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Harvard’s Southern Arc study suggests Europeans come from the Yamnaya

by HistoryBuff September 6, 2022, 7:28 pm

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TIL that a UC Berkeley study found that StubHub users spent 21% more on tickets when they were not immediately shown fees and shipping charges, and were 15% more likely to make a purchase than those that were shown an all-inclusive price

by whatilearned September 6, 2022, 4:20 am

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New Study Shows Getting Hit in the Testicles is More Painful than Childbirth

by cringeyjokesman September 5, 2022, 12:12 am

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TIL that scientists trying to study birds in Australia fitted them with tracking harnesses, and the birds helped each other take the harnesses off.

by whatilearned August 30, 2022, 4:17 pm

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TIL Matthew McConaughey was first assigned to play Marty Hart in the first season of True Detective. McConaughey asked to switch to Rust Cohle due to the character’s obsessive tendencies. McConaughey created a 450-page analysis of Cohle to study the character’s evolution in the series.

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 5:10 pm

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TIL In 1944, the OSS (Precursor to the CIA) published the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual.” Tips for the workplace include “When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration” and “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.”

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 4:54 pm

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TIL monkeys in Indonesia engage in tool-assisted masturbation by tapping and rubbing stones against their genitals. Researchers in the study of 173 long-tailed macaques observed and hypothesized the stones were used as “sex toys”

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 2:13 pm

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The Psychology of Roblox Hacking – A Study

by CopyPastaArchive August 26, 2022, 2:09 pm

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TIL that the Rats of NIMH is based on actual experiments done in the 1960s/70s to study the effects of overcrowding on rodent metropolises.

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 3:55 pm

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TIL In a study of antioxidant content of 3,100 foods, Amla (Indian Gooseberry) ranked #1 by far. It has 18X the amount of antioxidants as blueberries which are often touted as a high antioxidant food. Other high score foods: bilberries, black currants, blackberries, goji berries, cranberries.

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 4:09 pm

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TIL 24 year old Clyde Tombaugh won a scholarship at University of Kansas to study astronomy after discovering Pluto. He also discovered several galactic star clusters, hundreds of asteroids, a comet, a cluster of 1,800 galaxies and other observations

by whatilearned August 22, 2022, 2:33 am

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TIL according to a 2008 study of 6,000 dog owners, the most aggressive breed is the wiener dog.

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 8:57 pm

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