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TIL there is a bus that travels along Hadrian’s wall in the UK called the AD122. Which is also the year building started on the wall.

by whatilearned September 6, 2022, 9:57 am

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Quick, give me a whisky before it gets started!

by cringeyjokesman September 5, 2022, 6:42 am

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TIL Eddie Van Halen recorded the 1995 piece “Strung Out” back in 1984 on a piano filled with things like ping-pong balls, batteries, knives, forks. Producer Bruce Fairbairn picked out 90 seconds of a 10-hour tape recording that started with Eddie creating harmonics directly in the piano’s strings.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 2:31 pm

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TIL The first King of England, Alfred The Great, had a hard time with dirty thoughts as a teen. After much prayer, he credits God with giving him hemmeroids. He was miraculously cured before the wedding, but afterwards, he started suffering what became known as Chron’s Disease.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 5:14 pm

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What is something you wish you never started doing?

by QuestionGuy September 3, 2022, 11:59 am

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TIL British comedian Freddie Starr was accused of eating a hamster by the tabloid newspaper The Sun. Although a complete fabrication, the rumour boosted Freddie’s career and led to more tour dates. The rumour had been started by Freddie’s manager as a practical joke.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 6:05 pm

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TIL Nickelback originally started out as cover band named ‘Village Idiot’

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 12:19 am

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TIL that the dress codes are symbolic indications of different social ideas. The history started from the 7th through the 9th centuries, the European royalty and nobility used a dress code to differentiate themselves from other people through ornamented garments, especially the collar.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 2:59 am

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TIL that ‘Penny dreadful’, which started in Britain in the 1830’s, were the first ‘Pop Culture’ product. The serial stories, mass produced for new, young readers, sold up to a million copies per week. Each chapter had 8-16 pages and cost a penny. Sensational topics included crime, the supernatural.

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 5:45 pm

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TIL: Play-Doh was originally started as cleaner for coal residue one home wallpaper in the 1930s. When people stopped using coal for home heating, a nursery school teacher helped repurpose it for kids modeling clay in the 1950s and she also came up with the name Play-Doh

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 1:59 am

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TIL: Tom Selleck Started an Avocado Farm as A Hobby Even Though He Hates Avocados

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 7:34 am

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TIL: Supermassive Games, who created horror games like Until Dawn, The Inpatient and The Quarry, started out by making the platformer LittleBigPlanet

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 9:04 pm

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