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TIL The Assyrians had basic lens technology. One of their creations, the Nimrud lens, dates to 710 BCE, though its purpose is debated. Lenses could have been used to start fires, as decoration, or astronomy tools (with references to the snakes of saturn being the rings or mythology)

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 12:15 am

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How Did Technology Help Create China’s Historically Large Population?

by HistoryBuff August 27, 2022, 1:55 am

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TIL The Vuoristorata, a wooden rollercoaster at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland, is operated by a brakeperson standing at the rear of the train. Designed by Valdemar Lebech and built in 1950, it was the last rollercoaster in the world built using side friction technology.

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 8:47 pm

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TIL With the 1971 first encounter with the Tasaday people in the Philippines, western anthropologists became suspicious. Living with limited technology and stone tools, they appeared so close to the stone-age stereotype that anthropologists began suspecting them of being an elaborate hoax

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 4:39 pm

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How to Cast A Screen to a Smart TV: An Easy Guide To Do It In Five Minutes

by bkhan121 August 18, 2022, 10:14 am

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TIL Dasia Taylor invented color changing sutures that detect infection when she was 17. Her invention uses beets, which change color at different pH levels. After learning about smart sutures that use expensive technology, she set out to create a more accessible solution for developing countries.

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 8:51 am

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TIL that when famous big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton was born, his mother chose to utilize saltwater labor delivery technology designed to ease childbirth pain.

by whatilearned August 12, 2022, 4:16 pm

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TIL of the Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (1957) that put a limit on compensations following a large scale non-military nuclear-catastrophe. It was ratified to lower the risk for private development and use of nuclear technology.

by whatilearned August 5, 2022, 12:53 pm

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TIL that Ranil Wickremesinghe the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka has at different times been the minister of defense, industry, education, youth affairs, employment, economic stabilization, national affairs, science and technology.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 7:33 pm

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TIL that US sunscreen/sunblock technology is decades behind Europe and Japan because the FDA has not approved several filter chemicals. These higher-tech products are more invisible and weightless-feeling while offering a lot of the same protection. (story at 19:50).

by whatilearned July 15, 2022, 2:10 am

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TIL Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, guitarist for Steely Dan & the Doobie Brothers, used his experience in music recording technology and encouragement from his neighbor, a Sidewinder missile engineer, to eventually become a US military defense consultant advising the DOD, contractors, and the US Congress.

by whatilearned July 6, 2022, 10:59 pm

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How would you have died without the intervention of modern technology and medicine?

by QuestionGuy June 29, 2022, 6:57 am

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