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People say that every day you learn something new. And while that sounds like a cliche, it’s very much true, especially if you’re a regular user of the internet or an avid reader (in a world where people’s interest in reading is, unfortunately, declining). It’s no secret that both are an infinite source of all sorts of random facts and material on basically every topic there is, so it’s really up to you to decide how much you want to learn each day.
If you’re looking to learn something new on a regular basis, chances are you are already part of the subreddit fittingly titled ‘Today I Learned’, which is where we want to shed light on this beautiful day. On the list below, you will find numerous facts and stories, as shared by said community, so if you’re eager to scratch that itch in your brain, wait no longer and start reading, and make sure to upvote the pieces of information that intrigued you the most.
Below you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University, Dr. Tanya Kaefer, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions on learning.
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#1
A Challenger space shuttle engineer, Allan McDonald, raised safety concerns against the wishes of his employer & NASA. He was ignored; a fatal accident resulted. When McDonald spoke out, he was demoted by his company. Congress stepped in to help him. He later taught ethical decision making
Sky Render 1 year ago
He set the stage for "safe whistle-blowing". Which has since been completely undermined once more as unethical companies don't want to be called out on their misdeeds and want carte blanche to be able to punish those who call them on it.
Karl der Große 1 year ago
There are a lot of people who are so economically vulnerable that they would end up on the streets if they spoke up. I was in that situation myself once. I would speak up now if I had to, but having a union at my back helps give me courage.
Steve Nelson 1 year ago
Yes, about 90 miles away from here. Good old Box Elder county.
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Debra Newell 1 year ago
I remember where I was at the moment the “Challenger” exploded. I think everyone does. Absolute tragedy that could’ve been prevented.
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#2
An Olympian sold her silver medal to fund a boy's surgery. The buyer let her keep it
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
We live in a world where no one bats an eye at kids literally dying of starvation.
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Name names for pity's sake. Poland's Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk won her silver medal in the javelin throw at the Tokyo Olympics, 1921.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
Thank you for this. I feel the fact that this was 100 years ago is important.
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Michael Fernandez 1 year ago
Yes, U.S. healthcare is expensive, but this happened in Poland; Maria Andrejczyk.
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago
In Australia there is a billionaire who often buys war medals from well decorated service persons who face financial difficulties. He bids at auction. He then either gifts them back or gives them to the Australian War Memorial
Peter Bear 1 year ago
This is not a happy story. This is proof that we live in a horrible post-capitalist dystopia. Healthcare is a fundamental human right, and should be handled by the government that we pay for.
Michael Smith 1 year ago
When I was a kid I calculated the amount of silver and gold in such medals and decided it was insufficient to fund becoming an athlete. I was then puzzled as to how anyone could make a living at it.
Al Padilla 1 year ago
Universal health care is a very difficult thing to achieve. Only 22 of the 23 wealthiest countries have accomplished this.
#3
During the Apollo 13 mission, Jack Swigert realized he had forgotten to file his tax return. NASA contacted the IRS, who agreed that he was considered ‘out of country’ and therefore entitled to a deadline extension
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Now I'm thinking of that episode of Red Dwarf where Rimmer gets a huge tax bill from "Outland Revenue", and bemoans that him being a dead man three million years out into deep space won't stop them from finding him and breaking his thumbs.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
"Hey, our guy is in space. Can he have an extension?" "Uhh... sure. Seems unfair otherwise." "Hey, our guy in space nearly died. Can he have another extension?" "Okay, now you're making stuff up."
Turanga Leela 1 year ago
The Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through US customs when they returned from the moon and declare the lunar samples.
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
But on a US territorium, if only in the spaceship.
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In a recent interview with Bored Panda, assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University, Dr. Tanya Kaefer, seconded the idea that it’s up to each person to decide how much they want to learn each day.
“It is possible to learn something new every day, but learning is a choice, so whether or not you learn something every day is entirely up to you,” she said, adding that learning is how we do everything. “Everything we've done or know is something we've learned. There's no functioning without learning.”
#4
I learned that Mexico, which abolished slavery in 1837, refused the United States’ request to return escaped slaves back up north. Between 3,000 to 5,000 runaway slaves would flee to Mexico
Lila Allen 1 year ago
And then US citizens moved there and tried to turn it into a slave country. When that was unsuccessful they mounted an assault force and took a huge chunk of Mexico to be a slave state. That's how we got Texas.
Amy Manning 1 year ago
"Remember the Alamo" is really, "Remember the Slavery We Lost Out On"
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
When the Irish arrived in the US, many men were immediately conscripted to fight in the Mexican American War. Many of those soldiers ended up defecting to the side of the Mexicans when they realized how much better they were treated by their "enemies". Today in Mexico there are many memorials to fallen Irish soldiers who switched sides during the war.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
The Republic of Texas was founded by men from the southern US who brought their slaves to Mexico and then got mad that the Mexican government abolished slavery. The first of two North American countries founded primarily to protect the right of some humans to own other humans
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
There’s a square in Vienna named after Mexico, as it was the only country to complain about the Anschluss in 1938, when Germany ‘absorbed’ Austria.
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago
This says less about mexico and more the usa. Not in a good way. Trump and his eating pets indicate its still the usa that has issues
Ashlie Ann 1 year ago
Some of your comments are less than 24 hours old, and already deleted. Carefully think before you type.
Keith Lancaster 1 year ago
Slavery is a dirty mark on the history of people everywhere. I'm going to be brave here. Not just white people either. A lot of African people were complicit in the slave trade as well. We can never allow this to be forgotten by this or future generations it is far too important.
Andrew Irish 1 year ago
Idk that it's "brave" to say that. Every time people bring up slavery or white generational wealth, or white privilege, or any adjacent issue, some white person inevitably brings this point up. Like "well, we wouldn't have had slaves if Africans didn't sell them to us." Completely ignoring the massive boost up for white people ONLY that slavery proved to be. And as though it in anyway takes the blame off of white, U.S. slave owners. If I punch someone in the face, and then say, "well that guy over there punched this guy in the face first, the cops aren't going to be like, "good point, never mind, you must not be responsible for your behavior then." So seriously, why, is it so important to you to say this thing? People know, fragile white folks will never stop saying it...Are you afraid black people in Africa are suddenly going to start selling slaves? Or is it because you're uncomfortable acknowledging that you and I still profit from slavery and so you have to point at anyone else?
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Dashrath Manjhi, the "Mountain Man," spent 22 years carving a 110-meter path through a mountain using just a hammer and chisel. Motivated by grief after his wife died due to a long route to the hospital, he shortened the journey from 55 km to 15 km.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
There was a hard rock miner in the desert southwest of the US who did something similar. He spent years tunneling through a mountain so he could get to town more quickly. He finished just before dying of old age.
brett curtis 1 year ago
I doubt it was just one hammer and chisel I work with plastic and go thru a chisel a month
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
Fụck off, bastard. You people can't keep blaming everything on religion.
