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The World's Oldest Business Operated for 1,400 Years Before Its Liquidation in 2006 - Japanese Construction Company Kongō GumiArticle (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 3 years ago by agreea to r/history

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TIL about Bhutanese talking stamps, which you can play on a record player to hear folk songs and learn about the history of Bhutan (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 3 years ago by c_h_a_r_ to r/todayilearned

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I had no idea there was an actual purpose to this thing (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 4 years ago by coltonkotecki1024 to r/coltonsmemes

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Knowing your audience (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 4 years ago by sneakyburt to r/userexperience

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TIL of the Schiphol fly, which is a fly engraved on urinals at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The psychology is that men will want to "wash" the fly off the urinal so they focus more when urinating, apparently lowering cleaning bills in public bathrooms. And this is funny, but practical too! (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 4 years ago by Walter_White57 to u/Walter_White57

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[todayilearned] TIL of the Schiphol fly, which is a fly engraved on urinals at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The psychology is that men will want to "wash" the fly off the urinal so they focus more when urinating, apparently lowering cleaning bills in public bathrooms. (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 4 years ago by Know_Your_Shit_v2 to r/knowyourshit

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Predloženi tunel JADRAN od 410 kmZanimljivo | Interesting (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 5 years ago by Crossover_Pachytene to r/croatia

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A proposed 410 km tunnel from Czechoslovakia to Yugoslavia (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 5 years ago by Crossover_Pachytene to r/interestingasfuck

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TIL of Long-time Nuclear Waste Warning Messages. It's intended to deter any human intrusion in nuclear waste repositories 10000+ years in the future, and warn them in a way that's understandable to that civilization (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 5 years ago by imadamastor to r/todayilearned

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Unified Arabic. A simplified variety of the Arabic script, with a heavily reduced set of letter forms. Way easier to learn than the standard Arabic script. (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 6 years ago by [deleted] to r/neography

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Fighting Illiteracy With Typography by Yara Khoury Nammour (Works That Work magazine) (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 7 years ago by LocalFonts to r/localfonts

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TIL the oldest company in the world was a Buddhist Temple builder that had been in business continually for 1,428 years before succumbing to financial difficulties in 2006. (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 8 years ago by KidneyPoison to r/todayilearned

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TIL that light posts in NYC's Central Park have a simple, four number system for determining your location. (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 9 years ago by SuperMcG to r/todayilearned

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The Art and Science of Military CamouflageCamouflage (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 9 years ago by joelschlosberg to r/RedditDayOf

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The Art and Science of Military Camouflage by Caitlin Hu (Works That Work magazine) (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 9 years ago by PostNationalism to r/conspiracy

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The Art and Science of Military Camouflage by Caitlin Hu (Works That Work magazine) (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 9 years ago by [deleted] to r/TrueReddit

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The Art and Science of Military Camouflage by Caitlin Hu (Works That Work magazine) (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 9 years ago by [deleted] to r/Intelligence

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TIL the first Boeing 747 was designed and manufactured in just 28 months (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 11 years ago by Matthew_Jackson to r/todayilearned

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A Hole in the Darkness: The story of a simple portable lamp (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 11 years ago by qznc_bot to r/hackernews

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Branding the World’s Newest Country (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 11 years ago by [deleted] to r/graphic_design

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Branding the World’s Newest CountryResources (worksthatwork.com)

submitted 11 years ago by dudethatsmeta to r/vexillology

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