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I’m a European frog; mostly French, a bit German, and…

by cringeyjokesman January 18, 2022, 6:43 am

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I just realized that the state of Pennsylvania is the only state to be colonized by 4 separate European powers.

by HistoryBuff January 17, 2022, 12:13 pm

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TIL William Dampier was a pirate-scientist who studied botany, zoology, and the ocean. He circumnavigated the world 3 times, landed in Australia eight decades before Captain Cook, and influenced Darwin’s thinking on the mutation of species. He was also probably the first European to smoke marijuana.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 3:26 pm

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Americans, if you were asked on the street to point to a map and identify where Australia is, which European country would it be closest to?

by QuestionGuy January 14, 2022, 11:23 am

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TIL European demand for wildly popular sugar sweetened beverages fueled the slave trade of the 18th century colonial economy.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 4:27 am

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TIL the Golden Age of Piracy, between 1650s & 1730s happened because of: more valuable cargo being shipped over vast ocean areas; reduced European navies; & corrupt officials in overseas colonies.

by whatilearned January 10, 2022, 12:11 pm

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European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate

by HistoryBuff January 9, 2022, 5:15 pm

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TIL that before ‘free mobile phone roaming’ was introduced across the European Union, residents and tourists around Dover, on the southeast coast of England, were regularly get charged international roaming fees for using French network due to poor network coverage on the English side of the channel

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 1:24 pm

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TIL that, despite the United Nations’ European headquarters being in Geneva, Switzerland did not join the U.N. until September 10, 2002. Even then, only 55 percent of citizens supported joining.

by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 9:00 pm

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7 Gettext lessons learned after 2 years of developing a European platform

by ProgrammerDude December 7, 2021, 8:58 pm

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Jarvis sacrificing eastern European children for cock and balls

by CopyPastaArchive November 29, 2021, 5:12 pm

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TIL The European colonization of America caused a minor cooling of the world due to the decimation of the native population. An estimated 55 million native Americans died due to disease, famine and direct violence.

by whatilearned November 27, 2021, 3:58 am

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