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“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) When Fox refused to pay for Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick to be on set every day during filming, Ryan Reynolds paid with his own money to make sure they were there in order to keep the project on the right track & maintain the original creative team.

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213points

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Beak Hookage 3 months ago

He's such a class act, that guy.

116points

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“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Billy Idol was first choice for the role of T-1000 in Terminator 2, but a motorcycle accident in 1990 prevented it. During his time in hospital he also swore never to wear the Confederate flag again after a black employee explained his feelings on it.

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210points

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Mavis 3 months ago

Robert Patrick would like to give him a big hug.

38points

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) There was a real-life Lord of the Flies-esque situation where school boys were stuck on a deserted island for 15 months but the boys banded together rather than feuding.

giveAShot , CannasseurB/reddit Report

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202points

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Samuel Pelatan 3 months ago (edited)

Yup, otherwise our ancerstors wouldn't have survived and we wouldn't be here. Human together strong, human alone gets an infection or a cold, can't hunt/gather for 3 days, and dies.

89points

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) When the studio refused to meet Sienna Miller's pay request to star in the film 21 Bridges, Chadwick Boseman gave her part of his salary in order meet her number because he said "that's what you should be paid".

tyrion2024 , STX Entertainment Report

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200points

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Moos 3 months ago

RIP, King :(

90points

OldWeekend501 , Harvey Sapir /pexels Report

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) That elephants stay cancer free as they have 20 copies of a key tumor-fighting gene; humans have just one.

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200points

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Smol Frog 3 months ago

*proceeds to think about creating a cancer immunisation shot*

64points

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“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) In parts of the UK, a rule from 1902 mandates that homes facing each other at the rear must be built 21 meters apart. This specific distance was determined by two urban designers who measured how far apart they could see each other's nipples through their shirts.

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194points

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Savahax 3 months ago

Quality research and reasoning. 👍🏻

118points

The Idaho Potato 🇺🇲🇬🇷🇨🇾 3 months ago

3b1b?

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Adam S 3 months ago

That’s very British 😝 not about light requirements, space for a garden etc

23points

Vix Spiderthrust 3 months ago

There's no automatic right to light in the UK, although it can be built into a deed.

3points

xolitaire 3 months ago (edited)

"Well I'll be damned James, I forgot my trusty tape measure. What else can we use instead?" ... a cold wind blows...

21points

Bexxxx 3 months ago

I laughed out loud at that 😂

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Mark Fuller 3 months ago

Damn it. My house was built in 1890, just ends up being too close to my neighbours for my liking. Not that I can see any nipples - more than I don't want to listen to their lousy music.

17points

HTakeover 3 months ago

You're not looking hard enough. Maybe get some binoculars and stand at the window all day? :D

9points

Tucker Cahooter 3 months ago

So have they given a specific name to that unit of measure?

11points

Francis 3 months ago

houses have to be 1 nonipple apart!

19points

Robert T 3 months ago (edited)

Surely if they are facing each other from the rear, it would be bum cracks? LOL

9points

Blondie23 3 months ago

Yet another reason the British are wonderfully weird!!!

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Regina Holt 3 months ago

Were the T-shirts wet?

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 3 months ago

..."through their shirts." Well, that's embarrassing. I did not realize my nipples were visible at all...

1point

Janice Sanz 3 months ago

Okay, hilarious!

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robin aldrich 3 months ago

And exactly who conducted that study ...I wonder

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LAWLAWLAW 3 months ago

I saw this on QI the other day

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MalibuClassicMan 3 months ago

Point taken; proceed with plan.

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StrangeOne 3 months ago

I believe they also have a "Right to light" law, stating anything built next to a home should reasonably not interfere the natural light that comes in the home.

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Vix Spiderthrust 3 months ago

Not in the UK, no.

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S Bow 3 months ago

My British spouse calls bs on this, he says they didn't use meters back then, although the nipple part is possible lol

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Tazzer Panda 3 months ago (edited)

Well, that's absolute rubbish. So many houses are so much closer than that- however I do like the way this measurement was done, gave me a chuckle!

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Hugh Cookson 3 months ago

These were men, so it sort of begs the question ....... I'll leave that hanging there eh ;0))

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Parmeisan 3 months ago

Are you suggesting that men lack nipples? Because I'm not sure what other question you are begging. But your username suggests that you are in fact a man and thus presumably not confused on this point...

2points

Hugh Cookson 3 months ago

Not any more, 14 years of Tory rule has ripped up any sort of planning rule book in the favour of large developers.

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Troy Parr 3 months ago

I don't think the UK would have used metres in 1902.

