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How come our mouth and eyes aren’t included with health insurance in America?

by QuestionGuy January 19, 2022, 10:37 pm

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TIL that there is an action figure from the Rocky franchise called “The Meat” – the frozen meat that Rocky punched to train. It’s literally just a 6 inch plastic slab of meat on a meat-hook. Also included is a white blood-stained slaughterhouse coat.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 8:50 pm

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TIL The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (video game) came with “feelies” which included an Official Microscopic Space Fleet (an empty plastic bag)

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 5:34 am

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TIL the Toblerone bar was invented as a meal replacement for mountaineers, and the original recipe included dried bear meat. This was replaced with almond nougat in 1970 when the brand sought to break into the international candy market.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 3:03 am

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If we taught our kids that we’re not all good and other countries are not all bad, maybe we’ll build a level of understanding & acceptance in the minds of our children. What is the one atrocity that your country / people have committed that you’d want included in grade school history books?

by QuestionGuy November 25, 2021, 2:56 pm

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TIL The voice cast of the villains in the 90’s cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers included Martin Sheen, Meg Ryan, Jeff Goldblum, Ed Asner, Sting, Malcolm McDowell, Tim Curry, and John Rattzenberger with Whoopi Goldberg as the voice of Gaia the spirt of the planet.

by whatilearned November 24, 2021, 4:40 pm

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TIL that leftist mural artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint a mural in the lobby of Rockefeller Center. His mural included a portrait of Lenin, leading the Rockefellers to cancel the commission and destroy the unfinished mural. Rivera later recreated the piece in Mexico.

by whatilearned November 22, 2021, 4:53 pm

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TIL that in 1987 107 people in Canada suffered from amnesiac shellfish poisoning after eating contaminated mussels. Symptoms included diarrhea, cramps and, permanent short term memory loss.

by whatilearned November 15, 2021, 12:34 pm

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TIL that in 1924, a tunnel network was discovered underneath Washington D.C. Speculation behind the network’s origins included a Confederate hideout or a liquor depot for bootleggers; they were actually dug by the Smithsonian Institute’s entomologist Harrison G. Dyar, who ‘did it for exercise’.

by whatilearned November 15, 2021, 11:38 am

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TIL that in 2011, Lawrence Brewer, an inmate on death row, requested a last meal that included a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a meat-lover’s pizza, a pound of barbecue, and two steaks. When it arrived, he said “he wasn’t hungry” — prompting officials to abolish last meals for death row inmates.

by whatilearned November 9, 2021, 7:08 pm

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TIL that in 1977, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop released ‘Death & Horror’, the 13th album in their ‘Sound Effects’ series. Tracks included ‘Neck Twisted and Broken’, ‘Red Hot Poker in the Eye’ and ‘Strangulation’. It became the first sound effect album to enter the Top 100 in the UK Albums Chart.

by whatilearned November 8, 2021, 4:17 pm

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TIL ancient Greek author Lucian of Samosata wrote a short novel in the 100s which included a trip to the Moon, a 200-mile-long whale with fish people living inside it, and a river of wine filled with fish and bears.

by whatilearned November 5, 2021, 2:59 am

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