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[serious] People of reddit, what was a time in your life where you tried to do something genuinely nice (not something arguably nice, or opinionated) for someone, only to have them basically spit in your face?

by QuestionGuy August 18, 2022, 1:08 am

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Who is arguably the best singer of all time?

by QuestionGuy August 13, 2022, 11:19 pm

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TIL that Ben Franklin arguably invented the “Pros and Cons list” as a way of making decisions. In his original 1772 letter, he instructs one to cross out items from each column in pairs of equal significance, and then once one side has been exhausted, the other column yields the verdict.

by whatilearned July 16, 2022, 12:01 pm

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TIL the Jimmy Eat World song ‘Hear Me Now’ was in tribute to Mykel and Carli Allan, arguably the biggest Weezer fans of all time. Often they would take in up coming bands, including Jimmy Eat World. Sadly they died in a car accident , along with their sister, after leaving a Weezer concert.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 10:53 pm

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TIL of Mary Jane Seacole, a British -Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who set up the “British Hotel” behind the lines during the Crimean War arguably practicing nursing hygiene before Florence Nightingale

by whatilearned June 12, 2022, 9:10 pm

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TIL that Australian hackers targeted NASA in 1989 with one of the first computer worms, and arguably the first ever instances of “hacktivisim” with the “Worms Against Nuclear Killers” (or WANK) worm.

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 3:18 am

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TIL about Ostalgie, a wide feeling of nostalgia by former East Germans post-reunification that has created a distinct identity that was arguably far greater than when Germany was divided

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 3:28 pm

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TIL that Für Elise, arguably Beethoven’s most popular work, was never published during his life. It was published 40 years after his death when music scholar Ludwig Nohl discovered it. The identity of Elise has never been confirmed.

by whatilearned December 5, 2021, 3:33 am

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TIL Marcus Licinius Crassus arguably the richest man in ancient Rome was known to show up to burning houses with a fire brigade, offering to put out the fire if the owner first sold him the house at a miserable price. If the owner refused, he would let the house burn to the ground.

by whatilearned October 21, 2021, 6:29 pm

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TIL of Amaro Pargo, arguably the most successful Spanish corsair during the golden age of piracy, he’d attack British & Dutch ships and is known to have fought contemporaries such as blackbeard. He rose to nobility for his services to the Spanish crown and died the richest man on the Canary Islands.

by whatilearned October 4, 2021, 3:39 pm

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TIL at the time of the Russian Revolution, the Winter Palace held arguably the best stocked wine cellar in history. The Bolsheviks tried to pipe it out of the palace into the Neva River, to avoid a drunken mob. This led to crowds clustering around the palace drains, and a drunken mob formed anyway

by whatilearned August 12, 2021, 9:43 pm

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TIL the Academy Award-winning documentary “Colette” was released as part of the gallery mode for the VR game “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond”. Thus, though not mentioned by name in the citation, “Above and Beyond” is arguably the first video game ever to receive an Oscar for its content.

by whatilearned June 9, 2021, 1:45 pm

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