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TIL in 1964 The Beatles held the number one spot for the most popular song in America for an astonishing 14 consecutive weeks (Feb 1 to May 2) with I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, and Can’t Buy Me Love. They had three more number one singles later in the year.

by whatilearned January 18, 2022, 5:29 pm

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TIL actor Donald O’Connor (born 1925) 7 year old sister died from being hit by a car. Few weeks later, his father died of a heart attack; his brother Billy died a decade later from scarlet fever and his eldest sibling Jack died from alcoholism in 1959. His three other siblings died during childbirth

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 8:49 am

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TIL Jerry Orbach, who played Lennie Briscoe on the original Law & Order and voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast, was diagnosed with cancer less than 2 years into Law & Order. Despite being diagnosed more than a decade before his death, his disease was not publicly known until weeks before death.

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 2:49 am

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My wife said, “My gynecologist said I can’t have sex for six weeks”

by cringeyjokesman January 12, 2022, 1:56 am

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TIL – A small group of German soldiers were forgotten on a remote British island, and only surrendered three weeks after the war had ended

by whatilearned January 11, 2022, 2:38 pm

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2️⃣ weeks til Santa CUMS 💦

by CopyPastaArchive December 11, 2021, 9:17 pm

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TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 6:35 am

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Did any of the Soviet troops on the German border at the time of Operation Barbarossa later participate in the battles of Moscow, Leningrad, or Kiev, or were they all destroyed/rendered combat ineffective in the first weeks?

by HistoryBuff December 3, 2021, 1:46 pm

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TIL: Men have nipples because embryos are always female in their early stages, and males only differentiate from the female after a few weeks

by whatilearned December 2, 2021, 11:57 pm

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TIL that World War II WASP pilot Katherine Dussaq married the inventor of the polygraph machine and was herself a renowned forensics expert who ran an all-women detective agency. Katherine died in a service-related crash in November of 1944, only weeks away from the disbanding of the WASP.

by whatilearned November 29, 2021, 12:39 am

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So I brought a world map and asked my wife to shoot a dart on it and wherever it lands, I will take her there for two weeks when pandemic ends.

by cringeyjokesman November 28, 2021, 6:26 pm

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TIL about “The Miracle Ship” in World War 2. Weeks after surviving Pearl Harbor, a Japanese torpedo blew it’s bow off. Presumed dead by the US, the few survivors built a bow out of bamboo. Never designed to fight, it won 60 battle stars and was the 4th most decorated battle ship in US History.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 7:03 am

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