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The rise of the knowledge economy, the growing desire to learn, and the proliferation of educational platforms are opening up new opportunities for personal and professional growth.
In the US, for example, 73% of adults say the phrase "I think of myself as a lifelong learner" applies "very well" to them and another 20% say it applies "somewhat well."
So to keep your curiosity burning, we decided it's about time to throw in a few more recent posts from the subreddit 'Today I Learned.' This online community with 35 million members keeps sharing interesting facts and pictures that continually expand our horizons and challenge our perspectives.
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#1
3,200-year-old tablet shows that ancient Egyptians took attendance at work and recorded absences. One type of reason cited for missing work was "wife or daughter bleeding" referring to menstruation because men were needed at home during this time to help with the housework.
Nae who and where 1 year ago
Why we don't have this nowadays is just baffling....especially since some women have severe pain and can barely move for days to a week on end during their mensuration.
Egg Lady 1 year ago
For anyone that doesn't understand the pain-- it can be as painful as the contractions of childbirth-- imagine working while having continuous contractions for days-- medication can only dull the pain to a degree.
Rosie Cat 1 year ago
Exactly, and let's not forget the extreme amount of blood, that you sometimes need a transfusion. I understand this deeply.
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Juree Morse 1 year ago
Why can't women have this option? The first 2 days of my period are horrible and I don't want to be at work nor do yal want me at work... but we get no support for periods. Why is this because women in other countries want to work and go to school on their periods... WHY WOULD U WANNA DO THAT ITS JUST STUPID.
Max Fox 1 year ago (edited)
Possibly. However, since it also includes the daughter it may be because women during menstruation were considered ritually unclean in many cultures, and therefore so are the men in the household. Since ritual uncleanliness is contagious, the man needs to stay home.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
That's what I was thinking about too. There are also many tasks women are forbidden to do while bleeding so the man has to pick up the slack.
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Lady Lestrange 1 year ago
It wonders me that how the actual medieval times are eye-opening and in present times, it feels like humans have actually become medieval.
John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 1 year ago
No. Menstruation was considered unclean, so the man was also seen as unclean during the period period.
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#2
In World War I, a homing pigeon named Cher Ami was shot by the Germans, but managed to keep flying and carry the message of help. Thanks to this, 194 American soldiers were saved.
Nae who and where 1 year ago
So much for them just being flying rats....time to show some respect to the pigeons
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago (edited)
Yes actually, even though he (even though most messenger pigeons are female, this one was male) lost an eye and a leg, Army surgeons saved his life. Also, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre Medal with a palm Oak Leaf Cluster for his heroic service and he died at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, on June 13, 1919, even though it's unclear wherever from natural causes or complications arising from his wounds. In a slightly more macabre twist, his body was stuffed and it's now displayed at the Smithsonian.
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Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
Beautiful specimen. Some people think pigeons are dirty, but they aren't, cities are. Spend some time living on city streets and see how you look after.
#3
Jumbo the elephant was not named such because of his size. Instead, Jumbo the word, meaning exceptionally large, was only introduced into the english language because of Jumbo the elephant. He was so big and so well known that his name became synonymous with size.
Babs Ishkabibble 1 year ago
I believe that Jumbo suffered mightily, as did other 'circus' animals. Glad we moved away from that awfulness. Look at the poster.
Misty Dawn Woodland 1 year ago
Sickening how they treated the poor boy and stuffing him into his obviously dreaded “box” in poster. 😭 so sad
ExpatAlex84 1 year ago
Also LBJ's nickname for his own Johnson... was quite partial to whipping it out in front of staff, journalists, rival politicians. Real classy guy that LBJ.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Funny how this went from an article, to the below site, to Reddit then BP. - https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/word-jumbocome/
Papa 1 year ago
Please tell me you're trying to be funny, and really do know the difference between Jumbo and gumbo.
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“I Have a Dream” speech was a last-minute decision. Dr. King planned to give an entirely different speech, until a legendary gospel singer behind the podium yelled, “Tell them about the dream, Martin!”
#5
Since the year 2000, 5 new elements have been added to the periodic table. The 7th row of the periodic table is finally filled.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
Not the funniest Lehrer song, but among his most remarkable.
