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TIL Ty, the manufacturer of Beanie Babies, was one of the first businesses to use the internet to engage directly with its consumer market. This was a major contributing factor to the popularity of Beanie Babies.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 4:41 am

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TIL of the astronomer Percival Lowell, who achieved great fame as a science popularizer in the early 1900s despite all his major theories being wrong. His greatest scientific contribution was initiating a search for a ninth planet based on faulty data that ended up finding Pluto by coincidence.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 3:05 pm

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What sort of tattoo on someone is a major red flag for you?

by QuestionGuy January 13, 2022, 6:19 am

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TIL of Snorri Sturluson who authored the ‘Prose Edda’ which is a major source for Norse mythology today. He became a lawyer in Iceland in 1218 & was made a knight in Sweden. However, he was assassinated by agents of the King of Norway in 1241.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 12:36 pm

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Rust takes a major step forward as Linux’s second official language

by ProgrammerDude December 7, 2021, 9:09 pm

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TIL: Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States in which all the major professional teams share the same primary colors (black and gold).

by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 12:55 am

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What major historical events have you witnessed first hand?

by QuestionGuy December 4, 2021, 5:41 pm

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what major companies are really one of the good ones?

by QuestionGuy December 1, 2021, 12:08 pm

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Your username is now a major world religion. What’s it like?

by QuestionGuy November 28, 2021, 4:49 am

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TIL the Palo Verde nuclear plant in Arizona is the only nuclear plant in the world not near a major body of water. Instead its 20,000 gallons/ minute of cooling water comes from local wastewater.

by whatilearned November 27, 2021, 11:00 pm

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TIL that Simo Häyhä – a Finnish sniper who was nicknamed “The White Death” by the Russians – was credited with 500 kills in WWII, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war.

by whatilearned November 27, 2021, 3:09 am

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New Major Release for Delphi Code Analyzer v2.4 with Free Download

by ProgrammerDude November 24, 2021, 3:30 pm

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