The More You Know ★
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- sarahfailin2
CVS, a company which American consumers mostly recognize as a pharmacy, is actually one of the countries largest Pharmaceutical Benefit Managers (PBM). CVS recently purchased insurance supergiant Aetna, in what will be one of the largest medical insurance mergers ever.
- sofas-5
NSFW
https://imgur.com/gallery/wtvDN/…
user states that in In Sweden, when train engineers spot a person on the tracks they are taught to hit the breaks, close their eyes and scream to get as little input as possible to be able to haunt them later.
- This is true for training in the UK too. You're told to crouch, put your fingers in your ears and scream as loud as possible.de4k
- sofas0
"You can’t change the volume of your inner voice. Go ahead, try to scream."
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRedd…
more interesting finds in the main thread, for example, not all people have an inner voice / dialog, they don't think in words
- "Joanna and her colleagues recruited 27 *deaf* volunteers, each with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and a history of voice hallucination."sofas
- ^
https://mosaicscienc…sofas
- sofas1
"Very little is known about Pedrick. He worked for many years as a patent examiner at the United Kingdom Patent Office but that it was only after his retirement that he began filing patent applications for his inventions. The Patent Office has stringent restrictions on improbable gadgets, but Pedrick's familiarity with the process enabled him to satisfy the requirements and get his applications granted."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar…
GB1339414 is beautiful
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/…
- SteveJobs1
- yes! i am going to try this soonsarahfailin
- be sure to sharpen your knives first.notype
- If you've got an appropriately-sharp knife in the first place, you don't need to bother with this silliness.detritus
- ^notype
- utopian0
- *eddie murphy.gif*sarahfailin
- xkcd (probably a more credible source) already debunked this. you'd basically get warm water. ..and destroy a unique marine ecology https://what-if.xkcd…sarahfailin
- detritus2
APEC blue (Chinese: APEC蓝) refers to the rare blue sky in Beijing during APEC China 2014 due to emission reduction campaign directed by Chinese government. Because of its transience, the new phrase "APEC blue" also refers to something wonderful but also fleeting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP…
- Gnash0
There actually are Nigerian billionaire princes. should start taking those emails more seriously
- sarahfailin-1
North Korea FUN FACTS
among them: Pyongyang hosts the tallest, unfinished building the world, a 105-story pyramid, started as a hotel in 1987 but still unfinished today.
- eryx4
- so are all the glassesSteveJobs
- so are all the dead people's skulls and skeletonssarahfailin
- MOAR!DRIFTMONKEY
