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Guess ❓ the Queen 👑 couldn’t stand 🧍‍♀️to bear 🐻 the 2️⃣0️⃣th anniversary 🎉🎂 of 9️⃣/1️⃣1️⃣ 🔥🗼✈️💀⚰️

by CopyPastaArchive September 8, 2022, 6:09 pm

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you have ZERO right to say you are a space enthusiast. You insult to the core the people who put blood sweat and tears into making this magnificent rocket launch. We launch no later than December 20th 2020

by CopyPastaArchive September 5, 2022, 7:35 pm

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TIL of Martin Couney the creator of “Infantoriums”, A 20th century sideshow where people would pay 5 cents to view premature babies housed in incubators. Despite the ethics at the time premature babies were neglected and 4/5 died in hospitals. Couney is credited with saving the lives of 6,500 babies

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 2:10 am

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TIL that Punjabi and Mexican immigrants who came to the U.S. during the early 20th century intermarried and formed an Indo-Mexican community in Yuba City, California

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 3:23 pm

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TIL: 242 known languages went extinct during the 20th century

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 9:59 pm

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TIL at the turn of the 20th century, baseball umpires were prominent community members chosen from the crowd. They were given easy chairs in the general vicinity of home plate, a fan for hot days, food, and beer.

by whatilearned August 7, 2022, 5:36 am

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TIL that a single Bengal tiger has killed an estimated 436 people in Nepal and India in the late 19th and early 20th century.

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 11:02 pm

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As the Kardashians celebrate their 20th and final season….

by cringeyjokesman July 21, 2022, 10:56 pm

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Most 20th century dictatorships notably involved a ‘cult of personality’ around a leader. Who are some of the more eccentric or unusual from History?

by HistoryBuff July 11, 2022, 11:47 pm

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have a question, if I may? Are you an appreciator of the soothing musical genre characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century, referred to as “Jazz?”

by CopyPastaArchive July 5, 2022, 3:47 am

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People of Reddit, we have 20th century nicknames for decades like the Roaring 20’s and the Swinging 60’s, what nickname would you give one of the decades thus far in the 21st century?

by QuestionGuy June 20, 2022, 1:14 pm

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TIL that Euclid’s “Elements” is considered as the most influential textbook ever written. From its publication until the 20th century, virtually all educated people read it. The only things we know about its author are the city (Alexandria, Egypt) and the times (c. 300 BCE) in which Euclid lived.

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 11:50 pm

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