TIL “Life expectancy” isn’t adjusted for infant mortality. It’s simply an average # of years a human is expected to live from birth. Nowhere, at no time, were adults just dropping dead at 35 or 45 years old, not even in hunter/gatherer societies. Childhood deaths skewed the figures.

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TIL that in the 19th century, massive riots occurring in Amsterdam had to be violently put down by the military. The riots were started because the police stopped people from playing a game called “eel pulling” where you pull the head off of a hanging eel while sailing down the canal on a boat

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TIL that when Nevada was in the process of becoming a U.S state, Governor James W. Nye became frustrated that previous attempts to send a copy of the state’s constitution over land and sea had failed, and so decided to send a copy via telegraph at a cost of $4,303.27; equivalent to $86,514.04 today.

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TIL about the Canada–Philippines waste dispute, which concerned 103 allegedly-mislabeled shipping containers, and over which Philippine President Duterte threatened to declare war in 2019.

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TIL “Life expectancy” isn’t adjusted for infant mortality. It’s simply an average # of years a human is expected to live from birth. Nowhere, at no time, were adults just dropping dead at 35 or 45 years old, not even in hunter/gatherer societies. Childhood deaths skewed the figures.

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TIL that in the 19th century, massive riots occurring in Amsterdam had to be violently put down by the military. The riots were started because the police stopped people from playing a game called “eel pulling” where you pull the head off of a hanging eel while sailing down the canal on a boat

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TIL “Life expectancy” isn’t adjusted for infant mortality. It’s simply an average # of years a human is expected to live from birth. Nowhere, at no time, were adults just dropping dead at 35 or 45 years old, not even in hunter/gatherer societies. Childhood deaths skewed the figures.

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TIL that in the 19th century, massive riots occurring in Amsterdam had to be violently put down by the military. The riots were started because the police stopped people from playing a game called “eel pulling” where you pull the head off of a hanging eel while sailing down the canal on a boat

TIL about the Canada–Philippines waste dispute, which concerned 103 allegedly-mislabeled shipping containers, and over which Philippine President Duterte threatened to declare war in 2019.

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TIL that in the 19th century, massive riots occurring in Amsterdam had to be violently put down by the military. The riots were started because the police stopped people from playing a game called “eel pulling” where you pull the head off of a hanging eel while sailing down the canal on a boat

On the world’s coldest stage, a military musician plays with a plastic horn and double gloves

Instead of constant remakes, why don’t studios re-release classics?

Calling someone out for manipulation gets called out more than manipulation.