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September is the perfect time to learn something new. Why, you ask? Well, the start of a new academic year often motivates people to broaden their knowledge even if eons have passed since they set foot into an educational institution. 

Taking advantage of this opportunity, our Bored Panda team has scoured the ‘Today I Learned’ community to bring you some of the most fascinating facts you can learn. Scroll down to find them below, and don’t forget to upvote those that you enjoyed learning the most.

#1

Vintage truck parked on an industrial street showcasing classic vehicle design in a daily dose of useless yet fascinating knowledge. TIL that during WWII, the French carmaker Citroen was forced to make vehicles for German forces. The president of Citroen, Pierre-Jules Boulanger, first sabotaged this by slowing workers. He then redesigned the dipstick to show there was plenty of oil, leading to frequent breakdowns.

afeeney , Citroen Report

Earonn -
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The two people who made most fun of the French during WWII - USA and UK - are now the ones who bow deepest to fascists and lick their boots. Saying this from the UK, in case you're wondering.

Forrest Hobbs
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Earonn: wash your mouth out. You're talking nonsense. The UK remains overwhelmingly anti-fáscist. Britain fought alongside the French to defend France against the German invasion - and lost. Britain (and the US, and Canada - and so many others, including Poles and Czechs and Indians and Kiwis and... the list is very long) fought to free Europe from N@zi Germany. Admittedly, Brits were making fun of the French all along, but then again we were taking the mickey out of absolutely everyone including ourselves. It's only the Yanks - and only in recent years - that have gone for the "cheese eating surrender monkey" nonsense about the French. You want to know how hard the French can fight? Read this - and weep - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun

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Christophe Beunens
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have the impression that they continue to do this. Citroen is famous for breakdowns

Peeka_Mimi
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't worry Ford stepped up for Herr H¡tler. 😏

NerdlyGleanings
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And no one told them the war was over

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Angie May
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Threatening the bottom line of whoever is really the easiest way to see change. Disney's stock dropped 7% during the Jimmy Kimmel suspended thing and he was back on the air in a week.

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Jeff Hunt
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

French automakers didn’t need to sabotage their cars. The designs were sabotage enough.

Grumpy old man
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Citroen was the leader of all modern luxury cars. Cadillac beat out Rolls in 1903. And the 1957 Eldorado defeated the RR of the year, and sealled the doom of all the Automakers you never knew existed

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    #2

    Close-up of a unique textured ring on a reflective surface illustrating fascinating knowledge from daily useless facts. TIL a Canadian engineer once built a Mjölnir replica that only the "worthy" could lift: it sensed the iron ring commonly worn by Canadian engineers (presented in a ceremony called the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer), triggering an electromagnetic release so ring-wearers could pick it up.

    LookAtThatBacon , Mobilefolk Report

    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And now we know why King Arthur could pull that sword from the stone. I think I remember Bugs Bunny doing it also. So the (time-traveling) Canadian engineers were behind it all!.

    Svenne O'Lotta
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's always those dámn time-travelling Canucks

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    Nina
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Awesome piece of engineering 😁

    Michael Grant
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TIL this is a Canadian ritual. I've met many men and women who have the ring. I've heard that the rings are (now?) made with steel and iron salvaged from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster.

    Nova Rook
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also did not know this was a Canadian thing. My buddy has his ring and I tell him to wear it with pride.

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    David
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the iron ring is also American engineers, US ones get it too, at most of the Engineering schools. In the US the engineers I know joking call it "Marrying the profession"

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    #3

    Young man in green blazer posing thoughtfully near stacked books, representing daily dose of fascinating knowledge facts TIL that people who experience "vicarioius embarassment" (feeling embarrased just observing someone else in an embarassing situation) have the same physical reactions in their nervous system as if they are the subject of the embarassing situation

    jfdonohoe , azerbaijan_stockers/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Brian Leahy
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I get almost no enjoyment from “cringe” comedy.

    LillieMean
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same here. I also can't watch reality TV and influencers on social media. I think this is a win for me. I also feel those "funny" videos in the pit of my stomach where someone hurts themselves by falling or bumping into something.

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    farbenzirkel
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Germany it is called "Fremdschämen". I like that word.

    Mere Cat
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Finland, "myötähäpeä", it is a commonly used (and needed!) word.

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    Jaya
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have this sooooo badly. There are many tv programs that I cannot watch, because I get stuck at a cringy moment and keep postponing watching it. Especially "reality" shows. Standup comedy too, when the comedian asks an audience member a question, I get so uncomfortable that the person might embarrass themselves, I can't look.

    Heffalump
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me. There are shows that I absolutely cannot watch.

    Reemerger
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is The Office one of those shows? For the life of me I cannot bring myself to watch more than a few minutes of it. I am aware of how successful it is. On the other hand I enjoyed Parks & Recreation immensely.

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    Earonn -
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, not everyone experiences that?

    Starbug
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not me, but my boyfriend does and he either hides behind a cushion or have to leave the room altogether!

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    Svenne O'Lotta
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yes. It's physically painful. Do not understand how anyone can enjoy watching someone embarrass themselves.

    Saeyoul Akiyune
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have this but never knew what it was called XD

    Melinda Flick
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh lord, that would be me. I want to curl up and die sometimes.

    Mike K
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I can't watch certain show. Everyone else is like "it's a hilarious show," but when some of the comedies out there use situations that are embarrassing for others, I just can't seem to keep watching.

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    #4

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL 17-year-old female pitcher Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession during an exhibition match. As a consequence, the baseball commisioner terminated her contract and Ruth later trash talked about women in baseball to a newspaper.

    AlternativeBurner , EyeEm/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Mike F
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was reportedly an absolute @sshole.

    Earonn -
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Se/xists: "there have never been any really talented women in sports!"

    dan s
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    2 months ago

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    Oh ffs, calm down. Absolutely no-one is saying that! You're just thrilled to find something to be outraged about.

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    Jrog
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, the contract was not "terminated" days later, it expired after being extended explicitly to allow her to perform the stunt during the Yankees match. It was an organized publicity stunt, with Gehrig and Ruth *playing along in a scripted routine* designed to inspire women and make headlines. The players' reaction was also scripted to be in character (flamboyant for Ruth, humorous for Gehrig). She went on playing baseball in exhibition matches, some real some scripted stunts, until she grew bored and feeling humiliated by the ever increasing gimmicks her promoters organized, and she retired to take over her family business.

    fly on the wall
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The opening article should have referenced this otherwise it is just click bait

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    tameson
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are strong reasons to think it was a publicity stunt The owner of the team, Joe Engel, was known for publicity stunts. She did play professional baseball on and off for several years.

    GalPalAl
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The patriarchy still rules in this day and age

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    #5

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL In 1945 the adult literacy rate in South Korea was estimated at 22%. In 1970, adult literacy was 87.6%. By the late 1980s, sources estimated it at around 93%.

    tyrion2024 , EyeEm/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Twenty years ago, Publishers Weekly stated that after high school, the average American male never read another book. Twenty years later, (and with the advent of the smart phone) and so much electronic media, that figure has likely not increased. Hence our literacy rate's decline. Reading will always be the backbone of intelligence.

    Nova Rook
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From AI - Socrates was critical of reading because he believed written texts could foster intellectual laziness, weaken memory, and lead to a superficial understanding of knowledge, as they lacked the dynamic, interactive nature of spoken dialogue.

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    Steve
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the US, however, it goes the opposite direction.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The "Han River Miracle" (the rapid industrialization and growth of South Korea) came with a swath of dark sides, though. In the 1960s and 1970s it was normal to have 16-hours working days in textile and electronics factories, zero workers' health and safety mandates, child labor was widespread; unions were suppressed and police used an heavy hand against anyone asking for social reform. The police and army were routinely employed against students and workers, with t*rture being a common tool for inquiry and repression. All the largest Korean industrial conglomerates rose to power in those years thanks to government connections if not unabashed corruption. Women in the workforce were in conditions that were even worse than those of the English Industrial Revolution, they were paid a pittance and subject to degrading conditions.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cities were surrounded by slums, inhabited by former farmhands that moved to the new factories; local government could not keep up with sanitation and services, constructions were shoddy and dangerous, leading to third-world living conditions that remained well until the 1980s. Severe pollution caused long-term damage to large part of the country, and there were many cases of industrial chemical contamination of whole cities and their populations. The '88 Olympics were the first catalyst for a general improvement on those issues.

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    Jaya
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well done South Korea!

    Dan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    North Korea, on the other hand...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Juan Fulano (Johnny Full)
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    North Korea on the other hand has almost 100% literacy, same as Cuba; isn't it weird that USA citizens are uneducated morons despite living in the richest country of the world?

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    Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How is that surprising? Not much different than in most asian countries in that timeframe. What would be an interresting fact would be that the literacy rate in north korea was higher until the middle 70s 😉

    Forrest Hobbs
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭: a more interesting thing is that there's been no accurate information about North Korea's population released to the outside world since partition in 1945 - so, er? Where do you think you're getting your information from? 🤨

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    Juan Fulano (Johnny Full)
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they work hard they could get to levels achieved by Cuba despite the illegal economic warfare waved by the USA against them.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was more of a case of an authoritarian military dictatorship ruthlessly implementing a program that can be summed up as "Economy first, democracy later (maybe)". It took a bunch of dead activists, egregious protests (people self-immolating in fires and such) and a lot of clandestine organization among workers and students to finally start a turn toward social-democratic policies. The spark was a military mass*cre of peaceful middle class protesters in Gwangju, leaving 250 dead and 3000 injured, along with Western pressure for implementation of human rights on the threat of commercial sanctions and a national strike to call for free elections.

