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TIL that approximately 7.7% of men and 4.8% of women in the genral population have Narcissistic Personality Disorder: a mental illness characterized by grandiosity and a general lack of empathy.

by whatilearned May 6, 2022, 6:30 pm

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TIL The inventor and theorist Buckminster Fuller was expelled from Harvard twice. The first time for spending all his money partying with a vaudeville troupe and the second time for his “irresponsibility and lack of interest”.

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 10:50 am

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TIL a lack of an Oxford comma cost a dairy $5 million

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 4:01 am

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TIL in 1969, top composer Louis Andriessen and others disrupted a Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra concert with nutcrackers and bicycle horns, giving leaflets about the lack of Dutch new music in the orchestra’s programming. They did a week in jail but sparked some Dutch music scene change.

by whatilearned April 29, 2022, 10:05 pm

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TIL almost half a million US households lack indoor plumbing

by whatilearned April 24, 2022, 7:04 am

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TIL in 1714 the British government offered £20K (~£2m today) to solve the longitude problem – which had cost thousands of lives due to a lack of ship positioning. John Harrison, a carpenter, took 40 years to make the perfect clock – his final version only lost 39.2 seconds over a voyage 47 days.

by whatilearned April 23, 2022, 6:03 pm

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TIL that during build up to the release of The Phantom Menace, Star Wars released a poster mocking the lack of plot in Godzilla (1998)

by whatilearned April 14, 2022, 10:12 pm

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What’s your stance on this quote: “Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”?

by QuestionGuy March 26, 2022, 2:22 am

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TIL Orcas have a bit of their brain that we don’t that’s for processing emotions, so they have brain functions and feelings we can’t even comprehend because we lack that part of our brain.

by whatilearned March 25, 2022, 2:24 pm

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“A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.” What is the experience you’ve had that proves this adage?

by QuestionGuy March 23, 2022, 4:14 am

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TIL lack of sleep causes frequent urination due to increased sodium in the urine, particularly in men, per the National Library of Medicine article.

by whatilearned March 21, 2022, 2:35 am

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TIL Nostalgia regulates loneliness by affirming social support. Research suggests that by using nostalgia, interventions can be successful in reducing the sense of loneliness and lack of self worth.

by whatilearned February 13, 2022, 3:05 am

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