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‘Today I Learned’: 50 People Share Fascinating Things They Didn’t Learn At School (New Pics)
Interview With Expert
Every single day is an opportunity to learn something new. But even if you’re not actively reading scientific studies or in-depth socio-economic analyses, you can still pick up a lot of new information just by spending time online.
And if you ever wanted to share all those interesting tidbits of knowledge with everyone else, well, the massively popular ‘Today I Learned’ online group might be the perfect place to do it. Its members post the most interesting and unusual facts about the world that they heard about just recently. We’ve collected some of the freshest ones to share with you, Pandas. Scroll down to check them out (and don’t forget to take notes so you can impress your friends later).
Bored Panda wanted to get to grips with how we can all continue to stay curious about the world and how we can check the reliability of scientific claims. So, we reached out to N. Otre Le Vant, the author of ‘On Progress in Physics and Subjectivity Theory’ and the founder of Inisev. He kindly shared his insights with us. You'll find his thoughts below.
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#1
In 2001, a 13-year-old Boy Scout named Cody Clawson went missing for over 18 hours near Yellowstone Park. Clawson resorted to using his belt buckle to signal to planes overhead. Eventually, he got a pilot’s attention - and that pilot was none other than Harrison Ford - who rescued Clawson.
N. Otre Le Vant researches progress in science and uses a pseudonym on purpose because he thinks his name is irrelevant. In his book, 'On Progress in Physics and Subjectivity Theory,' he makes the point that it's the ideas that count, not the people who came up with them. "Just because someone is likable or not doesn't mean all their ideas are good or bad," he told Bored Panda via email. "We should separate the art from the artist."
According to the researcher, we're all born with the gift of curiosity, but some of us end up losing it as we grow older. From his perspective, one reason why we grow less curious about the world is that the social norms that surround us force us into a mindset of accepting things as they are, without question. This means that some people feel pressured to go with the flow of the crowd, switching off their minds.
"We must resist this 'easy way' and keep the playful, challenging, and 'always asking why' approach that was the main reason we learned so many things when we were kids. If we can retain this mindset, we’ll naturally stay curious," N. Otre Le Vant told Bored Panda.
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#2
Despite not having played since 2018, MLB player Andrew Toles has remained under contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers so he can continue receiving mental health treatment for his schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The Shark 1 year ago
I'm glad they let him keep his contract...Speaking as someone quite familiar with mental illness and the constant threat of losing insurance coverage, extreme depression and a grab bag of other issues is a walk in the park compared to bipolar and schizophrenia... I feel for people with that diagnosis. Even more so for those who are undiagnosed or untreated...
Secret Squirrel 1 year ago
This has to do with pension as much as anything. You need a certain number of days to get the best MLB pension, so Dodgers are protecting that.
MisterE 1 year ago
He probably earned under $1M as he only played small parts of 3 seasons with the big league club. After taxes and agent fees, it was probably a few hundred thousand. Sounds like alot, but he was done in about the middle of the 2018 season, so that money is long gone. He has been homeless since.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I just checked, he's been living with his father since 2020.
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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
Poor guy. I can't understand how people someone with severe mental health issues to pay for treatment.
Eugenia 1 year ago (edited)
It's sad that he does not receive treatment for free, as every citizen should. At least in Italy we do. Yes, when we pay taxes we pay for our health system. And yes, if you are poor and do not pay any tax you receive free treatments, exams and d***s. Only wealthier people pay a small fee for exams and d***s. Hospital is free for all. This also includes illegal immigrants and homeless people
Charm Hockaday 1 year ago
Be quiet or you'll have the anti-universal healthcare zealots clutching their pearls.
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#3
In 2015, a woman's parachute failed to deploy while skydiving, surviving with life-threatening injuries. Days before, she survived a mysterious gas leak at her house. Both were later found to be intentional murder plots by her husband.
glowworm2 1 year ago
I agree completely. I was not expecting that plot twist at the end.
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Castles 1 year ago
Seen this on Netflix, she completely couldn’t fathom the thought her husband was trying to kill her.
Siobhan Gournay 1 year ago
Yep! I think she is still, to a degree, struggling to accept it even now
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SuperChicken 1 year ago
🎶Kept thinking, I could never live, without you by my side...
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Hannah Taylor 1 year ago
Not necessarily. I've seen some far-out made-for-TV movies based on true stories (The Burning Bed, for example).
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We asked the researcher for his thoughts on how the average person can determine whether the scientific claims they spot online are reliable or not. He was happy to shed some light on this.
"The scientific method can be summarized as follows: a theory is conceived (supported by evidence) and then exposed to attacks by other scientists. Eventually, only the theories that are still standing after the avalanches of attacks are considered as 'truth'—not as ultimate truth, but only as long as no refutation is successful, or a better theory is found. This approach has proven to be very robust, and we owe almost all of our modern technology and standard of life to it," the author of 'On Progress in Physics and Subjectivity Theory' explained.
"Therefore, any theory that deviates from this scientific method should be regarded skeptically. Examples include theories that are so fuzzy they cannot be refuted, or those claimed to be true without having undergone a thorough scientific review."
#4
In the 1960s, Washington D.C.'s poor areas were plagued by severe rat problems until Julius Hobson began catching them by trapping enormous rats, and attaching the cage to his car’s roof and drove to affluent districts where he warned of setting the rodents free, spurring rat control measures.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
This is the pettiness that we need to implement to get the changes we need.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
I'm thoroughly convinced that the only emotion that sets the wealthy into action towards equity is fear.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
The more I read about this guy, the more I think this should be a movie. Hobson was a hell of a character.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
No, no, the poor rats will probably get indigestion! Send cassowaries, the demon birds will be fine.
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Heather Vandegrift 1 year ago
Only way to get rich people to use their money for the good of all is to threaten to have the same things that happens to the "peasants", happen to them
#5
On April 18 1930, the BBC's evening news report simply said "there is no news" and then played piano music for the entire segment.
Mark 1 year ago
On that day, a fire killed 118 people in a Romanian church, a British Indian armoury was raided and set on fire, and a typhoon hit the Philippines. Quite important imo
Elizabeth Stephens 1 year ago
World news! A big thing that is able to be researched and reported on daily in -checks notes- 1930
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
There was also a wonderfully UK-centric headline on the front page one of the national newspapers at around the same time. Dense fog was covering the English Channel and right up the North Sea as far as Scotland, stopping all cross-channel/cross-sea ferries between the UK and mainland Europe. The headline? "Fog Blankets English Channel: Continent Isolated".
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
Now that's worth tuning in for. I get up everyday at 4.30am and i switch the TV on for either the radio or euro news. I've stopped doing it because talk about starting the day depressed. I just put on an oldie channel and listen to music
#6
In 2018, a K***er whale named Tahlequah, known to researchers as J35, grieved over her dead calf by carrying it across the ocean for 17 days and over 1,000 miles, refusing to let it sink.
Synsepalum 1 year ago
She later went onto have a healthy calf! But yeah, that was gut-wrenching.
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Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
And some people still believe animals have no feeling whereas it has been established by science they have the same nervous and hormonal systems as humans.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Indeed. "Animals don't feel pain like humans" .... "Let's research pain by using animals "
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Pyla 1 year ago
She’s a Puget Sound and Salish sea orca. They rely on salmon and unlike the transient orcas, do not predate on marine mammals. So, salmon runs are vital to this diminishing group. And before you lump all orcas together, this feeding behavior is an old separation, possibly 100k years ago, so while not a different species, they aren’t able to just go hunting for seals and otters.
Matthew Lindeman 1 year ago
Compared to Kristi Noem, who hated her 14-month old puppy so much she shot her in gravel pit. 😒
Regina Holt 1 year ago
OMG, OMG, OMG!!!!!! She should never be allowed to have any pets in the future. That poor dog just needed training.
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Fergus Corgi 1 year ago
I had 2 pets that grew up together. One died & the other one just started wasting away. I took her to the vet & they couldn't find anything wrong with her. She passed just a few months after the first one. I swear it was from sadness 😔
That being said, he stressed that we shouldn't ignore new ideas that haven't (yet) been peer-reviewed.
"After all, that’s how all ideas start out. However, these ideas must never be claimed to be true, but regarded as ‘interesting hypotheses’ at best. Those who assert early-stage ideas as definitely true demonstrate a lack of understanding of how easy it is to be wrong and don’t exhibit the level of humility required for progress in science."
#7
Muhammad Ali's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is on a wall instead of on the ground. This is because Ali, a devout Muslim, did not want people stepping on the name "Muhammad".
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I can respect that. Glad whoever runs the Walk of fame these days makes these considerations.
Data1001 1 year ago
Those stars on the Walk Of Fame are all bought and paid for, so they probably told them "It's that or nothing."
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Mr. Ali's star was presented in 2002. Considering the politics of the time, I'm doubly surprised his wishes were taken into account.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I liked Muhammad Ali, but why would he be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Wim Cossement 1 year ago
Ah, Momo (and Islam) that always treat children and women with the respect that they deserve. I mean, the guy waited for 3 years until Aisha was 9 before having sex with her, gotta respect that!
Definitely a Human 1 year ago
If it's sinful to walk on a name (even in a different language, and when it's not being used to represent that holy figure) why is ok to just decide you're going to use that name and do so to get famous form punching people in the face? Religion is so weird.
Margo Evans 1 year ago
He needn’t have worried. the Muslim terrorists sh it on that name all the time.
#8
Dr. Jessie Lazear, an American physician who studied yellow fever under the famous Dr. Walter Reed. He allowed himself to be bitten by an infected mosquito, and died of the disease himself 17 days later, confirming how the disease was spread. His sacrifice saved millions.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
Today, they would say it's just a fever and shame people for wearing bug spray
cugel. 1 year ago
Some say there are no viruses, harmful bacteria or other pathogens, it's all just bad diet.
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barn owls ️ 1 year ago
Dr. Walter Reed is from my hometown! We have his house preserved, his parents house, and he’s buried there
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
That can’t be; surely you’ve heard of the Walter Reed hospital? That’s where I wanna go if I get seriously ill.
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Pamela Christie 1 year ago
Today his name is virtually unknown, yet plenty of people revere Ronald Reagan.
Nykky 1 year ago
It's so sad that people need to go to such extreme lengths sometimes to get a point across. Starving themselves, setting themselves on fire, this. Why can people not just see their theories and understand "yep, that sounds like a plausible guess, let's do something about it and see how well it works"
#9
Weather forecasters tend to exaggerate the chance of rain because if it rains when they said it wouldn't, people get angry, but if it doesn't rain when they said it would, they are happy. This is known as "wet bias."
