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Scruffy42 t1_jdzvn7q wrote
Reply to comment by The_Countess in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
Also, I imagine a lot of places have already gotten around it. But in smaller cities it might be bigger of a problem.
NotaRobto t1_jdzvkrm wrote
Reply to comment by ShaunDark in TIL about Lillan Bloodworth, who donated blood every 56 days for nearly 50 years. By the time she stopped at age 85, she had donated 23 gallons. (The average person's body contains about 1.5 gallons.) by WouldbeWanderer
I like these silly jokes. Thanks
big_sugi t1_jdzvflk wrote
Reply to comment by SaintUlvemann 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
The killings significantly predate the fights over gold mines.
big_sugi t1_jdzv92o wrote
Reply to comment by KingKratom00 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
r/woooosh
But also, the fights over gold mines started well after the killings.
RetroMetroShow t1_jdzv70g wrote
Reply to TIL Joanna Lee, one of the actresses in Plan Nine From Outer Space, went on to create the after-school special format and won an Emmy for writing an episode of The Waltons. by DoubleTFan
When you let the stink wash off and don’t look back
Eve-3 t1_jdzut6y wrote
Reply to comment by Djinjja-Ninja in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
That it's physically attached to the bottle even after it is untwisted/opened. A lot of people here complaining that it gets in the way when trying to drink so hopefully they'll try something else.
I have no idea what's sold in the Netherlands, I don't drink pre-bottled drinks.
Jaggedmallard26 t1_jdzuiqf wrote
Reply to comment by DumbbellDiva92 in TIL about Lillan Bloodworth, who donated blood every 56 days for nearly 50 years. By the time she stopped at age 85, she had donated 23 gallons. (The average person's body contains about 1.5 gallons.) by WouldbeWanderer
Just look through the thread of regular donators saying they have extremely iron rich diets and still barely scrape by.
Jaggedmallard26 t1_jdzubp9 wrote
Reply to comment by Treadcc in TIL about Lillan Bloodworth, who donated blood every 56 days for nearly 50 years. By the time she stopped at age 85, she had donated 23 gallons. (The average person's body contains about 1.5 gallons.) by WouldbeWanderer
Donated Blood testing is done in bulk and paid donations attract donations from people desperate for money which tends to include drug addicts who are at significantly higher risk of diseases. By making it donation only you reduce the risk of people lying about their activities to donate. Paid plasma donation where the risk is significantly lower lead to the contaminated blood scandal and a lot of dead haemophilliacs.
earthmann t1_jdzu9hg wrote
Reply to comment by Thiccaca in TIL that there are official guidelines for muslims to perform their rituals from space since 2007, when the first malaysian astronaut join the space station. by TonahVilla
“Best you can” sounds very relative and something future space colonies will wage war over.
numba1dmxfan t1_jdzu2xt wrote
Reply to comment by Carbon_Rod in TIL about Lillan Bloodworth, who donated blood every 56 days for nearly 50 years. By the time she stopped at age 85, she had donated 23 gallons. (The average person's body contains about 1.5 gallons.) by WouldbeWanderer
My ma isn’t even 70 and just hit 30 gallons. Doesn’t have blood in her name, though.
tukker51 t1_jdzu097 wrote
Reply to TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
These suck, you cant drink out them properly when they're on and you cant close a bottle after drinking of you dont rip them off.
Arawn-Annwn t1_jdztp9a wrote
Reply to TIL that eating food containing poppy seeds really can cause you to fail a drug test for opiates by Lupercali
A place I used to work at would fill the break room with free poppyseed food items right before a drug test to deliberately get false positive tests so they could easily fire people.
I always expected somebody to sue, nobody ever did.
The_Countess t1_jdztfrn wrote
Reply to comment by slawsy in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
>Also my kids (7+9) struggled to get them closed properly.
Press it down and then if its not flat rotate the cap the wrong way round until it clicks.
tacodepollo t1_jdztanp wrote
Reply to TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
So THAT'S what's going on, aight.
The_Countess t1_jdzt8x8 wrote
Reply to comment by Scruffy42 in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
The old style cap design already left a ring behind of the same plastic as the cap. as they seem to have handled that, keeping the cap itself attached seems like it would be a minor change.
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Carighan t1_jdzrqt8 wrote
Reply to comment by nim_opet in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
That's a good point, modern plastic caps on non-reusable bottles feel very different than back in the 80s, yeah.
Carighan t1_jdzrmh3 wrote
Reply to comment by cabalavatar in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
Here in the EU it's the opposite, even before this being forced via attachment-strips, virtually all containers said "Please put the cap back on before recycling".
Implausibilibuddy t1_jdzrag7 wrote
Reply to comment by randomly-what in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
How so? You just hook the little tab under the bottle thread and it stays open.
Dakens2021 t1_jdzr3rx wrote
3 hearts, ha take that Stacey Q!
Samtoast t1_jdzr31c wrote
Reply to 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 think Weird AL would be like the God of this country or would they try to kill HIM too?
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OneeOftheseDayss t1_jdzq06j wrote
Reply to TIL that eating food containing poppy seeds really can cause you to fail a drug test for opiates by Lupercali
Mr. Peterman would like a word.
AudibleNod t1_jdzvwd9 wrote
Reply to TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys
Didn't the Ancient Greeks do the same thing with some Olympian athletes?