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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Morgan Freeman hates the idea of Black History Month.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
In 1932, the Australian Army fought a five-week war against emus. And lost.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Ulysses Grant was the first President to attempt to run for a third term, and only because other people in the Republican Party demanded it, and this was despite his controversial administrations (specifically his habit of picking corrupt officials out of a misplaced royalty, and his comparatively forward stance on black and native people couldn’t have been too popular at the time.) At least his military reputation was still intact.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

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The character of Dana Scully played by Gillian Anderson on the X-Files, was directly responsible for an increased number of women in science, law and medicine. This became known as "Scully Effect".
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?
It is called Water Gong 93, also nicknamed Gongzilla.

The sound it emits is so powerful that it resonates like the vibrations of the universe and is said to rebalance the energy of the human body.



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?
(October 1, 2025 at 8:11 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: It is called Water Gong 93, also nicknamed Gongzilla.

The sound it emits is so powerful that it resonates like the vibrations of the universe and is said to rebalance the energy of the human body.




I can do the same thing with a decent meal.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(September 30, 2025 at 1:11 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The character of Dana Scully played by Gillian Anderson on the X-Files, was directly responsible for an increased number of women in science, law and medicine. This became known as "Scully Effect".

I don't know if it was ever named, but a similar effect occurred in the 1960s - Nichelle Nichols' role in Star Trek was credited with a spike in women of color pursuing degrees in science.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
I -despise- peas but mushy peas aren't half bad.
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In Paris there is a room with a pool filled with porcelain plates that make sounds by crashing each other as they float and people listen to them.





I wonder if in a million years they will eventually play Beethoven's 7th symphony, or do they need a million plates for that?
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?
Movie star Jimmy Stewart smuggled Yeti's finger from India to London in 1958, hiding it in his wife's lingerie case. However, DNA testing later showed the finger was human.
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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