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Monsoon’s origin story from metal gear rising

by CopyPastaArchive May 17, 2022, 6:45 am

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TIL that Charles Darwin often gave his old papers to his children for them to doodle on. Thus, much of what survives of his original Origin of Species manuscript represents the best of his children’s writing and drawings, rather than the best of his work.

by whatilearned March 28, 2022, 9:22 pm

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TIL of the Greek god Dionysus (created circa 1,300BC) had a mythology so similar to Jesus the two shared multiple nicknames, origin fables, death fables, “profession,” and even being “a sacred king killed and eaten in an eucharistic ritual for fecundity and purification.”

by whatilearned March 13, 2022, 11:44 pm

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TIL that the origin of the English word ‘cat’ is coming from the Late Latin word cattus, cata, catta. “Cattus” was first used at the beginning of the 6th century and is derived from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic šau, “tomcat”.

by whatilearned March 10, 2022, 10:36 pm

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sigma male origin story

by CopyPastaArchive March 4, 2022, 5:14 pm

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TIL that in Thomas More’s 1516 book “Utopia” (the origin of the word), there are no lawyers in the ideal society

by whatilearned February 23, 2022, 1:22 am

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TIL when J.R.R. Tolkien wanted to publish ‘The Hobbit’ in Germany in 1938, the Nazi publishers asked him if he was a true Aryan. He replied sarcastically “if you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.”

by whatilearned February 22, 2022, 7:56 pm

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TIL The origin of Valentine’s Day has a few very gory tales associated with it. Many believe that fixing February 14 as the date for St Valentine’s feast day was an attempt to ‘Christianise’ the pagan fertility festival of Lupercalia, dedicated to the Roman god of agriculture Faunus.

by whatilearned February 14, 2022, 1:40 pm

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Origin Of Pee?

by CopyPastaArchive February 9, 2022, 3:00 am

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TIL, despite the numerous theories, we don’t actually know the exact origin of the dollar symbol. $

by whatilearned February 8, 2022, 12:49 am

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TIL coral are actually animals, not plants, since they do not make their own food. They are the largest structures of biological origin on Earth. Most structures that we call “coral” are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps, which secrete calcium carbonate

by whatilearned February 6, 2022, 2:39 am

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TIL that the highest elevation of the city of Berlin, the Teufelsberg (Devil‘s Mountain), is not of natural origin. The 260ft tall mountain consists of the rubble and remains of the town after the bombing at the end of World War 2.

by whatilearned February 5, 2022, 4:47 pm

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