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TIL that millions of years ago Antarctica was once a rainforest that dinosaurs inhabited

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 6:43 pm

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TIL that VLC media player is ads-free because its creator, Jean-Baptiste Kempf refused tens of millions of dollars from big corporations in order to keep VLC ads-free

by whatilearned May 6, 2022, 11:29 am

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TIL about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, an Dutch Button salesman who in 17th Century managed to build an eyeglass 10 times more powerful than the best Microscope of the day and discovered millions of bacteria present in single drop of water He is sometimes knows as father of Microbiology

by whatilearned April 28, 2022, 12:33 pm

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TIL Dinasours have lived in another part of the galaxy. Although this news is quite old, I learned today that dinosaurs wouldn’t have even seen the stars that we see today in the sky because they didn’t exist until millions of years after the extinction event.

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 2:46 pm

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If women are really paid sustainable less money than men (considering same qualification & experience), why aren’t there a lot of companies that hire only women and save millions in personel costs?

by QuestionGuy April 15, 2022, 1:27 am

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TIL the 2004 earthquake/tsunami caused a 1,500m high ridge along the fault to collapse, generating landslides. One landslide consisted of a single block of rock some 100m high and 2 km long. The momentum of the water also dragged massive slabs of rock, each weighing millions of tons, as far as 10km.

by whatilearned March 23, 2022, 1:12 am

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TIL about the “Seven Sutherland Sisters”, a late 19th C. sideshow act who ended up making millions by using their famously long hair to market a line of quack medicine hair growth products.

by whatilearned March 21, 2022, 12:05 am

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TIL that abandoned buses from the U.S.A. are being used as public transportation in The Philippines by millions of people everyday.

by whatilearned February 28, 2022, 12:45 pm

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Where was this support towards the millions killed in the Middle East and Africa over the years?

by QuestionGuy February 27, 2022, 7:15 am

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TIL one species of redwood tree is deciduous (Loses its leaves and changes color). The Dawn Redwood was thought to be extinct for millions of years and is an endangered species.

by whatilearned February 21, 2022, 3:22 am

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TIL that famous Egyptologist Howard Carter’s gravestone has a quote from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun, an artifact that he discovered. It reads “May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness.”

by whatilearned February 16, 2022, 6:15 am

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TIL about Jerry and Marge Selbee, who were able to win millions from the Michigan and Massachusetts lotteries, due to determining a certain type of game having a positive expected value, when played correctly.

by whatilearned February 5, 2022, 2:31 pm

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