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TIL Salvador Dali designed 500 ashtrays for Air India incorporating elements of a shell, snake, elephant and a swan in its design. In return, Dali demanded a Baby Elephant as a payment.

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 1:04 am

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Call a girl beautiful thousand times and she’ll not even notice. Call a girl fat once and she’ll never forget.

by cringeyjokesman June 20, 2022, 9:55 am

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TIL Pearls are produced when an irritant such as a parasite enters a mollusc’s shell. The mollusc secretes aragonite and conchiolin that creates nacre (aka mother of pearl) which encases the irritant.

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 5:09 pm

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TIL in 1967, hundreds of Singaporean men panicked that their penises were disappearing into their abdomen. They were actually fine but had succumbed to a culture-bound delusion disorder known as koro, which means turtle (as in a turtle’s head retracting into its shell)

by whatilearned May 29, 2022, 1:13 pm

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TIL about David Angell. A writer for Fraiser and who co-wrote an episode where a stranger leaves a message for Fraiser saying she’ll arrive on American Flight 11. Angell and his wife were among those who were killed at the WTC on 9/11. They were passengers on American Airlines Flight 11.

by whatilearned May 8, 2022, 7:20 am

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What’s the difference between an epileptic shell shucker and a hooker with diarrhea?

by cringeyjokesman April 2, 2022, 5:45 am

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TIL about Jeremy, a snail with its shell coiled to the left instead of the right, which makes it impossible to mate. An entire campaign was brought up in order to find Jeremy a lover and two candidates were found around the globe. Both rejected Jeremy and prefered to mate between themselves.

by whatilearned March 13, 2022, 2:41 am

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TIL about the LeMat revolver, a twin-barreled, Confederate States of America-produced, 9-shot, .42 or .36-caliber revolver. Its secondary barrel could fire a 20-gauge shotgun shell. Its firing hammer had a built-in lever designed to select which barrel would fire when the trigger was pulled.

by whatilearned March 7, 2022, 12:32 am

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TIL In 2017, scientists began a global search to find a mate for Jeremy, a rare left-coiled snail. Since his shell coiled in the opposite direction of most snails, his organs couldn’t align with others. Two contenders were found, but they mated with each other instead of Jeremy.

by whatilearned January 26, 2022, 2:20 am

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My girlfriend said she’ll leave me if I don’t support Trump.

by cringeyjokesman January 17, 2022, 7:01 pm

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TIL of Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842) whose name entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell. In 1784 he invented “spherical case” ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air. It lent the term shrapnel to to fragmentation in general ever since.

by whatilearned January 11, 2022, 1:10 pm

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NGS – Next Generation Shell

by ProgrammerDude December 10, 2021, 11:00 am

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