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TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.

YSK how to clean your bellybutton properly

LPT: It's Not About You, Stop Taking it Personally

Basic income can double global GDP while reducing carbon emissions: Giving a regular cash payment to the entire world population has the potential to increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 130%, according to a new analysis. Charging carbon emitters with an emission tax could help fund this.

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ELI5: How long do people have to be somewhere before they're considered indigenous?

TIL that the Vietnamese version of Cinderella, the end has Ciderella boil her stepsister to death, turns what remains of her into sauce and sends it to her stepmother to eat. She enjoyed it so much that she ate it all until she found the skull and died of shock.

LPT: Instead of saying, 'Can I have a hug?' say 'Do you want a hug?'

A lot of bottom shelf whiskey brands have long stories histories and glowing endorsements from the 1800s. Where these whiskeys better back then or were standards lower?

An interview: At 10, I fled the Nazis to live starving and alone in the woods. For two years, detection meant death

TIL when Dr. Dre survived 3 strokes over a 2-week period after being hospitalized for a brain aneurysm in 2021, it led to Eminem & Snoop Dogg ending their feud with each other. Because it helped them realize that it was "stupid as hell" for them "to be feuding right now". So they talked it out.

YSK an ULTRA Generic medication in not the same a Generic medication

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[OC] Terrain Map of Ethiopia

“The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” When a Confederate colonel called John Clem a “damned little Yankee devil” and demanded his surrender at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, John shot him dead— and became the youngest noncommissioned officer in U.S. Army history. [600x964]

Conformity to masculine norms tied to higher stress and reluctance to seek mental health help

LPT: Before relocating, take sample commutes at peak times

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ELI5: How come we speak different languages and use different metric systems but the clock is 24 hours a day, and an hour is 60 minutes everywhere around the globe?

TIL that Abba turned down an offer of $1 billion to play 100 shows

Why liquid fuel rockets use oxygen instead of ozone as an oxidizer?

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[OC] Car taxation in Turkey with the highest tax on cars in the world

If the Little Boy atomic bomb was so simple it did not require testing, why was Germany unable to make one?

LPT: When in doubt, throw it out

YSK about Wikipedia's "Simple English" option

TIL the wildlife painter John James Audubon ate all of the birds he painted, including bald eagles, snowy owls, sparrows, robins, and whooping cranes

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ELI5: While asleep, how do our bodies know where the edge of the bed is and prevents us from rolling down the side of the bed?

An AI system can identify people who are likely to suffer heart attacks up to 10 years in the future, technology which could save thousands of lives a year, by spotting abnormalities that are being missed from coronary CT scans. (Published in The Lancet)

U.S. Army soldier stands on the wreck of former Vichy French battleship Strasbourg, with its cut-up (330 mm) main turret, the ship suffered heavy damage from bombing by USAAF aircraft, and struck by shells from battleship USS Nevada (BB-36), Toulon, c. August 1944. [1080 × 1313]

Why was Imperial Japan so brutal to POWs in WWII, but extremely humane to POWs in WWI?

LPT: Get your sodas without ice at events. Often times, they'll just give you the whole bottle instead.

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Greenhouse gas emissions per capita [OC]

TIL Peter Falk lost his right eye at the age of three because of a retinoblastoma (a type of cancer). He wore a glass eye in its place, which gave him his trademark squint.

A worker inspects a camera lens at the Nikon factory in Tokyo. Japan, 1952 [1247x828]

YSK about Lifesaver, an interactive series of shorts about responding to life-threatening situations like choking, collapse, and heart attack

In 1946, Soviet military officer Yakov Novichenko saved North Korean leader Kim Il Sung from an assassination attempt. This created a lasting bond between Novichenko's family and the Kim dynasty.

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Drive the Car in the forest, endless realistic driving simulation

LPT when being a father and going to the park with your toddler, have matching shirts.

TIL Confucius had three thousand students, but only 72 mastered what he taught and he deemed them all scholars of extraordinary ability

Are clouds entirely made of water?

How did the US government rationalize putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps but not doing the same to German- and Italian-Americans?

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ELI5: What is the difference between food being “fermented” and food being “spoiled”?

