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Woody got Wood

by CopyPastaArchive September 5, 2022, 1:32 am

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TIL in 1927, 15-year-old tennis player Sidney Wood became the youngest man ever to play Wimbledon. In 1931, aged 19, he became the only person to win Wimbledon by default when his final opponent Frank Shields (Brooke’s grandfather) withdrew with an injury. Sidney Wood died in 2009 at the age of 97.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 7:14 pm

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Did you hear Elijah Wood joined the WWE?

by cringeyjokesman August 27, 2022, 8:33 pm

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Was recently in Lake of the Woods, MN and discovered that several WWII German prisoner of war internment camps were there to support pulp wood production for the war. Interesting history here:

by HistoryBuff August 21, 2022, 4:21 pm

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TIL the lead singer of the runaways Cherrie Currie is now a chainsaw wood artist

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 8:50 am

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TIL the oldest plane still flying is a 1909 Bleriot Monoplane, made from wood tied together by fabric. The pilot sits in a wicker chair

by whatilearned July 27, 2022, 7:46 pm

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TIL that wood frogs from Alaska can hold its pee for up to eight months, all through the long winter before relieving themselves.

by whatilearned July 13, 2022, 11:25 am

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TIL that the American Association of Woodturners keep a running list of deaths due to patterning wood with high voltage sparks.

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 10:08 pm

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Old Sven collapsed one chill November Saturday after chopping maple wood near his house in the birch forest, five miles outside of Eagle River, Wisconsin.

by cringeyjokesman June 30, 2022, 3:18 pm

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TIL that yaks are the Swiss-army knives of domesticated animals. They can be milked like a cow, ridden like a horse (including for playing polo), sheared for wool (super warm and soft) like sheep, eaten like a pig, pull carts like an ox, carry stuff like a donkey and their dung burns like wood

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 3:42 am

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I can cut wood just by looking at it!

by cringeyjokesman June 23, 2022, 12:29 pm

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TIL that The kereru (New Zealand Wood Pigeon) is well-known for getting drunk off fermented fruit and falling out of trees. Consequently, it has earned the reputation for being “clumsy, drunk, gluttonous, and glamorous.”

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 2:30 am

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