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TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’

by whatilearned March 24, 2023, 1:49 pm

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TIL IBM made the punch card systems the Nazi’s used to catalog people who were sent to the camps. Anyone who had a number tattoo was most likely assigned it from an IBM punch card system.

by whatilearned March 24, 2023, 2:52 am

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TIL that a fire destroyed most of Harvard Library’s collection in 1764. Only a small number of books were spared, including 144 that were checked out at the time. One of these books was found and returned in 1997!

by whatilearned March 23, 2023, 6:53 pm

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TIL that no centipede naturally has exactly 100 legs. A quirk in their development means each centipede has an odd number of body segments, making 50 pairs of legs impossible.

by whatilearned March 20, 2023, 3:28 am

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TIL what it was like for a family in 1982 whose home phone number was 867-5309 when Tommy Tutone’s 867-5309/Jenny song became a hit: They had a lot of phone calls asking for Jenny

by whatilearned March 18, 2023, 7:16 pm

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I asked a Chinese girl for her number.

by cringeyjokesman March 18, 2023, 11:52 am

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What number of sexual partners would put you off a potential partner?

by QuestionGuy March 16, 2023, 11:29 am

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PSA: We are rapidly running out of usable timelines, please limit the number of decisions you make.

by CopyPastaArchive March 15, 2023, 1:50 pm

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TIL about Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who not only popularised the use of lower case Pi to denote the ratio of a circle’s circumference to it’s diameter, but was also the first to use “i” to denote the square root of -1. The constant “e”, the base number in a natural logarithm is the Euler Number

by whatilearned March 6, 2023, 4:46 am

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Why do all the other number work to keep 8 awake?

by cringeyjokesman March 4, 2023, 12:39 pm

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TIL Crypto.com mistakenly sent a customer $10.5 million instead of an $100 refund by typing the account number as the refund amount. It took Crypto.com 7 months to notice the mistake, they are now suing the customer

by whatilearned March 2, 2023, 1:15 pm

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What is your favorite movie with a number in the title?

by QuestionGuy February 27, 2023, 10:52 pm

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