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TIL of Ken Adam, one of only three World War II Royal Air Force pilots to be born in Germany. After the war, he become a set designer and won two Oscars for Best Art Direction. He was knighted in 2003, and died in 2016.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 9:11 pm

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What would you do if you won the lottery?

by QuestionGuy September 2, 2022, 12:51 am

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Would you quit working forever if you won 50 million dollars? Why or why not?

by QuestionGuy September 1, 2022, 10:37 am

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TIL that the longest baseball game in history was a AAA game played on April 18, 1981 between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings. It lasted over 8 hours and was suspended by the league president. They finished the game 2 months later, and in the 33rd inning Pawtucket won 3-2.

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 9:04 pm

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TIL Chile has such a long coast, in part, because they won all of Bolivia’s coast and some of Peru’s coast in a late-1800s war. This is still a sensitive issue between Chile and Bolivia today.

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 12:40 pm

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TIL while filming “The Other Side Of The Wind” in 1970, director Orson Welles was unable to afford to pay his cinematographer Gary Graver for his work. Instead, Welles gave Graver his Oscar statuette that he had won for Best Original Screenplay for “Citizen Kane” in 1941.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 6:31 pm

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TIL the George Wallace, infamous segregationist, renounced his views, endorsed civil rights, and won his final election with 90% of the black vote

by whatilearned August 26, 2022, 3:15 pm

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TIL: Until 2013, foreign chefs in Japan were legally barred from working in restaurants specializing in traditional Japanese food and could only serve foreign cuisine. Japan changed its regulations for foreign chefs after traditional Japanese cuisine won UNESCO designation.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 1:00 pm

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TIL 24 year old Clyde Tombaugh won a scholarship at University of Kansas to study astronomy after discovering Pluto. He also discovered several galactic star clusters, hundreds of asteroids, a comet, a cluster of 1,800 galaxies and other observations

by whatilearned August 22, 2022, 2:33 am

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TIL about the 1936 presidential election in which Roosevelt received 98.49% of the electoral vote total, which remains the highest percentage of the electoral vote won by any candidate since 1820.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 5:08 pm

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TIL Salman Rushdie is the only author to have won a Booker, the Booker of Bookers, and The Best of Booker award.

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 6:54 am

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The contest for the world’s filthiest limerick was won by a nun in Cork, Ireland.

by cringeyjokesman August 12, 2022, 4:56 pm

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