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TIL there’s a difference between trash and garbage. Garbage is organic waste, like kitchen/bathroom paper, and trash is anything else– cardboard, dry paper, broken electronics, etc

by whatilearned June 27, 2022, 1:54 am

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Are all books on history dry reads?

by HistoryBuff June 23, 2022, 7:39 pm

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TIL that earwax of Europeans and Africans is light to dark brown, sticky and moist. The earwax of Asians is colourless or grey, brittle and dry.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 6:24 pm

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I asked my girlfriend to suck the life out of me and leave me dry.

by cringeyjokesman June 11, 2022, 3:59 am

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A blonde walks into a dry cleaners and tells the woman at the counter, “I need to have an outfit washed.” The clerk was busy and slightly distracted, so she looked up from her work and said, “Come again?”

by cringeyjokesman June 9, 2022, 2:50 pm

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TIL: Native North American earthworms disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age wiped them out. New earthworms began entering North America as early as the 1600s, with the first European settlers. They crossed over in root balls or the dry ballast of ships.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 11:06 pm

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One morning when Johnny is brushing his teeth, he sees his mother stepping out of the shower to dry herself off. While she is reaching for her towel, he notices that she has hair between her legs.

by cringeyjokesman May 29, 2022, 4:18 pm

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TIL about Cropmarks. They are archeological ruins only visible from the air. They result from more dry or fertile crops due to the soil disruption when ancient sites were built.

by whatilearned May 28, 2022, 12:10 pm

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TIL that baby formula dates back to 1865 and became more popular due to a decline in wet nursing and upon rising concerns with infant deaths due to dry nursing.

by whatilearned May 21, 2022, 1:24 pm

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TIL A Washington DC Judge filed a $54 million lawsuit against a small dry cleaner for losing his pants

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 12:40 pm

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TIL that the blow-fly of East and Central Africa, commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry and a good way to prevent the transfer to a person’s skin, is to iron all clothes including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 8:32 pm

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TIL ginger ale was invented by apothecary Thomas Cantrell in Belfast during the 1850s. In the 1890s, Canadian John J. McLaughlin, a chemist and pharmacist, added flavor extracts to his version. And so Canada Dry was created. It became a hit in the prohibition-era US as a mixer for cocktails.

by whatilearned April 15, 2022, 2:51 pm

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