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TIL about Irving Thalberg, known as the Boy Wonder his films were the first to carve out an international market and set the path for making Hollywood the center of the largest movie industry in the world. He achieved all this before his death at 37.

by whatilearned May 31, 2023, 11:08 pm

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TIL that the world’s largest Lego Titanic replica was built over an eleven month period by a ten-year-old autistic boy from Iceland.

by whatilearned May 30, 2023, 12:11 am

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TIL Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines is the largest U.S. military cemetery overseas. The cemetery covers 152 acres, contains 17,206 graves, and has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II.

by whatilearned May 29, 2023, 5:07 pm

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TIL Oregon’s largest coastal city has only 16,000 residents, despite there being 4.2m people in the state and over 350 miles of coastline

by whatilearned May 25, 2023, 10:19 pm

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TIL that the largest spider in the world, the Goliath Bird Eater, is edible and has been described as “shrimp-like”

by whatilearned May 20, 2023, 10:31 pm

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TIL that the largest cavalry charge in history occurred during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, when the combined forces of the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth used 18,000 horseman in their attack on Ottoman forces.

by whatilearned May 20, 2023, 10:01 am

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TIL before Playtex became one of the largest manufacturers of tampons, they made space suits for the Apollo mission.

by whatilearned May 20, 2023, 7:40 am

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TIL: The May 18, 1980 Mount St Helens eruption caused the largest landslide in recorded history.

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 7:05 pm

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TIL southern US cities tend to have really large areas inflating their populations. If Newark, NJ expanded and absorbed the surrounding areas in NJ to be the same area as Houston (4th largest US city) Newark would have a larger population than LA.

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 5:39 pm

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TIL After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on Earth. If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world with up to 2.8bn tonnes, surpassed only by China and the US. [2018 numbers]

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 4:55 pm

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TIL The largest blackout in history left over 620 million people without power in 2012. Despite affecting 9% of the world’s population, the blackout was entirely within the country of India.

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 2:09 pm

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TIL Puck, a male budgie, holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any bird, at 1,728 words

by whatilearned May 17, 2023, 7:32 pm

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