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40 Really Cool And Interesting Facts, As Shared By The ‘Today I Learned’ Online Community
In this hectic world, there’s often not much time left for ourselves. And while amid all the chaos we rarely forget to feed our bodies (and if you do, you’re having a burnout!), we often fail to think of replenishing our mind.
But the good news is, it's never too late to pump that brain muscle! So in order to nourish our curious inner child hiding deep behind first-world problems, we are about to feast on some ‘Today I Learned’ bits and pieces of information from the subreddit by the same name.
From things like how a Titanic survivor who spent 6 hours waist-deep in freezing water later won the Wimbledon Men's Doubles in 1920, and a Costa Rican fisherman becoming best friends with a crocodile after he treated it from a headshot, these are things you just don’t learn in books.
And if you’re still hungry for some more trivia facts, make sure to check out our previous TIL posts here, here and here.
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#1
A local fisherman in Costa Rica nursed a crocodile back to health after it had been shot in the head, and released the reptile back to its home. The next day, the man discovered “Pocho” had followed him home and was sleeping on the man’s porch. For 20 years Pocho became part of the man’s family.
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
Animals can appreciate the good actions a lot more than people! Even wild animals! That's why they are better than people
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Love and caring can go along way. I agree animals are much better than most people. Never ever call the human group of people mankind 'cause they ain't.
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Kari Panda 4 years ago
There are photos and videos of Pocho‘s eventual funeral online. Pocho had many many fans.
Shawn Steinfeger 4 years ago
There is a documentary called "Touching the dragon" and it is indeed wholesome.
Ikonye St. Jude 4 years ago
Thank you for that Wholesome Shawn. 45 minutes well spent.
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Neil Bidle 4 years ago
Most animals are better than most humans and don't deserve the horrible reputation some of them have. They aren't out to get humans, and most interactions that go badly are because we keep stealing their land, habitat, and food.
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#2
Norway hires shepherds from Nepal to build paths in the Norwegian mountains. They have completed over 300 projects, and their pay for one summer equals 30 years of work in Nepal.
May 4 years ago
I'm Norwegian and I had no idea about this. Huh. They've traditionally been made and maintained by mountain enthusiasts on a volunteer basis. I guess there aren't as many of them around anymore.
M Calad 4 years ago
I live in Stavanger area, and while hiking a couple of years ago, I saw the sherpas working on the paths along both Preikestolen and Dalsnuten. Awesome folk!
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Ragnhild Karlsen 4 years ago
Absolutely its Sherpas. Got one of those stairs right down the road from where I live.
Load More Replies... Ragnhild Karlsen 4 years ago
Hello from Lofoten, Norway. Can confirm that it is indeed a typo, and the paths are obviously built by sherpas, not shepherds. They say paths, but it's more like stairs really.. but the craftsmanship is really impressive. Got one of the stairs 10 min from where I live.
Ragnhild Karlsen 4 years ago
They are made to make dangerous mountain paths safer, and to reduce the impact tourism has on nature (a real problem where I live.) This is one of them https://www.google.no/imgres?imgurl=https://lofoten.info/sites/l/lofoten.info/files/sherpatrapp_floeya.jpg?thumbnail%3D10000x500&imgrefurl=https://lofoten.info/fottur-sommer/floya-og-djevelporten&tbnid=eF8HXYt83FIpLM&vet=1&docid=bS4RfeAlIVG8JM&w=373&h=500&hl=nb-no&source=sh/x/im
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Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
Imagine retiring after working one summer. This is what I dream of.
KC Lancaster 4 years ago
Not sure why it's sad? Nepal is a poor country in comparison and the sherpas could definitely use the income, especially if they bring it back home. And Norway gets some awesome protective additions to their trails.
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Isabel London 3 years ago
Here they are: https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/nature-attractions/mountains/norwegian-mountain-trails-built-by-sherpas-from-nepal/?lang=uk
#3
Architect Alejandro Echeverri was approached by the mayor of Medellin, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, to revitalize the city. He focused on building in the poorest areas first to bring people and infrastructure into these neighborhoods. Crime dropped substantially.
Uchman 4 years ago
Except it wasn't in this case as the poor people were NOT kicked out of the revitalised areas.
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Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
Wow, who would have thought crime is caused by poor loving conditions.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Sometimes also by poor living-conditions ;-)
Load More Replies... Lila Launehase 4 years ago
I heard about this in Ewan McGregor's "Long way up". So impressive!
Anita Gaffney 4 years ago
I stayed here when travelling through South America and it's a lovely city - it feels like being in a european city like Barcelona.
Daniel Gómez 4 years ago
To be fair, Medellín is as dangerous as many big cities are around the world in some developed countries. It might have been very dangerous in the 80's and early 90's, and some areas are still unsafe, but saying that it's one of the most dangerous nowadays isn't very exact, and I happen to know because: -Some a-hole president we used to have who is now a senator brought "peace" to the whole Atioquia region at the expense of bringinr war to other regions. He's from medellín, he had to keep his people and hometown safe, and it's a bouyant city precisely because a lot of the national budget goes to that particular region in Colombia. -Many of yje people with the biggest fortunes in Colombia either live in Medellín and sorrounding areas, or have productive lands there. "El Poblado" neighborhood is home to the wealthiest families in Medellín and some of the wealthiest in the country. -I'm Colombian, with family from Medellín who also live there, and I've visited several times.
#4
Richard Norris Williams was a Titanic Survivor who spent over 6 hours waist-deep in freezing water - after rescue doctors wanted to amputate both his legs - he refused and went on to win the Wimbledon Men's Doubles in 1920.
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
No wonder I’m such a wimp—he took all the badassedness 60 years before I was born.
Load More Replies... Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
He had the right partner and was allowed to hang onto the wooden door halfway up, I guess
Load More Replies... Vicky Z 4 years ago
I don't understand how he managed to keep his legs though... the doctors' decision for amputation means that he had severe damage! I would need more information on how they saved his legs!
glowworm2 4 years ago
Apparently, he got up and walked around every 2 hours on the clock.
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Katrina 4 years ago
Yah this is a little inaccurate. He was in more than "waist deep" water... he was in the freaking ocean!
