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TheCrapWhy t1_jdwx9xr wrote

Reply to comment by CeccoGrullo in TIL in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a local style of accordion folk music known as Famo has sprung a fierce bloody gang war which has contributed to its high homicide rate. Little-known to the outside world, scores of musicians and hundreds of DJs, fans, family members etc. have been slain. by delano1998

And completely surrounded by South Africa, with quite a large gap from border to any other country.

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Eudaemon1 t1_jdwwsx3 wrote

Reply to comment by supercyberlurker in TIL india is the biggest exporter of hairs in the world. India's hair exports account for 80% of the global market by pinkcheems

Then let me tell you a story , usually several big temples have some fixed men in the pujari attire who try to take money from you by various means , so when I was a kid my mom visited one such temple , a pujari literally blackmailed her into giving him money , saying that bad things will happen to me if she didn't give him money , so yeah . Very many places have these crap while others focus on charity for example the Ram Krishna Mission , or like the Dakshineswar temple is such a nice peaceful place which exists for worshipping without any sort of con artists in its vicinity .

Also you should watch PK . It really does question several things about the gurus and stuff while . The movie is kinda an attempt to distinguish between religion itself and the con artists of religion all under a comedic film

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Chewyninja69 t1_jdww2qh wrote

Reply to comment by MikeStanley00 in TIL the musician and songwriter D'Angelo not only recorded a song, "Unshaken", for Red Dead Redemption 2, he also served as a playtester during the videogame's development due to his love of the series by grizzburger

I highly doubt that. Companies like Rockstar don’t get big because they respect a worker’s home/life/work balance. But hey, if you’re saying it, then it must be true…

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xynix_ie t1_jdwvj5d wrote

Reply to comment by Careful-Prior9639 in TIL that Che Guevara was passioned about rugby, and he played it during his school years. In 1951 he also launched a rugby magazine Tackle, writing the whole thing himself by SteO153

>The left should choose it's heroes more wisely.

Whatever world you're brain is living in isn't this one. Liberals are not fans of him at all.

The people who wore those shirts, mostly frat boy types, have no idea about politics. If they did, they wouldn't wear that shirt. If you ever see someone wearing it just ask if they even know who that dude is and chances are they won't. Once they get to that class in college they tend to stop wearing the shirt.

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supercyberlurker t1_jdwub7s wrote

Reply to comment by Eudaemon1 in TIL india is the biggest exporter of hairs in the world. India's hair exports account for 80% of the global market by pinkcheems

I saw this movie "OMG – Oh My God!" which was like a Bollywood takedown of the fake gurus in India. It also has an interest plot in that the main character doesn't believe in Shiva, but the movie literally has Shiva there interacting with him.

It goes into things like the wasted milk, money/idol industry.. but it does also make some exceptions where real charity is done, like it doesn't attack the kitchens that do things like langar.

As an American I can't evaluate the truth of it, but it was interesting.

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PM-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD t1_jdwtnsm wrote

Reply to comment by Fetlocks_Glistening in TIL the SL-1 was the only reactor accident in U.S. history which resulted in immediate fatalities, killing 3 military operators in 1961, pinning one of them to the ceiling. by rigorousthinker

Yeah it actually glows so bright you can see it from the ISS. It stands out from the city lights because of the unique blue-green emission spectrum from the fission products that ended up in the victim's body. ISS Cmdr. Chris Hadfield took thousands of photos during his time up there, and one of my favorites is this image of the distinctive glow.

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themagicbong t1_jdwt7bv wrote

Reply to comment by Explorer335 in 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

Way better than what the local crackhead did where I live. Dove in the water in the fall (closing on winter), and they were waiting for him on the other side. I'm impressed that he actually made it all the way across the river, though.

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Psych_Crisis t1_jdwt5f8 wrote

Reply to TIL that the red lights on top of tall buildings in cities are called “aviation obstruction lighting,” and are used to help pilots of low-flying aircraft avoid collisions with otherwise hard-to-see structures. by bearjew64

I worked in radio for awhile, and at night we had a procedure where the board operator (the only person in the building over night) checks the transmitters periodically to make sure they're operating within certain specs. After dark, you also have to check a little indicator for the lights on the tower.

One night the indicator said the lights weren't on. I called the chief engineer and woke him up. He advised me on power cycling the whole thing, and said "if the lights don't come back on, you're going to be spending some time on the phone with the FAA." Luckily, they did. Learned something about my job that night, though.

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nowhereman136 t1_jdwsfkr wrote

Reply to comment by HarveyTheRedPanda in TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza by FatherWinter

Morbidly, war has usually spured innovation and exploration. Canned food, bug spray, microwave ovens, airplanes, GPS, and Cheetos were all developed for the military and trickled down to everyday civilian use. Look up DARPA the US agency that developed new tech for the military. The amount of products they've made that we use everyday is ridiculous.

This was kinda the plot to The Eternals, they were tasked with keeping humans safe enough from alien threats to keep advancing as a species by waring with themselves.

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supercyberlurker t1_jdwsf2u wrote

Reply to comment by Eudaemon1 in TIL india is the biggest exporter of hairs in the world. India's hair exports account for 80% of the global market by pinkcheems

Yeah, I respect the people giving their hair as a way to thank the deity. I think that part is actually pretty cool, like giving of yourself as a sacrifice is really probably the most noble sacrifice to do.

It's the part where the temples take that hair and it becomes commerce where it starts to feel sketchy.

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