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TIL About Clive Wearing a British former musicologist who has chronic amnesia. He lacks the ability to form new memories and cannot recall aspects of his memories, frequently believing that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state often referred to as ’30-second Clive’

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 8:17 am

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TIL of a form of Medieval prison ‘sentence’ where the accused was thrown in an ‘oubliette’. A narrow pit where he was ‘forgotten’ and left to die.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 4:59 am

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TIL of B virus, a form of herpes that leads to death in 40% of cases, and another 40% suffer brain damage. It comes from macaques monkeys which are currently an invasive species in a state park in Florida.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 4:04 am

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TIL that not all dietary fiber we can eat comes from plants. Chitin, found in edible insects and seafood products such as shrimp tails is a form of dietary fiber, like plant cellulose.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 1:56 am

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TIL in 1993, there was a schism in the chess playing world, where in opposition to percieved corruption within the major International Chess Federation, several players split off to form the Professional Chess Association, leading to a time where there were two disputed world champions of chess.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 9:04 pm

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TIL that Mewing is a form of “orthotropics” where you can supposedly change the shape of your jawline by the placement of your tongue in your mouth. John Mew coined the idea and was recently stripped of his dental license.

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 3:10 pm

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TIL of Glacier Mice. Balls of moss that form on the surface of a glacier and move together, up to an inch at a time, like a herd of little mice.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 6:32 am

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TIL A fossilized os penis of a walrus measured 4.5 feet long. Biblical scholars in 2015 argued it was the penis bone, not a rib, God removed from man to form Eve.

by whatilearned August 22, 2022, 10:31 pm

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TIL about Barn Quilts. They are a form of Americana folk art that have multiple meanings. Some are dedicated to a specific person while others can represent an entire community.

by whatilearned August 20, 2022, 12:24 am

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TIL the adult form of the inchworm is called a geometer moth.

by whatilearned August 17, 2022, 3:51 am

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TIL there is a specific word – Haar – for the sea fogs that form off of eastern Scotland and England.

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 9:16 pm

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Ladders are the best form of elevation

by CopyPastaArchive August 13, 2022, 5:17 am

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