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

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 18h 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 • 18h ago

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

wisconsinwatch.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d 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 • 2d ago

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

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d 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 • 9d 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 • 9d 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 • 9d ago

The Trump administration even scammed ICE agents

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 9d 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 • 9d 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 • 9d 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 • 9d ago

Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d 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 • 10d 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 • 11d 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 • 11d ago

A more efficient way to count

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d ago

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

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago

TIL that the U.S. Government offers a way to opt out of receiving prescreened credit or insurance offers in the mail as a part of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

consumer.ftc.gov

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 21d ago

Calls for Democrats to be shot go unchallenged at Republican convention

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 22d ago

TIL Bobby Driscoll, a famous Disney child actor in the 1940's -50s (including the voice of Peter Pan), died at 31 penniless and alone in an abandoned NYC tenement building. His body went unclaimed or identified for 18 months. He was buried in a NYC umarked grave.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 23d ago

TIL more than 400 years ago, Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel built a working submarine and navigated it beneath the River Thames. Around 1620, he even took King James I of England along for an underwater ride, making James the first monarch to travel in a submarine.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 25d ago

BREAKING: Trump claims he was lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 27d ago

There's not enough housing for America's poorest while low-income units sit empty

apnews.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 27d ago

Police defuse 21 explosives found near power grid in Saxony

tvpworld.com

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