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Pinching Off A Corner Of The Bullion Cubes And Eating It
I use these bullion cubes that aren't the super hard rocks, and before I drop them in l like to pinch off a corner and eat it.Show All 5 Upvotes
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Neil Armstrong. He was a very modest, quiet and withdrawn man who barely spoke of his trip to the Moon.
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Witold Pilecki TL;DR He was voluntarily imprisoned in Auschwitz just to tell the world about Holocaust and to organise resistance movement. During World War II, Pilecki volunteered for a Polish resistance operation that involved being imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence and later escape. While in the camp, he organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities as early as 1941. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly 2½ years of imprisonment.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the Japanese man who was unfortunate enough to be present in the blast radius of both atomic bombs and lucky enough to not only survive both, but subsequently live all the way into the 2000s.
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Audie Murphy Here are some highlights: -Kept enlisting until the military took him in WWII- he weighed around 100 pounds and was sickly. He also had falsified his papers because he was too young. held off a charging army (soldiers and TANKS) with a machine gun while the vehicle was on fire and likely to explode, he was holding them off so his fellow soldiers could retreat. This took an hour. His reason for doing this: “They were killing my friends.” became one of the most decorated U.S. soldiers in the war. He was so heroic that other countries awarded him their medals. fought the war while battling malaria became addicted to pain meds after the war and kicked the habit by locking himself in a hotel room to go cold turkey became a movie star, partly by playing himself, and had a 21 year career
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Hands down Olga of Kiev Her husband was killed, and eventually the tribe that did the deed started pestering her to marry one of their princes. Does she start a war? No, she plays nice, claims the emissaries got lost, and has them all buried alive. Does she stop there? Hell no. She sends a messenger asking for an honor guard of their best men. She insists on stopping at a bathhouse on the way, where she locks all the honor guard inside and burns it to the ground. Does she stop there? Hell no. She invites thousands of the to a funeral feast where she Red Weddings 5000 of them, then lays siege to the city. The settlement sues for peace. Does she stop there? Hell no. She tells them that she will give them peace in exchange for six birds from the rafters of every home in the city. Once she has the birds she ties burning sulfur to them and releases them. They all fly back to their roosts, setting the entire city ablaze. She massacred the fleeing survivors and left the remnant to pay tribute. Bad. F**king. A*s.
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The unidentified 'Tank Man' who stood in front of a column of tanks during the Tiananmen Square Protests.
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Raoul Wallenberg. He saved thousands of Jews in Hungary, by giving them Swedish passports. One of his drivers said ".. he climbed up on the roof of the train and began handing in protective passes through the doors which were not yet sealed. He ignored orders from the Germans for him to get down, then the Arrow Cross men began shooting and shouting at him to go away. He ignored them and calmly continued handing out passports to the hands that were reaching out for them. I believe the Arrow Cross men deliberately aimed over his head, as not one shot hit him, which would have been impossible otherwise. I think this is what they did because they were so impressed by his courage. After Wallenberg had handed over the last of the passports he ordered all those who had one to leave the train and walk to the caravan of cars parked nearby, all marked in Swedish colours. I don't remember exactly how many, but he saved dozens off that train, and the Germans and Arrow Cross were so dumbfounded they let him get away with it"
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There is no way Stanislav Petrov isn't the most badass person ever. On September 26, 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov was in command at Serpukhov-15, a bunker where the Soviets monitored their satellite-based detection systems. Shortly after midnight, panic broke out when an alarm sounded signaling that the United States had fired five Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs, toward Russia. The warning was a false alarm—one of the satellites had misinterpreted the glint of sunlight off clouds near Montana as a missile launch—but to the Soviets, it appeared the United States had started a nuclear war. Protocol demanded that Serpukhov-15 report any signs of a missile launch to the Soviet high command, but Petrov had a hunch the warning was an error. He knew the new satellite system was mistake-prone, and he also reasoned that any nuclear strike by the Americans would come in the form of hundreds of missiles, not just five. With only minutes to make a decision, Petrov chose to ignore the blaring warning alarms and reported the launch as a false alarm—a move that may have averted a nuclear holocaust. The incident remained classified until after the Cold War ended, but Petrov later received several humanitarian awards for his extraordinary actions, and was even honored by the United Nations.
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Teddy Roosevelt. Went to give a speech, nearly got assassinated. Shot in the chest, but survived. Says, "F**k it," and gives the speech anyway.
