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TIL during the Dust Bowl, the US government launched dynamite into the sky in order to provoke clouds into producing rain

by whatilearned January 18, 2022, 1:21 am

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TIL Florentine society during Renaissance tacitly accepted male homosexuality but had a rigid rule: passive/receptive partner must be under 20 years of age while active partner had to be older (20s or early 30s). Reversing those roles was considered shocking and a deviation from the “natural order.”

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 5:47 pm

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TIL that the Indonesian Army nearly conducted an amphibious landing in Somalia in order to free the crew of an Indonesian cargo ship captured by pirates. The plan was never executed because the pirates were all killed by Indonesian Special Forces and the hostages freed before they made it to shore.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 12:22 pm

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TIL the famous secret society Hermetic order of the Golden town had a four player chess variant called Enochian Chess.Wife of william Butler Yeats played the game during her occult days.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 9:50 am

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TIL in 1983 Russia, thinking the US was attacking them, shot down a Korean passenger plane that had inadvertently entered their airspace. Due to this, Ronald Reagan made an executive order that GPS, owned by USA, be made available for civilian use to prevent such confusion happening again.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 1:18 am

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TIL Jerry Orbach, who played Lennie Briscoe on the original Law & Order and voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast, was diagnosed with cancer less than 2 years into Law & Order. Despite being diagnosed more than a decade before his death, his disease was not publicly known until weeks before death.

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 2:49 am

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TIL the Great cheese riot of 1766 was a reaction to inflated cheese prices. The mayor tried to restore order but was knocked down by a cheese. The military were called & shots were fired, killing one man. He’d been guarding his cheeses

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 10:02 am

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Muslims and Jews of Reddit, would you ever get an organ transplant from a pig if you had to in order to live? Why or why not?

by QuestionGuy January 11, 2022, 10:03 pm

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TIL that for nearly six hundred years, the largest encyclopedia on Earth was organized based on a rhyme scheme, rather than by subject or alphabetical order.

by whatilearned January 10, 2022, 7:39 pm

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You are now in control of a duck army, what is your first order?

by QuestionGuy January 10, 2022, 2:28 am

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TIL The average person lives 79 years, which means in order to read every book in the world right now, not even counting the new ones that will be released, you’d have to read about 1,721,519 books a year.

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 2:33 am

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Nagito Komaeda places a Pizza Hut order

by CopyPastaArchive December 10, 2021, 8:11 pm

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