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TIL: Brain study shows structural differences in people with gender dysphoria: brain activity of transgender people closely resembles that of the gender they want to embrace.
http://bit.ly/2Mb5klp

Submitted May 26, 2019 at 05:09PM by quegrawks
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TIL Companies will intentionaly alter the sounds of their products. For example, they will make a car engine sound louder as to make us think it is more powerful or make a vacuum cleaner louder to make us think it is sucking up more dirt and dust.
http://bit.ly/2WuwfMW

Submitted May 26, 2019 at 12:39PM by RyanizBigBrain
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TIL that after the band Weezer covered the song "Africa" by Toto, Toto covered the song "Hash Pipe" by Weezer as a response
http://bit.ly/2M92mhq

Submitted May 26, 2019 at 06:50PM by yomyoo
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TIL that it's illegal to die in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) because dead bodies weren't decomposing properly because of how far north it is. If someone is dying, every effort will be made to ship them to the mainland.
http://bit.ly/2MbUTy5

Submitted May 26, 2019 at 09:08PM by russianlexicon
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TIL Despite having little demand for whale products, Soviet whaling fleets illegally (and secretly) killed over 180,000 whales, driving several species to the brink of extinction.
http://bit.ly/2CjUtjP

Submitted May 26, 2019 at 10:30PM by Judah_Earl
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TIL The Beatles were a strong influence in American civil rights, refusing to play for segregated audiences and even put it in their contract. They refused to play at the Gator Bowl in FL in 1964 until the desegregated the audience.
https://bbc.in/2WbfmYF

Submitted May 27, 2019 at 01:43AM by sruzz
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TIL as a result of World War II the population of London fell so dramatically that the city didn't return to its pre-war population level until January 2015.
http://bit.ly/2fWy935

Submitted May 27, 2019 at 12:16AM by A_Pluto_Shaped_Pool
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TIL about the Loyal Wives of Weinsberg; were part of the surrender negotiation was that all women could leave with whatever they could carry and the defenders (men) would be imprisoned. The women carried their belongings and their husbands on their shoulders. Saving them from being imprisoned.
http://bit.ly/2iarfcZ

Submitted May 27, 2019 at 01:24AM by DannyGere
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TIL that although being a giant box office success, movie theater business was less enthused about the movie "A Quiet Place" because the ambiance of the movie was such that any type of loud eating was shamed leading to people not buying any food. Cinemas normally earn more from food than tickets.
http://bit.ly/2K5mJt7

Submitted May 26, 2019 at 11:54PM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL of Nirmal Purja, a Nepalese professional Mountaineer and former Ghurka. He's currently attempting to summit the 14 tallest peaks in the world in 7 months. The previous record is just under 8 years. Only 1 month in, he's already reached the summits 6 of the peaks, including Everest.
http://bit.ly/2wnkVDW

Submitted May 27, 2019 at 02:37AM by ExcitingMonahan
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TIL about the Florida fairy shrimp, which was discovered in 1952 to be a unique species of fairy shrimp specific to a single pond in Gainesville, Florida. When researchers returned to that pond in 2011, they realized it had been filled in for development, thereby causing the species to go extinct.
http://bit.ly/2W5LVqH

Submitted May 27, 2019 at 05:29AM by Arma_Diller
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TIL that Matt Leblanc, before he was cast in Friends, was told by a photographer to go to a dentist and file a tooth as it was longer. Matt couldn't afford $80 for the dentist as he only had $11 left to his name, so he bought 3 packs of emery boards (Nail files) and filed the tooth himself.
https://on.today.com/2YPQUbS

Submitted May 27, 2019 at 01:41PM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL when Lance Armstrong was asked in an interview what he would do if he could go back in time and return to 1995 (the year he started doping), he said that he would "probably do it again."
http://bit.ly/2dhXDs5

Submitted May 27, 2019 at 06:31AM by HumanNutrStudent
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