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They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but what about pandas? We believe that, regardless of your age, you can always learn something new. Just ask the members of Reddit’s ‘Today I Learned’ community! This group, which has an impressive 31 million members, is a wealth of information that’s constantly changing and updating, so below, we’ve gathered some of our favorite recent posts from TIL. 

Keep reading to also find an interview with Alison Winfield-Chislett, founder and director of The Goodlife Centre in the UK, and be sure to share the tidbits of information you find most fascinating with your friends. I’m sure they’d like to learn more about why dishwashers were invented and why there are hundreds of raccoons wreaking havoc in Japan!

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL about Don Ritchie, an Australian who intervened and prevented at least 180 suicide attempts at a notable suicide destination called The Gap. He lived nearby and would approach and ask “Can I help you in some way?”

PRSouthern , Kurosi Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And apparently he didn't specifically stop them. Just started a conversation. And he said it was just enough of an interaction sometimes to make people feel compassion and change their minds. A hero among men.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL One of the largest charitable donations made by a lottery winner came from a man in Canada. Two years after his wife died from cancer, Tom Crist won the lotto and donated everything to organizations fighting the disease. Canada doesn't tax winnings, so Crist donated $40 million.

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To learn more about why it's important to be a lifelong learner, we reached out to Alison Winfield-Chislett, founder and director of The Goodlife Centre in the UK, and she was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. The Goodlife Centre is an independent learning space in London that offers practical boutique workshops in DIY, Home Maintenance, Decorating, Upholstery, Woodwork & Carpentry, Furniture Upcycling & Restoration and various traditional hand Crafts. It's the perfect place to go to learn something new, which Alison says is important to "help us feel vital and part of life. We can continue to grow until the day we die."

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL in 1952, Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. To accomplish this, Carter, alongside other American military personnel, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand.

JJKingwolf , Patrick McGarvey Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jimmy Carter is an amazing man. It will be a shame when he eventually passes away (he entered hospice a few weeks ago).

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL of castaway huts (or depots) which are deliberately placed on isolated islands by governments. They contain supplies and tools which can help people who become stranded there. Most were built by the New Zealand government in the 19th and 20th centuries.

bermuda__ , LawrieM Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd really like to know how often they are used and needed.

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When it comes to the benefits of learning something new, Alison says, "As we get older we can challenge any belief system that has held us back. ‘I don’t know how to…’ becomes ‘I’m learning how to…’"

Alison also shared with Bored Panda that there's no end to what she's curious about. "I love all materials and processes. The practical methods of making your world personalised leads on forever. There’s always a way to improve what you make."

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL the ancient Nazca got water in the middle of the desert through an engineered series of 46 aqueducts running 12 m underground. They were built around 200-500 AD, and 32 of them are still used by local farmers today.

PianoCharged , Diego Delso Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is awesome! I continue to be amazed at the ancient feats of engineering! And then we learn that some of these feats are still practiced to this very day!

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL about Josephine Cochrane, who invented the dishwasher because she was fed up of China breaking whilst being hand washed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I too, detest the feeling of Asian nations shattering as I clean my food platters. (Sarcasm, lol)

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Alison also noted that we can find inspiration for learning anywhere. "I asked myself ‘Why is it called that?’ A little tool known as a ‘Gent’s saw’ led me to learn about the 19th century craft revolution when ‘gentlemen’ tried using their hands like ‘artisans’."

"When we are using our hands to make something, we connect with a part of ourselves that feels like we are home," she added. "There’s no place like it."

If you'd like to learn a new skill, particular one that involves working with your hands, be sure to check out The Goodlife Centre's website right here.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL by passing a law requiring pharmacies to be owned by a licensed pharmacist, North Dakota has essentially done away with corporate chain pharmacies. Corporations that own pharmacies must be majority owned by licensed pharmacists.

Cjustinstockton , Nathaniel Yeo Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

same in Ontario but chains "franchise" each location. certainly doesn't save us any money.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that mature bull elephants play a pivotal role in elephant society. The absence of mature bulls creates juvenile delinquency in younger bulls, who will soon enter musth. When mature bulls were introduced into areas with a high concentration of delinquents, they soon put a stop to this behavior.

TheGuyNoOneSees , Roger Brown Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes big brother needs to correct little brothers behaviour. My older brother did when I stepped out of line

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL of Movile Cave, which has been completely sealed off from the outside world for 5.5 million years and evolved dozens of animal species found nowhere else, sustained only by toxic chemicals in the air and water, not photosynthesis.