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    #6

    Man in a striped blazer and white shirt speaking in an interview setting, representing fascinating knowledge facts. TIL Wes Anderson uses a flat-fee salary system in which the actors that appear in his films are all paid the same rate. He began this practice on Rushmore after Bill Murray offered to take the same pay as the then-unknown 18-year-old Jason Schwartzman as long as he could leave for a golf tournament.

    tyrion2024 , Vanity Fair Report

    Plentyofoomph
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The amount of money actors are paid is obscene

    Elmo
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *Famous* actors. Normal ones practically get minimum wage

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    Sunshine
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't it be great if there was a flat fee for all the major actors in a film; and then whatever millions of dollars were accrued from how popular the movie was would go to a chosen charity or two--like cancer research or no-k**l shelters or something. Heck, I'd go to see movies at theatres more often if that were the case.

    Robert Benson
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But what would really happen is the studios would just pocket the extra money and claim there was no profit via some accounting shenanigans

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    Shelley Dawson
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As important as actors clearly are, the writers make or break a 'show'.

    Cuppa tea?
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At this point of his career, I'm certain anyone who is in his film will do it for a fiver.

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    #7

    Historic Chinese palace with detailed stone railings under clear sky, illustrating fascinating knowledge facts about culture. TIL Barefoot Doctors in China were farmers, folk healers, or young grads who received minimal medical training and brought healthcare, hygiene, and family planning to rural villages where urban-trained doctors wouldn’t go. They greatly reduced infectious disease and infant mortality in rural China.

    rampantradius , EyeEM/ Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly, the Chinese government policies are taking rural medicine backwards again, with the focus of resources away from rural areas in order to build up giant cities to compete with the United States and the world in industry. (Meanwhile, the United States continues to wreak havoc on their own completely broken system!) Common sense has been replaced by greed and the damage of politics, making it possible for Robert Kennedy to single-handedly set back health to the early 19th century!

    Geoffrey Scott
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, on the whole he is a dangerous clown, however..I AM pleased with the directive of less artificial colorings/flavorings.

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    Valegro
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol why are you bringing up religion in a post that has absolutely nothing to do with religion?

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    #8

    Close-up of a UK passport with a British flag and map, representing travel and fascinating knowledge facts. TIL the UK passport office declined to issue a 6-yr-old British girl a passport because the child's name Khaleesi was under WB trademark. After the story was reported on & it was determined that a birth name cannot be trademarked & that trademarks are for goods & services, the decision was reversed.

    tyrion2024 , inkdrop/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    James016
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People forgetting that Khaleesi was the character's title, not her name.

    Nizumi
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People also naming their children before getting to the end of the series...

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    James Twong
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No doubt some teenage Mum with other kids called Kayden, Jayden, Tyler and Chantelle.

    Colleen Glim
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is wrong with Chantelle?! That’s my middle daughter’s name and she’s 30. It’s just French for she sings

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    Kitty1019
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently Kim Kardashian trademarked all her kids' names. Idk.

    WhiteClawOfDeath
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend of mine could not create a facebook profile, because afictional name was not allowed. His name is Aragorn.

    Kit Black
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They will ask you to send a picture of your I.D, and if it matches what you said, then it does go on the profile

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    Jenny Lind
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the store "Iceland" suing the actual Iceland for the use of name on products 🫠

    Svenne O'Lotta
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't that just something they do to establish precedence so both parties can operate freely thereafter?

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    #9

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL in 2008 Hugh Laurie made a single, off-hand comment claiming that a perk of being a celebrity was having a special lifetime, unlimited Burger King Crown Card (enabling him to eat there for free). He actually didn't have one, but after his comment caused a huge public response, BK gave him one.

    tyrion2024 , BBC Report

    Mike F
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Off topic but he's a great all-round entertainer. Look up his rendition of St James Infirmary on YT.

    Bartlet for world domination
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is definitely a fine version but I'll always prefer Cab Calloway in Betty Boop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDATXtewPrg

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    Michael Largey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be a great plot twist if Laurie was a vegan.

    Kris
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because he could not afford a burger

    Wide Awake at 3am
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He has also written a novel, The Gun Seller, which is very entertaining

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    #10

    Child wearing a headscarf sitting with a doll, receiving medical treatment, illustrating fascinating knowledge about health facts. TIL that after a rural Ohio county reported nearly 70 cases of leukemia in the mid 90s, it was discovered that a local high school had been built on an Army depot used as a dump for chemical waste.

    thebestdaysofmyflerm , Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Kelly H. Wilder
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our high school is built on top of an old landfill and is required to undergo frequent environmental testing. The property was previously owned by the Air Force Base. Our community also happens to have some of the highest rates of neurological and autoimmune disorders in our state.

    Teutonic Disaster
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not like the US isn't so vast that they had enough space to build their schools on untainted soil or had the means to dispose of their waste properly. Noooo, gotta eff everything up in the name of saving/making a dime.

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    Jrog
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The River Valley High School scare. The school grounds were not a chemical dump, just a former POW camp turned machinery depot. It served an adjacent plant owned by US Rubber (currently Uniroyal), who manufactured explosives in their Scioto Ordnance Plant. The claim of contamination is debated, and there is no actual proof of any link to the leukemia cases except for a single expert opinion commissioned by the Parent's Association. The claims were unconfirmed, and further research could not find decisive nor circumstantial connection, but the EPA nevertheless accepted to help financing a new school building as a precautionary measure. The US Corps of Engineers looked into the claims and only found already known disposal sites not in proximity of the school, not posing measurable hazard but nevertheless led a full cleanup.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The whole county and the Scioto River watershed are significantly polluted, but the largest contributors are agriculture, pastures and -back then- untreated sewage waste and runoffs.

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    Earonn -
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because hey, it's totally cool just to throw this s**t away, instead of containing it. thank you, Army!

    Jaymi
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh wow this is incredibly sad.

    Sue User
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Get ready for colorful water and rivers on fire. Love Canal part2.

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    No one
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Read that the US military just announced that they will not cleanup their superfund sites. Why would they? What could possibly go wrong?

    Never Snarky
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A high school in the Boston, MA area was built on a landfill - too early, and the ground settled. Half the HS was unusable.

    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Suffering caused by stupidity. How tragic.

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    #11

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL the last living veteran of the 1853 Crimean War died in 2004: Timothy, a Greek tortoise captured from a Portuguese ship, served as a mascot throughout the war

    FannyFiasco , Jeannette Report

    glowworm2
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh! Took me a second to realize that Timothy was the veteran. Also, despite the name, Timothy was a lady tortoise.

    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah. Difficult to determine sometimes. Much has been debated about the sêx of the Great A-Tuin, on who's back the disk world rides. For obvious reasons.... (h/t the late, great Terry Prattchet)

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    Kris
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How old was miss Timothy?

    Chilli
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    he witnessed slavery and did nothing /j

    #12

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL of Les Horribles Cernettes. A parody pop group made up of CERN employees, they performed primarily at events for physicists. In 1992 a colleague asked for a photo to upload to his invention "the World Wide Web". They scanned a photo for him, and it was the first photo uploaded to the internet.

    WavesAndSaves , Cernettes Report

    Tim Gibbs
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I uploaded many photos to the internet before 1992 just not the web!!

    Bored Sailor
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, P2P, open servers, shared sites. I used webcrawler, not www based. World Wide Web was the start of a standardized format not the start of computers connecting via modem.

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    Randy Alexander
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first picture had a wrong aspect ratio?

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    #13

    Close-up of a person with sunburn on the shoulder and neck illustrating useless yet fascinating knowledge facts. TIL in 2012, two elementary school students in the state of Washington were severely sunburned on field day and brought to the hospital by their mom after they were not allowed to apply sunscreen due to not having a doctor's note. The school district's sunscreen policy was based on statewide law.

    Forward-Answer-4407 , kval Report

    Kelly H. Wilder
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At my son's school I had to sign a form each year allowing the school nurse to give my son a band-aid, to apply antibiotic ointment, to use alchol-based hand sanitizer, and other such nonsense. He started school in 2008.

    MsPlants
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this is because some Karen or ken probably threw a fit because someone put something on there kid they didnt say they could and ruined it for the rest of the group

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    Yrral Spavit
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suspect this was the result of sue happy parents in the past, no?

    Bailey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, it was part of a state wide policy to protect the school from being sued if they gave a child something which contained an ingredient they were allergic to.

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    Verena
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For a nation which is very careless with the distribution of bullets, the fear of effects of wrongly applied sunscreen is hilarious.

    Earonn -
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The things Americans allow schools to do...

    Nicole Weymann
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm guessing it's more "what school's *aren't* allowed to do". It only takes one sue happy parent with an attitude to mess it up for everyone involved. Could be an anti vaxxer - but just as easily a parent of a severely allergic kid and a teacher whose attention slipped at the wrong moment. With hospital bills and insurance problems being the way they apparently are in the US parents may even have to sue in self defence, or go bankrupt.

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    Robin Roper
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And there are actual people in the US who believe gender change surgeries are occurring on school gounds duing the school day.

    No one
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same people who believe that Hillary Clinton and Hollywood actors are running a child trafficking cabal in the basement of a pizza restaurant, while the great orange guy is trying to stop them and protect children. Turns out, the pizza place has no basement, and the great orange guy is a sexual offender who was best buds w Epstein, the child trafficker s*x offender.

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    Sam Trudeau
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I Googled this. The law said that there was a limit to how strong these could be. Also that "waterproof", "sweatproof" and "instant protection" were banned by the FDA.

    brittany
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    at m kids school, the teachers can not touch the kids. at all. they arent even allowed to put a bandaid on a scrapped knee, the kid has to clean it and bandage it. you ever try to get a kindergartener to clean their own knee scrape?

