Idea Soup @idea_soup

history and science for the insatiably curious 💡 Tiktok for fun facts (1m+ followers @ idea.soup) medium.com/@MichaelMcBride Joined July 2011

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Mr. P. Explores @ExploresMr

2 years ago

A beautiful neo-Moorish style apartment building, abandoned on the back-streets of Detroit, Michigan.

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mary @theoceanblooms

2 years ago

It’s settled science James Cameron would have saved everyone on the Titanic by evacuating them to the iceberg via lifeboat.

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mary @theoceanblooms

2 years ago

People on here would lose their minds if they heard his take about how the captain of the Titanic fucked up by not evacuating everyone onto the iceberg.

DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

2 years ago

People on here would lose their minds if they heard his take about how the captain of the Titanic fucked up by not evacuating everyone onto the iceberg.

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Congress can change the number of justices on the Supreme Court at any time, and has done so 7 times throughout history. Since 1869, the last time the court was expanded, the U.S. population has grown by over 800%, yet the court has stayed stagnant at 9 justices.

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edburmila.bsky.social @edburmila

3 years ago

Quick reminder of what the Cuyahoga River looked like in 1967 prior to the creation of the EPA and the Clean Water Act.

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Dorothy Fortenberry @Dorothy410berry

3 years ago

it is, and has been, the Bush v Gore century

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Robby Slowik @RobbySlowik

3 years ago

Truly weird to wake up in America and be like "What hath the council of six decreed today?"

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Rob @robrousseau

3 years ago

please just build a fucking train

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Hayden @the_transit_guy

3 years ago

If the Empire State Building had to adhere to Cupertino, CA's parking requirements, the surface parking lot would cover 12 city blocks or 2.541 million square feet!

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Idea Soup @idea_soup

3 years ago

One of my senior year Business Strategy essays was advocating that Apple should purchase a major bank and enter into banking themselves I think I got a B-, they thought it was unrealistic

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Paul Millerd @p_millerd

3 years ago

Most jobs appear less grifty than they are Most self employed paths appear more grifty than they are

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Christian Britschgi @christianbrits

3 years ago

Honestly wild what a mirror image rents and vacancy rates are. It's not like we needed more evidence supply and demand are real, but it's always nice to have neat illustrations of it.

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hannah jo @whoahannahjo

3 years ago

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

3 years ago

If you had a giant scale and you put three Empire State Buildings on one side and a cubic millimeter of neutron star on the other, the neutron star side would go down and the buildings would be thrust up. A cubic mm of neutron star—the size of a grain of sand—is over 1M tonnes.

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

3 years ago

Every citrus fruit you eat is the product of a long line of human experimentation and cross-breeding. They share three primary ancestors (the citron, the pomelo, and the mandarin), all native to South and East Asia. [Image: National Geographic, February 2017]

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Honorable Speaker Bobson Dugnutt @WallySierk

3 years ago

This is blowing people’s minds, so as an amateur historian and sociologist I’m going to try to explain this development/ cultural artifact.

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John Collison @collision

3 years ago

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

3 years ago

“If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.” Montesquieu said this 300 years ago. We’re still working on this one.