Cherimoose , kiarayew.com Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very cool! Here's the wiki article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL Roman concrete structures such as the Pantheon and aqueducts are ultra durable because of lime clasts. While many modern concrete structures crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has self-healing functionality from lime clasts which allow their structures to survive millennia.

The_Ry_Ry , Bernard Gagnon Report

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL in 1993 Mattel's Barbie division accidentally released a Gay Ken doll. Despite being quickly recalled, it remains the best selling Ken doll of all time.

Ike_Arumba , Cyle Suesz for In The Know Report

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TIL that in 2014, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. She endured a 104-mile swim through jellyfish and shark-infested waters, taking approximately 53 hours. Amazingly, she was 64 years old when she made this swim.

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TIL of Dr. Jochem Hoyer, a German transplantation surgeon who argued in favour of altruistic organ donations. After a colleague criticized him for praising "living donors as long as it is NOT you who has to donate" Hoyer donated a kidney to an unknown stranger to make a quote "very strong statement".

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL in 1974 the band Ace had their only hit, How Long (has this been going on). The song is not about a cheating girlfriend - it’s about the band’s bass player, who was moonlighting with another band.

edfitz83 , www.discogs.com Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I immediately started singing this in my head. Definitely not out loud though…nobody wants that!

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that Nikola Tesla once worked for Thomas Edison but left due to a disagreement over payment for his work on improving Edison's DC power systems. Tesla went on to develop AC power systems, which became the basis for modern electrical grids.

Yolo0o , Unknown author Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And also unknowingly brought about the name of an awesome band. AC/DC

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TIL A slave couple escaped to the North in 1848 by disguising her, a light-skinned black woman, as his owner, and him, darker-skinned, as her valet. She was illiterate at the time, so they put her arm in a sling against signatures and pretended she was sick. An acquaintance nearly recognized them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This slave couple was Ellen and William Craft. They went on to form a school to educate emancipated blacks after starting a family in Boston.

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TIL that scientists created a 60 year long experiment in Siberia, selectively breeding wild foxes who showed friendly traits. 40 generations later they were as friendly as dogs!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The really interesting thing about the experiment is that selecting solely for friendliness resulted in a major change in colouring of the foxes involved. Scientists are still debating whether the change in coat colour is genetically linked to friendliness or not. In dogs it is, domestic dogs are not usually the same colours as wild wolves.

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TIL Impressed with his energy and ability to do the splits, the owner of the Oakland A's hired an 11-year old named Stanley Burrell as a batboy and personal play-by-play announcer. A's player Reggie Jackson gave the kid a nickname, Hammer, who would later become MC Hammer.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sooo.... he was an announcer... nicknamed Hammer... who later chose the stage name MC ( master of ceremonies / Emcee) Hammer. The only batboy I know by name is Robin.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL Sperm whales use babysitters. Sperm whale youths cannot dive as deep as their mothers so when the mother needs to forage in the deep the youth is kept safe by swimming with other adult whales.

jamescookenotthatone , 7inchs Report

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL A repairman wanted to get out of work early and intentionally started a fire, causing $700,000,000 in damages to the USS Miami submarine.

ElJamoquio , Official U.S. Navy Page Report

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TIL Robin Williams improv was so good in FernGully the director tripled his character’s screen time for the final cut.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that we start forgetting early childhood memories at around age 7.

Lupercali , Pixabay Report

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL Japan has become infested with North American raccoons after an anime based on the book Rascal aired in 1977 and caused thousands of raccoons to be imported as pets only to be released into the wild.

Unleashtheducks , Сергей Игнатьев Report

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nor the zodiac signs and yet people seriously believe in them. Same with religions. I'm not surprised, but in a world where not everyone cares about whether science backs up their believes I don't think knowing this would change I thing