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
That 10% or 20% is to be able to say either, "I told you so," or "Well, it was only a 20% chance."
Jack Burton 1 year ago (edited)
The % figure is about the part of concerned Land not the chance or risk of raining.
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Darryl King 1 year ago
I suspected it wasn't true but it's nice to have that confirmed by a professional. Thanks.
Load More Replies... Darryl King 1 year ago
In Ireland we don't check to see if it's going to rain. It is going to rain. We just need to know if it's light or heavy rain.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
And here I am the rain lover who gets upset when they promise me rain but I don't get it!!
Darryl King 1 year ago
The County I live in gets the most rain on the island of Ireland, which is one hell of an achievement. Summer last year was a week in May. It was warm and sunny 2 days ago and most people I saw still had a coat on. We do not trust the shiny hot yellow thing that makes the sky blue and not grey like God designed it. It will not fool us again.
Oerff On Tour 1 year ago
The chance of rain is always 50%. Either it rains or not. Mathematically correct, statistically not so much
Judes 1 year ago
Statistics is a branch of mathematics. If it's statistically incorrect, it's also mathematically incorrect.
Load More Replies...Many people fall prey to the illusory truth effect, a cognitive bias where the more often we’re exposed to information, the more plausible we think it is. In other words, repetition makes us believe something is (more likely to be) real, even if the information is thoroughly false. Even knowing about this effect doesn’t make us immune to it… but having more awareness is always a plus.
It would take too much time and effort to double-check every single claim, so it’s best to focus your energy on checking the reliability of the outlet. Reliable organizations always show the evidence behind the facts. They also tend to disclose any conflict of interest, use multiple sources to back up their claims, and are quick to update their information if they make a mistake. Even the best sources will make mistakes sometimes, and nobody is completely objective, but some outlets have a solid track record of reliability, while others peddle opinions as facts.
#10
There was a girls dance camp nearby when the atomic Trinity test occurred. The girls played in the falling white ash. 10 of the 12 girls died before 40.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
First, that's horrifying. Second, now I want to know what happened to the other two...
glowworm2 1 year ago (edited)
Unless I stand corrected, there’s one sole survivor of them left, Barbara Kent. She’s survived skin cancer and several other cancers.
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dollh h 1 year ago
There were quite a few residents nearby. No one warned them. It didn't even occur to them to try warming everyone. The government is just now, in 2024, getting them the help they need. So much cancer, it's heartbreaking.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
It may not have occurred to them, but they did warm everyone, within a certain distance. I know it was a typo but I had to run with it, haha. But on a more serious note, a warning should have been issued at the very least. So many lives cut short due to cancer and other health issues, it is heartbreaking.
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Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)
During the filming of the movie The Conqueror, in Nevada, the cast and crew were exposed to radiation as it was shot near a nuclear test site. Of the 220 people involved, 91 developed cancer, and 46 died.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Apparently they thought it was snow, so they were just rolling around all in it. Pretty sad.
Major Harris 1 year ago
read the book, "the day we bombed utah". it will have you wanting to pull your hair out and scream at the government. it is about how the fall out from this test also blew into southern utah and all the health issues from livestock and humans resulting from it. the atomic commission were twisting themselves into knots on how these issues were not from the radiation from this test.
Kamis Dewey 1 year ago
Yup, my grandpa and many of his siblings died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis after growing up in southern Utah during the bomb testing.
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They knew the risk. Watch or read Oppenheimer, or any of the documentaries about the Manhattan project. There were scientists in tears after the last successful test, as well as those cheering. One officer called his daughter who lived in a town down wind from the test site. He told her to take her family and leave. No other people in the town were told anything. Many died young of cancer.
dollh h 1 year ago
Also read about the Downwinders, it's incredibly tragic, and still going on.
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Glenn Cuneo 1 year ago
..." they were so excited that they got into bathing suits and played in a nearby river and were pressing the snow into their faces, into their skin, and that it absorbed really quickly...." The "Snow?" Fallout from the test.
#11
Aldgate Pump, a historic water pump held as marking the start of London’s East End. Long famed for its “sparkling, agreeable” water, it was later found that this rich mineral taste came from the flesh and bones of nearby cemeteries leeching into the water. The tainted water killed hundreds.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I think OP is mixing up Aldgate Pump with the Broad Street pump. The Aldgate Pump is the traditional border between London and East London. The Broad Street pump was the site of a massive cholera outbreak that killed hundreds of people.
PFD 1 year ago
I guessed so too but it seems unclear. The OP didn't make the "mistake", if mistake it is: the Wikipedia entry describes the event and situation, as do many other websites. But the many, many sites that talk about it (including the ones given as sources in the Wikipedia entry) don't look especially well-researched. In addition, someone writing for a Jack the Ripper tour site (history click bait) claims to have found that the whole story traces back to a single web article from the early 2000s, with no sign of anything in the historical record. That's also a dodgy source, but... I think you're right to smell a rat.
Load More Replies... G A 1 year ago
Was this the one they took the handle off and mortality rates dropped severely?
rullyman 1 year ago
That was the Broad Street pump in Soho, destroyed by John Snow
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Chesham, a market town just outside London, used to be famous for its Spa water which is naturally sparkling and full of minerals. However people who flocked to the outlet started to get really unusual illnesses and they realised the water had rerouted through the old churchyard and the contagious diseases of the people who were buried there. You can still drink the water - just closer to the source - but it's reputation as a Spa town took a major hit.
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
"The tainted water killed hundreds" which in turn supplied more mineral tasting water.
martin734 1 year ago
No, that is incorrect. It was the Broad street pump that killed people not the Aldgate pump.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I just envisioned the pump raising its lever, which is holding a club....
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#12
Viggo Mortensen wore his Russian gangster make up tattoos to a Russian restaurant while filming Eastern Promises. The Russian diners fell silent out of fear until Viggo identified himself and said the tattoos were for a movie. After that he removed the tattoos after every workday.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
Factoid; Viggo was married to Exene of the band X and has recorded 3 albums with Buckethead. He also adopted one of the horses used in the movie Hidalgo.
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago (edited)
That film is amazing. It was so underrated. He was fantastic in it.
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
Indeed! The fight scene in the bathhouse is the most scariest and realistic! I read that Viggo had to take time off to heal so his bruises would not be seen as the makeup artist said it would take a lot of makeup to cover them up which is why that scene took longer to make.
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Great movie, and the fact that people like his character exist is terrifying...
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#13
The Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: poor people buy cheap products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more expensive items.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Carboard souls so you can feel the cobblestones well enough to know which street you're on.
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Nianudd 1 year ago
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
cugel. 1 year ago
The poor person only buys 3 pairs, uses tape to keep them sort of intact for as long as possible, and sometimes just puts up with wet feet.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
This theory, plus underpaid part time employees with no benefits, is the reason for the success of Walmart.
Nonplussed Puss 1 year ago
Aided in large part by taxpayers subsidizing Walmart. Social benefits to massively underpaid workers allow Walmart to avoid paying living wages; you and I do it for them.
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Bill Swallow 1 year ago
A friend of mine came up with words to live by, to which I try and adhere whenever possible - "Cheap Stuff Is Too Damn Expensive".
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Michael Smith 1 year ago
Yes! I bought a $5 umbrella and it lasted for about 3 months. Part of that three months it had already torn but was still usable. How much do I have to pay for am umbrella that last more than 3 months per $5? It's impossible to tell! I see an umbrella for $50, but it still looks like a plastic/fabric top held together by metal, and I can't tell which part would fail first.
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Octopuses deliberately throw shells at each other. Researchers found that 66% of throws were made by females, often in response to mating attempts. For a creature with no thumbs or rotator cuffs, they had a 17% hit rate.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Remember that octopus guards their eggs until they hatch to the point that the momtopus dies while guarding the young ones. So mating is definitely a life or death decision that you wouldn't make lightly
Susan Teter 1 year ago
That's fair. And they have 8 chances before they have to re-load. This is where a magazine would come in handy.
John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 1 year ago
I now imagine a gattling octopus. 8 arms in the stages of reloading, aiming, and throwing.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
Recently there was show on about octopuses. They are amazing. They can camouflage themselves were quickly.. If they can't camouflage themselves, they will find a clam or a shell to hide in.
PenguinQueen 1 year ago
So they are capable of deciding that they don't want to mate, then actively fighting against the attempts made. Wow makes you wonder if consent stretches to even more species 😳 and if so then, what are the moral implications of humans allowing it to continue 🤯 DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WE GO
Karen Bird 1 year ago
I swear to god Frank said no! Back off because I've conch with your name written all over it! 🐙 🦑
#15
Chief Baker of the Titanic, Charles Joughin, survived by getting smashed on Brandy and calmly paddling around until dawn when he was rescued by a lifeboat. He was also one of the last people off the ship, riding the stern rail into the sea like an elevator.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
He actually appears in the movie. He is the portly, moustachied man wearing white that is next to Rose and Jack when the ship takes the final plunge. You can even see him taking a swig of the bottle in the deleted scenes.
Michael Donofrio 1 year ago
It seems the man also took heroic actions that probably saved alot of others as well. But we'll always know him as the guy who was saved by booze. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joughin
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Oh that's hella cool! Dude force saves some Karens and Leo DiCaprio could have survived irl if he found one of the floating lounge chairs. How I've not heard about this heroic moron before today???
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Garth 1 year ago
In the 1955 movie, A Night To Remember (without the fictionalized Jack and Rose), Charles Joughin is portrayed much more realistically and supposedly gave up his lifeboat crew seat for a passenger. A Night To Remember is a far better Titanic movie about the real people of the ship and not some made up story.
Carrie Toneff 1 year ago
riding the ship all the way down of a sinking ship would result in you getting sucked down with by the vacuum it creates. So no he didn't
Kara 1 year ago
According what the man said himself, he did ride the stern down like an elevator, step off and swam away from it. This is something that has been stated in multiple articles and documentaries.
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What’s more, you’re not allowed to refer to sources that are more recent than two months. All of this helps ensure that the facts shared on r/todayilearned are as accurate as possible. That, along with the fun factor, is a huge draw for many internet users. It’s education and entertainment (aka edutainment) in one place.
#16
That 'Rocky' (1976) was inspired by the true story of Chuck Wepner, a local boxer from New Jersey who was set up for a dream fight with Muhammad Ali. Wepner quit his job to train full time, and against all odds, lasted 15 rounds with the champ. Stallone was in the audience.
Teachzebra 1 year ago
One big difference between the Rocky movie, and the real life fight is that in the movie Rocky not only goes the distance, but there’s a lot of controversy about whether or not he actually won the fight. Chuck was absolutely beaten to a pulp by Muhammad Ali but was so tough he kept fighting no matter what.
