Today I Learned:
1) There are rats who are trained to smell out land mines! They’re light enough that they don’t set off the mines, so they’re not put in any danger. They sniff out TNT, scratch at the surface, and alert their handlers to the mine. The mines can then be safely dismantled and the rat gets a treat.
2) Cumulative distribution plots are pretty much always better than cumulative histograms. They give you all the same distributional information, but without any binning choices! (pro tip: all binning choices are bad binning choices. Some are just less bad than others)
3) The CDC is specifically disallowed from researching gun safety. Thanks to Bear Bear Bear for alerting me to this one.
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