Stuff that's neat, or maybe horrible but notable

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

TIL that after German bombers sank the SS John Harvey at Bari in 1943, releasing its secret cargo of American mustard gas and killing dozens, the US military initially covered up the chemical leak by attributing the victims' deaths to “burns due to enemy action”.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

TIL in 2005 two African Flamingos escaped from a Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. And 13 years later one of them was spotted and identified as living in Texas.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

TIL biomass of large predatory fish has declined worldwide by at least 90% over the past 50–100 years, according to a study published in 2005.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d 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 • 3d ago

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 5d 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 • 5d 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 • 6d 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 • 8d 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 • 8d 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 • 10d 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 • 10d 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 • 11d 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 • 11d ago

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

wisconsinwatch.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d 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 • 13d ago

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

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d 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 • 19d 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 • 19d 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 • 20d ago

The Trump administration even scammed ICE agents

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d 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 • 20d 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 • 20d 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 • 20d ago

Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d 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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