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Bexxxx 3 months ago

They kind of sort of did a little bit. “In 1896, Parliament passed the Weights and Measures (Metric System) Act, legalising metric units for all purposes but not making them compulsory.“

2points

Arlene Harris 3 months ago

the Benny Hill rule

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Avoidance_Panda 3 months ago

Bet they were best "friends"...

0points

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“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy's, and his wife Ida died on the Titanic after refusing a lifeboat to prioritize women and children.

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186points

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Pittsburgh rare 3 months ago

There was a reference to them in the couple who is in bed in James's Cameron Titanic.

96points

The Luddites were not anti-technology. They were highly-skilled laborers who protested wage reduction and job replacement due to automation.

Kal-Elm Report

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155points

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Beak Hookage 3 months ago

They had a point.

64points

#10

Astronauts on board the ISS need to sleep near a ventilator fan. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of carbon dioxide.

malarky-b Report

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151points

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DarkViolet 3 months ago

😳

34points

Kale_Brecht , United International Pictures Report

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“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) During a screening of "A Fish Called Wanda," Danish audiologist Ole Bentzen died from heart fibrillation, caused by an increased heart rate due to extended laughter. Newspapers reported he died laughing. Writer John Cleese considered using it for publicity but ultimately deemed it inappropriate.

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146points

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Sergy Yeltsen 3 months ago

The Goodies did it first.

34points

#12

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) In 2012 a British man named Wesley Carrington bought a metal detector and within 20 minutes found gold from the Roman Age worth £100,000.

OldWeekend501 , Pixabay /pexels Report

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146points

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Smol Frog 3 months ago

bye, i'm going to buy a metal detector

65points

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#13

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Stephen Hawking completed a final multiverse theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes just 10 days before he died.

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141points

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Savahax 3 months ago (edited)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07702v2 that's the paper. Not easy to follow for some pandas 😅

38points

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#14

Scientists used a dating method to show a Viking ax cut trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. This dating method uses a spike in solar radiation that left a mark in tree rings around the world. This proves the Vikings arrived before Christopher Columbus.

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137points

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Andrew Read 3 months ago

Finding a Viking village in Newfoundland was also a bit of a clue.

188points

#15

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) when Domino’s Pizza entered the Italian market in 2015, the company had an ambitious plan of opening 880 outlets across the country by 2030. It got as far as opening 29 branches, that were all closed by 2022

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133points

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Pittsburgh rare 3 months ago

Well, duh. What were they expecting? 😂

131points

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#16

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) There are over 1,000 homes in Edinburgh, Scotland that nobody has lived in for over 10 years. The most common reason is a reclusive homeowner passing away and nobody realizing they've inherited the property.

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131points

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My O My 3 months ago

May I have one of these houses? Nobody seems to be missing out on them

114points

#17

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) In 2022 seat belt use in the US was 91.6% of occupants (8.4% unrestrained) and unrestrained occupant deaths accounted for 49.8% of deaths.

tyrion2024 , Luke Miller /pexels Report

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128points

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Mimi M 3 months ago

To put it another way, in the words of a State Trooper: 'I've been on the job for decades and been at many fatal accidents, and I've never unbuckled a corpse'.

183points

#18

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Columbia Pictures refused to greenlight the 1993 film Groundhog Day without explaining why Phil becomes trapped in the same day. Producer Trevor Albert and director Harold Ramis appeased the studio, but deliberately placed the scenes too late in the shooting schedule to be filmed.

Kale_Brecht , Columbia Pictures Report

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120points

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CaliCoast 3 months ago

He becomes trapped because he's a d**k. He can only get out of the loop by becoming not a d**k. Duh.

127points

#19

In 1968, over 6000 sheep were killed in Utah and popular theories pointed to the Army. It was revealed 30 years later that it was indeed the result of nerve agent testing. Families nearby developed nervous system illnesses, but the Army accepted no responsibility.

Flares117 Report

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120points

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Wilfredo 3 months ago

What's new?

85points

#20

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) was written by Robert Louis Stevenson during a 6-day [substance] binge. His wife Fanny said: "That an invalid in my husband's condition of health" was able to do "the manual labour alone of putting 60K words on paper in 6 days seems almost incredible".

Final score:

116points

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Savahax 3 months ago

That's coke for ya 😁👌🏻

68points

#21

Possum Trot, a small town in Texas, adopted all the foster kids on a waiting list, eliminating the need for foster homes within a 100-mile radius.

flyinghippolife Report

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110points

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Bored Birgit 3 months ago

It is now a film "Sound of hope". 22 families from a rural Black church adopted 77 kids from the foster system.

