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YSK Dogs can sense changes in their owner’s mood and health, with some even detecting seizures or stress before they happen
Why YSK : Dogs have an extraordinary sense of smell and are highly attuned to the emotions and physical changes in their owners. They can detect subtle chemical changes in the body that occur before events like seizures, anxiety attacks, or even a drop in blood sugar. Additionally, dogs can read facial expressions and body language, making them excellent at picking up on their owners’ emotional states. Some dogs have even been trained to assist people with medical conditions, alerting them to potential problems before they even notice it themselves
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TIL a 15 Year Old Japanese girl ruled and defended her family territory in three battles in the mid-16th century and killed an opposing general in single combat. Her armor is a National Treasure of Japan and remains preserved at Oyamazumi Shrine and she's been called a Japanese Joan of Arc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ch%C5%8Dri_Tsuruhime
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TIL there's another Y2K in 2038, Y2K38, when systems using 32-bit integers in time-sensitive/measured processes will suffer fatal errors unless updated to 64-bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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TIL the former Valencia street circuit, which once hosted Formula 1 racing between 2008 and 2012, cost $300 million to build and is now a shanty town occupied by migrants.
https://english.elpais.com/society/2021-08-09/the-shanty-town-on-valencias-abandoned-formula-1-circuit.html
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LPT if your glasses lose a screw almost any glasses business in the world will repair them for free.
My wife didn't know this. We're traveling from the US in Australia right now and her reading glasses fell apart. I told her to go to the closest glasses store and ask them to fix it. She returned a few minutes later with fixed glasses and no fee!
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LPT: You can beat your self doubt by acknowledging it.
Self doubt is the most loving part of you.
We often times tend to show self doubt in negative light which I agree, it prohibits you from achieving anything and stagnated you.
But instead of demonising it, I would like to compare it with a overprotective parent, a parent who don't want bad for thier child, who don't want to see him suffering. That's why they protect the child from anything because they are too caring too let him go.
Similar with self doubt, it maybe know how hurt you will be if you fail. It has seen you cry , it has seen the vulnerable side of you. It has seen you when you were outgoing and risk taking.
It has seen everything and maybe that's why it has started to protect yourself being the most loving oart of you because it don't want to see you hurt.
The intention is so innocent. so demonising it is not worth it.
Maybe it just want assurance, assurance that you will suruvive if you fail. That you will suruvive even if you lose everything.
And once you start to prove yourself in small ways, it start to become quieter, quieter until it realises it's job is done, now you no longer need it and it leaves you finally.
I know this won't be easy. But you have to do it slowly, lovingly and gently because your self doubt is also a part of you.
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LPT: When asking for help at work briefly explain what you have already tried. It shows initiative and gets you better advice faster
Instead of just saying "I do not get it" explain what you attempted and where you got stuck. This saves time for the person helping you and shows that you made an effort before asking for assistance a big plus in any professional environment. It also improves your own problem solving skills because you are reflecting on your process.
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TIL that France did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it still refused to use the name "Greenwich", instead using the term "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Conference
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What's a skill that takes less than an hour to learn but pays off forever?
From knot tying to organizing your inbox, show off your mini-skills!
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LPT how to win at battleship
1.Avoid the most-guessed places (part 1). After playing a lot of Battleship, and observing the most routinely guessed locations, I've discovered that columns 1, 5, and 10 are literally the most highly guessed columns EVERY TIME. If you want to hide your ships the stealthiest, always avoid putting them in these columns.
2.Avoid the most-guessed places (part 2). In addition to avoiding columns 1, 5, and 10, also avoid anywhere that you can easily say, or that rolls off the tongue easily. People tend to naturally--guess the places that they can easily say. I don't know why this is, per se, but it's a fact (just put it to the test). Such places are: B2, J9, E3, I9, etc. Therefore...
3.Put your ships in harder-to-say locations. Things that don't roll off the tongue easily will be your best bet for hiding your ships. This takes way more thought and strategic placement, which in turn, yields better results and more wins for you! Such places to put your ships are: H8, I2, F6, C7, etc.
4.Use more vertical ship locations. If you place your ships mostly vertical, it will help them get hit a lot less. Horizontal ships take up a lot more space over more columns, giving your opponent an advantage to finding them sooner. When someone is scanning their board for your ships, they will tend to look across the board (more then they look up and down the board) for a guess, meaning they will start looking at the horizontal spaces and gaps (naturally) when determining where they think your ships are. My guess is that it's probably natural because (in North America and a lot of other countries) we read left to right horizontally. So, if you place them vertically, you reduce your chances of the ships being found. Now, instead of your opponent seeing the gap on their board and guessing your ship at A1, A2, A3, and A4....your ship is now hidden better at A3, B3, C3, and D3 (for example). Just by reading those two sets of four (A1-A4 and A3-D3), did you notice it was easier to quickly read A1-A4 and that your brain kind of "hiccups" or "stutters" (aka you had to read it a little slower) trying to adjust to reading A3-D3? See the reason why that is next...