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Alanis Morrisette was dropped by her record label after disappointing sales of her first two albums. Her third album, Jagged Little Pill, is the 13th highest selling album of all time worldwide
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
It makes sense though. I'm not sure if people outside of Canada heard her early music, but it was not the same as what you heard on Jagged Little Pill & beyond. I was 10 when that album came out, and I remember before that her music was very contempo pop.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Her first two albums were very bubblegum funk. It’s like she finally found her niche with the third one
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Cat Chat 1 year ago
Gets better. I read your comment as "Jareds little pickle" 🤣
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StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
I loved that album, it was the first one I ever bought. I kind of missed the vibe in the albums that came after, though. Wasn’t the last one purely instrumental? Which is fine, obviously, but it’s quite some reinvention she’s gone through in her career.
Debra Newell 1 year ago
Everything happens for a reason. The record company who dropped her didn’t deserve her. Go Alanis !!!!! 🇨🇦
Discussing the benefits of browsing random facts, for instance, Dr. Kaefer pointed out that while doing so, it’s important to be aware that skimming the surface doesn’t make one an expert in the fields the facts relate to.
“Random, interesting, and fun facts can be fun and a good exercise for learning – just like our bodies, we have to exercise our brains too,” she pointed out. “For some serious, complex topics that greatly impact people's lives, having a shallow, un-nuanced understanding can be detrimental.
No one can know everything about everything, and it’s fine to choose to know a little bit about a lot of different things. You just have to be careful that you don't forget that you don't know everything about that topic.”
#7
Unescorted women prevented men from casually assaulting them in the early 1900s with a simple clothing accessory - the hat pin, and it was so effective as a weapon that laws were passed limiting it's length in many states
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
"Sorry ladies, we can't allow you to defend yourself too well or we'll never be able to assault you, and what sort of a society would that be!"
Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
I understand the part about limiting size. Long time ago in Germany only nobles could carry a sword. But it was a handy thing, so people wanted them. Now there is the tricky question - how do you define a sword? It was a problem, because there was a lot of long blades and a lot of short swords, so the answer was "sword has a sword handle". So, if that piece of metal has knife handle, it is not a sword, but a big knife. Let me present a kriegsmesser, the first two-hand "knife".
Birma Gustafsson 1 year ago
Well, we try to educate men today, but apparently we're doing such a bad job that most women rather meet a bear in the forest than a man in the streets. I say, we STILL need hat pins!
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
A lot of the Suffragettes in the UK took up ju-jitsu to help fend off policemen and other busybody men trying g to stop their protests.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
I had one of those and a couple old hats from antiqueing years ago. Unfortunately they got lost in a move. Had one of those old hat boxes too that was my grandma’s.
#8
At 15, Kara Robinson was kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer for 18 hours. She managed to escape after manipulating him to feel at ease. She later helped police to capture him because she had memorized details of her surroundings
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
A similar thing happened in South Africa in the '80s-1990. A serial killer, Gert van Rooyen, had abducted and killed a bunch of young female pre-teens (around 12-13 years old) with the help of his lover, Joey Haarhof. The girls would trust her and she'd turn them over to Van Rooyen, who'd sexually assault and murder them. But one teen, Joan Booysen, liked the TV show MacGyver and jimmied the lock and escaped. Van Rooyen and his girlfriend k!lled themselves before they could be arrested. Six of the girls they're believed to have abducted and killed are still missing.
smugdruggler 1 year ago
TIL. It always seems worse somehow when a woman is involved, but I feel like it shouldn't.
Justbecause 1 year ago
Its because women make up a much smaller portion of serial killers and crime in general.
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Big Chungus 1 year ago (edited)
A girl I had met at a family party had this happen to her before and was able to leave clues of herself around the woods for the police to find the bunker she was at. Her name is Elizabeth Shoaf, you can google and find out about her case.
R F. 1 year ago
Interesting AND fun is the title of this little collection. Explain yourself if you think this is both of those.
#9
There is a study that proves across 80 pairs of jeans that women pockets are generally half the size of men for the same brand. Only 40% of them can comfortably fit an iPhone X and only 10% can fit your entire hand. In comparison 100% of male jeans can fit both.
Libstak 1 year ago
This is despite the fact that almost every woman has complained about lack of pockets or small pockets daily, yearly since forever ago.
catastrophegirl 1 year ago
when i see women's clothing ads where the model has her fingertips in the pocket, i contact the company and tell them prove to me that it has decent sized pockets, i want to see ads with the model's hand in there up to their wrist at least. also, jc penney st johns bay jeans have pockets that hold my entire phone, my insulin pump, and my black and decker battery powered screwdriver. at the same time. in case you are looking for pockets
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
It’s a sad state of affairs that when people complimented me on my new dress and skirt, my first response every time was not, “thank you”, but “and it’s got pockets!”. Thank you Popsy…
Katchen 1 year ago
Where are these 40% of women’s jeans who can fit an iPhone X in the pocket? I want to go to this place.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago (edited)
I agree. Please name. And do they also have tall sizes? Because I need a 34 to 36 inch inseam and the mass market doesn’t believe women grow taller than about 5’6”
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David 1 year ago
I say this every time this or a similar comment is made, but women totally have the power to change this by voting with their money. The fashion industry is absolutely about profit. if the 40% of jeans with the larger pockets were the only ones that sold, the industry would adapt to keep sales up. There are companies like Radian jeans that focus on the larger pockets. There are also larger brands like Levi that have some women's jeans with larger pockets. https://radianjeans.com/
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
It’s because girls/women want to look as thin as possible and all the extra material for proper pockets would add bulges and weight in places they don’t want. That’s why we have purses and don’t carry things in our back pockets. Once you reach middle age and aren’t a celebrity you don’t care as much.
David 1 year ago
Mason, I agree that is why many of the skinny jeans keep selling. (Some) women lament tiny pockets in posts like this but a great many still wear those skin tight / "poured into them" fit jeans which are not compatible with large pockets. It is very rare to see a man wearing skin tight jeans. In both cases, the industry sells what it thinks the consumer will purchase. And they keep doing so year after year because women keep buying them.
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Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
My son’s pockets, as a young child, had bigger pockets than my adult women’s jeans. We demand reasonable sized pockets!!!
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
But I see women wearing cargo pants and they never put anything in the cargo pockets.
Pyla 1 year ago
My theory is that designers think women don't want things on their thighs. As the onset of no pockets came about when skinny jeans came to the fore. I mean, it could be they just didn't want to make pockets. I am not a scientist, but the pairing seems to be on par.
Mrs.C 1 year ago
Women's jeans never had decent pockets. It's a conspiracy to keep us buying purses.
Load More Replies...As many people turn to the internet for information, they should also bear in mind that it can become a double-edged sword. “The internet plays a role both good and bad in learning. We have access to a virtually unlimited source of information, but also a lot of misinformation,” Dr. Kaefer noted.
“Our learning mechanisms don't distinguish between true facts and made-up stories, so we have to take a whole separate route to check those things. And a lot of times, if a fact is fun, we forget to check whether it's true. So that's an important step in learning from the internet.”
#10
The "microwave-safe" label on plastic containers only means they won't melt or warp, and doesn't guarantee that chemicals won't leach into your food when heated
EM 1 year ago
I really admire the outstanding effort Bored Panda makes to match pictures to posts.