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Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
Let me guess, all are hilariously radioactive and with half-lives measured in microseconds?
John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 1 year ago
Pff. Just keep smashing heavier elements against each other with higher energy. The g orbitals have been calculated, let's see if we can fill them up.
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In Japan there is a group of prominent female housewife stock traders known as Mrs. Watanabe who are so proficient at what they do that many traders look to them for reference on which stocks are doing well.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Women are often underestimated, it's nice to see that isn't always the case.
Klara Lorinczi 1 year ago
Real intelligence has no gender. Men are too dumb to understand that simple reality.
#7
During the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty that founded NATO, the Portuguese delegate gave a speech in English with such a heavy accent that the translator just repeated it without the accent and nobody realised.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
That's ok, a couple of nights ago I saw a show where an Australian speaker got English subtitles
#8
The Bajau, a group of people in South East Asia who evolved to have spleens 50 percent larger than normal. This allows them to spend eight hours a day underwater, catching octopus by hand.
Emily M 1 year ago
Because I needed to know how a spleen helped with fishing: "Competitive breath-hold divers have only two options to increase their time underwater – through training, they can try to boost their lung capacity or increase their red blood cell count.......The spleen holds oxygenated red blood cells, so presumably an enlarged spleen – those of the sea nomads, or Bajau people, are about 50 percent larger than the spleens of unrelated, non-diving neighboring groups – injects more blood cells into the circulation and makes more oxygen available for basic body functions during prolonged dives." - https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/enlarged-spleen-key-diving-endurance-sea-nomads
Ansi 1 year ago
I googled and a normal person can hold their breath 1-2 minutes, an incredibly well-trained person, (like a deepdiver) can hold their breath 5-10 minutes. The divers of Bajau can hold their breath up to 13 minutes and the people that doesn't work as diver and are not trained to hold their breath, can still manage to hold their breath for 10 minutes. That's so amazing 😲👍
#9
Tim Curry was one of the top choices to play the Joker in the 1989 “Batman” film, but the role went to Jack Nicholson instead. Curry later voiced the Joker in the 1992 animated series, but was quickly replaced by Mark Hamill as his voice was deemed “too scary”.
columbokateUK 1 year ago
I love Tim Curry! So sad about his health affecting his profession. I miss seeing him in new things. (He had a stroke years ago). He is both hilarious in comedy and terrifying in horror. A truely great actor.
Deborah B 1 year ago
I've always found him scary in comedy as well as horror.
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UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
He would have been a far superior Joker to Nicholson’s. Nicholson’s Joker was just…Jack Nicholson.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
You can tell a lot about a person by the movie they know Tim Curry from.
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
he can be scary, it's true... I loved him in 'Legend' as the Devil (either Devil or simply Evil. It was never quite clear). Magnificent makeup and prosthetics. Perfect.
glowworm2 1 year ago
The sad thing is as a child, Hexxus also scared me but when I watched the video “Toxic Love” as an adult to see if he was still scary, I found him sexy instead. Blame Tim Curry for somehow making a sentient blob of pollution sound sexy.🤣
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Milady Blue 1 year ago
Tim's entrance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show is STILL one of the best in all of cinema. He stole that entire scene.
#10
30 scientists and staff of the Pavlovsk Experimental Station starved to death guarding the institute's edible seeds and plants during the siege of Leningrad.
Nae who and where 1 year ago
It was a sacrifice they were willing to give in order to protect the seed genetics they had cultivated. This is a truly fascinating true story of rilvarly, multiple scientists hopes for ending starvation and the ultimate sacrifice to protect the plants genes.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I saw this on "Dark Matters: Strange but True" (hosted by John Noble).
#11
Danny DeVito's short stature is the result of Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia (Fairbank's disease), a rare genetic disorder that affects bone growth. He met Rhea Perlman when she went to see a friend in the play The Shrinking Bride, which featured DeVito, and they moved in together 2 weeks later.
#12
The writer of 'Crime and Punishment', Dostoevsky, was sentenced to death by firing squad for political reasons. Moments before he was to be shot, a cart delivered a letter from the Tsar commuting the sentence to four years of exile in Siberia.
