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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?
July 8, 2021 at 5:01 am
(July 6, 2021 at 10:49 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: In Ancient Greece, small penises were celebrated and seen as a sign of high intelligence. Men with large penises were seen as grotesque, laughable, and barbaric.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edit...ll-penises

Sounds like propaganda spread by Greeks with wee willies.


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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
July 8, 2021 at 6:29 am
(July 2, 2021 at 8:57 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: [Image: Friendship.jpg]


Did he have to plug it in?

Seriously, how large of a 1945 battery would be required to power it?
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
July 8, 2021 at 7:45 am
(July 8, 2021 at 6:29 am)h4ym4n Wrote:
(July 2, 2021 at 8:57 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: [Image: Friendship.jpg]


Did he have to plug it in?

Seriously, how large of a 1945 battery would be required to power it?

It wasn’t self-powered. The listening device only became active when a specific radio wave frequency was directed at it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin...ng_device)

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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
July 8, 2021 at 3:59 pm
I suppose I knew this on some level but -

Star Wars: A New Hope was released on 25 May 1977. The last execution by guillotine in France happened on 10 September 1977.

This means that, when the first Star Wars film came out, beheading was still legal in France.

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July 8, 2021 at 5:23 pm
Sand toads apparently can't hear or feel the vibrations of my lawn mower in time.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
July 8, 2021 at 5:35 pm
(July 8, 2021 at 5:23 pm)brewer Wrote: Sand toads apparently can't hear or feel the vibrations of my lawn mower in time.

Blech.

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July 8, 2021 at 6:34 pm (This post was last modified: July 8, 2021 at 6:35 pm by Fireball.)
(July 8, 2021 at 5:23 pm)brewer Wrote: Sand toads apparently can't hear or feel the vibrations of my lawn mower in time.

What is green and red and goes 'round and 'round?


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July 8, 2021 at 6:49 pm
(July 8, 2021 at 6:34 pm)Fireball Wrote:
(July 8, 2021 at 5:23 pm)brewer Wrote: Sand toads apparently can't hear or feel the vibrations of my lawn mower in time.

What is green and red and goes 'round and 'round?



How did you know I was mulching?
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RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
July 9, 2021 at 4:07 pm
(July 8, 2021 at 5:01 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(July 6, 2021 at 10:49 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: In Ancient Greece, small penises were celebrated and seen as a sign of high intelligence. Men with large penises were seen as grotesque, laughable, and barbaric.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edit...ll-penises

Sounds like propaganda spread by Greeks with wee willies.

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In any case, it seems that the idea endured for quite a long time, like to the 1980s, when some medical doctors thought that the size of a man's penis could tell if he'll become a criminal

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July 11, 2021 at 9:32 pm


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