Kangaroo 1 year ago (edited)
Y’all gotta understand that spending time searching for the perfectly accurate photo on every single entry on every single post would take their writers too much time, and they use a lot of free stock photos so there isn’t always a perfect photo available. Sometimes good enough is good enough, if you can still understand the story then I wouldn’t whine about it 🤷♀️
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WorkAholic1 1 year ago
I've been eating out of plastic containers since my dad bought one of the first microwaves in our area in the late 70s/early 80s. I'm fine. (*eye twitches*)
Ashlie Ann 1 year ago
For some people on here - "Better to remain silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak, and to remove all doubt."
PattyK 1 year ago
Need banana for scale. These plastic containers look way too big to fit in a microwave.
Liam Farranree 1 year ago
Maybe they're called microwave-safe containers because they are big enought to safely contain your microwave.
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During the siege of Leningrad, scientists working at the world’s largest collection of seeds protected the seeds from the threats of the cold, the hungry residents of the besieged city, rats, and their own hunger. Twenty-eight of the botanists died during the siege, protecting their collection
Sindhu P 1 year ago (edited)
Some of the botanists who starved were Dimitri Ivanov, Alexander Stchukin, Liliya Rodina, M Steheglov, Georgi Kriyer, G Kovalesky, N Leontjevsky, A Malygina and A Kozrun. Also, the leader (Nikolai Vavilov), was accused of 'anti-Soviet scientific practices' and was starved to death by an a-hole called Lysenko
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Lysenko was a nut and the father of “Soviet science,” which wasn’t actual science.
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Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
An estimated 1.5 million people died as a result of the siege. At the time, it was not classified as a war crime,[13] however, in the 21st century, some historians have classified it as a genocide, due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population. Wikipedia ^^ Describing the residents as hungry doesn't quite capture the event.
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
My mother was a child living in Odessa during the Russian made food shortage that resulted in people starving. My great great grandmother died of starvation during this time. My mother's sister, who was older, was working in some collective. She took one potato to give to my great grandmother who asked her for help. My aunt, mother's sister, was berated for this as she was told this potato was a seed potato for the next crop. Terrible times. Look up The Holodomor to learn more about this Russian made famine.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Probably an emergency apocalypse store of highly nutritional crops and other plants considered vital in case the war either never ended or continued until most of humanity was extinct. Very much could have been a possibility if the Nazis had been a little bit faster in thier atomic bomb research
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I believe that Germans offered safe passage for civilians if Soviets would surrender. They declined, hence years long siege. Same occured at Stalingrad. Neither of the cities were strategically positioned nor military important. They were named after two of the biggest nutters in history, so it was matter of prestige that they cannot fall. Regardless the cost of human lives. Because in Soviet union, human lives don't matter.
Lyoness 1 year ago
I think this is a rather broad and inaccurate statement about an entire group of people that doesn't have any basis in fact. Source: Russian emmigrant family.
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Key West declared independence from the United States in 1982, then declared war, then immediately surrendered to apply for foreign aid, after being frustrated by the lack of response from the US government to complaints about a roadblock
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago (edited)
“The Conch Republic (also known as Key West and the Florida Keys) like many nations was born from trouble. The trouble started back in the dark days of March 1982, when the U.S. Federal Government placed a Border Patrol Roadblock at the Last Chance Saloon in Florida City. A seventeen mile traffic jam immediately ensued as the Border Patrol stopped every car leaving or entering the Keys, supposedly searching for illegal d***s and aliens who might be hiding under the front seats, in glove compartments, and in trunks. The media starting reporting on the unprecedented action of the Border Patrol in setting up a Border Roadblock within the United States, itself (after all, most everyone believed that the Florida Keys were indeed part of the United States!) As the stories of the traffic jam poured out across the nation and the world, visitors started canceling reservations to come to the Keys.”
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
“Community leaders started to gather around Mayor Dennis Wardlow to decide what to do. The very lifeblood of a budding tourism industry was threatened and Secessionist talk was bubbling up in each discussion. At the urging of David Paul Horan, the legal route was chosen as the first alternative and an injunction was filed against the government’s action in Federal Court in Miami. The court essentially refused to enjoin the US Federal Government’s Border Patrol from treating the Keys like a foreign country. When the Key West delegation left the courthouse, they were met by a gaggle of the world press asking “What are you going to do, Mr. Mayor?” and Mayor Wardlow replied “We are going to go home and secede” and thus the Conch Republic was born.“
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Pencil McGovern 1 year ago
The city has an annual celebration commemorating it and the motto is: We Seceded Where Others Failed.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
Yes, I was thinking the same. Read the book as a teen, many decades ago.
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PHOTOBOB 1 year ago
No worries. We are working on getting a wall built along our northern border to keep our Florida, Florida.
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Howard Hughes was a chronic insomniac who wanted to watch movies on TV when most people were asleep, but when he first arrived in Las Vegas he discovered that it had no all-night TV stations. So he purchased a local station in 1967 and turned it into a 24/7 channel.
Liam Farranree 1 year ago
Hughes was obesessed with the movie Ice Station Zebra and would have the station play it repeatedly. Sometimes he would nod off for a while in the middle of it and when he woke up he would phone the station to tell them to play it again from the begining. I like to imagine how many times TV viewers in Las Vegas were watching this movie approach it's climax only to see the opening credits play as the movie began again from the start.
HTakeover 1 year ago
"So the secret double agent was actually...." *kzchzchk* "Separation at 04:29:45 Zulu"
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geezeronthehill 1 year ago
Hughes was "fairly " sane until he crashed one too many airplanes. He was his own test pilot, btw. Quite possibly he got traumatic brain injury. No treatment, spiral into the twilight zone.
#14
Chinstrap penguins take more than 10,000 micro-naps a day, lasting an average of 4 seconds, for a total of more than 11 hours of daily sleep
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Apparently my dad becomes a penguin whenever he sits on the couch.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
I feel sorry for the person sitting there having to count all those micro-naps.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
I always thought teleportation was the ultimate superpower, but I have now decided that it is micronaps
Lara Verne 1 year ago
It would be cool if I could catch up on lack of sleep this way when I'm at work. I had to wake up at four in the morning and I'm so tired.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
I swore when my grocery store closed, I was front end manager, that I was never getting up at o’f**k thirty again
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Roger Fisher, a Harvard Law School professor who proposed putting the US nuclear codes inside a person, so that the president has no choice but to take a life to activate the country's nuclear weapons
elmortero 1 year ago
Maybe best would be that the person is the president. Would make them think twice before launching, and show patriotism /s
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
I actually think that’s a pretty damn good idea. Means you’ll have only selfless leaders prepared to die for the sake of humanities survival instead of power hungry rich idiots.
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Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
To the idiots who keeo saying "but nukes kill lots of people": yeah, they kill lots of INVISIBLE people. The point is that it's not so f****n' easy to kill a guy in cold blood when you have to look him in the eye.
Bookworm 1 year ago
I have this Tumblr post bookmarked; same point, different reference https://mylordshesacactus.tumblr.com/post/758710749221748736
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Peter Bear 1 year ago
I support this entirely. Implant the codes into the sitting President, and do it in such a way that they will have to sacrifice their own life in order to authorize the firing.
