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TIL the Beechcraft Bonanza, a v-tail light aircraft, was known as colloquially the “forked-tail doctor killer”, due to the high number of crashes by overconfident wealthy amateur pilots

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 10:58 pm

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TIL that Norway wants to limit the number of Swedish Reindeer allowed to cross the border

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 1:00 am

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TIL: In 1967, the FCC met with AT&T to establish 911 as the official emergency number of the United States. They needed a unique number, and since 911 had never been designated for an office code, area code or service code, that was the number they chose.

by whatilearned January 20, 2022, 1:49 am

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TIL After conservative activist Mary Whitehouse successfully campainged to stop Alice Cooper’s ‘School’s Out’ being shown on the BBC music show ‘Top of the Pops’, Cooper sent her a bunch of flowers, since he believed the publicity helped the song to reach number one.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 1:25 am

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TIL in 1964 The Beatles held the number one spot for the most popular song in America for an astonishing 14 consecutive weeks (Feb 1 to May 2) with I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, and Can’t Buy Me Love. They had three more number one singles later in the year.

by whatilearned January 18, 2022, 5:29 pm

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TIL that Logic’s song ‘1800-273-8255’ saved hundreds of lives because it is the number for the suicide prevention hotline, says study. After he performed the song in 2018 at the Grammys, suicide rates among 10-19 year olds dropped by 5.5 percent.

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 1:00 pm

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An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second one orders half a beer. The third one orders a third of a beer… And so on.

by cringeyjokesman January 11, 2022, 8:44 pm

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TIL about black MIDIs, a genre of electronic music involving piano songs containing a huge number of notes, typically in the thousands, millions, billions, or even trillions.

by whatilearned January 10, 2022, 5:11 am

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TIL At the start of “Daydream Believer”, Davy Jones says “7a”, annoyed at the number of takes before they got it right. The single was originally intended as a B side but the other track wasn’t ready. It went on to be their biggest hit.

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 1:32 am

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TIL R. Kelly produced Aaliyah’s first album, “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number”

by whatilearned December 9, 2021, 3:58 pm

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Number 8: Maggots inside Big Mac

by CopyPastaArchive December 8, 2021, 11:15 am

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Fellow Australians. Experts have attributed the increase in the number of Australians being killed by drop bears to reduction in the number of tourists traveling here, meaning drop bears no longer have access to their natural prey. What can we do about this issue?

by QuestionGuy December 8, 2021, 4:20 am

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