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TIL: Remote workers can get paid to move to different communities in the U.S. some even offer $20k worth of incentives

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 4:54 pm

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TIL Rifleman Khan was a German Shepherd dog awarded the Dickin medal in WW2 for saving his handler from drowning after their landing craft was sunk by artillery fire

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 4:33 pm

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TIL Popeye the Sailor was originally a supporting character, intended to go away after one storyline

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 3:55 pm

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TIL about rescue buoys used in the English channel in WWII. Designed to provide shelter for the pilots or crew of aircraft shot down or forced to make an emergency landing over water, they contained food, cigarettes, liquor, flares and even board games to pass the time.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 1:35 pm

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TIL the roof of the Royal Albert Hall in London is not attached. When the construction supports were removed the 600 tonne structure dropped ~8mm to its final position

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 12:58 pm

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TIL About Clive Wearing a British former musicologist who has chronic amnesia. He lacks the ability to form new memories and cannot recall aspects of his memories, frequently believing that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state often referred to as ’30-second Clive’

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 8:17 am

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TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 6:48 am

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TIL of a form of Medieval prison ‘sentence’ where the accused was thrown in an ‘oubliette’. A narrow pit where he was ‘forgotten’ and left to die.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 4:59 am

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TIL that ~10% of the revenue of the government of Tuvalu comes from royalties from ‘tv’ adresses, which is an abbreviation for “Tuvalu”.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 4:07 am

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TIL about the homunculus man, which shows an exaggerated human figure that illustrates the proportion of the brain devoted to the sense of touch in each part of the body.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 3:50 am

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TIL that 70-86% of choking victims recovered after receiving the Heimlich maneuver.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 2:28 am

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TIL There were Fat men’s clubs that peaked in popularity in the late 19th century where membership was typically allowed to men weighing 200 Ib and members were generally quite rich.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 2:03 am

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