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TIL how to gather worms for fishing: Worm Grunting (www.youtube.com)

posted by GoatsShadow

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TIL Wendy was a name made up for the book Peter Pan (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by saverem

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TIL about Joyce Hatto and and her scam (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by saverem

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TIL about Waldo Pierce and his shrinking turtle gag (en.citizendium.org)

posted by saverem

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TIL Einstein was a cousin fucker (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by saverem

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TIL about Ion Perdicaris (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by saverem

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TIL about the Russian Domesticated Fox experiment (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by sidewalker_Principle

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Los Angeles' Full Name (www.neatorama.com)

posted by Justintoxicated

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TIL about the Southern Strategy

posted by sidewalker_Principle

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TIL about the 1947 Texas City Disaster (www.local1259iaff.org)

posted by Titus_of_Voat

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Remember this? (kek.gg)

posted by Cumin

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TIL the aquatic ape hypothesis (infogalactic.com)

posted by Cumin

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TIL of Heteronyms - the proper term for words that have the same spelling but different pronounciations and meanings (ex will read vs has read) (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by AP

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TIL it's Dutch-American Friendship Day (dutchreview.com)

posted by Cumin

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TIL: Most climbers that die while climbing Everest are left behind and used as landmarks, the oldest from 1924. (infonewsworld.com)

posted by invno1

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TIL phuks identifies devices to check for same devices/Routers. If you have two people in a house on the same router, they assume you're the same person

posted by GoatsShadow

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TIL: Besides the sabretooth tiger there where also "sabretooth cats" (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by Boukert

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TIL: The History Of The X in Xmas

posted by simone

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TIL: Whale Poop Freshens Our Air (video.nationalgeographic.com)

posted by simone

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TIL a good way to disinfect drinking water is to bleach it. (www.epa.gov)

posted by jidlaph

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TIL there is a Canadian church where people worship dicks (en.wikipedia.org)

posted by PMYA

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TIL that .horse is a top-level domain (dead.horse)

posted by jobes

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TIL Koro is a culture-specific syndrome delusional disorder in which an individual has an overpowering belief that one's genitalia are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

posted by jobes

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TIL the UK's nuclear submarines use a variant of Windows XP to operate their tactical information and torpedo weapon control systems [PDF link] (www.basicint.org)

posted by PMYA

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TIL Romania Has 2nd Fastest Internet in The World at a Cheap Price, All Thanks to an Unregulated Telecom Industry (foxnomad.com)

posted by ohphukimintrouble

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