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TIL Marine Electric sank in 1983 and 31 of its crew died but 3 survived for 90 minutes in frigid water. The wreck led to a number of reforms such as more stringent coast guard inspections of ships, mandatory survival suits for north atlantic runs and the famous US coast guard rescue swimmer program

by whatilearned September 6, 2022, 2:28 am

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TIL about the classical period of witch hunts in early modern europe and colonial america took place around 1450 to 1750.Modern scholarly estimates place the total number of executions for witchcraft in the 300-year period of European witch-hunts in the five digits b/w 35000 to 50000

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 4:44 pm

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TIL the phone number of the very first house to have a residential phone line installed was “1.”

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 12:17 am

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enough of these stupid-ass sex questions. what’s your favorite number and why?

by QuestionGuy August 30, 2022, 12:29 am

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TIL that the 1980-90’s era hockey player Wayne Gretzky was so incredibly dominant at the game that out of respect for his achievements the league prevents all players today from using the same jersey number that he wore.

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 8:04 pm

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TIL about radar notes which are bank notes containing a palindromic serial number

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 3:11 am

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TIL that between 2004 and 2017, the number of U.S. men who read for pleasure dropped by 40%, women by 29%.

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 2:02 am

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I am a straight guy and I have been wearing women’s panties for a number of years.

by CopyPastaArchive August 27, 2022, 9:18 pm

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An unemployed guy sees an ad in the paper that says “Photographer wanted for Miami-based luxury bikini line”. Thinking it to be a joke, the guy calls the number in the ad.

by cringeyjokesman August 27, 2022, 6:39 pm

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Every binary number from 0 ti 1023

by CopyPastaArchive August 25, 2022, 10:19 pm

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TIL that the fibonacci sequence can approximately convert miles to kilometers. Select any two adjacent numbers from the series e.g. 8 and 13. Assuming smaller number is in miles & larger number is in kilometers. 1 Miles = 1.60934 Kilometer, 8 Miles = 8 * 1.60934 = 12.8747 Km ≈ 13 Km, so 8M ≈ 13Km

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 7:12 pm

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My girlfriend from college was obsessed with trying to find the largest known prime number.

by cringeyjokesman August 23, 2022, 12:20 am

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