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TIL about Nicole Camphaug, a Canadian Inuk fashion designer who promotes Inuit culture by creating contemporary Inuit fashion items. A pair of her sealskin high-heeled shoes are held at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 5:22 am

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TIL many Native American tribes used fire for thousands of years to manage forest brush for small game hunting as well as creating grasslands for big game to be hunted. This resulted in many species of plants, animals, and fungi to become extinct as the forest became a fire-adapted ecosystem.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 12:25 am

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TIL that Batman’s suit, arsenal of awesome gadgets, and secret identity were not created by Bob Kane. Gotham City was not even created by him. All these creations belong to Bill Finger, who died penniless while Kane did everything he could to suppress Finger’s involvement in creating the character.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 11:33 pm

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TIL Newark, NJ was founded in 1666 by disgruntled Puritans from Connecticut. Wishing to start a theocracy, they named their settlement New Ark believing they were creating a new ark of the covenant. New Ark remained a Puritan theocracy until 1746 when Episcopalian missionaries built a church.

by whatilearned June 16, 2022, 3:48 pm

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TIL Thomas Wise was a keen collector of first editions in original condition dating back to Elizabethan era and given an honorary M.A. by University of Oxford. He parlayed his reputation as a collector of books into a career in creating and selling forgeries of nearly 300 works of English authors.

by whatilearned June 11, 2022, 12:51 am

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God, creating ducks:

by cringeyjokesman June 10, 2022, 7:43 pm

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TIL Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace stole many scenes and ideas, from the illustrative book series Dinotopia, when creating the planet Naboo.

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 9:05 pm

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TIL about “mundane science fiction,” a sci-fi literary movement driven by creating plausible extensions of existing science and technology; situating stories on Earth or within the Solar System, thereby lacking the use of interstellar or intergalactic travel; and not considering contact with aliens.

by whatilearned May 1, 2022, 7:22 pm

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TIL that Freddy Mercury designed the Queen Crest logo himself and had four extra teeth in his upper jaw, creating his overbite. I also learned that the way he carried his mic, ‘bottomless mic’, was by an accident and he ended up liking it, so kept it.

by whatilearned April 27, 2022, 11:02 am

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TIL of Marion Stokes, a civil activist who purchased a Betamax VCR in 1975 and never looked back, recording thousands of hours of television over nearly four decades with multiple VCR decks, creating an archive of over 70,000 tapes. It is the largest known archive of television by an individual.

by whatilearned April 21, 2022, 7:45 pm

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TIL: Scientists warn we are creating a ‘digital dark age’. Unlike in previous decades, no physical record exists these days for much of the digital material we own. Your old CDs, for example, will not last more than a couple of decades.

by whatilearned April 20, 2022, 5:51 pm

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TIL million people bought fake license plates for their cars last year, creating ghost vehicles

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 8:08 pm

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