David Andrews 4 years ago (edited)
A little more detail in the post would have been better on this one! He wasn't actually in the ocean for all that time, he managed to get into one of the lifeboats, however it had partially flooded so he was stuck sitting in the water for hours till rescued
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
What I got from this is sometimes doctors don’t know what the f**k they’re talking about, so it’s best not to view them as infallible gods
Uchman 4 years ago
Rescue doctors just like battlefield doctors don't have a lot of time to give the specialist treatment required for each patient so they make decisions based on what's the quickest way to save a patient. That's why drastic actions like amputations are performed to stabilise a patient immediately in emergency situations.
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#5
Chemists have developed two plant-based plastic alternatives to the current fossil fuel made plastics. Using chemical recycling instead of mechanical recycling, 96% of the initial material can be recovered.
I I 4 years ago
we need this NOW , i love it , two men in Mexico made a leather type material out of cactus , we need these things on the market
Leslie Jensen 4 years ago
There's also piñatex, leather made from pineapple, among others. I agree, let's get this to go mainstream, ASAP
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Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
I think there are now way more alternAtives than 2. BUT. There is not a single thing as ”plastic” that could be replaced. There are tons of different polymer families and blends with different mechanical properties and behavior in different temperatures, chemical exposures etc etc and no single plant based solution could replace all of them.
Kat 4 years ago
Depends on the type of plants and how / where you source it ... We can make great fuel from Palm oil ... But hopefully you Pandas know that is not really a decent alternative to fossil fuels. Recycling... Please keep in mind that this is not a free ticket to a better world ... It costs a lot of energy to do so ... Avoiding plastic should be your first goal
Haru Brujis 4 years ago
In a shop in my neighborhood there's a shop that sells plastic-like dolls made from sugar cane.
Kat 4 years ago
Any idea what would happen if you wanted to make more plastic out sugar cane? How much more fields (= burnt down forest) you would need? ... It's not really a good thing for the world ...
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I also heard that scientists have found out that the stomach-fluid from cows (rumen) is able to break PET down into its original components. So instead of shredding them and then recycling, which will damage the structures after a few repetitions and can#t be done endlessly, it makes it possible to just re-use the PET-components without any loss of physical stability! It's as if you had new PET-components. I was stunned when I heard that and I'm hoping for more break-through-science on that!
Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago
As long as scientists find a way to synthesize the fluid. We don't need another situation like when they hunted whales and deer to make things like better perfumes (among many discontinued products).
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Laura Williams 1 year ago
Companies stop trying to lie to us normal recycling is not working. Quit being àsses and man up spend money on the longevity of your business to have a planet to exist on.
#6
Helen Keller was accepted to Harvard in 1900. Mark Twain introduced her to Standard Oil magnate, Henry Rogers, who paid for her education. And in 1904, she became the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor's degree.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
A lot more exceptional than the thing that made the comment below!
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Estelle 4 years ago
And in 2021 sight and hearing impaired USA Olympians were denied handlers to support them in the Olympic Village....how many cancelled their ability to compete?
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
What an awful thing for them to do. Did they think they were going to do the Olympic feats for them????
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#7
The oldest living elephant is Vatsala, living at an Elephant camp in a Tiger Reserve. At 105, she has lived for more than double the age of an average Asian Elephant. Though loosing her vision to Cataract, she has been able to navigate using her trunk and support from her herd members
John L 4 years ago
Just when you think animals are incapable of "civilized socialization", nature surprises us.
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
animals, very probably, are sentient beings, and they have feelings, just like we have feelings. They might act differently upon them, but I have known sheep, cats, birds, dogs, rats, and lizards who formed a very close bond with their humans.
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Aaricia 4 years ago
At her age she would most likely not come out of the surgery.
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Neil Bidle 4 years ago
Most elephants die aged 50 ish because of a sort of built-in self-destruct. Once they wear through their teeth, they grow more. Each set lasts around 10 years of wear, and they get 5 sets. Not more teeth, no more food, no more elephant.
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
Why is that notebook obstructing the picture of that wonderful animal?
#8
River Phoenix passed away right before he was to film his role as the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire. The part was recast with Christian Slater, who donated his earnings to Earth Save and Earth Trust, two of Phoenix's favorite charities.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Wow. You never hear that about Christian Slater. Not many would have done what he did.
Marnie 4 years ago
I Love You to Death. One of my all-time favorite comedies. (I'm not saying it's great - just that it is a favorite.) I think it might be the only thing I've seen him in.
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YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
I LOVE that movie! Yeah, it sucks, I know, but you have like five sexy male actors in it! AND Kirsten Dunst!!
Marnie 4 years ago
Why does it suck? I thought it was quite a good movie.
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Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
It's nice to learn about the good deeds that are done that we often don't hear about.
#9
Norway discovered oil in its country 40 years ago. Knowing the oil would eventually run out, they chose to invest it in a sovereign wealth fund. It is one of the most profitable funds in the world - valued at over $1.3 trillion - enough to self sustain the county for many years.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Alaska actually cuts a check to citizens from oil funds too and reinvests.
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Chich 4 years ago
But the billionaires? What about the poor billionaires?! This just stands in the way of "successful men". (Man! I hate that phrase)
Per Arne Dahl 4 years ago
Fun fact: Norway has more billionaires pr capita than the US. Even more fun fact: Almost all of them are self made.
Load More Replies... Downunderdude 4 years ago
USA: You mean they use it for the benefit of the people and not for the already obscenely rich? What kind of crazy liberal commie socialist bullshit is that?
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Yup. Alberta had tons of oil. Many said we should follow Norway's model. Instead, we spent it all and have nothing to show for it. Now the premier is opening up coal mines.
Jon Stuart 4 years ago
Imagine living in a country where those that came from a semblance of wealth and frankly (having met them at school) are the most uneducated to improve a countries well-being (only their selfish family wealth) welcome to the USA. NOT THE REST OF THE WORLD. WOW WHAT A GREAT COUNTRY. Remember though on the flip side we had Calahan as our PM who rather than invest our oil reserves spent the dosh on short term crap. Well done Norway for bot fiscal and prison advancements to the human race. Again the USA is literally centuries behind. You must be proud.
#10
While only 9.7% of Americans don't wear seatbelts, 47% of those who pass away in car crashes were not wearing seatbelts.
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Isn‘t wearing a seatbelt compulsory in the US? It is in Germany and I think most of Europe. The driver is responsible for everyone in his car. If anyone is not belted, then the driver has to pay s fine. It‘s around 50€
Martin John 4 years ago
In my youth, I hit a patch of ice on the highway and skidded across 4 lanes of traffic and hit the concrete divider. I imagine that, had it not been for my seatbelt, I would have possibly went through the windshield and into the other lane of traffic. Further put my faith in seatbelts from there on out!!
