TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: How Opioid sales quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, with 91 Americans dying daily from opioid overdoses (medium.com)
TIL: How the IMF Debt Trapped Kenya Causing Nationwide Protests (youtu.be)
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TIL: Louisiana has 5 times more Prisoners than Saudi Arabia (youtu.be)
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TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to “throwing” and essentially threading a needle across the sea....
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TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why. (www.smithsonianmag.com)
TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners (medium.com)
TIL: The Chicken soup for the soul publisher owns redbox (www.foxbusiness.com)
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TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first elected (www.thestreet.com)
TIL from the school of OMG why didn’t I think of that
Alt milk tetra pack repurposed as drink tray.
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Today I learned Choice VA was created after the 2014 VA scandel. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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