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“Today I Learned”: 40 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts)
Humanity has reached a point where you simply can’t afford to—let alone literally stop—learning things. The way the world spins and the cookie crumbles and the… things does that… thing it does… simply forces you into it, so you might as well embrace it.
Actually, you should embrace it, because pushing away the tide of ignorance is the only way we can win over stupidity, so go out there and become a shining light with all of this “Today I Learned” knowledge that we’re about to drop on you, courtesy of the “Today I Learned” subreddit.
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#1
In 1964 a Swedish journalist did an experiment where he had a chimpanzee named Peter make a series of pantings and then submitted them to an art show as by Pierre Brassau to see if critics could tell the difference between avant grande art and art by a chimp. Most critics fell for it.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
And some people also took photos of a pair of glasses dropped by accident. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/pair-of-glasses-left-on-us-gallery-floor-mistaken-for-art
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Annik Perrot 1 year ago (edited)
In 1910 in Montmartre, writer Roland Dorgeles tied à paintbrush to à donkey's tail, fed the donkey carrots, and presented the resulting paintings as the work of à young Italian painter named Boronali ("Aliboron" being then à popular name for donkeys, though the donkey in question was named Lolo) I can't find any article in English with my French phone, so just google Boronali. The most famous painting "Sunset onthe Adriatic" is even quite good. Sorry , not tech-savy enough to post it here, my attempt resulted in à lot of gibberish ☹️
TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago
The only problem I have with the art world is that the capitalists corrupted it into a money laundering racket.
Kimbowa 1 year ago (edited)
Are we sure that the banana taped to the wall wasn’t artwork created by a chimpanzee? Expressionism? Edit: punctuation.
Papa 1 year ago
I don't think so. The chimpanzee would have been smart enough to just eat the banana.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
In the 1930's, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels created an exhibition of "degenerate art", where Picasso's and Kandinski's hung next to paintings made in insane asylums by mental patients. It became the most successful exhibition of the time.
Daggie_style 1 year ago
What exactly is the point of critics in any industry. If the consumers like it that's all that matters. Talk about a made-up career
Lara Verne 1 year ago
Meanwhile in some art gallery, cleaning lady throw out rexpensive art, because she mistook it for a trashcan. Apparently it was intended to look like one.
Lainey 1 year ago
I like to remember the famous art exhibition, and the fire extinguisher that was on the wall. I don't know how many people ("art connoisseurs") wanted to buy this very useful device, thinking it was an extravagant piece of art.
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Eric Williams 1 year ago
Don't mock banana art or a banana's use as a measuring tool. It reveals who you really are.
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#2
Film composer John Williams is the most Oscar-nominated living person, with 54 nominations. He is also the first person to be nominated in seven consecutive decades.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
George Lucas: "It's just a futuristic fantasy about space wizards, you don't have to do anything too crazy." John Williams: "Hold my beer."
Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
My favourite bit of trivia about John Williams - Did you know that astonishingly he didn't win the Oscar for the soundtrack of Close Encounters? Do you know who did? John Williams for Star Wars.
Psycho Princess 1 year ago
For all my nerdy friends out there, he wrote the iconic Harry Potter theme.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
How old am I? I am so old that I first encountered John William’s music when he was writing under the name of “Johnny Williams”.
#3
During a heated discussion in the Roman Senate, Julius Caesar received a letter. His fierce opponent Cato, thinking it would incriminate Caesar, had the letter read. It was a love letter from Cato's sister.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
He ask to Caesar to give him the letter and so Julius did. Imagine the feeling knowing it would be humiliating for Cato. But we know this not from Caesar, we know this story due to Cato own biography.
Suzan Bertrand 1 year ago
Never ask a question in court that you're not certain of what the answer will be.
So, it goes without saying that education is generally a good thing. Minus probably the burden of knowing and comprehending things others don’t really care about, learning stuff can help you with a lot of things, generally enhancing your quality of life.
Sitting down and studying something not only gives you an escape from something, but also empowers you to do more. If you think learning how to use a hammer and nails bears little to no impact on things, that alone can mean you can do some pretty elite home decorating.
#4
In September 2020, the last Blockbuster video rental store, which is located in Bend, Oregon, hosted 1990s-themed sleepovers via Airbnb for $4 a night.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
The 4:3 television really ties the room together
Load More Replies... Suzan Bertrand 1 year ago
I miss the excitement of our Friday evening trip to Blockbusters. It set the tempo for the weekend.
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
It'd be ultimate if they had VHS tapes and a VHS tape rewinder in the rooms!
#5
During the opening ceremony of Ottawa International Airport’s new terminal in 1959, a USAF F-104 Starfighter did a supersonic flypast. The resulting sonic boom shattered nearly all the glass in the airport and caused significant structural damage, delaying the opening for another year.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
If they hadn't cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow in February, 1959, it could have been a Canadian plane doing the flyby at mach 2.
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
This happened in the downtown of Okanagan, too, in 1969. https://sierrahotel.net/blogs/news/the-day-a-blue-angel-phantom-blew-out-8-city-blocks-of-windows
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
The metal window frames warped & ceiling tiles fell out or shattered along with all the windows and car windshields on the north side of the structure.
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#6
Schools have used infant simulator dolls which are designed to behave like real babies by crying, burping, and requiring 'feeding' and diapering, to try to deter teen pregnancy. A 2016 study found that teen girls in schools that used the dolls were about 36% more likely to get pregnant by age 20.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
I think teaching about effective contraception methodes would have been smarter
StrangeOne 1 year ago
They do that, too. However, we have to be real about contraceptives. They are not 100% effective. This is not stressed enough.
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Mrs.C 1 year ago
When my kids brought them home, I sent them out to a small shed we have with as a spare bedroom and made them be single parents for the weekend. Wanted them to get the full effect. But this was also in a child development/parenting class their high school offers, so it wasn't just 'here, play with this robo baby for the weekend.' They got real information.
Bookworm 1 year ago (edited)
Same, my high school only used them as part of the Child Development course
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Kate 1 year ago
No, it conditioned them into thinking that they needed to have babies.
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Bryn 1 year ago
We had that too but we did these in 8th grade as well. It was called Baby think it over. The weren't as elaborate as the HS ones which had to be diapered, fed, etc. Ours just had to be held with the key every time it cried.
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David Bramhall 1 year ago
Presumably the schools already knew that, which is why they decided to try the dolls?
PFD 1 year ago
That was my first thought, but no, this was an RCT (conducted in Western Australia, published in the Lancet in 2016).
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Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
We did this with eggs when I was a teenager. (We had to carry the egg around and keep it "alive" to get a grade.) The boy had to do it too. Thankfully no one ended up laying any! :)
Kate 1 year ago
It was part of my home ec class. I've seen others where they use a bag of flour instead of an egg, too.
Load More Replies... Kimbowa 1 year ago
Maybe the dolls made them WANT to have a baby. After all girls love to play with baby dolls and pretend they are moms.
Themoonprincess 1 year ago
I am a girl and I don't. Never have never will. Like Ael has mentioned, we are different individuals.
Load More Replies... PFD 1 year ago
A different study found that older teen girls who wanted to have kids found looking after the dolls *less* demanding than they'd expected (on average ). They already knew teen mums and didn't go into it expecting an easy ride. So it acted as a confidence booster, reassuring them that they'd be able to cope. And of course it couldn't simulate many of the other hardships of teen parenting, such as economic or health crises. (I specifically say "girls" as that's who the study reported on; that's not my gender assumptions, so don't shoot the messenger please.)
Wendy Pearson 1 year ago
Or just maybe girls that age shouldn't need to be trained in that way or made to have that stress.
Saphyre Fyre 1 year ago (edited)
Theses are only basic human needs! Mental health and any other types of issues that are more difficult to take care of (physical health issues that aren't simple trip to the doc fixes) should also be at LEAST mentioned, as well. Then these teens won't think, this is easy, I can do it!!! And chronic sleep deprivation when you don't have enough support from even 1 other person, at any hour the help becomes needed, is also a main factor in a new parent's ability.
Learning has the power to reduce stress. These days, there’s a sure abundance of it, so picking up new things to learn might help throw the excess anxiety out the window.
Studies have shown that employees who engaged in a learning activity gained a certain kind of buffer against the negative effects of stress. This included being less affected by negative emotions, unethical behavior, and burnout.
#7
In 1998, elementary students in Aurora, Colorado started buying slaves in Sudan to free them, this gained global attention with schools in other countries starting slave buyback programs until it became clear that the money was just helping slavery grow.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
How did they think the whole US-African slavery thing started in the first place? It was more profitable for the African tribes to sell their rivals to the europeans than to kill them or hold them as prisioners
Jack Burton 1 year ago
That's such a stupid move from people teaching these kids. Just do not involve money and people freedom. It's precisely how american slavery started.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
i see what you mean, but there's never been any people worse for enslaving human than other human.
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Justin Rogers 1 year ago
It was weird seeing groups of kids trying to get donations outside of stores to buy slaves but Colorado is weird. Our furniture store had tigers and you could pay to take pictures with the babies. I have a picture of my 16 month old and a baby tiger. Never put a bottle in your pocket with baby tigers
#8
American athlete Florence Griffith Joyner is the fastest woman ever recorded. The record is still standing after 35 years. She passed away at the age of 38.