A B C 4 years ago
I think the "only" is in respect to the 47% that die due to this idiocy.
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PeachPossum 4 years ago
Truth -- Seat belts save lives in head-on collisions, as do air bags. Another Truth -- Seat belts and air bags are not as effective in broadside collisions. My aunt was broadsided by a drunk who failed to yield at a stop sign. In the collision, my aunt was pushed out of the driver's seat into the passenger seat. Had she been wearing a seat belt, she would have been crushed. Still, head-on collisions occur more often and at higher speeds than broadside collisions. I don't put the car in gear unless everyone in the car is buckled up.
NsG 4 years ago
My car has an annoying alert if there is a person not wearing a seatbelt when the engine is running. Also any luggage heavy enough to be mistaken for a person (which makes sense as you don't want heavy luggage being flung around loose in a crash either)
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Meredith Glenn 4 years ago
Don’t understand how it’s not a habit for most everyone at this point.
Octavia Hansen 4 years ago
Considering how most people are pretty sloppy drivers -- I want one of those iron cages and the big X strap belt across my chest while I'm wearing a fire suit and helmet! I still have a lot of living to do and someone else is NOT going to take my time away from ME!
#11
Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras was a French aristocrat whose last words were "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes", upon reading his sentence warrant.
#12
Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
He could be the first POTUS who reaches the century mark.
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Marno Cameron 4 years ago
His work with Habitat for Humanity is so inspiring. He really walks his talk of humility, charity, and generosity towards others.
Hugh Willie Mungous 4 years ago
Quite impressive - but you should check Queen Elizabeth II's stats (noting, of course, that she is STILL head of state and met several Presidents before Jimmy and all after).
Seán Baron 4 years ago
She's met every President since Truman with the exception of LBJ. Her sister, Princess Margaret met him.
Load More Replies... Sunshine Sunshine 4 years ago
Met him in an elevator in Sudan.i was a bit star struck but he was very kind. Oké I'm boasting a bit
Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago
and may god bless and keep him and his wife safe for as long as they are doing well and are happy.
#13
in the original ending of the Inca-inspired animated film "The Emperor's New Groove", the titular Emperor demolishes a rainforest to create a theme park. Sting – who spent 20 years defending the rights of indigenous people – threatened to leave the project unless the ending was changed.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
The poison, the poison for Cusco, Cusco's poison.
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BG 4 years ago
Walt Disney World has recently requested permission to rezone and destroy/develop 575 acres of protected wetlands in order to expand the resort.
Chrissie Mörbe 4 years ago
I don't understand - that would go completely against what the movie was about? That ending wouldn't have fit at all with all the character development that Cuzco underwent - it doesn't make sense at all.
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 4 years ago
But any cartoonish depiction of such a gross disregard for nature leading to his lessons, and maybe a time travel ending where he got to undo his mistake and create a preserve instead… and see that we can enjoy and reflect upon nature rather than consume it? It’s a cartoon and could have worked both ways.
#14
TIL in WWII, Major Digby Tatham-Warter led a bayonet charge while wielding an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. He later disabled a German armored car with his umbrella. When saving the chaplain from enemy fire, he said “Don’t worry about the bullets, I’ve got an umbrella”.
Jules Daly 4 years ago
Leads us wondering if that story was know to the writer/director of Kingsman. Hummm thst would be class if so.
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Wilf 4 years ago
A lot of his eccentricity had a serious basis. He trained his men in using 18th century bugle calls in case their radios broke during parachute drops. At Arnhem he used his umbrella as an instant battlefield identifier so his soldiers could spot him. He knew that a level of unpredictability could throw the enemy- which is why he ordered bayonet charges at tanks. Distraction tactics, basically. Captured by the Germans, he escaped and went to ground with the Dutch resistance. As the other surrounded British troops went in to hiding, he actually wandered around openly AMONG the Germans, posing as a Dutch guy. He even helped them to push an armoured car back on to the road- thereby hiding in plain sight. This allowed him to co-ordinate efforts to group survivors together who eventually escaped back across the Rhine to fight another day. Very clever man. Oh, and he invented the concept of the modern safari holiday!
Otter 4 years ago
Thank you! Now, can you tell us how the hell he managed to disable a German armored car with an umbrella?
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Seán Baron 4 years ago
This reminds me of during the D-Day landings, at the beach where the British troops were landing, amongst them was a piper, walking up and down the beach playing his bagpipes. Asked afterwards, some captured German soldiers said that "we didn't shoot him because we thought he was mad!".
#15
A 59 yr. old woman's smartwatch correctly recognized a tachycardia, alerting her to seek help. She was diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation and treated, reducing her chances of suffering a severe stroke. In 2017 the FDA approved the use of this technology to be used for medical purposes.
jennifer briscoe 4 years ago
Same thing happened for my mom! I bought her a watch as a gift and 6 months later she was having surgery (when other treatments didn't work).
Elizabeth 4 years ago
What brand of Smartwatch? I need this for my husband.
Load More Replies... Unwelcomed Guest 4 years ago
In technology knowledge leads to empowerment. Without knowledge technology leads to ignorance
Teresa Spanics 4 years ago
It will not be long before smartwatches will be even faster in diagnosing medical conditions before they become serious.
Lora Mad 4 years ago
My husband wears a fitbit. One year ago it detected his resting heart rate is deteriorating. He went to a cardiologist who said 90 is still in reasonable limits for his age nothing is wrong with you. Fast forward 3 months, he needed a heart surgery because of delayed diagnosis and treatment... Good for that doctor my husband survived, otherwise I cannot promise that I wouldn't have killed her with my bare hands.
#16
Florida had brought in 2 Irula tribesmen from India to catch the invasive Burmese pythons. When 1000 hunters were able to manage catching just 106 snakes, the duo caught 27 snakes in just 4 weeks, including a 16 ft long female.
Chich 4 years ago
I suspect the original 1000 were of the 'gravy seal' variety. Their girth and emotional support m-16s kept getting in the way.
Atopher Bot 4 years ago
"gravey seal" and "emotional support M-16s"! So sad but so true..
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-asexual_axolotl- 4 years ago
Floridian here. We recently ended up with a cobra or two, as well as walking catfish.
