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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?
Foxaèr Offline Donators
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#3411
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 7, 2024 at 12:33 pm
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February 8, 2024 at 4:41 am (This post was last modified: February 8, 2024 at 5:06 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Michael Jackson was so upset over not being offered the lead in Spielberg's Hook, that he paid a witch doctor $150 000 to put a curse on the director.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 8, 2024 at 6:40 am
(February 8, 2024 at 4:41 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Michael Jackson was so upset over not being offered the lead in Spielberg's Hook, that he paid a witch doctor $150 000 to put a curse on the director.

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He was also preparing for another role

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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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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 8, 2024 at 11:10 am (This post was last modified: February 8, 2024 at 11:14 am by Foxaèr.)
Smokers beware.

Someone at work mentioned this guy.



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February 11, 2024 at 12:49 pm
The Shepard Tone is an audio illusion formed by overlaying separate tones separated by octaves that each rise/fall (depending on the nature of the Shepard Tone in question) and repeat independently of one another. As a result, in this case the sound seems to continuously get higher but never really does.



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February 11, 2024 at 6:18 pm
(February 11, 2024 at 12:49 pm)pocaracas Wrote: The Shepard Tone is an audio illusion formed by overlaying separate tones separated by octaves that each rise/fall (depending on the nature of the Shepard Tone in question) and repeat independently of one another. As a result, in this case the sound seems to continuously get higher but never really does.




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February 11, 2024 at 10:43 pm
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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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February 11, 2024 at 10:46 pm
Apparently, there's some big sport event in the US today.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 11, 2024 at 11:17 pm
the custom that the bride stands on the left side of the groom goes back to the bronze age. It is meant to leave the groom’s sword hand, his right hand, free to fight off the bride’s relatives who are opposed to the marriage.
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February 11, 2024 at 11:28 pm
(February 11, 2024 at 10:46 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Apparently, there's some big sport event in the US today.

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My wife mentioned something about it this morning. I had thought that it was yesterday.  Huh The only sports I used to watch were drag racing and stuff like NASCAR. After enough times of my wife plunking her ass down on the couch and complaining that they only have to turn left, in the case of NASCAR, I quit watching that, too.  Dodgy
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