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TIL René Just Haüy founded the science of crystallography after he accidentally broke a piece of calcite and discovered that they cleaved along straight planes that met at constant angles. He broke more pieces to confirm his discovery and developed the theory of crystal structure.

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 11:20 am

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A 35 year old virgin, fed up with constant dating failures,

by cringeyjokesman July 28, 2022, 12:27 am

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TIL “Flaws” was the nickname given to the sharks used in Jaws (due to their constant malfunction). As a result, Spielberg relied on the famous “D/E flat” notes to suggest the presence of Jaws, rather than actually showing him (more often)

by whatilearned July 16, 2022, 1:47 pm

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What were the VHS or DVDs that you watched on a constant loop when you were growing up?

by QuestionGuy July 7, 2022, 6:29 pm

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TIL that during a drought in 2019, priests in Bhopal, India wed 2 frogs in order to appease the god of rain, 2 months later the frogs were divorced in order to stop the constant downpour of rain that destroyed over 9,000 homes.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 4:38 am

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TIL that the Turia river in Valencia was permanently diverted after constant flooding causing damage to surrounding areas, the old riverbed is now a verdant sunken park.

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 8:57 am

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TIL that when “Jaws” was filmed, Steven Spielberg initially wanted to build a giant mechanical shark for realism, but its constant malfunctioning proved to be a budgeting nightmare, so he came up with the cheaper solution of shooting from the shark’s POV in the waters instead.

by whatilearned May 22, 2022, 4:24 pm

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TIL where astronauts sleep on a space station has to be extremely well ventilated with a constant flow of air over them. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide, the result being oxygen starvation.

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 11:02 am

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TIL that the Moon emits a constant tail of sodium. When small meteorites hit the surface of the Moon, the sodium from the dust that is emitted is picked up by the solar wind and blown away in a specific direction.

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 1:58 am

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My wife is threatening to leave me because of my constant celebrity name dropping…

by cringeyjokesman April 12, 2022, 11:06 am

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There’s an equation to describe the magnetic field generated by a constant current

by cringeyjokesman April 3, 2022, 2:46 am

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TIL Physicist Georges Lemaître was the first to calculate the universe is expanding, a theory known as Hubble’s Law. He then calculated formulas regarding this expansion which became known as Hubble’s Constant. His “Big Bang Theory” was named sarcastically by a rival who didn’t believe it was true

by whatilearned March 31, 2022, 6:52 pm

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