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Doctors have just identified a food that can cause grief and suffering years after it’s been eaten.

by cringeyjokesman December 8, 2021, 12:05 am

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What’s the most valuable thing you’ve learned in the last two years?

by QuestionGuy December 7, 2021, 10:27 pm

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7 Gettext lessons learned after 2 years of developing a European platform

by ProgrammerDude December 7, 2021, 8:58 pm

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TIL: When Texas surrendered the land currently known as the “Oklahoma Panhandle”, it was actually unowned for 40 years. Officially called the “Public Land Strip” during that time but often referred to as “No Man’s Land”.

by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 5:05 pm

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TIL the Telecommunications Act of 1996 loosened regulations on how many stations a single company could own, leading Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) to grow from 40 stations to 1,240 in just six years, homogenizing playlists nationwide & radically (negatively) altering the music industry.

by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 3:51 pm

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TIL that, due to gravitational time dilation, Earth’s core is about 2.5 years younger than its surface.

by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 1:11 pm

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What are the best songs to play when your dad just died and you haven’t spoken to him or any family in ten or more years and your mom still doesn’t want you home because your still gay?

by QuestionGuy December 7, 2021, 7:16 am

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TIL of Theodore Hall, among the youngest Manhattan Project scientists. Finished high school at 14, graduated from Harvard at 18, and recruited for the nuclear program at 19. Fifty years later, near death, he admitted to having been a Soviet informant the entire time.

by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 1:50 am

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TIL Japanese General Hitoshi Imamura was charged with and sentenced to 9 years for failing to control his subordinates as they committed war crimes against Australian troops. He thought that he got off too light so he reconstructed his cell in his yard and lived there for the reminder of his life.

by whatilearned December 6, 2021, 4:59 pm

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TIL Neil Gaiman’s Coraline almost wasn’t published, his editor said it was too scary, but was convinced after her daughter said it was fine. Years later, the daughter said she was terrified but wanted to know what happened next so she never let on

by whatilearned December 6, 2021, 12:08 pm

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TIL Joe Dougherty, the original voice of Porky Pig, also had a severe stutter. He was ultimately fired because of this, and replaced by Mel Blanc, who voiced the character for over 50 years.

by whatilearned December 6, 2021, 5:56 am

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TIL that someone in New York state bought an old bowl at a tag sale in 2007 for $3. When the buyer had it appraised several years later, they learned it was a 1,000-year-old Chinese bowl initially valued at $200,000 to $300,000. It later sold at auction for $2.2 million.

by whatilearned December 5, 2021, 7:16 pm

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