20points

#22

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Anne, Queen of Great Britain had at least 17 pregnancies over a 17-year period & had miscarried or given birth to stillborn children at least 12 times. Of her 5 liveborn children, 4 died before the age of two & her sole surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died at age eleven.

tyrion2024 , Sir Godfrey Kneller Report

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105points

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Little Wonder 3 months ago

This is why we think people didn't live as long in the past - children died so often and in such numbers it lowered the average age of death.

130points

#23

In 1967 at the outbreak of the Six Day War the Suez Canal was shut down stranding fifteen ships, anchored together the crews formed a yachting club, held lifeboat races, and produced their own postage stamps — the ships would remain there until 1974.

JesseBricks Report

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105points

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Dumb teenager 3 months ago

At that piont they might as well have declared themselves an independent nation

71points

#24

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) After actor Sean Astin turned 18, he left numerous personal items at his mother Patty Duke's house. Upon returning for them, many items, including the treasure map from "The Goonies," were gone. “It’s an item that would probably be worth $100,000 now,” he said. “And I think my mom threw it out.”

Kale_Brecht , Warner Bros Report

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102points

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Upstaged75 3 months ago

TIL that Patty Duke is Sean Astin's mother!

69points

#25

Harrison Okene (a cook) survived 3 days at the bottom of the ocean in a sunken ship by finding an air pocket.

q007_Accee1963 Report

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97points

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Smol Frog 3 months ago

hooray for air!

40points

#26

After ABC executives & producers encouraged Margaret Cho to go on a crash diet, while filming her TV series All-American Girl in 1994, she lost 30 lbs (14 kg) in 2 weeks. This resulted in her hospitalization for kidney failure & led to major health issues that continued for years after the show.

Final score:

97points

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troufaki13 3 months ago

Hollywood please stop imposing ridiculous beauty standards to your employees and consequently to the rest of the world.

119points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#27

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Juicero, a company that made a $699 juicer requiring Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs that had to be scanned and verified before juicing. Journalists found that the packs were easily squeezeable by hand, yielding the same results as the juicer. The company shut down shortly after.

staythirsty90 , Steve Jurvetson/flickr Report

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95points

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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 3 months ago

Over-engineering at its finest.

67points

ubcstaffer123 , Sarah Chai/pexels Report

#28

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Most newborns cry for 45 minutes to two hours every day during the first six months of life because crying is the only way they communicate.

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93points

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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 3 months ago

Some mums would disagree with “45 minutes to two hours.”

112points

#29

A study where monkeys were shown to be willing to pay (sacrificing food) for risque photos of other monkeys.

RJWolfe Report

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93points

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Candid Panda 3 months ago

So monkey porn?

70points

#30

That the Wizard of OZ is only the 1st of 14 original works, and a total of 40 books in a series about the Land of OZ.

Jerry-And-Tom Report

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91points

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DE Ray 3 months ago

It was also supposed to be a political satire rather than a children's story, but people either didn't get or didn't care about the political angle (Baum was a supporter of the "bimetal standard", which was a fringe political movement of the day).

27points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#31

That in 1956 the canals in Venice, Italy were drained and cleaned.

hutch__PJ Report

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87points

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Annik Perrot 3 months ago

Time to do it again.

69points

#32

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Buzz Aldrin battled depression and alcohol addiction after the Moon landing.

OriginalPlayerHater , NASA Report

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83points

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Samuel Pelatan 3 months ago (edited)

I kinda get it. When your goal is that encompassing you need something to replace it after you reached it. Otherwise you've got a lot of void to stare at.

92points

z277_Denight52 , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

#33

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) A mathematics professor at Stanford University was [unalived] by his doctoral student who had been trying to get a PhD for 19 years.

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80points

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Francis 3 months ago

unalived.. that sounds like the student was robbing his soul.. bored panda, please stop this! He was murdered!

188points

Mattdaddie69 , GoodVillain101/reddit Report

#34

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Bob The Builder was altered for Japanese children so they wouldn’t confuse him for a Yakuza member.

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79points

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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 3 months ago

What about Bob the builder says Yakuza?

66points

#35

Michelangelo spent two months hiding in the underground chamber while evading a death sentence ordered by the Pope.

MyKinkyCountess Report

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79points

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Captain McSmoot 3 months ago

And no mention of the other Ninja Turtles?

99points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#36

During the 1920s, Guinness was recommended to pregnant women due to the perceived high iron content of the drink.

