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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 5:31 am
In September 1956, Grumman company test pilot Tom Atteridge became the first man in history to shoot down his own fighter plane. After firing two short bursts from the plane's 20mm cannons, Atteridge took the F11F Tiger into a steep dive. His flight path intercepted the decaying trajectory of the rounds he'd fired, disabling the aircraft and forcing Atteridge into a crash landing, which he survived.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 6:41 am
Famous soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood.
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?
December 2, 2021 at 7:01 am
(December 2, 2021 at 6:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Famous soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood.
Ronaldo needs to get with the times. I've got three tats and have donated blood four times a year for 25 years.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 9:43 am
Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Qur'an using vials of Saddam's blood. It took over two years and is known as the Blood Qur'an.
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?
December 2, 2021 at 12:51 pm
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(December 2, 2021 at 9:43 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Qur'an using vials of Saddam's blood. It took over two years and is known as the Blood Qur'an.
The calligrapher should have worked much faster so as to require draining saddam’ s blood all at once.
(December 2, 2021 at 6:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Famous soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood.
I had no idea tattoos preclude one from donating blood? 
(December 2, 2021 at 5:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In September 1956, Grumman company test pilot Tom Atteridge became the first man in history to shoot down his own fighter plane. After firing two short bursts from the plane's 20mm cannons, Atteridge took the F11F Tiger into a steep dive. His flight path intercepted the decaying trajectory of the rounds he'd fired, disabling the aircraft and forcing Atteridge into a crash landing, which he survived.
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Hmmm, that might be the first time it had been done in an airplane. But is it far from the first time when some military vehicle manage to intercept its own weapon fire. During WWII, several submarines were hit by their own malfunctioning torpedoes that circled back due to gyro problems.
Also, soldiers firing weapons straight up in the air have been known to be struck by their own bullets on the way down.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 1:24 pm
It's a question on the blood donation form I fill out online to donate at the Red Cross in the USA, whether I've gotten a tatoo in the last year.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 1:29 pm
(December 2, 2021 at 12:51 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (December 2, 2021 at 9:43 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Qur'an using vials of Saddam's blood. It took over two years and is known as the Blood Qur'an.
The calligrapher should have worked much faster so as to requiring draining saddam’ s blood all at once.
(December 2, 2021 at 6:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Famous soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood.
I had no idea tattoos preclude one from donating blood?
(December 2, 2021 at 5:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In September 1956, Grumman company test pilot Tom Atteridge became the first man in history to shoot down his own fighter plane. After firing two short bursts from the plane's 20mm cannons, Atteridge took the F11F Tiger into a steep dive. His flight path intercepted the decaying trajectory of the rounds he'd fired, disabling the aircraft and forcing Atteridge into a crash landing, which he survived.
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Hmmm, that might be the first time it had been done in an airplane. But is it far from the first time when some military vehicle manage to intercept its own weapon fire. During WWII, several submarines were hit by their own malfunctioning torpedoes that circled back due to gyro problems.
Also, soldiers firing weapons straight up in the air have been known to be struck by their own bullets on the way down.
It’s always nice to be corrected about a mistake I didn’t make. Thank you.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 2:11 pm
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apparently you are so sensitive to being corrected, that you jump at imaginary corrections that wasn’t actually made.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 2:14 pm
(December 2, 2021 at 2:11 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: apparently you are so sensitive to being corrected, that you jump at imaginary corrections that wasn’t actually made.
Apparently not.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 2, 2021 at 3:09 pm
(December 2, 2021 at 2:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (December 2, 2021 at 2:11 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: apparently you are so sensitive to being corrected, that you jump at imaginary corrections that wasn’t actually made.
Apparently not.
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