inkican

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TIL Fungi in Chernobyl appear to be feeding off gamma radiation and are growing towards the reactor core. (thebiologist.rsb.org.uk)
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TIL Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectf (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David (www.cheatsheet.com)
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TIL that in 1916 there was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the (www.huffpost.com)
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TIL that after reading the first draft of "Smokey and the Bandit", Burt Reynolds told its director Hal Needham that it was the worst script he had ever read, but that he would still make the movie. Mo (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Creative people report greater trauma in their childhood (www.frontiersin.org)
 

Childhood adversity is identified as any exposure to abuse, neglect or family dysfunction. Greater exposure to childhood adversity has been strongly identified with increased morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to examine differences in creative experiences, fantasy proneness, dispositional flow, exposure to adult traumatic events, and psychopathology (internalized shame, trait anxiety), amongst professional performing artists who experienced no childhood adversity, some adversity, or substantial adversity. This cross-section IRB approved study examined 234 professional performers (dancers, opera singers, actors, directors, musicians). Self-report measurements were included to examine the following psychological factors: adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), experience of creativity questionnaire, dispositional flow, trait anxiety, internalized shame, fantasy, and total adult and childhood traumatic events. The sample was divided into three groups based on ACE scores: 0 ACE (n = 93), 1–3 ACEs (n = 95), ≥4 ACEs (n = 42). The MANCOVA (with age and gender as covariates) results revealed no significant (p = 0.280) differences between all three ACE groups for the nine flow scales (optimal performance measurements). Performing artists with ≥4 ACEs had significantly stronger creative experiences (p = 0.006) related to distinct creative processing, absorption, and a transformational sense of self and the world. They were also more fantasy prone, shame-based, anxious...

TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!" in c/TodayILearned@kbin.social
[–] inkican@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No, Jedis weren't royalty - they were knights.

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TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!" (www.bbc.com)
Phoenix is emerging as the city of the future in c/news@beehaw.org
TIL the FBI has struggled to hire hackers because of the FBI hiring rule that the applicant must not have used marijuana during the last 3 years. in c/TodayILearned@kbin.social
[–] inkican@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Everybody contributes something to Kbin. I'm contributing the articles, and you're contributing the arguments.

TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number in c/TodayILearned@kbin.social
[–] inkican@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Millennials: killing the 'neglected elderly' industry!

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TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number (www.mother.ly)
TIL the FBI has struggled to hire hackers because of the FBI hiring rule that the applicant must not have used marijuana during the last 3 years. in c/TodayILearned@kbin.social
[–] inkican@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fun fact: there's no karma to farm on Kbin - I'm adding content to Kbin to make it a fun, thoughtful place to be. If I posted things as articles - there might be some karma involved, IDK. But I post links, no karma to get. See, friend? No one's out here trying to game the system.

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TIL the FBI has struggled to hire hackers because of the FBI hiring rule that the applicant must not have used marijuana during the last 3 years. (www.nydailynews.com)
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TIL that while filming The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger caused everyone in a LA restaurant to freak out, scream and leave by showing up in character with battle-damage makeup (www.slashfilm.com)
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TIL: Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan as part of a "Work Life Choice Challenge" by shutting down offices every Friday. Productivity, measured by sales per employee, increased by almost 40% co (www.cnn.com)
 

A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.

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TIL In 1959, police came to a segregated library when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused t (en.wikipedia.org)
 

Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) was an American NASA astronaut and physicist. He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven. Prior to the Challenger disaster, McNair flew as a mission specialist on STS-41-B aboard Challenger from February 3 to 11, 1984, becoming the second African American and the first Baháʼí to fly in space. Background McNair was born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina, to Pearl M. and Carl C. McNair.

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