Major Harris 1 year ago
stallone was actually in a bar and was amazed at how all the patrons were rooting for wepner! he was NOT in the seats at the fight.
Brenda 1 year ago
He didn't "rip off" his life. The storyline was INSPIRED by the fact that he fought Ali and went 15 rounds, something no one had ever done. The "story" itself was original.
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A man survived two separate bear attacks in one day, After the first attack, where he was bitten on the head and arms, he played dead to make the bear lose interest. Despite the ordeal, he walked three miles to his truck, only to be attacked again by the same bear and miraculously survived.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
It wasn't two separate bear attacks if it was the same bear. That just means the bear stalked him and tried to finish the job.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year ago
The bear attacked him two times and the times were separated though
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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
If it's an European brown bear and you see it far away, the best tactic is pretending you didn't see them going obnoxious as in loud. Play loud music, be loud yourself and walk slow back indoors. If a brown bear attacks, playing dead works more than anything. If you see baby bears, get the eff out the area and hope the mama isn't interested
David Brown 1 year ago
Im curious if people meat tastes like chicken to bears. Considering how many things taste like chicken to people.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
Probably more like pig flesh. There's a reason that human flesh was called 'long pig' by a cannibalistic tribe whose name I forget.
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Mr. Toast 1 year ago (edited)
How did he know it was the same bear? Did the bear jump him again and go "hi remember me from 3 miles back?" It might have been the bear's brother and the bear's might have exchanged words in passing like "How ye doing?" "Good. Hey I just chewed someone up good but keep an eye out. He may have been playing dead"
#18
The reason why animal shelters are full of huskies, is because of the TV show Game of Thrones. Everyone wanted their own real life dire Wolf, but then abandoned them after they realize how much work they are.
sturmwesen 1 year ago
I don't know how often I had to tell people with no dog experience that working breeds need work. doesn't matter if a sled dog, herding dog or hunting dog.
Mjskywalk 1 year ago
My BIL said it best just yesterday: “a working dog needs a job and if they decide that pulling the stuffing out of your couch is their job, that’s on you.”
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Thee8thsense 1 year ago
I was fortunate to be mom to 2 Siberian Huskies, for 13 and 16 years. The one who lived to 13 was completely blind by 3 years, but so full of joy, and developed an additional sense, allowing him to be quite able to navigate through life. I, of course, didn't rearrange the furniture without guiding him through the changes. Amazing dogs, but not for anyone unwilling to be dedicated to them.
Miss Tinker 1 year ago
I believe a similar thing happened with dalmatians after “101 Dalmatians” ☹️
Bookworm 1 year ago
Just saw a Girl With The Dogs video where she explained that part of the problem with Dalmatians is that the 'piebald' gene that makes them spotted also puts them at high risk for deafness. This risk is slowly being reduced through careful, responsible breeding, but if you try to churn out hundreds of them in a puppy mill, you're going to wind up with a lot of deaf dogs.
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Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
I shudder when l see Alaskan malamutes in Barcelona, where winter is a joke and summers are unbearable.
Bryn 1 year ago
Actually, I'd be more concerned for short nosed breeds than double coated breeds. While it's not great, the double coat does help somewhat.
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JP Doyle 1 year ago
I used to joke I could probably collect my husky's shed fur in the springtime and card, spin, and knit a sweater.
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Every pet is hard work and some more than others. People are so cruel to do that. As much work and expense my pets are i would and could never part with them
Annie 1 year ago
Huskies are also very smart, and they love to "visit" which means they will get out of a fenced yard if they get the chance. My Husky used to get into my purse & pull a single stick of gum out of the pack, though he didn't know how to take off the wrapper.
Thee8thsense 1 year ago
They are smart! I came home one day to hear my neighbor calling over to me "Excuse me, but I watched Blue today turn on the faucet (outdoors), take a drink, and then shut it off!" He had bowls of water all around, but he preferred from the faucet.
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NancyandCharlie Miller 1 year ago
I was owned by a Husky for 9 years, and I've lost count of the number people I "educated" on the realities of owning such a high energy, intelligent, talkative and stubborn breed! People are drawn to their stunning looks, but forget about the responsibility of taking proper care of a working breed.
Which of these featured facts blew your mind the most, Pandas? Have you learned something interesting recently that you’d like to share with everyone else? How do you stay curious about the world when you've got so many responsibilities weighing on you? Tell us all about it in the comments.
#19
287 years is the longest a library book was overdue. While writing a biography on Colonel Robert Walpole in 1956, Prof. John Plumb returned a history book to the Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge after Walpole had checked it out around the year 1667.
CheshirePhrogg 1 year ago
My library maxed out at $10 and during the holidays you could pay that with a canned or pet food donation
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
So I need to break this down Barney style, to try and help myself to comprehend this. Col. Walpole borrowed a history book in roughly 1667, from the Sidney Sussex College and apparently he never returned the book. In 1956 Professor Plumb, in the library with a candlestick...Oops got sidetracked, lol. But this Prof. was writing a biography on Col. Walpole and somehow came across the history book, that the same Col. Walpole, had checked out from the college library, hundreds of years prior. When Plumb was done writing the biography, he then decided to return the history book to the library at Sidney Sussex. I have so many questions.
Miss Tinker 1 year ago
Nor mine. We want to encourage people to keep using the library.
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RabidChild 1 year ago
So it was Professor Plumb in the Library and since it was 1667, I'm guessing he used the candlestick!
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
I would have insisted on talking to the librarian who gave the book out, and to negotiate the return.
Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
Ooo. Now I have something to inexplicably leave in my will for several generations.
Lorrie Rothstein 1 year ago
This would have made a great Seinfeld episode with that library cop
#20
Cold temperatures weaken nasal immunity, making us more vulnerable to viruses. A mere 5°C drop in nasal tissue temperature reduces immune response by nearly half.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
For God's sake, though, don't tell MY mom she was right!
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Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Combine that with the human wish to be inside and shut out the draft when the weather is cold, locking themselves in with everyone's airborne pathogens, and you have flu season.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Also, the air is denser in cold weather. Therefore, airborne viruses can travel farther and stay aloft for a longer period of time making them more likely to come into contact with a person.
María Hermida 1 year ago
Also, in winter people tend to spend more time indoors, in closed, crowded spaces, which makes transmission from one person to another easier.
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Cold air helps clear the lungs though, and reduces swelling, makes the body more able to fight respiratory inflammation and control mucus. So it may be bad for your nosehut its great for the lungs.
Michael Smith 1 year ago
So let me get this straight... to maintain immune response, it is merely necessary to put something over the nose to maintain nasal temperature so that it doesn't drop in cold weather?
Ambry Petersen 1 year ago
That's why scarves and mufflers (cloth kinds not car kinds) were invented.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 1 year ago
I must be unaffected by this because I never catch colds. My immune system is a monster.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
So ski masks are the best option for staying warm AND healthy?! Whoooo it's science.
#21
War pigs were used by the Romans because the squeals would scare war elephants into fleeing, and cause them to trample their own armies.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Yeah, those squeals were not by training. The Romans covered the pigs in oil and set them on fire...
John Mosley 1 year ago (edited)
They utilised war dogs as well. They attached blades to their backs and trained them to run under horses, disemboweling them. Brutal.
Marie Dahme 1 year ago
Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerer of death's construction..... wait, wrong War Pigs ? Lol
Ambry Petersen 1 year ago
Wild pigs are gnarly and terrifying, I don't blame the elephants for running away.
Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
You should see them gathered in their masses, just like witches at black… masses.
#22
in 1915 tipping was so unpopular that 6 states made it illegal to do so.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year ago
But make sure to pay workers wages they can actually live on
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TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago
Tipping waiters is one of the worst brainwashings the capitalists have ever done to us! "Why pay OUR workers a livable wage when we can make our CUSTOMERS pay them!?🤑🤑🤑"
Definitely a Human 1 year ago
Even some.aelf.serve registers ask for a tip now
Load More Replies... Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Rarely it's because of unpopularity that a practice needs to be outlawed.
WickedSwicket 1 year ago
It should need made illegal for employers to make up the shortfall of wages by forcing customers to tip ! Either pay decent living wages or don't go into business!!
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Did they get rid of that law? I'm guessing it's not illegal anymore:(
#23
While dogs may not pass the traditional mirror test, they do pass a "smell mirror" test, suggesting they understand the concept of 'self'.
Julia Ford 1 year ago
Elephants pass the mirror test. It’s extremely interesting and also very sad that self-aware and intelligent beings were kept (and some still are) in little zoo enclosures for so long.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
To quote the One and Only Ivan, a bad zoo is just another cage. A good zoo is how humans make amends. Sometimes it’s safer, or just the only option, to have them in a zoo. Many animals would be a lot closer to extinction if it weren’t for zoo breeding programs. That being said, a lot of zoos do keep animals in too-small cages without stimulation.
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Greyskull 1 year ago
Cats don't pass the mirror test, but when their owners hold them and do a Snapchat filter that changes the owner's face, the cat will often look back at the owner in surprise. So cats do recognize that the phone/mirror shows their owner, that the person in the mirror is the person's lap they're sitting on, so they're tangentially close to passing the mirror test.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
cats might also look at their image in the mirror and think "it's not me, it doesn't even smell like me"
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Vicki Doggurl 1 year ago
Agreed!! That dog is beautiful! What a boopable nose, too!
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Joosep Niidas 1 year ago
This is a bit bollocks, I've never seen a cat or dog, when confronted with a mirror for the first time, not realize after a couple minutes that the figure in the mirror is themself and then just not pay any attention to mirrors from there on out
Pyla 1 year ago
The mirror test is pretty simple and cool: the animal has a mark placed on its body, then is brought in front of the mirror. If they perceive that the mark is actually on their own body (by reaching to touch it or wipe it off) then they evince understanding that it is themself in the mirror. Dogwise, I guess they can tell if themself by reacting with some variation of “reading the news” like dogs normally do.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
So many of these assume we know what they’re talking about. Why is it assumed I know what a “mirror test” is? You can be bothered to add parenthetically a half a sentence explaining what it is? Will you miss out on chow time if you explain it briefly?
Hannah Taylor 1 year ago
The mirror test is when an animal researcher places a mirror within view of an animal, to gage its response. Most animals, like the large cats, have a negative response. But others are fascinated, even amused, by their own reflection. Dolphins and orangutans are examples.
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Margaret Clarke 1 year ago
My little dog used to look at herself in the door mirror, then look at me in the door mirror, before turning and looking me in the face with a smile face and tail wag.
