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People who set off fireworks before the 4th of July, why do you hate your neighbors so much?

by QuestionGuy July 4, 2022, 2:42 am

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TIL America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 6:31 am

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TIL while its location has never been set in DC canon and is based on NYC, Gotham City is traditionally set in New Jersey.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 12:41 am

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TIL that the Ignalina nuclear power plant located in eastern Lithuania is identical to the Chernobyl plant in Pripyat. The plant remained operational until 2009 and was used as the set for the HBO Chernobyl miniseries.

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 9:29 pm

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TIL in 2012 a woman high on crystal meth set fire to a Swamp Cyprus tree estimated to be 3,500 years old. The tree, nicknamed The Senator, formed part of a public park where people could admire the living treasure. It did not survive the fire.

by whatilearned June 24, 2022, 5:17 am

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The 2022 Qatar World Cup Field is Set. Which Nation Will Lift the Trophy?

by CopyPastaArchive June 18, 2022, 9:15 am

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TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the “Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands”, a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 2:32 am

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“You have a reminder set for 5pm today,” my phone said.

by cringeyjokesman June 16, 2022, 4:38 pm

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TIL the asteroid impact that caused the dinosaur extinction set 70% of the world’s forests on fire, caused tsunamis that rose to a height of 300ft (100m), and ejected 25 trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere that reduced sunlight by up to 90% for a decade.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 10:19 pm

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TIL of Mary Jane Seacole, a British -Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who set up the “British Hotel” behind the lines during the Crimean War arguably practicing nursing hygiene before Florence Nightingale

by whatilearned June 12, 2022, 9:10 pm

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TIL of the Great Wall of Vaginas. Women from all over the world volunteered to have their genitalia set in plaster and displayed anonymously. From the Author, It is not about pornography and it is not about art or titillation but to make the sexual nonsexual and the amazement of human variety.

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 1:14 pm

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A series of jokes because I never see the full set

by cringeyjokesman June 9, 2022, 12:50 am

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