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TIL Hippocrates proposed the first classification of mental health disorders: Mania, Melancholy, Phrenitis, Insanity, Disobedience, Paranoia, Panic, Epilepsy and Hysteria. Some of these terms are still used today

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 1:15 am

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TIL about Busta Rhymes Island, a proposed name for an otherwise unnamed island in Shrewbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, named as such because it had “rope-swinging, blueberries, and . . . stuff Busta would enjoy.”

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 11:16 pm

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Serious question: What law would have prevented the Uvalde shooting tragedy? He had no mental illness history, was of legal age, and legally purchased the firearms. Is there any proposed law that would have prevented it?

by QuestionGuy May 26, 2022, 8:13 pm

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TIL that during the East German coffee crisis in the 1970s, care packages from the West ended up providing an estimated 25% of all coffee in East Germany. Demand for the fruit bread which was the traditional return gift was so high a minister proposed a ban on gifting it.

by whatilearned May 20, 2022, 5:03 pm

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TIL about Westsylvania, a 14th state of the U.S. that was proposed early in the American Revolution, and would have included parts of Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia & Pennsylvania.

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 9:05 pm

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TIL – Jesuit Priest Athanasius Kircher has been compared to da Vinci as ‘Master of a Hundred Arts’. Considered a founder of Egyptology, proposed the plague was spread by microorganism, andinventions attributed to him include a magnetic clock, various automatons and the first megaphone.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 8:33 pm

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TIL about Lisan Al-Din Ibn Al-Khatib, an Andalusian polymath who proposed the idea of transmissible diseases, and more precisely that the Bubonic Plague was transmitted from person to person, centuries before Louis Pasteur and John Snow

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 1:37 am

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TIL that Britain proposed a Franco-British Union in 1940 to prevent the French from surrendering to Germany. Philippe Pétain referred to the union as “fusion with a corpse”.

by whatilearned April 30, 2022, 1:30 am

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TIL the US Navy proposed a gigantic mobile base for supporting operations beyond friendly territory called the mobile offshore base (MOB).

by whatilearned April 29, 2022, 5:31 am

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Republicans in Congress have proposed a bill to ban the sale of shredded cheese in supermarkets across the country

by cringeyjokesman April 28, 2022, 11:56 pm

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TIL the woman who first proposed the theory that Shakespeare wasn’t the real author, didn’t do any research for her book and was eventually sent to an insane asylum

by whatilearned April 21, 2022, 1:16 pm

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TIL about “silence”, a proposed 9c (5.15d) climb in Norway, which would make it the hardest climb in the world. As of this day, Adam Ondra was the only person able to complete it, after 5 years of preparation and a combined 40 days of climbing, spread over 7 visits from 2016 to 2017.

by whatilearned April 20, 2022, 12:27 am

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