#24
In 1992 Annette Herfkens was the sole survivor of a plane crash that included her fiancé & 28 others. Despite having 12 fractures in her hip, 2 in her leg, a broken jaw & a collapsed lung, she survived 8 days in a Vietnamese jungle on rainwater until a local officer came by & got help.
Mike F 1 year ago
Good Lord, I've had a collapsed lung and it's no picnic by any stretch of the imagination. I can't imagine how miserable she would have been in her condition.
Roy Warriner 1 year ago
It depends on which lung is collspsed, a collapsed left lung is far less debilitating than the right.
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Women are just built different. I've fractured my hip, all 10 fingers, all 10 toes, both ankles, both wrists, a knee, a leg, collar bone, jaw,, left orbital socket, and lastly 3 ribs. Not all at once but a couple times it was multiple. Each time I had professional medical assistance within an hour or two. I was given top shelf pain meds. And had some of the prettiest nurses I've ever seen. I was a damn cry baby every last time. This woman made it 8 damn days with nothing but unpurified warm water. Id bow to this woman if I ever met her. Id say she's probably the toughest person to ever grace this planet. The whole ordeal sounds like a prequel to unbreakable.
Boeing PB-1G Flying Fortress 1 year ago
Sounds similar to the story of Juliane Kopecke (sorry if I’ve spelled that wrong)
Joseph Hide 1 year ago
A Russian woman survived after the plane broken in half at 33000 ft.. She was in the tail section and landed in a lot of snow. She broke many bones and had other injuries but was the only survivor.https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/who-is-vesna-vulovic-flight-attendant-who-survived-33-000-feet-crash-without-parachute-11715340280982.html#:~:text=However%2C%20Vulovic%20survived%20and%20became,and%20thereby%20cushioned%20her%20fall.
#25
Korean serial killer Kim Sun-ja laced her friend's tea with cyanide, causing her to vomit. She told her friend that she would feel better if she drank more of the beverage, but her friend became suspicious and refused, becoming the only known survivor of 6 poisoning victims from 1986 to 1988.
Michelle C 1 year ago
Good for her friend for catching on and refusing to drink more of the tea!
BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago
'Friend' was probably a poor translation. In Korean, 'friend' means anyone born in the same year as you in addition to actual friends(ageism is big). Sunja and the survivor may have been friendly acquaintances that happened to be the same age.
#26
The directors of Tangled held a “hot man meeting” and had all the women from the studio critique Hollywood men to create the character of Flynn Rider.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Well, sure, if we just completely ignore Robin Hood. disney_rob...6da03c.jpg 
Clare Bond 1 year ago
Really? That's what they came up with?? Still I guess it's a good job we all have different tastes
linda harbin 1 year ago
I’d vote for Moana’s Maui. All those tattoos, wild hair and bod? Yikes.
Agamemnon O'Neill 1 year ago (edited)
"All the women" in an animation studio. What, both of them?! (They're not real diverse)
Nonya Business 1 year ago
Also, was it assumed no woman had actual work to do? I would be a little irritated by this gender based work assignment.
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#27
The largest unfinished church in the world, the Sagrada Família, began construction in 1886. It is expected to be completed in 2026, nearly 150 years after it began construction.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
Gaudi were really hard to accomplish (plus the periods when work stopped)
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Worked stopped because of two world wars and a bunch of other things that caused the whole world to turn upside down and back again.
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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Looking at medieval castles and churches the 150 yr building schedule is almost considered fast
Teachzebra 1 year ago
Even and it’s unfinished state it’s one of the most amazing buildings one could ever visit.
Michael Smith 1 year ago
Interestingly enough it was apparently designed upside down with weights, as that is how it was figured out how the distribution of weights can be supported. This all of course before computer design could figure this stuff out.
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Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
And we (Germans) thought the Berlin Airport and the "Elbphilharmonie" opera in Hamburg took a bit long, huh?
#28
in 1969 Ted Conrad embezzled $215,000 from a bank in Ohio & proceeded to evade capture for the remaining 51 years of his life. He became 'Thomas Randele' & settled in Massachusetts. Described by authorities as a deathbed confession, in 2021 he told his wife & daughter who he was & what he did.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I was wondering what that amount would be in today's dollars.
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_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year ago (edited)
How much did they embezzle
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Paul C. 1 year ago
Many years ago a friend of mine suddenly turned up with a new sports car and the family moved into an expensive house.. He said they had won the pools. A year or so later his dad, who was an accountant, disappeared for a couple of years. Yep football pools win wasn't quite true. Having said that, they never seemed to lose any of their wealth.
Data1001 1 year ago
The Statute of Limitations had likely long passed by that time, so his family was probably free and clear from prosecution. Although I suppose it's possible that the bank could file a civil lawsuit against the family. (I am not a lawyer, so this may be inaccurate.)
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
His family had no knowledge of the embezzlement until his dying day, in 2021. Not sure why the bank would go after the family, especially if the statute of limitations had long passed.
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Mombo 1 year ago
Massachusetts can be an expensive place to live. I know, I live there. But, there are many benefits, I’m not complaining.
Load More Replies... FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
If he died in 2021 and the embezzlement was in 1969, wouldn't that be 52 years?
Michael Largey 1 year ago
It would depend on the days and months that the embezzlement and death occurred.
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#29
Squirrels terminal velocity is so low they can fall from any height and survive.
Avoidance_Panda 1 year ago
Stripping my fruit trees of fruit more like...
Load More Replies... LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Unfortunately not true though. Worked in wildlife rehab; had the horrible experience of witnessing a squirrel fall from a power line onto pavement and die.
Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
Might be like cats, if they're above a certain height they actually have a better chance at survival. The have the time to splay out and slow their fall almost like sugargliders.
Load More Replies... David Brown 1 year ago
I don't dispute this fact but... Ive noticed over the years that most squirrels seen dead in the road are belly up, no blood splatter, no signs of trauma, and located directly under power lines that run over the road. I've kind of always thought they had been electrocuted or feel off back first. If they can survive falls from great hight it must have to be feet down. With that it raises the question, don't they always land on their feet like cats. I've put entirely too much thought into this
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago (edited)
I've heard the same thing said about cats but I abhor anyone who would dare test that.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
There's a minimum height, though, it needs a second to turn itself right side up. Don't drop your cat when you have it in your arms on its back. Tales are told about cats surviving 32-storey-drops (sorry for the imperial). They do tend to break, when falling from those kinds of heights.
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mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago
That's not quite true. If you drop them from a high enough height, they will fall for long enough to die from dehydration.
Toni Ahlgren 1 year ago
Drop them off from a commercial airplane and they'll be a chunk of ice before they hit the ground.
Jaybird3939 1 year ago
Just in case it's a group of squirrels falling, they're called a scurry.
megasmacky 1 year ago
Same with cats, as long as they're relatively fit and not overweight. It's called non-fatal terminal velocity.
#30
Child voice actors for Bluey are kept secret.
Emperor Kitten 1 year ago
Bonus fact! close to half of all viewing hours on Disney+ are Bluey. It's basically the only thing keeping the app afloat.
Zelda Sterling 1 year ago
Bluey makes up 29% of the viewing hours on Disney+. Out of the 150 episodes of the Bluey series, 57% of its total viewing has taken place in its last 10 episodes.
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Zelda Sterling 1 year ago
I somehow have become the "Ackchyually..." person on a Bluey thread. Fantastic.
80 Van 1 year ago
I love that they made that choice. Also, interestingly, the voices of the parents (David McCormack and Melanie Zanetti) didn’t meet each other until they were both brought on to Jimmy Fallon for an interview in November 2022.
Zelda Sterling 1 year ago
They met a few days before the interview. Technically, yes, they met because they were going to be on the show together, but they had already met by the time they sat down on the stage.
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Remember: there's a banned ep of the series that Disney refuses to tell why it was pulled. The whole ep is available on YouTube by the makers because they felt it was too good to bury. Or this is what I heard
Jeffrey Diehl 1 year ago
Baby Daddy. They pretend Bandit is pregnant and in the end he delivers Bingo.
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Casey Payne 1 year ago
They should keep all the identities of child actors secret. And blur their features. Cover them head to toe with a disguise. And since we have the technology, replace them with CGI or puppets. What if we paid them to not be on screen? Pay them to avoid cameras? That would be a logistical nightmare, but totally worth it to never see or hear from them ever again. Except for just their family and friends, of course. But the rest of us don't need to know they exist. Let's all just agree that they don't and move on.
#31
English scientist Henry Cavendish discovered physical laws like Ohm's, Dalton's, or Charles's law and few others as first but they were not named after him because he didn't publish his notes and didn't tell his fellow scientists, propably due to being asocial and shy.
Andrew Read 1 year ago
What does his financial status have to do with it? He was a scientist. His money didn’t define that.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 1 year ago
So if he would have publish his discovered, we would hace a bunch of Cavendish laws.
David Hopkins 1 year ago
I tried to order an 8 cavendish speaker instead of an 8 ohm speaker the other day a no one knew what I was talking about.
Mabelbabel 1 year ago
He presented some of his papers at the Royal Society scientific meetings, and kept manuscripts and documents he'd written that were published after he died.
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#32
A mother named Kathleen Folbigg, who was imprisoned for 2 decades for murdering her 4 children. Later, she would be pardoned by the Governor after it was discovered that the deaths were instead due to an extremely rare genetic condition.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
From Wikipedia: Genetic evidence published in November 2020 showed that at least two of the children had genetic mutations that predisposed them to sudden cardiac death.[33] The researchers concluded that the CALM2 mutation carried by Kathleen and her two girls altered their heart rhythm, predisposing them to sudden unexpected death possibly precipitated by their intercurrent infections (respiratory tract infection in Sarah; myocarditis in Laura) and/or by medications such as Laura's pseudoephedrine.[10] Mutations in CALM2 are observed at a very low frequency, occurring in approximately 1 out of every 35 million individuals. The CALM2 gene encodes a protein that plays a critical role in the regulation of heart rhythm.[34]. . .
Marie Clear 1 year ago
The other two children, Caleb and Patrick, each carried two potentially lethal genetic mutations in the gene BSN (Bassoon Presynaptic Cytomatrix Protein), which is linked to early onset lethal epilepsy in mice,[35] with one mutation inherited from their mother and the second one likely inherited from their father Craig. Patrick had epileptic seizures prior to his death.[10] None of the four showed signs of smothering in the autopsy.[35]
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Tamra 1 year ago
Not only enduring the loss of her children, but losing two decades of her life in prison, in addition to the likely massive amount of public hate...I can't imagine the suffering.
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Miss Tinker 1 year ago (edited)
Very sad case. Her ex-husband (father of all 4 children) always believed her to be guilty & refused to submit to genetic testing that could have helped her case. He died not long after she was released. They lived in NSW, Australia, just a few hours from where I live.
