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Why do teenage girls walk in groups of 3s, 5s and 7s?

by cringeyjokesman September 23, 2021, 12:37 pm

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TIL Lewis Hamilton pledged £20m ($27.5m) to set up the Hamilton Mission in an effort to improve groups who are under represented in motorsports due to its extremely high cost entry barrier. Out of the 770 drivers in F1 history, he is the only black driver.

by whatilearned September 18, 2021, 8:28 pm

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TIL In a war torn small town in Colombia a public school was built with a bunker to protect children from firefights between armed groups.

by whatilearned September 6, 2021, 5:50 am

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TIL Nudge Theory is a method of influencing behavior of groups or individuals that uses indirect suggestions to achieve non-forced compliance. It’s so widely used, governments around the world have setup “Nudge units” to influence public thinking and decision making.

by whatilearned August 31, 2021, 9:41 pm

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[Serious] How do you accept that there will always be groups of people who hate you for something you can’t control (sexuality, ethnicity, gender, disability, etc)?

by QuestionGuy August 31, 2021, 6:19 pm

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I published my first open source project: the Simple Keyword Clusterer. Python package to cluster keywords in higher-level groups

by ProgrammerDude August 31, 2021, 10:27 am

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TIL grasshoppers & locusts are the same species. Grasshoppers are generally solitary & innocuous, but when overcrowded, a chemical releases in their brain which turns them into a locust — ravenous, horny, and attracted to large groups. Oddly enough, that brain chemical is: Serotonin

by whatilearned August 20, 2021, 3:03 pm

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TIL a 2018 study by Yale psychologists found introverts who are prone to melancholy seem to be more astute at understanding how people behave in groups than their sociable peers. Introverts are more prone to assessing truths about humans’ “social nature” without formal training or tools.

by whatilearned August 19, 2021, 8:52 pm

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TIL in her youth, at school, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin attempted to test the efficacy of prayer by dividing her exam group in two groups, one using prayer and the other being a control group. The latter got better marks

by whatilearned August 16, 2021, 10:12 pm

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[Serious]Why don’t Pro-life groups pay women and her expenses to have their children, if these women, agree to put their children up for adoption than going the abortion route?

by QuestionGuy July 30, 2021, 3:51 am

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TIL about the Himalayan ‘Skeleton Lake’, a lake at an altitude of about 5000 m, known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons, the remains belonging to very different eras and to different distinct groups (Indian, South Asian and Mediterranean), whose cause of death remains a mystery though.

by whatilearned July 19, 2021, 9:33 am

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TIL that Vallejo, CA was named the most diverse city in the United States in a 2012 study by Brown University based on 2010 census data – White, Non-Hispanic 25.0% | Black or African American 22.1% | Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 22.6% | Asian 24.9% | Other groups make up the rest

by whatilearned July 15, 2021, 2:01 am

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