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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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CI is not very continuous. Introducing instant test feedback from your pipelines on file save

by ProgrammerDude November 11, 2021, 10:36 am

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TIL The longest continuous sidewalk in the United States is Seawall Boulevard in Galveston Texas. Measured at 10.3 miles(16.6km) long.

by whatilearned October 30, 2021, 12:50 am

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