Klas Klättermus 4 years ago
I have seen channels on youtube where they seem to easilly collect 2-3 pythons every time they go out to collect food for their king cobras
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
Send in the people who know the animals and know how to track then rather than camoman
KC Lancaster 4 years ago
Much like this (paraphrased): In 2020, the Grand Teton National Park’s invasive mountain goats were culled by ariel professionals started quickly, 36 goats — potentially a third of the herd — thinned out after just four hours of aerial gunning before the Park's Acting Superintendent stopped it. Later, the “qualified volunteers” felled 16 goats in the first three weeks of the nine-week program. (https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/hunting/article246395590.html)
#17
The Smithsonian Museum has over 3 million 2D and 3D images that anybody can use for free for any commercial purpose.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
I've been lucky enough to travel a lot of the planet, and the Smithsonian is still my favorite collection of free museums in the world. For those who don't know, it's not a single museum. It's a whole area of Washington DC consisting of multiple museums of art, culture, science, history, and more, and all completely free to the public. I never, ever get bored of it.
Mike Crow 4 years ago
I know for NASA it can be for commercial purposes as long as it’s not their logo and/or there is no one in it like an astronaut, engineer or who ever. Other than that you can use what ever you want for whatever.
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RandomHumanBean 4 years ago
me doing a history project rn on the space race (7th grade, for national history day): pheW!! *i really need all of the pictures :)*
#18
The city of Carmel, IN has the most roundabouts per city in the US, with a total of 138. Since regular intersections were replaced with roundabouts, the number of accidents here has reduced by 40%.
Jon S. 4 years ago
That even beats Milton Keynes in the UK which has 130 roundabouts. I got lost there for an hour once. I'd had my fill of roundabouts by the end.
Robert T 4 years ago
Ah, but do they have a Magic Roundabout like the one in Milton Keynes?
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Gretchen Esquilin 4 years ago
Here in NJ we have quite a few of them but the tourists can't stand them. I think they're great b/c you're not stuck waiting at lights which just congests all the roads especially along the shoreline. Keep those shoobies moving! LOL
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
your jug handles for left turns are even crazier
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People hate roundabouts because when they were first made, they made them too small. That plus lack of familiarity (it does take a little bit of learning) makes people panic and miss their exist.
Anna Repp 4 years ago
I first encountered a roundabout when I went to New Zealand where they drive on the left side of the street. So not only a roundabout was not a familiar concept (I live the the US), but I also had to navigate it driving the wrong way. Took me a full ten minutes just to get out of the airport in my rental car, because I kept missing the exit in the same roundabout over and over again!
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Taryn Bailey 4 years ago
I have almost hit so many people on those stupid things cause they don't care if there's oncoming traffic and just pull right out in front of me. Yield means to look for oncoming traffic, and if there is, you stop!
Katia Wolfe 4 years ago
It wasn't until I worked for a transportation engineering company that I discovered how genius roundabouts are for traffic! I don't know why they get so much of a bad rap, who doesn't like NOT having to stop?
#19
The satanic temple offers academic scholarships to elementary through college students.
Mike Crow 4 years ago
From what I remembered what I learned in high school that Satanism has many different sects like Christianity. Only one of those were like what you see in the movies, the rest were a peaceful and loving religion.
PeachPossum 4 years ago
Surprisingly, the 7 tenets of Satanism reflect better ethics than the moral compasses of some people I happen to know. Some trivia: The word "Satan" comes from the Arabic/Semitic word "shei-tun" which means a demon, not Satan as lord of hell, which did not exist until the 12th century or thereabouts. Before that, Christians believed only in demons, much like their Jewish counterparts. Because Satan is a Christian concept, that makes me wonder what other religions say about Satan vs demons. Sufis believe Satan is an instrument of God's wrath. This parallels with Jewish texts, where the devil appears as either an adversary or the embodiment of evil, but not necessarily as Lord of Hell. For example, in the story of Balaam, God places an angel in Balaam's path to act as his adversary. Only twice does HaSatan "the Satan" appear in the Torah, but even then the term is often interpreted as The Adversary.
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Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
The seven fundamental tenets of the Satanic Temple - I : One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason. II : The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. III : One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. IV : The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own. V : Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs. VI : People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused. VII : Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
Amina Hays 4 years ago
I'm a member of the English chapter of The Satanic Temple. If anybody's curious, you should have a read of our seven fundamental tenets. You may be pleasantly surprised. Also, we are not to be mixed up with Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. They strongly oppose our campaigns and activities which, considering how much we strive to help people, are not what we want to be associated with. If anybody does have any questions, please feel free to ask me and I'll answer as best as I can, or even take a peek at our website, there's a ton of information to peruse! :-) www.thesatanictemple.com
Marcelo Mabuchi 4 years ago
The Satanic Temple isn't actually about worshipping Satan, they don't believe in supernatural beings and use Satan merely as a symbol
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Here are the facts about Satanist: They reject the blanket selflessness that Christianity advocates. They are about making sure you take care of yourself and your own interests, and you don't owe anyone anything. That being said, there is a basic respect for the needs of others, and a lot of Satanists want to see the innocent protected and the needy supported. They advocate that you leave others alone to live how they please, unless they encroach on your property/life/space, and if they don't stop when asked, you are within your Satanic rights to destroy them. They don't kill for fun, ever. They don't hurt children. They come from all walks of life. To me, they seem basically decent people doing decent things in opposition to the tenets of Christianity that they find completely meaningless.
KC Lancaster 4 years ago
Depends on the Satanists - for this post, you might want to read this on their website:https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us
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Christopher Cole 4 years ago
"Education is the progressive realization of our Ignorance" Bubbles
noralin 4 years ago
God has given Life so He also has the right to take it.
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Mary Ballard-Johansson 4 years ago
The Satanic Temple is a fantastic organization that works hard to maintain the separation of church and state. By exercising their rights given under the "sincerely held religious beliefs" laws, they protest anti-Constitutional laws being enacted around the world. And the placing of religious images, usually Christian, on public property. They are awesome!
#20
When the USS West Virginia battleship was finally salvaged 6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbour, a calendar was found in an air tight room where 3 trapped sailors had marked off 16 days until they passed away.
Steven Johnson 4 years ago
If the room was air tight, it must have been very large for three people to survive 16 days.
#21
For the film Stargate, Kurt Russell was paid twice his going rate because he was the only actor at the time to have "zero unlikability" in a global poll.
elfin 4 years ago
And Tom Hanks. Who would have been an interesting choice for the part.
