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TIL that caffeine’s half-life is almost doubled in women taking oral contraceptives.

by whatilearned June 11, 2022, 5:03 am

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My landlord doubled my rent. I’m going to give up drinking for a month.

by cringeyjokesman June 3, 2022, 8:44 pm

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TIL that in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1946, inflation was so high that prices doubled every 15 hours. Something that cost 379 Hungarian pengős in Sep 1945, ended up costing 1 trillion trillion pengős by Jul 1946.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 12:02 pm

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TIL that since the first exoplanets were discovered in the early 90s, the known number has doubled about every 27 months, to over 4,000 now confirmed.

by whatilearned May 23, 2022, 1:30 am

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TIL NASA logo merchandise has been seeing growing demand since 2017, when Coach asked permission to use NASA’s 1970s-designed, retro red logo type for its collection and then approval requests doubled. NASA doesn’t make a cent off merchandise bearing its name

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 4:26 am

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TIL that the speed of gold medalists in the men’s 100m freestyle swim has nearly doubled between the first and the most recent Summer Olympics, from 1 minute and 22.2 seconds at the 1896 games in Athens to 47.02 seconds at the 2020 games in Tokyo

by whatilearned March 28, 2022, 1:13 pm

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TIL that rates of myopia (nearsightedness) are increasing around the world. In the US it has doubled over that last 30 years and in some countries is as high as 80-90%. By 2050 it is estimated that 50% of the world’s population will be nearsighted.

by whatilearned March 19, 2022, 9:48 pm

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TIL in ’94 USA Today declaired the Mentos “Fresh Goes Better” campaign one of the worst ad campaigns even though sales doubled in ’94 and tripled in ’96.

by whatilearned November 22, 2021, 5:53 am

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TIL that after Batman got his junior companion Robin in 1940, its comic book sales nearly doubled, which started a rush of “kid companions” in other comic book series

by whatilearned October 25, 2021, 9:13 pm

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TIL that Afonso I, the first king of Portugal, doubled the area of the kingdom during his reign. He recaptured Santarém and Lisbon from the Moors in 1147, two of the few Christian successes during the second crusade and was nicknamed “the conqueror” by the Portuguese.

by whatilearned October 25, 2021, 7:48 pm

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TIL in the 19th century Britain was the world’s richest and most advanced economy. Real GDP per person almost doubled in the 90 years between 1780 and 1870, when it reached $3263 per capita. This was one third greater than GDP per person in the USA, and 70% more than both France and Germany.

by whatilearned September 12, 2021, 10:35 pm

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TIL that the number of Bengal Tigers in the wild, have doubled in India in little over a decade. As per a 2006 survey, the estimated no. of tigers in wild was 1411, which increased to 2967 during the 2018 survey. It is yet to reach the population levels of 1990s when there were 3642 in the wild.

by whatilearned July 21, 2021, 2:40 am

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