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TIL Pierre Curie exposed his own arm to radium salts for 10 hours. He studied the wound, which resembled a burn, day by day. After 52 days a permanent grey scar remained.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 4:34 am

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Being a teenager is the worst. I’ve jerked off more than I’ve studied.

by cringeyjokesman April 8, 2022, 12:46 pm

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TIL of Minik Wallace, a Greenlandic child brought to New York in 1897 and studied by a museum, who held custody. After many of his companions died of tuberculosis, the museum faked a burial of his father and secretly put his skeleton on display. 20 years later, Minik would die in 1918 of influenza.

by whatilearned February 23, 2022, 12:06 am

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TIL a grey parrot Alex was studied for decades & found to have object permanence, understood zero, estimated numbers, knew colors & shapes, assessed object differences, was the only non-human to ask questions, had the intelligence of a 5yo & at death said “You be good, I love you. See you tomorrow.”

by whatilearned February 19, 2022, 7:07 pm

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TIL about PERV (Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus), a virus embedded in the gene of pigs. It has been studied as a risk factor in pig-to-human transplants.

by whatilearned February 14, 2022, 1:23 pm

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TIL Ruth Levi-Montalcini was kicked out of medical school under Mussolini’s Race Laws, moved to Brussels where she lived and studied until Hitler’s imminent takeover, and ended up setting up a laboratory in her bedroom back in Italy. In 1986, she won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and lived until 103.

by whatilearned February 3, 2022, 3:39 pm

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TIL Rickenbacker had just created a 12 string electric guitar, and took the prototype to NYC in Feb 1964. Gave it to John, who gave it to George, who used it for A Hard Days Night. Roger McGuinn (Byrds) studied the instruments in the movie, and immediately ordered one, creating a signature sound.

by whatilearned January 29, 2022, 3:40 am

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TIL Dan Aykroyd’s family is filled with people who actually studied ghosts and the paranormal.

by whatilearned January 17, 2022, 5:52 pm

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TIL William Dampier was a pirate-scientist who studied botany, zoology, and the ocean. He circumnavigated the world 3 times, landed in Australia eight decades before Captain Cook, and influenced Darwin’s thinking on the mutation of species. He was also probably the first European to smoke marijuana.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 3:26 pm

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TIL The Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florence, still in operation today, was founded in 1288 by the father of Beatrice(one of the main characters in Dante’s devine comedy). The hospital is decorated with frescoes by renaissance masters and Leonardo studied anatomy at the same institution

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 9:43 am

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Haven’t studied and the exam is in 10 hours. What to do?

by QuestionGuy November 14, 2021, 10:02 pm

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TIL in 1961, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wrote a book called “Guerrilla Warfare”, which explained different tactics for waging guerrilla warfare in different countries. Bolivian counter-insurgency forces also studied this book, which eventually led to Guevara’s capture and execution in 1967.

by whatilearned October 30, 2021, 3:14 pm

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