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kybourbonpearls 4 years ago
There aren't too many Russell men that are unlikeable! Kurt is my cousin somehow so I know this for a fact! LOL
Scagsy 4 years ago
That's pretty cool! Say hi to him from the UK - I was very envious of his fabulous flowing mane in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Load More Replies... Mars Lander 4 years ago
he is such a stud. when he did the opening sequence for the super bowl a few years back, there's a moment where he turns his head and says something into the camera and my lady parts got super tingly. I envy Goldie Hawn
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Tom Hanks was in Forrest Gump when Stargate came out (1994). So I would say there would have been scheduling issues. Also ... Comparing Kurt Russell to Tom Hanks and then looking at the role of the weary military-commander he was supposed to play, I think Russell was a good choice. Hanks would have been able to pull it off, but Kurt was excellent in that role.
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In 1930, Chandra, an Indian student showed mathematically that massive stars explode into a supernova and then collapse down into neutron stars, or black holes. Before that Scientists assumed that all stars collapsed into white dwarfs. Chandra's theory was ridiculed as 'absurd'
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I imagine him being Indian also factored in to it
Load More Replies... PeachPossum 4 years ago
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was only 19 years old and used only a pencil and paper for his proof. No surprise there as his entire family was pretty smart. His uncle, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, had been the first Indian to win the Nobel prize in physics. It took 40 years, but Chandra received a Nobel prize of his own in 1983 for his work on white dwarfs.
lara 4 years ago
I remember when I took a "historical geology" course in 1965 the professor labeling the idea of "continental drift" as outrageous, and it was just chance that made continents look like they might have been one. Thus, South America and Africa only looked like they had been one continent because of chance.
PeachPossum 4 years ago
Apparently he either did not know of or ignored Alfred Wegener's theorem
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Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
I apologize for having to geek out here on this. There's gonna be comments about pointing out things, but for some of us it's like nails on a chalkboard, because it has to do with one of the most important occurances in the study of the universe. We could not have registered this occurance in the universe without Chandra. Black holes are not neutron stars. Neutron stars are stars. A star that has collapsed in upon itself. Because it no longer emits light You can't "see" it. Black holes are just that and gobble everything up that it comes near. For those scientists back then, if you couldn't see it, it didn't exist. However, with his discovery/proof of neutron stars existing, Chandra, a kid from India, with just pencil and paper turned astronomy on it's head. But science and scientists can often have pretty big egos. He made them look bad. Cant have that, can we? . Which brings us to the science of today. What was scoffed at in Chandra's time is now an unquestioned fact. Neutron stars exist. Scientists have long tried to detect something called gravitational waves in the universe. Again, we know they're out there. We just haven't been able to detect them. In Jan 2020 they were able to detect these waves for the first time. Because a black hole had swallowed up a neutron star ( the existence if which was discovered/proven by Chandra) and with that a massive energy event happened in the universe. This took place around 1 billion years ago and the waves from that event took that long to reach the earth at which point we detected and registered them. Like I said, sorry for the geek out. And yes. Chandra was past genius. We couldn't have done this without him. It's too bad the world doesn't know about/more about his contributions. Hello! Neil DeGrasse Tyson, where are you on this?
Mars Lander 4 years ago
Another reason why people have a hard time believing the science community is because there was significant gatekeeping being done by old rich white men...
#23
In 1996, a Hong Kong ganster "Big spender" kidnapped the son of the richest man in Asia and demanded a ransom of $160 million for his return. After receiving the money, the gangster later phoned up and asked for advice on how to invest the money.
#24
In 1966, Bill Cosby tried to get 16 year old folk singer Janis Ian blacklisted from tv because he thought she was a lesbian and therefore unsuited for family entertainment.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Yeah probably another woman that rejected him and maybe he wasn't able to drug her too so he decided to destroy her
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Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago
after loving him since childhood, his fall from grace was so shocking. He's a disgusting human.
Irenesaurus Rex 4 years ago
Off-topic but in the movie "Mean Girls" one of the character's name is Janis Ian and she is bullied by other kids who call her a lesbian. I can't believe this is a coincidence!
Nudge 4 years ago
yeah I thought of Janis right away! it's not, they had to have done it on purpose, right?
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alwaysMispelled 4 years ago
I think we've all learned that Bill Cosby was and is a huge asshole
#25
The Seiryu Miharashi station in Japan is a train station with no entrances or exits, no roads or paths to connect it, all it serves is a platform for the train passengers to step out and admire the valley
#26
In 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee, and created a media campaign to cover it up.
Bored Panda 4 years ago
From the Yale PDF many people have linked to: "Black refugees were forced to perform the heavy labor that supported the camps and were barred from escaping by National Guard members, who oversaw their work with guns at the ready. Whereas white refugees were placed in indoor facilities, black refugees were detained in outdoor camps on the levee and systematically denied adequate food and shelter, with little promise of their homes ever being rebuilt."
Jo Choto 4 years ago
It's stories like this that we need to share and make public as much as possible. The evils of slavery did not stop in 1864. They just keep coming in other forms.
KC Lancaster 4 years ago
Slavery still exists, in every country, whether it be human trafficking or forced child labor in cocoa/sugar farms, or descent-based slavery, etc. Please be aware of the clothes you buy, foods you eat (especially chocolate and items with palm kernel oil), and more. For more info: https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/
Load More Replies... May 4 years ago
Horrible! I'm not surprised the US did this, given their pretty consistent history of horrendous acts, but I didn't expect this from the Red Cross
Tobin Kern 4 years ago
Seriously? The Red Cross has never been known as a true Charity org. Most of their money generated does not go to charity at all per their financials.
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D Peterson 4 years ago
I completely understand why white American parents don't want their children to find out the truth. And if we don't make truth mandatory for everyone, we are doomed. I'm sorry.
SpongeGarPatar 4 years ago
Because white people control the government, and white people control what gets written in text books.
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In east Africa, movies are often watched with a "VJ" or "video joker" who provides live narration over the movie for translation, contextualization or comedy purposes.
