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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 12, 2023 at 12:46 pm
(February 12, 2023 at 12:39 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (February 12, 2023 at 12:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Until 1948, phonograph records were edible.
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Edible in the same way bone splinters are edible.
Not a bit of it. Prior to 1948, phonograph records were made of shellac, an organic resin also used to coat candy, pills, and fruit. Post-1948, they were made of vinyl, a product renowned for its inedibility.
I agree, though, that your vintage 78s might require a bit of prep work prior to making a meal of them.
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February 12, 2023 at 2:41 pm
apparently the russians are not in the habit of demilitarizing old weapons before turning it into war memorial. in fact, if it were a tank, they don’t even bother to drain the fuel or the coolant, as a couple of thieves discovered when they broke into a world war Two era tank that had been sitting on a concrete plinth since the 1960s. they were able to jump start the ancient tank and drive it off the plinth.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 12, 2023 at 2:53 pm
A "High Speed" HDMI cable is not the same as an "Ultra High Speed" cable, even if they superficially have the same specs.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 12, 2023 at 2:54 pm
(February 12, 2023 at 2:41 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: apparently the russians are not in the habit of demilitarizing old weapons before turning it into war memorial. in fact, if it were a tank, they don’t even bother to drain the fuel or the coolant, as a couple of thieves discovered when they broke into a world war Two era tank that had been sitting on a concrete plinth since the 1960s. they were able to jump start the ancient tank and drive it off the plinth.
Yeah, imma call shenanigans on that one, as I don’t see the fuel being viable after six decades. Do you have a source?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 14, 2023 at 7:56 am
Didn't know the sordid history of Chippendales until I saw the show on Hulu.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 14, 2023 at 10:34 am
Dr. Ben Carson loves Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas so much that his quote is on the DVD cover.
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I had no idea they made syringes this tiny. The vet gave me a liquid pain med to give Harley after her shots and to keep on hand for when she gets spayed. I could barely make out the markings for dosages on the damn thing.
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February 15, 2023 at 11:32 pm
It’s for poking Lilliputians.
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February 16, 2023 at 12:52 am
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This is probably stretching the concept of "knowing a thing" too far, but I've lately been down the rabbit hole on math YouTube, trying to grasp the ideas around ordinals and countable vs. uncountable infinities. (So far, it's largely breaking my brain into infinitely many bits.)
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February 16, 2023 at 8:32 am
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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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