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TIL wireless chargers make noise. When your phone is charging, an electromagnetic field is formed between the two, the coils inside the charger vibrate, creating electromagnetic waves. Those travel through objects and air to reach your ears within a certain distance.

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 8:40 pm

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TIL Eddie Van Halen recorded the 1995 piece “Strung Out” back in 1984 on a piano filled with things like ping-pong balls, batteries, knives, forks. Producer Bruce Fairbairn picked out 90 seconds of a 10-hour tape recording that started with Eddie creating harmonics directly in the piano’s strings.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 2:31 pm

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AITA to be mad at my friend for creating a fursona out of my cat? (found on r/amitheasshole)

by CopyPastaArchive August 29, 2022, 7:02 pm

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TIL about Edward Bazalgette, lead singer of The Vapours (“Turning Japanese”) who was the great-great-grandson of Joseph Bazalgette – the man responsible for creating much of Britain’s sewer network and saving innumerable lives.

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 4:11 pm

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AITA for creating a pigeon-human hybrid?

by CopyPastaArchive August 16, 2022, 3:55 am

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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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What are the consequences people don’t think about when creating an onlyfans page in their early adult years ?

by QuestionGuy August 6, 2022, 5:23 pm

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You have unlimited funding to create a video game, what game are you creating?

by QuestionGuy July 27, 2022, 4:38 am

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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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