Agfox 1 year ago
"...pardoned by the Governor..." suggests this was posted by an American & is wrong. This happened in Australia & Ms Folbigg was freed when the State of New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal ruled her conviction should be overturned. The Court is part of the highest court in the State, the Supreme Court
Judes 1 year ago
Australian states have Governors, and Governors are responsible for pardoning people (on the recommendation of the Attorney General). Here is the statement from the NSW government: https://dcj.nsw.gov.au/news-and-media/media-releases/2023/kathleen-folbigg-pardoned.html
Load More Replies... Siobhan Gournay 1 year ago
Similar to something that happened here in the UK. A woman called Sally Clark was convicted after she had two infants die of SIDS. It turned out that evidence had been withheld that would've led to her being found not guilty. Unfortunately after she was released she turned to alcohol and died from alcohol poisoning only 4 years after her conviction was quashed. Sadly she was only 42 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark#:~:text=Sally%20Clark%20(August%201964%20–%2015,of%20her%20two%20infant%20sons.
Mabelbabel 1 year ago
It wasn't withheld. The defence counsel had full access to all the same medical records that the pathologist had, they just hadn't realised. At the second appeal, a new medical expert witness picked up that the microbiology report hadn't been raised as an issue, and the judge ruled that had the jury been made aware of that specific report separate from the autopsy report, they may have ruled differently. The pathologist had said in his report "no evidence of infection" because he thought the microbiology result was contamination only and not a true positive result, so it wasn't discussed openly in court during the first trial.
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Just a reminder. The states with abortion ban will start to see women sent to jail for miscarriage probably soon.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Fyi, this happened in Australia.
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Still DG 1 year ago (edited)
If she was indeed innocent, then instead of a pardon, it should have been an apology and much compensation. A pardon sounds more like showing mercy for someone's actions.
Crazy catz 1 year ago
That was so sad, to be grieving all your children, for no one to believe you didn't do it, as a mum, I can't even begin to imagine the hell she has been through, I hope she finds peace and closure ❤️
Michelle C 1 year ago
I’m glad she was pardoned because I can only imagine the agony she must’ve experienced in particular….💔
#33
2020 study found evidence that arrows fired from medieval longbows could cause injuries similar to modern gunshot wounds. One example is the analysis of a skull that revealed an arrow had left devastating entry and exit wounds that are similar to injuries caused by modern bullets.
River Daski 1 year ago (edited)
velocity (speed of a bullet) versus weight (sheer mass of an arrow itself); this checks out! ETA: mass!! not volume. XD thank you commenters!
Phil Green 1 year ago
I shoot the English Longbow. I have put an arrow through the bonnet of a car (demonstration shooting) and a tin of paint. The original bow was much bigger than mine. Some have been found to have a draw of 160lbs, mine is just 75lbs!
Kira Okah 1 year ago
I know that it is a different bow, as I shoot Manchurian recurve, but there is a record from an archery competition in the 18th century of an archer hitting bullseye with an 18-strength (240lb) bow. Mine is 55lb, but the longer draw length can bring it higher. Only done target shooting so no idea what it can do on other materials.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago
The difference is that longbowmen had to train so often that the King of England banned stoolball because what the hell were young men doing playing games when they could be strengthening their arms. We're not sure what stoolball is, but it seems to possible be an early antecedent of baseball where the batter is out if he gets one strike, but for it to count as a strike, the pitcher has to throw the ball between the legs and rungs of a stool, so you can swing and miss at all the bad pitches you want without getting any strikes. And there's no balls counted at all. And only one base. But when you consider that bowmen looked like Aaron judge, and the sport was coed, and a batted ball has more kinetic energy than a longbow's arrow.
Lotekguy 1 year ago (edited)
Or maybe stoolball was named for using molded and hardened excrement as the ball.
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Virginie Michaud 1 year ago
Always thought it was pretty unlikely that people could just rip out the arrow and keep on fighting and kill 19 ennemies like they show in movies.... 🤨
Wat Tyler's Revenge 1 year ago
Longbow divisions would've put short shrift to Napoleon's armies, but gun fire powder was cheap and democratized the ability to kill people. Not until the Gatling gun would a more effective ranged killing machine arrive.
#34
Archaeologists working in a 2,500 y.o. Chinese cemetery unearthed charred incense burners and burnt stones that tested high for cannabinol, which is released when THC is burned. "Unlike many wild varieties, the cannabis smoked at the site [...] was pretty potent stuff."
Earthquake903 1 year ago
Now I know what they meant by, "We need more Calgon".
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Bookworm 1 year ago
There was a recent PBS Eons about this! It's the oldest definite evidence of people smoking marijuana.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Even before the Scythians then. Who only smoked it after 500 BCE.
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#35
King Cobra is not a cobra. It is the sole species of its genus and happens to look a lot like a cobra.
MaggieMay85 1 year ago
The commoner faux cobra doesn’t have a good ring to it.
Load More Replies... TheNewJenBrady 1 year ago (edited)
I think it's also known to be the only snake that actually preys on regular cobras
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
When you're stuck in an enclosed space with one like I was in Thailand in 75, it can call itself anything it wants to.
Mombo 1 year ago
Ok, Javelina Poppers, you can’t just slide that tidbit in without embellishing!
Load More Replies... Major Harris 1 year ago
for fun, watch the mid 1970s B horror movie, "Sssssss" starring strother martin and dirk benedict. martin is a herpetologist (reptile scientist) and is fascinated by the king cobra. and, he has plans for his lab assistant, benedict. LOL!
#36
LaMarcus Thompson, the father of the American roller coaster, invented the first coasters on Coney Island because he thought the world was too sinful and needed more moral entertainment.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
Just the opposite. Centrifugal force is a method for casting out the Devil.
Load More Replies... Michael Smith 1 year ago
I'm guessing maybe at the beginning the roller coaster symbolizes your goal of reaching heaven as you climb to the top of the first drop. Then the first drop symbolizes the temptation of Satan and the depths of the fiery pit to which you will descend, however, you then experience God's grace as you as delivered from the depths and ascend again, only to repeat the process in lesser and lesser amounts as Satan's grip becomes less and less until you finally level out and reach paradise at the end.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
I didn't know that balance was an epic battle between good and evil. Here I was trying not to fall in the bathtub like a heathen. I guess that's what they meant by 'upright citizen'.
The Rogue Adventurers. 1 year ago
Coney island at the time had alot of adult entertainment and certain types of hotels, this brought scammers and criminals to the area and he wanted to make it safer and more family friendly
#37
Infants under one year old should not be fed honey.
River Daski 1 year ago
this is because there is natural botulism in honey; it's not enough to make older people sick, but it's enough to overwhelm a baby's still-strengthening immune system
Austin L 1 year ago
It's not the amount, it's that it takes a bit of time for our digestive systems to be acidic enough that the spores will not activate. It's really common in honey and the baby advice should be taken seriously.
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Lin Andrews 1 year ago
My mother would put honey on our dummies (soother) to quieten us down..... hmmmm
Charlotte Sandoval 1 year ago
My grandmother was raised by her older sisters (both parents deceased) and they needed to go work the fields so they gave her whiskey in her bottle to get her to sleep
Load More Replies... Spannidandoolar 1 year ago
This is taught to pregnant women in the UK but I remember learning it from an episode of ER
Ken Beattie 1 year ago (edited)
For the record, it's not ALL honey, which is (part of the reason) why not every kid who eats honey gets sick. Apparently about 10% of honey sampled in the US showed botulism spores. Oh, and no honey has been found with botulism spores in Australia. So guess it depends where you live (and where you get honey from).
#38
creator of Wonder Woman was in a thruple that involved his first wife and his student. They were heavily into bondage which inspired early iterations of the super heroine. Thruple lasted 22 years all the way to his death
glowworm2 1 year ago
He only had one wife. “First” wife makes it sound like he divorced her later and married someone else which did not happen. After his death, the two women, Olive Byrne and Elizabeth Holloway Marston, continued to live together as a couple until Olive’s death in 1990 at age 86. Elizabeth died 3 years later at the age of 100.
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
My grandfather used to tell us that the actress who played Wonder Woman in the 1970’s series was a “lovely Christian woman” so he thoroughly approved of and endorsed the show. If only he knew this bit….
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Also Lynda Carter (the wonder woman) is more into liking the Ghoul in the fallout tv series than being a "good christian". - Source Tumblr. And I dunno about the christian part, but she's good people
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
William Marston. He also invented the lie detector and came up with the DISC model of personality traits.
timebleeder 1 year ago
Marston spent most of his life promoting the polygraph and himself as the inventor but he didn't actually invent it. He invented the systolic blood pressure test that he promoted as a lie detector before the invention of the polygraph. His invention would later become a component of the polygraph which uses a combination of blood pressure, breathing, and galvanic skin response for its readings. The real inventors of the polygraph are John Augustus Larson, and his assistant Leonarde Keeler. Polygraphs are notoriously inaccurate and despite their use results are not admissible evidence in U.S. legal cases.
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Baby Jenks 1 year ago
No, she wasn't a child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Byrne
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Mocha Dick (the real life inspiration for Moby Dick) was ki***d in 1838 after appearing to come to the aid of a distrought cow whose calf was just slaughtered by whalers. He was known to be friendly until attacked, he survived 100 skirmishes before being slain.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
BP censorship strikes again. Well, at least it wasn't changed to the idiotic "unalived".
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Even sadder than the fictionalised version... I understand k1lling these animals for sustenance (like the Inuit) but cannot fathom murdering them on an industrial scale solely for profit.
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
I’m too tired for this post; I confused Moby D**k with Captain Ahab, then I wondered why he was in a field helping cows, wondered why whalers would be out in a field killing calves and tried to remember which war ‘he’ had fought skirmishes in, before finally realizing my initial mistake and for a split second wondering what a whale was doing in a field with cows. Uggh.
#40
many English words and phrases are loaned from Chinese merchants interacting with British sailors like "chop chop," "long time no see," "no pain no gain," "no can do," and "look see"
G A 1 year ago
Pidgin rather than pigeon, English. Very different to real English and a language in its own right across much of Asia.
WickedSwicket 1 year ago
Although the original kicap where ketchup was derived from actually refers to soy sauce
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SCamp 1 year ago
‘No pain no gain’ really? 🤔 Did the sailors interact with Chinese bodybuilders?
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
No pain, no gain has been documented in one form or another since the fifth century.
Load More Replies... DetriMentaL 1 year ago
In Paul C. and my defense. We were quoting Full Metal Jacket lines (mostly South Park on my behalf) wassa hit nd miss if anything
Paul C. 1 year ago
Our humour seems to offend. The lines from the films appear to have wooshed over their heads.