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Simo Hayha. Finnish farmer. Got drafted. Killed 505 Russians in the Winter War, making him the deadliest sniper ever. Didn't use a scope. He also killed 200 more with his machine gun
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Hugh Glass , While on a fur trapping expedition, Hugh was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear. He was able to kill the giant bear with some help, then passed out. His group left him thinking he would never survive the wounds or the journey which was 200 miles away from the nearest town. Glass regained consciousness only to find himself abandoned, without weapons or equipment. He was suffering from a broken leg, the cuts on his back were exposing bare ribs, and all his wounds were festering. So he cleaned his wounds with maggots, made a boat, fought off wolves and 6 weeks later made it back to civilization, crawling a large portion of the way.
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Ben L. Salomon. He was a front line surgeon in WW2. During the battle of Saipan he was in a surgical tent helping wounded soldiers, when he noticed a Japanese soldier bayoneting one of the injured men. He shot the Japanese soldier and then quickly dispatched several other Japanese soldiers who came into the tent. He then took control of a mounted machine gun and went to town. When they found his body, he was shot and stabbed 24 times and had killed 98 Japanese soldiers. He repositioned the machine gun 4 times due to him not being able to shoot over the mountains of bodies. He was given the Medal of Honor in 2002.
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Michael Malloy. Malloy was a homeless alcoholic man. Five men took out life insurance policies on him and tried to get him to drink himself to death by giving him unlimited credit at a bar that one of them owned (so that they could collect the money from the insurance company). This wasn't working fast enough, so they started putting anti-freeze in his drink... then turpentine, then horse tranquiliser, and finally rat poison. None of them killed Malloy. The men then tried feeding him raw oysters with wood alcohol and poisoned, spoiled sardine sandwiches (filled with carpet nails). Again, none of this worked, so they waited for him to pass out drunk one night, then dragged his body out into the -26 °C night and left him there to sleep (pouring 20 litres of water on him for good measure). The next day, Malloy came into the bar and ordered another drink. The group then ran him over with a car at 70km/h. This hospitalised him for a few weeks, but again, didn't kill him. Eventually they succeeded by putting a gas pipe down his throat (after he passed out drunk of course) and pumping gas into him for an hour. The group were later convicted of murder (due, in no small part, to the fame of Malloy's durability), with four of them receiving the death penalty.
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Am I allowed to say country music? Like I don’t even listen to it, but whenever someone says they like country music, someone else is gonna gag in their face. A lot of it is formulaic, but so is pop. And most hit songs of any genre. And there’s also decent country music. The root of modern pop is country rock. Music snobs need to take a seat on this one.
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Cats! They’re constantly vilified but if treated right they’re lovely companions. Cats aren’t “a**holes”.
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Beans on toast. Had a rough day? Beans on toast! Partner being difficult? Beans on toast? Kids ? Beans on toast
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People who don’t drive (in the US) I am still learning to drive at 22 because of anxiety and I can’t count the amount of times people gave me s**t for it.Reddit_Case reply
Optimism. I'd rather be an optimist who's occasionally wrong than a pessimist who's always right. I think optimism needs space to breathe and grow.
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Nuclear energy. Of the 3 big nuclear accidents (Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island), two of those designs are no longer in use at any plant, and none of the designs have been used to build any new plants in decades. The entire industry has been made far safer as a result of learning from past mistakes and it is now the greenest of energies. But many people are still adamantly anti-nuclear.
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Opossums. They're neat little critters. They eat tons of ticks that carry Lyme disease, (mostly) don't carry rabies because their body temp is too low, and they're the only marsupial native to North America! They get a bad rap because their first defense is to hiss and bare teeth, but failing that, they just play dead. If you don't have the predisposition to hate them, you'll find they're pretty cute too. E: this is about /opossums/, the north American species. Kiwis, I feel for you, but this comment isn't about your possums.