4a. Once your ship has been found, the natural guess for your opponent is to guess in numerical order. This is just how our brains are taught to function (for example, when you're taught to count, you say 1, 2, 3, 4). Therefore, when your opponent guesses, they will most likely guess the next number horizontally after the "hit" location on your ship. If your ships are horizontal (A1, A2, A3, A4) they will be sunk in a hurry. If they are vertical, you will buy some time while your opponent tries to figure out which way your ship is facing.
5. Keep your ships in closer-knit groups. As you can see in the second picture, my first two ships are vertically placed in columns 2 and 3 within a shorter distance of each other. You will also note that the other three ships are in a little group near the mid-bottom right of the board. When people are guessing where they think your ships are, they tend to guess sporadically. For instance, if they sink a ship at F6-I6, their next guesses will be somewhere further away from that (as if they gained a big victory in that one location and now it's time to move elsewhere). So keeping your ships closer together will result in being hit (and sunk) less. Just be sure not to put your ships so close together that their squares are touching horizontally or vertically (diagonally is OK). Otherwise, when your opponent hits one ship and starts guessing other squares around it, they might start destroying a second ship in the process.
NOTE: Even after your opponent sinks a vertical ship, it's very rare that they start guessing more vertical spaces. So don't worry, this usually doesn't effect the above tips at all. Most people just stick to habit :)
6. Leave some empty space. This tip is just GREAT! It's funny to watch your opponent guessing all these spots in your gap area--and getting annoyed that
LPT How to find the owner of a lost phone
Someone ran to me in a cold sweat at a market the other day asking if I lost a phone. Nope. He was really distraught about this phone her found because he picked it up and moved it.
I had him show it to me, it was a new iPhone. I activated Siri with a long press to the power button on the side, and said “call mom” it rang, no answer. Tried “call dad” voicemail. Then I said “call my emergency contact” it gave a list. I selected the first one, boom. He was also still at the market with the owner.
May not work on everything but certainly worth a try. (Feel free to share your tricks and experiences too)
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TIL that scientists used to think bismuth was the heaviest non-radioactive element. In 2003, it was discovered to be radioactive; but its half life is a billion times longer than the current age of the universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth
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TIL fist pumping before a blood test can lead to falsely elevated potassium results.
https://www.getlabs.com/blog/phlebotomy-tips-why-you-shouldnt-pump-your-fist-before-a-blood-draw
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TIL Amazon won the right to produce a Lord of the Rings series (Rings of Power) without pitching the Tolkien estate a specific story. Instead, Amazon promised to work closely with the estate to "protect Tolkien's legacy", which the estate felt they were unable to do with previous adaptations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Rings_of_Power
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TIL about the water-level task, which was originally used as a test for childhood cognitive development. It was later found that a surprisingly high number of college students would fail the task.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-level_task
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LPT: Foaming soap dispensers are a ripoff - Refill it with regular hand soap and dilute it down to about 25% soap and 75% water to save money.
Foaming soap dispensers are roughly only 10% to 25% soap, the rest is water. It's a scam by the manufacturers to get you to pay more for less.
But foaming soap dispensers are cool, so don't abandon them completely, just dilute a regular hand soap refill down so it works easily in the foaming dispenser. Remember, we all need to save money to pay all those tariffs.
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TIL the young adult author Robert Cormier put his own home phone number in one of his novels, and thousands of readers called him at home before his death in 2000.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-11-me-50378-story.html
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LPT: Easy way to stop nearly any online company from illegally/unethically charging your credit card - including Adobe's unethical if not illegal 'early termination fee'
For most online shops and subscription services, once you give them a credit or debit card #, you're cooked: They won't allow you to remove it as an active form of payment. They insist that you have one active form of payment. (Which should itself be illegal.)
And many of them make also it difficult to near-impossible to cancel subscriptions and/or your account with them, with all kinds of dark UX patterns.
Or like Adobe, they may go even further, and a "Monthly Subscription" is actually an annual subscription paid monthly, spelled out in hundreds of pages of legalese that you agreed to by giving them money. And if you try to cancel, rather than let you pay for and use the rest of your "agreed" term - they charge you the rest of it all at once (not over months), and kill your service right then.
Then of course these companies are notorious for lax security and data breaches, and not storing your payment information securely. Now your CC and personally identifying information is everywhere.
The solution:
# Replace your CC with PayPal, ApplePay, or GooglePay - then deauthorize payment to them on your end.
Steps:
1. Add one of those (PP, AP, or GP) as an additional payment option.
2. Make it your default payment option.
3. Remove your credit card as a payment option.
4. Now go to PayPal (or ApplePay, GooglePay, etc.) settings, and remove the offending merchant as an authorized payee.
That's it! The merchant can never charge you again. (Unless you explicitly allow them to with a new agreement.)
