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Any of us older folks remember what your CD’s you ordered in your Columbia House promo order?

by QuestionGuy May 3, 2023, 4:05 am

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TIL that the film, “First Blood” – set in the fictional town of Hope, Washington – was filmed in Hope, British Columbia where they recently erected a statue of John Rambo

by whatilearned April 28, 2023, 7:20 pm

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Was anyone’s ever try hacked into British Columbia Canada police department 🖥️💻💾💽

by CopyPastaArchive April 10, 2023, 3:23 am

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TIL of Columbia, the personification of the United States for over 200 years, and was even the alternate name for the United States. She is the reason for the District of Columbia, British Columbia, etc. She was replaced by Lady Liberty, and was gradually forgotten after WWI.

by whatilearned March 27, 2023, 11:06 pm

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TIL Burnaby, British Columbia announced a 100 year plan in 2019 to transform a large shopping mall into a downtown core with high rises, plazas, walkable streets

by whatilearned March 16, 2023, 10:05 am

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TIL In Canada British Columbia, New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia didn’t officially change to right hand traffic on roads until the 1920’s. Newfoundland did so in 1947 two years before joining Canada.

by whatilearned March 8, 2023, 5:38 pm

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TIL Anvil firing is the practice of exploding an anvil into the air. Anvils are typically fired as a celebration, be it to honor St. Clement’s (the Patron Saint of blacksmiths) or in a 21 anvil salut as found in New Westminster, British Columbia.

by whatilearned February 28, 2023, 1:02 pm

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TIL of a calculator, by The Columbia Journalism Review, which works out your own newsworthiness if you were to go missing. It ranks from 0 (no shit given) to 128 (non-stop news coverage).

by whatilearned February 19, 2023, 6:17 pm

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TIL American writer Jack Kerouac served on SS Dorchester which was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 3 February 1943. Kerouac would have also been on the ship during the attack, but for a telegram he received from coach Lou Little, asking him to return to Columbia University to play football.

by whatilearned February 3, 2023, 2:36 pm

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Columbia Cycada (short)

by CopyPastaArchive December 3, 2022, 3:52 pm

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TIL the cowboy bebop episode”wild horses” was initially banned from TV because it involved the space shuttle Columbia being involved in a disaster, which had actually happened a few months after is was written.

by whatilearned November 12, 2022, 10:07 pm

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TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT.

by whatilearned October 28, 2022, 9:24 pm

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