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TIL that one of the worst droughts in recorded history occurred in Texas during the 1950’s. Huge lakes and rivers dried up completely, grass nearly died out leading to massive dust storms, and 50% of Texas’ farming industry was dead by the end of the decade.

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 8:19 pm

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TIL of the first worldwide manhunt in recorded history: In 1695, English “King of pirates” Henry Every led the most profitable pirate raid in history, capturing a Mughal ship containing jewels worth £97.1 million today. This resulted in an unprecedented £1.000,- bounty, which was never collected.

by whatilearned August 5, 2022, 9:36 am

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TIL that the largest recorded temperature change over a 24 hour period occurred in Loma, Montana in 1972. It was -54 degrees Fahrenheit at 9 AM on January 14th, and 49 degrees Fahrenheit at 8 AM on January 15th. This was an overall rise of 103 degrees Fahrenheit (57.2 degrees Celsius).

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 10:35 pm

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TIL the “red zone and white zone” announcements at the beginning of “Airplane!” were performed by the same real-life married couple that recorded similar announcements at LAX around the time of the film’s release.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 5:37 am

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TIL: About the 1998 Balleny Island earthquake, the largest recorded earthquake to strike Antarctica

by whatilearned July 31, 2022, 9:20 pm

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TIL: The earliest recorded famine which occurred in Egypt in 3500 BC was preserved visually in a relief that survives on the causeway of the Fifth-Dynasty Pyramid of Unas in Sakkara

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 8:45 pm

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TIL the marriage between Luisa de Abrego, a free black domestic servant from Seville and Miguel Rodríguez, a white Segovian conquistador in 1565 in St. Augustine (Spanish Florida), is the first known and recorded Christian marriage anywhere in the continental United States.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 1:08 pm

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TIL that the song “Muskrat Love” was not originally by The Captain and Tennille. It was originally recorded by the band America, who are best known for the song A Horse With No Name.

by whatilearned July 28, 2022, 3:35 am

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How come China, a patriarchal society, had recorded more remarkable women than the Roman Empire?

by HistoryBuff July 21, 2022, 9:44 am

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TIL The ancient Egyptians believed that the heart recorded all of the good and bad deeds of a person’s life, and was needed for judgment in the afterlife. After death, the heart was weighed against the feather of Maat. If a person had led an unjust life, their heart was too heavy to enter paradise

by whatilearned July 20, 2022, 11:24 pm

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TIL Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII first wife, gave birth to three male heirs. In 1511, she gave birth to Henry; the child only lived for 52 days . Her pregnancies in 1513 and 1514 were recorded as stillborn boys. Her only child to reach adulthood was Queen Mary.

by whatilearned July 19, 2022, 7:23 pm

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TIL of Douglas Adams’s posthumous role as Agrajag in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series. Adams never recorded the lines for Agrajag and was dead by the time the BBC revived the series. Agrajag’s lines are actually clips from Adams’s reading of his books, recorded many years before.

by whatilearned July 17, 2022, 2:58 pm

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