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TIL that third places – areas other than the home or the workplace where humans can connect and unwind, are dying, and this is a silent killer of our communities

by whatilearned May 15, 2023, 3:14 am

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TIL I learned that the the town of Boring (Oregon, US) established relationship with village of Dull (Scotland, UK) in 2012; the following year they were joined with the Shire of Bland (New South Wales, AU) to form the League of Extraordinary Communities.

by whatilearned May 5, 2023, 12:59 pm

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Cambridgeshire, U.K. discovery of an ancient comb — carved from human skull — could represent an unusual tradition of local Iron Age communities ca. 2,000 years ago

by HistoryBuff March 4, 2023, 1:11 am

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Sex Workers are the Pillars of all Communities

by CopyPastaArchive November 16, 2022, 12:33 pm

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TIL On 5th November families, schools and communities across the UK burn an effigy of a man who tried to start an insurrection.

by whatilearned November 5, 2022, 3:34 pm

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If you could spark a debate between two subreddit communities, which ones would be the most entertaining to watch?

by QuestionGuy September 29, 2022, 1:24 pm

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Which Communities allow new users with low Karma to post other than this one?

by QuestionGuy September 11, 2022, 2:51 am

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TIL: Remote workers can get paid to move to different communities in the U.S. some even offer $20k worth of incentives

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 4:54 pm

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TIL every September, Usenet would see an influx of college freshmen getting access through school, frustrating users with their lack of online etiquette. Then in 1993, ISPs began offering Usenet access, overwhelming communities with the influx of newbies and creating the term “Eternal September”

by whatilearned August 9, 2022, 10:35 pm

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TIL volcanos hold nutrients and water, making them fertile with rich soils, heat local environments, support local wildlife habitats, and many communities use geothermal energy for heat and power, and make gemstones, gold and other metals.

by whatilearned July 16, 2022, 3:33 pm

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TIL a lot of communities in Alaska have no poilce

by whatilearned July 9, 2022, 12:06 am

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TIL The National Memorial for Peace and Justice displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing a county in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. The memorial hopes that communities will take their slab and install it.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 3:27 pm

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