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Destiny Rose • upvoted 18 items 8 hours ago

Joe Biden's Inauguration Was A Goldmine For Hilarious Posts (51 Pics)

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Joe Biden's Inauguration Was A Goldmine For Hilarious Posts (51 Pics)

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Destiny Rose • upvoted 8 items 1 day ago

My Pinhead Voodoo/ Fetish Statuette

Seuss!

My Pinhead Voodoo/ Fetish Statuette

Seuss!

Antique Sign & Fire Extinguisher

Gumballs And Gargoyle

Mouse That Dispenses Liquid Paper

I Got Bored

10 Kilometer Range Walkie Talkie And A 10x Monocle

Hey Pandas, Show Us Your Cool Grandparents Or Great-Grandparents (Closed)

Small airport in the Wilkes Barre, PA area.

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Destiny Rose • upvoted 14 items 2 days ago

1.5 Inches Long, Hard And Glossy. Found 5 Feet Below The Bottom Of A Virginia River

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TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion

1.5 Inches Long, Hard And Glossy. Found 5 Feet Below The Bottom Of A Virginia River

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TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion

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TIL that the youngest French resistance hero was a little boy who acted as a courier for resistance fighters, slipping past enemy patrols and carrying messages. In 1950, he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the resistance. He was Marcel Pinte, and he died for France at the age of 6.

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TIL of Waverly Woodson, a black medic who treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day while injured himself. As he hit the beach a shell tore apart his landing craft, filling him with shrapnel. Despite this, he set up an aid station and treated wounds for 30 hours, at one point even amputating a foot.

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TIL about Mary Ann Brown Patten, who took command of a merchant vessel in 1856 when the captain, her husband, became ill and the first mate was found to be sabotaging the voyage to win a bet he'd placed on a competitor. She defeated a mutiny attempt and brought the ship safely back to port.

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TIL that Britain's worst nuclear accident, would have been much worse, were it not for Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. Whom insisted on installing filters onto the exhaust shaft of the Windscale Nuclear Power Plant. When the accident happened the radioactive dust was reduced by 95%.

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TIL that Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was painted on cardboard

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TIL about Judith Catchpole, a young maidservant in the colony of Maryland, who was tried in 1656 for witchcraft and killing her newborn child. The judge summoned an all-female jury, who determined that Judith did not kill her child - in fact, there were no signs that Judith had even been pregnant.

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TIL that in 2012, a survey in eastern Germany (regions formerly part of East Germany/GDR) was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 who believed in God

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TIL Saudi Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing an image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter

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TIL that one of the 2 co-owners/founders of Macy's died on the Titanic, along with his wife, because he refused to board rescue ships before women and children were helped. His wife chose to stay behind because she did not want to abandon her husband, so they both died together aboard the Titanic.

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TIL that Russian President Boris Yeltsin once got so drunk at a state dinner that he drummed on Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev's bald head, using dinner spoons.

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