Today I learned Choice VA was created after the 2014 VA scandel. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in Melbourne, a 1 : 1 000 000 000 scale model of the solar system includes a mini-Proxima-Centauri that is one-time-around-the-entire-world away at this scale. (stkildamelbourne.com.au)
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TIL India had a tradition in the 1970s of making military helicopters look like animals (www.peepultree.world)
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TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers (medium.com)
TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) (radiooooo.com)
You can choose anywhere on earth, pick a decade, and hear music from that time and place. Pretty neat.
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TIL most cultures and peoples all over the world have historically had trouble recognizing the color blue (www.ancientoriginsunleashed.com)
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TIL Hunter S. Thomson got an early honorable discharge from the air force in part because, "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other airmen staff members." (en.wikipedia.org)
From Wikipedia: In 1958, while he was an airman first class, his commanding officer recommended him for an early honorable discharge. “In summary, this airman, although talented, will not be guided by policy,” chief of information services Colonel William S. Evans wrote to the Eglin personnel office. “Sometimes his rebel...
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Today I learned you can run doom from motherboard BIOS. (www.pcgamer.com)
Idk how many other games you can do this with but I thought it was interesting.
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TIL states that passed laws allowing a married person to seek a divorce without the consent of their spouse saw female suicide decline by 20 percent (www.nber.org)
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TIL the very first animated feature film was "Creation" by Pinto Colvig, made in 1916. It has been lost and only a few frames remain, but Colvig went on to be the voice of Goofy and the original Bozo. (blueprintdigital.com)
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TIL the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) was actually made after a book adaptation, which means Star Wars hype is technically literary-based in nature (starwars.fandom.com)
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TIL: How The IMF and World Bank Debt Trap Countries and Force them into Austerity (medium.com)
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TIL that there are two types of earwax: wet and dry (www.self.com)
the type of earwax you have comes down in part to your skin type, Dr. Shapiro explains. People with oilier skin may have wet earwax, while those with drier skin tend to have dry earwax, she says....
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TIL: How DuPont Knowingly Poisoned Americans With PFAS For Over 50 Years (medium.com)
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TIL that science does still not fully understand how cycling works (www.cbc.ca)
TIL: There is a species of penguin that lives in the southern point of Africa. (African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as Cape penguin or South African penguin.) (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: About Foxfire a Bioluminescent Fungus (en.m.wikipedia.org)
I first heard about it as being used to mark gauges on a 1770s submersible so the operator could read them in the dark....
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TIL the US government once banned sliced bread (www.mentalfloss.com)
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A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (www.smithsonianmag.com)
TIL this Fun Fact: Unfortunately, Chainsaws Were Invented for Childbirth (www.pharmacytimes.com)
So… yep.
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TIL Catwoman canonically has a sidekick (batman.fandom.com)
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TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it. (en.wikipedia.org)
The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website....
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TIL of research into genetically engineering humans for space and living on other planets. (www.space.com)
One method is epigenome engineering and would target genes advantageous for space. Another method is to combine the DNA of other species (i.e. tardigrades) with human cells to make humans better fit for space....
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TIL about Thomas Midgley and I wonder what's 'perfectly safe' today. (www.cnn.com)
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