Kat Pekin 1 year ago
I googled it in case you're wondering why she died so young: she passed in her sleep from an epileptic seizure.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Yup, she ran in leggings once with only one leg covered. She could fly.
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Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
I watched her run several races on TV. She had so many positive attributes as well as being enormously talented at running, she also had fantastic decorated long nails!
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I'm not into any sport, but even I remember Florence Griffith. Her remarkable record and, sadly, her untimely death.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
There are some real assclowns here commenting like they witnessed her entire life or maybe even sold her the dope.
Lady Miss Pie 1 year ago
I loved her, she was so fierce and gorgeous. I hate that she died so young.
#9
C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22nd, 1963. However, their deaths were overshadowed by the more prominent death of John F. Kennedy on the same day.
Alicia M 1 year ago
I was going to say the same thing. I remember her death announced in the morning, and when Michael died later that day, no one was talking about her anymore.
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Crescent 3 1 year ago
Our second and third Presidents; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day. Poetically, for two of our most prominent Founding Fathers, it was July 4, 1826.
Marek Čtrnáct 1 year ago
And the BBC announcement of Kennedy's death caused a slight delay of the first ever episode of Doctor Who.
Firefly 1 year ago
Mo Rocca in his Mobituaries podcast has an episode titled Died on the Same Day that mentioned this and many other famous people whose deaths were overshadowed by someone more famous dying the same day.
Ann Coffman 1 year ago
I love Mo. I can't get enough of him. I need mo' Mo!!!
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PeeledPotato 1 year ago
i never realised that they all died on my birthday ( not the year tho)
Needless to say, education instills confidence.
Not only is knowledge in and of itself empowering, as the more you know, the more you feel confident in your knowledge and abilities. But it’s also true that the learning environment can also foster self-confidence in students—things like positive feedback, setting realistic goals, implementing equality in the classroom, all the while allowing them to be individuals and creating a positive learning environment all help build up self-esteem and confidence in one’s own intelligence.
#10
In 1915 a three minute, long distance phone call cost the equivalent of $500 in today’s money.
Tamra 1 year ago
"Well hello Mr. Cottingham... I'm exposing my ankles just for you, smooth bare ankles...".
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Kimbowa 1 year ago
Sometimes when I see something old like this I think that someone very young might believe that it was a thing that my generation used! Because old is old to them. For example, I have a purse from the 1920s that I bought at an antique store and my son might see it and think it was something I got when it first came out, a current item at the time I used it. No, it was old to me too! Get it? It was retro when I bought it! I’m not that old! Maybe young kids will start to group together anything from the 1900s as basically one time like I did/do with the 1800s. Made in 1830? 1880? No difference to me.
Monster Munch 1 year ago
Do “young people “ have this problem? My nephew is 10 and understands I wasnt watching mute cinema on a daily basis and riding a horse to school 😅
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Long distance fees and the limited hours when they were affordable forced people to schedule their time to be available for long distance calls. And if a friend or relative moved out of range, it was essentially a permanent goodbye. This would've been the 60/70's.
Tim Douglass 1 year ago
We still wrote letters then. Hardly a permanent goodby.
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Deregulation and the break-up of the Bell monopoly was the best ting that ever happened to the phone inductry.
#11
Henry VIII's doctors were too scared to tell him he was dying while he was on his deathbed because of the Treason Act forbidding anyone from speculating about the King's death. The Archbishop was the one who had to break the news.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Alexander the Great's doctors were too scared to treat him because if he died, they would too.
Rosy Maple Moth 1 year ago
I don’t get this one. If they didn’t treat him he would have died anyway and so would they. So in order to survive they must treat him, mustn’t they?
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Stalin died of a stroke he would have easily recovered from if his own guards were not too scared to check on him when he did not wake up as usual. Also, doctors could not help him either as he had ordered the execution of most of the competent ones.
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago (edited)
"Sure you've got fever, a massive leg ulcer, liver failure coupled with the effects of your obesity, bronchopneumonia, and possible heart failure but dying? Don't be so pessimistic, Henry."
Stacy Carroll 1 year ago
Are you referring to what the painting Essentiates?
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Mark 1 year ago
Nothing compares to the Queen of Thailand drowning before tens of servants and her family because there was a law that said you couldn't touch the queen, so no one saved her
Johann Strathausen 1 year ago
Which is not actually true, according to the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannabhorn_Bejaratana
Load More Replies... Betty Swallocks 1 year ago
All of Boris Johnson's advisors were too scared to tell him he was a c*nt and that's why our country is up to it's nostrils in shite right now.
Michael Vickery 1 year ago
When Stalin collapsed in his study, no one came to help him because they were so afraid of him. It's not a good idea to be such a bastard that everyone is afraid of you.
#12
Radiohead seventh studio album In Rainbows was released under a pay-what-you-want model, in which fans could pay the price they desired, including downloading the entire album for free. Many customers in turned paid and they gained more profits because of this marketing strategy.
James016 1 year ago
I think Nine Inch Nails did something similar, you could get the MP3s for free or pay for higher quality downloads.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
The first three NIN albums came out before MP3s were a thing. In Rainbows was the first widely released album to do this solely from the bands website. That happened during the transition from linewire type pirating & CDs to purchasing digital copies online. By the time NIN and many other artists attempted the pay what you want model and buy direct, the smartphone was becoming more prevalent along with subscription services that evolved into streaming. When Radiohead released In Rainbows the iPhone and HTC smartphone were just under a year old & iTunes was still a pay per song/album model. You had to buy the album from Radiohead on a computer to get an access code in an email that sent you a link that allowed you to dl the mp3s to your computer & transfer them to your iPod or Zune or one of those cheap MP3 players from Walgreens Boots Duane Reade. I’m so grateful I can pay $30/mo for Apple One, cos prior to streaming the same material was costing me well over $100/mo.
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This one was already hinted at before, but there is a reason why folks say knowledge is power. Knowledge allows you to achieve many things: everything from being able to fix stuff yourself to being able to train your brain to resolve problems faster and more efficiently to straight-up being good at trivia games.
#13
When a Manhattan Project scientist was asked to calculate whether a human being could survive exposure to a very high dose of radiation, she only learned later that the person that had received the dose was her husband.
arthbach 1 year ago
The scientist was Dr Elizabeth Graves. Her husband, Alvin, along with seven others, had been accidentially explosed to radiation. Dr Louis Slotin accidentally slipped and filled the room with a "blue ionization glow". He knew he had received a lethal dose or radiation, but wanted to find out whether the others would survive. Alvin, had been standing closest to him at the time. Alvin survived but had chronic neurological and vision problems.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
So, not quite the tale of assholery that the OP imagined it was.
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Ripley Dog 1 year ago
Ah, yes...Louis Slotkin was using a screwdriver to keep the twohalves of plutonium seperate in the "Demon Core" (it had already killed physicist Harry Daghlian), he called this "tickling the dragon's tail." No PPE... anyway, screwdriver slipped and the cores slammed together releasing a burst of raiation. Slotin would die from the exposure.
Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
technically it was the neutron containment halves that surrounded the core. Them closing caused the neutrons emitted to be fully contained and that caused the core to go critical.
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Sera 1 year ago
To be fair, she may have been the only person on hand with the knowledge required to make the calculations promptly.
Load More Replies... Luiza Menezess 1 year ago
The question is, should she say a different dose if she knew it before?
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
There were two separate, and similar accidents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
arthbach 1 year ago
This was an accident, and the scientist responsible wanted to know the level of danger into which her husband had been placed. He decided to get her to make the calculations first to enable her to focus on the task. Elizabeth was a very stoic person, but when she learned why she had been asked to do these calculations she froze. Her fully functioning brain was needed in determining the best treatment for the others, including her husband.
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#14
Campbell Soup considered litigation against Andy Warhol's soup can paintings but instead embraced them.
Nicola Mawson 1 year ago
Like Google getting annoyed with the term Googling several years ago
Load More Replies... Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
I can't be the only one who thinks that Warhol's cans of soup weren't really "genius" but rather a bit of a scam...
Catlady6000 1 year ago
If I remember correctly, Andy himself never intended them to "Art," but more of a commentary on something or other. Upvotred you
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It sparked a fashion for Campbell's soup images on clothes, umbrellas, and all sorts of accessories.
Betty Swallocks 1 year ago
They decided opening up that can of worm soup would be a mine-strone ......
#15
The architect Rafael Viñoly was responsible for not just one, but two different buildings that thanks to their curved facade would turn into death rays when the sun shines on them.
arthbach 1 year ago
Who would have thought concave surfaces would concentrate light?! Well, only everyone who had a tiny bit of education in physics. I can understand one person suffering from a brain fart and thinking a curved glass surface would look pretty, but what about the engineers, the planners, the builders etc? These building plans were seen by so many people. How did they manage to be build given the very clear design flaw?
Verena 1 year ago
Because of architect. As engineer and planner, your technical insight is not relevant. Your only job is to calculate the statics, collect metrial and people and make that damn thing happen. The customer is brainwashed and fell in love with the idea, concerns won't land. Architect have little knowledge of technical facts, they draw something and get the fame, and those who made it actually happen are forgotten.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
So hire him if you need solar energy concentrated at a certain point and not if you want a skyscraper?
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
When it was pointed out that the design was melting parts of cars he said, "Maybe they should park somewhere else."
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Was it the Guggenheim in LA that due to the curve of the cladded walls caused the sidewalk temp to climb to 140 degrees?
