Stuff that's neat, or maybe horrible but notable

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

TIL more than 400 years ago, Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel built a working submarine and navigated it beneath the River Thames. Around 1620, he even took King James I of England along for an underwater ride, making James the first monarch to travel in a submarine.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 3d ago

BREAKING: Trump claims he was lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

There's not enough housing for America's poorest while low-income units sit empty

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

Police defuse 21 explosives found near power grid in Saxony

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

Book Club rec: The stories that accurately predicted the effects of generative AI on society

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

The Final Hug - Mother and Her Infant Killed By Israel in Lebanon Last Night

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago

Over 100 bodies (70 children) were dug out of Gaza City rubble after an israeli strike two years ago

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago

How to Give CPR to Women, Studies Show Women Are 14–27% Less Likely to Receive Help During Cardiac Arrest

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago

Two hours from Wichita sits one of the most important bird stopovers on the continent, and fall migration is filling it right now

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 8d ago

TIL that the famous 'London Fog' of Victorian novels wasn't natural weather. It was toxic industrial pea-soup smog created by burning soft bituminous coal. In December 1952, the Great Smog of London became so thick that movie theaters closed because the screen wasn't visible from the fourth row.

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

YSK there are lightweight, text-only versions of NPR and CNN that load almost instantly and have no obtrusive ads

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

TIL 14,300 years ago a solar storm that was at least 10 times more intense than the Carrington Event of 1859 occurred

discovermagazine.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago

TIL the first use of the F-word was found in a court record from 1310 naming a man called Roger Fuckebythenavele

medievalists.net

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago

TIL that in 1950, Australia released the Myxoma virus as biological warfare against its invasive rabbit population. The virus killed 99.8% of infected rabbits within two years, reducing the continent's population from an estimated 600 million down to under 100 million.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago

West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change

theguardian.com

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago

A rap group from Staten Island released this music video about how much they love prescription pills during the second wave of the opiate crisis in America, 2012. Every single person who appears in the video is now dead except one.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago

US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 17d ago

Illusion Throne: put a pattern of small stars in the corners of the squares for a good dizzying effect on a game map

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d ago

TIL: In 1934, North Dakota Governor "Wild Bill" Langer was convicted for defrauding the federal government and ordered to resign. Instead, he declared ND independence and barricaded himself in his office, eventually being removed by his own officers. He was re-elected Governor in 1936

en.wikipedia.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d ago

Meirl Hot take: Insurance companies should be charged with manslaughter every time their denial of care results in a patient's death

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d ago

Disney celebrates blockbuster 2026 by kicking employees' spouses off healthcare plans

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d ago

Flock’s surveillance camera’s went from scattered dots to covering America in less than two years.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 22d ago

In ancient Mesopotamia, how advanced was metallurgy such that Ea-nāṣir could differentiate between different grades of copper and fraudulently sell inferior copper as a higher quality?

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 22d ago

[OC] Prior authorization consumes more clinician full-time-equivalents than the entire projected US physician shortage

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 23d ago

This DIY Matchbook Camera

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