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TIL that the library career of the creator of the Dewey Decimal system, Melvil Dewey ended in disgrace, because of his groping of female librarians. Dewey also insisted on seeing photographs of the women before he would hire them, to determine if they were attractive or not.

by whatilearned February 27, 2023, 9:25 pm

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TIL A Supreme Court case was held to determine if a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable

by whatilearned February 9, 2023, 5:49 am

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TIL from the 1990s through 2021 the NFL used a method called “race-norming”, which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function, as part of a dementia test to determine payouts in brain injury settlements.

by whatilearned February 8, 2023, 4:48 pm

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How do you determine the mass of a chilli pepper?

by cringeyjokesman February 1, 2023, 7:57 pm

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TIL that in 2020, researchers tried to determine the actual effects of ingesting George’s Marvelous Medicine (from the Roald Dahl book), consisting of shampoo, anti-freeze, brown paint, floor polish, and 30 other household items. It would cause vomiting, kidney injury, convulsions, and likely death.

by whatilearned January 24, 2023, 3:02 pm

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TIL that people born in different seasons tend to develop differently and have long term factors changes that determine their personality, which can partly explain zodiac assumptions.

by whatilearned December 15, 2022, 1:33 pm

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What if Earth is like one of these uncontacted tribes in South America, just like the complete Galaxy is aware of we`re right here however they have agreed now no longer to touch us till we determine it out for ourselves?

by QuestionGuy December 9, 2022, 7:59 am

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TIL that researchers studied Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s motor skills to determine how they score goals so consistently

by whatilearned December 2, 2022, 10:55 am

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Bald, bearded men of reddit, how do you determine where to end the sideburns and start the bald?

by QuestionGuy November 20, 2022, 4:07 am

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TIL that not only does melanin determine skin pigmentation, but it also affects predisposition to Parkinson’s Disease and other CNS pathologies, depending on its level of occurrence in the brain as neuromelanin (NM).

by whatilearned November 19, 2022, 2:00 am

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TIL Scientists studying visual perception superglued patches on cuttlefish to Velcro 3D glasses on them. The cuttlefish kept the glasses on long enough for the research team to determine that they have stereo vision (like humans).

by whatilearned November 12, 2022, 11:12 pm

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TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. Most of the damage was confined to the area directly adjacent to the source, and the area is completely non-hazardous today.

by whatilearned October 22, 2022, 10:52 pm

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