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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 8, 2022 at 3:29 pm
Both Testaments are old now.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 9, 2022 at 6:27 am
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 9, 2022 at 9:11 am
Up until 2008, the chemical TBT was used in ship's anti-fouling paint, which caused female snails to grow penises and ultimately explode because they couldn't shed their eggs.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 11, 2022 at 6:31 am
Although first produced in the late 1880s, the Swiss army knife wasn't so called until after WWII, because America soldiers had trouble pronouncing the German word 'Offiziersmesser' ('officer's knife').
Related: It really shouldn't be called a 'Swiss army knife' in any case, as this
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dates from about 200CE (it's Roman) and has a knife, fork, spoon, spatula, spike and toothpick.
Damned Swiss patent-infringing bastards.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 11, 2022 at 6:41 am
(January 11, 2022 at 6:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Although first produced in the late 1880s, the Swiss army knife wasn't so called until after WWII, because America soldiers had trouble pronouncing the German word 'Offiziersmesser' ('officer's knife').
Related: It really shouldn't be called a 'Swiss army knife' in any case, as this
dates from about 200CE (it's Roman) and has a knife, fork, spoon, spatula, spike and toothpick.
Damned Swiss patent-infringing bastards.
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Just think, the Romans could have sued for copyright infringement if they hadn't been incompetent and lost their empire.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 11, 2022 at 10:13 am
(January 11, 2022 at 6:41 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: (January 11, 2022 at 6:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Although first produced in the late 1880s, the Swiss army knife wasn't so called until after WWII, because America soldiers had trouble pronouncing the German word 'Offiziersmesser' ('officer's knife').
Related: It really shouldn't be called a 'Swiss army knife' in any case, as this
dates from about 200CE (it's Roman) and has a knife, fork, spoon, spatula, spike and toothpick.
Damned Swiss patent-infringing bastards.
Boru
Just think, the Romans could have sued for copyright infringement if they hadn't been incompetent and lost their empire.
And had copyright.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 11, 2022 at 10:40 am
And they'd still have lost because intellectual property in inventions is protected by patents, not copyrights.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 11, 2022 at 6:16 pm
The Sidney Poitier classic film ‘Lillies Of The Field’ was shot on Linda Ronstadt’s father’s ranch.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 12, 2022 at 8:03 am
(January 11, 2022 at 6:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Although first produced in the late 1880s, the Swiss army knife wasn't so called until after WWII, because America soldiers had trouble pronouncing the German word 'Offiziersmesser' ('officer's knife').
Related: It really shouldn't be called a 'Swiss army knife' in any case, as this
dates from about 200CE (it's Roman) and has a knife, fork, spoon, spatula, spike and toothpick.
Damned Swiss patent-infringing bastards.
Boru
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 12, 2022 at 8:15 am
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There is a 22-year-old woman who looks 8 years old.
I guess she should date a pedophile.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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