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    #14

    Basenji dog with head inside a wooden crate on a wooden floor, illustrating daily dose of useless yet fascinating knowledge. TIL there are dogs specifically trained to sniff out USB drives and other electric storage medium, most notably in the arrest of Jared Fogle (guy from Subway) for CP

    zahrul3 , bublikhaus/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Agfox
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a "man bytes dog" joke in there somewhere

    CooperDooper81
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are dogs for everything. Dr*gs, cash, bodies, tech.

    Bryn
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a Basenji, they wouldn't be used for this. Love the breed but they wouldn't be used for scent work. Tracking yes (they're a sight/scent breed, where they track mainly with sight but also with scent). But the main reason? They're stubborn as all get out. They're not called cat-like for nothing. They do things on their own terms, on their own timeline.

    Svenne O'Lotta
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also can't bark to alert when they find something

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    Svenne O'Lotta
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doggos, is there anything they can't do? They're basically perfect

    John Sanborn
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently they can't (won't?) clean up the mess they made. They figure that's what us servants are for.

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    Brandi VanSteenwyk
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love and am always amazed by working dogs!

    Fat Harry (Oi / You)
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You wouldn't even think that a USB drive would have a smell. Dogs' noses are incredible.

    Janissary35680
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still can't get my head around the fact that they can detect concealed cash currency by the smell of the ink.

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    The Majestic Opossum
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wonder if they could've helped crypto landfill guy... 🤔

    Sofia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they sniff the drives or the content?

    Roxy222uk
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they sniff out what the content was on the USB drives that would be very impressive

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    brittany
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that guy who lost his crypto usb should hire those dogs

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    #15

    Ancient rock-cut architecture at Petra, showcasing stunning details in a desert landscape for fascinating knowledge. TIL the lost city of Petra was rediscovered by a Swiss explorer who took it upon himself to learn perfect Arabic, local customs, and gained the trust of the Bedouins to learn the location of the gorge leading to the city.

    Flaxmoore , EyeEm/Freepik Report

    Panda Kicki
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People was living there the whole.time, so more unknown to the west then lost. And there are several ways to Petra except the gorge, with stairs and paths, as long as you dont have vertigo.

    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, I think the post was clear that the Bedouins knew exactly were it was, but had kept it hidden from foreigners up until that point.

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    meeeeeeeeeeee
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like it wasn't lost then. Not rediscovered...was told/shown.

    Nizumi
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny how "lost" usually only means "lost to some European dude"

    TiNaBoNiNa
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Recent excavations show levels below this rock carving. Ground-penetrating radar found voids below. After digging, the entrance to a tomb was found. After they opened it, many remains were found. GPR also indicates there may be another room below that one.

    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    gained their trust..............then ratted..........well done

    Juan Fulano (Johnny Full)
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just like America was discovered despite millions living there before Europeans "found it"

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    #16

    UPS delivery truck driving on a city street near a running track with a fence and trees in the background. TIL that UPS founder James E. Casey wanted yellow vehicles, but a partner said they’d be hard to keep clean. They chose Pullman Brown instead - a colour that hides dirt, mud, and grime, and is still used on UPS trucks today.

    Upstairs_Drive_5602 , Jason Lawrence/Flickr Report

    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We used to laughingly say "Ever seen a dirty UPS truck?"

    Geoffrey Scott
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should see the ones in rural Michigan in winter.

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    Jrog
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On a similar note: DHL colors were white and red. When in 2002 they became title sponsors to Eddie Jordan's F1 team, Eddie already had a sponsorship going on with Benson & Hedges mandating the color of the car to be B&H yellow. B&H was signed for a couple more years, then wanted out due to new regulations about smoke sponsors. But, traditionally the title sponsor had the right to brand the car colors! So Eddie, in his stark raving mad genius, instead of changing his car's color scheme TALKED HIS SPONSOR INTO CHANGING THEIR WHOLE CORPORATE IMAGE TO YELLOW. DHL did so and this originated their iconic livery, allegedly leading to a 2-digits increase in business volume.

    Nicole Weymann
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Huh. To me DHL is basically the "old" German mail service "Deutsche Post" ("German mail"), whose main colour has always been this particular yellow. I looked it up and apparently 2002 was also the year that Deutschen Post AG took over and the logo colour changed.

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    Vivian McBride
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did he also always wear shorts and drive with his door open?

    Kris
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have a similar color on sigarettes and tobacco here in Norway, to repell people from buying it..

    Mary Peace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To me (English person) they look like prison transport.

    #17

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL there is 14-thousand-year-old rock art in the middle of the Sahara desert. The paintings show crocodiles, giraffes, and hippos, from a time when the Sahara was lush grassland and forest, and was able to support these animals.

    Megdatronica , wirestock/Freepik Report

    Plentyofoomph
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the Pilbara region of Western Australia there is 40,000 year old rock art showing similar ideas

    Janissary35680
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It appears to be a 20,000 year cycle. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara#Desertification_and_prehistoric_climate

    Apatheist Account2
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "My grandfather was an amazing lumberjack in the Sahara forest." "There aren't any trees in the Sahara!" "Not any more, no..."

    Chewie Baron
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When they dug the foundations for the fountains in Trafalgar Square in London, they found fossils of hippos, lions and giraffes, from a time when that land had a favourable climate.

    Niki
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a fascinating documentary on YouTube called "When the Sahara Was Green"

    Mary Peace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is the point of this photo then?

    Grumpy old man
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    FUN FACT: Africa is going under Europe. Sublimation. Its not racist but idiots think it is. Africa is sliding under Europe and built the Alps.

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    #18

    Elderly man with long white beard holding a katana, representing useless yet fascinating knowledge concept. TIL in 2017 Japan arrested a 74 year old man who had committed over 250 burglaries dressed as a ninja. He avoided most surveillance, but was seen "navigating tight spaces and running on walls"

    FalconPUNNCH , wosunan/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Francois
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is tough world for ninjas.

    Nicole Weymann
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Well, ninja-ing doesn't pay the bills!" - "Weeeell, ..."

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    BarfyCat
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty impressive at age 74!

    Anthony Elmore
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok, but I have to ask: Did he pee on the frames of shoji doors to make them slide open more silently? Because that's apparently a thing you can do.

    dan s
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still one of my favourite Onion headlines- Ninja Parade slips through town unnoticed yet again.

    NerdlyGleanings
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jackie Chan has fallen on hard times

    Khavrinen
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should have taken up cooking instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVhxaJZG37I

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    #19

    Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, illustrating fascinating knowledge and historical facts in daily dose of useless yet engaging content. TIL Beethoven’s late quartets, now widely considered to be among the greatest musical compositions of all time, were so ahead of their time that initial reviews deem them indecipherable, uncorrected horrors, with one musician saying “we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is.”

    VegemiteSucks , Joseph Karl Stieler Report

    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine a medieval minstrel listening to late 20th century freestyle jazz. They wouldn't even recognise it as music, is I think what thy're trying to suggest.

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    #20

    Detailed X-ray scan showing human lungs with intricate airways for a daily dose of fascinating knowledge. TIL a man who developed 'popcorn lung' after years of inhaling the smell of artificial butter flavoring from daily consumption of microwave popcorn sued Gilster-Mary Lee Corp. and King Soopers for failing to warn on labels that the flavoring diacetyl was dangerous. In 2012, he was awarded $7,217,961

    Forward-Answer-4407 , American Lung Association Report

    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Diacetyl. Artificial butter flavor. It actually carcinogenic according to a lot of studies. Still allowed as a food flavoring.

    Roxy222uk
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If only there was something that tasted like butter but didn’t cause popcorn lung . . .

    glowworm2
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Despite its name, Popcorn lung is actually a serious and irreversible lung disease. It’s called this due to it first being identified in workers at microwave popcorn factories.

    sbj
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No amount of money can make up for the fact his lugs are ruined

    ManuelQue
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With that monetary award he'll be able to afford a lung transplant.

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    Reemerger
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Daily consumption of microwave popcorn? ☹️

    Anthony Elmore
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just consumption. That man is ENJOYING his popcorn. Like fully basking in the scented essence of it.

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    Peeka_Mimi
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did not know he was from Colorado.

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    why did he win anything? f*****g idiot sniffed too much popcorn and paid the price.

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    #21

    Person relaxing in a colorful striped hammock outdoors, enjoying a peaceful moment of daily dose of fascinating knowledge. TIL in 2014 a 27-year-old man fell asleep in a hammock while camping in Kentucky. In the morning, his friends saw him get up & sleepwalk off a 60-foot cliff. However, a rhododendron bush actually broke his fall, therefore he had no life-threatening injuries. He didn't even know he was a sleepwalker.

    tyrion2024 , EyeEm/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Tim Gearing
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In 2010 Des Campbell was found guilty of pushing his new wife over a cliff while camping in the Royal National Park south of Sydney in 2005. He claimed she had fallen over the cliff when she left the tent to go to the toilet. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-05-18/des-campbell-guilty-of-wifes-cliff-murder/831336

    Deeelite
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was literally just talking about this case an hour ago here in the u.s.

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    Nina
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Way to find out 😅

    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    good ol rhododendron...my favorite flower

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    #22

    Portrait of a man with glasses and mustache, representing a fascinating historical fact for daily knowledge. TIL that, as President of the New York City Police Commission, Theodore Roosevelt would regularly walk the city streets at night or in the early morning to make sure officers were on duty.

    Winter-Vegetable7792 , Library of Congress Report

    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While Teddy Roosevelt was far from perfect, from early in his career his goal was to make a difference in the lives of the average citizen.

    The Majestic Opossum
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And he was once shot while giving a speech. Was only saved by a Bible in his pocket and continued to give his speech before going to the hospital! Man was a real badass, no doubt about that.

    Tom Brincefield
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. The bullet hit his steel eyeglass case and his 50 page speech. He was not carrying a Bible. He spoke for 90 minutes before going to the hospital, where they determined it would be better to leave the bullet where it was. He carried it the rest of his life.

