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Ireland Declares War on France

by cringeyjokesman July 28, 2021, 12:03 am

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TIL that most children, in France and Sweden, are born to unmarried moms

by whatilearned July 27, 2021, 11:52 am

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TIL that since the 1980s, novelty Garfield phones have been washing up on the beaches of Brittany in France. It was only in 2019 that the source – a lost shipping container – was discovered

by whatilearned July 27, 2021, 10:49 am

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TIL 69 originated in a city in the south of France

by cringeyjokesman July 20, 2021, 10:00 pm

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Today I learned that in France it is illegal to name your pig ‘Napoleon’

by whatilearned July 17, 2021, 3:29 pm

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TIL that, in 1919, Eugène Christophe was the first Tour de France rider to wear the Yellow Jersey. Later in the race, while still in the lead, his front fork broke. He repaired the fork himself at a blacksmiths forge but lost too much time. He finished 3rd in 1919, never to win the Tour de France.

by whatilearned July 17, 2021, 3:04 pm

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TIL that from 1961 to 1963, France and Brazil had a dispute over lobsters. Brazil did not allow French fishing vessels to catch spiny lobsters 100 miles off of the northeastern Brazilian coast, arguing that lobsters crawled along the continental shelf, while the French maintained that lobsters swam.

by whatilearned July 17, 2021, 12:49 pm

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Why didn’t UK and France declare war on the USSR?

by HistoryBuff July 16, 2021, 5:48 pm

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TIL that the Tour de France has a team that drives each days route and turns genitals graffitied on the road into owls and butterflies.

by whatilearned July 13, 2021, 2:07 pm

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TIL Ciabatta bread was created in 1982 by Arnaldo Cavallari, a miller who wanted to give Italy its own bread to stop baguette imports from France that threatened to monopolize the lucrative sandwich market in Italy.

by whatilearned July 12, 2021, 5:40 pm

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TIL Cotton candy has different names around the world. In England, it’s called candy floss. In Australia and Finland, it’s called fairy floss. In the Netherlands, it’s known as suikerspin, which means sugar spider, and in France it’s called barbe à papa, which mean papa’s beard.

by whatilearned July 11, 2021, 11:10 am

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British cyclist Mark Cavendish equals Eddy Merckx’s Tour de France record

by SportsNews July 9, 2021, 4:44 pm

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