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The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe

by HistoryBuff August 24, 2022, 6:56 am

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TIL that Saudi Arabia is planning to construct a 1600 ft tall, 75 mile long skyscraper in their arid Northwest region at an estimated cost of $100-$200 billion

by whatilearned July 23, 2022, 10:19 pm

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TIL In 2009, two Northwest pilots had their licenses revoked (for at least one year) after they overflew the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport by 150 miles and had to turn around. Pilots said that they were using their laptops in the cockpit and lost track of time and place.

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 4:25 pm

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TIL Xi’an, the ancient city in the Northwest China that used to be the capital for many medieval Chinese dynasties (also appears in the Chinese classic “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”), has now a Muslim quarter and a sizable Muslim population. 3 percent of Chinese population are Muslims.

by whatilearned February 28, 2022, 9:57 pm

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TIL Washington State’s largest food bank, Northwest Harvest, was forced to relocate after the landowner, Trinity Parish Church, planned to demolish the site and build a 30-story tower to fund church renovations.

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 2:38 pm

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Researchers have investigated a unique leather scale armor found in the tomb of a horse rider in Northwest China. Design and construction details of the armor indicate that it originated in the Neo-Assyrian Empire between the 6th and 8th century BCE before being brought to China

by HistoryBuff December 9, 2021, 12:08 am

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TIL The Pacific Northwest is due for a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that would displace millions

by whatilearned December 5, 2021, 12:13 pm

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TIL: Northwest Angle, MN was created when map maker, John Mitchell miscalculated the source of the Mississippi being the Lake of The Woods.

by whatilearned November 29, 2021, 6:05 am

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TIL During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, 6 analysts examined 3000 feet of reconnaissance film in the National Photographic Interpretation Center, a secret facility that occupied the upper floor of a Ford dealership in a derelict block at Fifth and K streets in Northwest Washington, D.C.

by whatilearned November 22, 2021, 5:53 pm

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TIL: There is an area in MN, USA where residence have to pass through the Canadian border twice to get to mainland US. “Surrounded on 3 sides by Canada, U.S. residents of Northwest Angle learn to live with odd geographic reality”

by whatilearned October 20, 2021, 1:08 am

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TIL orcas have specialized cultures who hunt differently. In the Pacific Northwest resident orcas feed on salmon and communicate freely, transient orcas feed on marine mammals using stealth, and offshore orcas may feed on sharks. Although the same species, no interbreeding has been observed.

by whatilearned October 13, 2021, 6:51 am

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TIL that a breed of wool dogs existed on the pacific northwest coast. Indigenous people would keep the dogs isolated on small islands to prevent inter breeding with hunting dogs. The wool dogs were cared for and feed a rich diet of seafood to produce strong yarn to make blankets from.

by whatilearned May 23, 2021, 6:15 am

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