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TIL scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a 'supervoid'; an empty spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across that is the largest object in the known universe. An estimated 10,000 galaxies were “missing” from the part of the sky it sits in.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 07:56AM by -AMARYANA-
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TIL a brain injury sustained during a mugging turned a man who used to think "math is stupid" into a mathematical savant with a form of synaesthesia that lets him see the world in fractals.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 12:45PM by lenny_ray
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TIL Many Native American students at Yale study their indigenous languages even though these classes do not count for academic credit. Stanford stands out for providing classes that qualify for academic credit on Native Americans languages, including Cherokee, Nahuatl, Navajo, and Lakota
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 09:02AM by vannybros
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TIL Ada Lovelace, along with her early work in programming and designing a turing computer in the 1830s, wrote a theory of "flyology" on powered flight that accurately documented wing-body ratios to achieve it. She was 12 when she published it.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 02:45PM by N-A-M-R-O-G
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TIL one of this site’s co-founders committed suicide in 2013 after facing up to 50 years in prison for illegally downloading over 4 million academic articles. He was 26 years old.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 03:53PM by nokia621
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TIL That Disney was forced to abandon its policy of letting disabled people skip lines in its theme parks, after rampant abuse of the rule by people hiring disabled “tour guides” to skip waiting for rides. These guides sometimes charged up to hundreds of dollars per hour.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 03:06PM by Tokyono
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TIL just before Live Aid, Freddie Mercury was told by his doctor not to do the show because of some vocal trouble. He of course, ignored it, and went on to deliver a 20 minutes show that, according to a BBC poll, is the greatest live performance of all time.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 06:04PM by MistressGravity
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TIL that Ireland has 3 Peat fired power plants. Using peat taken from Irish bogs, its more polluting than Coal and is so inefficient it is subsided by the state.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 04:42PM by LEVII777
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TIL With PTSD, your brain doesn’t process the trauma the right way. It doesn’t file the memory of the event as being in the past. The result: You feel stressed and frightened even when you know you’re safe.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 04:55PM by chercheur17
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TIL A Japanese Man cut off and served his own genitals to five diners, charging them $250 dollars a plate. He was reported to the police but wasn't arrested as there is no law against cannibalism in Japan.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 06:37PM by Tokyono
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TIL that in Norway, people use the term "texas" as slang for "crazy". It doesn't refer to a person, but a chaotic atmosphere or state of mind, so saying a party "was totally crazy!" in Norwegian would be "det var helt texas!", which literally means "it was texas!"
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 09:37PM by sassysalmnder
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TIL that in Sweden you agree with someone by sucking in air. In Sweden (and Norway), to show you’re on the same page as someone, you make a sharp sucking noise instead of saying "I agree" or nodding. It’s their way of letting you know they’re listening without interrupting the flow of conversation.
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Submitted July 31, 2019 at 10:15PM by design-responsibly
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TIL that mushroom therapy is now being used to help treat depression, known for rebooting the brain and creating new connections. (2018)
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Submitted August 01, 2019 at 05:26AM by pickkkles69
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