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Remember when kids used to flip through encyclopedias to learn fun facts? Well, in today's digital age you don’t need a thick book to gain knowledge. Everything is accessible with a simple scroll. From scientific discoveries to Hollywood trivia, all the information is just a click away.

Thankfully, with one such click, we reached the 'Today I Learned' subreddit: a place where over 34 million people gather to share facts about the world. So, Pandas, scroll down to explore a collection of interesting tidbits. You never know, they might just come in handy at your next social gathering!

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40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) During the Apache Wars in the American Southwest, the Apache would cut the Army's telegraph lines but reconnect the ends together with a strip of leather to make the break in the circuit nearly impossible to find.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why are you showing a map of the Northeast if the reference is the Southwest?

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) After Salvador Dali expressed support for Spanish dictator Franco's regime, Pablo Picasso refused to mention Dali's name or acknowledge his existence for the rest of his life.

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    The popularity of this subreddit highlights the shift from traditional to online learning. This change has made learning more flexible and tailored to our modern lifestyle. It shows how technology is reshaping our approach to acquiring knowledge.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Children in ancient China learned to write from "Thousand Character Text", a 1000-word poem where the characters do not repeat and cover everything from philisophy to astrology.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My boyfriend is Chinese. He was born in California, but his parents are immigrants. They have a copy of this framed on their living room wall. It is literally awe-inspiring to behold; it’s as beautiful as a painting by a master artist. Note: my boyfriend did not have to learn how to write Chinese from it, luckily for him XD

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Ice-T made up a gang to keep real gang members off his back in high school. “We actually created a fake gang. We told people we were part of the Hillside Crips. We had them thinking there was hundreds of us. I never had any trouble.”

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🤣 wish I would've thought of that would have saved me so much trouble 😅

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Phil Collins spontaneously sang the lyrics to "In the Air Tonight". They were completely improvised and he didn't write them down until after singing them for the first time, on a piece of paper (which he still has) from his decorator.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Laurence Fishburne was only 14 when filming Apocalypse Now, as he had lied about his age to get the role. Production took so long, he was 18 by the time of its release.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of the most notoriously difficult movies to film in history. The results were amazing but Coppola and his crew went through hell to get it finished. Ironic considering the movie's themes.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) "Dune" was rejected by at least 20 publishers before being published by Chilton, the auto-manual company.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dune is my lifelong favorite book - my dogs are named Stilgar and Fenring. However, I (with sadness) do agree that the books became excruciatingly ridiculous once Herbert’s son and Kevin J. Anderson took over writing the series after Frank’s death. All I can say in defense of the books is - remember that Frank’s were written in the 60s and 70s, and the ones written by his son and Anderson were based on incomplete notes found after Frank’s death. The original first book (Dune) is absolutely a masterpiece, though - and keep in mind that Herbert was writing them less as 100% science fiction and more as a mix of sci-fi and a treatise on humanity and human social interaction (similar to Asimov’s work.)

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Shakers, a christian sect that believed sexuality to be the root of all evil and original sin. All members went far enough in chastity to avoid shaking the opposite sex's hands. Their membership declined from a peak of 5000 in 1840 to 3 members in 2019 due to lack of births.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) In 2021 a new species of fish was identified that has the smallest adult brain size of all known vertebrates. It's also the loudest of all known fish relative to its size.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Research suggests that working irregular shifts for a decade ages the brain an extra six and a half years.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Hair will sometimes grow back differently after chemotherapy. People who have straight hair may find that they now have curly hair or vice versa. It can even grow back a different colour.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I worked with a woman, who before having chemo, was a blond with curly hair. After chemo, she had straight, jet black hair.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Alexander Graham Bell believed people should say “Ahoy” when they pick up the phone. Edison proposed “hello,” putting that word into common usage.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Take a second to imagine an alternate universe, where you pick up the phone and say "Ahoy?"

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) A young man pinched his nose and clamped his mouth shut to hold in a forceful sneeze and ended up barely able to speak or swallow, with considerable pain. Air bubbles reached into the deep tissue and muscles of his chest and it took seven days for him to recover in hospital.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's early spring and I'm already having sneezing fits that go on for upwards of ten minutes.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Germany (maybe other countries too) girls were taught not to sneeze til about 40yish years ago. I have lots of friends pinching their nose and saying "tü" instead of properly sneezing

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Totally plausible, it's called subcutaneous emphysema and it's the consequence of a tear in your airways due to extreme pressure. Cardiothoracic surgeon here, saw it once, impressive.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've also heard of it causing embolisms (bubbles that start blood clots)

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doctors' warning after man tears hole in throat trying to stop sneeze: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-67714469

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why you never hold in burps, yawns, or flatulence, either!

