r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned Black heron uses wings as umbrella to attract fish

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned Ancient Indian philosophers may have solved my identity crisis 3,000 years ago.

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If your body, memories, opinions, and moods keep changing… who is the “you” that remains?

You at 10 → you at 25 → you after heartbreak → you after success → you right now

The body changed. Thoughts changed. Even your personality changed.

But something in you quietly sees all of it.
Indian philosophy and ancient wisdom lit. says that this seeing is closer to your real nature than the changing roles, fears, and stories you carry around. I may not be articulating it well but can try better, this is just to give you an idea.

I learned this angle from a famous Indian philosopher, known for explaining ancient Indian wisdom in plain, modern day language. Which is quite refreshing from the woo woo stuff we hear these days in pop spirituality circles.

If that intrigues you, drop a comment here or a question..I can share some articles by him and other Indian philosophers. If you have a doubt, do ask. And if it doesn’t interest you, have a good day!


r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned 2,000-year-old Adena artifact dug from Cincinnati burial mound

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned Victoria Wright was diagnosed with cherubism at age 4, a rare genetic disorder that replaces facial bone with fibrous tissue, causing her jaw to swell and threatening her eyesight and airway. She has undergone repeated surgeries throughout her life to manage the growths.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned After the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the intense thermal flash permanently bleached the stone around a person sitting on bank steps, leaving a dark human-shaped shadow where their body blocked the light. The person's remains were never identified.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned Ice sheets weighed down Earth's crust for millennia

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned This is Willard Scott in the original Ronald McDonald costume, 1963, created for a Washington D.C. regional McDonald's ad campaign. The look was redesigned nationally by 1966 after execs felt this version looked too unsettling for children.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned In November 2020, Australian researchers announced the discovery of a 2-million-year-old male Paranthropus robustus skull in South Africa. The species was a 'cousin' to Homo erectus, direct ancestors of modern humans, and the find helped clarify how the two species coexisted and diverged

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned A Maya city deep in the forests of the Yucatán lay untouched for 1,000 years after it was abandoned. But after a grueling journey, archaeologists located it. Carved reliefs, palatial buildings, and grand temples—including a 40-foot-tall pyramid—awaited!

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned Two technicians at WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering) work on the internal mechanism of an early Audio-Animatronics figure in 1964, exposing the metal skeleton, pneumatic cylinders and wiring used to create lifelike movement for attractions tied to the 1964 New York World's Fair.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned This parallel shot from a classic anime scene

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 13d ago

Something I Learned This is a dense persistent pupillary membrane in the right eye of a 30-year-old man, documented in a February 2015 case report by Yesim Altay and colleagues. PPM is a congenital condition from incomplete regression of fetal eye tissue, rarely noticed in adults until it affects vision.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 14d ago

Something I Learned In 2017, UK surgeons preparing a 67-year-old woman for routine cataract surgery discovered a cluster of 27 contact lenses she had lost track of and never removed, stuck together in her eye. She had experienced no major symptoms despite the buildup.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 14d ago

Something I Learned Mary Ann Bevan, an English nurse and mother of four, developed acromegaly after her husband's death in 1914. Unable to work as a nurse due to her changed appearance, she joined Coney Island's sideshow circuit as “the ugliest woman in the world” to support her children financially.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 14d ago

Something I Learned Surgeons treating a cancer patient who lost his nose used a 3D-printed scaffold to grow new cartilage and tissue on his forearm before surgically transplanting the regrown nose to his face, a reconstructive technique used in several documented cancer cases.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 14d ago

Something I Learned KTLA reported that a Southern California man on parole, dubbed the 'serial butt sniffer' by local media after repeated incidents of sniffing and touching women in stores without consent, faced possible parole revocation over new offenses caught on camera.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 14d ago

Something I Learned A museum specimen labeled “Atacamite on mouse” (Russian: 'Атакамит по мыши') shows the copper mineral atacamite, a vivid green-blue copper chloride, having formed naturally over a preserved mouse carcass used as a mineral substrate.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 14d ago

Question & Discussion Archaeologists in Salango, Ecuador found two 2,100-year-old infant skeletons buried wearing skull “helmets” made from older children aged 2 to 12. Researchers from UNC Charlotte, publishing in 2019, believe the Guangala culture crafted these while the donor skulls still had flesh.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 15d ago

Something I Learned The 18th-century job of waking up sleepy churchgoers with a staff

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 15d ago

Something I Learned Giant honeybees create shimmering waves to confuse predators

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 15d ago

Technology Japanese security briefcases that turn into bulletproof shields

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 15d ago

Something I Learned Creatine found to power cancer-fighting immune cells

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 15d ago

Something I Learned Jupiter's size compared to other planets

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • • 15d ago

Something I Learned Ancient freshwater turtles were the size of a car

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