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TIL The painting The Gate of Calais (1748) features the artist, William Hogarth, about to be arrested. This is included in the painting since Hogarth was arrested in Calais because his sketching was mistaken for espionage.

by whatilearned March 16, 2023, 11:34 am

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TIL William Hopper, who played Paul Drake on Perry Mason, won a Bronze Star in WWII.

by whatilearned March 15, 2023, 3:11 am

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Hello I am William Phillip

by CopyPastaArchive March 8, 2023, 2:42 pm

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by CopyPastaArchive March 8, 2023, 6:39 am

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TIL Jimmy Carter collaborated with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on a tour of Africa in 2002 to highlight needs and strategies to fight HIV/AIDS. Jimmy Carter was close with Bill’s father, William H. Gates Sr, as both of their organizations share a commitment to infectious disease prevention

by whatilearned March 5, 2023, 7:54 pm

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What is the difference between a baseball and Prince William?

by cringeyjokesman March 3, 2023, 11:57 am

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TIL – English physician William Harvey was a prominent skeptic regarding allegations of witchcraft. He was one of the examiners of four women from Lancashire accused of witchcraft in 1634, and as a consequence of his report, all of them were acquitted.

by whatilearned February 22, 2023, 4:37 am

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TIL that William and Ellen Craft, two people enslaved in the American South, fled to the North in the 1840s, with Ellen (who was more light-skinned than William) posing as William’s male master. They escaped to the U.K., where they raised five children, and eventually moved back to the U.S. in 1868.

by whatilearned February 15, 2023, 10:29 pm

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william afton pov:

by CopyPastaArchive February 7, 2023, 3:28 pm

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TIL William Thornton, a doctor and the architect who designed the US Capitol Building, was summoned to George Washington’s home to treat his illness, arriving after his death. Thornton devised a plan to resurrect his corpse by inflating air into his lungs and transfusing lamb’s blood into his body.

by whatilearned February 4, 2023, 8:23 pm

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TIL that when Californians wanted to name a new city after San Francisco businessman William Ralston, he declined and said he was not worthy of the honor. So instead they named the city in honor of his modesty: Modesto, California.

by whatilearned February 4, 2023, 4:02 pm

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Did you know that William Shatner once tried to start up his own line of lingerie for women?

by cringeyjokesman February 2, 2023, 7:05 am

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