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Was there ever a battle, during the American Revolutionary or Civil War, where one side set up a bunch of loaded rifles and then fired them quickly, to make the enemy think they were being attacked by a larger force?

by HistoryBuff January 21, 2022, 12:54 pm

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The Lego 9/11 Set

by CopyPastaArchive January 14, 2022, 9:37 pm

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A bra, a car battery and a set of jump leads walk in to a pub.

by cringeyjokesman January 14, 2022, 8:17 pm

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TIL during the Golden Age of Piracy, many pirates set up social safety net programs such as disability payments for injuries sustained while at sea, as well as life insurance to be paid to a pirate’s family if they died.

by whatilearned January 9, 2022, 5:07 pm

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TIL 4 Spider-Man suits were stolen from Spider-Man back in 2002. The suits cost $50,000 USD to make and Sony offered $25,000 USD for their return. It lead to a 18 month investigation, and the suits were found in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo. It was stolen by a security guard who worked on set.

by whatilearned December 13, 2021, 3:57 pm

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Python Set Operations: Complete Guide – Data Structures

by ProgrammerDude December 10, 2021, 1:41 am

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OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set sandbox launched to help security researchers

by ProgrammerDude December 9, 2021, 7:36 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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My wife told me that before I come to bed, she’d like me to start the dishwasher, set the coffee maker, and bring her some water.

by cringeyjokesman December 8, 2021, 7:29 am

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TIL: The James Webb Space Telescope set to launch on December 22nd, has 344 single point failures, all of which must work perfectly and autonomously for the telescope to work

by whatilearned December 6, 2021, 2:22 pm

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A farmer got an idea for how to make money off his farm in the off-season. He had a huge property all bounded by a big, white fence end to end. Along that fence was an old country road where few people drove. He decided he would set up a Christmas light display.

by cringeyjokesman December 6, 2021, 12:23 pm

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TIL John Leguizamo has legitimate beef with Stevan Seagal, after Seagal slammed his elbow into his neck on the set of a movie

by whatilearned December 5, 2021, 3:50 pm

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