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Busy_Bitch5050 t1_iyc0y90 wrote

Reply to comment by Gbrusse in While replacing a wall in my basement, I found a 100-year-old marriage certificate. by woden_spoon

For this one, I first went to the site that OP used to verify the marriage certificate. Once I had the date, location, names, and ages, I Googled census records from the 1930s and 1940s by including all the information I had in the search. After that, I figured John E Evans may have served in the war, so I Googled for service records and verified from a few sources, one being ancestry.com (no membership needed this time). Then I searched for his gravesite, but I still needed his age at death. I found several candidates on ancestry, but only one perfectly matched his family's names from the census records.

The trick is to stay completely objective. I don't care what I find when I start because I don't want to influence the outcome. Many people fall into this habit and before you know it, we're all related to some famous king or queen lol. Just follow the evidence and go with whichever path is most likely and rational.

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sdforbda t1_iyc0bpl wrote

Reply to Uncut animal crackers by spazzyone

These are not the Barnum & Bailey animal crackers with a string handle that my grandma used to buy for us when she visited us in Virginia because we missed going to the zoo with her since she lived in DC. :(

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oakteaphone t1_iyc06v7 wrote

Reply to comment by The_Mosephus in A cooking spray serving size is measured in units of time. by bufadad

They should make the serving sizes reasonable servings.

You shouldn't be able to sell a "snack size" bag of chips and have a serving size be half the bag.

Bagel Bites have a serving size of 4 bagel bites. They're called bagel bites because you could reasonably eat them in one bite.

4 bagel bites is one serving. The heating instructions tell you to heat up one box/tray, about the size of any other frozen lunch tray.

Do you know how many Bagel Bites come on one tray?

>!9.!<..am I supposed to eat my one serving, give a second serving to my partner, and then save one Bagel Bite from 4 different meals to get one bonus serving later??

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mr78rpm t1_iybzrke wrote

Reply to My thermostat uses the expansion/contraction of a drop mercury to conduct electricity and trigger when to turn off and on. by Iain_MS

No, it for sure ridiculously does not.

The mysterious "bimetallic strip" consists of two pieces of metal bonded together. The metals do not expand or contract at the same rate as one another, so when the air in the room changes temperature, the bimetallic strip bends, shifting the position of the glass bulb and hence the mercury... when the mercury moves such that it connects together the two wires at the left side of the bulb, the heater comes on.

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