Bols 1 year ago
No, the situation did happen, however he was not really in danger: "But it turns out, the whole event was pre-planned by the Tsar; the Tsar had pardoned them the day before, and the last-minute reversal of the execution was a purposeful act of psychological torture designed to strike fear—and then gratitude—in the hearts of his subjects." source: https://lithub.com/on-the-terrifying-hoax-execution-that-haunted-dostoevskys-writing/ (I've read like 10 articles now on this to make sure :D)
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The oldest known writing in the world, Sumerian Cuneiform, is over 5000 years old and only 5-10% of all recovered tablets have been translated.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Keep in mind humanity is 200k years old, meaning most of human history was lost before written language and we only have cave paintings
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
There is some remarkable progress being made in training AIs to translate previously incomprehensible manuscripts. They aren't there yet, but it is probably only a decade or so away before these puzzles are finally cracked.
Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
And of those that have been translated, most are remarkably boring ledgers and receipts. But one is a formal complaint by a total Karen, unhappy with the quality of their bulk purchase. Imagine having to carry a 20 pound tablet for miles to deliver some Karen's diatribe.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
Send me the rest of them. I'll take them to my buddy who is half Sumerian - on his mother's side.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
That's like saying every person in Rome knows how to speak Latin, if Latin was never translated
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#14
Six Tongan castaways were able to keep a fire burning continuously for more than 12 of the 15 months they spent marooned on a deserted island in 1965 after one of the boys named Stephen (who would go on to become an engineer), had managed to use two sticks to start one.
Kristal 1 year ago
That's what they did before humans knew how to create fire. Lightning would strike a tree or bush, catch it on fire and the group/Tribe would keep it going for as long as possible
Marnie 1 year ago
As recently as 35 years ago, some people were still doing this. When they would pick up camp and move, they would just grab a coal, wrap it in leaves and take it with to start the fire later. Kids as young as 3 would help out by tending fires.
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#15
Japanese man Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife in the 2011 earthquake and has not stopped looking for her body for more than 10 years and has dived more than 800 times in the ocean to retrieve her.
Kristal 1 year ago
I hope he does stop to live his life. It's quite tragic, for the loss of his wife and his life. Ten years at sea, the body is most likely unidentifiable, if there's any soft tissue left. It's quite probable her body is no longer in one piece if in the ocean after 10 years. I know losing the one you love most is one of the worst types of grief one goes through, but I highly doubt his wife would want him to waste his life looking for her.
Jaya 1 year ago
Don't wanna criticize someone who is in so much pain, but I definitely hope my partner wouldn't spend his life looking for my body, but instead grieving and afterwards starting his life again and find a new love and enjoy life as much as he can. Him continuing to look for me, would not feel as a sign of his love, but as a sign of him being stuck in grief and unable to move forward. If there would be something like heaven and looking down to earth, it would make me so sad to see him like this, it would make me so much happier knowing he was able to move forward and enjoy his life.
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
I remember that day so vividly. I was listening to the (internet) radio late at night and heard about it. Then I saw the horrific videos. So many people, so much destruction. Ans some people wage wars to cause the same amount of destruction, when we should be helping each other.
DubMaccaT 1 year ago
I don’t want to down vote you, I just hope you never experience a loss such as this. I don’t think it’s not wanting to move on. He just wants his wife to find peace.
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#16
1 out of 3 Americans live in just four states. California, Texas, Florida, and New York.
JOHN DOE 1 year ago
Reverse that to 1 in 12 which is about 8% and you have Texas. Together 1 in 5 or 20%.
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User# 6 1 year ago
That's an odd way of saying the majority of Americans live outside these four states.
Jaya 1 year ago
But... the whole point of this fact is to show that there are way more people living in those states than you'd expect (only 8% of the number of states, but 33% of the people). So it makes no sense to say "the majority of Americans live outside of those 4 states", because everyone already expects that, and is true for any 4 states.
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Eric Brown 1 year ago
Only around 20% of Americans live west of the Mississippi and of that amount, half are in California
Pat Curran 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be clearer to say that approximately 1/3 of the US population lives in California, Texas, Florida, or New York?
Corvus 1 year ago
Most of us, non-Americans, see the country as consisting precisely of these 4 regions and none other :D
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
Pretty sure most non-Americans on here only think of the rural south when they think of America XD
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#17
Broccoli only became available in grocery stores in the UK and Ireland in the late 1970s.
