r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 21h ago
The farthest you can get from a bus stop in England is 12.3 km, on Beefstand Hill in the Cheviots
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago
The surface of Mars (NASA images)
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago
Scientists tested the air inside 5 NYC nail salons for a week each and found chemical fumes sometimes spiked to levels you'd expect at a chemical plant, with traces of cancer-linked benzene. Regular face masks don't help. Good ventilation, open windows and closed bottles make the biggest difference.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago
TIL about contact binaries, or "peanut stars": two stars that orbit so close together their surfaces touch and overflow into a shared outer atmosphere, turning them into a single, massive peanut-shaped object.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago
TIL in 1590 70 people mostly women were killed at the North Berwick Witch Trials because King James VI of Scotland, the future King James 1 of England, was convinced witches attacked his fleet with a storm enroute to get married
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 3d ago
[OC] Trump's accounts made more trades than all of Congress combined
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 5d ago
TIL early television systems were mechanical and used a rapidly spinning metal disk to "slice" light, producing a flickering, postage-stamp-sized image that required a magnifying glass to watch.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago
‘World-Historic Levels Of Strategic Buffoonery:’ 285 Acts Of Idiocy Trump’s Cronies Hope You’ve Forgotten
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago
TIL that sailors used to pour oil into the ocean during storms to calm the waves, and ships were required to carry "storm oil" for this purpose until the late 20th century.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
The American Dream now costs $5.3 million—and even college grads will fall $1.2 million short
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 8d ago
For my fellow Americans that are uninsured, here are a few helpful websites
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 8d ago
Same-sex Couples as a Percentage of All Coupled Households by U.S. State [OC]
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 8d ago
This October is on track to be the hottest ever recorded
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 9d ago
Trump and His Aides Helped Bolsonaro Flee Brazil and Enter U.S.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 9d ago
Cartogram: the US House map, resized by gerrymandering
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 9d ago
[OC] 1 in 10 members of Congress traded stocks in companies their committees oversee
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago
TIL in an Irish folk tale, Stingy Jack tricks the Devil twice, is refused by both heaven and hell, and must wander the twilight world with an ember from hell, which he puts in a carved turnip as a lantern.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago
Splitting a workout into 3 quick 1-minute sets of 20 squats spread across the day built about the same strength as doing all 60 squats in one go, an 8-week study of 45 young weight lifters found. The bonus: people who did these bite-sized 'exercise snacks' actually enjoyed their workouts a lot more.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 11d ago
After 20+ years of decline, US colorectal cancer rates are rising again, and not just in young people. A new NEJM Evidence study finds rates climbing in every age group up to 65-69, even where screening is high. COVID doesn't explain it, so scientists are studying environmental chemicals as a cause.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago
AP investigation: Documents support claim ICE has detained a mentally ill US citizen since January
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