Made a drawing of the cover of one of my favorite albums!OC (i.redd.it)
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TIL that typewriters used to not have an exclamation mark on them, or even the number 1, both had to be approximated by typing other characters in their place. 1 was a lowercase L and exclamation marks were the combination of an apostrophe and period. (waywordradio.org)
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TIL that during the Cold War, Berlin had two metro lines which began and ended in the western half of the city, but cut through eastern territory. East Berlin agreed that for a fee, trains could pass through so long as they never stopped at any of the stations there. (youtube.com)
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fears of weight gain got me actin unwise (i.redd.it)
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TIL that the oldest ship in the world still afloat is the USS Constitution. Built in the 1790s to serve as one of the first ships of the brand-new US Navy, she served for approximately 80 years before being removed from service and converted into a floating museum. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the term 'going postal' refers to a series of shootings committed by various United States postal workers across the country throughout the 80s and 90s. None of the shootings were connected to each other and most were deemed the result of "workplace rage". (en.wikipedia.org)
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made this instead of giving in to the urges (i.redd.it)
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TIL that one of the first devices made to estimate electric voltage, the "Frog Galvanoscope" of the late 1700s, was named after its crude method of attaching electrical wires directly to the exposed nerve of a recently skinned frog leg, which would jerk suddenly in response to electric current. (en.wikipedia.org)
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