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TIL there are 66 different weed strains in the Norwegian Doomsday Seed Vault

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 2:56 pm

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by CopyPastaArchive June 7, 2022, 5:28 am

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TIL Kim Jong Il, the late North Korean Supreme Leader, was obsessed with cinema, accumulating a collection of 30,000 VHS and DVD movies which he kept in an air-conditioned vault. He especially enjoyed James Bond films, and was disappointed Bond’s nemesis in Die Another Day was a North Korean leader.

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 2:58 am

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TIL of an 1830 attempt to steal George Washington’s skull from his tomb at Mount Vernon. It failed and prompted the construction of a new, more secure, burial vault which his remains reside in today.

by whatilearned March 1, 2022, 10:32 pm

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A man wearing a ski mask walks into a sperm bank, holding a gun he orders the receptionist to open the vault.

by cringeyjokesman February 1, 2022, 5:55 am

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TIL the Woolworth Building in Tribeca NYC was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930. It consists of a 30-story base topped by a 30-story tower. The basement of the Woolworth Building contains an unused bank vault, restaurant, private pool and barbershop

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 4:29 am

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TIL Coca Cola contains a secret ingredient known as “Merchandise 7X” and it has remained a secret since its invention in 1886 by John Pemberton. The description of the ingredient is kept in a vault at the Trust Co. Bank in Atlanta.

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 6:06 pm

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Did you hear about the pole vault champion of North Korea?

by cringeyjokesman December 13, 2021, 4:57 pm

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TIL – In 1836 a lowly sewer worker asked the governors at the Bank of England to meet him in the vault because he had identified a breach of security. Incredulously they complied, only to see the man pop up to join them through a hole in the floor by moving a few floorboards.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 11:15 pm

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TIL an elderly man gained the trust of a Belgian bank by bringing the workers chocolates. He was eventually given VIP access to the bank vault. In 2007, he stole $28 million worth of diamonds and vanished.

by whatilearned December 2, 2021, 7:43 pm

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TIL about “Le Grand K”, a hunk of platinum kept in a vault in a Paris, that until recently was the international prototype for a kilogram of weight. A kilogram’s weight is now defined based on the laws of the universe so as to avoid a physical object that decays over time.

by whatilearned November 6, 2021, 3:15 am

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What does a redditor say when he detonates a bank vault?

by cringeyjokesman October 31, 2021, 2:48 pm

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