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TIL: The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, killed himself and left a note which read, “To my friends: my work is done. Why wait?”

by whatilearned January 28, 2022, 4:18 pm

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TIL Doctor Who actor Patrick Troughton left his wife months after she gave birth to their third child, to live with his girlfriend – with whom he had three children. He maintained a deception of having stayed with his original family and his own mother died unaware of the truth 24 years later

by whatilearned January 28, 2022, 4:40 am

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You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you the name of their favorite movie. You immediately left. What’s the movie?

by QuestionGuy January 27, 2022, 6:14 pm

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TIL The most expensive aircrash ever was caused when a B2 spirit was left outside in the rain. A sensor was damaged by water, causing a crash on takeoff at a cost of $1.4 billion.

by whatilearned January 27, 2022, 4:13 pm

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TIL that in 2002 Pamela Anderson contracted Hepatitis C by sharing tattoo needles with Tommy Lee and was told she would only have 10 years left to live. She was cured of the disease in 2015.

by whatilearned January 26, 2022, 5:39 am

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TIL during the French Restoration, Colonel Barbier-Dufai and Captain Raoul de Vere dueled over an insult to the latter’s cockade. After de Vere was disarmed four times they decided to tie their left arms together and stab each other to death with daggers in the back of a carriage. De Vere lost again

by whatilearned January 25, 2022, 2:33 pm

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TIL of Mary Reeser, a Florida woman in the 1950s whose death was stated to be caused by spontaneous human combustion. When police found her body, only her skull, her backbone, and her left foot in a slipper survived.

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 9:59 pm

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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: The 19th historian who published a noted history of the French Revolution as Daniel Stern was a French aristocrat and novelist, Marie d’Agoult. She left her husband for composer Franz Liszt, and her daughter left her own husband for composer Richard Wagner.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 3:43 am

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A comment someone left in an insult-fight on r/BarTardstories

by CopyPastaArchive January 20, 2022, 1:13 pm

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I left a comment on the “Safe and Sound” music video pretty much saying I liked early 2010’s pop. This was the first response. Copy of text by “-Antiheld-“

by CopyPastaArchive January 20, 2022, 1:58 am

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TIL, the library at University of Coimbra in central Portugal hosts a colony of bats. Every night, the windows of the library are left open and the bats come in to feed on insects, thereby protecting the centuries-old historic documents. Every morning, librarians clean the bats’ excrement.

by whatilearned January 20, 2022, 12:22 am

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