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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 29, 2025 at 8:50 pm
(March 29, 2025 at 1:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: My mistake there, I was probably thinking of languages closer to Latin, like Spanish and Italian, which do retain the Cloud pronunciation,
To avoid confusion, from now on, anyone named "Claude" will now be referred to as "Steve".
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 29, 2025 at 10:12 pm
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On a lighter note, it seems that Old Navy used to have really different standards for what constituted "loose fit jeans;" I recently bought two used sets of jeans of the exact same stated size and fit. One was loose as I expected, and the other, with a logo so ancient it looked like this:
wound up being bizarrely tight. And, yes, they're the same stated size and same stated (loose) fit.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 30, 2025 at 1:58 am
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There are more places in which you can buy alcohol in Warsaw alone than in entire Sweden. It's 7 times more to be exact.*
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March 30, 2025 at 2:01 am
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(March 30, 2025 at 1:58 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: There is more places in which you can buy alcohol in Warsaw alone than in entire Sweden. It's 7 times more to be exact.*
*https://demagog.org.pl/wypowiedzi/sklepy-z-alkoholem-w-warszawie-jest-ich-wiecej-niz-w-szwecji/
Don't tell Hegseth, he'll want to annex Warsaw...
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 30, 2025 at 2:03 am
(March 30, 2025 at 2:01 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: (March 30, 2025 at 1:58 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: There is more places in which you can buy alcohol in Warsaw alone than in entire Sweden. It's 7 times more to be exact.*
*https://demagog.org.pl/wypowiedzi/sklepy-z-alkoholem-w-warszawie-jest-ich-wiecej-niz-w-szwecji/
Don't tell Hegseth, he'll want to annex Warsaw...
It's polish right wingers dream - becoming US colony.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 31, 2025 at 12:35 am
Wikipedia has an article on a solar eclipse that’ll happen in 161 years. We know when and where its greatest point will be (several hundred miles off the coast of Brazil, about 12:20 PM local time) and we even know how long it will be down to the nearest hundredth of a second (7 minutes, 29.22 seconds), but it also points out, through a quote from a Vice article they cited, we don’t know if humanity will even be around to see it.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 31, 2025 at 3:47 am
(March 31, 2025 at 12:35 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Wikipedia has an article on a solar eclipse that’ll happen in 161 years. We know when and where its greatest point will be (several hundred miles off the coast of Brazil, about 12:20 PM local time) and we even know how long it will be down to the nearest hundredth of a second (7 minutes, 29.22 seconds), but it also points out, through a quote from a Vice article they cited, we don’t know if humanity will even be around to see it.
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April 2, 2025 at 6:35 pm
During the end of WWII, Mel Brooks’ battalion was tasked with clearing buildings that had been booby-trapped by German forces. Brooks’ job was to locate landmines, which were then defused by a specialist.
On a dissimilar note, Brooks also spent time in the stockade for smashing an anti-Semitic soldier over the head with his mess kit.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 2, 2025 at 7:20 pm
(April 2, 2025 at 6:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: During the end of WWII, Mel Brooks’ battalion was tasked with clearing buildings that had been booby-trapped by German forces. Brooks’ job was to locate landmines, which were then defused by a specialist.
On a dissimilar note, Brooks also spent time in the stockade for smashing an anti-Semitic soldier over the head with his mess kit.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 4, 2025 at 5:48 pm
Turns out that if you don't owe rent, your disability payment is cut by a third.
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