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    #23

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL that George Carlin was a court-martialed Air Force Vet, Grammy-winning comedian, children's TV actor, and the 1st host of SNL. His arrest for performing the routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" placed him at the center of a landmark Supreme Court case, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation

    Exeltv0406 , Official George Carlin Report

    Plentyofoomph
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The updated version is: "The 483 words you cant type on BP"

    Yrral Spavit
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "s**t", "p**s", "f**k", "c**t", "c********r", "m**********r", and "t**s". So, why am I censored but Tanquam was not?

    Svenne O'Lotta
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably because they use that zero width extension thing

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    Marla Singer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just think of what Carlin would make of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

    John Sanborn
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Took a second, thought the arrest was the reason for the court-martial. Was WTF?!

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    #24

    Private jet parked on airport tarmac at sunset, highlighting fascinating knowledge about travel and aviation facts. TIL that in 2022, 90% of complaints about Dublin Airport were from one person, who made over 23,000 complaints in one year

    AnonymousTimewaster , EyeEm/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Mike F
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SOMEBODY needs a hobby.

    HOUSE
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's 63 a day on average!

    Mary Peace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you. It's 1am here in UK and I can't do numbers now.

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    DeShotz
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could be noise complaints. One year, the FAA received 8,670 noise complaints about air traffic to and from Washington National Airport (DCA). One person was responsible for about 6,500 of those complaints.

    Yrral Spavit
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've met people who knowingly buy a house near a long established airport and then are outraged that there is an airport nearby. Sorry buddy, you'll find sympathy is right there in the dictionary betwixt s**t and syphilis.

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    Michael Largey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Therefore there were 2,300 possibly legitimate complaints. That should be the focus.

    Jack Hannon
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Her name is Karen, although it's spelt Sionain

    Foxglove🇮🇪
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That statistic was contained in a recent report. Ireland has a bit of a problem with serial objectors delaying infrastructural development. The government is currently considering how to change the law to reduce the length of time the process takes.

    Panda Kicki
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where they angry about a lost luggage or so?

    Sarah
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You’d never know with us. Could be anything ….

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    Chewie Baron
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, everyone hates Dublin Airport.

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    #25

    Red Turkish flag waving on a flagpole against a clear blue sky, representing fascinating knowledge about Turkey. TIL there was no film copyright law in Turkey until 1986, leading to films like "3 Giant Men" which featured Captain America and Mexican wrestler El Santo fighting against a chain-smoking Spider-Man villain, all to the ripped soundtracks of the James Bond movies.

    jon-in-tha-hood , EyeEm/ Freepik Report

    T'Mar of Vulcan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In South Africa during apartheid, due to boycotts, records (yes, I'm old enough to remember that stuff) couldn't contain the original songs by famous artists. So there's a generation of us whose favourites are actually covers of popular songs from the '70s and early '80s!

    Fat Harry (Oi / You)
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a series of LPs in the UK in the 70s called "Top of the Pops" that were entirely covers of popular hits played by session musicians.

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    Rinso The Red
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a copy of "Turkish Star Wars". There's a scene where actual Star Wars space fight footage is being projected behind them, while the score from Indiana Jones plays. Wild stuff.

    Michael Grant
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everybody should try to see this movie once. Or as much as you can stand. Trust me your life is incomplete without it.

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    Lee Gilliland
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some of the Turkish films are just plain awful. I offer up "Our Man in Istanbul ", a horrible James Bond ripoff featuring Mad Magazine quotes as dialog.

    Svenne O'Lotta
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yessssss Turkish Spider-Man is amazing

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    #26

    Group of men in early 20th-century attire playing and watching indoor bowling in a vintage recreation room, historical knowledge fact. TIL that many American churches once had bowling alleys in their basements, originally built as community spaces and loopholes to serve beer on Sundays. Fewer than 200 still exist today.

    Objective_Horror1113 , Byron Company (New York, N.Y.) Report

    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And thus the term "Holy Rollers" came to be... Sorry, I couldn't resist!

    Michael Largey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the puritanical "Get your mind out of the gutter".

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    ohjojo (you/your's)
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always thought the basements were built for AA meetings

    Never Snarky
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now I understand the bowling alley in my church when I was growing up.

    Lee Gilliland
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When bowling alleys started, they switched to bingo, which was formerly at the Catholic Churches.

    Cuppa tea?
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beer? Some churches had their standards fall down.

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    #27

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL the bubble style glass on pub windows not only offers privacy by distorting what's inside, but was sold cheaper as it was the last part in the process of blowing glass, perfect for establishments

    Apprehensive_Cry545 , Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Jrog
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was the point where the roundel connected to the stem, being spun into a disc and then cut into plates. The roundels were a byproduct of the glass making. Privacy never even entered the debate (upscale restaurants and tea houses had proper glass), it was just a cost-saving and availability issue.

    Lee Gilliland
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is also known as crown glass or bull's-eye glass.

    #28

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL that Rabies can make wild animals behave in a way that seems tame, friendly or even affectionate towards humans. Animals with Rabies don't always seem rabid.

    NoHandBananaNo , aleksandarlittlewolf/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Mike F
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until they bite you.

    Foxglove🇮🇪
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And by the time you show symptoms, it's too late ☠️

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    Jaya
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here in the Netherlands this is common knowledge, we all learn as kids that if a wild animal like a fox seems tame, you should never get near it because it probably has rabies.

    nicholas nolan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We learned it when I was a boy in Illinois, as well. Common knowledge among farm kids.

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    Happy Onion
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The book Rabid looks at the history of Rabies from ancient times to present day. It's actually pretty fascinating.

    Chicken Mitten
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks for the suggestion, it sounds super interesting...Just borrowed it from my library!

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    Marlene Ricker
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now that is scary. If a wild animal was acting friendly to me I would definitely pet it!!

    Krd
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can't believe we still haven't figured out a rabies test that doesn't require killing the animals. You'd think with all our tech and medical knowledge we'd have figured out something quicker/safer/non-lethal.

    Happy Onion
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It sequesters in the brain stem so that technology is a LONG way off.

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    #29

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL they dropped millions of purpose-bred sterile flies from planes every week in Panama from the 1960s until 2022 to keep a flesh eating parasite from getting into the U.S. cattle supply.

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    Rob D
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This strikes me as one of those programs funded for decades that got arbitrarily axed by Republicans to save a trivial amount of money.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Spot on! Covid-19 caused some supply issues and fund diversion under Trump's first term greatly reduced the program capabilities. The program is still ongoing, even receiving emergency funding in 2023 to try to recover the lost ground, but in 2025 a new USDA decision to move the breeding farm to Texas has caused further fund diversion and delays. Critics saw the decision as a shady move designed to put Mexican cattle industry under pressure and reduce their competitiveness on the american markets; Mexico immediately beefed up their own control program, but the US still closed beef imports.

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    Jrog
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They have always been in the US. Cochliomyia hominivorax is originary to Texas, Central America, and the Caribbean, and used to be endemic in the whole south-central continental US, occasionally reaching the northern states in good weather years. In the US it has been eradicated through the sterile male flies in the 1960s, then they started moving south with the target of eliminating it altogether, being successful in eliminating it north of the Darien Gap in Panama. Changes in foreign policy and cooperation programs during Trump first term and COVID disruptions allowed the fly to return far north in the following years, threatening Texas once again.

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    Ron Man
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And now it's in the US cattle supply.

    Dragons Exist
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a good Kurzgesagt about this

    Miki
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Indeed. I remember watching some documentary about this.

    Happy Onion
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the classic: "we haven't seen this in years. Why are we still doing it?" . . . Oh, THAT'S why. 🤦

    Mary Ross
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're called screw worm flies. Their maggots eat fresh (not dead) meat. We had this in Texas back in the '60s. They dropped irradiated male flies in the affected areas, which broke the reproductive cycle. It worked. Now the Screw worm fly is making a comeback. Buggers.

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    #30

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL 29% of male gamers prefer playing female characters, whereas only 9% of female gamers prefer playing male characters. In a typical core PC/console game, about 60% of the female avatars you meet are played by a male player.

    tyrion2024 , fxquadro/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    MistBorn
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As someone online said once “ if I’m gonna spent hundreds of hours staring at this character, it should at least be beautiful “

    Billo66
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. I started Everquest as a female Barbarian and the sexual harrassment and comments were gross. Never again.

    Apatheist Account2
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Couldn't you attack them with a sword or something?

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    Keller A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm female and always play online with my male real life friend. We both prefer playing opposite gender and for some reason it's much more fun. 😊

    Anthony Elmore
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like I get to play be a male character in real life. It's ok, but it's not really something I want more of when I play video games.

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    michael Chock
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Designers typically put more work into the female armor/apparel. If male game characters were less visually boring, I would play them more.

    Killashandra Lux
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From my time as WoW player, I remember standing joke that in-game G.I.R.L=Guy in Real Life

    M. Evripidou
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah we all know why men do that :/

    Sara Frazer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Huh, that's funny, my boyfriend always does pic a female character, and given the choice most of the time I pick male characters

    Nicole Weymann
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend of mine spent HOURS designing his female avatar. I do like to take my time with character creation myself, but that extent was new to me. Almost like watching a little kid playing with a Barbie. Later in the game he even chucked some parts of an armor set (set bonus) for ones with worse stats, because he disliked the look. At that point I admit I roasted him a bit 😂 (Kingdoms of Amalur, FYI)

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    #31

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL During the 1900 Galveston hurricane, at the Saint Mary’s orphanage, the 10 nuns tried to save 90 of the children by tying clothes lines around their own waists and each attaching themselves to several children. Only 3 older boys were left untied, and they would be the orphanage’s only survivors.

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    Dan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nun of that now. Its a bad habit.

