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TIL Momma bears are so protective of their young they’ll actively seek out human occupied areas because they know male bears, who would want to kill their cubs to increase the chances they mate with them, will avoid human contact.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 3:26 pm

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TIL that the United States has offered to purchase Greenland from Denmark twice, once in 1946 and again in 2019 due to its strategic location in the Arctic, the U.S. also occupied the island during WW2 from 1940-45 after the fall of Denmark and constructed Thule Air Base.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 12:23 am

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TIL just after WW2, the US occupied two provinces of Northern China with 50,000 marines to repatriate the 600,000+ Japanese soldiers and Korean conscripts still in China after the war since neither Japan nor either side of the Chinese Civil War were logistically capable of doing so at the time.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 11:59 am

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A man steps into an elevator occupied by a young woman…

by cringeyjokesman May 28, 2022, 1:48 am

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What did the sailor do when all of the bathrooms were occupied?

by cringeyjokesman May 17, 2022, 3:10 pm

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A while back when I was still in the Philippines I knocked on an occupied stall and was responded back in filipino I told the gentleman that I only spoke English, but I understood the message and backed off He yelled, in english, “You have any pisos on you, Joe? Seeing a Bakla in a private stall

by CopyPastaArchive May 10, 2022, 11:58 am

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TIL that the Aboriginal people of Australia have occupied the land for more than 60,000 years.

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 1:21 am

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TIL of Canada’s smallest municipality, Notre-Dame-des-Anges. It is entirely occupied by a hospital.

by whatilearned March 28, 2022, 3:23 am

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TIL the Double Sunrise are the longest commercial aircraft flights in history. Flown by Qantas during WWII between Western Australia and Sri Lanka through Japanese occupied territory, each flight lasted over 27 hours. Passengers would see two sunrises while airborne

by whatilearned March 15, 2022, 5:19 pm

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TIL that polar explorer Ernest Shackleton is buried in Grytviken, a settlement on the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Sea. The settlement has a population of 3, but is only occupied in the summer.

by whatilearned March 9, 2022, 10:23 pm

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TIL of XU, an intelligence agency that operated in Norway while it was occupied by the Nazis. Despite consisting of students at the University of Oslo and regular Norwegian workers, XU was able to survive being targeted by the Gestapo. The existence of XU was kept secret from the public till 1980.

by whatilearned February 2, 2022, 5:21 pm

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TIL Taras Shevchenko was born a serf in 1814 occupied Ukraine, became an orphan at 12, bought his freedom with a help of a famous painter who recognized Shevchenko’s talent, and rose to become the most famous Ukrainian poet and painter with unmatched cultural significance for the Ukrainian nation.

by whatilearned January 31, 2022, 9:39 pm

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