Load More Replies... titansterritory 1 year ago
Ancient Chinese secret. Funny that's the 2nd reference in these posts using that line. For who don't know, this is from an old commercial.
Ace 1 year ago
You got that the wrong way round. Pigeon was effectively a go-between language in its own right, borrowing most of its words from English and other colonial languages, a few, but not those listed here, from Chinese and other Asian sources.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
As GA pointed out, the word is Pidgin, A simplified form of a language.
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Pepperoni Pizza 1 year ago
You're talking of American English? That's not real English, just a twisted form of the language.
#41
in 1988 a U.S. Marine was abandoned and died in the Mojave Desert. Search only started when his weapon wasn't returned.
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
This is not true. His CO knew he was missing but didn’t report it because the CO screwed up and didn’t want to get in trouble. His sergeant realized he was missing when he didn’t see him for a couple of days. It had nothing to do with his rifle.
WindySwede 1 year ago
and this is why I *never* believe an article here about 'animal welfare'! Anyone can claim they are a veterinarian and then give harmfull advice. 😐
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His name was Jason Rother. .....Incompetence and compliancy led to his death. ... He was posted as a road guide at a crossroad during a night movement, and then was not picked up. Each of 3 people thought one of the others had responsibility for that. ...None of the 3 reported him missing because they each thought one of the others had picked him up and assigned him to another detail. .... It took over 40 hours before the unit realized he was missing...... They searched for 3 days, found some of his gear, and then wrote him off as deserting..... It was 3 months later that local sheriff's deputies on a search-and-rescue drill found his remains...... He had tried to walk out, he had made it 17 miles from his start point and was only about 1 mile from a major highway. .... He was 19 yrs old.
Poney Edwards 1 year ago
Unfortunately, not uncommon. My unit did desert training in 29 Palms, California, in 1996. A Marine from another unit got lost. We found his body a few days later We were trained to remain where you are and they'll come back for you, but he started walking instead. He was going in the right direction at first, but with no map or compass, and no landmarks in an open desert, he wandered off course and walked for miles in the wrong direction. They said if he hadn't passed out, it's entirely possible he would've ended back where he started.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago (edited)
The Wikipedia article about him says otherwise ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jason_Rother ) - "It was only when acting squad leader Cpl Harbison realized by the late afternoon on September 1 he had not seen Rother all day did an investigation commence into his unaccounted-for status." And there were consequences - "The Marine Corps commandant, General Alfred M. Gray Jr. ordered an outside investigation which resulted in the courts-martial of 1st Lieutenant Lawson, finding him guilty of dereliction of duty and sentencing him to discharge and four months in military prison."
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I'm not interested in my buddy's behind, or his genitalia either.
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#42
The final words of Terry Kath, founding guitarist for rock band Chicago, before dying from an accidental self inflicted gunshot wound were “What do you think I'm gonna do? Blow my brains out?"
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
"Strongly disagree. This works in my favour." - Charles Darwin
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Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 1 year ago
I had a schoolmate die the same way. He was at a party playing with a gun and when someone told him to stop before he goes off he puts it up to his head and says “it’s not loaded“ before pulling the trigger revealing a bullet in the chamber
Hannah Taylor 1 year ago
I remember hearing about that in high school. Still shaking my head over it.
Casey Ironmonger 1 year ago
Check him out playing "25 or 6 to 4" on YT! Jimi Hendrix was once asked who the best guitarist in the world was, and he said "Terry Kath".
#43
Babe Ruth constantly cheated on his wives during his baseball career. A detective that the New York Yankees hired to follow him one night in Chicago reported that Ruth had been with six women. Another player said that he was not Ruth's roommate while traveling; "I room with his suitcase".
Trillian 1 year ago
I just googled him and ... okay? The ladies sure weren't after his looks.
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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
He was busy! Fame is funny because i doubt many would have found him attractive if he wasn't famous
Michael Largey 1 year ago
His Inflategate occurred in the bedroom, not on the playing field. Two different levels of cheating.
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TIL the worst skydiving accident in US history took place over Lake Erie and resulted in 16 fatalities. Due to miscommunications, the skydivers jumped out over water rather than land, and subsequently drowned.
Skid Marks 1 year ago
Unless it was cloudy.... you would think you could see that there was water below.
KinoEel 1 year ago
They only saw the water at 1200m because it was cloudy
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Welcome to BP. That's a stock photo chosen by BP. They rarely pick proper stock photos.
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Martin 1 year ago
Surely the pilot would've known where they were in relation to the land before everyone jumped ?
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Sounds sensible, doesn't it. Today most planes will have GPS, but back then that wasn't an option. Even under Visual Flight Rules you can fly over heavy cloud cover, but you'll need clear visibility to land. In this case the pilot was relying on Air Traffic Control for location, but the controller mistook a different plane for the jump plane, so they were several miles from where they were told they were.
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Richard Nichols 1 year ago
Whoever was responsible for that miscommunication must have felt really bad for the rest of their life. =P
Anna Chandler 1 year ago
Due to not looking out the OPEN damn door to see where they were, then not telling the pilot to get over the dz. Also apparently no water landing training either...
#45
The temperature on the moon at the Apollo 11 landing site was 200ºF (93ºC).
The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
OK, so this is probably true, but misleading. Temperature is a measure of how much vibrational energy is stored in molecules: the higher the temperature, the more vibration PER MOLECULE [times the mass of the molecule]. The lower the air pressure, the less heat it takes to raise the temperature. This is why at a certain altiitude, the "temperature" of the atmosphere begins to rise like crazy.... the same amount of heat is spread over far fewer molecules. On the surface of the moon, the surface itself may be quite hot because it's directly in the sun without shedding heat only by re-radiation, not by convection. But with extremely little air (not actually quite exactly zero, the sun provides some molecules), you aren't being warmed at all when you're in shadow (except through the bottom of your boots).
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
When someone on twitter asked "where were you when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon" on the landing anniversary. Buzz Aldrin answered: "On the Moon!"
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I can't imagine landing on another world. How beyond amazing that had to be. Only twelve people have had that experience, in all of the generations of the earth. Their footprints are still there.
Lee 1 year ago
Wel in the grand scheme of things, when it comes to space exploration we're still at the rubbing two sticks together to create fire. I'm just devastated I'm gonna miss some amazing mindbending discoveries that will occur long after I'm gone. Before I die, I want to know for sure there's life on other planets even if it's miniscule (at first.)
Load More Replies... Michael Smith 1 year ago (edited)
Is this really true though? It is true that the surface temperature of the moon can reach 250F, but I thought the Apollo missions were deliberately timed so that the areas of landing were in the lunar "morning", meaning that the moons surface had only been in sunlight for a relatively short period of time so as to not have reached full temperature yet. Given that a lunar "day" last around 2 weeks and the temperature before lunar dawn can be -208F, I think it would have had to have been past lunar "noon" for it to be that hot.
Orion Red 1 year ago
you are correct, but it's not quite worth pointing it out. unless you hear a moon landing denier try to use this as evidence of the supposed hoax.
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I’ve been inundated with “articles” from a relative stating “the facts” that the moon landing was a hoax and actually filmed in a studio. PLEASE someone give me sound reasoning to dispel that.
My Friend Chad 1 year ago
The best argument is that the Soviets didn't call out the US for faking it. With all the spies in both sides there would have been no way to hide it and the Soviets would have LOVED to embarrass the US like that.
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Joseph Hide 1 year ago
I'm surprised it wasn't at 256 like it is in space in front of the sun light
#46
Spelling Bees (competitions where competitors must correctly spell words until one is left standing) don't really exist outside of English, and within English, they're pretty much only an American thing.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
They’re also there in India. I was able to get through till state level but unfortunately my exams were on the same day as the competition
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
In fact, if you're really, really good in India, they'll draft you to compete in America where the payouts are way larger but you can still dominate, sorta like the NBA. OK, that's not at all true in any way. In fact, there's absurdities stacked on top of absurdities, but you couldn't prove it from watching,
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Spudman WP 1 year ago
You can literally Google international spelling bee and find out that you are wrong
Phil Green 1 year ago
We had them on Friday afternoons when I was in school (millions of years ago) in England.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
There is a similar competition in China, but the contestants compete by writing rather then speaking.
Adrian Perlman 1 year ago (edited)
that has always been the thing i've appreciated about learning foreign languages (spanish, german, a bit of turkish). german especially ALWAYS follows its own rules when it comes to spelling. there are some exceptions like whether the word ends in -ig or -ich or -isch. But normally they are accompanied by differences in pronunciation/intonation. they are easy to keep track of. i am good at english even for a native speaker, but it was when i started teaching english that i realized what a slipshod, mishmash language it is. ruthless it is.
#47
In 1671 a man attempted to steal the Crown Jewels, and when he was caught he was brought before King Charles II, who found him so amusing that not only did her pardon the man, but he also ended up giving him massive lands in Ireland and a pension of £500 a year (£92,000 today).
Anikulapo 1 year ago
One was amused, and one finds it so very difficult to be amused these days. Everything is so tedious - even beheadings.
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Hey! 1 year ago
Like titles, sometimes there are extra land to give away.
Load More Replies... Billy Maguire 1 year ago
Yes, British Royalty was QUITE generous with OUR island in those days.
Pirate Luxe 1 year ago
Thomas Blood... And his joviality was not likely the reason for his pardon... He was a Cromwellian
#48
Super Bowl XXXIV (34) is known as the "Dot-Com Super Bowl" because it featured 14 ads from 14 different dot-com companies, each paying an average of $2.2 million per spot. Of these companies, four are still active, five were bought by other companies, and the remaining five are defunct.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
A little more context: Superbowl 34 was played on January 30, 2000. The stock market "dotcom bubble" burst in March, 2000. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
Agamemnon O'Neill 1 year ago
Everyone loves the Herding Cats ad, but no one remembers who it was for.
Grace Note 1 year ago
This remains the only Superbowl I've ever watched in the US because I just happened to be there when it was played. I do remember a lot of dotcom ads and nearly all ads had internet addresses with them. I also think it was the year of the Wassup ad but I could be imagining that.
Fat Harry 1 year ago
Why not just give the year of the Superbowl rather than using ridiculous Roman numerals? For the FA Cup, and indeed every football competition I can think of, we give the year when talking about it, eg "They were the winners of the 1992 FA Cup". Yet another bizarre American thing - particularly for a nation that struggles even with Arabic numerals.
#49
That Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Tom Hanks have colonoscopy parties together.
