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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 26, 2023 at 9:41 pm
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The Titanic was spectacularly unlucky and infamously went down with 1600 people on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg.
But her nearly identical sister ship the Olympic was arguable one of the luckiest passenger ships. Despite 4 collisions at sea, being attacked by german submarines twice, being torpedoed once, she never had a single casualty amongst her passengers or crew in 22 years of service.
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May 26, 2023 at 10:33 pm
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The movie Das Boot depict a factionalized account of a sortie of the Nazi submarine U-96. But the real U-96 was perhaps the luckiest german submarine of the war. She carried out 13 missions through out the war and never suffered a single casualty amongst her crew. Considering one out of every four German submarines would be sunk with all hands on their very first missions, and 3 out of 4 German submariners would be killed during the war, that’s some luck.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 27, 2023 at 1:18 pm
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?
May 27, 2023 at 3:22 pm
octopus is believed to be the most intelligent non-vertebrate on earth, and can give chimps and crows a run for their money in solving puzzles. Apparently octopus brain function is so human like it is able to have nightmares while sleeping.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 27, 2023 at 8:50 pm
I've seen them unscrew a jar lid and eat the stuff in the jar.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 28, 2023 at 10:29 pm
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Werewolf pregnancies last roughly two months.
I was thinking of going the male pregnancy route with my werewolf novel. It seems to be a popular concept with gay werewolf novels.
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May 29, 2023 at 12:23 am
When I watched Infinity Pool, it just seemed like a normal (if brutal as fuck) high concept horror movie. The central conceit of being cloned before execution little more than a gimme. But watching this video, everything legit makes sense. Of course the people of Li Tolqa are cloning people before execution, and they’re executing the originals. The originals are being held accountable for their crimes, and their doubles are going back to make more money to go back to Li Tolqa and keep the cycle going ad infinitum.
They’re managing to eat their cake and have it too.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 29, 2023 at 6:02 am
(May 27, 2023 at 3:22 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: octopus is believed to be the most intelligent non-vertebrate on earth, and can give chimps and crows a run for their money in solving puzzles. Apparently octopus brain function is so human like it is able to have nightmares while sleeping.
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That's fair, because octopuses give
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