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think about this sometimes and my unprofessional conclusion is that people want a sense of control in the greater scheme of things and this is one way to get that feeling.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the point isn't to scientifically categorize humans. The point is to think about how you take in information, process it and put it back out in communication. There are many ways people do that, and it's good to understand the differences. It's like saying my husband is an external processor (like many extroverts), he talks through things out loud before making a decision. I’m an internal processor. So, I tend to ponder things for weeks in my head & tell my husband about it only once I've come to a conclusion. This used to cause so much confusion early in our marriage - he would say something off the cuff & I would assume it was already well thought out (and vice versa). Understanding how we process information & communicate is important for relationships. I know people take personality tests too far, but they’re just meant to be a tool for understanding our thought processes better.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had to Google myers brings. Personality types, if anyone else doesn't know.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even when I was younger I knew something was up with the Myers-Briggs personality test as my results would change based on my mood that day, and whether I said yes or no to a specific question depending on how I felt. I've been everything form an INFJ (supposedly the rarest personality type in the world according to our friendly psuedo-scientist at Meyers-Briggs) to a warm and fuzzy ENFP.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same lol. I took a few tests out of curiosity and every time ended up with a different result.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The individual components of the Myers-Briggs personality test (introversion vs. extroversion, intuition vs. sensing, thinking vs. feeling, and judging vs. perceiving) correlate with the Big 5 -- the personality traits psychologists use in scientific analyses (extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.) The issue is that Myers-Briggs personality tests combine these traits into functional stacks, making it difficult to control for variables and parse things out the way the scientific method requires. Myers-Briggs enthusiasts also insist that everyone falls into one of 16 personality types, even if the person only has a weak affinity for any given trait. The truth is most people are average and fall somewhere in the middle. For instance, someone who tests as an INFJ one day and an ESTP the next is probably just in the ~50th percentile on all these traits. While some people do have these 16 personalities to varying degrees; they are far less universal than Myers-Briggs would have you believe. I'd be very interested to read a research paper that examines individuals with strong vs. weak Myers-Briggs trait affinities and if that changes any scientific findings.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find that one of the big faults of M-B is putting Thinking and Feeling as opposites, when in fact, they are completely on different scales. Same as putting eye color on one end and liking bananas on the opposite... And with thinking and feeling, not only they are NOT opposites, but in many cases, they go TOGETHER. An intellectual, rational person can be (and often is) extremely emotional and empathetic, and someone more irrational can well be emotionally cold, selfish etc. (Not to mention that they put all "feeling" in the same category, for instance, empathy is largely different from "hot temper".)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the same issue with IQ tests. IQ tests show a potential aptitude, not an actual measurable level of intelligence, and reverb further, can be EXTREMELY biased and unreliable, yet people still try to take some and use their scores as reasons as to why they might know more about something they've never truly studied, than an expert with many years of study in the field.

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Michelle C
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup. Carl Jung stated that the way the mother-daughter duo used his work was the exact opposite of the way he had intended it to be used, as I recall.

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Shane S
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please tell every member of management this. It’s just a corporate zodiac.

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Leo Domitrix
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Myers-Briggs is, like many IQ tests and similar, based on the biases of old white dudes from certain lofty socioeconomic (pretenses) positions. One of my near ancestors basically "flunked" an IQ test b/c he'd never seen a tennis racket. So how could he pass the test when it had questions about such things? Dude was a peasant from Podunk. Didn't even speak English.

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Shane S
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Old white dudes? I read it was a mother-daughter team who set out to try to explain why their in-law was an outcast in the family and didn’t fit in. The latter may be exaggerating but I’m pretty sure that two women devised this.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More *used* in eugenics. They were horrible people, influenced by the worst Old White Dude philosophies of their time, without really understanding any of it, all to justify why they disliked an in-law.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Super irritating when people ask you for your Myers Briggs, and it's happened to me a bunch for some reason

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got different results every time and realised that it was BS at that point.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My former department in the UK government would jump on any bandwagon proposed by any snake oil salesman. Trim/Prince 2/Briggs Meyer/Lighthouse/Lean etc. We were a marine science agency

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel you. We still get handed these type sof personality tests, when realistically, complexity means that *none* are fully accurate, and serial killers often pass them as "perfectly wonderful" /s/ individuals. Bad science is always gonna be BS.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interestingly, it's still taught as a reliable measure of personality it in psy classes. One of my professors even had us take the test and write a research paper about it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn’t know this, but I do believe in the concept of introversion and extraversion. When I’m tired, I need time alone to recharge. When my friend is tired, she looks for people to go out with in order to recharge. That is the fundamental difference between Is and Es and I see it out in the world all the time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Businesses used to use those as a 'getting to know each other" thing. Its a party game.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For people who might be interested. This is a Big 5 assessment often used in psychology research (https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/IPIP-BFFM/). This is the Hexaco, another research-backed assessment that takes into account a sixth factor: honesty/humility. (http://hexaco.org/) And this is a version of the Myers-Briggs unscientific personality test. It's not exactly the same as the official MBTI test, but this one is free. (https://www.16personalities.com/) The questions will be virtually the same across all three tests. The primary difference is how the results are compiled at the end (percentiles vs letters) and the ridiculous dogma surrounding Myes-Briggs. (You have to be one of the 16 personalities! There's no such thing as being between types.)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still remember my type: ENFP. Which means absolutely fuckall. :)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did an online test a while ago, and discussed with some people, they dis them as well, and came up with the same results.. figured it was a marketing scheme to sell the book specifically targeted to personality types, without needing to write books about all types xD

