Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL: unmarried and childless women are the happiest subgroup in the population. And they are more likely to live longer than their married and child-rearing peers

the Guardian

Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert

Behavioural scientist Paul Dolan says traditional markers of success no longer apply

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that the Micronesian island of Yap uses giant boulders as a form of currency.

The tiny island with human-sized money

The Micronesian island of Yap has a famously unusual currency: hundreds of giant discs of rocks scattered all over the island, many of them too hea...

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL Cow tipping, the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment, is generally considered an urban legend. Estimates suggest that at least four people would be required to achieve this.

Cow tipping - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that bananas emit antimatter.

symmetry magazine

Antimatter from bananas

The average banana produces a particle of antimatter roughly once every 75 minutes.

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Today I learned 1 year ago

Today I learned that Olympic gold medals are actually more than 90% silver.

Gold medal - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that there are over 40 million slaves living right now

Slavery in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL there have been MANY cases of "elephant lynching", or the killing of an elephants for spectacle with pseudo-legal or performative aspects, in the United States

Elephant execution in the United States - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that in 2018, during a local election for mayor in Makassar, Indonesia, a man ran unopposed and received more than 260,000 votes. He lost to a blank ballot, which received over 300,000 votes.

2018 Makassar mayoral election - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that while preparing for the American citizenship test in 1947, famous mathematician Kurt Gödel found an until today unresolved loophole in the constitution to legally turn the US into a dictatorship. It has been dubbed "Gödel's Loophole"

Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that the Association of German National Jews was a group of Jewish Germans who supported Hitler in the early 1930s hoping for assimilation, but its members were later persecuted and sent to concentration camps.

Association of German National Jews - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL: Nábrók or Necropants, are pants made from human skin. According to Icelandic superstition, the pants can produce endless money. For it to work, your friends needs to consent, die, then you must flay the skin without any holes then wear it. Then you must enchant it by stealing from a widow.

Nábrók - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL the interesting number paradox, which suggests that if we classify natural numbers as "interesting" or "uninteresting," a contradiction arises: the smallest uninteresting number becomes interesting simply by being the smallest in its set. This implies that every natural number is interesting.

Interesting number paradox - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X19305371 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gk6yrj/til_experimental_replication_shows_knives/

Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL of how a fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween Parade fooled thousands of people

euronews

Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade

Irish revellers flooded the streets of Dublin expecting a Halloween parade last night. The only problem? No parade had been organised.

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that Hisaishi Joe, the composer on Studio Ghibli films, is a stage name that he based off of "Quincy Jones"

Joe Hisaishi - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that scientists at Stanford University have developed a smart toilet that reads your anus like a fingerprint and monitors the health of your poop and pee. The lead researcher said, "We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique."

News Center

'Smart toilet' monitors for signs of disease

A disease-detecting "precision health" toilet can sense multiple signs of illness through automated urine and stool analysis, a new Stanford study ...

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that a Chinese man, years after being dumped by girlfriend, bought every ticket at several IMAX screenings of her favourite movie ‘Transformers’ to demonstrate his affluence.

South China Morning Post

That'll teach you! Jilted man buys hundreds of cinema tickets to prove to ex how wealthy he's become

A  man who was dumped by his girlfriend has spent a quarter of a million yuan (HK$314,000) buying hundreds of IMAX cinema tickets for Beijing scre...

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL a U.S. presidential candidate can win the Electoral College with only 23% of the popular vote. It’s unlikely but possible and it’s time to abolish the EC. https://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500112248/how-to-win-the-presidency-with-27-percent-of-the-popular-vote #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gi8nc1/til_a_us_presidential_candidate_can_win_the/

Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL the Diving Bell Spider spends almost all it's life underwater, it survives by spinning a web between underwater plants and then carries air from the surface down to its web via its body hairs.

Diving bell spider - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 1 year ago

TIL that The Official Register Of Color Names (ORCN) includes many colors including piss yellow

Piss Yellow color - #DDD618 - The Official Register of Color Names

Piss Yellow (#DDD618) Color Page. Variations: Shades, Tints, Hues, Tones and Harmonies. HEX, RGB, CMYK Conversions. #DDD618 Color images.

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