Today I Learned

From the article: Some fucker bought 40k CSAM images with PayPal and when the authorities compared the hash of those images with the database they found out 285 known victims in 1500 images

The victims can file restitution charges

I hope the process is almost automated and the victims don't have to relive the abuse with each trial (only 19 known victims applied in this case which makes me think it might be a painful process to apply...)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-06-14 17:26:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in the 1980s, a woman bought a ring at a car boot sale for £10 & proceeded to wear it regularly under the assumption it was a piece of costume jewelry. However when she had it appraised decades later, it was identified as a real 26-carat diamond ring from the 1800s, which she then sold for £656K

At least they didn't call it poundtown :>

Bantle recognized bear No. 122, otherwise known as The Boss, due to his size and his distinctive ears. The Boss is regarded as being the most dominant grizzly bear found around Banff National Park.

Weighing in at somewhere between 650 and 700 pounds (295-317 kg), the bear's resumé of dominance is legendary. He is considered to have a home range more than 2,500 square kilometres. He's eaten a black bear. He even once brushed off being struck by a train but still uses the railways for travel and foraging.

Adenosine is a waste product of neurons and it is a potent nervous system depressant which is why if we don't sleep for a long time we hallucinate, start to feel cold, and feel tired. We feel like we're drugged because we kind of are. It also increases sleep pressure. Unlike other areas of the body the brain has no way of flushing out the adenosine unless we sleep which activates the glymphatic system. if we don't sleep the adenosine keeps accumulating and it can kill us in a similar way an od of sleeping pills can.

Erica Chenoweth initially thought that only violent protests were effective. However after analyzing 323 movements the results were opposite of what Erica thought:

For the next two years, Chenoweth and Stephan collected data on all violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 that resulted in the overthrow of a government or in territorial liberation. They created a data set of 323 mass actions. Chenoweth analyzed nearly 160 variables related to success criteria, participant categories, state capacity, and more. The results turned her earlier paradigm on its head — in the aggregate, nonviolent civil resistance was far more effective in producing change.

If campaigns allow their repression to throw the movement into total disarray or they use it as a pretext to militarize their campaign, then they’re essentially co-signing what the regime wants — for the resisters to play on its own playing field. And they’re probably going to get totally crushed.

The case was later settled in arbitration.

Come and take a look at Einstein's report card from his final school year and his time studying at ETH university in Switzerland. We will learn interesting facts about his life, his teachers and the state of physics at the time.