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TIL that in 1991 a self-appointed reincarnation of Jesus Christ named Vissarion established a sect with thousands of followers, who lived as an isolate community in a remote Siberian village. Having promised the end of the world, the cult leader taught reincarnation and veganism to his adepts.

by whatilearned August 11, 2022, 11:38 pm

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TIL that the light from the sun reaching us is not mere eight minutes old, but from thousands to several millions of years, because that’s how long it takes the photons to escape the sun

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 5:19 am

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TIL A Portugese Man of War is not a jellyfish; it’s a colony of thousands of individual animals called “zooids”

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 3:55 am

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TIL that US is a neighboring country of South Korea and Japan because of Guam, a full fledge US territory with 168 thousands inhabitants despite it’s not even on the same side of the Earth with continental US.

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 1:07 am

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TIL that though the roots of Traditional Chinese Medicine go back thousands of years, the modern push for it in China only began in 1950.

by whatilearned July 10, 2022, 12:59 am

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today I learned that the US forced hundreds of thousands of Japanese people into concentration camps during WW2

by whatilearned July 3, 2022, 10:01 pm

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TIL about “The Long Friday” a day in Iceland where 90% of the women refused to go to the office, do housework or childcare instead they took to the streets in their thousands to rally for equal rights with men. Forcing men to stay home and look after the children.

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 6:59 pm

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TIL the Ottawa Convention is a 1997 treaty signed by 133 countries to ban antipersonnel land mines. The U.S. never signed. The U.S. placed thousands of mines in the DMZ between the Koreas during the Cold War to help deter an overwhelming ground invasion from the North.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 1:43 am

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TIL many Native American tribes used fire for thousands of years to manage forest brush for small game hunting as well as creating grasslands for big game to be hunted. This resulted in many species of plants, animals, and fungi to become extinct as the forest became a fire-adapted ecosystem.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 12:25 am

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Thousands of Afghani and Pakistani cameleers played an important role in shaping the Australian outback.

by HistoryBuff June 21, 2022, 1:10 am

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An evil scientist has put your soul into the body of a cow on a farm thousands of miles away. The only way to reverse the effect is to make it back to your human body alive. How would you accomplish this?

by QuestionGuy June 19, 2022, 1:18 pm

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TIL With flight director Gene Kranz, it took a $5 million campaign to restore the original Mission Control room at NASA Johnson Space Center in 2019, with thousands of backers from 25 countries. Flight control consoles were restored and wall displays were reactivated with Apollo-era projections

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 4:50 am

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