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    Rusty
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But … how? What happened?

    Jennifer Plumley Williams
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the debris from the storm surge tangled up in the line, bringing down all of those tied together. not a thing to joke about then or now. there's a memorial to the children in Galveston.

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    #32

    TIL at the 2025 Kentucky Derby, all 19 participants can be traced back through their lineage to 1973 Kentucky Derby winner and Triple Crown champion Secretariat, who sired more than 660 foals.

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    Leg less In Minneapolis
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was bred with 50 to 60 mares a year. Then stud fee for cover attempt was 125,000

    Bryn
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it mostly through his daughters. Most of his sons were duds in the shed and in the breeding shed. His daughters and granddaughters? Superior racers and producers (especially his granddaughters).

    Michael Grant
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Secretariat may be the greatest athlete of the 20th century.

    Kevin Hickey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly, a syringe probably got most of the action.

    Uncle Panda
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's good work if you can get it!

    Dan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One good disease they are susceptible to, and no more racehorses.

    Bryn
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Considering that American Pharoah bred 161 mares last year (and he's being doing roughly that number for a couple of years), not really. Secretariat's roughly 16 year breeding career, it's roughly only 42 mares a year. And considering Thoroughbreds MUST do live cover (no artificial insemination), Pharoah's numbers are more impressive in terms of the number of foals he's sired. Also, Secretariat isn't a pony. He's a horse

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    #33

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL personal or private helicopter flights in the US account for just 3% of helicopter flight hours, but more than 25% of fatal helicopter accidents.

    tyrion2024 , viarprodesign/Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Lee Gilliland
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A professional won't fly if he's not up to it. An armature will.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think "amateur" is the word you are looking for. Except you mean a structural framework.

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    #34

    TIL the world's longest regularly scheduled nonstop flight (Singapore-NYC; 17,250 km) covers so much of the Earth that pilots can opt to fly the return flight westward over the Pacific, or eastward over the Atlantic and Europe depending on winds aloft, saving time and fuel

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    Francois
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This happens also on less long flights e.g. London to Tokyo. Outbound we flew over Turkey-Kazachstan-China while on the return flight via Canada-Greenland-Iceland. Maybe mainly because we cannot over Russia.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was common to avoid Russia even before Putin's latest shenanigans, since Russian overflight rates were among the most expensive in the world even before the latest post-invasion hike. Many companies held alternative routes pre planned and if conditions allowed (wind, weather and schedule) they would altogether avoid the Russian airspace.

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    The Majestic Opossum
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sort of happened when we flew Chicago to Taipei - instead of going SW, we flew NE - at one point crossing near/over the Arctic circle.

    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    just dont fly over russia or malaysia

    The Bearded Viking
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't the Auckland, NZ to Houston, TX, U.S.A continuous flight longer? I thought that came in just a smidgen over 18 hours. Correct me if I'm wrong.

    The Bearded Viking
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll correct myself. I just checked, the Singapore-NYC fight is indeed the longest, however it is only 15,349km. It beats the NZ - NYC flight by about 1000km.

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    #35

    TIL, during a set at the 1995 US Open, tennis player Shuzo Matsuoka collapsed from severe cramping for several minutes and was defaulted for delaying the match. The incident led to a rule change in professional tennis to allow players to receive medical treatment during matches without forfeiting.

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    No one
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now it's used to break the momentum of a winning opponent

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    #36

    Black and white drawn portrait of an older man with stern expression for daily dose of fascinating knowledge facts TIL that Lewis and Clark Expedition participant and War of 1812 veteran, Patrick Gass, had to be removed from a recruiting station after attempting to enlist in the Union Army to fight in the American Civil War at the age of 91.

    Winter-Vegetable7792 , The centennial history of Oregon Report

    T'Mar of Vulcan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My father was the opposite extreme. He tried to enlist at the age of 13 in 1941, and THEY TOOK HIM. His father had to go and bring him back home. (He succeeded in 1944 and was sent overseas.)

    OneWithRatsAndKefir
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Geez louise, sounds like your grandpa had his hands full with raising your dad. But must have made for some good stories.

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    Aileen Grist
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandfather was in the British Army in world war 1 at the age of 14. Until he bumped into his own father - who gave him a good leathering and had him sent home. About a week after my drandad left his father and most of those with him were killed.

    #37

    Person using smartphone at night, highlighting daily dose of fascinating knowledge facts on mobile device screen. TIL about the concept of 'digital dementia', a theory that excessive use of digital devices, such as smartphones, computers, and tablets, may lead to cognitive decline.

    MindQuieter , Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Capn Dad
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't tell me that. The only real reason I carry a phone is so I always have something to read. I can put up with any problem or delay, as long as I have something to read.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hm. And Trump Tweets HOW many times daily?

    Krd
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can almost gaurentee its what your doing on your on your phone that causes that, not just the act of being on your phone. Imagine a person who uses their phone 24/7, but they are just reading the Encyclopedia the whole time; I doubt they'd have any substantial cognitive decline.

    JP
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh heck we are all so screwed....

    Shoopyfloop Roundbird
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    May? You can see this is real time. Attention spans are much shorter than they used to be, language and matg skills are falling, and nobody uses critical thinking anymore. And thats ignoring the hot steaming pile of garbage content people consume.

    Krd
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With Trump gutting the CDC and every other useful government agency, get ready for more outbreaks and pandemics!

    OneHappyPuppy
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True. Quick, how many phone numbers do you know by heart?

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    #38

    TIL about an Iranian translator named Zabihollah Mansouri, who on one hand became Iran's most famous translator, but on the other hand became known for liberally adding his own content into translations to the point of making up entire books

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    Jaya
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Icelandic translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula was a very popular book in Iceland. It took over a century for someone to discover that it isn't actually a translation of Dracula, that it's a very different story. There are multiple theories, ranging from "the translator changed everything himself" to "he based the translation on a very old draft of Dracula instead of on the published Dracula book" to "he based it on a Dracula story from a Swedish newspaper". The whole thing is so weird and hilarious. Another funny one: a translator added an ad for soup into the German translation of a Terry Pratchett book, because the publisher had an advertisement deal with a soup company. So one of the characters randomly sits down to eat that brand's soup in the middle of the story.

    Sheena Leversedge Wood
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I forget which country it was, but one of the translations of Good Omens had a load of stuff about Crowley having had a lot of girlfriends over the years. maybe the translator picked up on the whole Aziraphale and Crowley are in love thing (subtler in the book than the show, but still there. but it could be interpreted as a more platonic love, brotherly love, even a paternal sort of love from Aziraphale for Crowley etc) didn't like it, and decided to try and hammer home the idea that Crowley is into women.

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    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never heard of him, but here's an interesting article about him that I just spent the last fifteen minutes reading. https://yalereview.org/article/amir-ahmadi-arian-zabihollah-mansouri

    Michael Grant
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn't there an ASL translator on TV a few years ago who was signing gibberish?

    Karen Bryan
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was just doing what a smart editor does--improving the original (without consulting the original author, but many of them were already dead, sooooo.......you work with what you have).

    Nicole Weymann
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kudos to @Ace for providing the link! Just to expand on that (because I found the original post hilarious) here is a little excerpt from the yalereview article he mentioned: "When translating Dumas’s work, for instance, he tapped into his lifelong obsession with French court gossip and would sometimes go off on twenty-page-long digressions before returning to the novelist’s text. As a result, his version of The Three Musketeers, which is some six hundred pages long in the original French, weighs in at more than six thousand pages, published in ten volumes."

    Nicole Weymann
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bonus on a Stalin biography: "In Deutscher’s account, Stalin’s father moves to a bigger city to start a shoemaking business. He marries the fifteen-year-old daughter of a poor peasant, and together they move to a small apartment on the outskirts of Gori. The girl gives birth to three children, all stillborn. The fourth one survives. At his baptism, they name him Joseph. [...] In his translation of a thoroughly researched biography, [Mansouri] writes in totally fabricated detail about Stalin’s mother’s labor pains, the arrival of neighbor women, and the conversations that took place. Stalin’s mother asks for a midwife, and the neighbors ask who should be summoned. “Martha,” she tells them. The name of Stalin’s midwife is nowhere mentioned in Deutscher’s book, and chances are it is not recorded anywhere else either. "

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    #39

    TIL that in languages such as Icelandic, they require the person to breathe in air while speaking. In Icelandic, it's used to signal agreement.

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    Roxy222uk
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ve heard Finnish speakers do the in breath while speaking too, although I don’t know what it indicated

    Mere Cat
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have heard many Finnish speakers do the in breath, but it doesn't really indicate anything, maybe adds some emotion? Mostly used in short words like yes, no, well. Perhaps it is because of convenience - Finnish as a language allows the gaspy words without making it hard to understand, and our words are rather long, you might need a gasp of air in a longer sentence 😅 This might also be a dialect issue and some other Finn might have very different view about this (and I would like to know about it!)

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    Sofia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if you disagree and the other speaks too much you risk death?

    Catmom
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a thing in a family I know in Nova Scotia. I keep trying it and making myself choke.

    Lynchamigsakta
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some dialects in northern Sweden also does this. We sometimes say that yes in lulemål is like imitating a vacuum cleaner

    Highwaytozen
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Det har smittat sig långt ner i landet med, även i göteborg säger vi "jo, men visst" genom att göra det ljudet. Iaf i min familj och alla mina vänner. Mina engelsktalande vänner såg på mig som om jag vore ett ufo när jag var i usa senast och svarade "ja" på en fråga på det viset. lite fint ändå.

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    James Twong
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a Scottish thing too.

