What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There are two main thoroughfares in the capital of Kosovo named after former US Presidents. One is named George Bush Boulevard and parallel to it is Bill Clinton Boulevard.

It does make sense that they honor Clinton this way because he did save them by bombing Belgrade and thus stopped Serbs from massacring them. Although if some comedians are to be believed, they should have named it Monica Lewinsky Boulevard because, according to them, he only bombed Belgrade to draw attention away from the affair.

Robert De Niro turned down the role of John McClane in ‘Die Hard’. Bruce Willis turned down the role of Jonathan Mardukas in ‘Midnight Run’.

The films premiered three days apart.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Limping was a fad in Victorian England. Young women admired the genuine limp of Alexandra of Denmark, bride of the Prince of Wales, and went around fake limping (the “Alexandra Limp.”) Shopkeepers even sold pairs of shoes with one high heel and one low.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Limping was a fad in Victorian England. Young women admired the genuine limp of Alexandra of Denmark, bride of the Prince of Wales, and went around fake limping (the “Alexandra Limp.”) Shopkeepers even sold pairs of shoes with one high heel and one low.

That is without a doubt one of the coolest things I’ve heard in a while.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Limping was a fad in Victorian England. Young women admired the genuine limp of Alexandra of Denmark, bride of the Prince of Wales, and went around fake limping (the “Alexandra Limp.”) Shopkeepers even sold pairs of shoes with one high heel and one low.

In much the same way it was fashionable for young men and even boys of Victorian and Edwardian era affected the need for a cane to walk.    

From the 1880s all thar way y\to 1920d , there was also something of a maybe equivalent of modern Goth fad.    It was the tuberculosis fad, which young women would pretend to cough and wheeze, wear make up design to create appearance of sickliness and emaciation, all to affect being afflicted with terminal tuberculosis.      Apparently being doomed to die young was considered terribly romantic and particularly attractive to considerate and gentlemanly young men.

[Fake Messiah]

In 1992, Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, later Secretary of Defense, ordered the CIA to search Mt. Ararat photos for Noah's Ark. The fruitless search continued after he left office, until termination by the acting DCI in 1993.

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/fi...839386.pdf

[The Valkyrie]

In 1992, Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, later Secretary of Defense, ordered the CIA to search Mt. Ararat photos for Noah's Ark. The fruitless search continued after he left office, until termination by the acting DCI in 1993.

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/fi...839386.pdf

Shows what they know.

It's been found at least once a year since then...

[Rev. Rye]

So, a couple months ago, I clicked on this YouTube video because the title was just so batshit I had to look at it:





A few weeks later, they found the identity of the actual book. Unfortunately, it was stupefyingly rare (as in, some of the only copies of the original book known to exist were in special collections of libraries and they weren't even allowed to scan the whole book, plus the English translation seemed to only have a single copy, which was in a library in Malaysia).

Fortunately, someone somehow managed to find a copy and scan it.

And, even stranger, someone managed to find an original Dutch copy in the month between Whang's second video and the English copy being scanned and released, and they went through the trouble of translating it themselves.

[Fake Messiah]

During WW2, the Allies considered having a gardener inject estrogen into carrots to be eaten by Adolf Hitler to alter his hormones so he would become more feminine and less aggressive.

[Fake Messiah]

Do you remember the world’s very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada’s capital?

Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The actress who played Aunt Bethany in ‘Christmas Vacation, Mae Questel, was the voice of Betty Boop in more than 150 animated shorts, from 1931 to 1939, when the character was retired.

Boru