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TIL MV Doulos Phos held the record of being the world’s oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship, serving from 1914 until December 2009.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 6:42 am

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TIL The Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal was built to better connect Chicago to the Mississippi River, and was the world’s largest canal at the time. It provided engineers with the necessary experience to help construct the most pivotal infrastructure project in US history – the Panama Canal.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 9:35 pm

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TIL that the Sahara Desert ( known for being the world’s hottest desert) used to be a tropical rainforest about 6,000 years ago.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 12:48 am

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TIL that the Italian Luciano Baietti is the world’s most graduated man, he holds 15 degrees in subjects such as sociology, literature, law, philosophy, criminology and military strategy.

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 8:25 pm

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TIL: England Holds World’s First National State Lottery on January 11, 1569 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 8:28 pm

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TIL a minority of the world’s languages are “ergative”—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we’d say “SHE likes HER” & “SHE walks”; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it’d be “SHE likes HER” but “HER walks”

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 9:42 am

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What is the world’s best dipping sauce for chicken tenders?

by QuestionGuy August 28, 2022, 12:11 am

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TIL that Icehotel Jukkasjärvi, the world’s first ice hotel, first opened in 1990 in Sweden. The entire hotel is made out of snow and ice blocks from the Torne River. The ice is used for Icebar designs and even the glasses. Interestingly, everything melts away and returns to the Torne River.

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 2:19 am

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TIL in 2007, an adhesive company was sued for 16million for manslaughter charges as a result of structure failure that take place in the world’s most expensive highway

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 3:42 pm

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TIL Edmonton built an experimental suburban community with innovative street design in the 1980s over land that used to contain a garbage dump. It’s estimated about 85 per cent of the world’s cultures are represented there

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 2:32 am

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TIL That it wasn’t until 2005 that China had a larger economy than France or Britain, but at that time it was still only the world’s fourth largest economy.

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 4:54 pm

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TIL that, to get people to read them, authors of light novels put the story’s synopsis into the title itself. So there are titles like “The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat”

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 2:21 pm

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