    #40

    Woman in a sleeveless crochet top standing outdoors with arms crossed, representing fascinating knowledge concept. TIL a woman with prosopometamorphopsia had a history of seeing people's faces morph into dragon-like faces. After a few minutes, she'd see faces turn black, grow long, pointy ears & a protruding snout, & display a reptiloid skin & huge eyes in a bright color. Treatment eventually helped control it.

    tyrion2024 , Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Otorgar
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe she was just seeing the true form of our reptilian overlords!

    Dan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords.

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    Sofia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a woman with WHAT???

    Multa Nocte
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "A neurological disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted."

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    Rinso The Red
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "This one can see" *whispered into watch"

    SummerVeE
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine working up the courage to bring that up to your doctor

    Rusty
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm curios - what kind of treatment?

    Mike K
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe she was talking to Trogdor...

    Agfox
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That woman as Daenerys Targaryen would have added an extra something to GoT

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    #41

    Clear glass cup filled with black coffee on a glass saucer placed on a wooden table for daily dose knowledge. TIL coffee was all the rage in London in the 17th and 18th century until a fungus destroyed coffee plantations and forced the switch to tea in Sri Lanka

    my_n3w_account , zirconicusso/Freepik Report

    Brian Leahy
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe tea FROM Sri Lanka?

    Spencer's slave no longer
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's missing here is this: rust fungus decimated coffee bushes in Ceylon/Sri Lanka in the late 19th century, so coffee farmers switched to growing tea instead.

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    Jrog
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sri Lankan tea was far better in quality. Chinese farmers were known to regularly adulterate the tea, mixing it with low grade leaves and even coloring it with poisonous chemicals. Few European traders had strong connections to reputable traders, most (the East India Company too!) had to buy on the open market by intermediaries who had no qualms on scamming the buyers. It was not uncommon for "premium green tea" to be just cheap second-rate leaves colored with lead-based powder, copper salts or even arsenic, or mix it with chalk to increase weight. Ceylon tea plantations immediately became synonymous with high quality tea because the British instaurated a rigid system of grading, packing and QC, all under the strict control of a few experienced British master planters.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BTW, OP is wrong. The switch to tea in Ceylon happened at the end of the 19th century (specifically in 1869). Coffee was prevalent as a upper class beverage from the mid-1600 to the end of the 18th century; the switch to tea was not due to the Sri Lankan blight, but to the availability of Chinese imported tea in the early 18th century. By the 1839 the vast majority of the tea trade managed by the East India Company was financed and paid for in opium sales, providing a steady revenue of sterling silver (used for "official" transactions) and tea was by far the most consumed drink in England.

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    Lee Gilliland
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The coffee, BTW, was awful. Because of the brewing laws, it was generally made in five- to ten-gallon batches and heated up by the cup. The big draw was that it "sharpens the mind dreadfully" according to Jonson.

    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Although tea was sold only from China at one time, who refused to allow plants or seeds to be exported. They only accepted sterling silver (the basis of the British pound sterling). It almost bankrupted the British until some enterprising fellow smuggled some plants out and started growing them in India. So this is bollox.

    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, it's not. The two timelines overlap, both are true. The china tea trade also largely relied on opium being illegally imported into China by the British East India Company.

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    #42

    46 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That May Come In Clutch When Conversation Runs Dry (New Facts) TIL that in Sweden, almost anyone’s address, age, floor number and move-in date can easily be found online, because the Freedom of the Press Act contains provisions on the right to access official documents such as the national registration data.

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    Dan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stalkers paradise

    Nicole Weymann
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To a certain degree, yes. On the other hand there have always been phone books listing name, number, and address, and now that many people no longer have landlines they give their own data, plus information on ménstrual cycles or medication, freely with every cookie and consent button on every web shop and site they visit.

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    Panda Kicki
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can also run a licence plate and easily find out all those things about the owner. As well as income,.family and much more. And using lawline any connection to justice dep, if you have been victim,whitness or perp.

    Nicole Weymann
    Community Member
    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We still do have phone books 🤷 And facebook, google, amazon etc (including credit card companies) make good money from the data of people who accept their cookies or shop for anything from food to medication online. Alexa listens, and so do Siri and, again, google, and maps plus GPS will also tell you and anyone who asks where you are and where you regularly go.

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    #43

    Black and white sketch of a man with curly hair and beard, representing a daily dose of fascinating knowledge facts. TIL that “Shakespeare’s Curse” on his grave warns anyone who moves his bones that they will be cursed — yet in 2016, a ground-penetrating radar revealed his skull is actually missing.

    Many-Grapefruit427 , kuzyuberdin/Freepik Report

    Tim Gearing
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hamlet mistakenly took it thinking it was Yorick’s. I’ll exit stage left after that attempt at humour.

    Plentyofoomph
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You may be surprised to learn that many people don't believe in curses due to the fact that they aren't real

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    #44

    Person in brown outfit smiling while using smartphone, enjoying daily dose of fascinating knowledge facts. TIL 85% of all gaming revenue comes from free-to-play games. These games are free upfront and generate revenue through ads, in-game transactions, and optional purchases.

    tyrion2024 , Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Tim Gearing
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Genshin Impact’s revenue is significant. It achieved the highest first-year launch revenue for any video game at nearly $3.8 billion across all platforms by the end of 2022. Free to play it uses the ‘gacha system’ of in-app purchases for new characters and weapons. It surpassed $5 billion in lifetime mobile player spending by end 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshin_Impact#:~:text=Across%20all%20platforms%2C%20the%20game,revenue%20for%20any%20video%20game.

    JB
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm sorry, they call it the "gacha system"... Like, sounds like "gotcha system?" Smh

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    Joshua David
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah. Candy Crush used to get me hard so I'd buy the extra fish and I realised what i was doing and deleted the app. This was when i was given Adderall i didn't need because it just made me hi and obsessed lol. Took myself off of it.

    Kat
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I spend about 10-15$ a month total on the games I play but even back when I was a teenager I had to pay a subscription fee to play games like WoW or EverQuest so it doesn't seem that different to me honestly. Some people blow waaaaay too much money on these games though.

    Peeka_Mimi
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I play games on my phone but once it gets impossible to win without purchasing something, I stop playing. It makes me mad. Just let me buy the game outright.

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    #45

    TIL that the character Kirby was named after a lawyer who successfully defended Nintendo against Universal Studios in a copyright dispute over the game Donkey Kong

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    Sara Frazer
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TIL.. I always assumed he was named after the vacuum since he acquires powers by sucking stuff in 😅

    Kim Steffen
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The original name was Donkey Dong (J*p). Needless to say, it was changed.

    Gloomy Mornings
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is this an offensive term? Don't downvote me, I've just never heard the term before.

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    No one
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where's the donkey? Was it really a one letter misprint?

    Sam Trudeau
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kong had become a synonym for "BFG" or "Big Freaking Gorilla" when the DK game came out. It was gonna be a Popeye game (which they could now do if they did it today) but they didn't have the rights

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    #46

    TIL One of the most prominent methods of combatting the Great Fire of London was to blow up any buildings in its path in order to isolate the blaze

    rezikiel Report

    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More "tear down" than blow up. Was a fairly common practice to stop town fires from spreading.

    Melanie Fisher
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Often used with wildfires to create a break, the fire in theory cannot spread further due to the break.

    Ron Man
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same as with forest fires. You remove a section so that the fire can't keep burning that way. It's called a fire break.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's still a commonly used method in industrial fires when the main blaze cannot be controlled.

    Rick Murray
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a field fire nearby a few years ago. Since we're very rural, by the time the firemen turned up it would be a catastrophe, so some of the farmers came over from a neighbouring field and just started to plough a big circle around the fire. Through hedgerows, the road, telephone lines, they just ploughed through the lot. And got that fire contained. By the time les pompiers arrived, it had mostly burnt itself out, but they had to spray a lot of the area anyway in case of cinders.

    Capn Dad
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Didn't work so well in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The rubble caught fire easier than the buildings would have.

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    #47

    TIL that WWII rationing in the UK didn't end until 1954

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    Bartlet for world domination
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the Netherlands, the last rationing (of coffee) ended in 1952.

    Earonn -
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cod liver oil and the orange juice.... IYKYK

    KazzaHazza
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, it wasn’t like all the farms sprung food overnight the day the war ended. No doubt it would have taken years for it to get back to ‘normal’.

    #48

    TIL In the UK, the Home Secretary was required to attend Royal Births, to verify an heir to the throne was legitimately born.

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    Michael Largey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Er, the question of legitimacy is determined at the initialization of the pregnancy, not it's conclusion.

    Bailey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With royal births it's both. There was a concern that if the child was stillborn (or a pregnancy faked), another baby could be brought in and passed off as the royal child.

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    Melanie Fisher
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In years gone by maybe, it wasn't just the Home Secretary but half the court but I don't think they do anymore. Could you imagine Theresa May tipping up at the delivery suite to watch Prince George be born or Sajid Javid when Prince Louis was born, can't see Catherine allowing that somehow.

    Jrog
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was common in all the Royal families, not only UK. In some cases, it was just a government representative. In Spain it was a council of midwives of noble birth, and a notary. In others, such as France or Prussia, it was a full Royal Cabinet of physicians and noblemen; In Austria it was physicians, noblemen and an official record keeper; In Russia it was all the above plus a bunch of clergymen thrown in for good measure.

    Jrog
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why? It was a form of guaranteeing against succession disputes, accusations of child swap (to hide and replace heirs with severe genetic defects, or stillborn heirs), and confirmation of the heir being sane and healthy, a major stability driver in any kingdom.

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    #49

    Smartphone with a red case lying on a wooden surface, representing daily dose of useless yet fascinating knowledge concept. TIL: Early iPhone users in the US who did not specify a billing preference were mailed incredibly detailed bills of around 50-100 pages long from AT&T, itemizing every data transfer including background traffic for email, web browsing, and text messaging. One woman even got a 300 page bill.

    zahrul3 , Josh Hallett/Flickr Report

    MistBorn
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can we bring that back ?

    adi cosmin
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Divorce rate would triple cause of the dating apps

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    #50

    Man wearing glasses and a black shirt explaining 82 facts for daily dose of useless yet fascinating knowledge. TIL that Miyazaki Hidetaka, the creator of Dark Souls, Sekiro, and Elden Ring, was banned from playing video games by his parents until he entered university.