JL 1 year ago
How exactly would that work? The person didn't die to put the codes in, so it seems like they could be extracted non-fatally. Would the president have to get the codes out personally? If not, then having someone else get the codes out defeats the point of this.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Yes. The idea is that the President would have to personally stab the guy in the chest to get the codes.
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#16
Borat's first movie was banned in Kazakhstan but when the second was released they made a tourism campaign around "Very Nice!"
BrunoVI 1 year ago
I always thought that nearly everything Borat did was savagely unjust. First, he cowardly backed out of making fun of Bosnia for fear the Muslims would kill him, and instead chose to pick on a nation where Christians, Jews and Muslims have been living together in remarkable harmony. Then he goes and makes people look like racists, xenophobes, etc., precisely because they tolerate the racism, xenophobia, etc., in the foreigner.
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After his death, it was revealed that Stan Lee, famous Marvel Comics writer, suffered Elder Abuse from various handlers and family members who alienated him from the other part of his family and fired his accountants, lawyers, and caretakers that have been with him for decades
Jacob Ross 1 year ago
That came to light a couple years before he died. I read an open letter from someone close to him begging him I cut ties with certain people. I don't know if the letter author was an abuser or someone genuinely trying to help.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Mickey Rooney was another famous victim. There's speculation that Stephen Hawkings' second wife was abusive, but nothing proven.
Juley Clark 1 year ago
It was elder abuse in other words the abuse started after he was 65 years old
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Mozart died at 35, and wrote 800 pieces, 22 pieces every year he lived
Pernille 1 year ago
Sometimes I'll think of this and get sad, imagine if he had lived to 80, all the wonderful music we would have. I'also think he would have loved the '80 and '90 , where electronic instruments were perfected, and punk was alive.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
Just imagine what he would have done with an electric guitar.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
If memory serves, he started composing at age 4, and a piece he wrote at age 8 is still being played today. He sure had the music in him! One can't help but wonder if he would have continued to compose such delightful music, or if he would have lost his touch.
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You always forget to count the 9 months Mozart spent in his mother's womb, as notes in her diary state that he allegedly had developed very rhythmically....🎼
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
It didn't really break down quite like that; I doubt he wrote anything that made the Köchel catalog before he was 3, and I'm sure there were a couple of years where he wrote over 100 pieces
Hugh Crawford 1 year ago
I suspect there were more of them in the later years than in the early years
#19
Abraham Lincoln and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank in 1840. It was reported that this wasn't his first time doing this to prevent a vote
Robert T 1 year ago
And situated in America. You'd hurt yourself if you jumped out of a first floor window here!
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Andy Frobig 1 year ago
He looks so rough because he'd been partying with Keith Richards
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Was the window open? Or did they severely cut themselves on broken glass?
Bryn 1 year ago
They were ones that you lift up and they were opened... They didn't break them like in the movies
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Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira attempted to create an ideal human being through her daughter, Hildegart. Hildegart read at 2, spoke 4 languages at 8, joined law school at 13, becoming professor there at 18. Her mother [took her life] her when she tried to run away.
ENSJ 1 year ago
Paraphrasing but her mother's reasons were: Once a sculptress identifies even the slightest of imperfections in her work, she destroys it. She never regretted doing it and said she'd do it again if presented the same circumstances. She never considered her daughter as an individual but a project that was an extension of herself. Horrible.
TribbleThinking 1 year ago (edited)
I posit to the mother that she should apply the same solution to imperfections in herself.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
"Her mother [took her life] her..." is really clunky. "Her mother [unalived] her..." scans much better.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
Yeah. I thought it was saying the mother took her own life, at first. All censoring does in this whole "unalive" nonsense is force people to make up new words.
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Barbara Wilcock 1 year ago
I read this as 'the mother 'took her own life. Please can we go back to using real words please
meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
Is took her life supposed to be softer than murdered? Does bored panda not understand that words convey meaning and the reason we have so many is so we can use one word to describe something rather than three. Every time they censor something my head just think f**k f**k f*k penis pen is balls arsehole shite p**s winky buttfuck a**s hole bucket of wank
Barbara Wilcock 1 year ago
They censor everything, but WANK is fine! Dont this they are the smartest cookie in the cookie jar 🙄
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Trophy Husband 1 year ago
Holy c**p that took a dark turn.. at first I was like wow she raised a genius, and then I was like wow she's an insane monster
ManuelQue 1 year ago
I found some more information on Wikipedia. Aurora conceived Hildegart as a eugenics experiment. As Hildegart grew and her accomplishments increased Aurora became increasingly paranoid that some secret police force would interfere. Hildegart was shot when she tried to claim independence. Aurora was institutionalized til the end of her life. Poor Hildegart. Born to be an experiment. ☹️
#21
In a feat of rage, Emperor Hadrian once stabbed a slave in the eye with a pen. Feeling regretful whe he calmed down, Hadrian called the slave and told him to ask for literally anything as compensation. The slave replied "i just want my eye back"
Liam Farranree 1 year ago
and that slave's distant decendant would be Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride,
Peter Bear 1 year ago
This reminds me slightly of the story of Caesar Augustus, who was told that the people had elevated him to godhood. Reportedly, he got quite angry about it and asked 'And when some poor man prays to me to cure his gout, what am i supposed to do about it?'
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
I would have asked for the emperor to poke out one of his own eyes. Couldn't think of a more perfect moment to say "an eye for an eye."
Thiago Gonsalves 1 year ago
There was a risk for the slave on becoming completely blind lol
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#22
Charles de Gaulle was not told about the D-Day landings until 2 days before as the British and French leaders did not believe the French could keep the information secret
Michael Largey 1 year ago
More likely they feared he would insist on a voice in the planning, which he would have. Or maybe they just hated talking to him, which they did.
BrunoVI 1 year ago (edited)
Worse. FDR considered him a crackpot junior dictator. This is a harsh condemnation coming from FDR, whose proteges frequently sided with anti-colonial future dictators who largely ended up communist revolutionaries. There was a damned good reason so many Americns believed the assertion that the State Department was crawling with communists; they couldn't've bungled their way into forming more communist dictatorships if they were trying their hardest. So for FDR of all people to hold this opinion of De Gaulle.... Yikes! It's like finding out Trump finds you tacky about money. But Eisenhower saw De Gaulle as a puppet, useful for restoring France's sense of identity. However, OP is pretty accurate in a very technical sense: they believed the French code use was primitive and likely to be decoded by Germans.
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Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
It was probably due to the D-day crossword scare the less time they knew the less likely it might get leaked since they thought this was a leak. https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/the-great-d-day-crossword-puzzle-scare-of-1944/
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
🎶Got a secret, can you keep it? Swear, this one you'll save Better lock it in your pocket Taking this one to the grave🎶
Load More Replies... Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
Apparently De Gaulle blabbed to his taylor in London, who couldn't keep their mouth shut either.