Donteatme666 1 year ago (edited)
🤣 sorry I find it hilarious what if any his excuse was for (accidentally) making a death Ray
Billy Maguire 1 year ago
Archimedes is said to have set Roman galleys on fire using large mirrors during the siege of Syracuse, Sicily, in 213 BC. Really threw the Romans into a spiral, by some accounts.
Education is also known to help something that’s often discussed these days, and that is mental health.
This one’s multifaceted as education in terms of a healthy mind means that it provides a sense of accomplishment, allows for social opportunities in educational environments, gives the tools to ensure financial stability, among many other things. This in turn reduces stress and anxiety, all the while strengthening self confidence.
#16
By the 1970's the black footed ferret was declared extinct, only for a dog to bring one home to its owners in 1981 in Wyoming, allowing conservationists to find the last remaining popualtion.
Kate 1 year ago
In my state they're listed as "invasive species/illegal".
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Gabby M 1 year ago
It was a SHEP lol ... and I'm going to go with it was alive.
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Astro 1 year ago
Oh wow I didn’t even notice the typo, my brain read it correctly. It’s lkie taht tinhg wrehe you can tpye lkie tihs and poelpe can sitll raed it.
Load More Replies... Justin Rogers 1 year ago
And thanks to cloning are on the rise. Long live the crispr cat snakes
MsPlants 1 year ago
Not cloning, they took the remaining 18 from the wild and did captive breeding and releasing to bring the population back from the brink. Accredited zoos usually help with captive breeding and swapping animals and tracking family trees so that each male and female only produces a certain number of offspring to limit there genes in the population for diversity
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CharliAnn Olney 1 year ago
There is also a colony at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. You can catch glimpses of them on several of the hiking trails. Always a thrill.
#17
The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was killed after being struck by an arrow poisoned with manchineel sap. A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, "little apple of death". This refers to the fact that manchineel is one of the most toxic trees in the world.
KDS 1 year ago
I think this is the tree that if someone is standing underneath it and it starts to rain they will get burned.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
The scary part is that isn’t much of an exaggeration. If there’s sap exposed, it could happen.
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manu michael 1 year ago
we have this in south Florida where I live, standing under these trees will cause you skin to burn, because the sap is caustic. Standing beneath the tree during rain will cause blistering of the skin from mere contact with this liquid: even a small drop of rain with the sap in it will cause the skin to blister. Burning the tree may cause ocular injuries if the smoke reaches the eyes.[12] Contact with its milky sap (latex) produces bullous dermatitis, acute keratoconjunctivitis and possibly large corneal epithelial defects.[13] Although the fruit is potentially fatal if eaten, no such occurrences have been reported in the modern literature.[14] Ingestion can produce severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, and bacterial superinfection, as well as the potential for airway compromise due to edema.[15] When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ... gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness
Ken Beattie 1 year ago (edited)
It's fine being near you, just don't touch it. Fun Aussie poisonous plant list: https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2012/07/australias-most-poisonous-plants/ The milky mangrove sounds very similar to the Manchineel.
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Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
The phrase "Well how do you like dem [sic] apples." suddenly makes sense.
Kimbowa 1 year ago (edited)
It would be funny if the way the arrow was poisoned was by being shot through the apple in the tree on its way to its intended victim. Just passing through, why not pick up a little poison to add to the kill of the enemy. (I don’t know what made me think of that! Lol.)
Steffi Rose 1 year ago
I learned about this tree bc someone on Naked and Afraid ate part of an apple not knowing what it was bc he was starving
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
What season and episode if you remember? we are watching that and haven't seen it yet.
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Meredith Parker 1 year ago
Ponce de Le'on also was said to have discovered the Fountain of Youth in St. Augustine FL, but I think he actually discovered humidity. When I go north I look 10 years older.
#18
From 1961 to 1993, 6 out of the 7 US Presidents were navy veterans.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
Personally, I think to be Commander- in- Chief, which the POTUS is, you must have had military experience. Also, to have been a state governor, senator or congressperson too. Experience counts. You can't just walk in off the TV - er, sorry, 'streets' - and expect to be able to handle this kind of job. It's totally different from being a CEO of a business.
Mavis 1 year ago
Trump is the only American president to have no public service before becoming president. The only person he ever served is himself.
David 1 year ago
Reagan was the US Army, but JFK (LT), Johnson (Commander), Nixon (Commander), Ford (Lt. Commander), and Carter (LT) were all navy. Many US Presidents served in the military. Before JFK Eisenhower was a US Army General, Truman was a Colonel for example. We just had a period of 5 Navy people in a row in the 60s and 70s) We have had 26 presidents with active military service and another 5 with some other form of military (in State Militia service)
Nick (He/Him) 1 year ago
Makes sense, the majority of the US male population was a veteran at that time. I believe that the one is Eisenhower, who was an army vet.
One thing I can personally attest to is the fact that attending university also means going through social school as well. Learning a trade isn’t the only goal of an educational institution—it also provides ample opportunities to develop as a person on a social level through group projects, social clubs and events. You learn to function in society more, and those connections that you make during your studies can prosper and become a bigger deal one day.
#19
Kiera Knightley was only 17 during filming for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Love Actually.
Luiza Menezess 1 year ago
That's crazy! I always thought she looked like she didn't age, but now it makes so much sense.
Rob D 1 year ago (edited)
I feel like the entire casting industry needs to be sat down for a "WTF". ...they fly under the radar, but these people are sick in their ability to look at girls for their commercial potential once "they're legal". Seriously, what did the casting convo sound like on Married with Children when they were discussing Christina Applegate. There's no way there were healthy, "normal" conversations. In fact, I think they'd be "pedo red flags" if you heard them in literally any other context but casting. WTF
Rob Williams 1 year ago
She got her first TV role at age seven so she was quite an experienced actor by Pirates!
Verena 1 year ago (edited)
Born 1985, Star Wars released 1999/filmed 1997 (so 12), Bend it 2002/2001 (16), Pirates & Actually 2003/2002 (17)
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
That was Natalie Portman who was 18 at the time)
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A plumber found cash and checks stashed in a wall at Joel Osteen's Houston mega-church.
Michael Wlodarczyk 1 year ago
Joel Osteen is nothing but a shyster con-man and should be in jail.
Deb M.F. 1 year ago
any church that uses its funds for political influence needs to be taxed ..period
HTakeover 1 year ago (edited)
If you do then you get an inverse problem where they then are fully allowed to meddle, lobby, create policy, etc. Paying taxes entitles businesses and individuals to certain rights that 501 entities don't. Plus paying taxes removes a large portion of that separation of church & state.
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LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
First you need mega ego, and a mega lack of a moral compass.
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For those who are jumping on the "Churches should be taxed, banned, etc. bandwagon; I am no fan of Osteen, mega churches, or organized religion; but in this particular instance about the money found in the wall, there is no evidence that Osteen or anyone connected with him and his organization had anything to do with it. The authorities believe that the money and checks were the proceeds of a robbery from the church safe several years before. The thief, or thieves, apparently stashed the money in the wall behind a toilet, planning to retrieve it later, but never did. Legitimate criticism is fine, but be honest about it and we shouldn't imply wrongdoing where no evidence of it exists.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
When a church is so rich it doesn't notice missing funds...?
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Cindy Brick 1 year ago
Apparently stashed from a burglary at the church...you need to add that part, too.
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
Well, at least Osteen's 100 million dollar loan was paid off...by church member's donations. 100 MILLION DOLLARS!!
#21
A man didn't know that he got drafted by the NFL. The Philadelphia Eagles drafted Norm Michael of Syracuse University in 1944, but could not reach him as he had already enlisted in the US Army. Michael only learned what had happened in 1999, when reading about other Syracuse NFL players.
I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
Wow, can you imagine finding out your entire life, could have been drastically different, 55 years later.
David 1 year ago
1) It was WW2 and most of the NFL players left to join the military, it was so bad the NFL merged teams like the Steelers and Eagles to create the Steagles to ensure the league could play. 2) To be fair the NFL was not the high paying industry back then as it today. Back then the NFL Championship had less people listening on the radio than most college games. College games had bigger crowds, etc. But yeah, what a disapointment to him. Though is was WW2
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
He found out because he still had a functioning brain, having never played football again and not contracted CTE.
Cecil 1 year ago
Yeah, they shouldn't have let a little thing like WWII get in the way!
Load More Replies...Learning is also a kind of an excuse for “me time.” Everyone needs to unwind, reboot, let their brain recoup and indulge in a good work-life balance. Learning is as good of an activity as any. Actually better, as you gain extra from it.
So, yeah, it’s quite alright to tell someone you can’t hang out with them because you’re on a strict learning schedule. Even if you don’t need to learn, hey, there’s your reason to force a raincheck on plans you don’t feel like being a part of.
#22
Scottish/Canadian man Angus MacAskill is thought to be the tallest "true" giant (not abnormal height due to a pathological condition) in history. He stood 7'9" tall, had an 80" chest (also a record) 44" shoulders and weighed 510lbs.
Marianne 1 year ago
I wonder how people can determine beyond all doubt that a person doesn't suffer from a pathological condition, especially in hindsight.