Ikonye St. Jude 4 years ago
Omg the nostalgia!! Grew up on those in the mid '90s in rural Kenya. The village video show was the highlight of the month, man! We didn't "know enough English" to follow the plot when Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee and the rest weren't kicking the bad guys' collective 'posteriors' so some enterprising soul made a career out of breaking it down for us in the most hilarious vernacular you can possibly imagine 😂. His name is DJ Afro, still going strong 2.5+ decades later (as far as I know) and his movie voice overs are a cherished, permanent landmark of my childhood. A legit legend in my book.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
So it's like having an annoying friend talking to you all the time at the cinema? I wouldn't enjoy it much...for translation ok but extra talking could be annoying
Uchman 4 years ago
It's all about the culture you grew up in. This was in rural areas where most people are not educated to follow foreign movie dialogues, so needed someone to explain what's being said.
Load More Replies... Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Interesting. Now I wonder what other countries do. I think the US uses subtitles. Germany dubs everything, going as far as to always using the same German voice for specific foreign actors, so as to make them recognisable. And Poland uses one emotionless voice for everything overlapping the original voices (I hated it as a kid on vacation).
Uchman 4 years ago
Yeah, Polish and Russian dubs are absolutely dire. Don't know how they can stand it.
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Lorrie Rothstein 4 years ago
I saw a movie review with a vj .the movie is who killed captain alex?
#28
Introduction of iodized salt in 1920s increased national IQ average by 3.5 points in a decade and in certain states which had high levels of iodine deficiency previously, saw avg IQ increase as much as 15 points within the first decade.
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
Introduction of iodized salt in the 1920's linked to increased IQ and growth in the U.S. and Switzerland. The U.S. and Switzerland were the first countries to introduce iodized salt to their populations. Google
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Emma London 4 years ago
My country just had to make a change that iodized salt will also be used in food industry, not just sold as table salt. That's because so many people don't make food from scratch or use table salt at all anymore that they were getting iodine deficiency.
Jennifer Brown 4 years ago
yeah but what as refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup done to IQs???
Bob Belcher 4 years ago (edited)
This seems far fetched. How do we know the correlation is directly linked to salt and not just improvements in the education system? I mean, in the 1920s you had the dust bowl which forced a lot of rural farmers into the city. While there was a lot of child labor, I'm sure some of them get better education than they would have on the farm.
KC Lancaster 4 years ago
From wikipedia: The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.[3]
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#29
Masks on airplanes generate oxygen by triggering a chemical reaction. If pressure in the cabin is disturbed and masks drop, tugging the mask causes a firing pin to ignite a small explosion in an ‘O2 candle’ where Sodium Chlorate and Potassium Percholorate combine to make Oxygen gas.
NsG 4 years ago
Those little firing pins in oxygen generators incorrectly marked as expired led to an explosion and deadly fire on a plane in the mid 90's. When the NTSB tried to recreate it at a NASA test facility it burned so hot it *nearly melted the measuring equipment*. (Look up ValuJet Flight 592 for the crash details).
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
Expired was the correct term - they had exceeded their use by date - but the people filling in the paperwork and packaging them thought it meant used and empty and filled in the paperwork to reflect that misunderstanding. Also they're meant to be disabled before packaging and they skipped the recommended method and used an easier one, that unfortunately did not work. I literally watched a youtube doc about this last week, what a coincidence.
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Robert T 4 years ago
Always wondered how these worked, and assumed, like everybody else I'm sure, that there was an oxygen cylinder somewhere. If the oxygen is generated by chemical reaction somewhere in the overhead storage, then that means no pipework that could get damaged and a much more reliable system. Also if one mask fails to work, assuming there are free seats, you can jump seats and grab another.
Pilot Chick 4 years ago
I’ve been told that breathing oxygen from these masks is like breathing hellfire because of the chemical reaction. Thankfully I’ve never had to try it myself
Russell Bowman 4 years ago
Maybe in the U-boat days ...today is via electrolysis of water...
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That there were only 66 years between the first ever powered flight and the moon landing. The Wright Brothers successfully flew a plane for the first time in 1903; in 1969 Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
denzoren 4 years ago
To think of how far we've advanced over the last 100 years is absolutely mind boggling. I only wished we could have treated our planet and it's inhabitants better.
RoseAnne Hutchence 4 years ago
Never too late to start cleaning up the mess we've made, right? I'm continually heartened by young inventors such as Boyan Slat.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
I find it mind blowing that my great grandmother was an adult at the time of the first plane flight and told us what it was like back then to hear about it happening. She also lived long enough to see Armstrong walk on the moon. Can you even wrap your head around that?
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
My great-grandmother grew up shooting at Indians in Oregon (1870s) and lived to see Armstrong walk on the moon.
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Nigel Rodgers 4 years ago
To be fair, rockets have been around a while longer and don't fly as much as shoot through the sky. Just that people hadn't been put in them before and calculating their trajectory is challenging.
Florian Gerstmeier 4 years ago
Rockets do not have much in common with planes. Compare them better with 1500 years old chinese fireworks.
Jon S. 4 years ago
I suppose conceptually, the question "can we preform a controlled flight" must precede "Can we *fly* to the moon?". And while a rocket ship is different to a biplane, it is worth mentioning that rocket powered planes were a thing in the mid point of the journey from flight to the moon.
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Faith Love-robertson 4 years ago
The first space travel was in 1961 - Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin launched into space and was the first human to orbit the Earth. The first unmanned spacecraft was Sputnik in 1957- the first space station that was successful was Salyut 4 in 1974 - All were Russian.
Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
The Wright Brother where not the first powered flight. The first powered, controlled, sustained flight took place 50 years before the Wright brothers, in 1852 (Henri Giffard flew 15 miles with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible). He went nearly 100 times as far as the Wright brothers did.
Cynthia Souza 4 years ago (edited)
And when Lindbergh took off to fly across the Atlantic, Orville Wright was in the crowd watching, and when Armstrong lifted off in Apollo 11, Lindbergh was in the crowd watching.
#31
In 1995 a policy known as “the Wall" was created. It discouraged info sharing between the CIA and FBI, playing a critical role in the inability to stop 9/11. It got so bad agents played a CD with Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" into the phone as they were told their access was denied.
Mazer 4 years ago
RIP John O’Neill -1995, O'Neill became the first agent to recognize Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network as the single greatest terrorist threat to America. He campaigned relentlessly for increased cooperation between the CIA, the FBI, and U.S. and foreign governments, and made decisions that would change the face of counterterrorism. O'Neill won the respect of many powerful figures around the world and earned a legendary reputation as a bon vivant, an innovative leader, and a bridge builder of important alliances. But O'Neill's confident, charming public persona belied several professional disappointments and the growing strain of secretly maintaining a complex web of romantic relationships. When the FBI and the U.S. government continued to disregard his calls to connect the terror trail to bin Laden and his associates, O'Neill became even more disillusioned and ultimately resigned his post at the FBI. Just days later, John O'Neill perished helping others to safety on September 11
Scagsy 4 years ago
Thanks for the info Mazer - that's really interesting. Such a shame that he was so disillusioned in the end. One of the good guys, it seems.
