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

[Anomalocaris]

I read a study which calculated statistically how many tons of Martian rocks blasted off Mars’s surface by large impacts would end up on earth over the life of the solar system, and statistically how much of those would then be fortunate enough to happen to at the right place on earth to blasted by another impact back into space and eventually land back onto mars.

I recall the amount of rocks that naturally made this seemingly vanishingly improbable round trip is likely larger than one would expect.   It was hundred or thousands of tons.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In the 1987 film The Untouchables, Andy Garcia plays a character named Guiseppi Petri, which he Americanizes to 'George Stone'. The discrepancy is never explained in the movie.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

in colloquial chinese, the word for vegetable and the phrase meaning vegetarianism are both used as slangs to mean effete, weak, impotent or incompetent due to gullibility or foolishness.

recently the newly minted term “vegetarian goose” has been used on chinese blogosphere to describe Vladimir putin in order to dodge tight state censors who routinely delete posts or lock threads disparaging of the russian leader and the russian war effort in ukraine.

[Anomalocaris]

In russia, amongst people who name tgeir dogs after world leaders, 72% name their dogs after donald trump, 10% after boris yelsin, 2% after joseph Stalin.

[Anomalocaris]

in colloquial chinese, the word for vegetable and the phrase meaning vegetarianism are both used as slangs to mean effete, weak, impotent or incompetent due to gullibility or foolishness.

recently the newly minted term “vegetarian goose” has been used on chinese blogosphere to describe Vladimir putin in order to dodge tight state censors who routinely delete posts or lock threads disparaging of the russian leader and the russian war effort in ukraine.

apparently the phrase “vegetarian goose” sounds exactly like “foolish russian” in chinese.

[Rev. Rye]

Somehow, I only now just found out that Danny Trejo's character in Spy Kids is supposed to be the same character he plays in the Machete series.

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Also, something hilarious, the scene where Machete manages to escape using a guy's intestines as a rope, someone actually commented "How did he know that guy was gonna have rope under his shirt?" Another commenter pointed out that "Everyone has that particular rope under their shirt".

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[Rev. Rye]

Three things I learned that are inextricably linked:
1) When the White House was burned in the War of 1812, one of the few things that was rescued from the building was a rare crystal flute owned by James Madison.
2) Singer/Rapper Lizzo is apparently classically trained as a flautist.
3) Triggering the right is apparently as easy as letting a black woman play two notes on the flute. I shouldn't be too surprised at that, but somehow I was.

Admittedly, they might have a bit of a point in that I'd probably be a bit more circumspect about making any wrong moves while playing an instrument with the same combination of rarity, historical importance, and fragility as a flute (1 of 2 of its kind extant), with a connection to James Madison, made of fucking glass than Lizzo was with her mini-twerking, but that's just me. And if it was made out of wood or metal, I'd have fewer worries, if any.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Three things I learned that are inextricably linked:
1) When the White House was burned in the War of 1812, one of the few things that was rescued from the building was a rare crystal flute owned by James Madison.
2) Singer/Rapper Lizzo is apparently classically trained as a flautist.
3) Triggering the right is apparently as easy as letting a black woman play two notes on the flute. I shouldn't be too surprised at that, but somehow I was.

Admittedly, they might have a bit of a point in that I'd probably be a bit more circumspect about making any wrong moves while playing an instrument with the same combination of rarity, historical importance, and fragility as a flute (1 of 2 of its kind extant), with a connection to James Madison, made of fucking glass than Lizzo was with her mini-twerking, but that's just me. And if it was made out of wood or metal, I'd have fewer worries, if any.

The flute is safe, so no worries on that score. It's funny that angry white people are acting as if Lizzo playing that flute is going to cause dead slaves to rise from the grave to seek vengeance and whatnot.

For the record, I'd like to see Jordan Peele make a movie where Lizzo travels from town to down doing exactly that.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

James Doohan's (Scotty from Star Trek) grandfather was 70 years old when he became a father to a daughter that was James' mom. Before her, he already had 25 children with two wives.

[Foxaèr]

Donald Sutherland is Kiefer's father.