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Apprehensive_Floor78 t1_j6nbh4l wrote

Reply to TIL tomb raiding is a big problem in China that looters sometimes find historically significant sites first. For instance the tomb of the famed 3 Kingdoms-era general, Cao Cao, was discovered in 2008 after police inspected the stolen goods of a bunch of robbers, who then led them to an unknown tomb. by Khysamgathys

Tomb raiding stems from grave robbing, just with an extra layer of historical research and luck. It’s been a huge problem in China and also Egypt throughout the years. Partly because of poverty but also driven by the entertainment industry and the antiques market/black market.

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RussianTrumpOff2Jail t1_j6nb4c4 wrote

Reply to comment by wanawanka 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

>and don't...hold your mouth over the toilet bowl when you flush like ur collecting snowflakes

On the toilet rn, will try to remember this.

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CanadianGurlfren t1_j6najmz wrote

Reply to comment by Yosemitejohn 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 spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

LTG Smedley Butler, USMC

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Infamous_Set_5573 t1_j6na38z wrote

Reply to TIL tomb raiding is a big problem in China that looters sometimes find historically significant sites first. For instance the tomb of the famed 3 Kingdoms-era general, Cao Cao, was discovered in 2008 after police inspected the stolen goods of a bunch of robbers, who then led them to an unknown tomb. by Khysamgathys

This is what happens when you confiscate and don't compensate the land owners for ancient stuff found on their property. If your only choice is to lose your shit, or sell the stuff and bury the place, then you are going to pick the latter. If you incentivize people to report archaeological findings, then you are going to preserve them. The only country which seems to know this is the UK with the PAS which compensates people who find treasure the government wants. (The PAS and this argument has nothing to do with foreign looted artifacts, just to push back against some stupid fool who starts talking about irrelevant shit.)

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nanochipdata t1_j6n99bz 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

In vet school they taught us that they’re extremely useful to put in a herd of heifers or other females because the free martin will mount them during times of estrus. Being able to detect this 24 window of fertility is important for farmers to use AI at the right time and successfully impregnate the heifers etc.

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