› added 11 years ago

182

TIL reddit upvotes were called ‘boosts’

Read more web.archive.org

via reddit.com

P1K0n TIL The Tel Dan Stele refers to a “House of David” which scholars believe is referring to the Bible’s King David
eALb TIL People with poor mathematical skills, aren’t necessarily bad at math because they are ‘ungifted’. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety’ that makes people perform worse, which sometimes leads to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more Math anxiety.
DQAOp TIL A 1965 study on social isolation in monkeys reported that while no monkeys died during the isolation, 1 of 6 monkeys isolated for 3 months refused to eat after release and died 5 days later. A 2nd animal refused to eat and would have died had they not resorted to forced feeding.
67Xw TIL that 3 specially trained beluga whales were placed in a ‘whale paddock’ at the mouth of Sochi Harbor to protect the port from underwater infiltration while the olympics take place
ZAQ TIL that the song “Why can’t we be Friends?” was played in space when Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts joined together in 1975 for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.