February 2012
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Today I learned that in a year 70% of all songs on Spotify are played at least once.
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Today I learned that the New York Giants used to play at Yankee Stadium for almost two decades.
January 2012
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Today I learned that Alan Smithee was an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project.
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The word mammoth orgins from the Russian word мамонт (mamont).
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Today I learned that there is a ghost town called Centralia in Pennsylvania which has a mine fire underneath since 1962.
December 2011
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Today I learned that contagious yawning comes with a delay, when you don’t know the yawner.
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Today I learned that there is a federal law in the US that makes it illegal to transport more than $5 in pennies out of the country and that it is also illegal to melt pennies.
October 2011
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Today I learned that M&M’s were invented to allow soldiers to eat chocolate without getting sticky fingers.
September 2011
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Today I learned that Gibson make 1’380’000 guitars each year, which equals 1 per second.
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Today I learned that only 5% of all the bands who get signed sell more than 1’000 records.
August 2011
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Today I learned that a Sunday newspaper contains more information than a person in the 18th century gathered in it’s whole life.
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Today I learned that 64% of Americans don’t have $1,000 in savings (and they still vote Republicans, because they don’t want the rich guys to pay more taxes).
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Today I learned that every third seahorse is gay.
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Today I learned that Earth once used to have a second moon and that it might have crashed on the far side of our moon.
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Today I learned that the 2nd music video ever played on MTV was Pat Benatar’s “You Better Run”.
July 2011
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Today I learned that fare beaters hopped into New York subway trains without paying 18.5 million times in 2009, meanwhile only 120,000 offenders got caught and fined.
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Today I learned that there are no snakes on Hawaii.
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Today I learned that sex entrepreneur Beate Uhse was a flight pioneer in Germany.
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Today I learned that the bones of Rudolf Hess were exhumed, cremated and scattered at sea to stop Neo-Nazi Pilgrimages.
June 2011
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Today I learned that there have been 28 escalator accidents at Gatwick airport during the last year.
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Today I learned that air conditioning for temporary tents and housing in Iraq and Afghanistan costs the US military a total of $20 billion which is $1 billion more than NASA’s entire budget.
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Today I learned that 10 times more people get killed by falling coconuts than by shark attacks.
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Today I learned that the inhabtants of a village in the island state of Vanuatu worship Prince Philip as a god.
April 2011
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Today I learned that the Area-Code for Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center is 321.
February 2011
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Today I learned that they produce around 900 movies a year in Nigeria.
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Today I learned that back 1962 when John Glenn sat in his capsule ”Friendship 7”, one in three launches using the Atlas missile were exploding on the pad.
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WHAT DID WE LEARN ON THE SHOW TODAY?
Today I learned that Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum was rejected twice at the American Idol auditions.
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What did we learn on the show today?
Today I learned that in East Germany (German Democratic Republic) not one successful bank robbery happened in 41 years.
January 2011
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Today I learned that Earth’s magnetic north pole is drifting toward Russia at a rate of 40 miles per year.
December 2010
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Today I learned that in each movie James Bond has an average of three women he kisses and two he has intercourse with. Way to go James!
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Today I learned that there are four unused and eight used pieces of the blue Mauritius “Post Office” stamp and two unused and twelve used pieces of the red Mauritius “Post Office” stamp left.
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Today I learned that every Christmas movie’s expiration date is 26th December.
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Today I learned that the US burned money in the amount of 4.7 million dollars, when they fleed the US-Embassy in Saigon, back in 1974.
What did we learn on the show today?
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Bradley Cooper
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Today I learned, that if Outlook freezes you have to stop the server connection (Windows sucks!).
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Today I learned that there are 6’220 birds of 59 different kinds in New York’s Central Park.
What did we learn on the show today?
Today I learned that Spanish golfer Rafael Cabrera-Bello had to disqualify himself at the South African Open, since he lost all 11 golf balls he had in his bag and couldn’t use another because the rules don’t allow such a thing.
October 2010
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First rough demo of a currently written song. No...
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Today I learned that a preconceived opinion about a person can change once you meet that person in real life.
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Today I learned that you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, but by reading page 99.
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Today I learned that there are more than 250’000 Street Signs in New York City, that the city has to replace every sign containing All-Caps-Letters until 2018 and that some of them have to be replaced because of a single letter.
September 2010
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Today I learned that the propaganda tells everyone in North Korea that their leader Kim Yong Ill scored 11 holes-in-one, when he played his first golf round ever, that during his birth there were a lot of rainbows at the sky and that he doesn’t have to use a restroom since he is godlike and transcend food and drinks.
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Today I learned that in World War II 21 % of the US dead soldiers were caused by friendly fire, 39% in Vietnam and 52 % in the Gulf War.
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Today I learned that you have to put all your clothes which you bought in New York in a dryer and heat them up, to get rid of possible bedbugs and their eggs.
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Today I learned that Pope Benedict XVI has a own astronomer, that he is a curator of the Pope’s meteorite collection and that he would like to baptise aliens.
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Today I learned that elephants cause 500, snakes 100’000 and sharks 10 dead people a year.
August 2010
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What did we learn on the show today?
Today I learned that correlation does not imply causation.
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Today I learned that Pangaea was the super-continet that existed before the continents were separated in the configuration of today.
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Today I learned that 80% of women hide clothing purchases from their partners.
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Today I learned that Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.