TommyJarvis12 Report

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77points

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Little Wonder 3 months ago

Yep, a pint a day was recommended to a lot of people for medical reasons. There's barely any iron in Guinness, btw.

51points

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#37

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) A pizzeria owner discovered DoorDash was conducting a "demand test" and had a lower price for his pizza even though he had not asked for the pizzeria to be on the app. The owner ordered 10 pizzas on the app, paid $160, and had them delivered to a friend. DoorDash paid the restaurant $240.

Final score:

76points

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Emma London 3 months ago

That wouldn't fly in EU. Adding individual restaurants in you ordering service for free sounds like a good idea, BUT it's purpose is to gain a monopoly in the area and then rise the prices after the customers have learned to use only them.

30points

xrc20 , Somchai Kongkamsri/pexels Report

#38

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) During “Hell week” of Navy SEAL training, candidates are given no more than 4 hours sleep over five and a half days, all while under continual mental and physical stress.

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75points

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François Bouzigues 3 months ago

I have twins. Months of this when they were babies.

143points

#39

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Elizabeth I had a lot of missing teeth from eating too much sweets, making it difficult for foreign ambassadors to understand what she was saying.

NiceTraining7671 , wikipedia Report

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75points

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Smol Frog 3 months ago

i want a thauthage with my thoup for thupper! bring it to me thervant!

76points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#40

A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is 'uncharacteristically' at 20 letters.

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74points

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Marianne 3 months ago

I wonder how long the longest frequently used word in German is.

31points

#41

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) From 1970 to 2015, The Sun published a picture of a topless female model on its page 3.

Johannes_P , ToddAF Report

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71points

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Onan Hag All 3 months ago

Sam Fox, Melinda Messenger, Linda Lusardi, Jodie Marsh.. Fond memories, (fond mammaries?)

29points

#42

Six-year-old Cao Qixian set a new women's world record by solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in an average time of 5.97 seconds. She became the first female ever to achieve an average time of under 6 seconds.

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71points

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SlightlyTarnished 3 months ago

I don't get why the differentiation between the sexes, it's a puzzle, not olympic shot putting.

6points

Extension-Radio-9701 Report

#43

Mu Us desert in China was completely wiped out by reforestation efforts.

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69points

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Ace 3 months ago

HAd to google it, but yeah, the process of desertification that was rampant from the 1950s was halted by concerted efforts, including planting of trees amongst other things.

16points

#44

The Prussian language, which has been extinct since the 17th century, is slowly being revived, and for the first time, children are growing up with it as their first language.

ravennesejaguar Report

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69points

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Agfox 3 months ago

It's known as Old Prussian to distinguish it from High Prussian and Low Prussian both of which were groups of dialects that are now are virtually extinct

34points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#45

Human Genome Project started in 1990 and by 2003, scientists had successfully documented 92% of the genome. However, it would take until 2022 before the final 8% was mapped and a full human genome was completely sequenced.

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67points

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marianne eliza 3 months ago (edited)

Most animals have genes that do the same thing in any species. Like 2 eyes, ears, a nose and mouth. Food goes in one end and out the other. And so on. So it was probably easy to ID those genes. It's the ones that made us humans were the tough ones. BTW bananas and humans share roughly 50-60% of our DNA. Cats 90%. Dogs 84%. Pigs 98%.

14points

#46

The capital of Canada once alternated between Toronto and Québec every four years. Queen Victoria selected Ottawa in 1857 because it sits far from the American border and it is situated on a cliff, making it easier to defend from a possible attack.

ubcstaffer123 Report

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66points

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Blayze Infyrno 3 months ago

Well ok, the PROVINCE of Canada, before Confederation. And before that, Kingston. Ottawa was ultimately chosen because it's on the border of Ontario and Quebec, the two original provinces of the country of Canada.

20points

#47

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Frank Zappa’s son was born, the nurse refused to register him with the name “Dweezil,” so Zappa started listing names of musicians he knew, which became his son’s legal name(s). When Dweezil was five, his parents fought to legally change his name to Dweezil at his request and won.

simeggy , BenoitAubry/wikipedia Report

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64points

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My O My 3 months ago

Is Dweezil happy with his name?

33points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

#48

“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts) Every even number is the sum of two primes, according to the Goldbach Conjecture, which has been verified up to 19 digits.

hova414 , matheasel Report

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56points

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Smol Frog 3 months ago

*brain malfunction*

51points

#49

In 1590, starving Parisians ground human bones into bread.

INGWR Report

Final score:

54points

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Serial pacifist 3 months ago

The infamous canibaguette.

119points