Genus (mathematics)

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Asperger's

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Harmonica

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Fuzzy logic

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Russia had an anti communist "white" coservative movement at one time

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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Ukulele

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Chinese Pidgin English - Wikipedia

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Pocket trumpet

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One advertising company owns Snopes, TV Tropes, and Salon.com

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Hook length formula

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First-order logic

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Young tableau

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Get to know me

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Widen your horizon

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Leonhard Euler

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Erdős number

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Paul Erdős

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Five color theorem

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Graph (Topology)

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Kamala and Amala

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Planck's law

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Perry Rhodan

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Graph (discrete mathematics)

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"Early life" strikes again.

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Mary Anna Custis Lee wife of robert e lee, grand daughter of martha washington...they are all fucking free masons. starting wars and killing poor men. he would have been hanged by the yankees if they weren't all friends

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Male privilege is scientifically measurable via the Matrix of Domination. "Although Powell obtains the characteristics of a person that may not face oppression (upper-class, middle-aged, male), he is still discriminated against because of his race" Scroll to: Intersectionality of Gender & Class

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Malthusianism - the idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear; derived from 1798 Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus who believed population numbers are maintained by "preventive checks" and "positive checks".

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Malthusianism - the idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear; derived from 1798 Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus who believed population numbers are maintained by "preventive checks" and "positive checks".

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Malthusianism - the idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear; derived from 1798 Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus who believed population numbers are maintained by "preventive checks" and "positive checks".

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Quaternion

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Natural number

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Real number

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Complex number

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Octonion

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Knot

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Man, in 1972, airliners just dropped out of the skies and crashed in alarming numbers.

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Maschke's theorem

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Tensor

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One-time pad

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Gauss notation

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Fusion centers are state and urban law enforcement centers designed to gather and share intelligence on citizens with support of federal agencies. Fusion centers have targeted "supporters of third party candidates, Ron Paul supporters, anti-abortion activists, and conspiracy theorists".

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Einstein notation

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Panzerhaubitze 2000

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Haskell

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TIL that the rarest naturally occuring element is Astatine (atomic number 85). It is so rare because it has a half-life of 8.1 hours. Less than one ounce (28 grams) exists in the Earth's crust.

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A launch loop is a proposed system to launch objects into space without rockets. It consists of a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached to the Earth at two ends and suspended above the atmosphere in the middle. It would be around 2000 km long and reach 80 km up.

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R.I.P. Alan Parker, feature film director of Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Fame, Pink Floyd The Wall, Birdy, Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, etc.

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Prime number - Wikipedia

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Your new best friend when you start studying undergrad physics seriously, so not only for the piece of paper

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TIL that all mammals of order Carnivora are divided into two groups: cat-like (Feliformia) and dog-like (Caniformia).

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Riemann hypothesis

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Integer factorization

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TIL that there was an Indian con-man called Natwarlal who repeatedly "sold" Taj Mahal, the Red Fort in Delhi, the Indian presidential palace and parliament house.

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The Dark Triad

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Goldbach's conjecture

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Legendre symbol

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Ambigram - a calligraphic design that has several interpretations as written; coined by Douglas Hofstadter, an American scholar of cognitive science and author of "Gödel, Escher, Bach".

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Confabulation - a memory error, psychologically defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. Incorrect memories range from subtle alterations to bizarre fabrications, generally confidently recollected, despite contradictory evidence.

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Sheaf cohomology

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Obtineo Et Teneo - a Latin motto meaning "to obtain and to keep"

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Caste system in India

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TIL that two airplanes collided in Switzerland in 2002 due to bad air traffic control. A Russian man who lost his family in the accident murdered the air traffic controller who handled the traffic that night. After his release he became deputy minister of construction in North Ossetia-Alania.

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TIL that the library Biblioteca_Joanina in Coimbra, Portugal is home to a swarm of bats that feed on book-eating insects.

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Ochlocracy - (aka mob rule, mobocracy, or pejorative for majoritarianism) the rule of government by a mob or mass of people and the intimidation of legitimate authorities; akin to "mobile vulgus" Latin for "the fickle crowd", from which the English term "mob" originally was derived in the 1680s.

