u/Kyzzz

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TIL of Dunbar's Number, the theory that humans can only maintain 150 meaningful relationships, defined as the people you wouldn't feel embarrassed joining uninvited at a bar. This is thought to be our cognitive limit for our neocortex size.

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u/Kyzzz — 12 hours ago

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[OC] Someone brought their robot wife to Chilis on a date

u/Kyzzz — 13 hours ago

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TIL On average, your friends have more friends than you do. This is because popular people are more likely to be in someone's friend group, which skews the average. This phenomenon is called the Friendship paradox

u/Kyzzz — 1 day ago

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TIL about Zipf's law: across most natural languages, the most common word appears roughly twice as often as the second most common, three times as often as the third, and so on.

u/Kyzzz — 2 days ago

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TIL about Benford’s Law: in real world data, roughly 30% of numbers start with “1”, whether it’s stock prices, city populations, or electric bills. forensic accountants use this to detect fraud, since fabricated numbers don’t follow Benford’s law

u/Kyzzz — 3 days ago

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He’s walking away with all the chips, win or lose

u/Kyzzz — 3 days ago

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Nael al-Atrash,eleven-years-old,blind folded and handcuffed by Israeli soldiers, West Bank, 3/8/2006

u/Kyzzz — 5 days ago

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My grandfather hand-engraved every line on this plate, one chisel tap at a time.

u/Kyzzz — 2 days ago