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TIL That researchers have found 23 words that are considered the oldest known words in the world, dating back 15,000 years. They are: thou, I, not, that, we, to give, who, this, what, man/male, ye, old, mother, to hear, hand, fire, to pull, black, to flow, bark, ashes, to spit, and worm.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 7:33 pm

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TIL that in 1979 Black-footed ferrets were thought to be extinct until in 1981, A Wyoming ranch dog brought home a black-footed ferret. Researchers discovered the last 120 ferrets in Meeteetse,Wyoming.

by whatilearned May 7, 2022, 3:09 am

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TIL of “Unit 731”, a secret Japanese research facility disguised as a water treatment plant during WWII. Responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes ever committed, researchers captured by the USA were secretly given immunity in exchange for the data gathered from their human experiments.

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 12:29 pm

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TIL Because of their long necks, Giraffes were thought to be completely silent. However, after 8 years of monitoring nearly 1000 hours of audio, researchers determined that giraffes make a deep “humming” noise at a frequency of 92 hertz.

by whatilearned March 29, 2022, 9:57 am

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TIL Because of their long necks, Giraffes were thought to be completely silent. However, after 8 years of monitoring nearly 1000 hours of audio, researchers determined that giraffes make a deep “humming” noise at a frequency of 92 hertz.

by whatilearned March 27, 2022, 6:31 pm

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TIL In 2011 the Belly Button Biodiversity project was created to study bacteria in the naval. Researchers found 2,368 different species from just 66 people, half of which were previously unknown. The average person hosted 67 different species, but no single species was common to every person.

by whatilearned March 15, 2022, 9:21 pm

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TIL researchers from the University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland calculated the value of pi to over 62 trillion digits taking over 108 days to complete the calculation.

by whatilearned March 14, 2022, 10:13 pm

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TIL researchers strapped cameras to 60 outdoor house cats and found they killed on average 2+ animals per week

by whatilearned March 10, 2022, 11:46 pm

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TIL Hisako Koyama, a female Japanese astronomer who hand drew sunspots every day for more than 40 years. Her detailed sketches aid researchers in studying solar cycles and the sun’s magnetic fields

by whatilearned February 22, 2022, 3:02 am

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TIL about Ming, the oldest animal ever discovered at 507 years old. The researchers studying it accidentally killed it

by whatilearned February 3, 2022, 11:05 am

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TIL that Ancient Egyptian priests sold sacred animal mummies to be offered to the gods; the discovery of some fake cat mummies with only a single bone or sticks inside has led some researchers to believe priests created fraudulent mummies to cash in

by whatilearned February 1, 2022, 12:47 am

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TIL that researchers examined if existing digital peer-support services can effectively help treat women diagnosed with Postpartum Depression and found that trained volunteers who had experienced perinatal mood disorders were able to improve the mental health of participants through chat sessions

by whatilearned January 29, 2022, 2:50 am

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