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history and science for the insatiably curious 💡 Tiktok for fun facts (1m+ followers @ idea.soup)

Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Mr. P. Explores
Mr. P. Explores@ExploresMr·
A beautiful neo-Moorish style apartment building, abandoned on the back-streets of Detroit, Michigan.
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Harsh Gupta Madhusudan
Harsh Gupta Madhusudan@harshmadhusudan·
Not doubling down on nuclear energy globally in the 70s, 80s and ever since has *perhaps* been humanity’s biggest recent mistake. For illustration check out US TFP - a rough proxy for the global innovation frontier. @balajis has made a similar point as well. Graph via @elidourado
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Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar@IlhanMN·
Congress can change the number of justices on the Supreme Court at any time, and has done so 7 times throughout history. Since 1869, the last time the court was expanded, the U.S. population has grown by over 800%, yet the court has stayed stagnant at 9 justices.
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Robby Slowik
Robby Slowik@RobbySlowik·
Truly weird to wake up in America and be like "What hath the council of six decreed today?"
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Rob
Rob@robrousseau·
please just build a fucking train
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Hayden
Hayden@the_transit_guy·
If the Empire State Building had to adhere to Cupertino, CA's parking requirements, the surface parking lot would cover 12 city blocks or 2.541 million square feet!
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Idea Soup@idea_soup·
One of my senior year Business Strategy essays was advocating that Apple should purchase a major bank and enter into banking themselves I think I got a B-, they thought it was unrealistic
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Paul Millerd
Paul Millerd@p_millerd·
Most jobs appear less grifty than they are Most self employed paths appear more grifty than they are
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Christian Britschgi
Christian Britschgi@christianbrits·
Honestly wild what a mirror image rents and vacancy rates are. It's not like we needed more evidence supply and demand are real, but it's always nice to have neat illustrations of it.
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hannah jo@whoahannahjo·
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Tim Urban
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy·
If you had a giant scale and you put three Empire State Buildings on one side and a cubic millimeter of neutron star on the other, the neutron star side would go down and the buildings would be thrust up. A cubic mm of neutron star—the size of a grain of sand—is over 1M tonnes.
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Tim Urban
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy·
Every citrus fruit you eat is the product of a long line of human experimentation and cross-breeding. They share three primary ancestors (the citron, the pomelo, and the mandarin), all native to South and East Asia. [Image: National Geographic, February 2017]
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Honorable Speaker Bobson Dugnutt
This is blowing people’s minds, so as an amateur historian and sociologist I’m going to try to explain this development/ cultural artifact.
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John Collison
John Collison@collision·
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
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Tim Urban
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy·
“If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.” Montesquieu said this 300 years ago. We’re still working on this one.
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Shreyas Doshi
Shreyas Doshi@shreyas·
People on Twitter, I present to you the preventable problem paradox:
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