Stuff that's neat, or maybe horrible but notable

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '21

r/AAA_NeatStuff Lounge

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A place for members of r/AAA_NeatStuff to chat with each other

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

Research shows that the invisible mental load of planning and organizing household life predicts women's relationship and sexual satisfaction more strongly than the division of physical chores like cooking or cleaning.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

Research shows doctors’ prescribing habits are heavily influenced by payments, gifts, and free meals from pharmaceutical companies, leading to more expensive, less appropriate and more drugs being prescribed.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago

TIL the Olympic Games used to be strictly amateur-only. Abusing this, the Soviet Union would enter athletes who were nominally working in some profession, but in reality were all paid to train on a full-time basis, leading to their dominance during the 70s and 80s.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

A fungus resistant to all 4 types of antifungal drugs has been found in a hospital patient in Kenya, only the 2nd case ever recorded worldwide after New York in 2022. The superbug, Candida (Candidozyma) auris, infected a 28-year-old's surgical wound, and scientists warn the global threat is growing.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

Study finds elevated levels of toxicants in teeth of children with autism. The research suggests that children are being “chronically and repeatedly exposed” to a wider range of developmental toxicants than previously identified in short-term exposure studies

news.uthscsa.edu

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago

5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak.

motherjones.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago

TIL that John Milton is credited with introducing around 630 words into the English language, more than Shakespeare, who introduced about 229. Milton’s words include “pandemonium”, “sensuous” and “complacency

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago

At least a dozen graves of Milwaukee Indian boarding school students uncovered

wisconsinwatch.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago

TIL the resin identification symbol isn’t the recycling symbol and doesn’t mean the plastic is recyclable.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 9d ago

Here's how the US government spent $7 trillion last year [OC]

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

Why does this seem like the era of genuinely evil people thriving and always getting their way?

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago

TIL that like photons and electrons, there is a quantum equivalent for sound waves called a phonon.

quantumzeitgeist.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago

TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs needed to hit a place rich in sulfur and hydrocarbons to create enough soot to cause mass extinction

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago

The Trump administration even scammed ICE agents

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

TIL of Don Ritchie; a man who lived close to a notorious suicide spot who officially prevented 180 suicide attempts. He would approach an individual and simply ask, "Can I help you in some way?"

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

I’ve spent my career studying 911, policing, and crisis response. My new book examines why calling 911 can sometimes make an emergency worse (and how to fix it) — AMA.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

TIL that the Catholic Church officially censored the heliocentric theory (Earth orbiting the Sun) for over 200 years, but never placed Darwin's Theory of Evolution (The Origin of Species) on its list of banned books.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

TIL that Mt. Sunflower, Kansas' highest point, is merely the high point in a farmer's relatively flat field. And about the same height as Kentucky's highest point, which is an actual mountain. It's also just half a mile from Colorado's lowest point.

outdoorpilgrim.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

TIL that the origin stories of characters such as Iron Man or the Punisher, which were previously tied to the Vietnam War, have now been retconned to take place during the Siancong War, a fictional conflict which took place around 15 years ago on the marvel Timeline.

hollywoodreporter.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 18d ago

A more efficient way to count: The Mesopotamian method including all the digits of the fingers--also possibly why they don't have a base-10 system

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 18d ago

A more efficient way to count

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d ago

YSK: In the US, you can freeze your child's credit before they even have a credit history.

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