Absurd Minds

A thread exactly like /r/TIL except on our forums! yayyyy!

Post interesting things that you've learned that you think others will enjoy or benefit from.

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Honey Badgers have very tough skin. The skin is very thick and rubbery, which is almost impervious to arrow and spears. Even a blow from machete can't scratch the skin. The skin protects them from bites.

TIL:
The definition of "sonder":
From "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows", "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."

What "L'appel du vide" a.k.a. "The Call of the Void" is:
From Urban Dictionary, "L'appel du vide is that tiny voice that tells you to jerk the steering wheel just to the right and take a flying leap off the ledge...that inclination to walk right into the ocean and never return...the call of the Siren song."

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Honey Badgers have very tough skin. The skin is very thick and rubbery, which is almost impervious to arrow and spears. Even a blow from machete can't scratch the skin. The skin protects them from bites.

TIL I hear the call of the void just about every minute

TIL....bunny is still alive. you need a new puter bunny. maybe beg for change?

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TIL... That pretending you don't know people to mindfuck them is actually a thing. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

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Honey Badgers have very tough skin. The skin is very thick and rubbery, which is almost impervious to arrow and spears. Even a blow from machete can't scratch the skin. The skin protects them from bites.

It's more than just pretending you don't know people. It's completely undermining a fundamental part of their knowledge about the world.

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man that would be messed up to do that to someone. seriously convince them that their reality as their know it is falling apart. sounds like some intense torture.

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TIL not to use Nair on your balls.

TIL That the obesity rates in american states, are inversely correspond to the cost of living in each state. This is true for almost every state, with the exception of Idaho, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Utah; all of which are almost average in both obesity and cost of living.


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TIL what "redshift" is. BBC explains redshift as light from more distant objects showing up on earth more red than when it left its source. This is because of the Doppler Effect which acts to stretch or compress waves of moving objects. An example of this is an approaching emergency vehicle siren. As it is getting closer, it sounds higher pitched; as it is getting farther, it sounds lower pitched. In light, approaching objects appear more blue, and receding objects appear more red. The expansion of the Universe is accelerating, so in general, more distant objects are moving away from us (and each other, and everything else) more quickly than nearer ones.
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TIL That there are more than 800 known exoplanets, a rocky planet with an atmosphere circling a Sun-like star in the habitable zone.
(Same link as above)

EDIT: Fixed pictures
EDIT2: Added redshift
EDIT3: Added exoplanets

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Honey Badgers have very tough skin. The skin is very thick and rubbery, which is almost impervious to arrow and spears. Even a blow from machete can't scratch the skin. The skin protects them from bites.

yeah, the cost of living in my city is 16 percent lower than the national average.

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TIL how to double nut
will come in handy a lot lol

Is this some sort of sex thing.

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hey bunny, if I "bring you some cars I found" can you strip em for parts LOL.

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hahaha sounds like it but its not, its a....ummm...technique for removing bolts and such, and yes i will happily do it for %50 profit

lol sounds good my friend. if I come across some "random cars" I'll let you know lol.

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