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TIL that we have the science to eradicate mosquitoes exclusively saving 100’s of thousands of people from death by virus’ transmitted by them but haven’t done it yet because it could mess up the eco systems food chain if they all died

by whatilearned January 17, 2022, 7:03 am

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Gingers of Reddit, how do you feel about the fact that thousands of your kind are killed each year just to make ginger ale?

by QuestionGuy January 14, 2022, 12:11 am

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TIL about black MIDIs, a genre of electronic music involving piano songs containing a huge number of notes, typically in the thousands, millions, billions, or even trillions.

by whatilearned January 10, 2022, 5:11 am

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What is your scenario that you have thought over thousands of times in your head but know will probably never happen?

by QuestionGuy January 9, 2022, 6:19 pm

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TIL about Jeoldusan or “Beheading Mountain”, a Korean mountain which was the site where thousands of Catholics were beheaded at the orders of King Daewongun. Today, the chopping block used for these beheadings are still present.

by whatilearned December 3, 2021, 12:21 am

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TIL that in the USA, Hundreds and Thousands are called Sprinkles.

by whatilearned November 28, 2021, 2:51 pm

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TIL that in the UK, sprinkles are called hundreds and thousands

by whatilearned November 27, 2021, 10:24 pm

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TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia activist and archivist who recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012 at age 83. At around 71,000 hours, this is the world’s most comprehensive independent archive of modern TV news.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 3:30 pm

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Since religious people also think the thousands of religions and gods are a load of rubbish, apart from one, how can they blame atheists for just not believing in one extra god than them?

by QuestionGuy November 20, 2021, 3:39 pm

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TIL Dr. Charles R. Drew, an African American, developed improved techniques for blood storage, which saved thousands of Allied forces’ lives during WWII. In 1942, however, he resigned as director of the first American Red Cross Blood Bank because of their exclusion of African-Americans’ blood.

by whatilearned November 18, 2021, 3:46 pm

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Scaling AWS Lambda and Postgres to thousands of uptime checks

by ProgrammerDude November 18, 2021, 6:09 am

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TIL after the film Deliverance was released in 1972, tourism became the main source of income in Rabun County, Georgia, where the movie was made. Visitors arrived by the tens of thousands. A $20 million whitewater rafting industry now exists in the county.

by whatilearned November 2, 2021, 8:27 pm

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