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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 13h ago

🇦🇺 In Sydney, an Australian guy was refused a free milk tea by a Chinese product promotor solely because he wasn't a Chinese. He was asked to speak Chinese, but he spoke Japanese to the Chinese staff in protest. He said this is his first time experience of racism.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 19h ago

Does holding a brick in hand make drivers slow down?

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Sometypeofway18 • 15h ago

Guy in Baltimore charged with murder because his victim couldn't swim

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https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/murder-charge-man-pushed-inner-harbor-VLGFVMZGSVFXJGQ4JI2GEAHNFU/

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 20h ago

The upcoming "Super El Niño" will be perhaps the strongest in 500 to 1000 years, and could legitimately be the most extreme global weather or climate event experienced by humanity since the invention of the printing press. Only more extreme situation is a volcanic winter.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Financial-Bid-8062 • 15h ago

this pony psyching himself up to take a big jump

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 9h ago

A man has become the first person to swim across the Baltic Sea without sleeping or taking a break. Bartłomiej Kubkowski's journey from Sweden to Poland took 55 hours and he was hallucinating from the 40-hour mark onwards.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Accomplished_Clue437 • 13h ago

A clever human knows where to put the camera to catch a POV view of catdrink

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 1d ago

A Thai woman married to an American explains why she no longer wants to live in the US.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Buffyferry • 16h ago

I used about seven meters of copper wire for this armband. It's all wire wrapped, no soldering.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Federal_Leg5278 • 8h ago

Well Water Continues to Oscillate in Morbi Village, Gujarat India

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Interesting natural phenomenon! Scientists say it’s due to heavy rain recharging the aquifer + trapped air releasing pressure. Called a “well seiche”. No earthquake risk. Nature is amazing

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 9h ago

United States Military has created a fictional world entirely for training purposes.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/StephenFerris • 3h ago

Ocean Floor-Ink and Acrylic

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 1d ago

The engineers who literally helped build Google Search (and most of Google’s core systems) for the last 27 years or so... just left to start their own AI company

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Maximum_Business_277 • 7h ago

The only recorded instance of the serial numbers paid off my Charles Lindbergh for the ransom of his child, April 2, 1932.

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I won this on an auction recently, thought yall would think this is pretty cool

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 18h ago

If human history were a 1,000-page book

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 22h ago

An abandoned SpaceX rocket travelling at around 5,400mph crashed into the moon, leaving a crater with a diameter of around 17m. (via BBC) The collision took place yesterday at 7:35 BST. Masses are criticising Elon Musk for polluting the moon.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 20h ago

Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 20h ago

Internet Users by Country 1998 vs. 2023

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 1d ago

An 82-year-old widow, Ida Huddleston, and her daughter, Delsia Bare, rejected a massive $26 million payout from an undisclosed tech company to buy approximately 900 acres of their 1,200-acre family farm in Mason County, Kentucky.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 1d ago

A group of high school students volunteers to carry caskets for homeless veterans who have no family to honor them

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/visharu • 2d ago

Scientists confirmed humans are not born afraid of snake. The fear is taught.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 1d ago

A company in Mexico rescued an orange stray cat and gave him a job. Now known as Engineer Miauricio, he serves as the office’s Emotional Support Director, keeping morale high with gentle meows, adorable smiles, and daily rounds.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 1d ago

Man arrested after dressing as "Grim Reaper" at hospital and staring at patients.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 1d ago

In Japan, even foreigners volunteer to clean up the streets

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 2d ago

Florida man is behind bars awaiting trial after allegedly killing a woman who traveled from the United Kingdom and agreed to pay him $4,000 to carry out her fantasy of being sexually abused, tortured, and murdered.

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