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picado t1_j6liw9b wrote
Reply to TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch by SappyGilmore
Great, now I'm anxious about the keypads at the grocery.
SniffUmaMuffins t1_j6lis62 wrote
Reply to TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch by SappyGilmore
People should stop pooping on their keyboards
thirdeyefish t1_j6liqxh wrote
Reply to comment by jfpbookworm in TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch by SappyGilmore
That and, and I'm going out on a limb here, most people don't open doors with their butts.
thirdwheelforever OP t1_j6lio3k wrote
Reply to comment by Wowtuck in TIL that Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat, controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research and was the richest man in modern Italian history. by thirdwheelforever
but good sir the wikipedia page is indeed how i learnt this factoid about him. i fell into the rabbit hole about media and fashion industry's history which led me to agnelli's wikipedia page. i would have added other urls but reddit only allows one to be linked. so i believed it would be better according to subreddit rules to provide a wiki page with the direct quotes instead of the multiple pages which have been cited on Wikipedia. "
DaveOJ12 t1_j6liiy1 wrote
Reply to comment by covfefe-boy in TIL that between 1895 and 1908 the population of the Belgian Congo declined by between 2 and 13 million due to colonial brutality and diseases caused by colonialism. by hetkleinezusje
I've never heard that one before.
jfpbookworm t1_j6lihqp wrote
Reply to TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch by SappyGilmore
Because most people clean their toilet seats from time to time.
Lelabear t1_j6lic96 wrote
Reply to comment by xX609s-hartXx in 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
The subliminal tapes convince you to buy something, the handwriting analysis probes your character. Different techniques get different results, all nefarious.
Raichu7 t1_j6li5gt wrote
Reply to comment by Kooky-Cry-4088 in TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. by awawe
If you’re raising dairy cattle rather than beef what good is a cow who can’t get pregnant? I doubt all freemartin calves are kept.
timcooksdick t1_j6lhx30 wrote
Reply to TIL Dr. Drew's first appearance on television was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. by WalkingDown46
Just proves again how most famous doctors are indeed fame-seekers first
theanedditor t1_j6lhtuu wrote
Reply to comment by twb51 in TIL that between 1895 and 1908 the population of the Belgian Congo declined by between 2 and 13 million due to colonial brutality and diseases caused by colonialism. by hetkleinezusje
Good German speeching he did.
xX609s-hartXx t1_j6lhqnz wrote
Reply to comment by Lelabear in 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
That doesn't mean much. Some companies hire hand writing analysers who will tell them what kind of person you are based on one page of hand written text.
Chillchinchila1 t1_j6lh5ks wrote
Reply to comment by Yardsale420 in TIL that between 1895 and 1908 the population of the Belgian Congo declined by between 2 and 13 million due to colonial brutality and diseases caused by colonialism. by hetkleinezusje
You don’t need to sanitize the Nazis to condemn Leopold’s. Seriously what is with redditors that can’t talk about any historical tragedy without going “the Nazis were teddy bears compared to this”.
It’s not even like Leopold killed more people, or had less noble goals, hitler wanted to exterminate most of the human population.
Gulbahar-00 t1_j6lh39b wrote
Reply to comment by tmdblya in TIL that between 1895 and 1908 the population of the Belgian Congo declined by between 2 and 13 million due to colonial brutality and diseases caused by colonialism. by hetkleinezusje
I wasn’t talking about Communism, just sharing information about similar authoritarian regimes.
Yes, Pol Pot was communist and Leopold was capitalist. The issue is that they were both authoritarian, not their economic system.
delicatearchcouple t1_j6lh1ji wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. by awawe
Well I'll just reply to myself since you're such a tender little thing that you went and blocked me...
Do you buddy. Just not going to get you anywhere and going to further alienate yourselves as evidenced by everything you cited.
Remember how no one gave a fuck about drag shows until every headline had to mention trans people? Then you get the backlash from the ignorant minority and they double down and rally their troops against you.
Then the general public has trans fatigue and is less helpful to your cause, more quick to dismiss your issues, and eager to focus on anything else but the constant background noise of finger pointing and victim identity. The focus is on the stupid one liner bullshit and not on the actual suffering of the folks you care about.
So you have whipped your enemies into a fervor (knowing that they currently have more power than you) all while alienating and exhausting potential allies.
If this is the approach that makes the most sense to you, then get it. Do you.
I just don't see it as effective. Seems to be a poor choice pragmatically.
wufnu t1_j6lgqhv wrote
Reply to comment by jav402 in TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4
A fresh, naive crowd every morning...
Klutzy-Move-9557 t1_j6lfu7l wrote
Reply to comment by bluntasticboy in TIL redwood trees -- growing to heights of 350 feet or more (over 100 meters) -- have roots that go only about ten feet into the ground. by OccludedFug
I grew up in Ridgewood.
ThisIsPermanent t1_j6lfgbi wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] 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
It’s….. it’s in the title of the post?
Mewhenthe4 OP t1_j6lf7d9 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
So since some geniuses keep making dumb responses to the post, I’ll answer the questions here.
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When it says LAND area it means SURFACE LAND AREA. I didn’t think I would have to specify since it’s obvious.
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No it’s not common knowledge, neither Is it regularly taught in schools like some people are claiming.
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I didn’t do the measurements. So stop asking me “what ifs”.
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Land area is not that specific of a measurement, so talking about how it’s too specific doesn’t really apply here.
Livingmorganism t1_j6lf3d4 wrote
Reply to comment by ChocolatDip in TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. by awawe
We once had a cow have triplets. 60-ish pounds each. That cow was preganante. Although we had another one with twins that were each 115 lbs, so technically she had it worse. Very prognort.
Hermit_Lailoken t1_j6lf1e3 wrote
Reply to TIL Margarine was originally named oleomargarine from Latin for oleum (olive oil) and Greek margarite ("pearl", indicating luster). by joshemerson
It used to be white and came with yellow dye so that it would look like butter.
Livingmorganism t1_j6lesu9 wrote
Reply to TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. by awawe
You can also keep the freemartin females and use them as gomers for heat detection. They like to hump.
RedSonGamble t1_j6leq34 wrote
Reply to TIL Dr. Drew's first appearance on television was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. by WalkingDown46
Comments gunna be interesting here
open_door_policy t1_j6leniy wrote
Reply to TIL Dr. Drew's first appearance on television was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. by WalkingDown46
And he's somehow become less credible since then.
cornylamygilbert t1_j6lj1og 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
Open Fire or Ambitionz as a Ridah