HTakeover 1 year ago
Pathological conditions in this type of case develop a LOT of other conditions like changes in bone density, excess growth or stunting in some bones but not others, cartilage warping, deformities, alterations in structure due to extreme weight difference, that kind of thing. If they couldn't find any of those, then it's to be assumed it's not pathological like a tumor on the pituitary or something.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
There is a claim that he could lift a 2800lb ships anchor to chest height. That sounds like exaggeration to me. 2800lb is 1270kg. When you consider the current highest dead lift record is 537kg I can't believe he literally doubled that weight *and* lifted it to chest high.
I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
Anyone happen to know when this man lived and where? It says he's of Scottish/Canadian descent but that isn't necessarily where he lived.
HTakeover 1 year ago
Mid 1800s. Born in Scotland but moved to Canada when he was 6.
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Laura M D 1 year ago
Guess my dad could brake the chest record. Well, probably all the measures but the height. My mum ordered a jacket for him once, custom made. The factory called to make sure the measurements were ok because they thought there was a mistake. It was reasured to them. Even all this, they sent a too small jacket were his hands could't go through the sleeves, so they had to fix It for free. One huge guy, did they believe It or not.
#23
That the moon appearing huge when it's near the horizon is a trick our brains play on us, you can remove the illusion by bending over and looking through your legs, or standing on your head and nobody is quite sure why.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
On the moon or in your hand? Need to know for experiment.
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HTakeover 1 year ago
They do know. It's because you have a reference point when it's low - trees, buildings, etc. Remove the reference point and it looks normal. For example through a tube, like a paper towel roll or even your hand.
PFD 1 year ago
I assume the"no one knows why" is about why the illusion disappears when looking at the same scene (with the same reference points) upside down. I'll have to try it sometime...
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Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
Or take a picture,,, it's always a crush to see how unexceptional that HUGE moon is when you take a picture.
Pandapoo 1 year ago
I hate that! It ends up looking like a streetlight. 😆
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#24
In 2018, a UK school began enforcing a policy that banned all students from carrying backpacks after two students and a staff member were injured by students carrying book bags that were slung over their shoulders. As a protest, a student carried his books to school using a microwave.
Emma S 1 year ago
What a ridiculous rule. Banning backpacks because three people got injured, therefore punishing the hundreds of other kids in the school who use backpacks without issue. It's like banning football because one kid fell over. 🙄
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Isn't that basically how a few of us lost dodgeball?
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Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
A lot of places have done this and in rebellion people have bought bins, suitcases, shopping trolleys and other various items including one I saw who brought their little brother to carry their books!
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Wasn't a school in the UK involved in something similar, where they banned male students from wearing short trousers in summer, so the students protested by wearing skirts?
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
If the students have to carry so much weight in their backpacks that they can injure people, maybe ask why they're carrying around so many books
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Any rule or law passed in emotional response to something bad happening is likely to be a bad rule or bad law, and do more damage or cost more money than if the rule-maker/law-maker had thought for a while.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
In the US, one of the problems is that, because of gun, most of the lockers kids used to use were no longer allowed to be used, so kids had to carry all books and everything else they need in a backpack. These kids will be dealing with back issues later in life, most likely.
Pa Pa Panda 1 year ago
But in the United States you can purchase backpacks made out of Kevlar.
Some might find it a bit delusional, but there are folks who find learning genuinely fun. Learning provides satisfaction in knowing things. Learning provides a sense of achievement. Learning can be challenging and thus transformative. All of this has more than enough potential to provide fun. And hey, if you gamify learning, you can rub your extensive knowledge of mythical creatures and historical trivia in everyone’s face.
#25
After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, engineers carried diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs in buckets to keep the generators running to power a data center.
michael Chock 1 year ago
I wonder if they made the one who had the idea to put the generators on the 17th floor do all the hauling.
I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
The generators were most likely placed on the roof of the building, which is one of the most common places to put back up generators, in a city. If they were on the ground during hurricane Sandy they would have been flooded and destroyed.
Load More Replies... HTakeover 1 year ago
Yeah, first thought was pulley system in the stairwell gap.
Load More Replies... Rostit.. . 1 year ago
just a standard data center. Web hosting, app hosting etc. Just click the reddit link to huffpost. its not that interesting
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dayngerkat 1 year ago
"In a lower Manhattan building evacuated during Hurricane Sandy, more than a dozen people on Wednesday carried 5-gallon buckets filled with diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs. Each of them carried two buckets -- one in each arm -- up two flights of stairs, then handed them off to the next person. The stairwell was pitch dark, slippery and reeked of diesel." Respect to them. That s**t is heavy!
Rostit.. . 1 year ago
not sure how you would get a pulley system when the whole area was flooded. They don't magically appear. Unless you saw what happened, you wont understand. It was cataclysmic.
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Erik Biesemeier 1 year ago
That was because a startling number of hospitals have generators in their basements, which get flooded.
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Mayor in High Wycombe, England are weighted annually since 1678 to make sure that the mayor didn't grow fat at taxpayer money.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago (edited)
'Weighed'. They're 'weighed', not 'weighted'. ' 'Weighed' means that their weight is measured. 'Weighted' means that they get loaded down with extra weight e.g. lead weights. EDIT: Now understand that English is second language for OP. Respect to OP for doing as well as he/she did with the difficult English language.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
To be fair, OP from the original Reddit post is Vietnamese.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
I'd rather vote for mandatory IQ tests before they enter an office
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Robert Trebor 1 year ago
I think all politicians should be weighted. Easier to catch when they steal something.
#27
Until 2022, the Japanese public school system’s dress code required students dye their hair black. One student was forced to dye her naturally brown hair black, and was told to re-dye it every time her roots grew back. She was given academic penalties for not dyeing it often enough.
Hphizzle 1 year ago
Japanese public school teacher since 2015 here. This is a bit of a gross over statement. ‘Natural’ hair color is strongly encouraged (brown and black). Generally it’s more of a higher-ups putting pressure on parents to keep it natural colored. Yes it’s stupid. But not as extreme as this post would have you believe.
Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
When I was in Japan, I was told of a proverb. A nail that stick out will be hit by the hammer (paraphrasing). There is a lot of emphasis on conformity and this works for huge part of their culture and society as a positive attribute. It's all about perspective. Let's be honest we don't critise the armed forces for buzz cuts.
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
Japan is a great place but be no fool they have some really weird issues about human rights and mental health.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
In the USA many public school districts require boys to have hair above their shoulders or even higher. Many have even refused Sikh Dastaar turbans. Same with Rastafarians with long hair that’s wrapped. Of course these tend to litigate under religious freedom, but in the meantime the students aren’t getting court injunctions to stay in school and instead are expelled or transferred to independent study or home school program while they wait.
Pandapoo 1 year ago
I’m in the US and have never heard that about public schools (regarding hair).
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Lara Verne 1 year ago
So she had to dye her hair very often, which probably damaged it, and then got punished anyway. Not sure if it was 'school system' or some AH, who decided to bully her
Cosmikid 1 year ago
There were many more than the "one" cited. Besides dark brown, some dark shades of red are also totally natural for Japanese people - those kids already take lots of flak, they dye requirements just made it harder.
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Hphizzle 1 year ago
Mostly the uptight ones. Usually someone starts some drama on the PTA and the school bends to appease them.
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Ultimately, the way you do education sets an example for others—especially those who look up to you for guidance.
Parents expressing genuine excitement for learning, and living it, is a strong influence on kids. That inspires kids to also want to learn. Even more so when they find out it becomes a shared interest in life for them. And if you’re not living that educational lifestyle, maybe it’s time you rediscovered the thrill? It’s no longer the case where you work the same job all your life, after all.
#28
There are 56 United States Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipients who received the medal for jumping on grenades and mines to save the lives of their comrades.
I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
Kimbowa, Fùck you! None of this is funny and you're incredibly disrespectful. You have no idea what these service men/women have gone through, as well as their families. Idc if you're not from the US, these are human beings that sacrificed themselves to save others and should be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.
Savage Susan 1 year ago (edited)
Kimbows I lost 2 friends in Vietnam - they were both drafted immediately out of high school. 18 years old, basic training, AIT, Vietnam. You need to understand - most of these kids HAD NO CHOICE. It was Vietnam, jail, or move to Canada. One lasted 3 months, the other was killed 1 month before he was due to come home. It still hurts to think of them. It still tears their families apart. I pray that you never feel that pain, but I also have to tell you the fact that you think any of this is funny means you’re a real piece of sh*t and I feel really sorry for you because you must lack anything meaningful in your life.
Jen Hart 1 year ago
"Had no choice," YES, these poor kids couldn't vote! The voting age was 21 back then... poor kids were being sent off with no say in the matter 🥺
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Pete Bingham 1 year ago
Someone needs to learn to respect what veterans have done for them and all of us
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
One is a friend of mine's father, Allen J Kellogg. After he retired after 30 years in the Marines, he spent the rest of his life helping homeless veterans get off the street. He has said more than once that that was more rewarding than his MoH. (I went up to his office at Tripler Army Medical in Oahu just to shake his hand.) Screen-Sho...59-png.jpg 
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
My uncle claims that he got bitched out by a general who was mad when he threw him out of a jeep when a grenade landed in it. He never threw a general out of a jeep again, but unfortunately he was never in another jeep that had a grenade land in it.
Amanda Trent 1 year ago
U would think the better option would be to throw the grenade back out instead of the general, but everyone thinks differently during fight or flight. Me, I freeze, so ur uncle's still a hero in my book! He should've been given a medal as well!
