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According-Classic658 t1_j6pb35e 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

I worked at a start-up. Dozens of people in a large dark room. Months went by using the assigned computer they gave me. The lights were turned on for the first time and the fucking filth that was on there. Stains all over it. The previous person that sat there ate a sandwich and a large piece of bread had been stuck under the space bar.

I found a new one in storage and lysol the fuck out of it.

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ChamBruh t1_j6pazgm wrote

Reply to comment by doctor-rumack in TIL Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos baseball team while still in high school, but instead chose to play football in college. This technically makes him the last player drafted by the Expos still playing professional sports. by _Abe_Froman_SKOC

Belichick got a second rounder for garoppolo, so he extracted the same value for the player that he used by initially drafting him. Could he have gotten more? Maybe, but it’s not like they got nothing. Also the narrative with Brady and jimmy g is completely overblown. All 3 of Brady, jimmy g and brissett still talk from time to time. Brady doesn’t hate jimmy g and never did

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feardriven85 t1_j6payew wrote

Reply to comment by shingofan in 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

I mean, accurate. To the point the Sima family deposed the Cao family and started the Jin dynasty, right? Who says you don’t learn anything from video games. I spent hours combing through the encyclopedia of Dynasty Warriors and Romance of the three kingdoms.

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ChamBruh t1_j6par83 wrote

Reply to comment by RetroMetroShow in TIL Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos baseball team while still in high school, but instead chose to play football in college. This technically makes him the last player drafted by the Expos still playing professional sports. by _Abe_Froman_SKOC

He plays in the most qb friendly offense in the league. Everything is set up for Purdy to succeed there. He was bad against the eagles before he got hurt

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ChamBruh t1_j6pani6 wrote

Reply to comment by arlondiluthel in TIL Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos baseball team while still in high school, but instead chose to play football in college. This technically makes him the last player drafted by the Expos still playing professional sports. by _Abe_Froman_SKOC

The buccaneers have not said they don’t intend to re-sign him. There have been reports either way about Brady leaving or staying but nothing definitive

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ShitPostGuy t1_j6p9ptt wrote

Reply to comment by Pifanjr 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

That article says that bacteria may be the source of nucleation to form rain, absolutely nothing about whether a rain dance and kick ground-born bacteria/particles the needed 6,500 feet (1.2 miles) into the air to interact with rain clouds.

Use your brain

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