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Javerage t1_jdzle3u wrote

Reply to comment by TheCrapWhy 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

It's sealed away to protect the rest of the world. Ruin has come to Lesotho. You remember our venerable kingdom, opulent and imperial. Gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor. I lived all my years in that ancient, rumor-shadowed country. Fattened by decadence and luxury. And yet, I began to tire of conventional extravagance. Singular, unsettling tales suggested the country itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnamable power. With relic and ritual, I bent every effort towards the excavation and recovery of those long-buried secrets, exhausting what remained of our family fortune on swarthy workmen and sturdy shovels. At last, in the salt-soaked crags beneath the lowest caves we unearthed that damnable portal of antediluvian evil. Our every step unsettled the ancient earth but we were in a realm of death and madness! In the end, I alone fled laughing and wailing through those blackened arcades of antiquity. Until consciousness failed me. You remember our venerable kingdom, opulent and imperial. It is a festering abomination! I beg you, return home, claim your birthright, and deliver our family from the ravenous clutching shadows of the Darkest Africa.

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wedontlikespaces t1_jdzjrg7 wrote

Reply to comment by Some-Juggernaut-2610 in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel

Yes. It used to be that the bottle caps were of a different type of plastic and so couldn't be recycled together, at least not easily. And people learnt that, so they used to remove the bottle caps.

But they've gone over to using the same type of plastic in the caps as they do in the bottles, so they can all be recycled together, but getting that new idea through to people is a bit difficult, so it's easier to just tie the bottle cap to the bottle to reinforce the idea that they should now stay together.

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howardslowcum t1_jdzih8y wrote

Reply to comment by YewKnowMe in TIL: A family of 12 performers, 7 of whom were dwarves, all survived Auschwitz after being separated by Mengele. Several prisoners who survived claimed they believed they were hallucinating when they saw seven well-dressed dwarves passing by. by 0verlyAnxious

The Nazis were obsessed with snow white and Hitler said it was one of his favorite movies. Snow white came out in 1937 so like having seven dwarves was probably something everyone joked about the way we used too with anchorman.

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WholeSilent8317 t1_jdzf849 wrote

Reply to comment by firemonkeywoman 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

do you own anything gold? it's in your electronics. do you eat chocolate?

there's a demand. someone will meet that demand, no matter what.

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iamlindoro t1_jdzejx4 wrote

Reply to TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel

Live in Spain, these began to appear a few months ago. At first it annoyed me so much but they’re actually decently well done and they grew on me. I now have the muscle memory of opening and closing them and they don’t annoy me at all any more. People will definitely get over it. I ripped a few off at first but then you have ultra-sharp plastic thorns poking out and stabbing you.

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humanregularbeing t1_jdze4kt wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] 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

Wow. I read your question and thought poverty, then wondered why the downvotes, then spent a few minutes in your comment history. Yecch. Seriously?

(Edit: The comments of yours I'm referring to seem to have been deleted from the posts, so have lost their context, but pretty sure I understood them. Apologies if wrong.)

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