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TIL that on the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave me “colly birds”, aka blackbirds, not “calling birds” until “calling birds” became more popular in the 1970s.

by whatilearned November 27, 2021, 2:08 am

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Big Dwarf the Fourth

by CopyPastaArchive November 20, 2021, 6:33 am

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At a party, a young wife admonished her husband, “That’s the fourth time you’ve gone back for ice cream and cake. Doesn’t it embarrass you?”

by cringeyjokesman November 8, 2021, 7:30 pm

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TIL that the Fourth Amendment (illegal search and seizures) of the US Constitution does not apply in a 100 mile band around all US borders

by whatilearned November 7, 2021, 10:41 pm

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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the fourth longest reigning monarch of a sovereign state ever, ahead of Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal I of Palenque, and behind Johann II of Liechtenstein. If she is still alive on 26 May 2024, she will take 1st place from Louis XIV of France.

by whatilearned November 3, 2021, 9:05 pm

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TIL That John Hanson who some consider the real first president of the United States is responsible for establishing Thanksgiving Day as the fourth Thursday in November.

by whatilearned November 1, 2021, 7:12 am

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TIL of the Jedi Census Phenomenon which was a grassroot movement to mark Jedi as your religion on the census form. Over 390k people marked this in the UK making it the fourth largest religion, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism.

by whatilearned November 1, 2021, 12:08 am

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TIL President Zachary Taylor died from a cherry overdose. Zachary Taylor passed away after eating way too many cherries and drinking milk at a Fourth of July party in 1850. He died on July 9th from gastroenteritis. The acid in cherries along with the milk is believed to have caused this.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 2:00 pm

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Breaking the fourth wall in coding – How to write logs that matter

by ProgrammerDude October 20, 2021, 5:56 pm

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TIL about the egg ovens of ancient Egypt- brick incubators created during the fourth century BC that were capable of hatching out thousands of eggs in 2-3 weeks. Two hundred of them are still in use today, the techniques involved passed down orally for more than two thousand years.

by whatilearned October 20, 2021, 2:36 pm

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TIL Aaron Hernandez’s former cellmate claimed that Hernandez had joked about a fourth murder. Hernandez allegedly hired people to kill Odin Lloyd, but they unintentionally killed Jordan Miller, a man who looked like Lloyd.

by whatilearned October 11, 2021, 5:40 pm

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TIL that Alice in Wonderland takes place on May the fourth, the real Alice Liddell’s birthday.

by whatilearned October 11, 2021, 1:09 pm

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