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TIL it was reported that over 500k children died as a result of sanctions on Iraq after the first gulf war, despite it being proven as a manipulation of census data by Saddam’s government, is still believed by many Iraqis today.

by whatilearned May 19, 2023, 7:24 am

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What do you call a gay data administrator?

by cringeyjokesman May 14, 2023, 4:37 am

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TIL that certain patterns and correlations in eye-tracking data may reveal the user’s sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health.

by whatilearned April 29, 2023, 2:40 pm

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TIL about AI “Hallucination,” a confident response by an AI that does not seem to be justified by its training data

by whatilearned April 16, 2023, 4:39 pm

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TIL that Microsoft has developed an underwater data center powered by renewable energy sources and cooled by the natural temperature of the ocean water. The experiment, called “Project Natick,” was conducted off the coast of Scotland in 2018.

by whatilearned April 10, 2023, 9:03 pm

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TIL that the widely accepted “Learning Styles” theory “everyone has a different learning style (visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic)” has almost no experimental data behind it. The few researches done on the subject proved the opposite.

by whatilearned April 6, 2023, 8:49 pm

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Did you know that the average ejaculation contains nearly 16,000 MB of data?

by cringeyjokesman March 18, 2023, 9:02 pm

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TIL: Over the course of 100 years, the amount of Black-owned farmland dropped by 90%, according to Data for Progress, due to higher rates of loan and credit denials, lack of legal and industry support and “outright acts of violence and intimidation.”

by whatilearned February 13, 2023, 9:14 pm

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TIL current scientific data support the idea that the first prokaryotic cell likely formed when an archeal cell captured a bacterial cell, causing them to merge and to eventually become the first prokaryote on Earth.

by whatilearned February 2, 2023, 12:20 am

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TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis

by whatilearned January 29, 2023, 6:05 pm

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TIL more than 300 million people globally don’t have a single friend, according to Gallup data

by whatilearned January 20, 2023, 9:14 pm

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TIL While on the Moon, astronauts did not have any data to tell how long the small water tank used for cooling in their backpacks would last. After returning to and repressurizing the Lunar Module, they could drain and measure remaining water in the backpacks to confirm the predicted

by whatilearned January 13, 2023, 7:21 am

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