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TIL that Montana Pool Service is a non-profit organization founded by Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, that builds skateboard parks in rural and native communities in Montana. So far its funded over 20 parks.

by whatilearned April 21, 2022, 1:50 am

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TIL of the Potato Park. A seed bank in Peru, it is managed by Indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. It specialises in potatoes, and houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties in the world

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 6:13 am

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TIL: Observing Ramadan in northern communities can be much easier or much more difficult depending on time of year (in terms of fasting between sunrise and sunset).

by whatilearned April 11, 2022, 3:50 am

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TIL NYC could have been even larger. A referendum was held on the consolidation of NYC in 1894, which included residents of all the modern Boroughs as well as communities in Westchester County. Voters in Mount Vernon and Yonkers rejected consolidation.

by whatilearned April 10, 2022, 5:11 pm

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TIL that in 1987, Morocco applied to join the European Communities (the precursor to the European Union). The application was rejected on the grounds that Morocco was not considered to be a “European country” and hence could not join.

by whatilearned March 26, 2022, 11:03 am

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TIL Ancient DNA shows that the culture that brought Bronze Age technology to Britain was connected to a migration that almost completely replaced the island’s earlier inhabitants, the latter who were the Neolithic communities responsible for huge megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge.

by whatilearned March 25, 2022, 8:32 pm

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Why did the cannibal comedian hate playing gigs at retirement communities?

by cringeyjokesman February 23, 2022, 1:12 pm

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TIL about the lost village of Tryweryn. A Welsh village and one of the last predominantly welsh speaking communities, that was forcibly vacated destroyed, and purposely flooded by the British government in 1965 in order to create a reservoir to provide water for the English city of Liverpool.

by whatilearned February 21, 2022, 5:23 am

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You get the opportunity to merge two subreddit communities together. Which ones do you choose to cause the most chaos?

by QuestionGuy February 13, 2022, 2:52 pm

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TIL Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 250,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children were transported to rural communities by train across the country in hopes of providing a better life for them. These would become known as the “Orphan Trains”.

by whatilearned February 12, 2022, 2:29 pm

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TIL about the Tuktoyaktuk icehouse, an underground icehouse carved in the permafrost in one of Canada’s northernmost communities

by whatilearned January 17, 2022, 2:21 am

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Reddit users, what are your top 3 favorite Reddit communities?

by QuestionGuy November 30, 2021, 5:10 am

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