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Meyers Briggs: Too much money spent by corporations to find out what kind of people their employees are...only to find how incredibly wrong the tests were. You want to know your employees? Get down in the trenches and work beside them.

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12 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry, I do think it makes sense. My son and I took the 'tests' and came out totally opposite on all 4 sections and it's so very true for us!!!!!!!!!!!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

which makes me feel better since I've tried to do the test and I cant answer most of the questions because they dont have options that I've actually experienced or think about thus I am invalid as far as the test is considered. So many take that as PROOF of behaviour, and yet it isnt complex enough to take in all the possible ways you can think or behave in a given scenario.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd like to ask Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Myers why a useless test has to be so tediously long. If you're going to make a 'fake' test, at least make it short and pleasurable. LOL

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think Myers Briggs should be used for anything official. However, I did relate heavily to the results, but I understand that others may not. It's not an exact science. For me I found it a gateway to exploring sides of my personality that I may not have given enough thought to. They are basically boxes that you may or may not fit into. If you fit, perhaps you can learn a lot about yourself, but if you don't, it's probably not useful for you. Enneagrams are a fun one too.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is a social science, and it is stunningly accurate. I am INFP naturally, but can be ENFJ at work on a good day

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Amber
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This being said, it's generally the INTJs who are some of the staunchest advocates, simply because they are relieved that there are others like them out there

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Autumn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t even know if there’s an official place to do the test. I’ve tried to find it a few times out of curiosity/for fun, but I can never be sure if it’s the right thing

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Cold Eagle
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do not think I have heard of this. I must be living under a rock if I take the comments below as a judge. 🤷‍♀️

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course not. But it's fun! I'm INTP according to some tests and an ISFJ according to another.

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Peter
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So what? The extended guides on '16personalities' web for INTP were probably the best money spent. Helped navigate the life much better than other tests or therapy. In my case the test and results are super accurate and reading the guides is almost funny! Please don't compare with zodiac signs...

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Natasha
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yea, but it’s still fun lol idrc if it’s real or not

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Kelly Scott
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to pop in here with this. Years ago, I took the full Myers-Briggs test, 200 questions. It was sent out to be analysed. The next week I went to see my therapist and before she could tell me what it said, I asked her how reliable this test was. I said it sounded like hocus pocus to me and I really wouldn't trust anything that came of it. So my therapist handed the paper to me and on the first line, after it had my letters, it said "People with this combination tend to be suspicious and question authority...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother was a career counselor and this information would have greatly upset and saddened her as she regularly used this test.

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Alun Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We're all different. Doesn't need a scientist to tell us. Why companies do these is beyond me.

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David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like this one needs more explanation. Personality types are definitely a thing. BP even posts threads about them like introverts and such. So it seems more like someone is saying the Myer-Briggs method of determining personality types is not properly tested.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It isn't tested, it's about as valid as the horoscopes in the newspaper, and hard science regards it as an insult. An AH businessman teaches Myers some BS, then she and Briggs team up to use Old White Guy Carl Jung to justify why they hate an in-law, and then they *make money off it*. To make matters worse, these classifications from M-B are still used to "place" people somewhere.... It's social Darwinism, like manyother personality tests and, also, IQ tests.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That test taught me about introverts, i never knew i was introvert or whatever it was. If someone didnt learn something new from it , then congratulation with your knowledge

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L hill
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We did this for work and it matched my astrological sign description. It must be legit.

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Michael Largey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went in for a personality test, but they told me that they hadn't thought to bring a microscope.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And yet, it is somewhat accurate. Not always, of course.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think you've just summed up what 'no scientific basis' means. Random chance is somewhat accurate, some of the time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true. I refer you to the article J Best Pract Healch Prof Divers (Spring, 2017), 10(1), 1-27. Establishes adequate reliability and validity. The test is based on the theories and work of Carl Jung.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL 70% of people in the world do not use toilet paper.