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Pinching Off A Corner Of The Bullion Cubes And Eating It
I use these bullion cubes that aren't the super hard rocks, and before I drop them in l like to pinch off a corner and eat it.fiestymcknickers reply
Beans on toast. Had a rough day? Beans on toast! Partner being difficult? Beans on toast? Kids ? Beans on toastReddit_Case reply
Optimism. I'd rather be an optimist who's occasionally wrong than a pessimist who's always right. I think optimism needs space to breathe and grow.ktappe reply
Nuclear energy. Of the 3 big nuclear accidents (Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island), two of those designs are no longer in use at any plant, and none of the designs have been used to build any new plants in decades. The entire industry has been made far safer as a result of learning from past mistakes and it is now the greenest of energies. But many people are still adamantly anti-nuclear.Italiandipsandy reply
Am I allowed to say country music? Like I don’t even listen to it, but whenever someone says they like country music, someone else is gonna gag in their face. A lot of it is formulaic, but so is pop. And most hit songs of any genre. And there’s also decent country music. The root of modern pop is country rock. Music snobs need to take a seat on this one.ctrldwrdns reply
People who don’t drive (in the US) I am still learning to drive at 22 because of anxiety and I can’t count the amount of times people gave me s**t for it.legendariel reply
Opossums. They're neat little critters. They eat tons of ticks that carry Lyme disease, (mostly) don't carry rabies because their body temp is too low, and they're the only marsupial native to North America! They get a bad rap because their first defense is to hiss and bare teeth, but failing that, they just play dead. If you don't have the predisposition to hate them, you'll find they're pretty cute too. E: this is about /opossums/, the north American species. Kiwis, I feel for you, but this comment isn't about your possums.IAmDreams reply
Cats! They’re constantly vilified but if treated right they’re lovely companions. Cats aren’t “a**holes”.coolest-people-ever-in-history
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the Japanese man who was unfortunate enough to be present in the blast radius of both atomic bombs and lucky enough to not only survive both, but subsequently live all the way into the 2000s.coolest-people-ever-in-history
Neil Armstrong. He was a very modest, quiet and withdrawn man who barely spoke of his trip to the Moon.battering-ram reply
Michael Malloy. Malloy was a homeless alcoholic man. Five men took out life insurance policies on him and tried to get him to drink himself to death by giving him unlimited credit at a bar that one of them owned (so that they could collect the money from the insurance company). This wasn't working fast enough, so they started putting anti-freeze in his drink... then turpentine, then horse tranquiliser, and finally rat poison. None of them killed Malloy. The men then tried feeding him raw oysters with wood alcohol and poisoned, spoiled sardine sandwiches (filled with carpet nails). Again, none of this worked, so they waited for him to pass out drunk one night, then dragged his body out into the -26 °C night and left him there to sleep (pouring 20 litres of water on him for good measure). The next day, Malloy came into the bar and ordered another drink. The group then ran him over with a car at 70km/h. This hospitalised him for a few weeks, but again, didn't kill him. Eventually they succeeded by putting a gas pipe down his throat (after he passed out drunk of course) and pumping gas into him for an hour. The group were later convicted of murder (due, in no small part, to the fame of Malloy's durability), with four of them receiving the death penalty.coolest-people-ever-in-history
Audie Murphy Here are some highlights: -Kept enlisting until the military took him in WWII- he weighed around 100 pounds and was sickly. He also had falsified his papers because he was too young. held off a charging army (soldiers and TANKS) with a machine gun while the vehicle was on fire and likely to explode, he was holding them off so his fellow soldiers could retreat. This took an hour. His reason for doing this: “They were killing my friends.” became one of the most decorated U.S. soldiers in the war. He was so heroic that other countries awarded him their medals. fought the war while battling malaria became addicted to pain meds after the war and kicked the habit by locking himself in a hotel room to go cold turkey became a movie star, partly by playing himself, and had a 21 year careercoolest-people-ever-in-history
Witold Pilecki TL;DR He was voluntarily imprisoned in Auschwitz just to tell the world about Holocaust and to organise resistance movement. During World War II, Pilecki volunteered for a Polish resistance operation that involved being imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence and later escape. While in the camp, he organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities as early as 1941. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly 2½ years of imprisonment.anon reply
Raoul Wallenberg. He saved thousands of Jews in Hungary, by giving them Swedish passports. One of his drivers said ".. he climbed up on the roof of the train and began handing in protective passes through the doors which were not yet sealed. He ignored orders from the Germans for him to get down, then the Arrow Cross men began shooting and shouting at him to go away. He ignored them and calmly continued handing out passports to the hands that were reaching out for them. I believe the Arrow Cross men deliberately aimed over his head, as not one shot hit him, which would have been impossible otherwise. I think this is what they did because they were so impressed by his courage. After Wallenberg had handed over the last of the passports he ordered all those who had one to leave the train and walk to the caravan of cars parked nearby, all marked in Swedish colours. I don't remember exactly how many, but he saved dozens off that train, and the Germans and Arrow Cross were so dumbfounded they let him get away with it"This Panda hasn't followed anyone yet
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