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TIL Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” was released on March 31, 1958, but the song was actually written 3 years earlier which gives more credibility to its appearance in the first Back to the Future movie that was set in 1955.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 3:58 pm

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TIL about the 1927 Bath School Massacre in Michigan. An electrician angry over a school millage increase spent most of a year sneaking hundreds of lbs of dynamite and pyrotyl into the new school building, detonating it at the first school bell killing 38 children. Earlier that day he killed his wife

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 2:31 am

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When you’re lying in bed at night, do you ever randomly remember some relatively minor social missteps or poorly chosen words you did/said years earlier? And then beat yourself up over it even though it really wasn’t a big deal? If so, what happened?

by QuestionGuy April 24, 2022, 12:40 am

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A male whale and a female whale were swimming off the coast of Japan when they noticed a whaling ship. The male whale recognized it as the same ship that had harpooned his father many years earlier.

by cringeyjokesman April 23, 2022, 11:42 am

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TIL the Roman politician Marcus Fabius Buteo was appointed Dictator in 216 BCE, for the express purpose of filling the Senate. So many senators had been killed in the Battle of Cannae earlier that year that new ones were needed to replace them.

by whatilearned April 23, 2022, 7:43 am

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TIL romance scams in the U.S. accounted for $304 million in reported losses by victims in 2020, quadruple what it was four years earlier. The average romance scam victim in Florida forked over $36,000 to their scammer, who they believed they were in love with after meeting them on a dating app.

by whatilearned April 14, 2022, 3:10 pm

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[old joke] A navy officer sent a letter to his wife that he would be arriving a week earlier..

by cringeyjokesman March 31, 2022, 2:40 pm

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TIL that the state of Wyoming is named after the Wyoming valley of Pennsylvania. Wyoming County, in northeastern PA was established nearly 50 years earlier than Wyoming the state

by whatilearned March 30, 2022, 1:46 am

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TIL Ancient DNA shows that the culture that brought Bronze Age technology to Britain was connected to a migration that almost completely replaced the island’s earlier inhabitants, the latter who were the Neolithic communities responsible for huge megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge.

by whatilearned March 25, 2022, 8:32 pm

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Went to the sperm clinic earlier today. The lady if I”d like to masturbate in the cup….

by cringeyjokesman March 18, 2022, 12:52 pm

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I was pulled over by a cop earlier today.

by cringeyjokesman March 4, 2022, 6:47 pm

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TIL Jeff Cohen who played Chunk, the chubby kid in the Goonies went on to study law and entertainment law later co-founding the Cohen & Gardner firm in Beverly Hills. Earlier he asked Goonies director R.Donner for a recommendation for his college application Donner and his wife offered to pay for it

by whatilearned March 4, 2022, 11:27 am

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