Stuff that's neat, or maybe horrible but notable

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '21

r/AAA_NeatStuff Lounge

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A place for members of r/AAA_NeatStuff to chat with each other

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2h ago

1 in 5 Americans regularly get news on TikTok, including 39% of adults under 30, up from 9% in 2020

pewresearch.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 23h ago

TIL as a student, future Fields Medalist Terry Tao helped classmate Andrew Millard adapt the nonsensical poker-like game "Cripple Mr Onion" from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Pratchett himself approved of the adaptation, and this remains the commonly accepted adaptation of the game today.

wiki.lspace.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machine — and Hack It

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago

Flock camera locations revealed on MapQuest’s new Surveillance Layer — users can now see placement and direction of known license plate readers from multiple companies

tomshardware.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago

[OC] The world had 65 armed conflicts involving a government in 2025, the most on record, and 8 were wars between countries

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago

TIL that in 2003, MIT scientists unveiled a biological weapons detector funded by the U.S. military that hijacked living white blood cells, genetically engineering them to glow when they encountered deadly pathogens like anthrax.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 3d ago

AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns

theregister.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

Plastic isn't as inert as we'd thought: Scientists found that tiny everyday microplastics sitting in plain water spontaneously make reactive oxygen, a damaging chemical that made proteins clump and burst red blood cells in lab tests. The more water-repelling the plastic, the stronger it was.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago

TIL that after German bombers sank the SS John Harvey at Bari in 1943, releasing its secret cargo of American mustard gas and killing dozens, the US military initially covered up the chemical leak by attributing the victims' deaths to “burns due to enemy action”.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago

TIL in 2005 two African Flamingos escaped from a Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. And 13 years later one of them was spotted and identified as living in Texas.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago

TIL biomass of large predatory fish has declined worldwide by at least 90% over the past 50–100 years, according to a study published in 2005.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago

I’ve spent my career studying 911, policing, and crisis response. My new book examines why calling 911 can sometimes make an emergency worse (and how to fix it) — AMA.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 8d ago

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

Research shows that the invisible mental load of planning and organizing household life predicts women's relationship and sexual satisfaction more strongly than the division of physical chores like cooking or cleaning.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 11d ago

Research shows doctors’ prescribing habits are heavily influenced by payments, gifts, and free meals from pharmaceutical companies, leading to more expensive, less appropriate and more drugs being prescribed.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago

TIL the Olympic Games used to be strictly amateur-only. Abusing this, the Soviet Union would enter athletes who were nominally working in some profession, but in reality were all paid to train on a full-time basis, leading to their dominance during the 70s and 80s.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d ago

A fungus resistant to all 4 types of antifungal drugs has been found in a hospital patient in Kenya, only the 2nd case ever recorded worldwide after New York in 2022. The superbug, Candida (Candidozyma) auris, infected a 28-year-old's surgical wound, and scientists warn the global threat is growing.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d ago

Study finds elevated levels of toxicants in teeth of children with autism. The research suggests that children are being “chronically and repeatedly exposed” to a wider range of developmental toxicants than previously identified in short-term exposure studies

news.uthscsa.edu

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago

5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak.

motherjones.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

TIL that John Milton is credited with introducing around 630 words into the English language, more than Shakespeare, who introduced about 229. Milton’s words include “pandemonium”, “sensuous” and “complacency

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

At least a dozen graves of Milwaukee Indian boarding school students uncovered

wisconsinwatch.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 17d ago

TIL the resin identification symbol isn’t the recycling symbol and doesn’t mean the plastic is recyclable.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 18d ago

Here's how the US government spent $7 trillion last year [OC]

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