# It's also way more secure.
When you use one of those methods, the only thing the merchant is able to store, is your necessary PayPal [etc\] public ID, your address if they are shipping something to you, and a cryptographically secure token that uniquely identifies the specific agreement between you, the merchant, and the payment vendor - just for that specific transaction of recurring payment. That's it.
The token can't be used by anyone else to charge you, if it leaks in a data breach. (Unless the merchant's account and login credentials are also stolen, in which case then they are absolutely f---ed.)
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TIL Neanderthals suffered a high rate of traumatic injury with 79–94% of Neanderthal specimens showing evidence of healed major trauma from frequent animal attacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal
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LPT: Donot use airline customer support numbers directly from Google
Scammers create websites with airline names alongside their scam phone number. Search engines see these websites and end up giving the scammer's number to travellers. This might also be true for other customer service numbers, I've seen this for airlines firsthand.
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TIL in 2016 a woman was found dead in an elevator after being trapped there for a month. Servicemen who were called to fix a broken cable had banged on the door, but heard no response so they cut off the power & told the residents to use a different lift. They returned a month later & found her body
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/06/chinese-woman-trapped-elevator-weeks-dies/81400244/
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TIL that Archie Comics Jughead Jones' iconic "crown" is actually a style of hat known as a whoopee cap. Made of a fedora with the brim cut and folded upwards, it was a style of hat popular in the mid-20th century. Youths often decorated their caps with buttons or bottlecaps, as seen in Jughead's cap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopee_cap
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LPT: If you're prediabetic or diabetic and struggling with breakfast, make high-protein pancakes using whey protein powder to control blood sugar and stay full longer.
A lot of people with prediabetes or diabetes skip breakfast or eat the wrong foods, which can spike blood sugar and leave you feeling hungry all day. A simple fix that has helped me is making protein pancakes using a low-carb whey protein powder (like Premier Protein).
You just mix a scoop of protein powder, two eggs, a little almond flour, and baking powder. It cooks just like pancakes but keeps your carbs low and your protein high. I usually pair it with turkey bacon, scrambled eggs, and black coffee. It feels like a full, normal breakfast without wrecking your blood sugar.
High-protein, low-carb meals help stabilize blood sugar, prevent insulin spikes, keep you full for hours, and can even help with weight loss if you're intermittent fasting like I am. Plus, it still feels like you're eating real food instead of being stuck with bland "diet" meals.
This works way better than cereal, toast, or fruit-heavy breakfasts, which cause blood sugar spikes even if they seem healthy.
Small changes like this make a huge difference if you're trying to manage or reverse prediabetes.
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they can't find your ships! They do this because "surely" this giant gap on their boards between (or outside of) their white pegs "must" contain a ship! It's our brain's natural desire to give symmetry to things. If there's a bunch of white pegs on the bottom, then there must be a ship to hit and put red pegs at the top. This is the way our brains work. So, to greatly confuse your opponents EVERY TIME, leave some empty space. This is accomplished by arranging your ships as noted in #5 above.
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TIL in 1973, a team of twelve conservationists opened the sarcophagus of Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and ten of them subsequently died over the course of a few months from a fungus released from the opening of the sarcophagus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Casimir_IV_Jagiellon#1973_opening_of_the_tomb
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LPT: If you want to print stuff for free, check your local library
You could honestly make a megathread about stuff associated with public libraries, but this is one I don't see being talked about.
If you don't want to print large amounts of paper or just don't own a printer in the first place, see if your library offers free printing up to a certain page count. Mine lets you print thirty pages a week, while I've heard some areas let you do fifty pages a week.
This is going to be highly dependent on the area you live in, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
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TIL Plato once offered a literal definition of humanity: he called a human “a featherless biped”. Cynic philosopher Diogenes took it literally – he plucked a chicken, strode into Plato’s lecture hall & announced, “Here is Plato’s man.” Plato had to add “with broad, flat nails” to save face.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes
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TIL that every year an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide, making them the most littered item on the planet.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/04/22/cigarette-butt-filter-litter/
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LPT: Dumping your thoughts in a notebooks just beofre sleeping could dramatically improve your sleep quality.
Getting a good sleep is very crucial for your health. As a person suffering from insomnia, this simple excercise has improved my life alot.
Getting a good sleep, makes you more productive. You can think more clearly and fast. You are more attentive and you feel very refreshed.
This really helps you especially if you have a habbit of thinking. Dumping your thoughts in a notebook signals your brain that they are unimportant, which dramatically improves your overall sleep quality due to the calm mind.
This works great for me. But I would like to see other's experiences too. Feel free to try it and share your reuslt. I'm open to any opinion and result.
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TIL Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, was so obsessed with immortality that he drank ‘elixirs’ made with mercury, sought out virgin blood, and sent entire fleets to find mythical islands of eternal life.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
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