TIL of the Order of the Occult Hand, a secret society of journalists who have been able to slip the phrase 'It was as if an occult hand had…' into print.
TIL that in medieval years, an hour was divided into 4 puncta (quarter-hours), 10 minuta, or 40 momenta. So if you asked someone to 'wait a moment', turns out that you really asked them to wait for about 90 seconds.
Have Scientists Found a Secret Chord for Happy Songs? We can explain the meaning of lyrics by looking at their component words and grammatical structure. But how do we explain the meaning of music?
TIL that there is a bigger volcanic process than super volcanoes called Large Igneous Provinces that appear to have occurred simultaneously with extinction events.
Elementary particle explorer. Explore the lie group of the Standard Model and additional proposed theories such as the E8 model, Pati-Salam and SO(10).
Gluten-sensitive? It may actually be a carb making you ill. Evidence suggests it may be the fructan molecules in wheat that cause stomach problems in 12% of people with “gluten sensitivity”, finds randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study.
TIL that there is an affliction called Word Salad, wherein a person speaking spontaneously breaks into unintelligible gibberish without realizing it is occurring
TIL that when humans domesticated wolves, we basically bred Williams syndrome into dogs, which is characterized by 'cognitive difficulties and a tendency to love everyone