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Reply to comment by VinnyDaBoi in TIL the first official subway train pulled out to head uptown on Oct. 27, 1904. The mayor, George B. McClellan Jr., was on hand to start the train, but was so enthralled that he held onto the silver controller handle and drove the train all the way to Broadway and 103rd Street. by mankls3
lmao
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Reply to comment by naois009 in Will This Device Protect Athletes’ Brains, or Only Make Them Think It Does? by mankls3
yes
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Reply to comment by IIIllllIIlllIIlllIIl in Will This Device Protect Athletes’ Brains, or Only Make Them Think It Does? by mankls3
q collar pushes bloood into head
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Reply to comment by RetroMetroShow in TIL Queensbridge Houses is the largest public housing development in the USA. It contains 29 buildings and 3,142 units for 7,000 people. by mankls3
Wiki says North America
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Reply to comment by MarkRevan in TIL university of bologna in Italy is the world's oldest continuous operating university, founded in 1088. It was the first university in Europe and was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars by mankls3
library of alexandria prob had some of that info but it was burnt
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But why
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Reply to comment by CrieDeCoeur in TIl the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer was built in Germany during world war 2 by Konrad zuse but received no press coverage because of the war by mankls3
Yes Germany did not p7rsue this invention because it was determined to be not in the war time interest
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Reply to comment by Irimee in TIL JFK Jr's nickname, "John-John", was because a reporter misheard JFK calling him "John" twice in quick succession and the name was not used by his family. by mankls3
I wonder if julia Louis Dreyfus and Jerry Seinfeld know about this.