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TIL a man claimed to steal a ghost from Ye Olde Man & Scythe in Bolton, England (a pub dating to 1251) and put it in a container on display at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art

by whatilearned September 6, 2022, 3:46 am

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TIL “Jack & Diane” was supposed to have been about an interracial couple, but Mellencamp was pressured by the label to change itb

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 8:46 pm

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TIL: Sammy Hagar & Van Halen had a falling out while writing music for the film “Twister” Sammy insisted on writing a tornado themed song despite the director telling him “Do not write about tornadoes”

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 2:44 pm

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TIL Walter Johnson’s record of 3508 career strikeouts stood for nearly 50 years before 3 different pitchers (Ryan, Carlton, & Perry) each broke the record in the 1983 season.

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 5:49 pm

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What’s your strangest, weirdest, & or creepiest animal fact?

by QuestionGuy September 2, 2022, 3:45 pm

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TIL that there are only five Canadian acts in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame – Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Band, Rush, and Leonard Cohen.

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 6:09 am

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A Horny Bear & a Bunny finds a Magic Lamp

by cringeyjokesman September 2, 2022, 5:01 am

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TIL The Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal was built to better connect Chicago to the Mississippi River, and was the world’s largest canal at the time. It provided engineers with the necessary experience to help construct the most pivotal infrastructure project in US history – the Panama Canal.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 9:35 pm

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40 & 50 yr old Reddit users. What is something you wish you knew in your 30s?

by QuestionGuy September 1, 2022, 5:51 am

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TIL that delta 9 THC is the same as the THC you get at a dispensary, & it’s legal in all 50 states as long as it’s in a low concentration in tinctures or edibles. I thought delta 9 was just like fake delta 8 I guess learned today.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 9:58 pm

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TIL a minority of the world’s languages are “ergative”—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we’d say “SHE likes HER” & “SHE walks”; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it’d be “SHE likes HER” but “HER walks”

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 9:42 am

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TIL that the US lost six nukes, and two of them are still buried in North & South Carolina.

by whatilearned August 27, 2022, 4:08 pm

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