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Why hasn’t Russian won the war against Ukraine already if they are the 2nd biggest military force in the world and have approximately 16 times the force of Ukraine? Shouldn’t they have steamrolled over Ukraine already?

by QuestionGuy May 14, 2023, 6:34 am

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TIL British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India in 200 years while stealing atleast 45 trillion dollars of wealth.

by whatilearned May 8, 2023, 7:57 am

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TIL A man named Charles Osborne had hiccups non-stop for approximately 68 years, from 1922 to 1990. In 1922, he was weighing a hog for slaughter. He fell and busted a blood vessel in his brain resulting in him damaging a small part of the brain that inhibits the hiccup response.

by whatilearned April 24, 2023, 9:07 am

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TIL until approximately the late 1400’s the word “girl” used to refer to a child of either sex.

by whatilearned April 22, 2023, 10:46 pm

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TIL former First Lady Barbara Bush’s mother spent time in Europe away from her husband with Alister Crowley who is understood to have undergone a series of sex rituals around this time approximately 8-9 months before Barbara’s birth.

by whatilearned April 11, 2023, 9:18 am

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TIL: The average person spends over 2 hours a day on social media platforms. According to a report by GlobalWebIndex, the average internet user spends 2 hours and 30 minutes on social media every day. This amounts to approximately one-third of the total time that an individual spends online.

by whatilearned February 24, 2023, 1:15 pm

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If I had a quarter for every time someone says “If I had a quarter every time this happens, Id have two quarters. Which isn’t a lot but its weird it’s happened twice” I would have approximately six hundred thousand, four thousand, three hundred and fifty-two quarters

by CopyPastaArchive February 18, 2023, 3:18 pm

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TIL when Hokule’a, a double-hulled canoe, launched from Maui for Tahiti in 1975, it was the first time in approximately 800 years that a team of sailors used Polynesian wayfinding to navigate this route. A crowd of over 10,000 people gathered on the shores of Tahiti to welcome the team home.

by whatilearned February 17, 2023, 12:27 am

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TIL No one would have died on the infamous Titanic sinking if the ship remained still in the water after the collision, as the RMS Carpathia would’ve reached it in time. White Star Chairman Bruce Ismay ordered the Titanic to speed up, which sped up sinking, leading to approximately 1,500+ deaths.

by whatilearned January 27, 2023, 12:19 pm

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TIL that it takes approximately 20 minutes from the time you start eating for your brain to send out signals of fullness. Leisurely eating allows ample time to trigger the signal from your brain that you are full.

by whatilearned January 22, 2023, 5:03 pm

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If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms. Where it’s nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum buzz and approximately six hundred million squa-

by CopyPastaArchive January 16, 2023, 7:41 am

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TIL that an achene is a single-seeded fruit, and that strawberry “seeds” are achenes. Each little strawberry achene is its own tiny fruit, and the entire rest of the strawberry is an accessory fruit. A single strawberry is actually approximately 200 little fruits attached to a big fruit.

by whatilearned January 13, 2023, 5:24 am

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