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TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/18677335...

TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex (en.m.wikipedia.org)

It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....

TIL the USA has "national emergencies" still ongoing that date back to 1979 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Chicago rat hole (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Hokey pokey (ice cream) (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Electronic voice phenomenon (en.m.wikipedia.org)

West Memphis Three (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Superseded theories in science (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Marimo (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Manhattanhenge (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Apollon (strongman) (en.m.wikipedia.org)

TIL about the 'River' effect in typography (en.m.wikipedia.org)

In typography, rivers (or rivers of white) are gaps in typesetting which appear to run through a paragraph of text due to a coincidental alignment of spaces. Rivers can occur regardless of the spacing settings, but are most noticeable with wide inter-word spaces caused by full text justification or monospaced fonts. Rivers are...

Volcanic winter (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Urban heat island (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Chinese treasure ship (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Jews have no monopol over the "semite" people (en.m.wikipedia.org)

I see people thinking that semite=Jew, but bear in mind that “semite” was a term created in 1781 by german philologist Ludwig Schlotzer to describe languages that are similar (Arabic, hebrew, Aramaic, etc)....