Yuri Russonovitch 1 year ago
I am Askenaz and have a genetic predisposition for colon cancer. My grandfather, mother, sister and aunt all died from it. I have yearly colonoscopies since I was 30. Not fun but NEVER be afraid to get checked out. Love you all.
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Christina Keenan 1 year ago
Yes, I heard it on a podcast. They get together and play cards for 3 days, drinking the "solution" only. Then they go where they scheduled the colonoscopy and get it done...
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
what do they do? Chug the laxative? See how long they can hold it? Who has the loudest fart noise?
Peter Parker 1 year ago
Don't trust a fart when you just chugged laxative..
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Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
It took me a few tries, but then I actually did LOL! Thank you for the wit! 🤣 😂 🤣 😂
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Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
I have had 3 colonoscopies and have already done the endoscopy 4 times. The 1st colonoscopy I had to fast for 24 hours only allowed water, was given a strong laxative and had to drink 64 ounces of Gatorade the last 12 hours before the procedure. The 2nd and 3rd I had to again fast for 24 hours, allowed water only, given a mild laxative and had to drink 64 ounces of Gatorade in 8 hours. The procedure is okay because they knock you out, it's the Prep Part that REALLY sucks like hell. All 3 of the colonoscopy procedures started in 2018 when I had my very 1st one and the 4 Endoscopes, my very 1st one was in 2014 due to GERD and I've undergone the other 3 since 2018 due to my Cancer diagnosis in December2017. I joke that I should be glowing in the dark with the amount of X-Ray, PET scans, Ultrasounds, Mammograms, MRI and CT scans that I have been through in the last 6 + years and have lost all sense of modesty. I'm a walking pin cushion have ZERO fears of needles, Anaesthesia or surgeries.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
If anyone needs advice or have questions feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer or give support if that is what you need.
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#50
in 1944 the CIA created a manual on sabotaging organizations. Among other things, it suggests to "make speeches... at great length", "refer all matters to committees", "make committees as large as possible", "insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products"
Marie Clear 1 year ago
I think they simply mistook a primer on congressional procedure as being too ridiculous to be true, so they jumped to the conclusion it must be a CIA plot to be used against our enemies.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
If they had been invented, surely the manual would have included "Use as many Power Point presentations as possible."
Lee Henderson 1 year ago
Even if it was the OSS, the edict is much used by the federal government.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
OSI was from the Venture Bros...OSS was a predecessor to the CIA
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#51
Sam White, a Virginia Civil War collector, was killed in 2008 when a 140 year old high explosive cannonball he was restoring detonated in his driveway. The explosion was powerful enough to send chunks of shrapnel up to 1/4 mile away. There were 18 more cannonballs in his driveway at the time.
Downunderdude 1 year ago
...powerful enough to send chunks of Sam White up to 1/4 mile away...
Michelle Forsey 1 year ago
I was today years old when I learned cannon balls explode. I always thought they were shot out, with the explosive happening in the actual cannon itself.
Zaach 1 year ago
Cannon balls are so slow that they can be seen coming - it was considered cowardliness to avoid them
Zephyr343 1 year ago
🤔 I have a civil war cannonball under my bed right now.....I think it is disarmed....
Regina Holt 1 year ago
Didn't he check to see if they were safe to play with? Some of these things are still able to be detonated.
Lee Henderson 1 year ago
My uncle, who lived in Marlboro Point, Virginia, found a number of Civil War cannonballs on his land Aquia Creek, Va). Many were still active after over 100 years.
#52
One of the biggest bottlenecks in road work is soil compaction. Soil can’t effectively be compacted more than around a foot (30 cm) at a time. Any road work that affects the soil foundation can take months because of this.
Verena 1 year ago
This is why "pre-compaction" is used, whenever possible. Heavy soil is stored for several months, sometimes years, where roads are to be constructed. The soil is then used to create other elements, like sound protection.
Chris Keller 1 year ago
I was a construction superintendent for 40 years, I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, pre- compaction, heavy soil? This sounds like nonsense to me.
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In 1993, James Scott purposely damaged a levee and caused a massive flood of the Mississippi River only to stall his wife from coming home so that he could party.
#54
Not only does Elmo the muppet have a father, but he's also a soldier who served in Iraq.
martin734 1 year ago
Because most people know about the war in Iraq when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, leading to operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Load More Replies... martin734 1 year ago
So what? I was also born in 1979 and my father, a Royal Navy helicopter pilot also served in Iraq in 1991.
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#55
While the Confederacy used the strongest cipher available during the Civil War, the Vigenère cipher, the Union consistently cracked it. This was because the Confederates only ever used three key phrases: "Manchester Bluff", "Complete Victory" and, as the war came to a close, "Come Retribution".
Mark 1 year ago
This is like the British breaking the enigma code because the Germans added 'heil Hitler' as a sign-off on every message
Agnes Snooz 1 year ago
Actually the Enigma code was first broken by the Poles in 1930
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#56
There’s a Criminal Defense of Necessity, where the defendant argues the crime was necessary to commit a greater harm from happening.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 1 year ago
Guy steals a car to chase down the person who just snatched his daughter and drove off with her
Marie Clear 1 year ago
Say someone was attacking another person - they were running at them with a knife. A third person who intervenes and shoves the knife-wielding guy to the ground has committed assault. But that third person can justify his assault as the lesser of two evils - had he not committed the assault, a murder might have been committed.
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago (edited)
Actually that would come under the heading of self-defence, which also includes defending another or using violence to prevent a greater crime. An example of the defence of necessity would be committing criminal damage by breaking a window in order to escape from a burning building.
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Winnowyl Daemera 1 year ago
I read a story related to this on reddit the other day. Minor on his way home near curfew (for a minor driving) and sees a drunk driver. Calls 911. Dispatcher tells him to follow. Cop pulls over the drunk, comes back to the kid to get information, and writes him a ticket for driving past curfew. Kid defends himself in court using call logs, the 911 call, etc, proving that he would have been home on time, had he not been following the car. He won.
Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
Shouldn’t this point be absolutely obvious? The hard point may be to prove it but as a whole, it seems reasonable.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
Gosh. You're right. If a fire or flood is threatening to spread out of control, and the fire department deems it necessary to destroy other property to form a fire break, or to trespass on land to throw up mounds of earth to prevent the water from spreading, we should just let the fire or flood spread. /s
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There is a roadside attraction in Plains, Georgia called the Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue. It depicts a large peanut with a big smile (modeled after Carter’s), and was built in 1976 to support his presidential election. Jimmy Carter himself hates it.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
If you mean the water tower near I-85, I've seen that many times. When you approach it from the right angle it's like being mooned by Donald Trump.
Load More Replies... Teachzebra 1 year ago
Just a random thing I read recently, The SUV the Secret Service parks outside Jimmy Carter’s house is more expensive than the house itself. App. $200,000 compared to App. $160,000. BTW- we need more people like Jimmy Carter running the world, people who actually think that the “service” part of public servant is what’s most important.
#58
Warren Buffett's (6th richest person in the world) son thought that his dad's job was checking security alarm systems; as a kid, had no idea what his dad did for a living and no clue that his dad was really, really rich
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Probably a good thing to do - prevent the lad from growing up spoiled and entitled.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
My father worked for a large electronics company and told me he was an accountant there. He actually was the head of one of its industrial espionage units.
#59
Mike Tyson went bankrupt in 2003. Despite having earned $400 million from boxing, examples of reckless spending included $6.3 million on luxury cars and $580K on his 30th birthday party. He has improved his financial situation and now receives $900K/month from his cannabis company, however.
Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
Don King also robbed him blind, let's not pretend it was all down to Mike.
MCathenaE 1 year ago
Holyfield is his business partner for them. They are pretty good too.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
All that reckless spending took a real bite out of his fortune. Eary how that happened.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago (edited)
When you've earned $400 million, $6.3 million on cars isn't that reckless. edit: typo
der sebbl 1 year ago
I still find it kind of reckless. If money on an issue I maybe had two cars: a small one for daily use and a bigger one for going on vacations
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Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft had an asteroid named after him, he wrote a constitution for it's future inhabitants including articles that forbid use of imperial measurement units, outlaw the use of apostrophes, and limit the length of tax forms to one page.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
Well, I can see that OP would benefit from becoming a citizen of the Hooft asteroid nation, since the wayward apostrophes would no longer be a nuisance.
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
He was probably sick of people getting it wrong
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant physicist / mathematician. He really deserved that Nobel Prize.
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in 2003 rapper Pusha T wrote the McDonald’s Jingle “I’m lovin’ it” but doesn’t own publishing rights for it. Learning from this mistake, he owns 40% from the next jingle he wrote: Arby's “we have the meats”.
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
I work at McDonald's. I like to sing it as "Ba-da-ba-ba-ba, I'm over it!". Lol
#62
That following the solar eclipse of August 11 1999, the BMJ reported only 14 cases of eye damage from improper viewing of the eclipse, a number lower than initially feared. In one of the most serious cases the patient had looked at the Sun without eye protection for 20 minutes.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
That took me a minute to understand... im daft
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Annie 1973 1 year ago
I can't even go outside in sunshine for more than a few minutes without having a massive migraine. Even wearing 2 pairs of sunglasses and a huge sunbonnet I still get a migraine within 15 minutes. I live in North Sweden and during the Spring and Summer it's light almost 24/7 and it's almost impossible for me to go out. I spend most of my life living in the dark. I'm incredibly light sensitive. My ex told me that it's like living in a cave with no natural light.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Amazon verified made a difference this time, they learned from their mistakes
#63
According to the International Olympic Committee, gold and silver medals are required to be at least 92.5% silver. The gold in gold medals is in the plating outside and consist of at least 6 grams of pure gold. Silver medals are made of pure silver, while bronze medals are 95% copper and 5% zinc.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
6 grams of gold cost 478 dollars today, for reference.
#64
Police Academy franchise has produced not one, not two, but four movies with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The final film, Mission to Moscow, only earned $126,247 against a $10 million budget.
David 1 year ago
I'm not sure I knew there were four of them but it is surprising to me anyone would greenlight four.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
There was more than four. There were 7. "George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, and David Graf were the only actors appearing in all seven films of the series."
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René Sauer 1 year ago
In my opinion the quality dropped when the actor for mahony left the cast and his role was replaced by another character/actor.
#65
Ari Nagel aka "The Sperminator" has fathered over 100 children. He turns down no woman and doesn't charge for his services, although he pays child support for several of them. Three documentaries, including The Baby Daddy (2022) and Spermworld (2024), have featured his contributions.
#66
There is a high school in China where students study from 6.20am to 11pm to prepare for college admission exam (gaokao).
