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Message from Cairo: unique audio of original Anzac recorded during first world war

by HistoryBuff May 28, 2023, 3:43 am

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TIL that Lawrence Dallaglio, former captain of the English national team of rugby, is also a chorister on Tina Turner’s song “We don’t need another hero”. He was 12 years old, when they recorded it.

by whatilearned May 21, 2023, 8:31 pm

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The earliest recorded kiss goes back at least 4,500 years to Mesopotamia Researchers cite clay tablets and other materials that push back evidence of kissing by about 1,000 years

by HistoryBuff May 19, 2023, 11:15 am

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TIL there is no recorded case of a gorilla ever killing a human.

by whatilearned May 19, 2023, 3:44 am

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TIL Eminem owns a modestly sized recording studio in Ferndale, Michigan named Effigy, where a majority of his music since 2007 has been recorded.

by whatilearned May 19, 2023, 3:21 am

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TIL “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet” is a song known as “Like the Wind” recorded from a radio broadcast in West Germany in the early 1980s. Despite extensive searching, the band behind the song remains completely unidentified.

by whatilearned May 19, 2023, 3:10 am

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TIL: The May 18, 1980 Mount St Helens eruption caused the largest landslide in recorded history.

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 7:05 pm

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I recorded Joe Biden’s speech yesterday

by CopyPastaArchive May 17, 2023, 6:28 pm

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TIL in 2018, the 120-resident village of Acquetico in Italy installed speed cameras after being fed up with people speeding through it. In next 2 weeks, it recorded 58,500 speeding infractions.

by whatilearned May 16, 2023, 8:49 pm

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TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the continental US occurred in New Madrid, MO, in 1812. It was so violent that the shaking was felt in New York, made church bells ring in South Carolina, and made part of the Mississippi River run backwards.

by whatilearned May 16, 2023, 12:13 pm

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TIL that MLB Hall of Famer Gary Carter invented the “f-bomb” term in a 1988 Newsday story. That term would later be published in the Webster dictionary in 2012 crediting Carter for its first recorded use.

by whatilearned May 14, 2023, 8:39 pm

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TIL that when Cyclone Olivia struck Australia in 1996, an anemometer recorded a wind gust to 254 mph (408 km/hr). This is the fastest non-tornadic surface windspeed ever observed on Earth.

by whatilearned May 12, 2023, 2:34 pm

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