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Me: Can I not pay the speeding ticket? I’m running a marathon later.

by cringeyjokesman June 3, 2023, 1:48 pm

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TIL Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack contained death predictions of real and fictional people as a marketing trick so people would want to see the results in the next annual almanac. Franklin would sometimes include false death reports of astrologers as a running joke.

by whatilearned June 2, 2023, 11:31 am

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TIL the Ancient Olympics were held at least 293 times (1,169 years) consecutively — from 776 BC to 393 AD — nearly 10 times longer than the Modern Olympics have been running (since 1896).

by whatilearned May 25, 2023, 4:55 pm

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TIL that northwestern Africa had a river running from the Atlas Mountains to the western coast of the continent. The river dried up sometime around 5000 bc.

by whatilearned May 24, 2023, 1:12 pm

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Who tf keeps running that Jesus ad?

by QuestionGuy May 22, 2023, 9:12 am

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TIL that the longest running laboratory experiment in history, the Pitch Drop experiment, had its seventh drop fall in 1988. However, nobody witnessed it and its custodian, Professor John Mainstone, had stepped out to get a drink the moment the drop occurred.

by whatilearned May 20, 2023, 3:04 am

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A man ran into the station and asked me, “Excuse me sir, but is the train running on time?”

by cringeyjokesman May 16, 2023, 8:00 pm

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I was running down the street where the houses were numbered, 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, and 1MB.

by cringeyjokesman May 15, 2023, 11:48 pm

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What did the fish say after running into a wall?

by cringeyjokesman May 11, 2023, 1:22 am

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TIL that Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell, who opened the first Taco Bell in 1962, after previously running taco stands called Taco Tia and El Taco. The original walk-up window location served tostadas, burritos, frijoles, chiliburgers, and tacos, all for 19 cents.

by whatilearned May 8, 2023, 2:48 pm

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TIL the German word “Torschlusspanik” roughly translates as “the fear of being left outside after the gates close at night.” It is used metaphorically to describe the unsettling feeling that time is running out to do the things you want to in life, akin to the American “midlife crisis.”

by whatilearned April 29, 2023, 8:58 pm

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TIL Bull Running was a popular and common occurance in English towns, more so than Spain, until it was outlawed in 1835 due to the death and disorder it caused

by whatilearned April 29, 2023, 9:44 am

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