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TIL about cross sea waves – square waves, also known as square seas. They are formed when the winds of two weather systems – one old and one new – meet. The result looks like a quilt-like pattern of squares on the surface of the sea. Cross seas usually occur along coastal areas and are rare.

by whatilearned September 6, 2022, 10:22 am

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TIL about the bald-hairy pattern: a consistent pattern in which bald rulers of Russ|a are always replaced by hairy ones, and vice versa.

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 4:36 am

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TIL Allen’s rule, which describes a pattern in animals’ lankiness and size (surface-area to volume ratio) across related species, according to hotter and colder climates

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 2:48 am

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TIL there’s a type of broccoli called Romanesco that naturally grows in a fractal pattern

by whatilearned August 6, 2022, 1:42 am

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TIL Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints, and no two tigers have the same pattern.

by whatilearned July 16, 2022, 10:23 pm

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TIL that a computer cannot generate truly random numbers. While the pattern of computer-generated “random” numbers can be sufficiently complex and difficult to identify, these numbers are created by a carefully defined and consistently repeated algorithm; hence, “pseudo-random” numbers are produced.

by whatilearned June 6, 2022, 9:21 pm

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TIL about the “Condor Cluster” that was unveiled in 2010 by the U.S. Air Force unveiled a supercomputer cobbled together with 1,760 PS3s that were to be used for radar enhancement, pattern recognition, satellite imagery processing, and artificial intelligence research.

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 12:34 pm

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TIL the “millennial whoop” is a vocal pattern alternating between the fifth and the third notes in a major scale, often using the “wah” and “oh” syllables and used extensively in 2010s pop music such as Bad Romance by Lady Gaga and California Gurls by Katy Perry.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 9:13 pm

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TIL that before Geronimo ever learned how to properly use a rifle, he would run at armed enemies in a zig-zag pattern until he was close enough to use his knife. He claimed that the mountain spirits spoke to him and said, “You will never die in battle, nor… by gun. I will guide your arrows.”

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 3:12 pm

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TIL that Alopecia just means “hair loss” and that male pattern baldness and female pattern baldness are the same thing (androgenic alopecia). So everyone out there saying that Jada has a disease and bald men are just bald, you’re wrong. This is female pattern baldness.

by whatilearned March 29, 2022, 4:43 am

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TIL that multiple sclerosis is more common in people who live farther from the equator and the cause of this geographical pattern is not clear.

by whatilearned March 21, 2022, 4:48 pm

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TIL that ants sleep but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research into sleep patterns of insects showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.

by whatilearned February 11, 2022, 9:09 am

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