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Hey reddit, how do you feel about this continuous, unrelenting flock of sexual questions?

by QuestionGuy August 13, 2022, 8:14 pm

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TIL that Uranus’s poles get 42 years of continuous darkness and then sunlight. This is due to the axial tilt of 97.77 degrees (Earth is 23.4 degrees)

by whatilearned July 31, 2022, 8:30 am

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TIL Candido Jacuzzi invented the Jacuzzi to help his son’s Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. His son contracted arthritis after strep throat, which caused continuous joint pain. He created the J-300 portable water pump for a bath at their house since the boy benefited from hydrotherapy.

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 11:14 pm

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TIL that the new Rolls-Royce Ghost soundproofing was so overengineered that occupants in the car found the near-total silence disorienting, and some felt sick. Acoustic engineers had to go back and work on “harmonizing” various sounds in the car to add a continuous soft whisper.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 11:05 am

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TIL about Lebanese cedar logs that have been in continuous use for nearly 3,000 years , surviving countless disasters and wars.

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 9:38 pm

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TIL If the wires used in the Golden Gate Bridge were one continuous length, it could wrap around the Earth’s equator over 3 times.

by whatilearned March 5, 2022, 3:50 pm

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TIL about the WWI Harlem Hellfighters, an all-Black regiment with more continuous combat (191 days at the front) and more losses (1,400 total casualties) than any other WWI regiment; awarded 171 French Croix de Guerre medals

by whatilearned February 25, 2022, 6:04 pm

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Today I learned about Sensory Specific-Satiety – a mental phenomenon that refers to the declining satisfaction generated by the continuous consumption of a certain type of sensory stimulation, i.e food, and the consequent renewal in appetite resulting from the exposure to a new flavor or stimulus.

by whatilearned February 22, 2022, 3:27 am

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TIL the longest continuous protest in the world is the aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra, Australia. January 26th will be it’s 50th anniversary.

by whatilearned January 15, 2022, 7:17 am

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Continuous Deployment of Nuxt on AWS with GitLab CI

by ProgrammerDude November 30, 2021, 3:49 pm

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TIL: Plymouth, Montserrat the world’s only ghost capital of a political territory. The town was abandoned in 1997 after continuous volcanic activity, but it still recognized as the island’s capital.

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 6:45 am

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TIL of the Moroccan Western Sahara wall. In 1987 the Moroccan government completed a 2700km sand wall to keep out guerilla fighters from the Polisario front, a Western Saharan independence movement. The minebelt that runs along the wall is thought to be the world’s longest continuous minefield.

by whatilearned November 14, 2021, 6:32 pm

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