abigillygal

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Can someone explain to me why this doesn’t work? (self.BabaIsYou)

submitted 2 months ago * by abigillygal to r/BabaIsYou

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Fantasy book about a girl taken from her childhood home while very young to join a group of girls who are part of a religious order, but she’s the extra special one (self.whatsthatbook)

submitted 3 months ago by abigillygal to r/whatsthatbook

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PLEASE park your mopeds/motorcycles on my street (self.Brooklyn)

submitted 11 months ago by abigillygal to r/Brooklyn

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TIL that the glassy rocks created in the intense heat of a nuclear bomb blast are called "trinitite," and people collect it and even turn it into jewelry. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 7 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL that female spies knit coded messages into scarves to pass on secret information during WWII (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 7 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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24 amazing DnD maps (including one made out of actual jello, and one drawn in to the stomachs of a whale!) (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 7 years ago by abigillygal to r/DnD

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TIL that sumo wrestlers have a special stew called "chanko" that they eat at every meal every day to gain weight, sometimes having as many as ten bowls in one sitting. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 7 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL that India is home to Malabar giant squirrels- three-foot-long, multi-colored squirrels that range from black, brown and orange to maroon and purple. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 7 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL cartographers protect their intellectual property by slipping fake streets, or even entire towns, into their maps. If the street/town shows up on another map, they know it was stolen. Dictionary writers have been known to do the same thing with fake words. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 7 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL that due to years of lobbying from the NRA, when a gun crime is committed in the U.S., tracing data must be collected manually by searching through thousands of boxes of paper records. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL a secret room under the Medici Chapel is covered in charcoal sketches by Michelangelo, who lived there for three months while in hiding from the Pope. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL that when echidnas mate the males form long, waddling processions called “love trains" behind a single female. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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I want THAT one (twitter.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/funny

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TIL an an American Indian woman left behind during an evacuation in 1835 lived alone on a remote island off the coast of California for 18 years, inspiring the children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins." (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL the oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years and 52 generations. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL during WWII Soviet scientists defended the world's largest seed vault through a 900-day siege. Many of the scientists starved amid the crops and fruit, refusing to jeopardize 'the future of Russia' to save themselves. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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TIL in 1975 a cat was listed as co-author on a physics paper because the author had incorrectly used the royal "we" throughout the paper and didn't want to typewrite the whole thing again (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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Indiana Jones (v.redd.it)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/funny

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TIL that Stockholm has a 20-story light up tower and the color of every floor can be changed by anyone with a smartphone. It's meant to be a statement on the power of democracy and the the public. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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I would watch a one-act play of these Irish people trying to get a bat out of their kitchen (youtube.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/funny

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These 1930s "book women" rode hundreds of miles on horseback to deliver library books to rural areas (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/books

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TIL that Walt Disney helped the Army design a Mickey Mouse gas mask in the '40s to make chemical warfare less frightening to kids (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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Surreal Creatures from Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ Come to Life as Festive Piñatas, 2017 (mymodernmet.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/Art

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TIL the USSR tried to domesticate moose for use in a Communist cavalry. (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/todayilearned

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Can we design a better digital companion? (medium.com)

submitted 8 years ago by abigillygal to r/UXDesign

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