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Gurpguru t1_j6icump wrote
Reply to TIL Margarine was originally named oleomargarine from Latin for oleum (olive oil) and Greek margarite ("pearl", indicating luster). by joshemerson
My grandma called margarine and butter "oleo". It's one of the few things I can read on her recipes.
I learned everything I know about cooking from her.
tenehemia t1_j6icnw5 wrote
Reply to comment by castortusk in TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
I wonder how much surface area Switzerland has. Like if you could flatten out all the mountains.
Fuzakenaideyo t1_j6ich08 wrote
Reply to comment by Gulbahar-00 in TIL that Tony Danza and Tupac Shakur were friends and that they wrote letters back and forth while Tupac was in prison. by Knoblord_McCheese
Which song? "Keep your head up"? Lmfao
OssiansFolly t1_j6icahq wrote
Reply to comment by Informal_Ad3771 in TIL that Tony Danza and Tupac Shakur were friends and that they wrote letters back and forth while Tupac was in prison. by Knoblord_McCheese
You said listen to his lyrics. Your simply believing musical lyrics to be admissions of guilt they put into a recording and sold to the public. Either you or he are complete morons.
BanjosAndBoredom t1_j6ic9ls wrote
Reply to comment by HouseOfZenith in TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
"I misread the title and made incorrect assumptions, so obviously I was intentionally misled."
Fuzakenaideyo t1_j6ic96h wrote
Reply to TIL that Tony Danza and Tupac Shakur were friends and that they wrote letters back and forth while Tupac was in prison. by Knoblord_McCheese
Who didn't write letters to Tupac while he was in prison?
[deleted] t1_j6ic51j wrote
OssiansFolly t1_j6ic33w wrote
Reply to comment by Informal_Ad3771 in TIL that Tony Danza and Tupac Shakur were friends and that they wrote letters back and forth while Tupac was in prison. by Knoblord_McCheese
Considering the estimates are 2-6% of the prison population are wrongly convicted and 1% is roughly 20,000 people...estimates between 40,000 and 120,000 wrongly convicted people are behind bars. That's not an insignificant number of people.
outerproduct t1_j6ibwf2 wrote
Reply to comment by InsuranceToTheRescue in TIL that sperm whales are the loudest animal on Earth, and their clicks can literally kill you with sound by g1ucose
Welp, there went 25 minutes to Sbassbear.
Helpdex t1_j6ib1xg wrote
Reply to TIL on the night of 22-23 July 1945 USN Commander Eugene Fluckey sent a shore party from his submarine USS Barb (SS-220) to sabotage a railroad. The raiders became the only Allied force to invade mainland Japan in the war, and the Barb became the only sub in history with a confirmed kill on a train. by YankeeWalrus
1.) Sweetie, not sweaty. 2.) When operating a train, a person does drive it. One name for the profession is "[Train Driver]". 3.) Since we're going into semantics: trains aren't alive and therefore can't be killed.
pzerr t1_j6iatk4 wrote
Reply to comment by Rattus375 in TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
Because not having lakes makes the land mass far less valuable and useful thus many Americans are angry by that fact.
Buck_Thorn t1_j6iao9y wrote
Reply to comment by yappledapple in TIL Margarine was originally named oleomargarine from Latin for oleum (olive oil) and Greek margarite ("pearl", indicating luster). by joshemerson
That's what we called it when I was a kid. And it came in a plastic bag with a little button in the center that contained yellow food coloring. It was my job to smash that button and knead the bag until the whitish "oleo" was colored uniformly yellow like butter.
omar1993 t1_j6ianrm wrote
Reply to comment by Full_Temperature_920 in TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4
and you're clearly obsessed with your country if you think it makes sense to bring it up when it's utterly irrelevant. You really hate being on topic, huh?
omar1993 t1_j6iaija wrote
Reply to comment by oldmancornelious in TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4
What the fuck does America have to do with this at all?
pzerr t1_j6iahp1 wrote
Reply to comment by ForceOfAHorse in TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
Land with lakes are far more valuable and useful than land alone and can sustain far far more people.
You want bodies of water to make land useful. Particular in that there is no lack of land in North America.
Septopuss7 t1_j6iabim wrote
Reply to comment by jimmyn0thumbs in TIL that Tony Danza and Tupac Shakur were friends and that they wrote letters back and forth while Tupac was in prison. by Knoblord_McCheese
I'm corresponding ovah heah!
pzerr t1_j6ia46v wrote
Reply to comment by samfreez in TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
And lakes and land are far more valuable than land alone.
ralleee t1_j6i97s3 wrote
Reply to comment by tnicholson in TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4
9/10 troll
Old_Week t1_j6i96rb wrote
Reply to comment by oldmancornelious in TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4
Telling about what lmao
reonhato99 t1_j6i94ws wrote
Reply to TIL that sperm whales are the loudest animal on Earth, and their clicks can literally kill you with sound by g1ucose
It is hard to take a claim seriously when the same person also claims sperm whales can hear each other over 1000+ miles which is just not true, sperm whales max out at like 40 miles.
I tried to find where this claim first comes from with no luck.
It does seem to be based on the fact that a sperm whale click can be well above 200dB and that 185+dB is considered dangerous to humans. The problem seems to be though that whoever made the original claim didn't know that dB in water and dB in air are not the same. In air a sperm whales clicks would be in the 170's, still going to burst your eardrums but probably isn't going to kill you.
Grand-Jaguar8 t1_j6i8zt7 wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
This is just a game camera for humans.
GoGaslightYerself t1_j6i8onc wrote
Reply to comment by LeanMeanDrMachine in TIL that Manhattanhenge is an event when the sunrise and sunset aligns with the east-west main street grid in Manhattan, NYC by pagersky
Yes, but possibly on different dates, depending on the latitude and the orientation of the streets. (Manhattan's streets don't run exactly E-W but rather NW to SE.)
Informal_Ad3771 t1_j6i8o4j wrote
Reply to comment by OssiansFolly in TIL that Tony Danza and Tupac Shakur were friends and that they wrote letters back and forth while Tupac was in prison. by Knoblord_McCheese
Gang rape is art now?
Rattus375 t1_j6i8mm0 wrote
Reply to TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
This is very interesting. I knew Canada had far more lakes in it relative to the US, but I never would have guessed it was to the degree that would make the US the bigger country by land area. Why so many people are upset by a fun fact I will never understand
[deleted] t1_j6icyb0 wrote
Reply to comment by marmorset in TIL about Kwihnai Tosabitʉ or "White Eagle," a Medicine Man and messiah of the Comanche Native American tribe. Uniting all of the Comanche people and several other groups, he led them to an immediate defeat and was renamed Isatai'i "Wolf's Vulva." by marmorset
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