TIL: Key differences between Borderline PD and Complex-PTSD (www.psychologytoday.com)
Borderline Personality Disorder...
TIL: Why News Was So Neutral in the '50s & '60s (youtu.be)
Long but good.
TIL Sea Urchins Like to Wear Hats (i.ibb.co)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/538582
TIL: Amazing Process of Cutting Gigantic Volcanic Glass to Make Crystal Balls (youtu.be)
Video of people making crazy crystal balls
TIL: There was an animated tv show based on the children's book series Busytown called The Busy World of Richard Scarry (en.wikipedia.org)
Busytown
TIL about Lloydminster, a Canadian town that lies within two provinces but is a single municipality (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: How the West Debt Trapped The Democratic Republic of Congo; The Richest Country in the World (medium.com)
[TIL] The worst shark attack in history (getpocket.com)
The USS Indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base on the Pacific island of Tinian. On August 6, 1945, the weapon would level Hiroshima. But now, on July 28, the Indianapolis sailed from Guam, without an escort, to meet the battleship USS Idaho in the Leyte Gulf in the...
TIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographer (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the word "silhouette" was just a guy's name (and he had nothing to do with silhouettes) (youtu.be)
Apparently he was an advocate for financial austerity, so his name became connected with cheap or discount things. A silhouette was an affordable type of portrait.
TIL "How do you dress?" means "Which pants leg do you put your penis down?" (www.realmenrealstyle.com)
So the tailor doesn’t touch your penis when they’re measuring you
TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S (medium.com)
TIL of axanthism, a condition that makes animals that are normally green appear blue due to a lack of yellow pigment (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Photo credit: Matt Minnich...
TIL: How António Moniz Won the Nobel Prize for the Frontal Lobotomy in 1949 (medium.com)
TIL that Chironomia is the art of using gesticulations or hand gestures to good effect in traditional rhetoric or oratory. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the term Redneck likely originated from the sunburned red neck of those working in fields. (en.wikipedia.org)
The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields. A citation from 1893 provides a definition as “poorer inhabitants of the rural districts … men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and...
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)
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)
TIL: Louisiana has 5 times more Prisoners than Saudi Arabia (youtu.be)
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....