Learn One Thing A Day

What if learning one thing a day could be fun? Follow along, future you will be happier.

[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

The past is becoming a foreign language

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@NSTRIKE1231 So StarCraft is real…

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There are more possible chess games than atoms in the observable universe.

Atoms in the universe: roughly 10^80
Possible chess games: roughly 10^120

We've been playing for 1,500 years and haven't come close to seeing what the game can do.

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A blue whale's heart weighs 400 pounds.

It beats twice per minute.

You could literally crawl through its aorta.

The sound it produces carries 2 miles underwater.

The ocean contains things that shouldn't be possible.

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The Guillotine and Darth Vader share the same moment in history…

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France's last guillotine execution was in 1977. The same year Star Wars came out. France was publicly executing people with an 18th-century device the same summer Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star.

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Time is stranger than you think. Follow @Learn_One_Thing for one mind-bending fact every day.

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History feels linear. It isn't. Some things happened at the same time that will break your brain.

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France's last guillotine execution was in 1977. The same year Star Wars came out. France was publicly executing people with an 18th-century device the same summer Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star.

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Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year: 1929. One died in a Nazi concentration camp at 15. The other gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963.

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The last woolly mammoths were alive while the Great Pyramid was still new. Mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until 1650 BC. The Pyramid of Giza was built around 2560 BC. They coexisted for almost 1,000 years.

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Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

Oxford: founded 1096 AD
Aztec Empire: founded 1428 AD

Oxford was 332 years old before the first Aztec temple was ever built.

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Your memory isn't a recording. It's a reconstruction.

Every time you remember something, you're actually remembering the last time you remembered it.

The original memory is overwritten each time.

You've never once accessed the real event.

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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the iPhone than to the Pyramids.

Pyramids built: 2560 BC
Cleopatra died: 30 BC
iPhone released: 2007

The gap to the iPhone: 2,037 years.
The gap to the Pyramids: 2,530 years.

History is not as old as you think it is.

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This is fascinating and will be interesting to follow if research starts diving in deep on this angle. Perhaps Alzheimer’s really can be prevented in most cases through diet, exercise, and some genetic testing.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

My Alzheimer's thread hit 604,000 views this weekend. Bill Ackman shared it. Doctors debated it. People sent it to their cardiologists.

But a lot of people asked me the same question. Show me the data.

Here it is.

Alzheimer's deaths, Type 2 Diabetes, and obesity. All indexed to 1960.

Alzheimer's deaths have exploded 134x.
Type 2 Diabetes. 8x.
Obesity. 3.2x.

Same timeline. Same inflection point. Same curve.

This is not genetics. Genetics do not change in 60 years. This is a man-made disease. The chart is the proof.

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@financedystop This is really insightful design with clear explanation. Thanks for sharing

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Really amazing shot

[İzafiyet @Statikoo]

bir su kaynağının doğduğu yere güçlü bir su altı kamerası ile bakıyorlar görüntüler çok ama çok iyi

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The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 remains the shortest recorded war in history: 38–45 minutes from first shot to white flag.

For comparison, most movies are longer.

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The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.

In 1896, Britain declared war on the Sultanate of Zanzibar. By the time it ended, the Sultan's palace was in ruins, his fleet sunk, and Zanzibar had surrendered.

~500 Zanzibari casualties. 1 British sailor wounded.

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By 9:40 AM — just 38 minutes after the first shot — it was over.

The British-approved Sultan was installed that same afternoon.

Khalid eventually surrendered years later and was exiled — first to the Seychelles, then to German East Africa.

He outlived the British Empire.