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TIL With the 1971 first encounter with the Tasaday people in the Philippines, western anthropologists became suspicious. Living with limited technology and stone tools, they appeared so close to the stone-age stereotype that anthropologists began suspecting them of being an elaborate hoax

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 4:39 pm

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TIL about the M-185 highway circling the Michigan island of Mackinac Island, known for being the only state highway that bans all motor vehicles. Exceptional, limited permits are occasionally given, which caused its first and only car accident in 2005, when a fire truck lightly damaged an ambulance.

by whatilearned August 10, 2022, 12:50 pm

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TIL – The Dodge Viper was discontinued in 2017 not due to low sales numbers, but because side curtain airbags were starting to be required. The SRT team felt it would have been too expensive, needing a redesigned chassis and significantly reducing its already limited headroom.

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 2:31 am

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TIL that during the American Civil War, the Union regularly cracked the Confederacy’s coded messages because the Confederacy relied on a limited number of key phrases for encrypting their messages, one of which was “Complete Victory”.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 3:10 am

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[Serious] Who would your true-self be if you weren’t limited by societal norms?

by QuestionGuy June 11, 2022, 1:01 pm

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What are some unknown/forgotten/obscure modern (post world war 2) wars and conflicts? Like, so obscure that it doesn’t have a Wikipedia article, only has limited to no representation in international media, has little photographic/videographic content relating to it, so on and so forth.

by HistoryBuff June 6, 2022, 2:03 am

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TIL On Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, astronauts had to do everything in their seats beside their crewmates due to limited space, including eating, sleeping, and toilet

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 8:07 am

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TIL the director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) limited the quantity of onscreen gore in hopes of securing a PG rating, but the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rated it an R.

by whatilearned May 6, 2022, 4:24 am

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TIL despite their small land area and limited space the Netherlands are the 2nd largest food exporter in the world because of their efficient methods of modern farming

by whatilearned April 27, 2022, 10:10 pm

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I finally bought the limited edition Thesaurus that I’ve always wanted, but when I opened it, all the pages were blank.

by cringeyjokesman April 22, 2022, 10:29 am

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TIL Tobe Hooper, director of the 1974 movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre, hoped for a rating of “PG” due to the “limited amount of gore”.

by whatilearned April 2, 2022, 4:55 pm

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TIL the Royal Canadian Mint was making limited silver coins in the shapes of dinosaurs

by whatilearned March 17, 2022, 11:10 am

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