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9 years ago+2 2 0TIL there is a Truman Show-type village in the Netherlands created for dementia patients.
Travel to the town of Weesp in the Netherlands and you can find a gated village called Hogeweyk. The village is making history as one of the top care facilities for people suffering with dementia. Hogeweyk’s progressive practices have caught ...
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL the African Union intends to have a single, continent-wide currency modeled on the Euro. One proposed name for the currency is the "Afro."
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9 years ago+2 2 0TIL that Time Warner Cable has a 97 Percent Profit Margin on High-Speed Internet
In our Petition for Investigation of Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Comcast, we point out that TWC's High-Speed Internet service has a 97 percent profit margin and a number of people asked how that statistic was derived. Simple. Time Warner Cable p ...
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL in Fucking, Austria, the residents voted against changing the Town's name, the mayor said "Fucking is Fucking and it's going to stay Fucking"
Fucking (German pronunciation: [ˈfʊkɪŋ], rhymes with "booking"[2]) is an Austrian village[3] in the municipality of Tarsdorf,[4] in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is 33 kilometres (21 mi) north of Salzburg, 4 ki ...
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0NSFW TIL a guy in South Africa walked into a supermarket, strolled into the butchery area, swiped his neck across the meat saw, cutting off his head
Shocked butchery staff at the Richard's Bay Shoprite Checkers branch have received intensive counselling after witnessing a man cut off his own head using an electric meat saw.
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL Adam Sandler won both the worst actor and actress Razzie awards for his movie Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill is a 2011 American comedy film co-written, produced by, and starring Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, and Al Pacino, and directed by Dennis Dugan, who has collaborated with Sandler on many of his films. It was distributed by Columbia Picture ...
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9 years ago+1 1 0TIL Martin Van Buren (b. 1782) was the first president born a US citizen
Find out more about the history of Martin Van Buren, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL a Coca-Cola employee can get fired for drinking Pepsi on the job
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The big difference between drinking a Coke or a Pepsi could be a pink slip, as one Coke employee discovered Thursday.
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL that the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man was invented as an art project for the opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics
An airdancer is a large inflatable device comprising a long tube attached to a fan which causes the tube to move in a dancing or flailing motion; some variants may resemble humans with tube arms. Airdancers are generally called an inflatable tube or ...
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL there's a "mansion" in CT that is 90' long but only 18' deep. The house's builder was a magician and wanted to incorporate that into his home.
I thought this was incredible.
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9 years ago+7 7 0TIL Bananas are naturally full of seeds, but we have selectively bred them to have very few.
Have you every stopped to think and wonder if bananas have seeds? Learn how these trees reproduce.
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL Mary-Kate Olsen refused to speak to authorities about the death of Heath Ledger without the promise of legal immunity
Mary-Kate Olsen (born June 13, 1986)[1] is a former American actress, fashion designer, producer, author, businesswoman, and equestrian. She co-founded luxury fashion brands The Row, Elizabeth and James, and the more affordable lines Olsenboye and St ...
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9 years ago+4 4 0WE HAVE A BANNER!!
Thanks to /tinkerbell we now have an AMAZING BANNER!!
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9 years agoUnspecified+3 3 0TIL that Bob Marley's wife, Rita, was shot in the head during his attempted assassination. However, she had dreadlocks so thick, they saved her life.
A memoir by the woman who knew Bob Marley best--his wife, Rita.
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9 years agoUnspecified+3 3 0TIL that Jack Black's parents are both rocket scientists.
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, singer, and producer.
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9 years ago+1 1 0TIL That the Dutch East India Company was the most valuable company ever. Worth 78 Million Dutch Guilders, adjusted to USD it was worth $7.4Trillion.
View the Most valuable companies in history, adjusted for inflation photo gallery on Yahoo Finance. Find more news related pictures in our photo galleries.
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9 years agoUnspecified+2 2 0TIL of Cunningham's Law: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."
Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."
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9 years agoUnspecified+2 2 0TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was "grey".
Alex (1976 – September 6, 2007)[1] was an African grey parrot and the subject of a thirty-year (1977–2007) experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard University and Brandeis Univers ...
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9 years agoUnspecified+1 1 0TIL Japanese police fire paint-balls at fleeing vehicles so that other police vehicles can see them and to identify them later.
TIL Japanese police fire paint-balls at fleeing vehicles so that other police vehicles can see them and to identify them at a later date if they get away. The paint is Bright orange and difficult to remove.
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9 years ago+1 1 0TIL So few Lamborghinis were ordered in manual that whenever someone did, it was just assumed to be an error and made sure it was double checked
When Ferrari made the move to drop its iconic gated stick shift the Italian automaker boasted that its transmission technology had become so impressive that shifting your own gears was, at best, antiquated and at worst, robbing the car of its perform ...