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TIL of ‘Newman Day’, an unofficial holiday at some US Colleges, including Princeton and Yale, in which students aim to drink 24 cans of beer in 24 hours. Based on an apocryphal remark by Paul Newman, about “24 hours in a day and 24 cans in a case”, the actor (an alcoholic) abhorred the ‘holiday’.

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 8:28 pm

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TIL Sigmund Freud was awarded the Goethe Prize for literature in 1930. Editor Adam Phillips asserts that Freud should be read like ‘any great novelist’. His case of Dora uses modern literary techniques and has been compared to the novels of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and James Joyce

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 6:58 am

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What is something you’ve witnessed that has given you the worst case of second hand embarrassment?

by QuestionGuy July 31, 2022, 2:27 am

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TIL in 2005 pro golfer John Daly sued a Florida newspaper for saying he failed “the scoundrel sniff test”. The case was thrown out because Daly couldn’t disprove any of the statements made in the article.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 12:06 am

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How do you get over a case of the Mondays?

by QuestionGuy July 25, 2022, 3:00 pm

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A lawyer was screwing around in his office when Satan appeared. “I can make you win every case in your career with incredible sex. In exchange you will give me your soul, your wife’s soul, your children’s souls, your parent’s souls, your grandparent’s souls and the souls of all your friends!”

by cringeyjokesman July 25, 2022, 8:25 am

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True crime junkies of reddit, what is a case or story you’ve heard that actually kept you up at night?

by QuestionGuy July 22, 2022, 4:17 am

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People of Reddit what do you keep in your room/car/on you just in case?

by QuestionGuy July 20, 2022, 3:21 am

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TIL about the Tichborne case, where a man widely known as ‘The Claimant’ claimed to be the missing baronet Roger Tichborne, which caused a sensation in Victorian England.

by whatilearned July 19, 2022, 10:34 am

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TIL Zoo´s have an instant kill list in case of a mass escape. At the top of the list is the Chimpanzee, because they are known to hunt other primates.

by whatilearned July 18, 2022, 2:07 am

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TIL Although Laika is commonly perceived as the first animal in space, this is not the case. The very first animals sent into space were fruit flies on board of a V-2 rocket launched by the US. They returned to Earth alive.

by whatilearned July 17, 2022, 11:48 am

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TIL The seahorse is the only case of male pregnancy in the animal world

by whatilearned July 15, 2022, 2:58 pm

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