid laws, almost as strict as South Africa. There was tension and protests in the streets of Australia following heavy restrictions on non-white immigration and discriminatory laws against aboriginal people, some of which consisted of forced adoptions of native children to white families. > >The two Americans had asked Norman if he believed in human rights. Norman said he did. They asked him if he believed in God, and he, who had been in the Salvation Army, said he believed strongly in God. “We knew that what we were going to do was far greater than any athletic feat, and he said “I’ll stand with you” – remembers John Carlos – “I expected to see fear in Norman’s eyes, but instead we saw love.” > >Smith and Carlos had decided to get up on the stadium wearing the Olympic Project for Human Rights badge, a movement of athletes in support of the battle for equality. > >They would receive their medals barefoot, representing the poverty facing people of color. They would wear the famous black gloves, a symbol of the Black Panthers’ cause. But before going up on the podium they realized they only had one pair of black gloves. “Take one each”, Norman suggested. Smith and Carlos took his advice. > >But then Norman did something else. “I believe in what you believe. Do you have another one of those for me”? he asked, pointing to the Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on the others’ chests. “That way I can show my support for your cause.” Smith admitted to being astonished, ruminating: “Who is this white Australian guy? He won his silver medal, can’t he just take it and that be enough!”. So they all go to the podium in solidarity and the U.S. winners give the salute and suffer the aftermath. More from 'white guy': > As John Carlos said, “If we were getting beat up, Peter was facing an entire country and suffering alone.” For years Norman had only one chance to save himself: he was invited to condemn his co-athletes, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s gesture in exchange for a pardon from the system that ostracized him. > >A pardon that would have allowed him to find a stable job through the Australian Olympic Committee and be part of the organization of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Norman never gave in and never condemned the choice of the two Americans. > >He was the greatest Australian sprinter in history and the holder of the 200 meter record, yet he wasn’t even invited to the Olympics in Sydney. It was the American Olympic Committee, that once they learned of this news asked him to join their group and invited him to Olympic champion Michael Johnson’s birthday party, for whom Peter Norman was a role model and a hero. > >Norman died suddenly from a heart attack in 2006, without his country ever having apologized for their treatment of him. At his funeral Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Norman’s friends since that moment in 1968, were his pallbearers, sending him off as a hero. Note that the 'white guy' article talks about a commemorative statue built in 2005 of just Smith and Carlos -- no Norman. Norman approved that artistic choice. Transcript from Democracy Now where Carlos himself explains how he called Norman to hear him say so ([part 1](https://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/12/john_carlos_1968_olympic_us_medalist) and [part 2](https://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/12/part_2_john_carlos_1968_olympic_us_medalist_on_the_response_to_his_iconic_black_power_salute)): > JOHN CARLOS: Yeah, “Blimey, John. You’re calling me with these blimey questions here?” And I said to him, I said, “Pete, I have a concern, man. What’s this about you don’t want to have your statue there? What, are you backing away from me? Are you ashamed of us?” And he laughed, and he said, “No, John.” He said—you know, the deep thing is, he said, “Man, I didn’t do what you guys did.” He said, “But I was there in heart and soul to support what you did. I feel it’s only fair that you guys go on and have your statues built there, and I would like to have a blank spot there and have a commemorative plaque stating that I was in that spot. But anyone that comes thereafter from around the world and going to San Jose State that support the movement, what you guys had in ’68, they could stand in my spot and take the picture.”   The U.S. (but not just the U.S.) has a woeful history of treating those who protest Injustice horribly. There's always an excuse for it, too. From the above articles, we can see that the Olympic head allowed the Nazi salute for the ~~Munich~~ Berlin games but expelled Smith and Carlos in 1968 with the rational that the first was a national salute and therefore acceptable whereas 'Black Power' was not. More recently, [Kaepernick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kaepernick#Lawsuit_against_the_NFL_and_potential_NFL_future) kneeling got him in trouble with the NFL but they were fine with [Butker's speech](https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4977336/harrison-butker-speech-roger-goodell-colin-kaepernick) that, "denounced abortion rights, Pride Month, COVID-19 lockdowns..." and suggested women should be homemakers instead of using their newly earned college diplomas. Supposedly the 'difference' is that Kaepernick's silent protest was on the NFL's time but Butker spoke on his *own* time so it was fine ... but *they can always find a difference* and it is never as valid as simply siding against injustice. EDIT: I inadvertently typed 'Munich' instead of the correct 'Berlin' games for when the Nazi salute was allowed. Fixed now.
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- [Author: /u/SchoggiToeff](https://www.reddit.com/user/SchoggiToeff) - [Link Shared on Reddit](https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~kazdan/210/notes-misc/Monty_Hall.html) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1efgeo1/til_because_he_monty_hall_problem_is_often_worded/)
- [Author: /u/CremeWhich5188](https://www.reddit.com/user/CremeWhich5188) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eerc5p/til_nearly_75_of_all_aluminum_ever_produced_is/)
www.theguardian.com
- [](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eejy1g/til_during_the_london_olympics_the_military/) - [Author: /u/Equivalent-Text1187](https://www.reddit.com/user/Equivalent-Text1187) - [Link Shared on Reddit](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jul/03/london-2012-missile-defence-deployment) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eejy1g/til_during_the_london_olympics_the_military/)
- [Author: /u/RedBurgundy89](https://www.reddit.com/user/RedBurgundy89) - [Link Shared on Reddit](https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale) - [Original Reddit Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edvgc6/til_that_there_are_officially_ranked_types_of_fun/)