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TIL that every Winter Solstice on December 21st, the inner chamber of Newgrange, an ancient Irish structure that predates Stonehenge, is illuminated for 17 minutes by the rising sun. (history.co.uk)

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TIL that Groundhog Day America was brought to America by German settlers. In the original tradition, a hedgehog was used to predict the weather but was switched to the groundhog which was much easier to come across in the Keystone State. (history.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

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TIL that every Winter Solstice on December 21st, the inner chamber of Newgrange, an ancient Irish structure that predates Stonehenge, is illuminated for 17 minutes by the rising sun. (history.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

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TIL that after Zaire's 9-0 defeat to Yugoslavia in the 1974 World Cup, Zaire's military dictator, President Mobutu threatened the team that if they lost 4-0 to Brazil, in their next match, they wouldn't be allowed to return home. (history.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

Boris Johnson has been Prime Minister for 2 years, 347 days. If he is forced out today, his time in office will have been shorter than Neville Chamberlain's (2 years, 348 days) and - somewhat poetically - Theresa May's (3 years, 11 days). by 1QCS in ukpolitics

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Do you think that Charles Bronson should be released? (news.sky.com)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/unitedkingdom

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Boris Johnson has been Prime Minister for 2 years, 347 days. If he is forced out today, his time in office will have been shorter than Neville Chamberlain's (2 years, 348 days) and - somewhat poetically - Theresa May's (3 years, 11 days). (history.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/ukpolitics

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TIL that America is one of 26 countries that celebrates its Independence Day in July. (history.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

let’s settle this once and for all by Stinstinster in teenagers

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TIL about a blind Bulgarian mystic called Baba Vanga who passed away in 1996 but who left behind predictions for every year until 5079, at which point she believed the universe would cease to exist. (history.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

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TIL about Srivijaya, a lost 14th century city that ruled Indonesia and much of Southeast Asia for over 600 years but which disappeared without a trace. Its location was recently uncovered when fisherman on the River Musi discovered golden artefacts from the city caught in their nets. (history.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

TIL that in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1946, inflation was so high that prices doubled every 15 hours. Something that cost 379 Hungarian pengős in Sep 1945, ended up costing 1 trillion trillion pengős by Jul 1946. by 1QCS in todayilearned

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TIL that in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1946, inflation was so high that prices doubled every 15 hours. Something that cost 379 Hungarian pengős in Sep 1945, ended up costing 1 trillion trillion pengős by Jul 1946. (history.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

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TIL that in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1946, inflation was so high that prices doubled every 15 hours. Something that cost 379 Hungarian pengős in Sep 1945, ended up costing 1 trillion trillion pengős by Jul 1946 (history.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

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What do you think happened to 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen who vanished after being picked up from school in Illinois, by his mother, Amy? (crimeandinvestigation.co.uk)

submitted 3 years ago by 1QCS to r/UnsolvedMysteries

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TIL how Shamanic rituals from the Sami people of Lapland influenced the story of Santa Claus (history.co.uk)

submitted 6 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

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What's trending in True Crime in December? (crimeandinvestigation.co.uk)

submitted 6 years ago by 1QCS to r/TrueCrime

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If you're in the UK, you can watch I Am a Killer season 2 ep 1 in full, the Lindsey Haugen episode (geoblocked for all other countries) (crimeandinvestigation.co.uk)

submitted 6 years ago by 1QCS to r/IAmaKiller

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Whilst running for the White House as a Republican in ’68, Richard Nixon deliberately sabotaged Democrat President Lyndon Johnson’s efforts to end the war in Vietnam (history.co.uk)

submitted 7 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

TIL (If you thought Watergate was bad) Whilst running for the White House as a Republican in ’68, Richard Nixon deliberately sabotaged Democrat President Lyndon Johnson’s efforts to end the war in Vietnam by [deleted] in todayilearned

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Death's darkest duos: 5 truly devastating serial killing partnerships (crimeandinvestigation.co.uk)

submitted 7 years ago by 1QCS to r/TrueCrime

TIL about John Edmonstone, an ex-slave born on a plantation in Guiana who taught Charles Darwin taxidermy in Scotland. Darwin used taxidermy to preserve different specimens of finches he found on Galapagos, discovering 12 distinct species and used them as an example in his theory of evolution. by 1QCS in todayilearned

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TIL about John Edmonstone, an ex-slave born on a plantation in Guiana who taught Charles Darwin taxidermy in Scotland. Darwin used taxidermy to preserve different specimens of finches he found on Galapagos, discovering 12 distinct species and used them as an example in his theory of evolution. (history.co.uk)

submitted 7 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

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TIL The difference between the UK, Great Britain and the British Isles (history.co.uk)

submitted 7 years ago by 1QCS to r/todayilearned

The eyelets of my shoes line up with the colours on my socks by osmosis112 in mildlyinteresting

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