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago
French loyalty. It is understandable. They never told other Allies either
#23
20% of scientific genetics research papers have errors due to Microsoft Excel's auto-formatting of gene names into dates
elmortero 1 year ago
Or due to the researchers not know how to properly format columns so Excel DOESN'T confuse gene names with dates
BookFanatic 1 year ago
I'm working with an Excel sheet today. It keeps trying to change the letter F to F-A, F-B, F-C etc. Think I'm going to go with the fact it's obviously possessed.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Excel has been possessed since its inception. This is not news
Load More Replies... David Shaw 1 year ago
Or due to researches who don't understand that Excel is NOT A FREAKING DATABASE!
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
Select column, right mouse click, select "format ", select "general", problem solved
Kaia Martin 1 year ago
well if you use excel correctly it makes many tasks way way easier than they were, but it does make mistakes, just like humans
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A young couple in Japan divorce and remarry each other every 3 years to take turns using their family names, all because they can't come into agreement on which last name to use
Kika González 1 year ago
That is the best response I have heard to anything in a while.
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Linus Nilsson 1 year ago
Oh, now it's in Japan! I've read this story three times recently, this is the first time I've gotten a location! Still no sources though...
James016 1 year ago
I would suggest double-barrelling but they would probably quarrel over which surname goes first
rullyman 1 year ago
It's not possible with Japanese databases and family records. You have to pick one or the other
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JoeKing 1 year ago
All that effort and expense.. Why? Just keep your own name if it's really an issue..
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
It's a requirement under Japanese law that both partners in a marriage have the same surname.
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Wily Canadian 1 year ago
In Japan, if its amicable or agreed to by the couple, you can get a divorce by paying a minimal admin fee and filling out the paperwork required. No courts, lawyers or judges costs required. My brother just got divorced last year there and was shocked. Usually any process there is so convoluted but not for divorce. I think it only took weeks to accomplish as well. No waiting period if they both wanted it.
#25
DJ scratching was invented in 1975 when Grand Wizzard Theodore was playing records loudly, making his mother to enter his room to scold him. This caused him to hold the record still, accidentally moving it back and forth and liking the sound it made
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Unrelated, but the word ‘Wizzard’ always reminds me of Rincewind, a wizard so inept he can’t even spell the word correctly - GNU Terry Pratchett
Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
So her scolding had the exact opposite effect of quiet the h*ll down.
Anonymouse 1 year ago
notice how "Grand Wizzard" and "mother enters his room" are closely connected in the sentence...
#26
The 2010 Flash Crash, during which the US stock market temporarily lost $1 trillion in value, was partly caused by Navinder Sarao, an autistic man living in his parents' London home. In a span of 5 years, Sarao made a profit of $40 million by tricking high frequency traders with custom software
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
And we really let these silly imaginary numbers dictate and ruin our lives.
Robert T 1 year ago
Liz Truss had a really good go at trying to beat that recently! And she managed it in less time than it took an iceberg lettuce to go bad.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
Note to self: Learn how to trick high frequency traders with custom software.
Spidercat 1 year ago
Really wasn't mate. He made £40M and spent around 10K... Which he had in his own savings. He was genuinely fascinated by numbers and computers and couldn't help messing with loopholes that he could see in a system but that the entire banking community had missed... some autistic people LITERALLY cannot be judged by common morality because their brains are wired totally differently. Besides, blanket statements like yours are generally unhelpful. Read up on the jaggedness principle.
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71 year old Bernard Gore was supposed to meet his wife and daughter in a mall in Sydney after first doing a little shopping himself. Instead, he exited a mall door leading to a stairwell labyrinth and was found dead 3 weeks later failing to find his way out
Libstak 1 year ago
This was heart breaking then and now, how the heck did it take 3 weeks? Security did not do their jobs, cleaning staff too and nobody oversaw any of it.
HTakeover 1 year ago
An inquest found a series of miscommunications between security who each thought someone else had checked certain stairwells and recordings so marked them down as having been checked. Basically, massive f*ckup by security AND police who also did not search the stairwells.
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Kari Panda 1 year ago
I just read up on it and there were self locking doors, plus he apparently had dementia (it didn‘t say how badly).
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
Mr. Ballen told this story on his channel. There are quite a few more details. It's a horrifying story. :(
A Jones 1 year ago
A trick to this is to only follow the right side of the walls. Tedious, but works. I create virtual 2d (left or right) and 3d labyrinths (up, down, left, right) for video games in my spare time and this method is pretty solid.
Michael Smith 1 year ago
Only works if there are no loops or cycles. When I created mazes in school they always had loops.
Load More Replies... ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Read a story recently about it, don't remember the exact number but it was several miles of stairs and tunnels
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
What kind of a building has a "stairwell labyrinth" which lacks any exit doors? This sounds made up.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Self locking doors. Which is even more frightening. How the actual F**K did this end up getting built in the first place? Nobody looked at the blueprints and thought “hmmm. This seems like a bad idea?” That poor man
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Rebecca Lenaghan 1 year ago
Read the full story before blaming snyone but the mall themselves
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The Goths besieging Constantinople in 378 AD were left stunned when one of the defenders stormed out of the city completely naked, decapitated one of the attackers and proceeded to drink the blood from his neck
Liam Farranree 1 year ago
This spectacle so traumatized the Goths that they've been gloomy and brooding ever since.
Pyla 1 year ago
They don't call it Shreikback, Dead Can Dance, or Death in June for nuthin'
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David 1 year ago
1) To be precise it was a Saracen Mercenary. Emperor Valens hired many Arab Tribes, called Saracens as Cavalry Mercenaries to hep him in his war against the Goths. 2) He was not naked, not did he storm out alone. A Goth patrol came very close to the City Walls, and a counter patrol of Saracens was sent out to attack, and the Saracens slaughtered the Goths, after, one single Arab Mercenary drank the blood from the neck of a wounded dying Goth while the others did war chants, the only people who saw this were the defenders of Constantinople, not the Goths, and the Christians assumed it was a Pagan ritual as most of the Arabs were Pagans
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The Byzantine Empire once included Transylvania, and if this defender came out at night ...
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
TBF I think seeing something like that would leave anyone a trifle disconcerted.
#29
Until earlier this year it was legal for apartments in Austin, Texas to have no windows, and that landlords often didn't disclose this in advertisements
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
I love when people post stuff without context. (simplified)This was an IBC f**k up that made it possible for builders to make cheap student housing on the west campus with no windows. They tried to get around it by installing all kinds of fire safety, which probably cost the construction company way more than simply putting in windows. Some of the "windowless" apartments actually do have windows though. There are windows in the studio-style kitchen/ living room area, but nowhere else.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Reminds me of the old ‘window tax’ in the 18th century - that led to all kinds of unforeseen related long-term issues too.
Donna Leske 1 year ago
My house was built in 1941 and lived in by the owner-builder and his family. In the 60s our power company had a promotion on installing new energy efficient windows (low-cost or free?). He selected double-glazed PICTURE windows for all 5 downstairs rooms. They don't open thus no ventilation unless you leave the door(s) open. I am the second owner, purchased in 2004, I did not notice that the windows didn't open until I'd lived there awhile. In 2006 I took out the (hated) picture windows in the back bedrooms and installed French doors. Still have to be open for venting I'll admit, but now I have egress in case of fire.
Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
I realize Im going to live in a room with one tiny window.... its almost a large couboard
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
Remember the rich guy who tried to force a southern California university to build a student living building? No windows in most rooms AND not nearly enough exits in case of fire. Wonder if that every got built.....
#30
The Last Of Us accidentally contains an IRL phone number, that leads directly to an adult hotline service
Cat Chat 1 year ago
If it's not a "555” prefix in the number, there's a chance it's real and people will definitely check it out.
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#31
Modesty was the reason stethoscope was invented by by René Laennec because he was not comfortable placing his ear directly onto a woman's chest in order to listen to her heart
PattyK 1 year ago
But it was not like today’s stethoscope with long rubber or plastic tubes connecting all the pieces. Laennec’s stethoscope was just a short wooden tube, one end of which was placed on the patient’s chest and the doctor placed his ear on the other end.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
His stethoscope: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17048358/#&gid=article-figures&pid=figure-1-uid-0
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When the 1930s musician Russ Columbo died from an accidental gunshot, his siblings went to great lengths to conceal the news from his mother, who had a heart condition. They wrote fake letters from him and used records to simulate his radio show. This continued until she died a decade later
G A 1 year ago
Amazing no one said anything in passing or thar a comment in a paper didn't cone up though. Unless she was bedbound and didn't have any visitors
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
I looked it up. According to Wikipedia she was hospitalised at the time of his death due to the heart condition. Unfortunately nor further details there - but I imagine that after two weeks or so and after it was ruled an accident it was old news and wasn't much discussed in public any more. It may also have helped that he was the *12th* of his parents' kids. His siblings actively helped with the deception and distracted mum.
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Michelle Kwan is the most decorated figure skater in US history. She is also the US ambassador to Belize.
#34
In Sparta, after the wedding, brides would have their hair cut short and be dressed in men's clothing so that they would appear less threatening to their groom during the wedding night.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
🤣😂😂🤣😆🤣😂women looking threatening to men, on their wedding night, hilarious 😂 how are we sooooo threatening
#35
Alcohol isn't allowed on the International Space Station. It's not banned purely for intoxication or health risk. It's banned because alcohol is a volatile compound which can damage the ISS' water filtration system. NASA also bans mouthwash, aftershave and perfumes for this same reason
keyboardtek 1 year ago
And one has to adjust to spaceship air in the spacestation. It is a stale metallic smelling recycled chemically produced form of air.
#36
That 'Animal House' was able to film at the University of Oregon largely because the University's President had previously refused to allow 'The Graduate' to film there due to "lack of artistic merit"
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Apparently because after the Graduate went on to become a classic, he was determined not to make the same mistake twice.
B Jones 1 year ago
Thanks, this addition makes the rest of the post more understandable
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
The Board of Trustees had put that president on double secret probation for turning down "The Graduate", and he wasn't about to risk that again.
#37
Australian Senator Bill Heffernan in 2014 felt that the new security arrangements at Parliament House were inadequate. To protest this, he smuggled in a fake pipe bomb and presented it at a Senate hearing as proof that the building was "no longer secure"
#38
The Million Dollar 1988 McDonalds record winner was 13, had his mom claim it, she squandered a good chunk of it, had her BF steal what was left, lost his mom 10 years later, doesn’t talk to his sister and now trims trees
#39
After John Ruffo was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison, his bail was set at $10 million. Most of his immediate family put their houses up as collateral to make bail. Ruffo then disappeared and the homes of his wife, mother, mother-in-law, and others were seized by the government
Carla Phillips 1 year ago
Why would he have been given bail after he was convicted and sentenced?
Nicola Mawson 1 year ago
Erm, why was it he allegedly did for those of us who aren't American?
Fred L. 1 year ago
Apparently fraud, in the hundreds of millions. Think by comparison the bail was laughably low.
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#40
Japan's monarchy is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world, recognizing 126 monarchs, and dating back to February 11, 660BCE with mythical beginnings. However, the current dynasty has no name and it's members have no family name and are simply referred to as the Imperial House
Lexi 1 year ago
This title only passes to males and the current Emperor only has a daughter, so it will pass to his younger brother the Crown Prince, then on to his only son. There are no other heirs until the teen age Prince Hisahaito gets married and hopefully has a son.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
What would they do if every possible heir was female?
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#41
French pirate Olivier Levasseur allegedly tossed a necklace containing a puzzle that leads to his treasure into a crowd of people moments before his execution. He told the crowd to go find it if they can
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Apparently there is a cryptogram many think was originally from said necklace - however, many have searched for the treasure and found very little. The cipher itself was first mentioned in the 1934 book Le Flibustier mysterieux: Histoire d’un trésor caché by Charles de La Roncière. No mention of Levasseur's supposed cryptogram, his necklace, or his gallows speech occurs in period sources. Modern historians of piracy regard the legend as a 20th century fiction. As always, thank you, Wikipedia.
Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 1 year ago
Thank you for looking this up and letting us know!
Load More Replies... TribbleThinking 1 year ago
Or he could just be a windup merchant, getting his revenge on the tasteless crowd ogling his death.
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Pirates didn't bury treasure, they SPENT it. In Tortuga and other port cities. On alcohol, clothes, weapons, and women.
#42
Due to a disfunction of the ABCCII gene the majority of Asians have significantly less body odor than other populations
Adam Jeff 1 year ago
'Disfunction'? How exactly is being less smelly a disfunction? Given that there are more Asians than non-Asians in the world, it seems problematic to call their version a disfunction and assume the Western version to be the default.
Natalie Bohrteller 1 year ago
It's a gene that is dysfunctional, meaning that it just doesn't work, it's out of order. Genes that don't work can have positive outcomes. Nobody said that being less smelly is a disfunction. Nobody said Asians are dysfunctional. If you don't understand science, just don't comment.
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#43
The tensor tympani muscle is a muscle within the middle ear that some people can voluntarily contract to produce a "rumbling" noise that only they can hear
*raspberry sound 1 year ago
I can do this, but more than anything, it rumbles when I'm overstimulated or when someone's voice triggers it.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
I can do that although I have no idea how. It's the same rumbling you hear when you yawn.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
I can't do it voluntarily (afaik, anyway; at least, I've never figured out how), but it does happen on its own sometimes. It not only makes a rumbling sound, but it feels like a little tickle deep in my ear canal. It gives me the shivers and I love it!
#44
The largest airline food poisoning incident occurred on Japan Airlines en route to Denmark after 197 fell ill from infected omelettes. Due to limited Japanese/Danish translators, Japanese speaking restaurant staff were recruited from Copenhagen to serve as medical translators
Richard Graham 1 year ago
Elaine: Doctor, Mr. Hammen ate fish, and Randy said there are five more cases, and they all had fish, too. Rumack: And the co-pilot had fish. What did the navigator have? Elaine: He had fish. Rumack: All right, now we know what we're up against. Every passenger on this plane had fish for dinner will become violently ill in the next half hour. Elaine: Just how serious is it? Rumack: Extremely serious. It starts with a slight fever and dryness of the throat. [Oveur starts suffering from these] When the virus penetrates the red blood cells, the victim becomes dizzy, begins to experience an itchy rash... [Oveur suffers from those as well] ...then the poison goes to work on the central nervous system, severe muscle spasms followed by the inevitable drooling. [Oveur also suffers from these] At this point, the entire digestive system collapses, accompanied by uncontrollable flatulence. [Oveur does] Until finally, the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering, wasted piece of jelly. [Oveur collap
Richard Graham 1 year ago
Rumack: What was it we had for dinner tonight? Elaine Dickinson: Well, we had a choice of steak or fish. Rumack: Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.
