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TIL about the Time when Oil Derricks Loomed all over California Beaches, 1910-1955 (feddit.org) 10 gandalf_der_13te 221 »
Apparently we can actually just solve world hunger fairly easily (www.youtube.com) 8 confuser 52 »
TIL about the new word "zuzai", meaning "uses zero artificial intelligence" (zuzai.org)
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TIL THX is owned by Razer (en.wikipedia.org) 17 daggermoon 116 »
[TIL] Yoshio Kodama, yakuza and "political fixer" for the japanese ultra right wing after WW2, had his mansion targeted by a kamikaze in 1976 (en.wikipedia.org) 0 I Cast Fist 36 »
TIL Benedict Arnold's grave is in a kindergarten classroom. (www.neatorama.com) 14 Quilotoa 131 »
The bald eagle scream in every American establishing shot is a red-tailed hawk. 36 Fallibilist 310 »
TIL Metro New Yorkers tend to say they stand on line, whereas most other New York State and American English speakers tend to stand in line. (en.wikipedia.org) 22 zshivan 81 »
TIL the etymology of "Kirkiversary" (en.wiktionary.org) 2 stenAanden 3 »
TIL Netflix was officialy supported on the PS2* (revolutionarena.com) 20 tomatoely 202 »
TIL Europe has an annual tramdrivers competition. (www.tramem.eu) 16 Quilotoa 129 »
TIL about View-Verse, another competitor to YouTube (view-verse.org) 15 pieland -10 »
TIL the notion that jet fuel can't melt steel beams refers to the observed presence of molten metal during and after 9/11 21 stenAanden -37 »
TIL about caustic in optics (upload.wikimedia.org) 2 gandalf_der_13te 83 »
[META] Rule change suggestions to make TIL better 12 zshivan 55 »
TIL the name for one of Trump's distraction techniques (en.wikipedia.org) 21 Vanth 253 »
TIL About the Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical steel roller coaster and euthanasia device designed with the sole purpose of killing its passengers (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL, the creator of Superjail just did a few comics critiquing and whistle blowing the Trump Administration's fascist corruption, Mass illegal ICE Raids and Trump's attempt to acquire Greenland. (lemmy.world) 27 SwissArmyKazoo 229 »
TIL During the Siege of Sarajevo, rich people paid to travel there and kill civilians (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the taxonomic clade uniting bats with mammals like whales, cheetahs, pangolins, and rhinos (Scrotifera) is named after the presence of a postpenile scrotum in their common ancestor (en.wikipedia.org) 4 TheTechnician27 51 »
TIL DJT Jr.’s recent wedding was bankrolled entirely by a Russian oligarch (www.propublica.org) 8 green_goglin 356 »
TIL there's substantial evidence for the causal effect of self-efficacy on students’ performance in an introductory mathematics course. (www.frontiersin.org) 10 zshivan 36 »
TIL roughly 200 people still die each month from COVID worldwide. (data.who.int)
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TIL, That one turtle scene from "Master Of Disguise" was filmed on September 11. (lemmy.world) 11 SwissArmyKazoo 76 »
Til: Red Tailed Hawks are dubbed over Bald Eagles. 15 Hueristic_Autistic 152 »
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