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Candi Cabaniss 1 year ago
Some people survive. I know of one story he put his helmet on it first. Then I know of a witness who said "he tripped on it."
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Jane Hower 1 year ago
Such an unbeliveable sacrifice. I hope they got the best welcome into heaven as anyone can be.
#29
Trains have tanks of sand with tubes that shoot sand under each wheel to create friction so the train accelerates more efficiently
alexander robertson 1 year ago
Listen people. BRAKES are what you use to slow things down. BREAKS are when you go on a holiday or step out for a coffee. They are two different things. Why do so many people get it wrong ?
聖楷Thomas 1 year ago
well, not being a native speaker, autocorrect, weak in orthography, …
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Ex-locomotive engineer here. This is common since the 19th Century. The reason railways are such an efficient carrier is that there is virtually no friction: the metal-to-metal contact between rails and wheels is incredibly small, commonly about the size of a postage stamp for a whole express train. But this makes both starting and stopping difficult. When rails are contaminated with water, snow, grease, leaves or what-have-you, skidding is inevitable. Hence the use of sand to provide a little grip.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Just a guy with some basic common knowledge here. Overcoming rolling friction is only a very small portion of the energy requirements for rolling forms of transportation. For most forms of transportation most of the energy is used to overcome aerodynamic drag. Trains are efficient because the cars are right behind one another, so a train with 100 cars doesn't have anywhere near 100 times the aerodynamic drag of a single car or locomotive. Trains also don't stop and start nearly as often as cars and trucks. And finally, most locomotives are diesel-electric. The wheels are driven my electric motors that become generators during braking, recapturing some of the energy used while moving.
Load More Replies... Saint Thomas 1 year ago (edited)
It's mainly on tramway, and it's not to accelerate but quite the opposite : it helps brake in emergency situations.
聖楷Thomas 1 year ago (edited)
with trams, emergency brake situations are when a lot of sand is used. But on heavy trains there is also the possibility to use a bit of sand to start, to prevent slipping or wheel spinning https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CD5AX2JljaM
Load More Replies... 聖楷Thomas 1 year ago (edited)
Sand on trams can have two purposes: To prevent slipping when the tram wants to start, and to brake (mostly only on emergency brake) [silly me, it’s brake] )
Nirdavo 1 year ago
On many trams the container for the sand is located under one of the seats
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It is not to accelerate. The sand is dropped on the rail in front of the wheels to help the train brake more efficiently and is also used in wet and slippery conditions and on steep grades to improve traction and to create friction.
Rostit.. . 1 year ago
it is for acceleration. You can't accelerate without traction.
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#30
Original voice actor for Porky Pig was fired due to stuttering.
GPawesomeness 1 year ago
Mel Blanc took over the role because the original voice actor couldn't control his stuttering.
Load More Replies... Saint Thomas 1 year ago
I can understand. The stutter is scripted in the dialogue for comical effect (that's another debate). If the voice actor can't control it, it makes things more difficult.
bas moelard 1 year ago
Please look up Mel Blanc, man of a thousand voices. He was responsible for almost all of Looney Tunes' voices.
El Cucuy 1 year ago
Looks like you need to look up Mel Blanc. He wasn't the original voice for Porky Pig. The original voice was done by Joeseph Dougherty. Mel Blanc replaced him.
Load More Replies... Saphyre Fyre 1 year ago
Stuttering is more than the simple (w..w...) type of issue. My husband sometimes starts a sentence and repeats the first few words a few times before the rest manages to come out.
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Too true. My dad stutters, always has. He used to joke that he would start asking a girl out on Monday and finish on Friday - at least he has a sense of humor about it!
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El Cucuy 1 year ago
Joseph Tapley Dougherty (November 4, 1898 – April 19, 1978) was an American actor, who provided the original voice of the Warner Bros. animation character, Porky Pig, starting with the character's debut in I Haven't Got a Hat in 1935 through Porky's Romance in 1937. After that, Mel Blanc took over the role and voiced Porky for 52 years. Dougherty spoke with a natural stutter which became one of the character's trademarks; Dougherty's inability to control his stutter was a factor in the part being recast. According to Friz Freleng, the director of I Haven't Got a Hat, Dougherty would get nervous every time they said cut.
So, what are your thoughts on any of this? Any facts you thought were super fascinating? Share your findings, takes and stories in the comment section below!
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#31
Cyndi Lauper sang a parody of her 1985 song "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" for the Bob's Burger's Season 2 premiere which aired in 2012. The episode is a parody of The Goonies. She said, "My son really wanted me to do it. He loves the show and was like, 'C'mon, Mom, it's hysterical. Do it."
Amanda Trent 1 year ago
Carly Simon sang a song at the end of "Work hard or die trying, girl" S5E1... And they're definitely not the only 2 that have done songs for the show. Genius show! It's the greatest imo!
Joshua David 10 months ago
Dex Lauper has been finding himself in some legal troubles the past few years.
Jinx (she/her) 1 year ago
to each their own. it's one of my favorite shows and it is funny to me 🤷♀️
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About an ancient African tradition where a murderer was punished by an assassin running into him with a spear which had meat on it. The murderer kept his mouth open. The murder victim's family decides if the murderer is killed by the spear or fed the meat (forgiven).
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
I think I remember a pre-Columbian law that required murderers to do all the chores of the person they killed, in addition to their own
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
Do I get to choice which family member I will sacrifice in order to get free maid service?
Load More Replies... MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
I mean how long did they keep charging with the spear, because I'm guessing even if they eat the meat, they still got a spear in their face.
#33
On the set of Jaws, Spielberg invited George Lucas to see the mechanical shark still in development. Lucas playfully stuck his head in its mouth, and Spielberg clamped it shut, leaving Lucas stuck. They snuck out of the workshop thinking they broke the contraption after eventually freeing him.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Bruce! The mechanical shark was named Bruce after Speilberg’s lawyer, Bruce Rayner. The name then went on to be used for the great white shark in Finding Nemo. The name Bruce is used in Australia as a general term for an Aussie man, as in G’day Bruce. Bruce the shark is voiced by Barry Humphries who is…. An Aussie man.
Jorie 1 year ago
Bruce the Shark wasn't quite as harmless as some may think. In the scene where Quint gets eaten by Bruce, the actor had to wear leather girdles around his midsection so the fake shark's teeth would not harm him. I'm proud to say that my cousin by marriage, a leather-worker on Martha's Vineyard, made that girdle!
Scott Wilkins 1 year ago
Bruce was...not great...as animatronic props went but I still love the movie.
Mark Buxbaum 1 year ago
They made the movie in 1974. Considering that, they did great!
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#34
When Disney bought Lucasfilm, they cancelled an upcoming animated Star Wars series which starred, among others, Weird Al Yankovic. They had already made 39 episodes comprising two seasons.
David 1 year ago
It was supposed to be a SW comedy animated series about imperial middle managment, kind of like the office meets Star Wars. The people who made it said it would have been amazing.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Now I really want to see it. It must be sitting in an archive somewhere... maybe with all the Disney flops lately they'll release it as a money grab.
Load More Replies... I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
Tbf I don't think we would have actually seen Weird Al as a character on the show, since it was animated. He most likely voiced his character, who may or may not have resembled his physical appearance.
Load More Replies... Betty Swallocks 1 year ago
The storm trooper in the above photograph is actually James Bond actor Daniel Craig. (Seriously - Google it !)
#35
In 2007, Malaysia sent its first astronaut to the ISS. The government and Islamic scholars also wrote that in order to pray, Muslims in space should face Mecca if possible; but if not, they could face the Earth generally, or just face “wherever.”
Unemployed Panda 1 year ago
Yet more evidence that all these religiosities are an absolute stack of foecal fantasy
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
You don't have to get triggered just bc someone believes in something that you don't
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David 1 year ago (edited)
Back when Ilan Ramon went to space in 2003 there was Rabbinic literature on how he should observe Judaism is space (also pray towards earth because you cannot pray towards Jerusalem direct), since he was not in a time zone, to use the time in Jerusalem for prayer times and sabbath times, how to handle the sabbath, and other things. They published it in a book for any future Jewish astronauts who want to practice religion.
Nerenahd Dhaneren 1 year ago
I mean, it's religion, right? I guess wherever is pretty accurate.
arthbach 1 year ago
Often in faiths that prayers, or fasting etc, at specific times, there's a proviso for people who are in unusual places. They take the time for Mecca, Jerusalem, or their home base. Eg. If you have to do something at sunset, but you are in a place where there is no sunset, then use Mecc, Jerusalem, or home base's sunset time instead. This is used by people who live at high latitudes, or are off world.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
1:The rug probably did not float, as there would be someone sitting on it. 2: They probably had enough room.
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Rod 1 year ago
Considering a muslim prayer is supposed to be like 10 minutes long (correct me if I'm wrong) and the fact that the ISS takes less than 100 minutes for a full revolution.....
Jeremy James 1 year ago
Also, considering the speed at which prayer travels...
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#36
Neil Armstrong was filmed as he stepped on the moon with a $2.3 million upside-down camera. Westinghouse built for Apollo 11 a special model that the astronaut deployed by pulling a handle near the ladder he climbed down onto the lunar surface. NASA inverted the image for the TV audience.
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
It was absolutely cutting edge to get a TV camera that small, and yet all they could do in terms of quality was "potato", mostly due to a data transmission bottleneck ... at least the still cameras, Hasselblads shooting on 60mm film were exceptional and they bought back great images.
