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TIL Why the mattress tag can only be removed by the consumer – mattresses used to be filled with garbage, and other horrible things, and then the sellers would remove the tags that said what was in the mattress padding. So now no one but the final owner can remove the tag.

by whatilearned July 3, 2022, 6:52 pm

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I filled my car with gas the other week and it cost me $175.00

by cringeyjokesman June 28, 2022, 7:44 am

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TIL there is an unclaimed Pokemon Go gym on the North Korean side of the Korean DMZ, a border zone filled with snipers, land mines, and armed guards.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 8:53 am

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TIL that in 1961 the Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with his feces, called it “Artist’s Shit” and sold them according to their equivalent weight in gold.

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 12:32 am

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TIL a significant part of the local economy of Kinmen County is making high quality chef’s knives from the over 1 million artillery shells fired on the island in the 1950s. Shells filled with propaganda leaflets instead of explosives landed whole, leaving tons of high quality steel lying around.

by whatilearned May 21, 2022, 1:35 pm

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TIL: Rolled Gold is known as “Gold-Filled” in the USA which is exactly the opposite of the filled gold that it actually is.

by whatilearned April 21, 2022, 9:21 pm

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I have three holes, each of which are often filled with three solid rods at the same time. What am I?

by cringeyjokesman April 17, 2022, 1:46 am

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TIL that San Clemente, CA, filled the local skate park with sand in April 2020 to try to enforce lockdown. Then the dirt bikes showed up.

by whatilearned April 11, 2022, 12:20 am

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TIL Power Puff Girls villain Ace filled in for Gorillaz bassist Murdoc while the latter was incarcerated.

by whatilearned March 31, 2022, 4:03 pm

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What do you call a boat that is filled with potatoes and penises?

by cringeyjokesman March 27, 2022, 2:18 am

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An Irishman is walking home in Belfast, after a long day of alcohol filled festivities

by cringeyjokesman March 21, 2022, 11:25 pm

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TIL that the great majority of jobs are filled through intrapersonal and professional connections and are never advertised to the greater public.

by whatilearned March 15, 2022, 9:27 am

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