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SandwitchCoveness t1_jdtrgjt wrote
Reply to comment by DaveOJ12 in TIL about the Straw Hat Riot of 1922 in NYC due to taunting people who had failed to stop wearing straw hats after autumn began by LocalChamp
When you're a stranger
RickLeeTaker t1_jdtrf90 wrote
Reply to comment by Jef_Wheaton in TIL It takes 20 years for clothing to be considered "vintage" and today’s most sought-after vintage styles are ‘90s and early ‘00s by Ok_Copy5217
Happens to me ALL the time. "Hi. My shirt is older than you."
pohatu771 t1_jdtr78w wrote
Reply to comment by CombImpressive3416 in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
Writing music and incorporating a piece of someone else’s composition doesn’t mean you’re using a recording at all.
pohatu771 t1_jdtqzhl wrote
Reply to comment by gwaydms in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
He had very famously been sued (and lost) over Come Together. Part of the settlement was recording some Chuck Berry songs, which ultimately became the Rock and Roll album.
(I’m not sure how he was the one in court when Come Together, like everything else, was a Lennon-McCartney credit.)
Dry_Doctor6346 t1_jdtqt1j wrote
Reply to TIL It takes 20 years for clothing to be considered "vintage" and today’s most sought-after vintage styles are ‘90s and early ‘00s by Ok_Copy5217
who wants my vintage undaroos?
JimBean t1_jdtqr1r wrote
Reply to comment by wayfinder in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
It is, but you can't edit a title.
J_Schafe13 t1_jdtqkwh wrote
Reply to comment by hatersaurusrex in TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza by FatherWinter
Die hard is absolutely a Christmas movie.
gwaydms t1_jdtqdsu wrote
Reply to comment by Roman_____Holiday in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
John Lennon said as much when talking about some of ELO's songs (particularly Mister Kingdom, which borrows a few bars from Across the Universe). He grinned and said something like "Let's not talk about all the stuff I've nicked."
ChrisGeritol t1_jdtqatn wrote
Reply to TIL that method used to rob the banks in the movie The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) was the actual method "Friday Night Robber" Carl Gugasian successfully used for over thirty years. by Saint_Gut-Free
Well damn, this was extremely close to how I had designed a bank robbery. Dirt bike through terrain a police vehicle couldn't follow and loading it into a panel truck
DistortoiseLP t1_jdtpscq wrote
Reply to comment by Mello_Me_ in TIL Jimmy Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the single largest expansion of protected lands in history which more than doubled the size of the National Parks System by Guardax
For both better and worse that was a characteristic part of his presidency in general. Carter was a micro manager that kept his eyes on a lot of details.
ElegantPackage2607 t1_jdtpfse wrote
Reply to TIL that seagulls not only eat other birds and animals, but are cannibals and often eat seagull chicks, even their own. by TrolleyMcTrollerson1
Mine , mine , mine.......
dinoroo t1_jdtpdgo wrote
Reply to comment by Derekd88 in TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza by FatherWinter
Bundt
Fightshrubb t1_jdtpa25 wrote
Reply to comment by Ok_Copy5217 in TIL It takes 20 years for clothing to be considered "vintage" and today’s most sought-after vintage styles are ‘90s and early ‘00s by Ok_Copy5217
Low rise women's jeans. High rise jeans, please leave.
DistortoiseLP t1_jdtp867 wrote
Reply to TIL about the Straw Hat Riot of 1922 in NYC due to taunting people who had failed to stop wearing straw hats after autumn began by LocalChamp
I think it's an important detail that this was perpetrated by groups of teenagers.
Fightshrubb t1_jdtp1o8 wrote
Reply to TIL It takes 20 years for clothing to be considered "vintage" and today’s most sought-after vintage styles are ‘90s and early ‘00s by Ok_Copy5217
That's why my Etsy shop pops off with my JNCO Jeans that have been haunting my closet for 2 decades.
Ok_Copy5217 OP t1_jdtotxx wrote
Reply to TIL James Nasmyth discovered fine scale solar features, which he painted in detail and called 'willow-leaf-shaped objects in 1860. Now known as solar granulation, their existence was disputed for many years by Ok_Copy5217
https://i.redd.it/bbxyjafqzypa1.jpg
as you see here, we have come a long way in 2023!
LooksAtClouds t1_jdtoceu wrote
Reply to comment by 2MegaWhats in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Baby Shark chew chew, chew chew chew chew Baby Shark!
SandwitchCoveness t1_jdtoakb wrote
Fightshrubb t1_jdto966 wrote
Reply to comment by Bobrakis in TIL that seagulls not only eat other birds and animals, but are cannibals and often eat seagull chicks, even their own. by TrolleyMcTrollerson1
I am sorry. Did you contact the authorities?
Sea something, say something.
Fightshrubb t1_jdto52c wrote
Reply to TIL that seagulls not only eat other birds and animals, but are cannibals and often eat seagull chicks, even their own. by TrolleyMcTrollerson1
I live on the beach and have seen some seagulls go toe to toe with pelicans and get swallowed up like a tic tac.
fredsam25 t1_jdtnmsb wrote
Reply to comment by ExceedingChunk in TIL MSG occurs naturally in tomatoes and other vegetables. by pm-me-all-tits
The fact that msg is not dangerous is independent of the fact that it's naturally occurring in our food. Like I said, our food also naturally has cyanide in it. Naturally occurring is not significant in something's harm/benefit.
8i66ie5ma115 t1_jdtnkpi wrote
Reply to TIL that method used to rob the banks in the movie The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) was the actual method "Friday Night Robber" Carl Gugasian successfully used for over thirty years. by Saint_Gut-Free
Hmmmmmmm
BRB, buying a dirt bike and doing a Bass Pro Shop shopping spree. For… reasons.
AtTheLeftThere t1_jdtnjgr wrote
Reply to TIL of BioSteel, high-strength fiber-based material produced by goats, genetically modified to produce spider silk. by Grothorious
Why do we not have this in Factorio?!
pohatu771 t1_jdtrnag wrote
Reply to comment by Riptide360 in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
The license allows creators (or their publishers, whether they are in control of that or not) control over their work and who it is associated with.
I wouldn’t want my work to be freely available to whatever random person wants to incorporate it into theirs, even if they are sharing revenue. I want to know it isn’t being tied to a person or message I dislike.