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TIL that Tetanus antitoxin is obtained from the blood serum of horses previously inoculated with tetanus toxoid.

by whatilearned January 15, 2022, 1:07 am

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TIL Modern cultivated apples (Malus domestica) trace their roots to Kazakhstan, specifically the region near the city of Almaty, previously named Alma-Ata or “father of apples.”

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 11:45 pm

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TIL on December 28 1983, Dennis Wilson, co-founder and drummer of the Beach Boys, drowned at Marina Del Rey after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover his ex-wife’s belongings, previously thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier amidst their divorce.

by whatilearned November 30, 2021, 1:59 am

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TIL that in 1983, 2 episodes of the previously all missing 12 part Dr Who serial “The Daleks’ Master Plan” were discovered in a Mormon church.

by whatilearned October 5, 2021, 5:30 pm

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TIL that the Red Deer Cave people were anatomically similar to Homo erectus (which lived approximately 1.5 million years ago) but their fossils, found in an isolated region in China, are only about 11,000 years old, suggesting archaic humans survived much longer than previously known

by whatilearned October 5, 2021, 12:36 am

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How do you all react to hearing something you consider an inaccuracy or oversimplification in a podcast you had previously considered high quality?

by HistoryBuff September 27, 2021, 4:13 pm

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TIL The Vatican has its own telescope staffed by priests, and has previously been given awards for the pursuit of scientific research.

by whatilearned September 22, 2021, 11:59 am

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TIL grasses evolved only 55-66 million years ago. Only the very last dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period experienced grass; plains and prairies were previously covered in ferns.

by whatilearned September 1, 2021, 4:19 pm

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Researchers have found the remains of a teenager who died 7,200 years ago, revealing a group of humans previously unknown to science

by HistoryBuff August 27, 2021, 12:14 pm

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TIL that the nine-spotted ladybug, previously widespread across the North American continent, has become rare across its native range due in part to the human introduction of non-native, invasive ladybug species.

by whatilearned August 25, 2021, 5:53 pm

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TIL current popular pornstar Jada Kai was previously an Olympic level figure skater in her teens and twenties, real name Melissa Bulanhagui

by whatilearned August 20, 2021, 8:26 am

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TIL that Bethesda filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros.’ Westworld mobile game copying the code of the Fallout Shelter mobile game when a bug in the Westworld game was found, which is the exact same bug as the one that the Fallout Shelter game previously had

by whatilearned August 6, 2021, 2:27 am

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