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TIL of the Morgenthau Plan, a post-WWII proposal for Germany by US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in which its arms and other industries would be destroyed, and the country would be partitioned. It was concluded to be unworkable and would result in 25 million Germans starving to death.

by whatilearned January 17, 2022, 2:18 pm

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TIL in 2007, São Paulo introduced the Clean City Law. The result was a near-total ban of billboards, digital signs, ostentatious business signs, and advertising on buses and taxis. It turns out that some massive billboards where hiding whole favelas that few knew existed.

by whatilearned January 10, 2022, 10:05 pm

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TIL The US is the global epicenter of tornado formation with an average of 1,200 each year. It’s the result of a unique geography that allows hot, dry air from the Southwest to flow atop moist, warm, unstable surface air east of the Rockies, with cold air at the jet-stream level overtopping it all

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 5:45 pm

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TIL Celery contains toxins called Furanocourmourans and when activated by UV light they produce chemicals that can result in severe chemical burns. Many people have a sensitivity to the low amount of these toxins in a fresh stalk, leading to a numbed mouth and throat.

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 1:30 pm

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TIL In 1956 a trader named Vince Kosuga cornered the national onion market, purchasing 30 million lbs. After dumping his stockpile it led to a public outcry, Congress passed the Onion Futures Act. As a result onions are the only commodity where the trading of futures contracts are banned.

by whatilearned December 9, 2021, 1:39 pm

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TIL the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot featured LQBTQ themes, including cross dressing, and as a result was produced without approval from the Hays Code, a popular set of self-censorship guidelines used for decades in Hollywood. The success of the film is one of the reasons behind its abandonment.

by whatilearned December 9, 2021, 11:49 am

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TIL that in 1869, physicist Ludvig Lorenz developed an equation for the relationship between the refractive index of a medium and it’s density. In 1878, unrelated physicist Hendrick Lorentz independantly discovered the same equation. The result is called the Lorentz–Lorenz equation.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 1:20 pm

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TIL the US and the British Empire almost went to war in 1859 over the death of a pig. The pig’s owner demanded a 100$ payment (3332.40$ today) and the result was almost the imprisonment of a US citizen that led to the escalation.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 2:05 am

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TIL the First and Second officers on Titanic interpreted the evacuation order differently. Murdoch took it as women and children first while Lightoller took it as women and children only. As a result only 20% men were saved in comparison to 74% women and 52% children.

by whatilearned December 4, 2021, 11:32 pm

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Nice opinion, just one tiny problem with it. Upon further inspection, it looks like your opinion is different from mine. clears throat Let me tell you something. I AM THE BASELINE FOR OPINIONS. Any opinion I hold is objectively correct & as a result any other opinions are wrong.

by CopyPastaArchive December 4, 2021, 10:16 pm

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TIL the Poinsettia we now commonly associate with winter holidays is actually native to tropical Mexico, where it grows as a shrub/small tree. Its popularity as a winter houseplant is the result of one guy’s (Paul Ecke) marketing campaign during the 1930s.

by whatilearned December 2, 2021, 9:07 pm

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TIL During Filming of “Titanic (1997)” an angry crew member put the drug PCP into the soup that James Cameron and many others ate one night in Nova Scotia. 50 people were hospitalized as a result and the person behind the poisoning was never caught.

by whatilearned November 30, 2021, 8:44 pm

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