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I too made my personal site into a DE, but I think my age might be starting to show. ;.

by ProgrammerDude November 28, 2021, 11:28 pm

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How do you cope with the shame of not having job or having higher education at the right age?

by QuestionGuy November 28, 2021, 4:30 am

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TIL the standard instrument used to measure a person’s shoe size is the Brannock Device, named after its inventor Charles F. Brannock, who patented it in 1925. He formed the Brannock Device Company to manufacture the device and headed the company until he died 1992 at age 89.

by whatilearned November 28, 2021, 4:00 am

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You get the ability to bring one person back from the dead at the age they were when they died. Who do you bring back?

by QuestionGuy November 27, 2021, 2:55 pm

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TIL In 1775, 78 year old Sam Whittemore was in his fields when he’d seen British troops. He ambushed the British from behind a stone wall, killing a solider. He drew his dueling pistols, killing two more soldiers. He was then shot in the face & bayoneted, he recovered & died at the age of 96.

by whatilearned November 27, 2021, 1:19 am

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TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia activist and archivist who recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012 at age 83. At around 71,000 hours, this is the world’s most comprehensive independent archive of modern TV news.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 3:30 pm

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TIL in 2018, a Dutch man requested to change his legal age from 69 to 49, citing he wanted to ‘improve’ his chances on Tinder. The court denied his request due to there being no legal basis.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 1:57 pm

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TIL Lee Marvin was not only devilishly handsome and a badass in the movies but also in real life. Marvin joined the illustrious US Marine Corps at age 18 and fought in WW2 at the battle of Saipan, being hit by machine gun fire and a snipers bullet as well.

by whatilearned November 25, 2021, 6:23 pm

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TIL that the oldest person alive(120) sold her apartment at the age of 90 in exchange for monthly payments of 400€ until she died. The person she sold it to died at 77. Their family still had to pay her.

by whatilearned November 25, 2021, 3:19 pm

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TIL that Judith Barsi, the actress who voiced Anne-Marie in the animation movie ‘All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)’, was murdered by her father at age 10. This was a year and a half before the film’s release.

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 1:22 pm

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TIL that the gentleman to first accurately ascertain the age of the earth Clair Cameron Patterson also successfully took on the petrol giants to put an end to poisonous leaded gasoline. A true pioneer and hero largely forgotten by history.

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 9:17 am

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What are we in the Golden Age of?

by QuestionGuy November 23, 2021, 7:04 am

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