Na Schi 1 year ago (edited)
Okay, as strange/surprising as this sounds the Reddit tidbit seems to be backed up by an Wikepedia article about the "Culture of England": [...]Courgettes became widely available in the late 1960s and broccoli first appeared in supermarkets in the late 1970s, initially as a seasonal item. [...] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_England ... But when doing a little bit more googling the vegetable seems frist to be introduced way earlier (maybe in the midst of the 18th century). ((Edited: spelling - changed "Cultre of England" to "Culture of England"))
Jaya 1 year ago
I don't know anything about broccoli in the UK, but it could be that there's a difference between something first being introduced into a country and only a couple of rich folks eating it, and it being a normal kind of food that regular people actually know. Also, it could be possible for to be sold in a country for a couple of years/decades and then disappearing again for decades or centuries, which wouldn't technically make it new, but it would be very new in the experience of people who grew up in the time between.
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I live in the Netherlands and it's amazing how many things of what we now see as standard food, is actually very recent for our country. Ask your grandparents what they used to eat, and which foods were/weren't sold when they grew up. For instance, spaghetti and other kinds of pasta weren't a thing in the Netherlands when my grandma was young, she remembers when it first got sold in stores and how it was considered a "strange new thing" for a while. Whereas for my generation, the idea of never cooking pasta is almost inconceivable. The same goes for quite a lot of our vegetables. So I find it funny when people complain about other people eating "weird things like quinoa, instead of normal things like rice or pasta".
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Pasta was always macaroni when I grew up. I remember the introduction of broccoli, as well.
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*Broccoli was introduced to England around 1720 and has become a firm favourite vegetable accompaniment to arguably the greatest meal on Earth, the Roast Dinner. It first appeared in our supermarkets in the UK in the late 1970's and was seasonal.2 Jul 2017* Nota bene - it was seasonal, and only available 'in season', as were strawberries, lettuce etc etc. In the 70's we got most of our veg from greengrocers and NOT the supermarket.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Broccoli, this is England. England, this is Broccoli.
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In the 1950s, Elizabeth David decided to try and introduce Italian cookery to the UK. She is recognised as being the first celebrity chef and is cited by such people as Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson as being extremely influential. To buy her ingredients she had to really search for them. For example, to buy olive oil, she had to go to the chemists to get any. And even then, it was sold only in 50ml and 100ml bottles!
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Evelyn imported seeds (1600s) but there's a difference between known and available.
Mike_The_Nike (He They) 1 year ago
Germany grows broccoli as decoration and finds it weird Americans eat it.
Jack Lantern 1 year ago
There was a Monty Python sketch that mentioned broccoli (I won't say which one) and that show was made in the early 70's.
#18
George Washington had to borrow money to travel to New York City for his presidential inauguration. Despite owning 60,000 acres and 300 slaves he had very little cash and part of the reason he took the job was the salary.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - US Declaration of Independence. George Washington was not a signatory.
DeShotz 1 year ago
Why would he sign it? He was not a member of the Continental Congress. At the time, he was the general appointed by them to fight the war.
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Eat Dirt Crow 1 year ago
Here's another today I learned about George Washington. He died from having three different "doctors" pull a pint of blood each after he caught a fever. He had come home late to a party that he was hosting and refused to change out of his wet clothes.
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
"Land rich but cash poor" wasn't an unusual condition during those times.
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
Sounds very similar to " billionaire" Cheeto man unable to pay. Had to hit up a loan shark for money.
David 1 year ago
He did not own 300 slaves, he much fewer than that, most of the slaves were Martha's, his wife was the primary slave owner. And during his lifetime, he freed almost all of his slaves, and left provisions in his will for the rest. However he left Martha in possession of her slaves, because he was a public supporter of married women retaining ownership of their property rather than it transferring to their husband.
Khall Khall 1 year ago
Not sure about this one. A lot of landowners lived on credit in the past. When rents or crop sales only happen seasonally or sometimes yearly...credit is how you get by.
#19
Flamma, one of the most successful gladiators in his time under the Roman Empire, through great skill & bravery was awarded his freedom four times but refused each time & instead chose to remain a gladiator. He fought 34 times, won 21 of them, fought to a draw 9 times, & won reprieve 4 times.