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[OC] What level of protection does your country's Wikipedia article have?

Nose art of North American B-25 Mitchell “The Ink Squirts” from the 41st Bombardment Group. The “Ink Squirts” was a cartoon in the base newspaper of the Sea Bees of the 94th Battalion, on Tarawa, 1944. [1080x804]

Systematic review and meta-analysis finds that ADHD medications(stimulant and non-stimulant) significantly improved the Quality of Life(QoL) of people with ADHD, with stimulants and non-stimulants being equally effective

YSK The U.S. National Park Service Offers Free Entrance to National Parks for Current Military, Veterans, and Gold Star Families

TIL when Gelje Sherpa spotted a Malaysian climber struggling in the 'death zone' on Everest, he ended his client's bid to the summit to rescue the climber. So Gelje strapped the climber to his back & carried him down 600 meters taking about 6 hours. Another guide then helped him complete the rescue.

LPT: When moving, designate a box or bag for living essentials so you don’t have to unpack everything on the first day

How did the American South become the stereotype for incestuous relationships when most rural communities pre-automobile surly had family trees with few branches?

How to Rob A Bank (2024) - a charismatic rebel in 90s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies [01:28:25]

How Pikemen changed the face of European Warfare

How the immune system doesn’t attack implants? (Breast implants, chin implants, dental implants)

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Sunday is National Paper Airplane Day! Here are 50 different paper planes to fold and fly.

Danish zookeeper watering the Emperor Penguins on a hot summer day in 1957. [1555x1577]

TIL that due to a 2020 rule change, a MLB pitcher can throw a perfect game yet be credited with a loss as long as they retire every opposing batter.

/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | May 27, 2024

Why wasn't Roman emperor ever worshipped as a real god?

LPT: If you're interested in learning a foreign language and have basic understanding of it, turning your cellphone's default language into a foreign language is a good way to interact with it on a daily basis

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ELI5: Why does it hail during spring and summer but not during the winter?

Abandoned Ancient European Castle Exploration ｜ Palace In France With Everything Left Behind (2024) - This beautiful forgotten castle sat empty on the French countryside, but is rumored to have a new owner now and being renovated. [01:10:08]

New research led by the University of New South Wales scientists supports a role for fruit — but not vegetable — intake in protecting against depression. Higher intakes of fruit are associated with a reduced risk of incident depression.

TIL that Lady Gaga's manager, without Gaga's input, denied Weird Al approval to release a parody of one of her songs on his 2011 album. After Weird Al released the song for free on YouTube, Lady Gaga heard the parody for the first time and allowed Weird Al to release it with the album.

Flotilla of ships and boats sails into New York for the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations (1976) [2560x1508]

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Youtube to mp4, webm converter, no ads

Bookclub and Sources Wednesday!

Why did US and British forces storm Omaha beach directly when they knew it was heavily guarded? Why didnt they just storm it few kilometers on each side and then flank them from behind or sides?

Human dominance is a fact, not a debate

Where Olive Trees Weep: Official Trailer (2024) - A searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation [00:02:49]

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[OC] Civilian Labor Force - With a Disability, 16 Years and over

LPT : If you are tired of the Windows "Let's set up your device" nag screen after major updates, you can turn it off.

The first international Chinese detachment of the Red Army before being sent to suppress the Yaroslavl uprising, Russia, 1918 [1599x1030]

What motivated so many Chinese young people to participate in the Cultural Revolution? Were the majority of the Red Guards fanatical idealogues or were most of them just "along for the ride"?

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I made a website/app which features positive and inspiring science based news stories with no ads!

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ELI5: Why do all mortgages have similar rates? Why do they all depend on the fed rate? Wouldn't some banks offer lower rates to obtain more customers?

2,000-Year-Old Horse Burials Unearthed in France

Since Cancer can be hereditary, if I got cancer from an environmental source and then had a kid, would their chances likelihood of cancer increase?

“The first lesson philosophy should teach us is to avoid hubris” | An interview with Lee McIntyre on questioning authority, why philosophers should be on the news, and the misuse of postmodernism

TIL we are technically still in an ice age.