Load More Replies... Rostit.. . 1 year ago
My great uncle was part of the research team that came up with those cameras. They used something like 7watts of power which is insane when you think about whats involved and the technology at the time.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
Looks like a looong guitar neck with 6 strings and lottsa little frets.
Kevin the Manager 1 year ago (edited)
An even bigger issue that resulted was that he also became the first human to leave a place and immediately exclaim, "Sh*t! I left my camera/phone/landing pad behind!"
Jane Hower 1 year ago
Picture is not of the moon but of space. Didn't have a better stock pic????
David Wallin 1 year ago
And, incredibly, NASA lost the original recording of the event. That's why the copies you see are low quality. They're from video recorded from a camera (on Earth) pointed at a TV screen receiving the feed from the Moon.
#37
WW2 sunken ships are being "grave robbed" due to their incredibly valuable steel.
Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago
That is because this steel has not been exposed to radiation from nuclear weapons.
Mark 1 year ago
Correct, pre-war steel has not been exposed to radionuclides, and thus is helpful for everything that requires radiation work, from medical tools to Geiger counters. Interesting reading https://interestingengineering.com/science/what-is-pre-war-steel
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Alexandra 1 year ago
This is so respectful! In WWII, the ships HMS de Ruyter, Java and Kortenaer perished in the Java sea, Indonesia, taking hundreds of lives with them. For 70 years these graves remained undisturbed. Now they are gone: they were dismantled, taken away and sold for scrap. There are still living family members of those who perished: they are devastated.
Julie S 1 year ago
I assume you mean disrespectful not respectful. I'm giving you an upvote because I think you were downvoted because of a typo.
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#38
Capybara are eaten during Lent in Venezuela because they are considered “fish” by the Vatican.
Shark_a 1 year ago
Can we please, stop listen to what Vatican says? Just why? It is just an obsolete religion, nothing else.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Believe it or not, there are still a lot of catholics, I agree we shouldn't listen to everything to say, but I don't think they are obsolete.
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Panda Boi 1 year ago
That's religion, making scripture fit what it needs to fit.
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WonderWoman 1 year ago
When your *religion* dictates what you can eat, when you can eat, how you can eat - you are in a cult that merely wants to control you.
Michael Wlodarczyk 1 year ago
What's the only meat a priest can eat on Friday during Lent? Nun.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
The Vatican also declared cats as "familiars of Satan" and ordered its extermination. They ended up provoking the bubonic plague pandemic. Not sure if listening to the Vatican is a good idea...
Rostit.. . 1 year ago
there also was/is that whole protecting predator pedophiles thing too. you know. molesting children for centuries and hiding it. just sayin.
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#39
In 1957 Little Richard enrolled in Oakwood College for the ministry. He told all the students he didn’t want them listening to his “devil” music and wanted buy his records back for more than the original price in order to burn them in a bonfire.
arthbach 1 year ago
Just before this, a plane he was on had engine problems, and he had a conversion experience. He stopped performing secular music, and only played gospel songs. Five years later he returned to secular music.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
He tried another style, and found out it wasn't for him, good for him!
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
There's nothing more poisonous than religious garbage. He should have come out of the closet decades before his death instead of dying full of self-loathing.
Pandapoo 1 year ago
He was very conflicted about his sexuality due to religion. 😞
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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Religion be like: "Let me destroy my talent for a deity that was most likely made up by others to control the 99% "
pasej41913@bustayes.com 1 year ago
He was also gay and self hating because of his religion
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Kimbowa 1 year ago
Wait, when he was 25 he called his music devil music? Isn’t that the time period when he was performing it?
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
According to Google, his fame started when he was 23, and he had 15 hits in rapid succession.
Load More Replies... I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
The entire post was only 2 sentences, lol but my take is that he had come to the conclusion that his music was devil music and decided to enroll is college for ministry. This was done in hopes of fixing his wrongs (exposing the world to his evil music.) All this was short lived and he went back to performing those songs as well as others that were deemed devilish prior. Hope this helps.
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In a hurdling event , you are not penalized for knocking over a hurdle.
Mark 1 year ago
So what I'm hearing is you can straight up Kool-Aid man it through a 200 m dash
Ace 1 year ago
It's been tried, but is slower, even if you manage to avoid tripping over.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Just went on YouTube. Runners can't hit the hurdles with their upper body, but they aren't penalized for hitting them with their legs. Reason - because they are penalizing themselves by slowing down.
Happy Jack 1 year ago
For those people that have done track and field this is a nothing burger.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Maybe one day some strong dude will succeed just running straight without even jumping. It's possible. But needs a phenomenal combination of speed and strenght.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Sure you are, but only because you lose some time when you don't get over it cleanly.
Betty Swallocks 1 year ago
But you will be disqualified if you punch the guy with the starter pistol.
#41
Shel Silverstein, who wrote "Where the Sidewalk Ends", was a prolific writer. He wrote Johnny Cash's "25 Minutes to Go" and Dr. Hook's "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'". His book "A Light in the Attic" was on the NYT best sellers list for 181 weeks. And he never intended to be a children's author.
RedBadgerCan'tSwim 1 year ago
He also wrote "A boy named sue" and the rather disturbing sequel "father of a boy named sue".
Ty Stratton-Quirk 1 year ago
Today I learned that my favorite Johnny Cash song was, in fact, written by Shel Silverstein.
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#42
Astronomer Johannes Kepler built the legal defense for his mother, when she was accused of witchcraft. The six-year trial resulted in her freedom.
Robert Millar 1 year ago
Ah yes, witchcraft. The very best way to get your hands on a woman's money and land.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Six years! Hopefully she wasn't imprisoned for the duration of the trial
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
For about a year, she was imprisonned, and six moth after her release she died. As she was relatively old (in 1621, a woman over 70), it cannot be proven that the prison shortened her lifespan.
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The Bic Cristal is the bestselling pen of all time, selling over 100 billion units, but had an infamously terrible spinoff. The "Bic Cristal for Her" was a pink version targeted at women that sold poorly, was publicly mocked, and inducted into the Museum of Failure.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
A one point in the 20th century, after pen success and lighter success, they tried to sell perfume. That was such a bad idea and failed of course.
#44
The first Japanese person to be sent to space was Toyohiro Akiyama. Known as "The Space Antihero", Akiyama was not a trained astronaut, scientist nor engineer and spent his time in space craving cigarettes.
#45
In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos instituted a "two-pizza rule": every internal team should be small enough that it can be fed with two pizzas. The reason was that a smaller team spends less time managing timetables and keeping people up to date, and more time doing what needs to be done.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
I wouldn't complain to get two pizzas for working alone (but where is the downside?)
#46
Nero's teenage brother died at a dinner party with his entire family present. Some of the guests were shocked, but Nero shrugged it off, saying it was normal, as he was having epileptic seizures since birth, so they carried on with their party.
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
Well, if Nero is known for one thing, it's exactly that...
Load More Replies... Susan Robinson 1 year ago
Yet another death attributed to having seizures. As a person with a seizure disorder, this scares the poop out of me!
Maartje 1 year ago
Nope, they did not exist. IF - if he played anything it could have been a cithara.
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#47
Louis Armstrong was initially considered for the role of King Louie in Disney's 1967 ''Jungle Book'' but one of the writers said 'You know the NAACP is going to jump all over it having a black man playing an ape – it would be politically terrible' so the part went to Louis Prima.
arthbach 1 year ago
If you are worried about something coming over as racist, or politically terrible, then approach the person, explain your concerns, and ask their advice!
Marianne 1 year ago
If Louis Armstrong had liked the idea, others still could have felt offended. Look at what happens today. All kinds of people are regularly offended on behalf of others.
Load More Replies... I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
I find it kinda funny that Louis Armstrong wanted to play the character of King Louie, but in the end Louis Prima ended up playing the part. Was it a requirement to be named Louis to play Louie? Lol jk.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Prima was white, but as a Sicilian he has his own problems with facing discrimination - by whites, and by Italians.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
today i learn louis armstrong is not king louie in "jungle book" :/ :D
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Because wypepo at the Mouse assumed they needed to gatekeep black generalized perception. Because Armstrong apparently had a responsibility to represent that perception. Had he opted to play an ape, as a black man that could be seen through a lens of racism and Disney decided they were obligated to prevent such. It’s really a catch-22. Armstrong does & doesn’t have an obligation of representing black people. Playing an ape could and couldn’t be read as racially motivated. Racism sucks cos it IS institutional and permeates all of society.
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#48
Sunflower Syndrome - a rare form of pediatric photosensitive epilepsy. The child is attracted to the sun (heliotropism) or a bright light, wave their hand in front of their eyes to create a strobe and trigger seizure activity with lapses in consciousness and often a feeling of relief.
Astro 1 year ago
“Sunflower syndrome is a rare photosensitive epilepsy which has received little attention in recent medical literature. The historical cases documenting the epilepsy's stereotyped handwaving motion in front of light characterized the behavior as self-inducing seizures via mimic of stroboscopic effect.”
