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TIL Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers and eventual 14th Air Force Commander, built a brothel. “His men were going to visit brothels, regardless of what the rules said,” and it was “better to have his “boys” visit a brothel that was regularly inspected to reduce venereal diseases.”

by whatilearned July 5, 2022, 12:55 am

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TIL The Coca-Cola Company briefly had a syndicated television arm in the mid-80s. It helped produce series such as “Punky Brewster”, “Dinosaucers”, “The New Gidget”, and “Starcom: The U.S. Space Force”.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 7:54 pm

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TIL about Sir Guy Carleton a British commander who defeated an American invasion force in Quebec, by sending smallpox infected prostitutes into American lines.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 11:42 pm

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TIL: Kummakivi is a large balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland. The 7-metre long boulder lies on a convex bedrock surface with a very small footprint but so firmly that it cannot be rocked with human force.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 3:41 pm

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What would be the scariest message we could receive from an extraterrestrial life force?

by QuestionGuy June 29, 2022, 5:12 am

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TIL That the term ‘Jadotville Jack’ was used to describe members of A Company 35th Batallion Irish Army. The term was in reference to the unit’s forced surrender after a siege from a numerically superior mercenary force and the Irish government/UN’s refusal to decorate any survivors of the battle.

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 3:37 pm

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why did schools force group showers. it seems really creepy, why not just put in shower stalls?

by QuestionGuy June 24, 2022, 4:14 pm

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A Marine, A Navy SEAL, and a Delta Force member are sitting around a fire….

by cringeyjokesman June 23, 2022, 3:16 am

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TIL that in 2007 a marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force led to a bomb scare and 2 million dollars in damages

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 6:05 pm

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Why were the Jedi looking for “balance in the force” when there was like 1000 Jedi and no known Sith? Did they not know what balance meant?

by QuestionGuy June 11, 2022, 3:00 am

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[Theory] Jar Jar Binks was a trained Force user, knowing Sith collaborator, and will play a central role in The Force Awakens

by CopyPastaArchive June 1, 2022, 3:36 am

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The US Marines, Delta Force and the Harris County Sheriff’s Department are on one of those team building weekends out in the woods.

by cringeyjokesman May 23, 2022, 6:17 pm

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