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Without revealing your actual age, what’s something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn’t understand?

by QuestionGuy September 4, 2022, 3:22 am

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TIL spoonerisms are named after an actual person; The reverand Spooner. And that a spoonerism is quite often comical.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 4:52 pm

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TIL that Hulk Hogan throwing Rocky out of the ring in Rocky III (1982) was loosely based on an actual fight between Chuck Wepner and André the Giant in 1976.

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 7:25 am

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TIL when it was deemed impossible to shoot the tanker fight in The Spy Who Loved Me on an actual supertanker and no other soundstage would fit the set, Albert R Broccoli commissioned the 007 Stage, the biggest in the world at the time.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 10:23 pm

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TIL that the way Jamaican’s speak is their native language. My entire life I thought Jamaicans had accents because it was their second language. Like how someone whose first language is Spanish, German, etc. and they speak English with an accent. I had no idea that is their actual language.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 4:31 pm

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TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 3:05 am

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TIL that the familiar sound of eagle that we hears in films actually not come from eagle. It come from other bird which is the red-tailed hawk. The actual sound of eagle will be similar to seagull.

by whatilearned August 27, 2022, 10:47 am

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TIL that the Rats of NIMH is based on actual experiments done in the 1960s/70s to study the effects of overcrowding on rodent metropolises.

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 3:55 pm

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actual post from r/jordanpeterson, average jordan peterson fan

by CopyPastaArchive August 23, 2022, 11:18 am

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What’s an actual environmental importance that mosquitoes have aside from drinking our bloods and spreading disease?

by QuestionGuy August 23, 2022, 10:11 am

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Actual comment found on ask Madghosts

by CopyPastaArchive August 21, 2022, 4:00 pm

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Actual incel rant found on (r/PigeonDMs)

by CopyPastaArchive August 20, 2022, 9:17 pm

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