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TIL William Melchert-Dinkel; A man joining suicide chats pressuring victims for his ‘suicide fetish’, got convicted for 3 year for 2 proven cases. After appeals, it was decided encouraging/advising was protected by the First Amendment. Later he was convicted for 1 year for assisting, sat 4 months.

by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 3:17 pm

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TIL: Advent doesn’t start on 1st December. It starts on the 4th Sunday before Christmas so varies by up to a week. The 1st December ‘tradition’ was invented by companies making advent calendars so the same units/designs can be sold every year.

by whatilearned December 6, 2021, 11:44 am

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TIL needlefish swim extremely fast and are fond of leaping out of the water. With their razor sharp beak mouths they have been known to impale boaters and killing them. There was even a 10 year old Hawaiian boy night fishing with his father when one pierced his eye into his brain killing him.

by whatilearned December 5, 2021, 3:21 am

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TIL that every year since 1966 a giant goat out of straw called “Gävle Goat” has been built in Sweden around Christmas. Despite extensive security measures/it yielding a prison sentence, every year Swedes have found a way to sneakily burn the goat to the ground, forming a goat-arson tradition.

by whatilearned December 4, 2021, 10:54 pm

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2021 is about to end. What have you achieved during this year?

by QuestionGuy December 4, 2021, 5:44 am

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TIL a 2017 study found that the average adult currently enjoys sex 54 times a year, which equates to about once a week. Another study published in 2015 found that the once weekly frequency was the Goldilocks standard for happiness.

by whatilearned December 4, 2021, 4:35 am

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Finally after a year and half of game development i finished my game! 🥳

by ProgrammerDude December 3, 2021, 4:38 pm

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GitHub Wrapped: Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, GitHub Trends has a “wrapped” feature that allows users to look back on a year of development and growth. See your repositories and languages sorted by lines of code, your activity grouped by time and day, and more!

by ProgrammerDude December 3, 2021, 9:16 am

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TIL that whilst he ultimately lost the 1896 Presidential Election, 36 year old William Jennings Bryan became the youngest person in American History to win an electoral vote, winning 176 of the 447 Electoral Votes at the time.

by whatilearned December 2, 2021, 9:32 pm

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Would your 5 year old self be proud of who you are today?

by QuestionGuy December 1, 2021, 10:12 pm

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TIL that over 2000 tons of unexploded ammunition are found in Germany each year

by whatilearned December 1, 2021, 8:58 pm

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TIL West Point students actually get paid to attend school. :::A first-year cadet earns more than $900 a month, and the amount increases each year.. A portion of that cadet pay is deposited into a personal checking account. Another portion of cadet pay is deposited to a “Cadet Account”.

by whatilearned December 1, 2021, 2:08 pm

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