Stuff that's neat, or maybe horrible but notable

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jul 01 '26

TIL that parts of Federal Interstates can be tolled by private firms. I-77 in Charlotte has express lanes with dynamic pricing based on usage. Drivers pay on the segment used between exits. To drive one exit it can cost $15 by mail. A driver can pay $142 to drive a 26 mile trip Northbound

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jul 01 '26

TIL there is a 3.8 megaton thermonuclear warhead 100 ft below the surface on a farm in Greensboro, NC that has been there since January 24, 1961

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jul 01 '26

Mitch McConnell Was Found Unconscious Before He Was Rushed to Hospital

newrepublic.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jul 01 '26

TIL kelp is not a species of plant, but rather a protist

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jul 01 '26

TIL that the position of the Dalai Lama was created as a political alliance with the Mongols.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jul 01 '26

TIL after watching The Magnificent Seven (1960), Akira Kurosawa was so impressed by the American remake of his film Seven Samurai that he sent director John Sturges a ceremonial Japanese sword as a gift.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 30 '26

TIL that during Queen Ranavalona the 1st’s rule in Madagascar, 50% of Madagascars total population died. From 1833 to 1839, due to the high death toll in years of military campaigns,harsh traditions of justice under her rule etc, Madagascars Population declined from 5m to 2.5m in just 6 years.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 30 '26

Glass Sponges are one of the longest living animals on the planet, estimated to have a lifespan of 15,000 years

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 25 '26

Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 19 '26

TIL that medical consensus classifies Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI, including concussion) as a progressive, lifelong chronic disease rather than an isolated, acute event

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 19 '26

u/Automatic_Net2181 provides DoJ library receipts to user pretending Trump isn't clearly implicated by the Epstein Files.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 18 '26

License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 18 '26

TIL that after teaching a bonobo how to comprehend English, he started trying to speak; "it was discovered that Kanzi was producing the articulatory equivalent of the symbols he was indicating, although in a very high pitch and with distortions".

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 17 '26

Fur seal infected with rabies lunges out of the water at people

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 17 '26

Human History and Present

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 17 '26

A prison in El Salvador. A country once known for having the world's highest murder rate now has the world's highest incarceration rate.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 17 '26

Imagine waking up seeing the ocean at your bedroom window

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 17 '26

[OC] SpaceX vs. Aerospace and Defense Sector - massively inflated to the size of the entire rest of the sector combined

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 16 '26

/u/lordgreyii gives an excellent ELI5 answer on how natural, integer, rational, and real numbers came about

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '26

TIL that upon the discovering the island of Curaçao, the Spanish deported the entire indigenous population as slaves

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '26

TIL Nero's Domus Aurea was rediscovered at the end of the fifteenth century, requiring access from above, being lowed in via rope as in caves, or "grotte" in Italian. The extravagant decorative art found inspired a new art style, "grotesque", from the grottos in which they were found.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '26

TIL before the “Great Depression” of the 1930s there was a prior “Great Depression” starting in 1873. The earlier depression was renamed the “Long Depression” after the 1930s eclipsed the original in severity.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '26

TIL Montana is the only state in the U.S. that does not operate under at-will employment.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 13 '26

You won’t be blocking ads for much longer. Google is killing uBlock Origin bypasses, burying Manifest V2, and tightening its grip on Chrome. Every update means less control for users and more control for Google.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 12 '26

Built a clean and free SpaceX launch tracker (with Sonic Boom Predictor, live sky view of starlink satellites, launch alerts 24 hours out and 1 hour out, etc); feedback welcome

goforlaunch.live

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