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TIL about the classical period of witch hunts in early modern europe and colonial america took place around 1450 to 1750.Modern scholarly estimates place the total number of executions for witchcraft in the 300-year period of European witch-hunts in the five digits b/w 35000 to 50000

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 4:44 pm

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TIL Tonic water was created as an early prophylactic treatment against Malaria (due to the added Quinine) by the British army. They added Gin to improve taste and now we have the G&T.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 4:28 pm

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TIL Legenday blues musician B.B. King was actually born Reilly King and used his given name professionally early in his career. While working at a radio station he used the name “Beale Street Blues Boy,” which morphed into just “Blues Boy,” and eventually just “BB.”

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 2:31 am

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TIL that in Bhutan they prefer to talk about “Gross National Happiness” rather than Gross Domestic Product. Although the idea was conceptualized as early as 1972, it was not until 2008 that the first Bhutanese GNH survey was organized nationwide, thanks to a long questionnaire.

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 7:26 am

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TIL that during the early years of sparkling Champagne, Champagne was drank in shots.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 2:00 pm

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TIL Passenger pusher has been a profession since atleast the early 1900s. By the 1920s the New York pushers were known and disliked international for their aggressive nature and reputation as “sardine packers”.

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 4:38 pm

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TIL that the word ‘bomb’ refers to bees, because ancients used to throw beehives as an early sort of grenade

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 1:45 pm

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Redditors that wake up early at like 5-6AM how and why?

by QuestionGuy August 31, 2022, 11:55 am

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A guy suspects his wife is cheating on him so he comes home early from work one day.

by cringeyjokesman August 28, 2022, 9:53 am

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TIL In the early 1700’s, Britain sent over 50,000 convicted criminals to the US to be sold as laborers, mostly settling in the south to work Tobacco farms.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 3:59 pm

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What do you miss about the early 90’s/2000’s?

by QuestionGuy August 25, 2022, 3:04 am

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TIL of Mocha Dick, a male sperm whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, and usually encountered in the waters near Mocha Island, off the central coast of Chile. American explorer and author Jeremiah N. Reynolds published his account which inspired Melville’s Moby Dick

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 10:30 pm

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