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Broccoli originally came from a plant that looks like this:

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A large percentage of the Scots language version of Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who doesn't speak Scots and who used an online translator. Much of what he wrote was gibberish.

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In 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets of the Yukon Territory challenged the Ottawa Senators for the Stanley Cup. To play against their foes, the hockey players from Dawson City embarked on an arduous three week journey via dogsled, train, and steamship. When they finally arrived in Ottawa, they were roundly defeated by scores of 9–2 and 23–2.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger only had 17 lines of dialog in his most famous role: "The Terminator".

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Isaac Newton was one of the greatest geniuses of all time. He also lost nearly his entire life savings in an investment scam known as the "South Sea Bubble". It is widely believed that he died a virgin.

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Sep 15, 2020

From 1325 to 1337, the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena fought a war with 2,000 casualties over a bucket.

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Sep 15, 2020

Source was a Real Life Lore video.

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Sep 16, 2020

This video was sponsored by Curiosity Stream.

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Sep 17, 2020

Actually, it was sponsored by Skillshare

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Sep 20, 2020

No, it was sponsored by Dashlane.

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Sep 21, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3H_AYVDTk

Here is the source video.

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Mar 19, 2021

No it was sponsored by Cheddar.

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May 20, 2021

really good oversimplified video on it too

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Sep 20, 2021

No, it was sponsored by Honey.

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Sep 30, 2021

Pretty sure it was Audible

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Mar 12, 2022

I thought it was squarespace

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Mar 16, 2022

Are we sure it wasn't Nord VPN?

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May 19, 2022

Its Grammarly

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Sep 10, 2022

no, it's expressvpn

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Jan 7, 2023

It’s ovoiusly 100%notfakecompanythatasksforsponsers

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Mar 21, 2023

that definitely sounds like a video RLL would make

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Sep 16, 2020

Emperor Norton

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Sep 16, 2020

It is a common belief in South Korea that if you sleep with an electric fan on, you'll die

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Sep 21, 2020

Done already

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Nov 4, 2020

I'm alive

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May 29, 2021

Same here. I think........

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Feb 17, 2023

Well, you obviously didn't do it in South Korea.

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Sep 16, 2020

If Manhattan Island was as densely populated as Alaska, it would only have 30 people on it.

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Sep 16, 2020

These are the populations of some more places if they were only as densely populated as Alaska,

Rhode Island: 1,576

Washington DC: 89

New Jersey: 6,715

Texas: 349,176

Singapore: 362

Hong Kong: 555

Switzerland: 20,722

England: 65,450

Scotland: 39,105

Wales: 10,408

Northern Ireland: 7,093

Canada: 5,011,500

Antarctica: 7,127,900

Russia 8,582,600

So, yeah, Alaska is very empty!

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Sep 16, 2020

The only one that actually has an increase is Antarctica.

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Sep 17, 2020

It would still only have the population of Arizona, so not that much, but if there ever are cities on Antarctica, I would guess it would have about that many people.

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Jun 15, 2021

alaska: (population of alaska)

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Sep 22, 2020

On the other hand, if Alaska was as densely populated as Manhattan, it would have 39.7 billion people.

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Oct 20, 2020

If the world were as densely populated as Macau(The most densely populated 'country' in the world) there would be 3 trillion people, and very little living space

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Nov 24, 2020

Oh dear...

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Dec 9, 2020

Macau is not a country. My guess,, Singapore or Monaco is the most densely populated country

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Sep 30, 2021

That's why it's in quotation marks. It has a similar status to Hong Kong.

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Sep 17, 2020

I love the Scots Wikipedia pages! :)

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Sep 17, 2020

It costed 2 cents to make a Penny in 2019.

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Jul 30, 2021

The penny is stupid. We should get rid of it.

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Sep 20, 2021

CGP Grey approves

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Feb 20, 2022

Alternatively, we could do what other countries have done and knock a decimal place or two off the currency to make a penny worth something again. Inflation will never end, so the options are to keep removing smaller denominations and replacing them with larger ones, or adjust the value of your currency and swap old script for new at a fixed rate.

Old $100 bills are worth, and can be traded for new $1 bills; old dimes can we swapped for new pennies. The old script gradually leaves circulation, as with the Euro conversion. Now a car costs $200, a house costs $5000, and your salary is $500 per year. A penny becomes money again. You've adjusted for a century worth of inflation.

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Sep 17, 2020

The U.S. mint lost $72,000,000 for the 7.3 billion pennies made that year.

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Sep 17, 2020

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/perspectives/eliminating-penny-coin-shortage/index.html

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Sep 17, 2020

Oh dear, none of my ones made it 😥

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Sep 21, 2020

That is because you need to add a source/citation to every fact.

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Sep 17, 2020

Did you know that Colorado's lowest point is taller than Pennsylvania's and Arkansas's tallest point. (Just to be clear, it is taller than each individually, not combined.)

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Sep 18, 2020

In WWI, newfoundland had about 1000 deaths. It was a dominion of the UK, but it was more close to canada.

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Sep 20, 2020

Texas is bigger than every country in Europe except Russia.

California's population is even higher than the population of Canada.

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Sep 21, 2020

And of course both are part of the amazing US. For some reason, Californians see us as competition.

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Dec 2, 2020

Meanwhile my state, Iowa, goes completely unknown by much of the outside world. I mean, we sculpt entire scenes of farming out of butter at our state fair! How could you not visit?

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Sep 22, 2020

Interesting fact #482 Boba Fett had only 5 lines in the entire Star Wars original trilogy.

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Sep 23, 2020

About 480, the South Sea Bubble wasn't the scam, but the result of the scam.

The company was named "South Sea Company", and their collapse brought an economic bubble that ruined several investors (Newton included), which was dubbed as "South Sea Bubble" (much like the US housing bubble was dubbed by some as the "NINJA Loan Bubble").

It would've been weird (and still today it would be) to invest in something directly named as a "bubble" (unless you're Spongebob).

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Dec 2, 2020

I saw the extra history series of that! Good Youtube channel!

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Oct 12, 2020

It costed 2 cents to make a Penny in 2019.

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Oct 12, 2020

The U.S. mint lost $72,000,000 for the 7.3 billion pennies made that year.

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Oct 12, 2020

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/perspectives/eliminating-penny-coin-shortage/index.html

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May 16, 2021

476: ....... Broccoli tastes like that looks.

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May 19, 2021

the reason that issac newton died like that is because he was the king of introvertedness

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May 26, 2021

I always thought broccoli was a direct descendant of dirt. After all, that is how it tastes.

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May 29, 2021

Stop badmouthing broccoli!

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Oct 31, 2022

A year later, broccoli tastes horrible to me

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Jan 16, 2023

~~character arc~~

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May 29, 2023

Why were you eating dirt in the first place

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Mar 21, 2022

#476: nice view!

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Oct 6, 2022

#477 is a great statement on all of Wikipedia. Any article starts out with contradictions in the sidebar. Sentences continually follow another with "yeah but" by another editor saying the exact opposite as fact. There is a reason it is not allowed as a source for any college work. Use Wikipedia as a starting point, but never ever quote it if you don't want to be proven wrong.