    LiamLovesSumo , Game Informer Report

    Plentyofoomph
    Community Member
    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No wonder his games are difficult. For him, just the act of playing a game itself was a challenge

    Anthony Elmore
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't remember if it was him, or someone else that works for the studio that makes Dark Souls, but I absolutely love a comment that was made about the tendancy of Dark Souls games to always have a poison swamp area that players absolutey hate. This is heavy paraphrasing, but it went something along the lines of "I know players always hate the poison swamps, so I try to avoid adding them, but then I get these great idea for areas and I start designing them, and then I finish and look at it and realize 'Aw d**n it! It's another poison swamp!'"

    #51

    TIL before Julius Caesar's reforms, the 355 day Roman year required a special month every few years to line the calendar back up with the seasons. The month was often enacted or cancelled for political reasons, so every year people outside Rome had to wait weeks to learn what the actual date was.

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    Michael Largey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you're using Roman numerals, the math is gonna be tough. Divide CCCLV by XII.

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    #52

    TIL that the term 'Sneakers' originally referred to how the rubber soles of the shoe made them much quieter when walking than hard leather soles of dress shoes.

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    Plentyofoomph
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...well, yeah. What else would it mean?

    Partypants
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't know that,never really thought about it.

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    Charlie the Cat
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What you call sneakers I call trainers (UK). Most of us don't train in them though.

    Rinso The Red
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Relatively few in the US use them to "sneak" either

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    Capn Dad
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I heard that it was because the VC wore them to sneak up on US troops.

    #53

    TIL that the world did not agree on how long a nautical mile was until 1929 when the nautical mile was fixed at just 1851.8 meters. It is the result of dividing the earth´s longitude in 360 degrees and each degree in 60 minutes. 1 nautical mile = 1 mitute

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    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not that they didn't know how long it was, just that it was itself a standard unit and they didn't feel any need to define it in other terms. The definition was fixed, so there was no disagreement about how long it was, 1929 was simply the first time there was an internationally agreed conversion into metres, the French had done such a conversion much earlier. Oh, and the 1929 agreed measure was exactly 1852 metres; later calculations varied and that standard measure was effectively replaced over time with the more accurate 1853m that we use today.

    Ilan Elron
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I learned in radar school, in the early 1960s, that it was 1853 meters!

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    #54

    TIL the second ever DC superhero was Zatara the Magician, introduced in Action Comics 1 in 1938 alongside Superman. Zatara’s daughter Zatanna would not be introduced for another 30 years.

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    Capn Dad
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    His big magic power was to say the spells backwards. Actually, he said the words of a command backwards, and that somehow made it a spell.

    #55

    TIL of Jevons Paradox, an economic theory stating that as the efficiency of a resource improves, the overall consumption of that resource increases rather than decreases

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    tameson
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has historically been a major factor in climate change, specifically because of the increase in use of coal and petroleum. The same thing happens with traffic planing. They put in new roads to decrease traffic but more people use the new roads (because they get to where they want to go faster) so the traffic just increases.

    #56

    TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years

    AthenOwl Report

    Otorgar
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The author was naive, but the editor was really at fault for publishing it without proper review

    Fellfromthemoon
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was properly reviewed, by medical professiomals and researchers in the biomedical field. Not mathematician.

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    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He then went on to invent the wheel...

    MistBorn
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Didn’t he learn it in high school ?

    Rusty
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s also the method of cutting the paper out along the curve and weighing it on a lab scale. 😁

    Ace
    Community Member
    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I recall being confused by my statistician users insisting on a certain calculation to derive the AUC. It involved taking the individual data points, approximating to a curve and then using a particular (software) function to derive the area under it. I'm not a statistician but I can do maths, so I told them it was all a complete waste of time, since all that was needed to get an accurate result was to add up the actual values. (They insisted, so I did it their way eventually).

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    #57

    Man in a dark suit and blue shirt gesturing passionately while presenting intriguing facts about daily knowledge on stage. TIL that actor Chaz Palminteri was fired from his job as a bouncer at a nightclub when he refused entry to a top talent agent who was having a party thrown for him there. This led to him writing the play A Bronx Tale, based on his own life, for himself to star in as he was not being offered work.

    astarisaslave , BroadwayWorld Report

    Mark Alexander
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "It was Frank Sinatra." -- Chaz Palmenteri as angel in "Down to Earth" about Eugene Levy being fired for not immediatly seating someone in Heaven. Now I wonder if Palmenteri got it in the script.

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    #58

    TIL the US Dept of Transportation values a human life at 13.7 million dollars in a statistical sense, when evaluating potential safety standards.

    uncle-iroh-11 Report

    Francois
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good to hear it is not a couple of grands, but a decent amount. I wonder what the Trump adminstration would value a human life; a lot less than that for sure.

    Greymom
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m afraid that , at least for that administration, it greatly depends on where you and your ancestors hail from!🙄

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    Lee Gilliland
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They actually put a price on each finger, toe, limb, you get the idea.

    Ron Man
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They don't "value" it at that; that's the average settlement across the US for accidental deaths.

    David Shaw
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They kind of do. The figure is used to decide if safety enhancements are "worth" doing - if the projected costs of the work are than this figure per projected life saved, then the work is deemed uneconomical and is nut carried out.

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    #59

    TIL Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbour, once studied at Harvard University in the United States and was appointed naval attaché to the Japanese embassy in Washington.

    Newez Report

    Michael Largey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The day after Pearl Harbor, when Yamamoto was told that no American carriers were lost in the attack (because none were present), he announced to his staff "Gentlemen, we have just lost the war."

    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    but struth......he makes crackin fishing lures

    Ravenkbh
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    2 months ago

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    "We should have Chow Mein for dinner"

    Dragons Exist
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chow mein is Chinese you dum‍‍ba‍‍ss, if you're gonna be racist then at least get basic facts right (or, better yet, don't be racist)

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    #60

    TIL that in 2014, David Hester filed a lawsuit against A&E Television due to expensive items being planted in storage closets in the show before auctions in the show Storage Wars. He was let go in response.

    Physical_Hamster_118 Report

    Kristiina Männiste
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So thats why they always find something expensive. We used to watch and comment that on our familys storage spaces one would make like 15 dollars total.

    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mike F is correct. Hester was in on it all along.

    Ace
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never actually watched it, but just from previews or clips I always assumed that valuable things were deliberately placed there. I thought that was the whole basis of the show?

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    Deeelite
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always thought it was odd to have $1,000's worth of jewelry shoved next to a 99 cent basket of dirty clothes

    Mike F
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He played it just like the rest of them.

    Wang Zhuang
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to watch Storage Wars, Hester was such a d****e

    #61

    TIL in 2009, Ken Basin became the first contestant on the U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to miss the million-dollar question. He debated what he would regret more: walking away with $500K and being right or answering it and being wrong. He risked it, lost $475K, and left with $25K.

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    Tim Gearing
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ya gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em."

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    BookFanatic
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still remember the episode where the guy got to the million-dollar question and asked to phone a friend. He called his dad and said "Hi, dad, I just wanted to let you know I'm going to win a million bucks!" Proceeded to answer the question correctly.

    Mimi M
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's the game and the final question: https://millionaire.fandom.com/wiki/Ken_Basin

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    #62

    Person holding a game controller with colorful keyboards and a snack bowl under vibrant lighting for daily dose facts. TIL that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in Vatican City, meaning 0.39% of the country's population has played the game

    altrightobserver , Freepik (not the actual photo) Report

    Tim Gearing
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only because you can end Arch Devil Raphael. 🧙Cast a level 5 enchantment spell Hold Monster is a good strategy

    Rob Williams
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not necessarily...I've bought games and never got around to playing them!

    Scott Rackley
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both of them respecced Shadowheart

    Phantom Phoenix
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Sold 2 copies in Vatican City" doesn't necessarily mean 2 (or only 2) people have played it. One or both might’ve been sent as birthday presents to relatives; alternatively, they could've been borrowed and played by more of the city's population.

    #63

    TIL that the U.S. Coast Guard was originally operated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. It was originally created in 1790 at the request of Alexander Hamilton to collect customs duties at U.S. seaports and was the United States’ only armed maritime service until the U.S. Navy started in 1798.

    smrad8 Report

    Otorgar
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always the d**n taxes.

    Tanya Mattson
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And wasn't it because of taxes that America fought a war ans split from Great Britain?

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    Geoffrey Scott
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And is usually, in peacetime part of the Dept Of Transportation. In war times, DOD(or Dept. of war) :P.

    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The US had a navy during the American Revolution so it didn't start in 1798.

    Bartlet for world domination
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While the U.S. did have naval forces during the American Revolution, the formal establishment of the Department of the Navy occurred in 1798.

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    #64

    TIL that just a little over one-third of Americans floss every day

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    Babs Ishkabibble
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do, but that's only because I understand how bacteria colonize, and I'd like to keep all of my teeth.

    Rusty
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I, too, want to bite the dust with my own teeth … in a distant future 😉

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    #65

    TIL in 2010 the principal of West Sylvan Middle School in Oregon banned hugging after observing that girls were hugging 6 or 7 times between classes, students were arriving late due to excessive hugging, it was being used as a game to provoke arousal in boys, and, at least once, as a form of mockery

    Forward-Answer-4407 Report

    Roxy222uk
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course anything a teenage girl does is about trying to arouse boys. I can’t think of a single other reason why a girl would do anything.

