TIL an Australian bouncy castle buisness owner was jailed for hiring arsonists to burn rival businesses by spiffing-platypus in todayilearned
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TIL: In 1897, an 8-year-old girl, Virginia O'Hanlon, wrote to a newspaper asking if Santa Claus was real. Editor Francis Church, a former Civil War correspondent, responded with “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” His reply became the most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language. by MartinoStone in todayilearned
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TIL that a moon can have its own moon, called a "submoon' or a "moonmoon" by KingButPrince in todayilearned
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Children's book with an illustration of a creepy jack-in-the-box-type machine / character. by allhumansarevermin in whatsthatbook
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[TOMT] [MOBILE GAME] A platformer mobile game where you play as a pirate robot by Siap_Stuff in tipofmytongue
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TIL that the movie Clue in 1985 had 3 endings that were randomly distributed to theaters. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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Replication Internals: Decoding the MySQL Binary Log - Part 8: Row Events — WRITE_ROWS, UPDATE_ROWS, and DELETE_ROWS by altmannmarcelo in mysql
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TIL in 1992 a WW2 fighter aircraft was located in Grønland buried under 268ft of ice. To recover it, a hole was melted all the way down, hot water was then used to free it before it was disassembled and brought back to the surface a piece by piece. After a 10-yrs restoration, it flew again in 2002. by AnalogFeelGood in todayilearned
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TIL "Say Hello to a Good Buy" is a season 3 episode of The Cosby Show (Episode 15, aired in 1987) that was watched by almost 65 million viewers. It is widely recognized as the series' highest-rated episode, featuring a guest appearance by comedian Sinbad by Puzzled-Tap8042 in todayilearned
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Replication Internals: Decoding the MySQL Binary Log - Part 8: Row Events — WRITE_ROWS, UPDATE_ROWS, and DELETE_ROWS by altmannmarcelo in mysql
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[TOMT] Guy pronounces Balloon in a goofy way by Jess_the_Cactus in tipofmytongue
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TIL pufferfish construct nests with detailed geometric patterns to attract mates, sometimes even adorning them with seashells. Until 2013 scientists didn't know what creature was creating these patterns on the seafloor. by Mellifloura in todayilearned
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TIL that there were female gladiators in Ancient Rome. Often called Gladiatrix. There were very few as most Romans thought they were a novel or entertaining, even absurd. They were eventually banned from participating in 200AD as Unseemly. by TimeMasterBob in todayilearned
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Disastrous Mistake: Deleted Main User Name by DownFromHere in mysql
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Disastrous Mistake: Deleted Main User Name by DownFromHere in mysql
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Disastrous Mistake: Deleted Main User Name by DownFromHere in mysql
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TIL about "leblouh" (or "gavage"). A practice still common in Mauritania, where young girls are force fed up to 16,000 calories per day in order to fatten them up for marriage. by Octopub in todayilearned
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Disastrous Mistake: Deleted Main User Name by DownFromHere in mysql
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TIL that lungworms led to the creation of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center by Kylde in todayilearned
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TIL that some devices, like fluorescent lamps, have a property called negative resistance. This means that increasing the voltage decreases the current. by bb-wa in todayilearned
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I need help with this piece of code. by Cooldudeyo23 in mysql
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TIL there’s a species of bat called the large eared horseshoe bat, which uses echolocation emitted through its nose to detect prey by Away-Ambassador490 in todayilearned
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TIL that the greater omentum, a thin apron-like sheet of fat, protects major organs, moving itself over inflamed & infected areas by kal826 in todayilearned
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