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TIL: The Graveyard of the Pacific is a place where 2,000 ships have wrecked and more than 700 lives have been lost. This is due to unpredictable weather conditions, including storms and fog, and dangerous coastal characteristics, including shifting sandbars, tidal rips, and rocky reefs.

by whatilearned February 20, 2023, 10:01 pm

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My (22F) fiance (25M) keeps “shifting into Bokoblin Mode” and it’s ruining my relationship

by CopyPastaArchive January 8, 2023, 3:17 am

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TIL that simply moving the eyes triggers the eardrums to move too. Keeping the head still but shifting the eyes to one side or the other sparks vibrations in the eardrums, even in the absence of any sounds.

by whatilearned October 5, 2022, 11:06 am

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TIL that the first official British Army Dog was a poodle believed to be a shape shifting demon that could catch bullets, detect treasure, and foretell the future.

by whatilearned July 10, 2022, 11:42 am

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TIL Mike Oldfield, when Virgin Records insisted on hi9m calling his next LP “Tubular Bells 2”, responded with “Amarok” – an album with rapidly shifting themes, random bursts of noise, and a message in morse code saying “F**k you RB” – apparently directed at Richard Branson.

by whatilearned April 19, 2022, 4:17 pm

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TIL that the term “jaywalking” was invented by the auto industry as a way of shifting the blame for traffic crimes off automobile drivers and onto pedestrians, rather than out of an actual desire to decrease the number of pedestrian deaths due to automobiles.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 9:25 pm

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TIL Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. After being destroyed and looted, the ones left are at risk of disappearing due to shifting desert sands. Theres a multi-billion dollar project to plant a line of trees across the entire African continent to create ground stability and stop the desert spread.

by whatilearned March 25, 2022, 10:24 am

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TIL in Belgium and France, Farmers still recover tens of thousands of unexploded shells and ordinance From WW1 that get pushed up by normal ground shifting (frost thrust, etc) and plowed up in farming fields. They call it “The Iron Harvest”. They expect this to continue for hundreds of years.

by whatilearned January 23, 2022, 6:02 am

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TIL that word boondock come from Tagalog bundok ‘mountain.’ American soldiers stationed in the Philippines adopted the word in the early 1900s, shifting the meaning to refer to “an isolated or wild region.”

by whatilearned November 25, 2021, 9:11 pm

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TIL The Boer War Siege of Mafeking, the British held out with no artillery against a numerically superior force. They hid their numbers by shifting units around in the trenches, and dressing as women to do civilian work. They recommissioned century old guns and improvised an armored train.

by whatilearned August 9, 2021, 2:56 pm

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CDC Prepares for Swine Flu Surge in Fall As the U.S. swine flu epidemic eases a bit — except in the Northeast — the CDC is shifting its focus toward preparing for a surge of cases when flu season returns in the fall.

by DailyHealthNews July 11, 2021, 1:04 pm

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Shifting Temps May Prime You for Spring Allergies Spring allergy season is again off to an early start in many parts of the country. And doctors say there are some signs it may be even more miserable than usual this year.

by DailyHealthNews June 5, 2021, 4:32 am

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