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I’m waking up, to ash and dust, I miss my ass and I slap my nuts

by CopyPastaArchive May 6, 2023, 8:52 am

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TIL Bruce’s Springsteen’s 13th album Devils and Dust releases in 2005 was his first and only album to have a parental advisory label. The label was used for the “adult imagery” in the song Reno where the character in the song visits a sex worker.

by whatilearned April 27, 2023, 4:56 pm

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TIL that cremation doesn’t burn bones. After the cremation, the bones are smashed to dust by the Cremulator.

by whatilearned April 23, 2023, 4:51 pm

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TIL children were most prone to lead poisoning because lead chips and toys with lead dust tasted “sweet”.

by whatilearned March 30, 2023, 10:02 pm

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England’s archaeological history gathers dust as museums fill up

by HistoryBuff February 26, 2023, 7:38 pm

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TIL of Macadam roads. These roads were convex, raised a few inches, and made of layered crushed rock; they were state-of-the-art for the 19th century. The rise of automobiles led to the dust issues that were solved by binding the roads with tar, leading to the invention of tarmac.

by whatilearned February 21, 2023, 12:48 pm

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TIL: In 536 A.D., there was a worldwide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a year, resulting in widespread famine and disease.

by whatilearned February 21, 2023, 8:25 am

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TIL that until 1860 most people believed animals could arise from non-living matter such as dust, rocks and dead meat, a theory known as « spontaneous generation »

by whatilearned January 29, 2023, 12:00 am

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TIL The entire Amazon basin is fertilized by diatom shell dust blown over the Atlantic from the Sahara desert

by whatilearned January 27, 2023, 7:47 pm

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TIL of Weird Al’s dark humor. In his song Another One Rides the Bus, spoofing Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust, Weird Al sings “I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see ‘The Who’.” A reference to The Who’s 1979 Cincinatti concert where eleven people died in the crush of the crowd.

by whatilearned November 23, 2022, 3:41 pm

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TIL about Return to Dust, a Chinese film which ends with the dirt poor farmer’s suicide. In the censored version, it ended with a statement that the farmer “moved to his new home in the winter of 2011 and started his new life with the help of the government and the warm-hearted villagers.”

by whatilearned November 21, 2022, 5:37 am

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Which cereal has the best bottom-of-the-bag dust?

by QuestionGuy November 14, 2022, 2:29 pm

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