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How do countries that lack long, ancient histories and myths (or feel they lack it), or have lost all records of them, compensate for this loss or absence? Can these invented ancient myths become as “legitimate” as the truly old histories/myths of countries that have them?

by HistoryBuff December 14, 2022, 4:46 pm

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After a 2000 year absence, the Virgin Mary takes a trip down to earth.

by cringeyjokesman November 14, 2022, 1:07 pm

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TIL that simply moving the eyes triggers the eardrums to move too. Keeping the head still but shifting the eyes to one side or the other sparks vibrations in the eardrums, even in the absence of any sounds.

by whatilearned October 5, 2022, 11:06 am

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Hello, I’d like to apologize about my absence, I’ve been busy trying to deal with the crypto-crash

by CopyPastaArchive June 23, 2022, 5:44 pm

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TIL Described as the first iced coffee, the Mazagran was named for the beverage that French colonial troops consumed during the 1840 siege of the Mazagran fortress in Algeria. Troops prepared the coffee syrup with water in the absence of milk or brandy and drank it cold to counter the heat.

by whatilearned May 25, 2022, 4:35 pm

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TIL amidst early concerns about leaded gas, the engineer who discovered tetraethyllead as an additive demonstrated its ‘safety’ by pouring it over his hands and inhaling its vapor, stating he could do this every day without issue. He later took a leave of absence due to lead poisoning.

by whatilearned May 17, 2022, 2:08 pm

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TIL of Chuck Cunningham syndrome, which describes the TV phenomenon where a character simply disappears, and their absence is never acknowledged and the other characters continue on as if nothing ever happened.

by whatilearned April 26, 2022, 4:05 pm

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TIL Michael Berryman, known for his iconic roles in horror movies (The Hill Have Eyes), has a very unique physical appearance due to hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, a rare condition characterized by the absence of sweat glands, hair, and fingernails.

by whatilearned March 13, 2022, 12:27 am

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ABSENCE OF SEXUAL COMPANIONSHIP?

by CopyPastaArchive February 16, 2022, 2:11 am

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TIL that Beethoven and Mozart had met each other. One account that is frequently cited was when Beethoven on a leave of absence from the Bonn Court Orchestra, travelled to Vienna to meet Mozart. The year was 1787, Beethoven was just sixteen-years-old and Mozart was thirty.

by whatilearned November 13, 2021, 6:08 pm

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TIL several endangered species, especially red-crowned cranes and white-naped cranes, have found a strange refuge among the land mines, fortifications and total absence of people in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone.

by whatilearned October 9, 2021, 5:11 am

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How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum

by ProgrammerDude September 24, 2021, 6:41 pm

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