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TIL a group of 100 artists covertly placed props with coded messages onto the set of the soap opera ‘Melrose Place’ over the span of 2 years. Props included bedsheets with unrolled condoms titled ‘Safety Sheets’ and paintings depicting locations related to high-profile deaths/murders.

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 5:11 pm

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Which sentences spoken today would’ve sounded strange 100 years ago?

by QuestionGuy May 18, 2022, 4:57 pm

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TIL about Bradford Bishop, who allegedly killed his wife, mother and three sons in 1976. Bishop was only removed from the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List in 2018, due to his advanced age, and is still being pursued by the FBI, as there have been sightings of Bishop across Europe for 40 years.

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 1:35 pm

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What will be the most popular baby name in 500 years?

by QuestionGuy May 18, 2022, 5:21 am

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TIL that the Yam postal system of the Mongol Empire covered 190 miles in a day, and was faster than the Pony Express used 600 years later

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 3:38 am

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TIL that actor John Amos was 34 years old when the TV show “Good Times” began production in 1973, only eight years older than the actor who played his oldest son (Jimmie Walker) and 19 years younger than his screen wife (Esther Rolle).

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 2:28 am

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TIL, a woman mistakenly snorted a line of LSD containing 550 times the usual recreational dose, mistaking it for cocaine. The woman had been suffering from chronic foot pain for 20 years, but found that the massive dose of LSD allowed her to reduce and eventually stop morphine consumption.

by whatilearned May 17, 2022, 8:00 pm

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What is something that is really popular now, but in 5 years everyone will look back on and be embarrassed by?

by QuestionGuy May 17, 2022, 5:27 am

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TIL That the Earth’s current “North Star” will be replaced in ~1000 years by the star Gamma Cephei, because it can be seen with the naked-eye and be closer to our celestial pole than the current North star, Polaris.

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 3:40 pm

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Despite already being 79 years old, Joe Biden is the president of the United States of America

by cringeyjokesman May 16, 2022, 2:26 pm

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TIL that a Polar Bear’s liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill as many as 52 adults. If you spread it out and took just enough to get your RDA every day, that liver will last you 143 years.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 3:34 pm

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TIL about the Degenerate Era, where the stars in our universe will run out of fuel, and the starry night sky we see today will no longer exist. Aging stars and stellar remnants will be too cold to support life. It’s hypothesized to happen about 1 quintillion years after the Big Bang.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 4:31 am

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