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    8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone once said “Stop holding in your farts. If you do, they float up to your brain and that’s where the shítty ideas come from.”

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can do some serious damage to your eardrums that way. Also, think you can pop veins in your head and neck if you aren't careful.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just call Puff the Magic Dragon. He knows how to handle those sneezes.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I haven't done that but I sneeze hard and a few times have been in pain from trying to stifle a sneeze. INB4 - Yes, I usually don't try to hold them back. Though I do try to sneeze into my shirt or a tissue or something when possible. But once in a while you are in a weird situation like holding a sleeping baby or in a funeral service or something where a very loud sneeze would not be desired.

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    8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I often cover my ears when I sneeze. If I have multiple sneezes and I hear someone say “bless you” it will, for some unknown reason, stifle the rest of my sneezes. And it’s painful, I have to sneeze but now I can’t.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can hold them in with less damaging results by holding your tongue to the roof of your mouth

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, I’ve tried and they almost always still slip out. However, holding your tongue to the top of your mouth almost always works to stifle yawns.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) There are 17.3 million American digital nomads or people that travel freely while working remotely using technology and the internet.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very fortunate that my daughter from out of state could still do her job while helping me out after I had surgery.

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    Japanese death row inmates are executed by hanging. Three prison officers simultaneously press buttons to open the trap door so it is not clear which one is responsible.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same thing as a firing squad. Multiple shooters, only one gun with a bullet

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) In 1909 the entire town of Ulysses, Kansas was relocated 3 miles west to escape their debts.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They only had to hire one tornado - Kansas, after all.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Bruce Springsteen did not pay his taxes until he was put on the cover of Time Magazine in 1975. He then spent the next few years paying off his taxes, leaving him with only $20,000 on his 30th birthday despite multiple best-selling records and tours.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) The most expensive medication in the world is Hemgenix. Cost is $3,500,000 for one treatment. It is used to treat hemophilia B, a genetic bleeding disorder.

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    8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    F*****g hate big pharma with a passion. As to why I hate it my dad has a serious thyroid issue he can die without his meds he's supposed to see a thyroid doc once a month he hasn't seen one in 3 years barely surviving on bare bones meds because he's medication is three thousand dollars a pop. He's finally getting help because he got some decent insurance from his company but yeah f**k big pharma because of them my dad almost died the meds cost maybe 50 dollars to make so yes f**k you big pharma f**k you,f**k you, f**k you,f.u.c.k. y.o.u.Big Pharma

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Garden path sentences which is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect.


    A few examples include

    “The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families”

    “The prime number few.”

    “The man who hunts ducks out on weekends”

    “Fat people eat accumulates”

    “The old man the boat.”

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're confused (Like I was at first) heres an explanation: The sentence will begin with a part of a phrase that ends with a word that has multiple meanings (example, "the old man") In this case, the word "man" has 2 possible meanings 1. Noun, a man 2. Verb, to work at, operate, run or occupy, so the brain, using context clues (The word "old") assumes that it means the noun, but then, the sentence also uses the verb, so you can think of it as two sentences joined together by a word with multiple meanings. So sentence 1 is "The old man" and sentence 2 is "Man the boat"

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) After Hurricane Katrina, the number of babies named Katrina dropped sharply. After 10 years the name Katrina was 83 percent less common.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) US has not elected a below average height president for 120 years. Only 3 presidents since 1776 were not above average height.

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    In 2015, Planet Earth II attempted to capture the birthing grounds of Saiga Antelope, where hundreds of thousands gather. Instead, the crew witnessed a disease spread, k***ing 150,000 in three days.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Killing killing killing killing kill kill kill f**k you censors 🖕

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    2,000-year-old sapphire ring believed to have been owned by Roman Emperor Caligula sold for £500,000 in 2019. The sky blue ring also has an etching on it that's thought to depict Caligula's fourth and last wife, Caesonia.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Hong Kong jeweler who made the ring says no, that's his 3rd and favorite wife; Sweetie.

