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TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones. ( en.wikipedia.org )

I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.

TIL a Canadian from Greece took an American version of an Italian dish and added tropical fruit to it and called it a Hawaiian pizza. ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed ( en.wikipedia.org )

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2659121

TIL there is no original TI-84 as the TI-84 Plus was an upgrade (like iPhone 14 to 13) to the TI-83 Plus ( en.wikipedia.org )

And yes, TI calculators have indeed been improving, apparently....

TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL: There is a sculpture with four cryptic passages in it that stands outside the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence in Virginia ( en.wikipedia.org )

3 out of the 4 passages have solutions to date.

TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL that the white stuff that sometimes appears on chocolate is called "chocolate bloom". ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL North Koreans cannot go to Japan ( en.wikipedia.org )

Just Watched Cloud Atlas (first time) ( en.wikipedia.org )

I never got around to watching it when it came out, and I think I'd completely missed the critical reception and box-office failure it received. Which saddened me to read after the watch, I have to say, as I was really happy to have watched it....

YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective" ( en.wikipedia.org )

"Systematic reviews of controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[8] A 2011 critical evaluation of 45 systematic reviews concluded that the data included in the study "fail[ed] to...

TIL that despite the frequent assertion that lesbian relationships have the highest DV the source data paints a different picture. ( en.wikipedia.org )

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1d0wi1t/til_that_despite_the_frequent_assertion_that/...

TIL Hunter S. Thomson got an early honorable discharge from the air force in part because, "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other airmen staff members." ( en.wikipedia.org )

From Wikipedia:...

TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it ( en.wikipedia.org )

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...