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Suzi Gauthier 4 years ago
Sexism played a big role in 9/11 too. It was a woman FBI agent who warned that terrorists were mentioning using commercial air liners as weapons. W & friends blew her off & didn't want to scare flyers, so wouldn't even warn of the possibility. There are many people who should be in prison over this.
Marco Hub-Dub 4 years ago
Hulu has a docuseries about him called, “The Looming Tower,” based on the book of the same name. His partner in that series and real life, Ali Soufan, wrote an autobiography called, “The Black Banner,” which covers all of this. There’s also two separate large-production news documentaries and miniseries about this absolute patriot & hero.
An Co 4 years ago
This was done because the CIA 1) Is forbidden from working in the US, 2)Has a tendency to totally ignore the constitutional protections given to American citizens, and 3) If a friend, such as Mossad or the FBI asks them to so something that the friend is legally not allowed to do, will quite willing do it for them.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
From memory, a month or so before 9/11, an FBI agent reported a group of middle eastern men attending a pilot training school. What was odd was that they were only interested in learning how to control a plane in flight - not how to take off - or how to LAND. The report was passed on, but there was a failure to 'join the dots'.
Pink Floydian Panda 4 years ago
That is very sad to think 9/11 could have been prevented with better communication. But the thought of the FBI and CIA cranking out The Wall seems like something Roger Waters would have loved. I hope the kept listening and moved on to Dark Side and Animals!
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Why did they even create the policy? Is it part of checks and balances ie each can keep the other in check, or some total other reason ?
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
What the heck? Who came up with that stupid policy? If the Alphabet Soup Brigade would share their toys and knowledge maybe the country would be a slightly better place.
#32
A British man was surprised at being urgently contacted by the NHS about his health, when they calculated his BMI as being 28,000. They'd written his 6'2" height as being 6.2cm tall
PatriciaB 4 years ago
This wasn't too long ago, he was invited for the covid vaccine when they first started the roll out. He didn't understand how he qualified so soon, when only those high risk or above a certain age were being invited, until they realised the mistake with his BMI.
NsG 4 years ago
It's apparently very easy to do - the fields aren't labelled in a user-friendly way and, despite the fact that the UK is "officially" metric, some fields can still be input in imperial.
PeachPossum 4 years ago
... and nobody questioned the validity of the BMI reading before alerting Liam Thorp?
John C 4 years ago
seriously. as a pharmacist that uses weight, height, BSA and BMI to calculate drug doses, I don't need fact checkers to tell me this story is massively exaggerated, if not a full out fabrication.
Load More Replies... PeachPossum 4 years ago
... and we're called patients for a reason. I'm sensing a pattern.
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Shadow 4 years ago
The body mass index or BMI, was invented by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian academic who studied astronomy, mathematics, statistics and sociology. He was not a physician and the BMI was never meant to measure an individual's health. Quetelet believed that the mathematical mean of a population was it's ideal and invented the BMI as a way to measure l'homme moyen's weight. The BMI was meant to be a way of measuring populations, not individuals; and was designed for the purposes of statistics, NOT individual health.
RuralAnemone 4 years ago
Good question - it stands for Body Mass Index - it's the proportion between your height and your weight, and generally, if you have a higher BMI, you're more obese (or just have bigger muscles).
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#33
The same enzyme that makes apples and potatoes turn brown is also responsible for tanning in humans.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
But unlike those, rubbing yourself with citric acid won't make it stop.
Jill Bussey 3 years ago
The browning of vegetable matter is oxidation. How is the same as tanning?
#34
Arthur Tudor, the older brother of Henry VIII, exchanged letters with his fiancée, Catherine of Aragon, in Latin. When they met in person they were unable to communicate however, as they had mastered different pronunciations of the language.
Susan Trevaskis-Owen 4 years ago
"Unable to communicate" why didn't they just write notes to each other?
Nudge 4 years ago
I learned Latin in middle school--there are two standard pronunciations NOW, "classical" and "ecclesiastical". (The main difference is whether you pronounce the W's or not.) This being said, there were not "standard" pronunciations at the time when Catherine of Aragon was alive, although Latin was still definitely a dead language. The same problem arose then and now, that all we had left of Latin was writing, so we had no idea how to say anything. At this point, scholars have decided on two ways to speak the language, but back then, they were probably just guessing, which means they might guess completely different ways to say even basic words. "Agricola" means farmer, and the way I learned to say it is ah-GREE-co-la, however someone reading it might think it could be "Ah-gree-COLE-ah", or any other number of ways to say it. All this to say that it's entirely unsurprising that they couldn't speak to each other, since nobody really knew how to SPEAK Latin aloud.
May 4 years ago
The pronunciations must have been wildly different, if they couldn't communicate using the same words.
Robert T 4 years ago
Well we're talking about 1000 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, so Latin wasn't being used as a first language any more.
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
That fact remains that no one knows exactly how the Romans pronounced their language.
kathoco 4 years ago
Not 100%. But linguists can learn a lot from looking at written language. Poetry can show which words rhymed with one another. The way that languages change over time in regular ways can also tell you quite a bit, for example if a particular sound change affected only accented syllables, then you can see which syllable were accented. Also people write about their language, which also provides information. (I am a professor of linguistics, though not of historical linguistics).
Load More Replies... Seán Baron 4 years ago
Catherine was also the daughter of the joint rulers Ferdinand II and Isabella. Their tomb is in Granada Cathedral.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
No, because he died and she ended up spending seven years in England in an uncertain position while her father and father in law haggled over her bride money and whether she should now marry Arthur's younger brother or not.
Load More Replies... Uchman 4 years ago
No, that's not why. Even now, two people speaking English with wildly different accents may struggle to understand each other
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Libby Tailor 4 years ago
I was totally surprised when an American friend of mine say 'vice versa' with English pronunciation. And in movirs I hear Latin, Old Greek names pronounced with English. So funny.
