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  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
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    TIL that I suck at Trivia Crack!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL that Nov. 2, 2000 was the last time all living humans were on earth at the same time. Ever since the ISS have been occupied continuously.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL that the Python programming language wasn't named after the snake. It was named after Monty Python, because the creator was reading Monty Python scripts when he implemented the language.

  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL that in 1838 Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book about a 4 man ship crew that ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker. In 1884 a 4 man ship crew ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
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    TIL Wearing socks during sex can increase your chances of orgasm by 30 percent, according to a University of Groningen study.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL Tori Amos, at age 2, could reproduce pieces of music on piano she had only heard once. At 3 years old, she was composing her own songs on piano. She has described seeing music as structures of light since early childhood, an experience consistent with chromesthesia.
  • bigbandjohn
    bigbandjohn Posts: 769 Member
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    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that Smarties in the USA aren't the same as in the UK.

    Heh... I'm bringing US smarties to my friends in the UK... Mess with them. ;-)

  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    lstrat115 wrote: »
    Zoology is pronounced Zo-ology NOT Zoo-ology

    Not zoo-logily?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL about asteroid J002E3, which was discovered 16 years ago orbiting the earth. It turned out to be the 3rd stage of Apollo 12, which had come back to earth orbit after going around the sun for over 30 years.
  • myawsomeboys
    myawsomeboys Posts: 54 Member
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    Nothing yet I’m still getting up! 💤 just bored
  • epr3996
    epr3996 Posts: 2,719 Member
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    TIL that if your neighbor was TP'ed on Halloween do not light the TP on fire to get rid of it apparently it lights the trees on fire also!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL that around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci designed a robot.
  • R3d_butt3rfly
    R3d_butt3rfly Posts: 1,127 Member
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    I learned 16 Candles was rated PG because PG 13 didn't exist at the time it was released.

    My 9 yr old was like "Mom... she's naked and this movie is rated PG" :D
  • emmaMaureen19
    emmaMaureen19 Posts: 63 Member
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    That Rosie6dafjnktc2c8.png
    from Mamma Mia is also Robs mom on Harry Potter...
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL Robert Millikan disliked Einstein's results about light consisting of particles (photons) and carefully designed experiments to disprove them, but ended up confirming the particle nature of light, and earned a Nobel Prize for that.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL that in 1983 the head of a woman was found in a peat bog in England. A man assumed it belonged to his wife, who he had murdered and dumped in the bog in 1961, and made a full confession. The remains were dated and discovered to be 1750 years old. The man was still convicted of his wife's murder.

  • mybassfishingirl
    mybassfishingirl Posts: 195 Member
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    TIL how great the Walmart grocery app is, you grocery shop at home, pick the day & time you can pick up your order, they shop & load it up for you, they give you 10.00 off coupons towards your next order, plus if they don't have the size you ordered, they will upgrade it for another size at no extra cost...you can't beat it...
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL In the UK there are 53 'Thankful Villages' where all of the troops that left to fight in WWI returned alive. Of that list 13 are 'Doubly Thankful' and had the same fortune in WWII.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    TIL: Mel Brooks put on a prosthetic 11th finger for adding his hand print on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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