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TIL Vincent Price was “greylisted” under McCarthyism in the 1950s for having been a prewar “premature anti-Nazi”, and after being unable to find work for a year, agreed to requests by the FBI that he sign a “secret oath” to save his career.

by whatilearned May 19, 2023, 5:32 pm

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TIL Humans will naturally begin to walk in circles when they can’t tell what direction is straight, and there is no agreed on explanation for this

by whatilearned May 9, 2023, 5:02 pm

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TIL that eight years after JFK’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy avoided the public unveiling of their White House portraits, but the Nixons graciously agreed to a secret, private tour for her and her kids. It was her only return visit.

by whatilearned May 4, 2023, 6:16 am

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TIL In 2000, when the cast of “Friends” wouldn’t come down from their $1,050,000/episode salary demands, NBC’s Garth Ancier produced promos saying “You’ve loved them for seven years, see how it all ends with the series finale of Friends this Thursday”. The cast agreed to lower salaries.

by whatilearned April 24, 2023, 3:16 am

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My wife said she’s leaving me because I keep making coffee without the filter. The judge agreed

by cringeyjokesman April 15, 2023, 7:06 pm

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TIL of Cáin Adomnáin, dubbed “Europe’s first human rights treaty”. Created in the year 697, was a set of laws – which kings across Ireland and parts of Scotland mutually agreed to follow – that guaranteed the safety of non-combatants in warfare.

by whatilearned March 31, 2023, 2:20 am

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Wife and I agreed that we don’t want kids.

by cringeyjokesman March 31, 2023, 1:02 am

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TIL: A sex toy maker agreed to pay customers up to C$10,000 each for selling a “smart vibrator,” which tracked owners’ use without their knowledge. Two hackers had demonstrated the company was collecting information about users, including device temperature and vibration intensity.

by whatilearned March 25, 2023, 3:19 pm

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TIL: Tracy Chapman sued Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement. According to the complaint, Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj permission to sample one of her songs, but Minaj did it anyway. Minaj settled and agreed to pay Chapman $450K.

by whatilearned March 24, 2023, 1:56 am

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TIL that an extensive research of dropping wallets was done to study honesty. 279 top economists agreed that a wallet with more money would be less likely to be returned but the actual results turned out to be opposite across countries and culture.

by whatilearned March 11, 2023, 2:31 am

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TIL Tupac’s final album All Eyez on Me was released after Suge Knight paid Tupac’s $1.4 million bail to get him released from jail. In return, Tupac agreed to release three albums on Death Row Records. The double album All Eyes on Me served as the first two albums in the three-album contract.

by whatilearned March 2, 2023, 1:53 pm

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TIL Canada and Denmark both gained their second international land border when they agreed in June 2022 to split an uninhabited island

by whatilearned February 10, 2023, 9:48 pm

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