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check your Adam’s apple before throwing stones in her glass house.

by CopyPastaArchive January 26, 2022, 11:52 am

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TIL That Hugh Glass, the main character of The Revenant, was a real person who was, in fact, mauled by a bear and then left for dead. He managed to live to tell the tale, and forgave the two men who had left him to die.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 9:11 pm

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TIL scientists have found brain tissue from AD 79 preserved as glass

by whatilearned January 20, 2022, 3:08 pm

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TIL Mozart wrote music for an instrument made of glass bowls that Benjamin Franklin helped create

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 9:03 am

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Why did the Second Italian Navy have glass bottom boats?

by cringeyjokesman December 7, 2021, 5:01 pm

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Is the Hugh Glass story of surviving a Grizzly attack just a romantised story or did it really go down like it is said to have?

by HistoryBuff December 3, 2021, 1:34 pm

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TIL French King Charles VI suffered from glass delusion which is a delusion in which people believe themselves to be made of glass and thus liable to shatter. He was reported to have wrapped himself in blankets to prevent his buttocks from breaking and had iron rods put into his clothing.

by whatilearned November 30, 2021, 1:52 pm

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TIL Europe’s first beer fountain in Žalec, Slovenia was built by the town community using the tax money collected from a resident who won the Eurojackpot lottery. In the fountain, it’s possible to drink different beers from five taps with a special microchipped glass.

by whatilearned November 28, 2021, 10:01 pm

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An optimist says, “the glass is half full.” A pessimist says, “the glass is half empty.”

by cringeyjokesman November 26, 2021, 8:37 pm

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TIL that leeches were used to predict storms. This tempest prognosticator device was made up of 12 glass bottles filled with water, each with a live leech inside. If the leeches climbed up the bottles out of the water, a bell would ring to signal that a storm was coming.

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 8:50 pm

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TIL: in 2017 a group of UK students left a pineapple on an empty art exhibition table as a prank, when they returned 4 days later the pineapple had been covered in a glass display case

by whatilearned November 20, 2021, 9:58 pm

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TIFU by leaving not one – but THREE – imprints of my cock and balls on the shower glass

by CopyPastaArchive November 20, 2021, 4:20 pm

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