Corvus 1 year ago
"What fun is freedom, if I can't gut someone every weekend?" - Flamma (in my imagination, at least)
Nelson 1 year ago
A freeman in Rome, without connections or marketable skills, would likely have had a very hard life.
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martin734 1 year ago
Despite what you often see and read, most gladiatorial fights were not to the death. Gladiators were very expensive to train and keep and were very valuable so most Lanistas were very reluctant to to allow their gladiators to be killed or seriously injured and not all gladiators were slaves. The best gladiators became very famous and wealthy much like today's sports stars.
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
And so in Latin. After all, that's where the word originates in English as well.
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#20
Original script to Rocky V, Rocky is so beaten from his fight with Tommy that he places his head on Adrian’s lap while on the way to the hospital and dies. Stallone apparently wept when he wrote that scene.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
Not be too pedantic, but you DO know that there are only five Rocky movies and this occurred, as stated above, in the script for Rocky V?!? Whether he died or not, it was the final Rocky film. It’s pedantic of me to say because of Creed, which had three sequels. Yet, they’d have occurred with or without Rocky V.
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Moonchild 1 year ago
Crazy cause it was a fantastic movie. He did a fantastic job on it.
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During WW1 in Britain the selling of fresh bread was banned and all bread had to be sold stale so people would eat less of it.
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
Was ready to call bull on this one but there you go. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/home-front-stories/the-fresh-bread-ban/#:~:text=This%20regulation%20made%20it%20illegal,Bread%20Order%20during%20the%20war.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
There for a while, you couldn't buy presliced bread. Unsure how that helped the war effect...
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
I was curious so looked it up.There were wheat and other cereal shortages and people needed to ration, but apparently people weren't rationing enough. I guess the government was afraid that in the future there would be zero food left if people kept eating too "much". The fresh bread ban meant you could only sell it after 12 hours. Partially because it would be stale and they thought people would automatically eat less if it's less appetizing. And partially because bread was commonly baked at night and sold in the morning, and baking bread during the day would save on fuel (because you don't need fuel for light), which there was also a shortage of.
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
Yes, when people are suffering it is best to take away one of the few things that bring them comfort RME
Emma S 1 year ago
It was called the Bread Order and people could be fined if they attempted to buy or sell fresh bread. During ww2 bread was one of the very few things that wasn't rationed in Britain but had to be rationed a few years after the war ended when food was even more sparse. Britain imported the majority of it's food and being an island put it at a disadvantage.
#22
In the 1920's, a man was given 1 year to live by doctors, if he moved to a warm climate. He built a house in Bartow, FL with a lot of unique features and designs, and would go on to live to the 1970's. It has become known as "The Wonderhouse" and become a local tourist attraction.
Jaya 1 year ago
I hate it when people say someone "was given ... years by doctor" or that someone "proved his doctors wrong by living much longer". Doctors are just trying to help you by telling you how long people with your disease and circumstances typically live, they're not "giving you years" or trying to predict anything, they just give you an educated guess based on the available statistics, to make it easier for you to make life decisions. Stop treating doctors like the bad guys for "predicting it wrong".
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Getting a second opinion is usually cheaper than a house in Florida.
Ian Webling 1 year ago
In about 1980, a Canadian man, concerned about his safety after a global nuclear war, researched the safest place on earth to live. He believed he had found it by 1981. He dismantled his life and relocated in early 1982. To the Falklands Islands. (For those not understanding the reference, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War.)
Tina Harnish 1 year ago
Nothing like this lame picture. He was a builder and he constructed a 4-storey house with lots of windows and you can apparently tour it. He died at 94.
#23
Batman was created almost at the same time as the Black Bat, a pulp fiction hero so similar that the publishers considered suing each other. They eventually found an agreement: the Black Bat wouldn't appear in comics, and in exchange, Batman wouldn't appear in pulp magazines.
#24
Harambe was 17 years old and had not reached breeding maturity when he was shot.
Black Cat 1 year ago
They should never have shot this wonderful ape. Surely he could've been tranquilised.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
While the thought is good, it takes several minutes for tranqs to take effect, and in that time he might have gotten angry about being hit by the dart.
