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TIL The bones of the fallen soldiers at Waterloo were exhumed from mass graves, ground down into bone-meal and used in the production of sugar at nearby sugar manufacturing plants. Also bones of the fallen were commonly ground into bone-meal and used as fertilizer.

by whatilearned September 12, 2022, 12:42 pm

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TIL about Volcanoville, California which got its name from miners’ mistaken belief that a nearby mountain was an extinct volcano.

by whatilearned September 11, 2022, 6:37 pm

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TIL since 2004 the residents of La California, a town in Italy, have held farcical ballots for the United States presidential elections. Although votes cast by La California residents do not count, they still send the result of each election to the nearby US consulate in Florence

by whatilearned August 10, 2022, 3:15 pm

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TIL the original signed manuscripts of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto were nearly lost in WWII when being transported for safekeeping to Prussia by train in the care of a librarian. The train came under aerial bombardment and the librarian escaped to a nearby forest with the scores hidden in his coat.

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 4:03 pm

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TIL that in 13th century China, Zhao Rukuo wrote a book named Zhu Fan Zhi, which provided details of different cultures the Chinese traded with, from nearby Asian lands up to Sicily

by whatilearned July 31, 2022, 1:57 am

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TIL about Jeff the Sea Lion who went over Niagara Falls in 1963. Jeff, who escaped from nearby Marineland of Canada, was eventually captured a few days later “sunning” on a rock with a teenager, Tommy Haines. Tommy was rewarded $50 for the successful capture.

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 3:37 pm

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TIL that a 2019 study showed that evening primrose plants can “hear” the sound of a buzzing bee nearby and produce sweeter nectar in response to it.

by whatilearned July 3, 2022, 8:02 pm

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TIL that Joshua Thompson sued Michigan AMC movie theater over the high price of concession snacks. He claims he used to take his snacks until the theater banned the practice. Thompson paid $8 for a soda and packet of Goobers, but he spent less than $3 for the same at a drug store nearby.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 5:47 pm

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TIL about Canada’s amazing iceberg alley where about 400,000 icebergs per year float past a nearby village

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 6:51 pm

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TIL that the Shawnigan Cataractes derive their name from Shawnigan Falls, a nearby waterfall, as Cataracte is French for cataract as in a waterfall.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 1:52 am

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TIL that Ford Heights, IL was renamed in an attempt to persuade the nearby Ford plant to be within their corporate limits, but the plant was incorporated into an adjacent city (Chicago Heights) instead.

by whatilearned May 17, 2022, 3:26 am

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An Egyptian prince bathes in a nearby river to avoid the reality of his father’s recent death…

by cringeyjokesman May 6, 2022, 3:31 pm

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