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#26

TIL that bioluminescence in fireflies is nearly 100 percent efficient, meaning little energy is wasted to produce their light.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember the very first time i saw one, we were on holiday on Kefalonia, I thought it was a magic fairy.

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#27

TIL that the actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, was banned from attending official Star Wars events because he leaked too many plot details.

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#28

“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL the crews of Apollo 11, 12, and 14 had to spend 3 weeks in quarantine after returning to Earth because of the possibility that they might spread contagions from the moon.

BlueHarvestJ , Neil Armstrong Report

#29

TIL That in case of emergency in a railroad crossing, instead of dialing 911, we should first look out for a blue and white sign that has a phone number that will get you in touch with the railroad dispatcher, who can radio the engineers of nearby trains to immediately stop short of that crossing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is supposed to be such a number at every grade crossing (in the USA), but people still try to get their vehicle loose until it is too late to stop the train.

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TIL The prototype of the Rolls Royce Ghost was so quiet inside that it made test drivers sick. The engineers had to remove some of the noise-isolating material, and create seats that vibrated at specific frequencies to introduce some noise into the interior.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get this! European super speed trains are so fast and smooth that I get sick. I need me a little shake and rattle occasionally to remind me I'm on the ground.

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TIL about Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a medicine used in the early 1900s to quiet infants and teething children. Popular in the US and UK it took twenty years of doctors' complaints before it was withdrawn from the market for being a "baby killer." The main ingredient was morphine.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL as a research student, Lawrence Bragg figured out how to use X-ray to study the atomic structure. His breakthrough discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics at age 25.

romeofantasy , collections.slsa.sa.gov.au Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's actually not that unusual for Nobel-winning discoveries to happen in early life. The average age for publication of Nobel physicists' major work is 42. What is unusual is that Bragg was recognised so quickly: on average, the Nobel prize is granted 20 years after the discovery. https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/the-age-at-which-noble-prize-research-is-conducted

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL the Japanese turned the third of their superbattleships (after Yamato and Musashi) into the largest aircraft carrier ever built at the time. After four years of construction and enormous cost, she left the shipyard and was immediately sunk by a submarine.

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TIL Charles Dickens had a talking pet raven named Grip, who terrorized his dog, buried valuables in the yard, and died eating "a pound or two" of lead paint. As a character in one of his novels, Grip is believed to have inspired Poe's famous poem, and is on display in a Philadelphia public library.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if that is out of order. Maybe it was - eats lead paint - goes a bit mental - then terrorizes dog and steals valuables.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that South Korea's CIA recruited a suicide squad to kill North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The squad mutinied, killed their commanders, hijacked a bus to Seoul, and were blown up by their own military. The survivors were then executed.

friarcat , 경향신문사 Report

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that the Fahrenheit scale was standardized 18 years before Celsius. The world switch due to the British Empire. The United States is actually using the earlier standard.

nyg3n , Jarosław Kwoczała Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, they’re going to be so smug. Even though Celsius makes way more sense imo.

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TIL Japan has used history textbook that contained references to the Nanjing Massacre, anti-Japanese resistance movements in Korea, forced suicide in Okinawa, comfort women, and Unit 731 since the mid 1990s.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only way to not repeat history is learn from past mistakes, so they don't hide theirs

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TIL beneath the Puerto Rico Trench is a mass so dense it has a gravitational pull on the surface of the ocean, causing it to dip somewhat. The Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth, -380 milliGal, which indicates the presence of an active downward force.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The acceleration due to gravity varies quite a lot from place to place on the Earth's surface. The famous 9.81 m/s^2 is only an approximation. Since Britain has a high acceleration due to gravity and Australia has a low acceleration due to gravity, you can actually lose weight by travelling from Britain to Australia.

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL Crypto.com mistakenly sent a customer $10.5 million instead of an $100 refund by typing the account number as the refund amount. It took Crypto.com 7 months to notice the mistake, they are now suing the customer.

must_go , ajay_suresh Report

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“Today I Learned”: 40 Lesser-Known Things About The World That Should Be Common Knowledge (New Pics) TIL that King Alfonso XIII of Spain,was known as "the Playboy king"and considered the pioneer of pornographic cinema in Spain.He commissioned pornographic films considered immoral and degenerate, including sexual relationships involving Catholic priests, and his passion "women with enormous breasts".

thirdwheelforever , Kaulak - Museu Nacional Report

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