Astro 1 year ago (edited)
And more importantly: “ Sunflower syndrome was originally described as a self-induced photosensitive epilepsy. However, the “self-induced” designation may be inaccurate. It was initially believed that individuals with Sunflower syndrome were consciously inducing seizures for attention or pleasure. This belief created a stigma around the disorder. As a result, people have adopted the belief that individuals with Sunflower syndrome can control their hand waving episodes. Although some case studies provide anecdotal evidence to support this, the findings in scientific literature are not consistent. In fact, EEG studies have found that the misfiring of neurons in the brain or epileptiform activity start at the same time as the hand waving behavior. This suggests that the hand waving may in fact be part of the seizure, not the cause.”
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#49
Ace of Base original lineup consisted of three siblings, a brother and two sisters. They were signed to their first contract after a record exec rejected their song "All That She Wants" but got their demo stuck in his car's tape deck and finally decided he liked it. It went straight to no. 1.
#50
How lethal American submarines were during WWII. They destroyed 55% of all Axis power warships lost over the course of the war.
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
*Japanese, specifically. And that's despite fighting half of the war with deffective Mark 14 torpedoes which wouldn't detonate, ran too deep, or exploded randomly before they reachrd the target but the Bureau of Ordnance insisted they were fine. It took a full blown scandal to fix the issues, by which point it was 1944... the lucky break for the US submarines was the fact the Japanese never instituted a convoy system, allowing their merchant ships to be torpedoed one by one, even to the end of the war.
pasej41913@bustayes.com 1 year ago
They also broke the Japanese code allowing them to decode their transmissions and know of their plans. The Japanese refused to change the code, believing that no one could have broken it.
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#51
More than 40 percent of the USA's roads are in poor or mediocre condition. The assessment of bridges, airports and water infrastructure is similar.
TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago
Well duh! What do you expect when 25% of every tax dollar goes to the military and when ExxonMobil get tax subsidies for "Research and Development" and when Wal-Mart gets tax subsidies to put their employees on food stamps instead of paying them a livable wage??? Unregulated Capitalism has destroyed the USA.
Pheebs 1 year ago
Federal tax =/= local or state taxes, so military spending isn’t coming from your local road upgrade bidget. Most of the worst roads are up to the city or state to maintain. In my experience, most money for roads goes to interstates, which is maintained at the state level, though initial build is federally funded. And quite a few have tolls to help fund. Local (city/town/etc) level is where things get bad, especially if it’s a road owned by multiple local governments. We have a very busy road near by that takes years to get updates as two cities have to come to an agreement on any changes. Then you add local tax funding for those upgrades. If you live someplace with a lot of infrastructure, but low tax, you won’t see as much funding available for upgrades. Plus the whole “is my local government spending money wisely” debate.
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Cindy Brick 1 year ago
Drive in Michigan and Colorado, too (especially in the Denver metro area)...and you won't be surprised at this at all.
#52
The "Infernal Machine", a 25-barreled gun that the Corsican revolutionary Giuseppe Fieschi tried to assassinate King Louis Phillippe I with in 1835. The device killed 18 people in a single volley and injured 22 (as well as Fieschi himself), but only mildly grazed the King.
Mark 1 year ago
Rant time, because people need to know how weird this thing is. It's a volley gun, meaning it shoots several bullets out of each barrel. In this case, artillerymen believe that each of the 25 barrels contained 8 balls and 13-14 slugs (bullets). This means that in one shot it could shoot ABOUT 525 PROJECTILES. EXperts say that if Fieschi was a more experienced gunmaker, this abomination of nature could have killed over 200 people and "literally torn the King and his staff to pieces"
#53
As of October 2022, Norway spends $127,671 per inmate per year, which is more than the United States' average of $25,000.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Norway isn't trying to make money on their inmates. They're trying to reduce crime, not commercialising prisons.
Rosy Maple Moth 1 year ago (edited)
Exactly. Their prison system has become a role model for the whole world. Norways recidivism rate is quite low and prisons are safer and more peaceful.
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Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
Yes but the reoffending rates are much lower in Norway that the US, therefore saving money in the long run. People are much less likely to turn to crime if they've been given an opportunity to gain employment and housing on release. High rates of poverty=high rate of crime.
Mrs.C 1 year ago
One could assume the lack of recidivism is because of the money spent rehabilitating people. The US prison system has been privatized. With that most programs that were effective were tossed out as cost reducing measures.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
The US incarceration rate is roughly 10 times Norway's, 531 per 100,000 vs. 52 per 100,000.
Maartje 1 year ago
Recidivism is way less, percentage wise. They treat them better, help them to become better people, and don't just throw them out of prison when they are done with their sentence. In the long run it is financially more lucrative and more humane to treat prisoners this way and I am not even talking about the fact that there will be less victims in the future.
Amanda Trent 1 year ago
I can only assume they actually attempt to rehabilitate, instead of making things worse by institutionalizing the inmates.
Carla Phillips 1 year ago
I don't know anything about Norway's prisons, but it sounds like they are investing in rehabilitation and not making bad worse.
#54
The movie "Paranormal Activity" had a total budget of $215,000. It went on to earn $193 million at the global box office.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
One of the problems in Hollywood is that nearly every movie nowadays costs 300+ millions and need to make above a billion in income to be profitable, it went completely out of hand
Lara Verne 1 year ago
Japanese Godzilla minus one had budged 'only' around $10–12 million, yet it was successful and had very good special effects, so maybe Hollywood should get some inspiration......
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Charles McChristy 1 year ago
I'm surprised the original budget was that high considering what was shot.
Rostit.. . 1 year ago
this is because hollywood has no original ideas. its a super hero nonsense movie(so sick of them) or some s****y remake. hollywood is old and busted
#55
Apollo 12 astronauts secretly brought a camera timer on the space mission. The two who landed on the moon planned to take a selfie with both of them to mystify people back on Earth. The plan failed when they could not find the timer.
Phil 1 year ago
Lot's of discussion here about folks not believing they couldn't find it. Lunar module pilot Al Bean had put the timer in a rock sample collection bag. After the bag was stored in the LM (months before the actual flight) the astronauts would not have access to it again until after their landing, and then only from the outside of the LM. Also, the timer was about the size of a disposable lighter, and Bean couldn't spend a lot of time digging through the rock samples.
Phil 1 year ago
Other fun facts about Apollo 12! It was an all US Navy crew. It was struck by lighting immediately just after launch, and it was only Lunar Module Pilot Al Bean remembering a very obscure switch that saved the flight. The ground crew slipped a naked lady picture into Al Bean's and Pete Conrad's lunar surface checklists.
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
But the timer is very small. And it was in an equipment pocket with other stuff, they found in on their way back.
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Tickets to the first Superbowl cost just $12, which is approximately $106 when adjusted for inflation.
Stygtand 1 year ago
Cheapest was about 5800$. Average price about 8000-9000$
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
It wasn't even a sell out. Most people don't realize it was just an exhibition game between rival leagues back then. The players cared more about winning their leagues championship more than the super bowl.
Westy 1 year ago
Maybe, but Vince Lombardi understood the importance of winning that game in order for the NFL to retain its position as a the superior league - the AFL was using large contract offers to attract high-level college players - so there was a lot more pressure on him and the Packers than a lot of people realize.
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Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, practiced the unusual habit of consuming a spoonful of it each day. He attributed his long life of 96 years to this practice, without any scientific research to back it up.
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
Vaseline doesn't seem safe to eat. It's a product from petrochemistry...
Catastrophisticate 1 year ago
Triple-filtered and FDA-approved. Not toxic in small doses, but ingestion is not the recommended use. It can cause loose stool, so some people use it sparingly to combat constipation (also good for cats with hairball issues - again, in small doses)
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
No different than people claiming health benefits of essential oils or prayer or crystals.
Anony Mouse 1 year ago
Years ago my old roommate found his cat chowing down on a pile of rubber bands. The vet advised them to monitor the litterbox closely, and try to feed the cat a little vaseline each day until they could be sure there were no blockages.
#58
Léon and Mathilda’s relationship in Leon: The Professional (1994) was inspired by director Luc Besson’s own relationship with a 12 year old girl, who he later married.
Ace 1 year ago
Have you seen the movie? It's been a while, but although she was clearly fascinated by him there was not even a hint of any sexual or otherwise untoward behaviour on Leon's part.
Load More Replies... Jack Burton 1 year ago
Awful human being but great movie ! Natali Portman is awesome and steal the show even with Jean Reno or Garry Oldman. The movie stays on the line... No pedo content at all. But the real story....
François Bouzigues 1 year ago
You forget Jimmy Page and David Bowie and many many many more.
Load More Replies... Rosy Maple Moth 1 year ago
Maiwenn Le Besco was 15 when they started dating. Still too young for him who was 32 at that time.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
That's... disturbing. In the movie, at least, Léon rejects Mathilda's advances and insinuations...
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Not saying it's right, because it isn't, but for the purpose of facts; It was Maïwenn Le Besco, she was 15 when they started dating, he was 32. They married when she was 22. Oh, and for the record, She was the one the one that claimed the film was inspired by their relationship, something he denied, stating that '[Leon] was an expansion of an earlier idea which led to La Femme Nikita'.
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago (edited)
They met when she was 12. She was 16 when she gave birth to their daughter. He was 29. Also belive Luc left her when she was 20 for Milla Jovovich?
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Singer Hank Williams died less than two months after releasing his final single titled "I'll never get out of this world alive".
Amanda Trent 1 year ago
U would think singers would know not to foreshadow(foretell?) their deaths by releasing songs about it.