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RabidChild 1 year ago
I still blame that boy's parents. Their irresponsibility killed an innocent.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
A mom wasn't paying attention to her son and he got into the gorilla habitat and they just shot and killed the gorilla.
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United States is Ranked 2nd by Total Number of Spanish Speakers, Beating Out Spain.
Quint Bates 1 year ago
Considering the U.S has almost 7X the amount of people, and a lot of immigrants from other countries like Mexico who speak it as a first language.Throw in all the Americans learning Spanish as a second language, and I'm not surprised.
Alicia M 1 year ago
So many people here (USA) speak Spanish that I have picked up on some myself. There's nothing wrong with knowing multiple languages. I wish I knew more.
Tina Harnish 1 year ago
Make friends with a Spanish speaker who wants to learn English and teach each other.
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#26
When Chi Chi, a giant panda at the London Zoo, was taken to Moscow to breed with a male giant panda, she refused his attempts to mate with her and made a full sexual self-presentation to a zookeeper.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
But no pandas were harmed in the writing of this post - zookeepers however.....
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
Reminds me of the crane who had a thing for her keeper for decades: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/02/walnut-white-naped-crane-dies-age-42-smithsonian-national-zoo
#27
Prior to the announcement of the Mach3 razor blade in the late 90s, Gillette built plywood walls around the production lines in its factory in Boston, in order to keep it a secret from many of its own employees.
Michael None 1 year ago
Then sent me one of the handles as a present for my 18th birthday, which I assumed was a marketing ploy to get me to buy more razors. I bought a safety razor instead and I've used it my whole life, I'm 40 now. Imagine how much money I saved.
Rick Seiden 1 year ago
I stopped shaving at 18. I'm 55 next week. Imagine how much money I've saved!
Load More Replies... Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
The secret is out- most razors (ESPECIALLY Gillette) are absurdly over-priced!
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
Back in the day they would send American males a handle and a pack of 4 or 5 blades on their 18th birthday. That and a letter from the Selective Services. I stuck with gillette for years, but after they added 4 and 5 blades I was done. I am fine with the cheap disposable razors now. Tried the safety razor for a few years but they are terrible.
#28
Frequent and constant use of earphones increases the bacterial growth in the ear.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I never use them. Not really a fan. And I have tinnitus and don't want to make it worse.
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Toothless Feline 1 year ago
I have the same question. I imagine the answer is yes, if you don’t clean the part inside your ear regularly (or replace it if it’s disposable).
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Ear infections are very common in audio typists due to this. Source, our typing team at work!
Debby Keir 1 year ago
and, I discovered, not regularly cleaning the stethoscope earpieces does the exact same thing.
Tina Harnish 1 year ago
I won't use earpods. I wore those foam things to reduce hearing loss at one job and the wax in my ears, being quite liquidy, kept popping them out. Wouldn't want to lose expensive pods.
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 1 year ago
This really only applies to the type that "plug" into the ear canal. If you use headphones (which cover over the ears, not go in) you don't have this risk.
#29
The French monarchy fell five times and was restored four times in the span of a century, from 1771 to 1871.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago (edited)
...and they're on their fifth republic (since 1958). According to Wikipedia " If it continues, the Fifth Republic will overtake the Third Republic as the second-longest French regime and the longest-lasting French republic on 8 August 2028. "
#30
Aside from being an actor and an activist, Marlon Brando was also an inventor with 4 patents to his name. One of them were pool shoes that that would increase friction as you walk on the bottom of the pool to give you a better workout, and another invention being a single-tuning conga drum.
Nae who and where 1 year ago
Who else is doing the conga in their mind?....I can't be the only one.....right? Lol
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Were any of these ever put into production? Or did Brando make the manufacturers offers they could all refuse?
#31
Animals lacking teeth to grind their food (eg. birds, fish) have a specialized stomach containing rocks to replace that function.
Ian Webling 1 year ago
For the sake of completeness: they have to eat the stones themselves - their stomachs do not naturally contain rocks.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
Some dinosaur fossils have been found with what they think are gizzard stones.