Mark 1 year ago
Maybe teach them good study habits and catch them up on modern neuroscience? You can't cram all that information
timebleeder 1 year ago
This isn't considered cramming because its done consistently over an extended period allowing the brain ample time to process information into long term memory. Cramming is when you try to cover more information than your brain can process into long term memory in a short period like studying for the test the night before. It's still not good for you but for different reasons related to having a healthy work life balance. However that is a privilege not supported by the Chinese government or an available privilege to most of the students in China.
Load More Replies... Nonplussed Puss 1 year ago
To what end? China has a MASSIVE crisis of far, far too many grads for far, far too few jobs. Chill TF out, yo.
#67
Jevons paradox, which states that increasing efficiency in resource usage causes higher demand - sometimes *increasing* usage instead of reducing it.
River Daski 1 year ago
see: when freeways have lanes added and they just congest worse than they were before
#68
Arlington, TX is the largest city in the US without public transport. Despite having 390k population and major stadiums, it have no single bus or rail line.
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Basically true, but the Wikipedia article does show this: Arlington also offers Via Arlington, a public, on-demand, shared transportation service in partnership with the TransitTech company Via, which began in December 2017. Riders can request a pickup from a six-passenger van within a designated service area, which covers key destinations within Arlington as well as connecting to the Trinity Railway Express CentrePort Station. Beginning January 19, 2021, this service was expanded citywide. Arlington also partners with Via and autonomous vehicles provider May Mobility to operate Arlington RAPID, which provides on-demand autonomous vehicle rides in Downtown Arlington and on the University of Texas at Arlington's campus and is one of the first services of its kind in the United States.
Bookworm 1 year ago
I can tell you that on-demand is not the same as real public transportation. My local transit system is planning to change a bunch of their bus routes, and for a while they were planning to change the last part of the only route I can use to get to work to on-demand. What was I going to do, call for a ride every single morning and pray that the bus got to the end of the regular route in time for me to meet the on-demand vehicle?
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K_Tx 1 year ago
The streets in Arlington are not made to accommodate busses through most of the city. Not intentionally, mind you, just a fact. Not gonna lie, it's nice not to see, hear, smell busses in the city. Even if there was a bus syst, I can't imagine enough people using it to justify it.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The ruling party in Texas would point out that public transportation is mentioned nowhere in the Bible.
#69
"Borderline personality disorder" was named to describe patients who seemed on the borderline of psychosis.
timebleeder 1 year ago
Here is a peer reviewed article on the subject. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55415/#:~:text=Stern%20described%20a%20group%20of,%27bordered%27%20on%20other%20conditions.
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David Paterson 1 year ago
The important fact to learn here is that "borderline personality disorder" is NOT a personality disorder. It's only one step short of psychopath.
#70
That John Quincy Adams partially blinded himself looking directly at an eclipse in 1791
David 1 year ago
So we have had at least two US presidents who stared at a solar eclipse without proper eye protection?
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Coincidence? Adams was a member of the Whig Party, which merged into the Republican Party in 1855.
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At the Japanese Setsubun festival, everyone throws roasted soybeans to drive away evil spirits. The only exception are people/families named Watanabe.
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
What’s in a name? The Watanabe exception You may notice that families with the Watanabe name traditionally do not partake in the bean-throwing custom. This dates back to the Heian period in which there was a famed samurai of the Saga Genji branch of the Minamoto clan named Watanabe no Tsuna (渡邊 綱). He was a fierce warrior, and the subject of many legends. He was said to have defeated two of the fiercest oni, Shuten-doji and Ibaraki-doji. Since that time, many Japanese believe demons have avoided the homes of families named Watanabe. This is good fortune for more than a million people in Japan, as Watanabe is the fifth most common surname. Because the oni keep clear of them, their participation in the bean-throwing custom is optional!
Load More Replies... Marie Clear 1 year ago
Who keeps posting these half-baked "today I learned." If you want to teach us, tell us the whole story. (I don't think we should be trusting all of these as learning moments.) So, here goes: "And if your family name is Watanabe, then you don't need to throw beans at Setsubun. This is because of a samurai called Watanabe no Tsuna. Tsuna's most famous fight was at the Rashomon gate in Kyoto, where he cut an arm off one of the strongest demons. Because of this, demons are so afraid of anyone called Watanabe, there is no need to chase them away!" https://engoo.com/app/daily-news/article/demons-and-beans-unusual-setsubun-customs-from-japan/6EPlcLY7Ee6fch9y0LRBRA
#72
San Antonio's Riverwalk is drained every two years and popular items found at the bottom of the river include cellphones, laptops, and scooters, in addition to chairs, lights and even a stroller.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Not only does the event disappoint a lot of tourists, but it's a pretty nasty business.
#73
Thousands of "low head dams" (aka "killer dams" or "drowning machines") were built on US waterways in 1800s, are nearly invisible from upstream, have killed hundreds of people, often serve no modern purpose, and for all that, are largely unregulated.
Kaycee Friend 1 year ago
It creates an invisible current that drags you under. A kid I went to school with died this way.
River Daski 1 year ago
they're not meant to do anything, but it's a flaw in how these dams were designed. they're shallow and fast moving enough to trap someone in a very high powered spinning motion, think like a washing machine.
Load More Replies... Mat O'Dowd 1 year ago
Here is a link to an information page, with the techniques for escaping one in case you find yourself trapped : https://www.weather.gov/ind/LowHeadDamPublicSafetyAwarenessMonth
Tim Gearing 1 year ago
Hi Mat, this is also worth checking out. https://youtu.be/GVDpqphHhAE?si=1XOxC9OJnwiHapA2
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 year ago
Mr. Ballen did a story on one of these where a large group (including the mayor of the town) of people tried to canoe over it. They were having a celebration and the news was there covering it. Most of them died.
Wintermute 1 year ago
We had one of these literally right behind my middle school. We used to tube into it and get stuck for fun, since most of the time you could stand up in it and wade out. But certain times of the year it was too deep for that. Thinking how close we all came to dying is kind of astounding. We were dumb kids with no idea how dangerous they were. I believe it's still there, actually.
#74
85,200 Swiss women lost their citizenships between 1848-1952 when marrying foreigners due to the "marriage rule".
Ace 1 year ago
At a guess, that they lose their citizenship if they marry a foreigner.
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Debbie Marko 1 year ago
I’ll do you one better - in Canada, until the mid 80’s if I remember correctly, Indigenous women lost their Indian Status if they married a non-Indigenous man. No longer entitled to any benefits they had prior to their marriage. Any children they had did not have Indian status either. The laws were changed in 1985, having been deemed discriminatory.
#75
Starting in 2001, Dell Glover became the "world's leading leaker of pre-release music." He worked at a Universal CD pressing plant & was a member of a file-sharing group called Rabid Neurosis. Over an 11-year period, Rabid Neurosis was responsible for leaking over 20,000 albums.
timebleeder 1 year ago
How does stealing the art someone else made in an attempt to support themselves make someone a hero.
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USA has 4 of the world’s top 5 air forces- each branch of the military individually ranks in the global top 5.
timebleeder 1 year ago
World Directory of Modern Military Aircraft (WDMMA) devised the TrueValue Rating, or TvR. This metric considers not only the number of aircraft in a given armed force, but also the type, capability, age, condition, and readiness of those aircraft.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
1: USAF, 2: US Army, 3: Russia, 4: US Navy 5: PRC, but OP is ALMOST right. The USA has 3 out of 5.
timebleeder 1 year ago
Not when using the World Directory of Modern Military Aircraft (WDMMA) TrueValue Rating, aka the WDMMA TvR. Based on their ranking system 1.United States Air Force - 242.9 2.United States Navy - 142.4 3.Russian Air Force - 114.2 4.United States Army Aviation - 112.6 5.United States Marine Corps - 85.3
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
USA has 4 air forces? 1 USAF. 2-4? anybody know the other air forces we have in the USA?
der sebbl 1 year ago
The airplanes from the US navy and us army are not part of the air force
Load More Replies... G A 1 year ago
Doesn't Disney have the biggest Navy though, due to the number of boats they have?
#77
Allais Effect refers to the allegedly unexpected behavior of pendulums which is observed to occur only during a solar eclipse.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
LOL, ok flat earther. They've never been able to reproduce this "effect" in a controlled experiment. It's supposedly observed during a solar eclipse to "prove" the earth is not in motion. Any examples of this odd motion is most likely caused by mistakes made by the experimenters. So, everyone who believes there are literally 4 pillars holding up the stationary earth like a big blue pancake, get out your pendulums and sit tight for the next total eclipse! See you in a while!
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Four pillars? Nonsense. It's turtles all the way down!
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
I love to speak with flat earthers, that's such fun. The best part is to ask them the shortest way to go from L.A to Tokyo.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago (edited)
My one friend is a flat earther and I'm like anyone has ever travelled knows the world isn't flat. And he says you can't see the curve of the Earth from an airplane. I said you can get from LA to Tokyo in 11 hours, so...(This does seem to break their brains).
Load More Replies... River Daski 1 year ago
the path of the pendulum will deviate or change speed, according to wiki. it's a fun read, ngl!
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Kristal 1 year ago
I was never taught in school that the bomb for Hiroshima was detonated ABOVE the city, for maximum damage. I learned by going to the museum in Hiroshima. I was mighty confused why the city didn't have a giant dent in it until going into the museum.
Brandon Parisien 1 year ago
I didn't learn about the shadows left behind until I visited a museum...possibly Ottawa's war museum, I forget which
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Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
While I definitely agree that if one isn't going to tip, they absolutely shouldn't go anywhere that tipping is expected (anywhere that it makes up for the greedy employer NOT paying their employees), I still think that the custom should be abolished, and servers paid a living wage. Everyone should be paid a living wage. Some more than others, of course. But we should all make enough to pay our basic, necessary bills. And yes, I still tip. Even though I don't believe in it, until the law is changed, I will still do it. But it should be changed.
Load More Replies... Kristal 1 year ago
I was never taught in school that the bomb for Hiroshima was detonated ABOVE the city, for maximum damage. I learned by going to the museum in Hiroshima. I was mighty confused why the city didn't have a giant dent in it until going into the museum.
Brandon Parisien 1 year ago
I didn't learn about the shadows left behind until I visited a museum...possibly Ottawa's war museum, I forget which
Load More Replies... Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
While I definitely agree that if one isn't going to tip, they absolutely shouldn't go anywhere that tipping is expected (anywhere that it makes up for the greedy employer NOT paying their employees), I still think that the custom should be abolished, and servers paid a living wage. Everyone should be paid a living wage. Some more than others, of course. But we should all make enough to pay our basic, necessary bills. And yes, I still tip. Even though I don't believe in it, until the law is changed, I will still do it. But it should be changed.
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