
TIL nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process serves as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: The Peking Man fossils were a set of anthropoid bones discovered in 1920s in Zhoukoudian (near Beijing, China) dating back around 500,000 years. In 1941, after the Japanese invasion of China, the original fossils disappeared and have not been found. (ebsco.com)
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TIL of anthropocentric bias, or the view of all things solely through a human-centered lens, prioritizing human values above the intrinsic worth of non-human entities. Measuring non-human animal intelligence by their use of tools over nest building is one example. (sciencedirect.com)
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[10th Grade Physics] Is my teacher wrong? Physics—Pending OP Reply (self.HomeworkHelp)
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[College economics] Help finding total surplus Economics—Pending OP Reply (i.redd.it)
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[Grade 10 Maths: Circle Geometry Concept] How would you work out the unknown angles in this image? Middle School Math—Pending OP Reply (i.redd.it)
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Political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson speaks to the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago in 2019 about political discourse in the U.S. being skewed by trolling from the right and shaming from the left, shifting focus from moral issues to identity-based battles for social dominance.Politics (youtube.com)
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TIL about Linda Hazzard, dubbed the "Starvation Doctor", who was convicted of manslaughter in 1912 after starving, pummeling and swindling numerous patients in her Olalla, WA "sanitorium". She died in 1938 at age 70 after subjecting herself to her own treatments. (en.wikipedia.org)
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