realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agoTIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in Historyplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up1727arrow-down18
arrow-up1719arrow-down1external-linkTIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in Historyplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgrealitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square128fedilink
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing.linkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoI guess each leg qualifies as its own jean? linkfedilink
realitista@lemm.ee to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 11 days agobanana shaped lemonplus-squarei.redd.itimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoTIL In 1983, it was announced on radio that the hard to find Cabbage Patch Dolls would be dropped from a plane at County Stadium. People just needed to hold up a catcher’s mitt and their credit ca...plus-squareonmilwaukee.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL In 1983, it was announced on radio that the hard to find Cabbage Patch Dolls would be dropped from a plane at County Stadium. People just needed to hold up a catcher’s mitt and their credit ca...plus-squareonmilwaukee.comrealitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square0fedilink
realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agoTIL that Uzbekistan has a high-speed (>124 mph/200 km/h for upgraded tracks and >155 mph/250 km/h for new tracks) rail network bigger than US, 370 mi/600 km vs 49.9 mi/80.3 kmplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Uzbekistan has a high-speed (>124 mph/200 km/h for upgraded tracks and >155 mph/250 km/h for new tracks) rail network bigger than US, 370 mi/600 km vs 49.9 mi/80.3 kmplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgrealitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square1fedilink
realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoTIL that Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, left Facebook in 2017 over a dispute on WhatsApp monetization and claims he was coached to mislead EU regulators about data merging. In 2018, he suppo...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, left Facebook in 2017 over a dispute on WhatsApp monetization and claims he was coached to mislead EU regulators about data merging. In 2018, he suppo...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgrealitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square0fedilink
realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoTIL research has found that swearing can reduce the perception of pain (providing a measurable analgesic effect) by as much as 33%. Because swearing is processed in so many different parts of the ...plus-squarewww.psychiatrist.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL research has found that swearing can reduce the perception of pain (providing a measurable analgesic effect) by as much as 33%. Because swearing is processed in so many different parts of the ...plus-squarewww.psychiatrist.comrealitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square0fedilink
realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoTIL a 2023 study examined the cognitive ability scores of nearly 400,000 Americans between 2006-2018 and found that over that 13-year period, Americans' IQ scores had dropped in three out of the f...plus-squarenews.northwestern.eduexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL a 2023 study examined the cognitive ability scores of nearly 400,000 Americans between 2006-2018 and found that over that 13-year period, Americans' IQ scores had dropped in three out of the f...plus-squarenews.northwestern.edurealitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square0fedilink
realitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoTIL that lead(II) acetate has a sweet taste, and was historically used as an artificial sweetener. The Romans would boil unfiltered grape juice in lead pots to make a syrup used to sweeten wine an...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL that lead(II) acetate has a sweet taste, and was historically used as an artificial sweetener. The Romans would boil unfiltered grape juice in lead pots to make a syrup used to sweeten wine an...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgrealitista@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square0fedilink
I guess each leg qualifies as its own jean?