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If I had a quarter for every time someone over 40 told me my generation sucks…

by cringeyjokesman August 30, 2022, 10:50 pm

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If I won $1.28B, I’d give a quarter of it to charity.

by cringeyjokesman July 30, 2022, 2:15 pm

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TIL that one quarter of all the bones in an adult human are located in our feet. There are 26 bones per foot, and a total of 206 bones in an adult human.

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 2:03 pm

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Today I learned, a whale shark’s diet consists of very small prey, because it’s throat is about as narrow as a quarter.

by whatilearned June 29, 2022, 5:06 am

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TIL that A&Ws “Third of a pound burger” failed against McDonalds “Quarter Pounder”, because audiences struggled with fractions and only saw “3 is smaller than 4”

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 8:09 pm

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TIL In the 1980s, A&W tried to compete with McDonald’s Quarter Pounder by selling a 1/3 pound burger at the same cost. The product failed because most customers thought that the quarter pounder was bigger.

by whatilearned June 2, 2022, 3:06 am

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TIL there is a neutron star that spins 716 times a second meaning the star’s equator moves at one quarter the speed of light. That’s a rotation of 43,000 miles (70,000km) per second.

by whatilearned May 10, 2022, 4:34 pm

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TIL that the naval ensign of the Indian Navy continues to contain the flag of England (Cross of St George) defaced with India’s national flag as a canton (in the upper left quarter).

by whatilearned May 1, 2022, 8:41 am

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TIL that after McDonald’s introduced the Quarter Pounder in 1971, A&W tried to compete with a “Third-of-a-Pound Burger” for the same price. When it failed, market research revealed that many American customers believed a third of a pound of meat was less than a quarter of a pound, and felt cheated.

by whatilearned April 26, 2022, 8:56 am

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TIL something called the “beer mile” exists, where runners must drink a pint of beer for every quarter mile ran. Other variations include a pint of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream for 4 miles, as well as a variation in which runners must solve a rubix cube along with each beer for their mile.

by whatilearned April 17, 2022, 10:29 pm

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TIL Xi’an, the ancient city in the Northwest China that used to be the capital for many medieval Chinese dynasties (also appears in the Chinese classic “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”), has now a Muslim quarter and a sizable Muslim population. 3 percent of Chinese population are Muslims.

by whatilearned February 28, 2022, 9:57 pm

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TIL one quarter of the world’s hazelnut production is used just to make Nutella.

by whatilearned February 17, 2022, 3:20 pm

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