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

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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
September 7, 2020 at 11:27 pm
For the Sci-Fi Horror film 'Event Horizon' Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner and for it to be replacedwith the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047.

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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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October 9, 2020 at 10:46 am
I now know about Lichtenberg figures.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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October 10, 2020 at 10:30 am
A raccoon will eat carrots.  Great
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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October 18, 2020 at 4:49 am
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/abstruse

I honestly didn't know the distinction between 'obtuse' and 'abstruse'. I've probably encountered the word before, but it wasn't until I read an Oglaf comic that I appreciated it (perhaps again).

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October 30, 2020 at 6:19 am
Basil Rathbone (of Sherlock Holmes fame) was decorated for conspicuous gallantry in WWI for performing extremely dangerous daylight reconnaissance missions. He was also a two time British Army Fencing champion.

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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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November 8, 2020 at 6:41 pm
The film ‘My Fellow Americans’ with Jack Lemmon and James Garner, was originally supposed to reunite Lemmon with Walter Matthau And was going to be titled ‘Grumpy Old Presidents’. Matthau fell ill and had to withdraw from the project.

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November 10, 2020 at 8:25 pm (This post was last modified: November 10, 2020 at 8:25 pm by Rev. Rye.)
I found out that Disney has apparently made a tribute to the films of Lucio Fulci. As a made-for-TV movie:

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Sadly, I suspect that this doesn’t have a scene where anyone gets killed by a splinter to the eye. Or even an underwater shark/zombie battle.


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November 11, 2020 at 8:27 am
How to spell "encephalitis."
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November 13, 2020 at 12:45 am
Do you know how many films are known to have appeared on IMDb's Top 250 list? 964. Admittedly, there are quite a few gaps, especially in the early days, and some of the things listed aren't so much movies as TV shows, but a lot of info can be found here.
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November 13, 2020 at 12:47 am
The deadliest actors - with the all-time most kills in movies - are: Milla Jovovich (1296), Jet Li (1076), Dolph Lundgren (919), Arnold Schwarzenegger (842), Chow Yun-Fat (810), Sylvester Stallone (786), Jason Statham (718), Kevin Costner (670), Wesley Snipes (593), and Nicholas Cage (571)
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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