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TIL Meta, aka Facebook, has a history of hyping “revolutionary” projects as convenient distractions from its problems, including being criticized for lack of social responsibility

by whatilearned August 20, 2022, 8:27 pm

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What surprised you about the human body? AKA How did health class fail you?

by QuestionGuy August 18, 2022, 6:10 pm

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TIL James Doohan (aka Scotty in Star Trek) fought in the Normandy Landings, shot two snipers and was hit 6 times from a Bren gun in a friendly fire incident. Later, he flew a fighter plane between two telegraph poles over Salisbury Plain just to prove somebody could do it.

by whatilearned August 17, 2022, 5:40 pm

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TIL the largest living organism as of June 2022 is a specimen of “Posidonia australis” seagrass (aka Poseidon’s ribbon weed).Spawned from a single seed around 4500 years old and covering approximately 200 square kilometres (77 square miles), the entire plant is connected and shares the same DNA.

by whatilearned August 17, 2022, 6:08 am

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TIL that everyone with a prostate has a structure called Vagina Masculina (aka Prostatic utricle), homologous to the female vagina.

by whatilearned August 14, 2022, 3:31 am

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TIL In 1997 a number of people from Kentucky developed CJD (aka human mad cow disease). It was discovered that all had consumed squirrel brains.

by whatilearned August 5, 2022, 1:58 am

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TIL Charles Dance’s (aka: Tywin Lannister of Game of Thrones) father was born in 1874 and half sister in 1898.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 1:50 pm

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Today I learned about the Dutch Disease (aka Resource Curse) where a nation is resource rich nations, through corruption and/or inefficiency, are incapable of turning the resources into economic growth.

by whatilearned July 26, 2022, 11:58 pm

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TIL that serial killer Richard Cottingham aka “The New York Ripper” who murdered 12 people shared an office with fellow murderer “The Dating Game Killer”, Rodney Alcala who took 8 lives.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 11:51 pm

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TIL that European trucks are rarely sold in the US was due to a 25% retaliatory tariff (aka the “Chicken Tax”) on European trucks, which was put into place after European countries got together and imposed tariffs on imported chickens from the US.

by whatilearned July 20, 2022, 6:29 pm

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TIL After he came to America from Mexico, Cesar Millan (aka The Dog Whisperer) learned English from a tutor hired by Jada Pinkett Smith

by whatilearned July 18, 2022, 7:03 am

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TIL Fool’s gold a.k.a. the mineral pyrite can naturally form into artificial looking shiny cubes.

by whatilearned July 15, 2022, 1:55 pm

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