Richard Graham 1 year ago
Rumack: The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing: finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
It happened in 1975. It may be worth noting that the investigation fell under the authority of United States Public Health Service (I guess because the plane had started in Anchorage, Alaska). One of the cooks who had prepared the food had infected lesions, found to be infected with the staphylococci. "Japan Air Lines' catering manager, 52-year-old Kenji Kuwabara, committed suicide upon learning that the incident had been caused by one of his cooks. He was the only fatality." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_food_poisoning_incident
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
According to Wikipedia it happened in 1975. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_food_poisoning_incident
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#45
Several elite colleges took nude photos of every incoming freshman from 1940s to 1970s including many famous people
Richard Graham 1 year ago
Here, copy and pasted, is the Wikipedia article: "Ivy League nude posture photos" The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania (which are members of the Ivy League) and Seven Sisters colleges (as well as Swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population. The photos are simple black-and-white images of each individual standing upright from front, back and side perspectives.[1][2] Harvard previously had its own such program from the 1880s to the 1940s.[2] The larger project was run by William Herbert Sheldon and Earnest Albert Hooton, who may have been using the data to support their theory on body types and social hierarchy.[1][3]
#46
The oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, who remarked that certain "barbarous nations" knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity".
#47
"Commotio cordis" is a heart failure that occurs if you get hit in the chest at just the right time, causing a disturbance in the electrical impulses. It directly affects your heart rhythm and in most cases kill with a 3 minute window to treat
MagicJacket 1 year ago
Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills, live on TV. Happy result though, as the on-site EMTs saved his life.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Miran Schrott, unintentionally killed by Jim Boni in January 1992. [ https://vault.si.com/vault/1993/12/06/a-cruel-blow-a-seemingly-harmless-slash-to-the-chest-resulted-in-the-death-of-a-hockey-player-in-italy-now-jimmy-boni-will-go-on-trial-for-manslaughter ]
#48
Roman Emperor Caligula would torment his senators by making them run in front of his chariot for miles. He also was so hairy that he made it a capital offense to mention goats in his presence
Linus Nilsson 1 year ago
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING regarding Caligula must always be read with a huge amount of salt. It's a known problem with roman emperors that their history is written after their death, and by rich people. If an emperor made reforms promoting the poor at the cost of the rich, they would have all sorts of lies written about them afterwards.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
You mean like when a Democratic president makes a policy that limits how much the rich can gouge the poor, and then Republicans refer to that president as being a "socialist/communist" in the history books they publish in Texas?
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
"But Calig, baby, when I said GOAT, I meant you were the Greatest Of All Time, of course!"
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
So mentioning sea otters - TIAL that apparently they are the hairiest animals - was fine?
#49
When Ben Stiller decided to play the lead role in Tropic Thunder himself, Tom Cruise called him & said that "he just couldn't get the script out of his mind" & asked him "What else is open?" Stiller suggested the role which Cruise had actually invented, studio head Les Grossman, and he took it
JP Doyle 1 year ago
This is the only Tom Cruise role I can think of where he is actually acting and not playing Tom Cruise.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
I can't stand Tom Cruise, but even I had to begrudgingly admit he was actually funny in that movie (I love Tropic Thunder).
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#50
Major orange juice producers add chemical fragrances called "flavor packs" to their juice to provide the signature taste of their brand because OJ loses its flavor during pasteurization and de-oxygenation
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
One more reason to eat an orange every morning rather than drink juice
B Jones 1 year ago
Nah, better to squeeze a lemon into your beer every morning like Lord Joer Mormont in game of thrones
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On being rejected by the only woman he ever proposed to, Lord William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness, took a vow of celibacy, allowing his noble titles to go extinct upon his death in 1995
#52
Why Election Day in the US is on a Tuesday: so farmers could get to the polls and still have time to get their crops to market.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
What makes ZERO sense about yank election is that they have TWO MONTHS between election day and inauguration, yet they demand FINAL results within 20 minutes of the polls closing. Meanwhile actual democracies in Canada and across Europe will count and recount paper ballots twice within a week, and swear in a new government within ten days of the election.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Republicans need the extra time between the election and the inauguration to manufacture all their false claims of election fraud. Note: The only fraud ever found was done by Republicans.
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Stephen Lyford 1 year ago
We need to do election season like they do in the UK: cannot campaign until 6 weeks before election day. Spare us all of the ugly ads and news!
Paulina 1 year ago (edited)
Any explanation for people from MOST of the world, which is not USA? Wtf has a day off the week to do with crops?... Your wheat matures only on Wednesdays or what? 😆 You could've just as well say something like "Election day is on Tuesday because Mary had a little lamb and pizza" - makes exactly the same amount of sense.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
You know what, this person from the US is just as confused. The post in no way explains why Tuesday matters here.
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A 20 year old man ended his life after thinking he lost $750,000 on an options bet on the stock trading app Robinhood
The day after Alex took his own life, Robinhood sent an automated email suggesting the trade had been resolved and he didn't owe any money.
"Great news!" The email read, "We're reaching out to confirm that you've met your margin call and we've lifted your trade restrictions. If you have any questions about your margin call, please feel free to reach out. We're happy to help!"
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This sounds eerily similar to the Robo Debt crisis we had in Australia, except it took way longer for them to admit their mistake. People on government assistance payments were told they owed huge amounts of money, based on the computer determining their average pay etc. Many people took their own lives because they couldn't pay it.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
Thankfully mine was small and able to be disputed and cleared up, I can't imagine the feeling of being told "You owe us $20,000+"
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Miyairi Norihiro is a modern legendary Japanese swordsmith who became the youngest person qualify as mukansa and won the Masamune prize in 2010. However, none of his blades are recognized as an ōwazamono as his blades would need to be tested on a cadaver or living person
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Time and time again I get surprised by the vast amount of eclectic trivia that man stored and processed 😄 GNU, Sir Pterry
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The codes which allow the President of the U.S. to authorize a nuclear attack are printed on a plastic card nicknamed "the biscuit." The president is supposed to carry the biscuit at all times
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
The terrifying thing is that this kind of power is left in the hands of literally one person: the POTUS. The secretary of defence is required to verify the order once given, but cannot veto it. And POTUS can authorise it even if no one attacked the US first - I just do not trust Trump with this kind of power. Apparently historically the authority is often delegated to a number of military officers, but somehow I can’t imagine Donald giving up this ‘power’
Stephen Lyford 1 year ago
More like they're not SUPPOSED to veto it. Anyone in the chain of command can refuse an order if they believe it to be unlawful or illegal.