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    Carrie Fisher's ashes were buried in urn shaped like a Prozac pill.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Todd Fisher explained the unique urn to Entertainment Tonight, “Carrie’s favorite possession was a giant Prozac pill that she bought many years ago. A big pill. She loved it, and it was in her house, and [daughter] Billie [Lourd] and I felt it was where she’d want to be. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/carrie-fishers-ashes-placed-in-giant-prozac-pill-urn-115271/

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    The F-104 Starfighter jet had such an abysmal safety record it was called the Widowmaker in West Germany. 292 of 916 units were lost to accidents there. Other countries reported similar rates.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Last train robbery in the US was in 1970, at the San Antonio Zoo.

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    8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is absolutely false. There have been thousands of train robberies since then. There were more than 5,000 just in the year 2021 for example. If you are talking about the kind of robbery that is more than stealing things - armed people forcibly robbing a train, then that is still happening too. India for example is averaging one per day.

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    2022 DC superhero “Batgirl” was the most expensive ‘abandoned’ movie in history. Warner Bros. already spent over $90M finishing it, and the film was in post- production, when they decided not to release it.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it was supposedly so bad, it was easier to lock up and write off as a tax-loss write off than to release it

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    Tōxcatl, an annual Aztec festival which revolved around the sacrifice of a young man who had been impersonating their god Tezcatlipoca since the last Tōxcatl festival, and the selection of a new man to take that role in the year to come.

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    Oldest cat to give birth (to 2 kittens) was Kitty at 30 years old. She passed away just short of 32 yo and gave birth to a total of 218 kittens.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is kind of gross. At some point, it turned into how old can this cat be and still birth kittens. That poor cat!

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    Movie Cleopatra cost $350 million adjusted for inflation to make, 3 times higher than Ben Hur. Due to its cost it was considered a box office bomb despite being highest grossing film of 1963.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's an eye popping movie, if you haven't seen it. You wont' believe what they did before CGI.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) A man under the pseudonym "Kirk Allen" who became deluded that a sci-fi book series was actually the story of his life. He filled in the blanks with elaborate details and hallucinated himself in those settings. He was treated by Robert Lindner, who himself became obsessed with the books.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But what is the sci-fi book series in question? Or is it too dangerous to mention?

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    Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura in the TV show Heroes, founded the developer that made the game Outer Wilds.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was also on the cover of Time Magazine in 1987 at 12 years old. He also worked for ILM on the Star Wars prequels and Pirates of the Caribbean as a digital artist before he got his acting break.

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    America, the country with the worlds 3rd largest population has only 9 cities with a population above 1 million according to the 2020 census and the 2022 estimate. 3 of those cities are in Texas.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My niece comes from a backwater village in China of only 2 million people (her words)

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    HBO cancelled Game of Thrones spin-off Bloodmoon in 2019 after spending $30 million on its pilot. HBO's content chief explained that it was a hard project because George RR Martin had only written about 8 lines of text for the era the show was set in, so a lot more invention was required.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And nobody connected with the production had any imagination at all.

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    Star Jelly, a translucent jelly-like substance that has been found for centuries. Scientists have no idea what it is. According to folklore, it is deposited on the Earth during meteor showers.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have land in Florida I'm sure you will want to invest in!

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    Mother of Lee Harvey Oswald would sometimes go to Dealey Plaza and sell her autograph for five dollars.

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    Rapper Shyne, famous for going to jail as part of Diddy's posse as well as writing for many famous artists, converted to Orthodox Judaism in prison, moved to Jerusalem to study the torah up to 12 hours a day, and now has become a politician and leader of the opposition party in Belize.

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    Despite selling 500k copies in its first two hours and going 7x Platinum, Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II albums were considered to have "underperformed" sales expectations.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're not telling the full story. The record label set the expectation so high so they would not have to pay the band. They didn't "Under preform". They just didn't meet the record labels demand which was an unachievable target anyways.

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) Sleeping on your side increases facial wrinkles that are perpendicular to expression based wrinkles.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suspect not sleeping in a position that’s comfortable for me would be more damaging and to more than just my skin

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    40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics) The (in)famous problem of most scientific studies being irreproducible has its own research field since around the 2010s when the Replication Crisis became more and more noticed.

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    8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Most" - not hardly. Thank goodness for Social Media, where 100% of facts can be made up any time.

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