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TIL NASCAR racing started in Appalachia, where moonshiners would modify their cars to outrun law enforcement. They studied aerodynamics, and would rig cars with the ability to drop nails, oil, or clouds of smoke to hinder police.

by whatilearned May 12, 2023, 4:43 pm

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My cousin was a researcher who studied lightening.

by cringeyjokesman April 26, 2023, 4:21 am

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TIL Terrence Howard, the actor from Empire and Iron Man (I), studied chemical engineering until he dropped out after disagreeing with a professor, with Howard insisting that 1×1 = 2, explaining “you can’t conform when you know innately that something is wrong”.

by whatilearned April 6, 2023, 11:32 am

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ok listen kid I studied chemistry and chemical compounds aren’t chemicals

by CopyPastaArchive March 21, 2023, 9:17 pm

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TIL that a famine in Persia (Iran) between 1917–1919 lead to the deaths of an estimated 2 million people. It’s an event that hasn’t been studied by many historians.

by whatilearned March 18, 2023, 5:54 am

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TIL: If you cut 2 different sponges up, disaggregate them (push them through a sieve), and mix the 2 cell-slurries together – the sponge cells reassociate with their own cells, but not cells of the other species. This is being studied to understand tissue repair and transplant rejection.

by whatilearned February 20, 2023, 3:27 am

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TIL that researchers studied Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s motor skills to determine how they score goals so consistently

by whatilearned December 2, 2022, 10:55 am

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TIL that researchers actually studied the brain activity of free-style rappers to figure out how they improvise lyrics on the go.

by whatilearned November 30, 2022, 12:26 pm

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Origins of the Black Death identified. Multidisciplinary team studied ancient plague genomes

by HistoryBuff November 18, 2022, 8:01 am

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Josh [LetsGameItOut]’s long satisfactory train station name [this took way too long I studied multiple videos frame by frame at 1am]

by CopyPastaArchive October 17, 2022, 11:15 pm

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TIL Ramanujan’s work has been analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas. Researchers are still discovering mere comments in his mathematical writings turning out to be profound that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his death.

by whatilearned October 6, 2022, 4:03 am

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TIL that despite acetaminophen (Tylenol) being studied since 1878, scientist still do not fully understand it’s mechanism of action.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 5:32 pm

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