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TIL staff at the U.S Securities and Commissions Exchange (SEC) spent up to 8 hours a day watching porn even as the economy was collapsing during the 2008 financial crisis

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 3:10 pm

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TIL about Junior Bridgeman. He is a former NBA player who spent his offseasons working at Wendy’s to better understand how the fast food chain operated. At the peak he owned over 100 Wendy’s locations and is worth over $600 million.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 10:42 pm

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I mistaken spent the first 40 years of my life thinking I had a small penis.

by CopyPastaArchive June 30, 2022, 6:09 pm

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TIL that Joshua Thompson sued Michigan AMC movie theater over the high price of concession snacks. He claims he used to take his snacks until the theater banned the practice. Thompson paid $8 for a soda and packet of Goobers, but he spent less than $3 for the same at a drug store nearby.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 5:47 pm

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TIL that after the Shah of Iran’s overthrow, he was reluctantly given medical treatment in Panama. Panama assigned him a “militantly Marxist sociology professor” as a chief bodyguard who “spent much time lecturing the Shah on how he deserved his fate” and was charged $21,000 a month for rent.

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 5:55 pm

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TIL When the only IMAX theater in Central L.A. couldn’t meet the demands of Disney to showcase the very first animated IMAX movie, “Fantasia/2000”, Disney spent $4 million to build a theater to show it. They then tore the theater down four months later.

by whatilearned June 16, 2022, 6:29 am

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TIL famous French artist Edgar Degas spent much of his time drawing child prostitutes.

by whatilearned June 15, 2022, 5:32 pm

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I spent 6 minutes typing about Garfield

by CopyPastaArchive June 15, 2022, 4:49 am

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TIL Babe Ruth spent his youth in a reformatory school called St. Mary’s until age 19 (circa 1913) when he got a job at the school paying $100 per month, which is over $2900 per month adjusted for inflation

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 10:40 pm

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I spent the afternoon by my wife’s grave…

by cringeyjokesman June 13, 2022, 6:09 pm

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TIL that a player who was knife-killed in the game Counter Strike, spent 6 months tracking down their opponent and viciously stabbed them in real life.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 11:11 am

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TIL Scientists at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia spent 17 years trying to identify powerful but extremely short radio bursts that would appear at seemingly random intervals. In 2015 they finally identified the cause: a microwave oven at the facility being opened prematurely.

by whatilearned May 31, 2022, 4:06 pm

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