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to r/todayilearned by Subsinuous
7 months ago
TIL Jan Sloot was said to be able to reduce a full length movie down to just 8Kb. Sloot reportedly showed this to Philips execs by simultaneously playing 16 movies on a 64Kb chip. He was scheduled to release the source just a few days before he fell victim to a heart-attack. The code died with him
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to r/todayilearned by snowman92
1 year ago
TIL there is a roughly 30 million word gap by the age of 3 in the vocabulary of children from wealthy backgrounds compared to to poor backgrounds.
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to r/todayilearned by NRGLite
3 months ago
TIL that out of 12 dogs on board the Titanic, 3 dogs survived.
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to r/todayilearned by Malsatori
8 months ago
TIL when Britain ruled India there was a bounty on cobras. This led people to breed cobras for the bounty leading to an unintended consequence.
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in To, India
to r/todayilearned by Centrisian
5 months ago
TIL Creatine can improve cognitive performance in vegetarians and vegans.
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to r/todayilearned by gentlebot
7 months ago
TIL it's a fairly common belief among the Japanese that theirs is the only country with 4 distinct seasons
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in Japan
to r/todayilearned by 15mnunnery
5 months ago
TIL that smelling coffee or coffee beans acts as an olfactory palate cleanser. This means that when you smell something after smelling coffee, you get the full effect, and there is no nasal fatigue.
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