TIL Children with ADHD receive an estimated 20,000 more negative messages before age 10 and avoid failure more than other peers.
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ADDitude
Children with ADHD Avoid Failure and Punishment More Than Others, Study Says
Adult authority figures reproach and correct children with ADHD more often than they do children without the condition. This frequent criticism may cause children with ADHD to more frequently avoid challenges or situations where they may face admonishment…
TIL when Great Britian sent a search team for the Franklin Expedition, the HMS Resolute had got trapped in ice. A year later, the ship was recovered by Americans and gifted the the UK. That ship was taken apart to make 3 desks. One of those desks, the Resolute, currently sits in the Oval Office.
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HMS Resolute (1850)
ship
TIL After the US Navy lost the USS Thresher in 1963, it instituted a quality assurance program called SUBSAFE for its submarines. As a result they went from losing 16 submarines to non-combat reasons in the 48 years before, to losing only the USS Scorpion (which wasn’t SUBSAFE certified) since 1963.
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Submitted July 27, 2024 at 06:37PM by UndyingCorn
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SUBSAFE
US Navy submarine quality assurance program
TIL that the Doomsday clock was set to 90 seconds to midnight in 2023 and remains that way today. This is closer than any time during the cold war.
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Submitted July 27, 2024 at 08:50PM by KitchenSignificant27
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BBC News
Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight
A new nuclear arms race, the Ukraine war and climate change were all factors considered, say scientists.
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TIL Will Purvis, who was convicted of murder in 1894 and had always maintained his innocence, told the jury he would "live longer than the lot of them." He survived a hanging, was re-incarcerated, and eventually pardoned and released.
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Submitted July 27, 2024 at 07:31PM by doopityWoop22
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Will Purvis
American murderer
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TIL that although brothels are legal in much of Nevada, about 90% of the prostitution that occurs in the state is illegal
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Submitted July 27, 2024 at 09:22PM by Silly-Pineapple-3554
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Prostitution in Nevada
Nevada is the only U.S. state where prostitution is legally permitted in some form. Prostitution is legal in 10 of Nevada's 17 counties, although only six allow it in every municipality. Six counties have at least one active brothel, which mainly operate…
TIL Casimir Pulaski, Father of the American Cavalry, may have been born female or intersex
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Submitted July 27, 2024 at 10:33PM by Rococoss
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Smithsonian Magazine
Was the Revolutionary War Hero Casimir Pulaski Intersex?
A new Smithsonian Channel documentary may affirm long-standing suspicions about the Polish fighter’s identity
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TIL that Jamie Hyneman was an early competitor in Robot Wars (where people design robots that fight each other), but his robot Blendo was deemed too dangerous for competition
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Submitted July 27, 2024 at 11:27PM by Texas_Rockets
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Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
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TIL that before he was famous Hugh Jackman made money performing as a clown for childrens' birthday parties. Jackman wasn't a good clown, and recalled being heckled by a six-year-old for not knowing any magic tricks.
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Submitted July 27, 2024 at 10:52PM by WouldbeWanderer
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TIL R. Norris Williams survived the sinking of the Titanic clinging to an overturned lifeboat. The injuries to his legs were such the doctors aboard rescue ship suggested amputation. He refused and instead went on to recover his faculties and eventually winning the tennis Olympic gold medal in 1924.
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R. Norris Williams
Richard "Dick" Norris Williams II (January 29, 1891 – June 2, 1968), generally known as R. Norris Williams, was an American tennis player and passenger aboard RMS Titanic. He survived the sinking of the Titanic. He won the U.S. National Tennis Championships…
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TIL Arrichion, a pankratiast in the ancient Olympics won a match by using a maneuver which caused his neck to break, killing him instantly. His opponent suffered from a dislocated foot, and submitted. Arrichion was named the winner.
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Submitted July 27, 2024 at 09:16PM by grotesquebitch
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TIL in 1912 Republican presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette gave a speech to a group of 500 journalists in which he berated the group as being corrupt and working with the trusts. The group was shocked and thought he had a mental breakdown; a friend quipped he’d “killed himself politically.”
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 02:55AM by dinozaurs
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Robert M. La Follette
American progressive politician from Wisconsin (1855–1925)
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TIL Sun Microsystems was named after Stanford University Network
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 03:18AM by Olshansk
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PCMAG
Definition of Sun
What does Sun actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.
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TIL: During the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Greece always enters the stadium first due to its status as the birthplace of the Olympics
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 05:56AM by OneGreatGodPan
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Greece at the Olympics
Greece has a long presence at the Olympic Games, as they have competed at every Summer Olympic Games, one of only five countries to have done so, and most of the Winter Olympic Games.
Greece has hosted the Games twice, both in Athens. As the home of the…
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TIL that the author of "Goodnight Moon" died following a routine operation at age 42, and did not live to see the success of her book. She bequeathed the royalties to Albert Clarke, the nine-year-old son of her neighbor, who squandered the millions the book earned him.
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 06:52AM by kaoisune
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Goodnight Moon
1947 American children's picture book
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TIL illegitimate children of British monarchs and their heirs can have no legal claim to the throne, even if firstborn
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 05:22AM by ex-expatriate
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Illegitimacy and Crown
There seem to be quite a few people out there who believe that they are the true monarch of the United Kingdom, Australia and the other Realms, because they are descended from an alleged illegitimate first-born child of a monarch. But the rules of succession…
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TIL the reason Amish men shave their mustaches, is bc they are conscientious objectors. They do not support war in any form or fashion, and because it was so commonplace for military men to be mustachioed, they do the opposite.
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 10:04AM by ScrappyOtter
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Amish Baskets
Why Don’t the Amish Grow Mustaches (Amish Beard and Hair Rules)
You may have noticed Amish men have glorious beards. So why don’t the Amish grow mustaches? Read on to find out!
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TIL about "Refrigerator Women", a trope in fiction where a female character is killed or seriously injured as a plot device to motivate the male characters, an example of which being the death of Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 01:48PM by wouldyoulikethetruth
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The Mary Sue
The Refrigerator Strikes Back | The Mary Sue
The Refrigerator Monologues writer Catherynne M. Valente on why she wrote the book.
TIL while traditional 12-step programs only have a 15% long-term success rate, a treatment for alcoholism called "the Sinclair method" has a long term success rate of nearly 80%. TSM involves the use of a drug called Naltrexone to block the endorphins released when drinking.
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 02:06PM by GlitteringYams
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Verywell Mind
How the Sinclair Method for Alcohol Addiction Recovery Works
The Sinclair Method is an approach to treating alcohol use that involves administering naltrexone to make alcohol less enjoyable. Learn more about how it works.
TIL the Type A/B Personality Theory was invented by the cigarette industry in the 1950's to prove coronary heart disease and cancer were risks related to high-stress personality types instead of tobacco use.
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 01:09PM by doopityWoop22
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Type A and Type B personality theory
personality hypothesis which describes two contrasting personality types
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TIL one of the ways to make Okinawan snake wine involves putting the snake on ice until it passes out, at which point it is gutted, bled and sewn up. When the viper is thawed and awakens, it will quickly die in an aggressive striking manner, which is what most producers look for.
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Submitted July 28, 2024 at 03:25PM by ChooChoo9321
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Habushu
awamori-based liqueur made in Okinawa, Japan, containing the habu snake
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