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When someone asks a sexual question on this sub, what flavour Dorito dust do you think their keyboard is covered with?

by QuestionGuy June 23, 2022, 8:44 am

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TIL the design of a skyscraper in London was melting cars and setting buildings on fire. It’s curvilinear shape was causing the problem: The south-facing exterior wall was covered in reflective glass, and because it’s concave, it focuses the sun’s rays onto a small area.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 5:07 pm

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A vampire bat came flapping in from the night covered in fresh blood, and went to get some sleep

by cringeyjokesman June 15, 2022, 2:08 am

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TIL about CityTree, a moss covered wall that is capable of binding environmental toxins while producing oxygen at the same time. It has the same purifying effect as 250 trees.

by whatilearned June 12, 2022, 3:16 pm

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TIL Hawaii is not covered by NATO Article V. But Alaska’s Aleutian archipelago is.

by whatilearned June 11, 2022, 6:59 pm

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TIL that to save the bumblebees, a California court ruled bees to be classified as fish because insects aren’t covered by the endangered species act. The request for “bees are fish” was considered in 2019 and recently passed.

by whatilearned June 11, 2022, 5:48 am

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TIL of the August 26, 1980 Harvey’s Lake Tahoe casino bombing. 3 men in maintenance uniforms rolled in a device covered in cloth labeled IBM to a 2nd story empty office with a note demanding $3 million. The FBI was forced to detonate it after failing to defuse it

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 2:51 am

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I saw a rainbow flag covered in seaweed.

by cringeyjokesman May 19, 2022, 4:10 pm

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TIL that the Yam postal system of the Mongol Empire covered 190 miles in a day, and was faster than the Pony Express used 600 years later

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 3:38 am

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TIL Hitler’s bunker is now covered by a parking lot and a few unassuming buildings, a strategy to ensure that the surroundings remain anonymous and unemarkable.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 4:16 am

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TIL that Christopher Columbus’s return was almost covered up. After rediscovering the Americas he first ended up in Lisbon. He was apparently so condescending to the Portuguese – who had NOT supported his trip – that the King’s advisers recommended discreetly killing him & so bury the news.

by whatilearned May 8, 2022, 12:33 am

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TIL white asparagus is actually the same species as green asparagus, its shoots are simply covered with soil to avoid photosynthesis

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 3:34 pm

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