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TIL Brad Pitt became persona non grata (a foreign person whose entering or remaining in a particular country is prohibited by that country’s government), in the People’s Republic of China after he appeared in the 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet.

by whatilearned February 8, 2023, 1:19 pm

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TIL that the Sea Peoples were a group of sea-based raiders centered around the Mediterranean who contributed to the Bronze Age Collapse by attacking many of the major empires of the time including the Egyptians and Hittites. Today few records remain about them despite their massive impact.

by whatilearned February 8, 2023, 2:39 am

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TIL in 1947, the Canadian town of Snag, Yukon, saw a temperature of -83F (-64C). It was so cold, you could hear people speaking 4 miles away, along with other phenomena such as people’s breath turning to powder and falling straight to the ground and river ice booming like gu shots.

by whatilearned January 29, 2023, 2:42 am

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what songs can you get stuck in people’s head by just saying one line?

by QuestionGuy January 16, 2023, 8:17 pm

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TIL of the Nama people’s wedding ritual. To begin the groom is questioned about the bride including how to identify her body marks. If the bride is pregnant from her future husband or someone else, the bride is subjected to the “door cleansing” ceremony: slaughtering and consuming a snow-white goat

by whatilearned January 14, 2023, 4:23 am

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What do you only find in white people’s houses?

by QuestionGuy January 12, 2023, 5:59 am

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[Serious] What’s something(s) politicians could do that would drastically improve ordinary people’s lives?

by QuestionGuy January 11, 2023, 5:36 pm

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The Birth of the Soviet Union and the Death of the Russian Revolution. The Russian Revolution promised—and for a time delivered—freedom to the peoples of the Tsarist Empire. That freedom ended with the creation of the USSR.

by HistoryBuff December 21, 2022, 10:02 pm

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TIL: Obese people’s cremations can cause grease fires…

by whatilearned December 21, 2022, 7:05 am

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TIL about a Chinese man named Zhao C (赵Ｃ), who was forced to change his name when he was 22 years old because it included a Latin character, which is not “part of the national standard for “numbers and symbols” of the People’s Republic of China”

by whatilearned December 14, 2022, 2:49 am

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TIL : That until 1978, the Mormon church owned hospitals that kept blood donations separated by race, so white members would not receive black people’s blood, disqualify them from the priesthood.

by whatilearned December 12, 2022, 1:51 am

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What kind of peoples mindsets outright infuriate you?

by QuestionGuy December 6, 2022, 7:35 pm

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