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TIL the Chrome dinosaur game has a maximum score which is reached if you somehow play for about 17 millions years straight, which is how long the T-rex existed before they were wiped out 65 millions years ago.

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 11:59 am

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TIL: In 1793, Diego Marín Aguilera flapped the wings of his man-powered glider, reached a height of about 5m and flew over 300m before crashing because of a broken metal joint. The inhabitants of the town believed him a lunatic, heretic, or a fraud, and burned his “demonic” flapping-wing creation.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 6:42 pm

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An old man was roaming the desert when he reached a village…

by cringeyjokesman June 24, 2022, 6:01 pm

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TIL that a B29 bomber crashed in Lake Mead (Arizona/Nevada) in 1948 and it can be today reached by diving tours

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 7:27 pm

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TIL about Jean Boulet who in 1972 set the world record for the highest altitude reached in a helicopter, 40,280ft. During descent his engines failed, and he landed the helicopter without power, setting another record in the process for the highest unpowered helicopter landing.

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 4:27 am

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TIL that Simon and Garfunkel’s first single, released in 1957, gained popularity after their manager Sid Prosen bribed DJ Alan Freed to play the song on his radio show. The song, Hey Schoolgirl, gained popularity from this and reached #49 in the charts

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 9:55 pm

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TIL that a 90s Canadian action series, “Tropical Heat”, became a suprise hit in Serbia. The main character (Rob Stewart’s “Nick Slaughter”) became a hero and symbol of the 1996 opposition against Slobodan Milošević, and no one from the show was aware of the cult status it reached there until 2008.

by whatilearned April 27, 2022, 4:39 pm

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Please put NSFW tag on, last time I was on the train, and whole train of men started jerking off, now I’m on the plane and my brother took away my phone, and showed this to whole plane of men. They kept spreading it to everyone until it reached the pilot, the pilot left the steer and started jerking

by CopyPastaArchive April 27, 2022, 2:26 am

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TIL on the JH-7 fighter jet’s maiden flight (12/07/1988), its engines started vibrating so wildly that by the time it reached the airfield, none of its instruments worked anymore since their connections to the panel had all shaken loose. Nonetheless, the pilot managed to land the prototype safely.

by whatilearned April 26, 2022, 12:50 pm

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TIL that when a bee hive becomes too full, bees will form a “Senate” comprised of older, more experienced bees to seek a new location. When a bee finds a good spot, it begins dancing to motion other bees toward it. Then, they vote on it by dancing as a collective until a consensus is reached.

by whatilearned April 15, 2022, 1:31 pm

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TIL U.S. songwriter Billy Davis rewrote a UK jingle for the Coca-Cola Company. The song ‘Buy the World A Coke’ was rewritten again because people kept calling radio stations asking for the tune to be played. It subsequently became “I’d Like to Teach The World to Sing” and reached #13 on Billboard.

by whatilearned April 15, 2022, 3:08 am

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TIL that Magnus Carlsen, the world’s highest rated chess player and world chess champion since 2013, is also a prolific fantasy football player. In 2019 he briefly reached first place on the Fantasy Premier League rankings, but Carlsen believes that his success was due to a stroke of good luck.

by whatilearned April 13, 2022, 12:52 am

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