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Ok-Development-8238 t1_j1c87ns wrote
Reply to comment by mom_with_an_attitude in Why do teeth have nerves? by ileiskit
I read an article about 5 years ago about a girl born without a pain sensation. Parents only realized it because she kept biting her tongue and once stuck her hand on a hot stove while laughing
Ok-Development-8238 t1_j1b6nmj wrote
Reply to comment by TheKeyboardKid in TIL that DMVs in the US are allowed to sell some of your personal information and do. This practice is legal under federal law. For example, Florida’s DMV made $77 million and California’s DMV made $52 million in 2017 through this practice alone. by TheKeyboardKid
That is an invalid entry. Your car’s warranty is expiring…would you like to renew it?
Ok-Development-8238 t1_j1acgeu wrote
Reply to TIL that DMVs in the US are allowed to sell some of your personal information and do. This practice is legal under federal law. For example, Florida’s DMV made $77 million and California’s DMV made $52 million in 2017 through this practice alone. by TheKeyboardKid
On a totally unrelated note, would any of you be interested in extending your car’s warranty?
Ok-Development-8238 t1_iy16jc5 wrote
Reply to comment by jduff1009 in Why do children with a higher bmi start puberty earlier? by -LoveMeMore
“It’s not hard to get over depression…just stop having negative thoughts!” 🤣
I have no problem fasting for 48 hours if need be…other people get crazy dizzy after six hours. But I have empathy for people whose psychology & physiology are different than mine
Ok-Development-8238 t1_iy11blo wrote
Reply to comment by hiricinee in Why do children with a higher bmi start puberty earlier? by -LoveMeMore
I tell my anthro students that all the time: there’s a reason it’s so goddamned hard to lose weight. For most of the past 3.8 billion years, your ancestors & their relatives were more likely to starve than have way too much
Still fascinating to me that the brain operates on 20 watts
Ok-Development-8238 t1_ixzty60 wrote
Reply to comment by nicholsz in Why do children with a higher bmi start puberty earlier? by -LoveMeMore
Just imagining an image of cavewomen gathering Cheetos from bushes, while the men hunt a bright orange, high cheetah
Ok-Development-8238 t1_j2annr5 wrote
Reply to comment by Navvana in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus
The idea that something falling in a straight line/perpendicular to the earth is the same force that keeps the moon running parallel to it…still so surprising to me that someone (or multiple people) realized that