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TIL there are over 7000 unique languages in the world. Papua New Guinea has the largest concentration of languages with 852, or 12% of the world’s total languages.

by whatilearned September 22, 2022, 11:47 pm

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TIL. Flowers exposed to the playback sound of a flying bee produce sweeter nectar within 3 minutes, with sugar concentration averaging 20% higher.

by whatilearned September 22, 2022, 3:28 pm

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TIL: Diving too deep in water increases the nitrogen concentration in your blood and will make you feel drunk and confused. Adding Helium to a SCUBA tank will reduce this because unlike nitrogen, helium does not have a narcotic effect.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 12:05 am

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TIL that delta 9 THC is the same as the THC you get at a dispensary, & it’s legal in all 50 states as long as it’s in a low concentration in tinctures or edibles. I thought delta 9 was just like fake delta 8 I guess learned today.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 9:58 pm

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What’s improving your focus and concentration?

by QuestionGuy August 6, 2022, 7:36 pm

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TIL the BBC initially refused to publish Richard Dimbleby’s eye witness account of Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they didn’t believe it was as terrible as he described. It’s estimated 70,000 people died at Belsen. The BBC only agreed to broadcast after Dimbleby threatened to resign.

by whatilearned July 28, 2022, 12:07 pm

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TIL after General Dwight D. Eisenhower found victims of Nazi concentration camps, he anticipated that in the future there would be attempts to deny what happened. He ordered all possible pictures taken, and had Germans from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and bury the dead.

by whatilearned July 15, 2022, 8:41 pm

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today I learned that the US forced hundreds of thousands of Japanese people into concentration camps during WW2

by whatilearned July 3, 2022, 10:01 pm

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TIL: The British built over 100 concentration camps during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. Over 26,000 woman & children died in these camps from starvation & disease

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 11:22 am

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TIL: The claim that the German public did not know about the concentration camps’ atrocities, generally made by Germans after Berlin fell in 1945 and accepted by most historians is false. Most of what happened in the camps were spread through German news in a process of “desensitization”.

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 4:57 pm

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TIL about Mitsuye Endo who was a plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court lawsuit that ultimately led to the closing of the concentration camps in the U.S. and the return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast in 1945.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 6:50 pm

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TIL that “Urban Macrocephaly” is the phenomenon of excessive concentration of population and development of the main city of a country and it subjects the country to fragility to insurrections.

by whatilearned April 25, 2022, 8:44 am

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