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TIL that Francisco Macías Nguema, dictator of Equatorial Guinea 1968-1979, gave himself the title "Unique Miracle", changed the national motto to "There is no other God than Macías Nguema", banned western medicine and had 150 opponents executed on Christmas Eve by soldiers dressed as Santa Claus.

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TIL that in 1968, Liechtenstein held a referendum on women's suffrage where both men and women were allowed to vote. Despite this, the No-side won with 56.3% and 49.5% of the women voting against voting rights for women. Women's suffrage would not be introduced until 1984.

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Offset overhand bend

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The Kerry committee said that the US government gave aid to the Contra drug dealers despite the fact that they were already convicted by US institutions, like the CIA.

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TIL that the Paraguayan war 1864-1870 led to the death of up to 69% of the population in Paraguay. After the war there were only 28,746 adult men left in the country.

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Hanlon's razor - "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", also in other forms, an aphorism and philosophical razor suggesting a way to eliminate unlikely explanations for behavior; often utilized in politics to oversimplify issues and excuse malice and corruption.

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Mysophobia - (aka verminophobia, germophobia, germaphobia, bacillophobia, bacteriophobia; from Greek: musos/uncleanness + phobos/fear) a pathological fear of contamination and germs; coined in 1879 describing an obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) repeatedly washing one's hands. Note Cause section.

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Necker cube - an optical illusion first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. A simple wire-frame drawing of a cube without orientation visual cues, so it can be interpreted to have either the lower-left or the upper-right square as its front side.

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TIL about the dancing plague of 1518 in Strasbourg where hundreds started to dance maniacally without any known reason, some even dancing to their death.

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Brandolini's law - also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage which emphasizes the difficulty of debunking bullshit: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

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Sheaf (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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Sheaf (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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Mary Sue - generic fictional stock 2D heroic character who appears absurd, boring, and without personality or character by being so perfect, idealized, flawless, competent, multi-skilled, impossibly talented, even in the context of the fictional setting, and often as an author's self-insertion.

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TIL that the great mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel, famous for his incompleteness theorems, refused to eat anything not cooked by his wife out of fear of poisoning and died of starvation when she was hospitalized and unable to cook for him.

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Knot theory, i knew you all would like topology :)

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I like all the corollaries from this PDE.

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TIL that the national anthem of Estonia is the same as that of Finland, but with different lyrics.

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Trefoil knot - Wikipedia

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Seifert surface

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Fifth-generation warfare 5GW - propaganda and information warfare to accomplish strategic, operational, and tactical objectives, without measurable damage that the target can identify. Importantly in 5GW the target may not even know it has been attacked, thus the target has already lost that battle.

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US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be "an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time".

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Radical Feminist Readings: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Susan Faludi)

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My most favourite PDE

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TIL that there exist many villages in France that "died for France" in WWI. They were never rebuilt and the land not incorporated in other administrative divisions. Instead the villages officially remain with zero inhabitants to commemorate their sacrifice.

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Antinomianism - (Ancient Greek: ἀντί, "against" and νόμος, "law") is any view which rejects laws or legalism and argues against moral, religious or social norms (Latin: mores), or is at least considered to do so. The term has both religious and secular meanings.

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Ponerology - (from Greek poneros, "evil"), is a study of evil, in theology. Major subdivisions of the study are: nature of evil; origin of evil; and evil relating to the Divine Government. Agathology = the Doctrine of the Good; Ponerology = Doctrine of the Bad; Soteriology = Doctrine of Salvation.

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Has anyone here read this bullshit book?

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Gordian Knot

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Endless Knot

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Six Years Ago Today: Killing of Eric Garner

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Carrick bend

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Annuit cœptis - a motto on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States (with Novus ordo seclorum), from the Latin words annuo, "to nod/approve", and coeptum, "commencement, undertaking", translated as, "Providence favors our undertakings" or "Providence has favored our undertakings".

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Monkey's Fist

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Basket weave knot - Wikipedia

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