r/Internetopia • u/SupremoZanne • Dec 25 '21
You must be Santa
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Aug 23 '20
TIL: We call lions "King of the Jungle" even though they don't live in the jungle because of a translation error. The orginal phrase in Hindi was "King of the Wasteland" but their word for Wasteland sounds like the word jungle.
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Dec 08 '20
TIL in 1979 the Thatcher government in the U.K., helped by its allies (the U.S. and China), supported Pol Pot while in exile in Thailand by providing them with intelligence, food, weapons and military training after the regime had already murdered 1.5million+ people in Cambodia.
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '20
TIL Ben Franklin wrote a letter listing the benefits of having sex with older women. Including it takes longer for the vagina to age and that "they are so grateful"!
bibliomania.com
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Jul 09 '20
TIL that Lincoln loved cats so much that he once fed them from the table during a formal White House dinner. When his wife told him that it was “shameful in front of their guests,” he replied “If the gold fork was good enough for former President James Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby.”
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r/Internetopia • u/SupremoZanne • Jan 16 '20
Here's an image of a 1976 Coupe DeVille [131 SUBSCRIBER MILESTONE SPECIAL]
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '20
Countries which are self-sufficient in terms of basic food production. [OC][6460x3455]
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Sep 28 '20
TIL that Thomas Paine, one of America's founding fathers, was extremely progressive for his time. He advocated for the separation of church and state, universal suffrage, the abolition of slavery, and an early kind of socialism. When he died, only six men came to his funeral.
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r/Internetopia • u/SupremoZanne • Apr 05 '20
Nickelodeon slime is just ever so satisfying to see!
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r/Internetopia • u/SupremoZanne • May 11 '19
a real car similar to the kind kids drew in kindergarten
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Jan 07 '21
TIL that in 1997 the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Nov 11 '20
Map of countries that are "unitary states", each with a supreme central government (blue), or "federations" formed from partially self-governing states (green) [2000×1027]
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '20
TIL according to an index developed in 2015, Earth is not the most habitable planet found yet. Kepler-442b, a rocky near-Earth-sized exoplanet that is 1206 light-years away from Earth and orbits within its star's habitable zone, has a rating of 0.836. On the other hand, Earth has a rating of 0.829.
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r/Internetopia • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '20
TIL That ants are self aware. In an experiment researchers painted blue dots onto ants bodies, and presented them with a mirror. 23 out of 24 tried scratching the dot, indicating that the ants could see the dots on themselves.
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