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TIL that modern HIV treatments can both prevent transmission of the virus and also prevent its development into AIDS

by whatilearned August 12, 2022, 6:26 pm

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Who are the modern day ‘Snake Oil Salesmen?’

by QuestionGuy August 12, 2022, 3:34 pm

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Who throughout modern and ancient history would now be diagnosed with mental health issues?

by QuestionGuy August 12, 2022, 1:30 pm

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What is something about modern day society that makes you cringe?

by QuestionGuy August 8, 2022, 10:56 pm

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TIL a distant relative of modern dragonflies had a wingspan of about 30 inches

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 3:20 pm

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TIL that dire wolves lived 9,500 years ago and were the size of large modern gray wolves, but with larger teeth and stronger biting ability. Their extinction is believed to have been caused by their reliance on megaherbivores as prey, climatic change, and competition from other species.

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 1:19 am

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you uncultured swine, the banana taped to the wall is a modern masterpiece

by CopyPastaArchive August 6, 2022, 5:28 am

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TIL that Horace Wells, the man who discovered modern anesthesia, committed suicide after a failed demonstration of nitrous oxide cast his life into a spiral, where he closed his practice, became addicted to chloroform, and threw acid on prostitutes while inebriated.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 6:02 am

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TIL Sigmund Freud was awarded the Goethe Prize for literature in 1930. Editor Adam Phillips asserts that Freud should be read like ‘any great novelist’. His case of Dora uses modern literary techniques and has been compared to the novels of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and James Joyce

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 6:58 am

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TIL modern day heart and lung transplants were heralded by a scientist who once surgically added a second head to a dogs body. The dog lived for almost a month.

by whatilearned July 31, 2022, 3:30 pm

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What’s the biggest threat to modern day dating?

by QuestionGuy July 29, 2022, 9:02 pm

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TIL that Charles Darwin invented the modern office chair.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 2:21 pm

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