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Light_Beard t1_j6ovwhn wrote
Reply to TIL that the third best selling album of all time, ahead of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, is the soundtrack for 1992 film The Bodyguard by Linguini_gang
Time is a very effective song to wake up to in the morning.
srcarruth t1_j6ovwgg wrote
Reply to comment by Fetlocks_Glistening in TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century. by CaptainCorpse666
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specialsymbol t1_j6ovtee wrote
Reply to TIL that India had to ban charas (cannabis concentrate) due to pressure from the US. by UltimateGamingTechie
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KnightofForestsWild t1_j6ovsoj wrote
Reply to TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book. by Equal_Caregiver_4909
Sophocles (b. 496bce) pretty much said the same thing before that. "Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted."
stefantalpalaru t1_j6ovp0v wrote
Reply to comment by Hambredd 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
> it's a net positive
You think Germans enjoy learning about Nazi Germany? You think the French enjoy learning about Napoleon?
bolanrox t1_j6ovlua wrote
Reply to comment by Gonergonegone in TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century. by CaptainCorpse666
do they eat? i thought the whole thing was they would die of starvation. Though dehydration would get them way faster come to think of it.
RedSonGamble t1_j6ovjgz wrote
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aZamaryk t1_j6ovaow wrote
Reply to comment by UltimateGamingTechie in TIL that India had to ban charas (cannabis concentrate) due to pressure from the US. by UltimateGamingTechie
For their idiotic war on drugs, probably.
Fetlocks_Glistening t1_j6ov6ia wrote
Reply to comment by frusciantefango in TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century. by CaptainCorpse666
How do the barriers know to let other animals through, though??
Radiobandit t1_j6ov4zy wrote
Reply to comment by Bloka2au 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
Right? Guaranteed 99/100 people would still (Rightfully) choose to eat something that fell on their keyboard over something that sat on their toilet seat.
CaptainCorpse666 OP t1_j6ov4kf wrote
Reply to comment by bolanrox in TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century. by CaptainCorpse666
>The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century, except for a rabies-like virus in a small number of wild bats.
Correct, sounds like a cousin of rabies is available in the UK lol
Gonergonegone t1_j6ov1kl wrote
Reply to comment by bolanrox in TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century. by CaptainCorpse666
Yup. Body essentially works time same, just now you're hyper aggressive and willing to eat anything.
leodavidci t1_j6ouv6i wrote
Reply to TIL that the first use of the phrase "son-of-a-bitch" in American literature was in the 1823 book "Seventy-Six" by John Neal about the American Revolutionary War. Seventy-Six was criticized at the time for its use of profanity and was noted for its use of colloquialisms. by vrphotosguy55
I’m sure I read that the language used in the tv show Deadwood used more modern swear words on purpose , rather than the more religious swear words people back then would have used. This religious swearing would feel very tame to us these days, so they used modern phrases to give an idea of what it felt like to hear it.
SurealGod t1_j6oupv0 wrote
Reply to comment by 100LittleButterflies in TIL that green grocery store bananas that have 'sharp' edges, rather than a more circular cross section, were likely harvested premature and they are unlikely to ripen after you take them home. by 80see
Luckily I love it when bananas are harder. When they get mushy it makes me gag.
Also, phrasing on that one
Gemmabeta t1_j6ouih3 wrote
Reply to comment by Unhappy-Valuable-596 in TIL of St Clair’s defeat in 1791, when Native Americans supplied with British made firearms, demolished a US military force and killed 656 soldiers, in what has been regarded as one of the worst ever defeats of the US military. by ChadExtra
Yes, the British formally recognized US sovereignty in 1783.
405134 t1_j6oufl5 wrote
Reply to comment by sionnach 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
Wow , that’s gotta be pretty rare though right? And I’m sure situations where twins are conjoined in the womb also potentially could share blood; like conjoined twins
Teauxny t1_j6otyyr wrote
Reply to comment by dressageishard 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
Oh what Reddit posts have we collectively missed????
adequetlylarge t1_j6otuhg wrote
redbanjo t1_j6otnip wrote
Reply to comment by LeicaM6guy in TIL about cargo cults, where indigenous people of small tropical islands would perform elaborate rituals to mimic air traffic control and marching patterns after witnessing airplanes drop supplies on airforce bases during world war II. by sciencedit
Every time I rewatch an episode I'm just stunned at how good it was.
ChadExtra OP t1_j6othd0 wrote
Reply to comment by Unhappy-Valuable-596 in TIL of St Clair’s defeat in 1791, when Native Americans supplied with British made firearms, demolished a US military force and killed 656 soldiers, in what has been regarded as one of the worst ever defeats of the US military. by ChadExtra
The Native Americans defeated a US military force. They had been given guns by the British (as part of a strategy of encouraging insurrection against the American government).
Hambredd t1_j6othbl wrote
Reply to comment by stefantalpalaru 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
Are you trolling me? Of course it isn't, it's a net positive. A punishment would be denying Belgium's education and sending the education budget to the Congo
vote4boat t1_j6otdwk wrote
Reply to TIL that the third best selling album of all time, ahead of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, is the soundtrack for 1992 film The Bodyguard by Linguini_gang
It's all about being popular during the peak of cd sales.
Great music is no match for market trends
stefantalpalaru t1_j6ot8bi wrote
Reply to comment by Hambredd 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
> Education isn't a punishment
Isn't it, though?
Fetlocks_Glistening t1_j6ow1be wrote
Reply to TIL that the third best selling album of all time, ahead of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, is the soundtrack for 1992 film The Bodyguard by Linguini_gang
Sad comment on the sorry state of modern civilisation...