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TIL that when J.R.R. Tolkien was asked what he thought about Frank Herbert’s novel Dune, he replied he disliked it “with some intensity” and said it wouldn’t be fair to say anything negative about another working author.

by whatilearned June 1, 2023, 12:27 am

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Today I learned about Frederick Lindemann, Churchill’s advisor who encouraged him to target working class houses, and divert food shipments from India.

by whatilearned May 25, 2023, 9:37 am

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My experience working on Succession

by CopyPastaArchive May 25, 2023, 3:16 am

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Did you know your pupils are the last part of the body to stop working?

by cringeyjokesman May 24, 2023, 6:12 pm

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TIL the origins of the bachata. The bachata (which translates to “party, good time”) was condemned by Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo as música cachivache, or music of little worth, due to its associations with poor, working class people.

by whatilearned May 20, 2023, 2:16 am

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A warning for anyone working at or thinking about working at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

by CopyPastaArchive May 16, 2023, 3:55 am

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Max has been working as a garment cutter for over 30 years for the same small company.

by cringeyjokesman May 15, 2023, 10:29 pm

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TIL that adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in 1920. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger while working as a fry cook at his father’s Pasadena, California sandwich shop and “experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.

by whatilearned May 12, 2023, 1:43 pm

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If you were working from home through the pandemic and after, and suddenly your job started saying they want you back in the office – what did you do and how did it turn out?

by QuestionGuy May 4, 2023, 2:04 pm

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A man working a 9-5 office job starts feeling worthless and decides to make a career change into the adult film industry

by cringeyjokesman May 4, 2023, 11:34 am

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TIL Thomas(ine) Hall was declared both a man and a woman in a Virginia court in 1629 and ordered to wear men’s clothing with a woman’s apron and bonnet. He/She would present as either gender carnally and when working as soldier, lacemaker, field laborer, or maid. Thomasine was physically intersex.

by whatilearned April 30, 2023, 8:35 pm

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TIL That North American Aviation took the P-51 from concept to working prototype in only 102 days.

by whatilearned April 29, 2023, 11:07 pm

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