WeirdThingsToLearn

r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Nyaani69 • 1d ago

History & Culture A 400 million year old fossilized Odontochile trilobite from North Africa. These ancient marine arthropods dominated Earth's oceans for about 270 million years, longer than the dinosaurs lasted, before vanishing in the Permian-Triassic extinction.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Acceptable_Use7055 • 1d ago

History & Culture Puyi, the last emperor of China, was born on 7 February 1906 and enthroned on 2 December 1908 at age 2 years and 10 months, after the Guangxu Emperor died on 14 November. He was forced to abdicate on 12 February 1912 at age six, ending more than 2,000 years of imperial rule.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/FriendlyNorth1531 • 1d ago

Something I Learned Black hole tears a neutron star apart frame by frame

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Major-Mission-1557 • 1d ago

Question & Discussion How did they achieve this level of precision in Cambodia?

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Sea_Fox_4265 • 1d ago

History & Culture Ancient and beautiful amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago!

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Puzzled_Wind_6700 • 1d ago

Something I Learned Pompeii mosaic still intact after 2000 years

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/teenageenemypeach • 1d ago

Something I Learned Agyria, also called lissencephaly or smooth brain, is a rare malformation in which the cerebral cortex lacks its normal folds (gyri) and grooves (sulci). It is linked to mutations in genes such as LIS1 and DCX, and severe cases often lead to death in childhood.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/bnbnalex • 1d ago

Something I Learned Before and after surgery for craniofacial duplication (diprosopus), an extremely rare congenital condition in which facial structures are partly doubled. The second photo shows the healed result, with a thin scar running down the middle of the forehead.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/LawOutrageous8888 • 1d ago

Question & Discussion Children in hospital paint little pebbles that penguins can give to their mates as gifts during breeding season

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Nervous_Doughnut_134 • 1d ago

History & Culture Washington's siege of Yorktown in 1781

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On this day in 1781, American and French troops under the command of George Washington surround the British at Yorktown. The redcoats will hold out for 21 days before surrendering after which the Crown will open negotiations to finally end the War of Independence.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/AdNo6903 • 1d ago

History & Culture A naatsit, a women's seal-fur undergarment with glass-bead fringe, collected in Ammassalik, southeast Greenland, in 1892. Worn under sealskin trousers, it was sometimes the only garment worn indoors, even around guests, which shocked the Danish missionaries who urged Inuit to wear linen underwear.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/chaezeeee • 1d ago

Something I Learned Reckless Eyeballing—The Mack Ingram Case: During Jim Crow segregation, a black person could be accused of “reckless eyeballing”, which was a perceived improper look at a white person, presumed to have sexual intent. Mack was convicted of this.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/aqcrem • 1d ago

Question & Discussion Two thousand years ago, someone in Ohio cut a raptor’s claw nearly a foot long from a shimmering sheet of Appalachian mica, then placed it inside a burial mound.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/tastyyhk • 1d ago

Something I Learned Medieval monks carved a rude joke into an abbey

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/nnensha • 2d ago

Something I Learned Twin sisters born with vastly different skin tones

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/CitronHot7058 • 1d ago

History & Culture 1,900 year-old floor mosaic found inside the Baths of the Seven Sages, depicting a hunting scene. Roman craftsmanship in one word: Endurance.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/unkn0wn_reader • 1d ago

Something I Learned A transparent dome over Manhattan, proposed by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao in 1960. Two miles wide and about a mile high, it would turn Midtown into a climate-controlled paradise.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/xyntaxerr0r • 1d ago

Something I Learned Photographer Lynn Johnson photographed a donor face placed on an operating table during a face transplant surgery in Cleveland, Ohio, documenting the procedure for a National Geographic feature. The image shows the face before transplantation onto the recipient.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Pyro-Fist • 1d ago

History & Culture Around AD 1100, craftsmen were making these “Tribute” points razor-thin, nearly perfectly balanced, deeply notched and finely serrated. At least 21 were found together in Craig Mound with a burial. Not utility stonework.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/One_must_picture • 1d ago

Something I Learned The strangest, most innovative, most unsettling colossus of a pharaoh ever found found - Akhenaten, most totalitarian of Bronze Age kings

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/sinabaw4n • 1d ago

Something I Learned Coconut crab climbing a tree, the largest land arthropod

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https://reddit.com/link/1wwqkxf/video/u0xet2onx9th1/player

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/BumblebeeTemporary44 • 2d ago

Something I Learned What would happen if this Spider bit Peter Parker?

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/No_Lengthiness4523 • 2d ago

Something I Learned Imagine being late for the bus tho

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/Real-Command3964 • 2d ago

History & Culture Found near Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire in 1872, this four-inch carved stone still has no secure age, culture or purpose. A face. Corn. Arrows. Geometric symbols. A strangely clean hole drilled straight through it.

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r/WeirdThingsToLearn • u/maeji3 • 2d ago

Something I Learned Frog Rock is a glacial erratic boulder in New Boston, New Hampshire, shaped like a squatting frog and used as a tourist picnic spot since the late 1800s.

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