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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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TIL Robert Hardy, the actor for Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter movies, was a student at Oxford and studied under C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, the authors of the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lord of the Rings

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 11:58 am

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TIL That Henry VIII’s Foot Combat Armour was studied to help develop space suits.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 4:58 am

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TIL that the female G-spot is named after Ernst Gräfenberg, a progressive Jewish medical doctor who studied female sexual physiology (including female ejaculation) well ahead of his time.

by whatilearned July 30, 2022, 8:45 pm

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TIL In the late 19th century, the Royal Greenwich Observatory hired a team of ‘lady computers’ who studied data from the Sun, sunspots, and magnetic storms. One of them, Annie, married the head of the Solar department, Walter Maunder, and together they mapped patterns of sunspots over time

by whatilearned July 12, 2022, 10:43 pm

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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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