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TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 3:05 am

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TIL the probability of you existing is 1 in 10^2,685,000.

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 2:00 pm

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TIL that the religious group known as the Shakers are completely celibate and cannot have children, so they can only gain new members by converting outsiders. As a result, there were only two people in the last existing Shaker community as of 2020, although they gained a single new member in 2021.

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 7:16 pm

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TIL When Erwin Schrödinger invented the notion of a simultaneously dead-and-alive cat in a box, he only intended the example to illustrate the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 7:05 pm

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TIL that in 1972 school backpacks as known today were first used at the University of Washington. Existing backpacks for day hikers were modified by Jansport, at the time a Seattle-based company.

by whatilearned July 26, 2022, 2:06 am

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TIL that roughly 90% of normal matter exists in the “empty” space between galaxies, with the remaining 10% existing in galaxies, stars, planets, etc.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 11:11 pm

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TIL the first modern chain letter was written in the 18th century, with predecessors to the modern chain letter existing as far back as the 9th century

by whatilearned June 24, 2022, 8:12 pm

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TIL that the Dodge Stealth and the Mitsubishi 3000GT are essentially the same car. The Dodge Stealth is an example of rebadging or badge engineering: that is, a manufacturer creates a distinct automobile by applying a new badge or trademark to an existing product line.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 3:23 pm

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What is it called when you don’t want to die, but you’re tired of existing?

by QuestionGuy May 20, 2022, 3:48 am

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Internet is no longer anonymous, ALL your existing accounts are linked to your name. How fucked are you?

by QuestionGuy May 17, 2022, 3:07 am

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The owners of a ‘Happy Days’ themed restaurant are being investigated for fraud for paying existing investors with new investors money.

by cringeyjokesman May 15, 2022, 10:46 am

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TIL about “mundane science fiction,” a sci-fi literary movement driven by creating plausible extensions of existing science and technology; situating stories on Earth or within the Solar System, thereby lacking the use of interstellar or intergalactic travel; and not considering contact with aliens.

by whatilearned May 1, 2022, 7:22 pm

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