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ShinyHappyAardvark t1_jdhl82r wrote
Reply to TIL that Barq's Root Beer was first created by Edward Barq in Biloxi, Miss, in 1897. In 1934, Barq and a former employee, who moved to New Orleans, agreed to each distribute their own version of the root beer, with the New Orleans version having a red label and the Biloxi version having a blue one. by jdward01
But the picture has a silver label – – what does that mean?
cubanesis t1_jdhl0zz wrote
Reply to comment by -SaC in TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
Hmm. Good to know. I was told when I was a kid the jaw was the only bone and that is why there are no megalodon fossils other than the jaws.
Sdog1981 t1_jdhkp9p wrote
Reply to TIL that Chinese Food was introduced into America during the California Gold Rush, starting in 1848. As 30,000 immigrants had arrived from the Canton region of China, the restaurants gave the predominantly male population a connection to home and provided gathering places for the Chinese community. by jdward01
I got into an argument with some rubes on this site about this very fact. PF Chang has spent a lot of money making up the story that his mom brought Chinese food to the US.
DanHero91 t1_jdhkaom wrote
Reply to TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’ by gnomageddon7
>The song was removed from the BBC Radio 2 playlist, with the station's executive music producer Colin Martin describing the song as being "too frivolous in light of the news that was breaking".
Only one radio station removed it, and Radio 2 wouldn't typically play that kind of music anyway outside of the chart recaps. Considering how openly most radio DJs hated how often they had to play the song, I'm guessing Colin just took any opportunity he could to get rid of it.
[deleted] t1_jdhk88w wrote
Reply to comment by Mishashule in TIL that Chinese Food was introduced into America during the California Gold Rush, starting in 1848. As 30,000 immigrants had arrived from the Canton region of China, the restaurants gave the predominantly male population a connection to home and provided gathering places for the Chinese community. by jdward01
The irony that things like tomatoes are full of MSG....along with so many other foods.
garm302 t1_jdhk4p8 wrote
Mishashule t1_jdhjwlb wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that Chinese Food was introduced into America during the California Gold Rush, starting in 1848. As 30,000 immigrants had arrived from the Canton region of China, the restaurants gave the predominantly male population a connection to home and provided gathering places for the Chinese community. by jdward01
Too bad for them, Chinese food fuckin rules catch me outside any Chinese place
Teesandelbows t1_jdhjt6y wrote
Reply to TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public by MoistCoyote
What's an exess wild horse?
NotsoNewtoGermany t1_jdhjnrx wrote
Reply to comment by Latter_Feeling2656 in TIL The Dick Van Dyke Show was originally written entirely by Carl Reiner, about stories from Reiner's life, and starred Carl Reiner. The pilot was unsuccessful so it was reworked with Dick Van Dyke playing Robert Petrie. by jamescookenotthatone
Not exactly, from what I understand there were people they accepted scripts from, but we're not employed by the show.
[deleted] t1_jdhikok wrote
Reply to TIL that Chinese Food was introduced into America during the California Gold Rush, starting in 1848. As 30,000 immigrants had arrived from the Canton region of China, the restaurants gave the predominantly male population a connection to home and provided gathering places for the Chinese community. by jdward01
And MSG was used as a marketing weapon by U.S. companies trying to stop the Chinese food being popular.
UltramanX51 t1_jdhhrnl wrote
Reply to comment by Electric_Evil in TIL that the Hemlock Water Dropwort is the most poisonous plant in the UK. Its poison constricts the muscles, causing death by asphyxia, which also causes a rictus like death grin. Use of this plant in Phoenician Sardinia for executions is the origin of the term "Sardonic Grin". by AspireAgain
What a fantastic film
leadchipmunk t1_jdhh918 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
That's a myth. Sharks can get cancer. Mole rats, on the other hand, don't.
[deleted] t1_jdhgmqf wrote
Reply to TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
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BigDKane t1_jdhgel8 wrote
Reply to comment by twinsea in TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public by MoistCoyote
I've never made it to the pony swim 😕, but I've visited the island more than a few times and I've watched them from Chincoteague a few times!
kai-omaga t1_jdhgdr5 wrote
Reply to comment by cubanesis in TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
That's cartilage as well.
-SaC t1_jdhgcav wrote
Reply to comment by cubanesis in TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
The jaws are still cartilage. They calcify over time, making them solid and dense, but it's still cartilage.
rfmodeler t1_jdhg7gc wrote
Reply to TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
So what do they teach people in schools these days? I remember learning this in elementary school.
akunis OP t1_jdhg07v wrote
Reply to comment by Whalesongsblow in TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
I saw a question on a YouTube quiz that asked “which of these animals don’t have bones?” and shark was the correct answer. I thought that was bogus and was about to correct them in the comments, but didn’t want to look stupid so I googled it first and low and behold, I was wrong.
cubanesis t1_jdhfpiv wrote
Reply to TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
Pretty sure they have at least two bones for the jaws, but everything else is cartilage.
Whalesongsblow t1_jdhfgqs wrote
Reply to TIL Sharks don’t have bones. by akunis
Come on...
Latter_Feeling2656 t1_jdhea73 wrote
Reply to comment by NotsoNewtoGermany in TIL The Dick Van Dyke Show was originally written entirely by Carl Reiner, about stories from Reiner's life, and starred Carl Reiner. The pilot was unsuccessful so it was reworked with Dick Van Dyke playing Robert Petrie. by jamescookenotthatone
"There's a great interview with one of the writers on the Dick Van Dyke Show— of which there were three."
They used a plethora of writers. Reiner himself wrote about a third. Bill Persky and Sam Denoff wrote a lot, and became the script consultants (finishers). Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson wrote a lot, and then the rest were spread out among others. Bill Idelson, who played Herman Glimpsher, wrote a few scripts.
Latter_Feeling2656 t1_jdhd0wo wrote
Reply to comment by TheClearcoatKid in TIL The Dick Van Dyke Show was originally written entirely by Carl Reiner, about stories from Reiner's life, and starred Carl Reiner. The pilot was unsuccessful so it was reworked with Dick Van Dyke playing Robert Petrie. by jamescookenotthatone
The great Sheldon Leonard is the one who actually sat Reiner down and told him that he was the problem with the pilot. Leonard also saved the show after the low-rated first season by convincing sponsors to continue their funding.
Pinglaggette t1_jdhar7i wrote
Reply to comment by CaliBigWill in TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public by MoistCoyote
Feral horse populations come from the American Civil War, not from the first instances of Eurasian horses arriving in North America. The Union couldn’t afford to house and feed the massive amounts of cavalry horses they had acquired for the war, so they just let them loose, figuring that they wouldn’t survive. Well, they did and they are literally destroying the environment and killing off the actual native populations out there.
AdamsXCM101 t1_jdh63us wrote
Reply to TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public by MoistCoyote
I have a BLM burro. I take her for walks in the desert.
wagnus_ t1_jdhlzlz wrote
Reply to comment by garm302 in TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’ by gnomageddon7
:'(