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Maleficent-Drive4056 t1_ja3qfrg wrote

Reply to comment by KingRaffles in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

Funny because obviously it’s nonsensical yet if someone gave that definition I would know it’s referring to a dog (even without having watched blackadder).

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NewCanadianMTurker t1_ja3qclg wrote

Reply to comment by Accurate_Arachnid_23 in TIL of David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and NBC who suppressed and then stole FM radio and Television from their inventors, driving one to suicide and the other to alcoholism. by Dega704

The alternative to using a patent lawyer is trying to file a patent yourself. But unless you have knowledge/expertise comparable to a patent lawyer's, some corporation would almost certainly find a loophole in your patent and steal your idea.

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ZapYouInstinct t1_ja3q9gj wrote

Reply to comment by DanielFyre in TIL about Alice in wonderland syndrome. A neurological condition in which one’s perception of their body image, time, or space is distorted. AIWS may also cause hallucinations, sensory distortion, and an altered sense of velocity. by Deechon

I’m starting to think that it is related my one vision where looking at corners is like daggers into my eyes and it mentally hurts to the point where I have to shut my eye really hard, there’s actually a whole group of people who have these but I’m thinking it’s apart of this too

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DanielFyre t1_ja3pvmu wrote

Reply to comment by ZapYouInstinct in TIL about Alice in wonderland syndrome. A neurological condition in which one’s perception of their body image, time, or space is distorted. AIWS may also cause hallucinations, sensory distortion, and an altered sense of velocity. by Deechon

I had the small object one when I was a kid. Every once in a while randomly my vision would look for lack of a better phrase zoomed out and small. I told my parents and they took me to the doctor and optometrist and they felt i was making things up for attention. I dont know for sure if my parents believed me after that but I just stopped telling them when it happened. It happened less and less as I aged. Now it happens maybe once every few years for a very short time. I have no idea what if anything causes it

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SatansMoisture t1_ja3pccd wrote

Reply to TIL about Alice in wonderland syndrome. A neurological condition in which one’s perception of their body image, time, or space is distorted. AIWS may also cause hallucinations, sensory distortion, and an altered sense of velocity. by Deechon

I had this the last time I did shrooms. I felt like I was 20 feet tall and looking down at my legs I realized that I needed to walk very carefully so as to not fall over, killing myself.

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BuoyantBear t1_ja3p45r wrote

Reply to TIL about Alice in wonderland syndrome. A neurological condition in which one’s perception of their body image, time, or space is distorted. AIWS may also cause hallucinations, sensory distortion, and an altered sense of velocity. by Deechon

I’ve been experiencing this my whole life. I’m assuming mine is a milder version as it’s not as bad as many of these descriptions claim. It’s like you just can’t put the size of things in to any relative frame of reference. Everything seems really big and really small at the same time. I’ve never had any hallucinations associated with it. At least that I’ve noticed. But even though visually things look the same to me, the brain just can’t process how things relate to each other. It’s much worse when you get it at night when your eyes are closed. I always felt like watching TV helps.

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pgm123 t1_ja3o1sc wrote

Reply to comment by MonsterRider80 in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

It likely derives from a name of a Celtic tribe and was generalized first to Celtic Latin speaker and then to foreigner.

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Septopuss7 t1_ja3mjmr wrote

Reply to comment by Jaded_Prompt_15 in TIL about Alice in wonderland syndrome. A neurological condition in which one’s perception of their body image, time, or space is distorted. AIWS may also cause hallucinations, sensory distortion, and an altered sense of velocity. by Deechon

My fever dream moment was bizarre because it included the time/space distortion but there were these "beings" present, trying to teach me how to use one of their weapons. It was just a ball you rolled in a very specific way, and I couldn't get it right, lol. When I zooped back into my body I was curled up in an armchair staring out the window at the flashing yellow street light down the road. I immediately screamed at the memory of the horrible sensation and started crying even though the actual "dream" was very calm, albeit intense. Acid got me close to that feeling and I'm positive salvia would be closer if not worse.

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Spare-Competition-91 t1_ja3mc9w wrote

Reply to comment by Cbanchiere in TIL that from 1991 to 2007, tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. successfully marketed Capri Sun to children, based on their executives' experience selling tobacco to young people. by 99-bottlesofbeer

lol, okay dude. Everyone thinking I'm no longer fun because I don't kill myself with terrible tasting mass produced crap is missing brain cells. Probably from the capri suns they drink.

I've lived more in 10 years than the people downvoting me will during their entire lives. GTFO.

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