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I was diagnosed with a chronic fear of giants.

by cringeyjokesman February 2, 2023, 3:22 am

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TIL That Mel Blanc, Chuck Jones, Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eastman, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and other animation giants collaborated on a cartoon for the Army called Private Snafu.

by whatilearned January 21, 2023, 5:39 pm

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TIL about Merkle’s boner, a baserunning mistake by rookie Fred Merkle in a game against the Chicago Cubs. This boner ultimately cost the Giants the 1908 National League pennant.

by whatilearned January 20, 2023, 3:06 pm

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TIL Planets that are called “ice giants” do not have to have a surface made out of ice or even be cold, but rather are giant planets consisting out of elements heavier than hydrogen or helium.

by whatilearned January 13, 2023, 12:40 am

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TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.

by whatilearned November 29, 2022, 5:37 am

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TIL that the Giants and Dodgers used to be based in New York and Brooklyn respectively. For different reasons they both coincidentally moved to the West Coast around the same time, continuing their same-state rivalry

by whatilearned October 10, 2022, 7:14 am

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TIL Newton’s phrase about standing on the shoulders of giants dates back to at least 1159. John of Salisbury wrote then that “we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.”

by whatilearned September 15, 2022, 5:48 am

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TIL that the San Francisco Giants installed Wi-Fi throughout all of what was then SBC Park…back in 2004!

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 10:40 pm

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TIL hydrogen cyanide, more commonly know as Zyklon B, has been detected in the interstellar medium (space) and in the atmospheres of red giants.

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 6:35 am

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What do giants and strippers have in common?

by cringeyjokesman July 10, 2022, 11:12 pm

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What do you call a fear of giants?

by cringeyjokesman May 20, 2022, 3:57 pm

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TIL Eurypterids, an order of arthropods completely wiped out by the world’s biggest mass extinction, were scorpion-like giants that could reach almost ten feet in length.

by whatilearned March 16, 2022, 2:44 am

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