    Partypants
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I recall bra straps in high school, apparently it was our fault they show through our shirts and very arousing indeed. Just so snappable and "boys will be boys."

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    dan s
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A light breeze on another continent could provoke arousal in teenage boys.

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    #66

    TIL the movie Boyhood (2014) was filmed from 2002 to 2013 and began filming without a completed script, with only basic plot points and the ending written initially. Director Richard Linklater developed the script throughout production and incorporated changes he saw in the actors into the script.

    flamingoooz Report

    Sam Trudeau
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Marvel comics have been doing that since the 60s.

    Jrog
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He had all the parts in mind, but found the LinkLater.

    Plentyofoomph
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That must be why no one remembers that film lol

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    #67

    TIL in 1992-93, four children died and hundreds of people were sickened by an E.Coli outbreak linked to undercooked beef at the Jack In the Box fast food chain.

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    Roxy222uk
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What an exciting thing to learn and look forward to sharing

    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    jack in the box.........lol..australian interpretation is STD

    Kim Steffen
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone in Seattle held a sign reading "Eat Shiit and die".

    #68

    TIL As part of a live-fire test of a nuclear air-to-air rocket, 5 U.S. air crewmen agreed to stand directly beneath the nuclear explosion to prove it would not affect ground populations

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    #69

    Man in casual golf attire swinging a club on a grassy course, illustrating facts for daily dose of fascinating knowledge. TIL In 2012, golfer Jose Manuel Lara was disqualified from the BMW International Open due to a "serious breach of etiquette" after his caddie realized on the second hole that they were carrying 15 golf clubs (one more than allowed) and attempted to hide the extra club in a bush to avoid a penalty.

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    Francois
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As if that one club is going to make all the difference in a match.

    William Sutton
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't remember who exactly, but one pro golfer back in the early 2000s self-reported that his child had left a plastic toy golf club in his bag, and technically that put him over the limit. I've never appreciated golf, but it IS a game based on gentlemanly competition, despite what the golfer in chief may think...

    General Anaesthesia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trump's caddy drops golf balls in advantageous places so Trump doesn't have to cheat.

    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    firing squad at dawn.....the nerve of some caddies

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    #70

    TIL in 1979 an armed group seized Grand Mosque of Mecca, taking hostages. They were conservative islamists led by a self-proclaimed prophet.

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    Spencer's slave no longer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That armed "group" consisted of hundreds of Islamic fundamentals from all over the world. Thousands of worshippers were trapped in the Grand Mosque compound from 20/11/1979 until 04/12/1979. Saudi security forces and French Special Forces fought the militants inside the Mosque in order to end the seige. At least 117 lives were lost.

    Janissary35680
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was in SA (teaching EFL way up north for Northrop Aviation) when the attack occurred. Northrop had access to newfeeds that most others didn't at the time and from the reports, it was clear that One Should Not Mess with Saudi Security or French Special forces. It reportedly took many months to patch up all the bullet holes afterwards.

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    #71

    TIL that Carlo Gambino, namesake of the Gambino crime family and one of the most powerful Mafia bosses in US history, only spent 22 months in prison during a 50-year criminal career.

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    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and he still reckoned he was hard done by

    #72

    TIL that after leaving the White House, Harry Truman was pulled over on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for driving too slowly in the passing lane

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    Ghostchaplain16
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I grew up within 10 miles of Harry Truman's home in Independence, Missouri. In 1974, I purchased a car to use to go back and forth to college and the previous owner was President Truman. I still have a picture of that car in one of my grandmother's scrapbooks. My grandmother said the car was "ugly as sin" until she learned who the previous owner was. Then she promptly wanted a ride and instructed me to drive all through the area where her neighbors lived so she could call them later to tell them whose car it had been that they saw her riding in. LOL!

    Lee Gilliland
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This wouldn't be the car they took on their trip to NYC would it. I just finished _Harry & Bess' Excellent Adventure_ and I loved it!

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    #73

    TIL that George Washington never actually served in the British Army. Though he sought a commission in the Army, which would have afforded him prestigious privileges and status, he only served in the Virginia Militia prior to the Revolutionary War.

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    #74

    TIL that Janet Hubert, the original Aunt Viv from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", wasn't fired from the show. Instead, she declined a new contract that would have prevented her from taking other acting jobs, believing it was an attempt to "put her in her place" due to existing friction on the set.

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    T'Mar of Vulcan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What they did to her was shameful.

    Wang Zhuang
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Janet Hubert had beef with the star, Will Smith, so she was ousted. They eventually reconciled on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion show a few years back

    #75

    TIL Australians have a diet trend called “Kangatarianism” that focuses on eating only kangaroo meat for environmental reasons

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    Spencer's slave no longer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Half a story again! Kangatarianism is a diet mainly followed by vegetarians who include kangaroo meat in their diet because they consider it "more ethical" than farmed meat.

    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Err, so not vegetarians at all then?

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    Plentyofoomph
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I lived in Australia for 40 years, and ive never heard of this

    Rahb in Oz
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Delicious meat, but difficult to cook because of its low fat content.

    Beth H
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is it like if you could compare the taste to something more common?

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    S Mi
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One would think they'd also include invasive species like rabbit and wild boar

    Huddo's sister
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In some places you can buy camel meat, which is also an invasive species. People used to eat rabbit all the time, but it has gone out of favour (my uncle used to catch rabbits using ferrets on the farm).

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    azubi
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's fairer because they can defend themselves

    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what the the..........BS..............we prefer to sell roo meat to the world as "beef"

    Huddo's sister
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is very rich in iron and has a strong taste.

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    #76

    TIL that Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character and not Mickey Mouse.

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    Francois
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who the heck is Pete?

    MoBeLa
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just searched, and it says, "Pete is traditionally depicted as the villainous arch-nemesis of Mickey Mouse, and was made notorious for his repeated attempts to kidnap Minnie Mouse. Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character, having debuted in the cartoon Alice Solves the Puzzle in 1925. He originally bore the appearance of an anthropomorphic bear, but with the advent of Mickey in 1928, he was defined as a cat. "

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    Jennifer Plumley Williams
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pegleg Pete the cat - he was the 'bad guy' in Steamboat Willie' but predated that as he appeared in the Oswald cartoons. He went on to be Mickey's nemesis in the cartoon shorts of the 30's and 40's, Donald's neighbor in the comic strips of the same era, and Goofy's neighbor in Goof Troop and the Goofy Movie.

    #77

    TIL in the late 1990s, McDonald's began implementing its "Made For You" system into its restaurants, which did away with a decades-old process of making sandwiches by the batch ahead of time and putting them in warming bins.

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    Otorgar
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I loved those burgers from the warmer, they were real comfort food.

    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure that the last time I ate in a McDonalds, admittedly probably ten years ago, there was still a line of perhaps four or five pre-made burgers of the most popular items.

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    #78

    TIL that the primary nuclear reactor design in Canada (CANDU) is unable to be licensed in America or the EU as they forbid reactors with Positive Void Coefficients

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    Michael Largey
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Positive void coefficients have always been the bane of my existence.

    Spencer's slave no longer
    Community Member
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Romania is in the EU and has two CANDU reactors with plans for two more. The EU does not forbid reactors with Positive Void Coefficients but they do actively discourage them. They are also not forbidden in the US.

    T'Mar of Vulcan
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because Reactor 4 at Chernobyl used an RBMK reactor with a positive void coefficient and we all know what happened there. (A positive void coefficient relies on a 'space' in the reactor not being filled with water which absorbs neutrons.)

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    #79

    TIL the Charlotte Hornets apologized after giving a child a PS5, only to take it away off camera and exchange it for a jersey. In a statement, the team said the incident was an "on-court skit that missed the mark" and that they would give the child the PS5 and a VIP experience to a future game.

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    MoBeLa
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An “on-court skit”??? Sounds more like a blatant rip-off. Of a child, no less.

    bernie bulk
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    okay for us non americans...whats a bloody PS5

    Jane Doe-Doe
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about 🤷‍♀️

    #80

    TIL that two skinny tires on one wheel are better in the rain and no worse in dry conditions than a standard tire

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    Plentyofoomph
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then why aren't we doing that?

    Jan Rosier
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    because people are lazy : tyre pressure would need to be checked daily especially on the tires on the inside, because on tire going flat or punctured will make the istuation very unsafe

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    Jared C
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the 90s they used to sell tires with a very deep center V shaped groove in them that looked almost like 2 tires on the same rimm advertised to prevent hydroplaning. I had a couple of sets of them. Goodyear Aquatreads.

    Sofia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suppose because are less prone to aquaplaning (idk if is correct english) but they give on all the other condition less grip and drains less water... so...

    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you get two tyres on one wheel?

    Daniel Atkins
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My guess would be like they do on the rear of heavy trucks. Two wheel rims bolted to the hub would be easier to fix and mount.

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    Francois
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So two tyres are better one bigger tyre.

    #81

    TIL that throughout human history the average age of having a baby has been 23.2 for women and 30.7 for men

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    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Allegedly the study showing this is based on all sorts of factors (like inheriting certain genetic mutations/damage that come with age) from individuals that indicate the age of their parents, so it would be the latter.

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    Mimi M
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quite an accomplishment for the men.

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    #82

    TIL poker players used to call an off-suit Ace-King an "Anna Kournikova". This is for two reasons: first is that it's her initials, and much like Anna herself, an off-suit AK looks really good but rarely ever wins.

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    Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭
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    2 months ago

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    AK rarely ever wins? This person does not know a lot about poker

    Apatheist Account2
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Indeed, it's reckoned to be the 5th best starting hand. Nothing wins more frequently than two aces, although that's only about 33% of the time, so I suppose one could argue that it's less than 30% chance of winning and is hence "rare". Other hand nicknames include Motown (Jacks and fives - get it?).

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