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Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago
Fark it, I'll say it. MARINA DRISCOLL and R.A HALEY are stupid farkwits. How'd y'all get to be so dumb? How do you hold these ideas in your head and also, somehow, manage to operate a keyboard?
Anonymouse 1 year ago
And Bill Clinton lost them for months! https://abcnews.go.com/WN/president-bill-clinton-lost-nuclear-codes-office-book/story?id=11930878
flar@pa.metrocast.net 1 year ago
Yeah, cause Trump used it last time he was in office, I'm sure he will do it again StarCrossedFriday
#56
Coolio was actually in his early 30s when he recorded Gangsta's Paradise, and its iconic line "I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things is goin' I don't know"
Jacob Ross 1 year ago
Coolio was also reportedly upset with Weird Al's senup of the song, titled "Amish Paradise." The ironic thing is that while Coolio did write the lyrics to his own song, he used the instrumentals from Stevie wonder's pastime Paradise. His own song is essentially to Stevie Wonder song what weird Al's was to him
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago (edited)
To finish off the story, before Coolio died, he apologized to Weird Al for being mad about it, & they became friends. Coolio said he was later humbled when he thought about "mega stars" like Michael Jackson being spoofed & being fine with it. He stated it was his ego that got the best of him, and Weird Al even did a tribute for Coolio when he died. Edit for bad sentence structure (I'm tired & can't sleep)
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#57
Arnold Schwarzenegger Pays $1 To Warner Bros Every Year For His Infamous Mr. Freeze Costume From Batman And Robin.
Gabby M 1 year ago
After the filming of Batman & Robin wrapped, Schwarzenegger expressed a desire to keep his Mr. Freeze costume. However, movie props and costumes are typically the property of the production studio, in this case, Warner Bros. Instead of outright selling or gifting the costume to the actor, the studio came up with a unique solution. The terms of this agreement require the actor to pay the studio $1 per year for the privilege of keeping the costume in his possession. This arrangement has been ongoing since the late 1990s, meaning Schwarzenegger has been faithfully paying his dollar each year for over two decades. https://wegotthiscovered.com/celebrities/why-does-arnold-schwarzenegger-pay-warner-bros-1-every-year/
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#58
Germany built huge artillery during WW1 where each shot would wear out the gun so much that shells had increasing diameter and had to fired in the right order
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
After how many shots did the wear get so bad that the gun had to be abandoned?
#59
After his journey from Japan in 1614, English sailor John Saris returned home with 'Japanese erotic art'. The incident ended his career as a merchant.
HTakeover 1 year ago
They were already gunning for him, suspecting him of smuggling & trading on the company dime. Since they didn't have hard proof, instead they basically humiliated him by publicly announcing and burning his collection of erotic art, which sunk his credibility and made him a pariah.
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#60
The previous heir to North Korea is believed to have lost his position as the heir after he tried getting into Disneyland in Japan with a fake passport. He was then exiled from the country and later assassinated him in 2017 after many failed attempts
Fred L. 1 year ago
Quite ironic, consdering that the current head honcho and his father used fake passports for foreign travel purposes as well.
#61
Because American and British generals insisted The French unit that helped liberate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with soldier from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French
#62
Robert Shaw, who played Quint in Jaws, died at age 51 when he was driving with his wife and son in Ireland. He suddenly got ill, stopped the car, got out and collapsed on the roadside
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
When there's no other context provided, it usually means vomiting and/or diarrhea.
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There's a School in Washington State in which their school bus has to cut through Canada twice a day every day to take kids to and from school
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I have family living in a town on the Victorian side of the Vic/NSW border. To get to the town you have to cross into NSW or drive a further 1.5hrs. This made it difficult during Covid, when the borders were closed. My mum had to get permission to cross the border, which thankfully was approved.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
My mum and dad lived in Wodonga,vic, absolute nightmare, where the main hospital is in Albury, nsw...and medical specialists
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Point Roberts. There are three weird parts along the Canada/yank border, the others are the Northwest Angle (Manitoba and Minnesota) and Hyder, Alaska. Hyder is so small that the kids there go to school in Stewart, BC. They are on BC's phone network, not Alaska. The RCMP will take temporary jurisdiction if any crimes happen because the nearest Alaska town with cops is 100+km away, two hours by plane. It's a three kilometre drive from Stewart to Hyder. But when COVID hit, the border was closed, both countries failing to let Hyder be part of Canada's "bubble".
Kangaroo 1 year ago
I remember that. I live about half an hour away from Point Roberts on the Canada side. We felt so bad for them during Covid! They were stuck on their teeny tiny peninsula and couldn’t drive 5 minutes into Canada to get groceries and supplies, they had to take boats into Washington.
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Why would there be TSA agents for a school bus?
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Robin Williams was the one who suggested that Sid Meier‘s name should be put on each of his games
#65
The largest swimming pool in the US was so large, lifeguards needed rowboats to patrol it. Fleishhaker Pool, built in San Francisco in 1924, measured 1,000 x 150 feet, contained 6.5 million gallons of water, and could hold 10,000 swimmers. In 1999 it was turned into parking for the zoo
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Gotta give it to the US, they'll turn anything into a parking lot :) "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" - Joni Mitchell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWwUJH70ubM
Slowdown 1 year ago
A man-made pool is not paradise. It was already paved as a pool before it was a parking lot.
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Half an NFL football field wide and 3 and 1/3 NFL football fields long.
#66
In the 1800s, individuals secured government jobs through connections to presidents, not by merit. This practice ended after a disgruntled job-seeker assassinated President James A. Garfield, whom he believed owed him a government appointment
TFFFan328 1 year ago
Exactly! Nepo babies and donors buying their cabinet positions...
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#67
Hulk Hogan helped prevent Jesse Ventura from starting a wrestlers union
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Utterly predictable that the racist piece of sith would do that. And unsurprising that Ventura wanted to do that.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
But they're not actors. The matches are fixed, sure, and the trash talk is scripted, but they are actually athletes.
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Liam Farranree 1 year ago (edited)
After reading this I'll never again be able to see Iron Man's Hulk Buster without mentally inserting the word "Union"
#68
A 'needs repair' US supercomputer with 8,000 Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM was won via auction by a winning bid of $480,085.00
#69
David Cross (Tobias Funke Actor) has feuded with Larry the Cable Guy, James Lipton, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Creed's lead singer
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Are these from acting roles I hope? Kind of hard to feud with cartoon chipmunks and not look crazy.
Carrie B 1 year ago
He was in the movies and absolutely hated them. He's kind of a d!ck and not just because of that.
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In 2021, a single deli in New Jersey that was publicly traded managed to achieve a market capitalization of over $100 million despite doing only $35,000 in sales across two years. The deli's largest shareholder was the wrestling coach of the high school next door
Richard Graham 1 year ago
This is another example that the U.S. Stock Market is largely smoke and mirrors. I refuse to invest in stocks.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
This isn't exactly the stock market's fault, it was a deliberate fraud scheme.
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Really cool, but I will appreciate citations to strong evidence, or better yet, proof.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Really cool, but I will appreciate citations to strong evidence, or better yet, proof.
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