A traveller on the Trans-Siberian Express, c. 1940-41. [968 x 663]

LPT Instead of Saying, "I Can’t Afford It," Try Saying, "It’s Not in My Budget Right Now."

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ELI5 how do steroids work?

Akira: Production Report (1988) - [00:48:56]

Why all of Henry VIII's children died young and childless?

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[OC] I made some graphs showing how car manufacturers responded almost immediately to the 1979 Oil Crisis. Thought this sub would appreciate.

TIL Boss Tweed was convicted in 1877 of stealing between $25 and 45 million of NYC taxpayer money through corruption, but later estimates puts that figure as high as $200 million ($5 billion in 2023)

If you added salt to a saturated sugar solution, will it dissolve?

Corner of Marszałkowska and Świętokrzyska Street in Warsaw, Poland, 24 October, 1956. [4596x3104]

A Puzzle for Evaluation Theories of Desire

LPT Extend the Life of Your Razor Blades by Drying Them After Use

Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies (2019) - Why are we so easily seduced by propaganda? Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies traces the history of the art of persuasion from ancient cave art to the present, where we are bombarded by more propaganda than ever before. [55:20]

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The Communal Plot, a heatmap chart people build together by selecting where they fall on axis like preferred documentary genre vs preferred lunch

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge with four Osage Indians after Coolidge signed the bill granting Indians full citizenship. Washington DC, United States. February 18, 1925 [786×599]

TIL Walt Disney was a descendant of Robert d‘Isigny, a companion of William the Conqueror. The surname Disney originates as an anglicisation of d‘Isigny.

The Antizombie Argument

Did Japan make any progress on cracking Navajo?

The Darlene Chronicles (1995) - [00:57:45]

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Carabiner Collection

LPT: Do not exchange old propane tanks!

Academic records before the digital age

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How long do workers toil per week? [OC]

TIL: There was a study spanning 18 years that compared sexual activity across social demographic variables. It found that internet usage, race, religion, etc did not matter as much. The biggest factor for men was employment. Men who were students or unemployed were likely to be sexually inactive.

Donner Party - why was Hastings so intent on getting people on his path?

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy with his children, 1909 [683×691]

Inside the Real Narcos: Mexico (2023) - Mexico is home to the world’s most powerful drug cartels, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world. Jason Fox meets the cartel bosses, security chiefs, and hit men to reveal this billion-dollar criminal network from the inside. [00:44:21]

LPT: Quit buying individual bottles of surface cleaner

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I collected a few simple tools I regularly use into a single page you can bookmark

"In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man," wrote John Berger in Ways of Seeing (1972). What are some exceptions to this statement, and what makes them exceptions?

John L. Burns who despite being 69 years old at the time and a civilian fought for the Union Army in the battle of Battle of Gettysburg. Photograph taken in July 15, 1863 [630x807]

AI supremacy: (2024) The artificial intelligence battle between China, USA and Europe | DW Documentary [1:28:33]

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Japan weather - specifically laundry drying weather

Soldiers of the 1st Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the front line on Hill Žuč near Sarajevo. The Battle for Žuč Hill was held on June 8,1992, and it was one of the decisive battles for the defense of Sarajevo. (08.06.1992) (550x348)

LPT: To floss more, keep floss in multiple places, including beside your bed. Floss w/o a mirror by simply counting how many spaces you are from center

How were Union loyal southerners treated during the Civil War? Were they underground keeping it to themselves or was there an organized group or groups to help the North win, a la the french Resistance?

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A website that lets you write Ոdsᴉpǝ ᗡoʍu Ʇǝxʇ anywhere on the internet

Short Answers to Simple Questions | May 29, 2024

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An online screensaver that loops a beautiful mesh gradient (inspired by Stripe.com)

How come Judaism remained a persecuted minority throughout history while its offshoots, Christianity and Islam, became the dominant religions worldwide?

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Short Answers to Simple Questions | June 05, 2024

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I want weirder personal websites, so I rebuilt mine and added ASCII cats to find

LPT Don't Forget to Enjoy What You Have While Working for What You Want

why did they design the uniforms that way during the Napoleonic wars?