Max Fox 1 year ago
Only those that eat plants, because plants need to be crushed in order to gain access to no=utrients (cells are protected by cell walls. On the other hand, predators do not generally chew their food. That is why cats, for example, don't have functional molars, just teeth that are specialised for shearing. Bears, on the other hand, are more omnivorous and have functional molars. Raptors like hawks do not have those stones, and as you can see in the bones you find in owl's pellets, neither do they. So Tyrannosaurs did not swallow rocks either.
Stephanie Duffrin 1 year ago
Raptors have gizzards. They don't use stones for grinding but it is used for squeezing all the liquid out of pellets.
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200 people had summited Mount Everest by 1987, whereas by 2013 it had been summited 6,871 times by 4,042 different people.
Nae who and where 1 year ago
Agreed! The amount of garbage, human waste and bodies is absolutely staggering.
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Marcio achilles sardi 1 year ago
More important than the total people who had summited, I wanna know how many descended
talliloo 1 year ago
recently saw a video of a couple of climbers on their way summit. one woman was screaming hysterically because of bodies lying on or nearby the trail and/or moving with the shifting snow. who goes to everest and not know that they are going to encounter the remains of people who did not survive their climbs?
Aya Pandy 1 year ago
They're even used as path markers see green boots as an example
Load More Replies... ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
I don’t even think that people get bragging rights for climbing Everest now. I have “friends“ that brought their preteen son all the way to Base Camp two. Which, by the way, is a popular tourist destination in and of itself. A two year-old British boy is the youngest person to have visited Base Camp one. The only thing that keeps it exclusive is the cost.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
That and you need to take at least several months off of work in order to do it. And pay $30,000 of course. I can stay home and pay $0 to not possibly die.
Load More Replies... Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
You haven't successfully climbed Everest until you come back down again, and more people die on the way down than the way up.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Yup. They get summit fever and disregard safety rules/time constraints. Better to turn around and live than make it up there but not back down.
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Linda Riebel 1 year ago
How many were carried or pushed by sherpas? They get a phony badge, right?
#33
France sent the first cat into space in 1963. Félicette was a stray cat from the streets of Paris and was one of 14 cats trained for spaceflight. She survived her trip but was euthanised 2 months later.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
The US Air Force used beats to test the ejection system for the B58 bomber. Their press release about the program reported that some of the bears received broken bones, but most planned safely after being ejected. They didn't mention that all of the beats were euthanized & dissected to study their internal organs.
#34
The word 'Rizz' was Oxford's word of the year for 2023, beating the words Swiftie, situationship and de-influencing.
Cassidy Moore 1 year ago
its just the evolution of the human language babes (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉
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Ozymandias73 1 year ago
I wasn't sure what my employees were calling me until they finally told me. They said I had babygirl rizz. SMH I guess I still got it! LOL
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
One of the rules of linguistic evolution is that there will always be an attempt to shorten worlds three syllables or longer. Unless they’re niche nouns.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
“Rizz” has got to be one of the stupidest sounding slang words ever coined.
#35
Actor Gerard Butler paid for bee venom injections twice and ended up in hospital both times.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Because BP only appropriated the title of the Reddit post, which was a link to this article: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/20/gerard-butler-i-injected-myself-with-bee-venom-and-ended-up-in-hospital
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago (edited)
“I had heard of this guy injecting bee venom, because apparently it has many anti-inflammatory compounds." He had 10 shots, and then had to go to hospital. “I decide to do it again because, I think: ‘Maybe I just took too much.' " And he had to go to hospital again. According to WebMD: Bee venom is given as a shot for bee sting allergy. It is also used for osteoarthritis, Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), nerve pain, and other conditions, but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses." and "Bee venom is LIKELY SAFE for most people when injected under the skin by a trained medical professional. Some people might get redness and swelling where the injection is given. Side effects include itching, anxiety, trouble breathing, chest tightness, heart palpitations, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sleepiness, confusion, fainting, and low blood pressure. Side effects are more common in people with the worst allergies to bee stings, in people treated with honeybee venom, and in women. Serious allergic reactions such as anaphylaxis can occur." I think it's incredibly stupid to use it AGAIN if you already know the first time was a disaster, and not very smart to take in general since it has known side effects (even if the serious ones are rare, they're still possible) but is not proven effective at all yet.
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