#60
Only the Special Editions of the original Star Wars trilogy were given to the National Film Registry despite the Library of Congress wanting the originals because George Lucas hates those versions. In fact, he had delayed in handing the Registry A New Hope until the Special Edition was made.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
And yet the Special Editions suck the most, the originals are way better
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Never understood Lucas about that, the all planet fell in love with his films, the first ones, the original trilogy. Why would you want to erase that ?!
Sand Ers 1 year ago
I did not stand in line for 5 hours to watch A New Hope. That dàmned movie is called Star Wars, and that IS a hill I'll die on.
Scott Duncan 1 year ago
When an artist releases their art to the world it becomes other people's as well. Not legally, mind you, but to say that millions of people do not feel immense attachment and ownership to the original Star Wars movies is ridiculous. I wonder if you think any movie or music you love was just deleted cus the artist was tired of it would be fine with you.
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Starfish Prime was the largest nuclear test in space. At 250 miles in the air, it EMPed 900 miles of Hawaii, frying electrical systems, setting off burglar alarms, and shut down 6+ satellites due to the months long radiation belt. After 5 years, traces of the electrons still linger in space.
michael Chock 1 year ago
Nuclear explosions create an Electro Magnetic Pulse that creates an electrical current in everything metal. If strong enough it will fry sensitive electronics.
James016 1 year ago
Electro Magnetic Pulse. It messes up/wrecks anything electronic
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#62
in 1778, the United States flag was formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine-gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
John O'Donnell 1 year ago
Same with Michael Collins. Irish revolutionary leader and Apollo 11 astronaut.
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BoredPossum 1 year ago
Imagine when his mom was angry with him and used all his names in a quick hiss.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
JEAN TOUSSAINT GUILLAUME PICQUET DE LA MOTTE ! viens ici tout'd'suite ! :D
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The original record holders for the 1 mile run were all from the United Kingdom, from 1855 on. UK would hold the record for over 50 years, until it was finally broken by American John Paul Jones.
Nerenahd Dhaneren 1 year ago
Pretty soon the bassist from Led Zeppelin is dropping by.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
That's what happens when rich white people make the rules, and only sons of rich white families can train full time and not work. In the earliest days of the modern "olympics", an "amateur athlete" meant having NO job (i.e. not working for a living), not just unpaid for sports. Which of course was a rule decided by rich white people.
#64
Turkmenistan every year, teachers and doctors are forced to leave their jobs to go pick cotton for harvest on behalf of the government. This year there was an exception and they were allowed exemption.
Rostit.. . 1 year ago
Well you know. They are a vassal state of Putler and the disgusting Russian federation. While "independant" , Niyazov is definitely ticking Putins taint.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
I too, am now very glad I don't live in Turkmenistan.
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You used to be able to buy flight insurance from a vending machine for 25c. The practice stopped due to scams, including a man who tried to commit insurance fraud by planting a bomb in his mother's things, killing 44 people.
#66
The US has a perpetual lease for Guantanamo Bay and sends Cuba a check for about $4500 per year but the Cuban government, since 1953 has refused to accept. However one time in 1959 the check was accidentally deposited causing confusion.
Stygtand 1 year ago
Well the american economy is more or less a pyramid scheme.
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
All checks are still there, unclaimed, in a drawer in Castro's desk. The Government of Cuba has shown them to reporters.
#67
The Yellowstone National Park is on top of a caldera, which is a volcano that explodes so powerfully and immediately that everything around falls into the hole created, thus you are vacationing inside the top of volcano, but it looks flat and not like a "normal" shield volcano.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
known to potentially be the biggest natural disaster to come, the yellowstone supervolcano
Kristie French 1 year ago
Super Volcano. The “hole” is caused when the magma chamber collapses after emptying from the eruption.
Amanda Trent 1 year ago
The roads inside the park frequently buckle and/or melt. Once it goes, the country and most likely the world will be annihilated. It's HUGE and scientists don't know much about it.
#68
Planet 9, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of our solar system. The planet has not been directly observed, but the gravitational effects of the planet could explain the unique orbits of bodies beyond Neptune, which orbit the sun as a single cluster.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Some theorise that it could be the fifth gas giant that was ejected from its orbit by Jupiter and Saturn
WonderWoman 1 year ago
Are you sure it was Jupiter or Saturn that ejected the gas and not Uranus? /lol
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Donkey boi 1 year ago
There is also a number of other (more plausible) explanations for the orbits of the objects beyond Neptune. It's why I love science; We've got a telescope that can look at galaxies a billion lightyears away, but still have to theorise about a possibly unseen planet on our own doorstep by comparison.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
“Planet 9 - From Outer Space”. Mmm, there’s a movie somewhere inside there.
#69
Penn and Teller game went unreleased because the developer went bankrupt by overproducing copies of a Goofy game.
#70
The first message ever sent on the Internet was “LO”.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
The intended message was LOGIN. It was an attemp to login to another computer. The communication was cut off mid way (system crashed), leaving LO as the first ever internet message.
Maartje 1 year ago
@pandabeth: https://100.ucla.edu/timeline/the-internets-first-message-sent-from-ucla
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
"According to Kleinrock, they intended to transmit the word “LOGIN,” but the system crashed just after they had sent the first two letters." - UCLA.edu.
#71
The “20Q” (20 questions) handheld game, a toy released in 2003 and famous for its scary level of accuracy, actually used a basic implementation of an AI neural network. It used training data gathered from users of a web-browser based implementation of the game which launched in 1994.
John L 1 year ago
What people fail to realize with all this "singularity" stuff and fear of AI, is that "machine learning" has been around for decades.
James016 1 year ago
It's just fancy buzzwords. It's AI now, before that it was "machine learning" yada yada yada...
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The first iPhone couldn't copy and paste text until 2 years after release.
John L 1 year ago
Seems like an oversight now. But at the time a device that could be used as a mobile phone AND access the internet AND play music, was literally world changing.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
There were many devices long before, I had a qtec that did all that at half the price, still got it. I could also do it with a palm before if I gave it access via BT on my laptop. I could have bought a SIM card adaptor for it that slotted in the side and make calls or access my dial up ISP at the time. There were WAP websites like mini webs for small displays. It also synced overnight will charging in to the laptop, EQ every morning I had my news in a app not very different then flipboard. The Qtec has a SIM card and wifi and synced to a pop3 mail server. It also had SSH client so I could access and do remote work for my clients. It also synced with lotus organiser. Palm-130-6...f9300f.jpg 
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
Imagine copying a text, but you have to wait two years to paste it.
#73
Marvel obtained the trademarks "Hulk Hogan", "Hulkster" and "Hulkamania" for 20 years while the WWF agreed to no longer refer to Hogan as "incredible" or "Hulk" or ever dress him in purple or green. Marvel also obtained $100 for each Hulk Hogan match and 10% of any earnings under this name.
#74
An entire town exists in Pennsylvania due to one of the only traffic lights on the Interstate system.
SewingStaffy 1 year ago
There must be something missing here. Unless I just don't understand it
Fortescue_ (they/them) 🇬🇧 1 year ago
Because people have to stop on the interstate, some people realised they might need to get stuff so a town was formed
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Nicola Mawson 1 year ago
I think: an unusual traffic light on the interstate system led to the creation of a town. Most of these need unscrambling and cleary should have been edited
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
How is it possible for something to be 'one of' 'the only'? If it it's 'the only' then that's it. It's the only one. If it's 'one of' something, then there's more of them, so it's not 'the only' one.
Papa 1 year ago (edited)
I assume OP meant one of the few instead of one of the only.
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Nicolas Cage Spent $150 million on 15 homes (including one haunted mansion), two islands, a dinosaur skull, a Lamborghini, exotic pets and a rare vintage comic book.
#76
Around 20% of young people lack a gag reflex.
Nimitz 1 year ago
Fun fact: a recent TikTok trend did discover a way to lessen gag reflex significantly. Step 1: make a fist closing your fingers over your thumb with your left hand. Step 2: Put your right index fingertip on the tip of your chin and push back while resisting the movement with your neck muscles. Step 3: open your left hand and use your right to pinch the muscle between the thumb and index finger. Your gag reflex will now be somewhat to significantly reduced for the next few seconds. Do with this information what you will
Nimitz 1 year ago
It worked for me, but I'm gay, so I have experience with this ;)
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The worst serial killer--Luis Garavito--had 193 confirmed victims. He died of eye cancer in October.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
OP just did a google search without actually reading any of the articles. Harold Shipman had the highest confirmed victims and the highest unconfirmed victims. Niels Högel, only admitted to 100 victims, but investigations suggests that the number is more likely over 300. Pedro López: Evidence for over 100, he claims it was around 400, only convicted of 3!. He served 14 years in prison and is once again a wanted fugitive and linked to a victim as recently as 2012, A as of today, he is still at large. Pedro López was actually listed in the Guinness book of records as the most prolific, until they stopped listing murderers due to insensitivity.
#78
From 1928 to 2016, no Republican won the presidency without Richard Nixon or a Bush on the ticket.
Rostit.. . 1 year ago
this is because the republican party lost its way. The democrats are not much better but at least their self serving policies benefit the working class somewhat. Not enough, but far more than the republicans.
Ken Schroeder 1 year ago
Somehow, I find it VERY hard to believe the GOP has found its way in the last 12 years...
Load More Replies... Rostit.. . 1 year ago
I honeslty have no idea what you were going to say.
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