#35
Bronze medal Olympian, UFC champion and WWE wrestler Ronda Rousey used to be a moderator on a Pokemon forum, in her bio it said "I also spend a lot of time doing judo... right now I'm ranked #1 under 20, if you don't believe me look it up"
CatWoman312 4 years ago
And she got paid millions only to be knocked out in less than a minute where the winner got paid less than her
#36
There was an infamous game of roulette played in Monte-Carlo on August 18, 1913, where the ball fell on black 26 times in a row. Gamblers lost millions expecting it to land on red along the way, making "the gambler's fallacy" famous.
H. Hünsel 4 years ago
Fun Fact 2: 666 isn't the Devils number but 616: https://knowledgenuts.com/devils-number-is-not-666
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Carito alias La Cototina 4 years ago
Actually it is very common, I used to be a croupier in England and on cruise ships and the amount of time that the ball falls in the same colour is incredible! I always used to say to the customers: gamble on the last colour!
#37
In 2018, a woman accidentally paid a Swiss cafe $7709 for coffee because she entered her PIN number as the dollar amount. When she called to get the money back, nobody answered because the cafe had filed for bankruptcy.
Robert T 4 years ago
This needs more explanation. They filed for bankruptcy so they could take the money, or they had gone bankrupt between her visit and her call? Things must have been in a really bad way for the former! And surely the bank would refund this?
Marco Hub-Dub 4 years ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/59jnen/woman-accidentally-enters-her-pin-as-a-tip-on-restaurant-terminal-is-now-out-dollar7732
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Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
I'll be honest, my bank would laugh in the face of any transaction more than a few quid. "You want me to approve how much!"
Katia Wolfe 4 years ago
Even if she entered her 4 digit pin as a tip amount, it would still only come to $77.09
Mike Crow 4 years ago
Question, the customers usually are not the ones who enters the dollar amount are they? Or is it different in other nations?
Jon S. 4 years ago
As may says, often you will be passed the hand set and asked if you want to add a tip
Load More Replies... Memere 4 years ago
Yes! It would be better if a link to the original story was provided. A lot of times I've opened a new window & looked up the info myself, altho I know a lot of Pandas can't or won't do that.
Load More Replies... Uchman 4 years ago
Nope, if you authorised the payment, it's your fault for not checking the amount.
Load More Replies... Uchman 4 years ago
The story was linked from an American news site who converted everything because apparently Americans can't comprehend other currencies or something
Load More Replies... Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago
When I was on Holiday last year in Scarborough UK i was at a café and there where four of us the bill came to £56.12p i never looked at the figure on the card machine and just typed in my 4 digit code. My card was refused and upon checking a new assistant had entered £561,200 by mistake. I could have bought the café. They corrected it and I paid the correct amount.
#38
There is a breed of horse called the Yakutian that is native to Siberia. Bulkier than other horse breeds, it has a extremely long hair for its coat and can withstand temperatures as low a -70C (-94F)
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
They are cute and if you watch the PBS Nature program about horses that aired in 2020 or 2019, they are featured.
#39
The Tour de France has a team that drives each days route and turns genitals graffitied on the road into owls and butterflies.
Pepper Sergent 4 years ago
Tout à fait. They are called "effaceurs" (erasers").
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Bob Jennings 4 years ago
If there's one thing life has taught me it's this: If you give a man a pencil, he will draw a penis.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
I've never seen genitals daubed on any road before anywhere in the world.
Fiona Dawson 4 years ago
Come to the UK we know how to get things fixed Screenshot...33-png.jpg 
QuotedPrawn7490 4 years ago
I'm very sad that Peter Sagan got hurt after some idiot ran into him during Tour de France
#40
Thomas Linley was called "The English Mozart". Mozart called him "a true genius" and said "he would have been one of the greatest", but he drowned in a lake at age 22 and most of compositions were lost or burned in a fire.
denzoren 4 years ago
Oh no. These stories are always so tragic. Maybe we weren't ready or deserved his brilliance.
Ines Olabarria-Smith 4 years ago
Why not?? If that where true se would not deserve Mozart, Bach don’t r Beethoven.
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Uchman 4 years ago
Because there were people that actually listened to his music, then including the great man himself!
Load More Replies... CatWoman312 4 years ago
Off topic, but back then did men go out of the way to appear older? 22 and this portrait looks like someone in their mid 40s.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I don't know about that, but everyone wore those wigs, which lets people look very strict and 'statesman-like'. Also probably depends on the painter's talent and also what the picture was supposed to show. A great musical talent to hang on the walls of a salon would look a bit strange if it showed a bouncy, wire-haired young man who couldn't care less about a comb? I'm assuming, of course. But if you had put teenage-me into a dress-uniform, I'd have looked much older, too.
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Seán Baron 4 years ago
This is a fact that I know to be true a d love. On his Dangerous album, the Michael Jackson song 'Keep It In The Closet', features a females voice singing along. In the video it has Naomi Campbell miming along. But the actual singer was Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
Pungent Sauce 4 years ago
Also a fun fact, the entire Thriller album was tracks laid down by the bassist and guitarist from TOTO, right after they released TOTO IV
Load More Replies... Jeff Diamond 4 years ago
On a timeline, the T-Rex is closer to an iPhone than to a stegosaurus.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Today I learned, yet again, that humans don't do much thinking. Or fact-checking. Never trust "facts" that can be summed up on a bumper sticker unless it's E=mc2 ==== my gramps
Jon S. 4 years ago
Any in particular? I looked a couple up that I found suspicious and they were legit (e.g. calendar on the sunken ship, number of roundabouts in an American town).
Load More Replies... Seán Baron 4 years ago
This is a fact that I know to be true a d love. On his Dangerous album, the Michael Jackson song 'Keep It In The Closet', features a females voice singing along. In the video it has Naomi Campbell miming along. But the actual singer was Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
Pungent Sauce 4 years ago
Also a fun fact, the entire Thriller album was tracks laid down by the bassist and guitarist from TOTO, right after they released TOTO IV
Load More Replies... Jeff Diamond 4 years ago
On a timeline, the T-Rex is closer to an iPhone than to a stegosaurus.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Today I learned, yet again, that humans don't do much thinking. Or fact-checking. Never trust "facts" that can be summed up on a bumper sticker unless it's E=mc2 ==== my gramps
Jon S. 4 years ago
Any in particular? I looked a couple up that I found suspicious and they were legit (e.g. calendar on the sunken ship, number of roundabouts in an American town).
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