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Did you ever have an experience in which someone who was deeply cruel to you for no reason and had a profound impact on your life got away with it? How did you recover?

by QuestionGuy January 25, 2022, 5:40 am

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TIL in Belgium and France, Farmers still recover tens of thousands of unexploded shells and ordinance From WW1 that get pushed up by normal ground shifting (frost thrust, etc) and plowed up in farming fields. They call it “The Iron Harvest”. They expect this to continue for hundreds of years.

by whatilearned January 23, 2022, 6:02 am

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TIL hospital patients recover quicker when they are able to see a park/vegetation from their window

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 12:07 am

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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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How do you recover from being a toxic person?

by QuestionGuy October 26, 2021, 2:52 pm

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TIL: Children exhibit a more comparable neuromuscular fatigue profile to endurance athletes than untrained adults. They have fatigue-resistant muscles and they recover faster than adults. Much of this stems from the levels of uptake and distribution of oxygen and how they synergize energy faster.

by whatilearned October 20, 2021, 10:44 am

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What is a piece of lost media not even the internet can recover??

by QuestionGuy September 20, 2021, 5:56 am

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TIL that when Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Olympics over Athens, Greek media blamed a conspiracy organized by Coca-Cola. Bottles of Coke were poured into the sewers of Athens in protest, and Coke’s Greek market share took years to recover.

by whatilearned September 17, 2021, 12:08 pm

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Weird, cryptic website that i can’t find on the web anymore. I found it randomly as a kid and never knew what it was. It was made up of lines and lines of binary code. I never analysed it and since 5-6 years or so I can’t find it. It there a way to recover its content? I tried Waybackmachine.

by ProgrammerDude September 15, 2021, 12:43 pm

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TIL that a dog named Pickles helped recover the stolen Jules Rimet Trophy while on a walk with his owner, four months prior to the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He was eventually invited to the celebrations when England won the tourney.

by whatilearned September 3, 2021, 3:53 pm

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TIL of Encephalitis lethargica, that attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless. Between 1915 and 1926 around 5M cases and 1.6M deaths globally. Only a handfull since. Those who didn’t die, didn’t recover either. We don’t know the cause.

by whatilearned August 23, 2021, 4:17 pm

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TIL after ZZ Top’s exhausting first major tour, the band went on a long hiatus to recover. When the band finally reconvened after two years of relaxing and decompressing, the two guitarists discovered they had both separately let themselves go and grown long thick beards.

by whatilearned July 28, 2021, 7:52 pm

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