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[deleted] t1_je4y38k wrote
F0000r t1_je4y32w wrote
He reminds me of that tall and awkward kid from Hugh School.
i_hate_gift_cards t1_je4xxgf wrote
Reply to comment by Squirrel851 in TIL Early drones were developed during the First World War. These radio controlled planes were primarily for target practice but by 1942 a drone with a built in TV camera was capable of delivering a torpedo to a ship 20 miles from the controller. by jamescookenotthatone
I think it was a missile, wasn't it? Edit: its a bomb!
PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS t1_je4xpuy wrote
I'll take the drumstick
ravennesejaguar OP t1_je4xn8n wrote
Reply to comment by dicky_seamus_614 in TIL that there's a breed of a domestic chicken tall up to 1.2 metres by ravennesejaguar
apparently they were bred from fighting cocks in the 1980s ... so there's a potential to evolve them further (insert intense Dr. Ian Malcolm stare)
ElGabalo t1_je4xk2b wrote
Reply to comment by Clanstantine in TIL that the official motto of Fall River, Massachusetts was ‘We’ll Try’ from 1843-2017. by Sea_Entertainment754
Aye, I could do that.
jeandanjou t1_je4xjhs wrote
Reply to comment by Kaiisim in TIL the majority of ancient Greeks and Romans that were literate read out loud. Reasons for this include a lack of space between letters and no formalized system of punctuation that helped with pauses in reading. by Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse
Languages study in general. People never stop to think about language families.
For example, why it took millennia for people to realize how closely related were Greek, Celt, Latin, Sanskrit, Scythian, Persian and German (all are Indo-European) despite more or less intense exchange between people using them?
Because we didn't have grammar rules or standards, so patterns were insanely hard to distinguish and could vary from location or speaker.
So instead they had a feeling that things were similar, which ended up with a lot of them assuming things an universal kind of base for everything.
Admetus t1_je4xe9f wrote
Reply to comment by oochre in TIL the majority of ancient Greeks and Romans that were literate read out loud. Reasons for this include a lack of space between letters and no formalized system of punctuation that helped with pauses in reading. by Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse
Makes sense to me if these languages began as a recital, like a chant. They may have began as oral traditions after all.
mmnuc3 t1_je4x5qe wrote
Reply to comment by 1clovett in TIL that after a flood killed thousands and devastated the economy, California legislators and State employees worked unpaid for a year and a half. by WhatsAMisanthrope
Hey everybody. Look at this guy. He lost his job. Therefore everybody else should have to take pay cuts and or lose their jobs as well. And they definitely can't complain about the pay cuts. Because he has it worse off. Everybody knows this is a huge competition. If he doesn't get paid nobody can be paid.
We all have to fight each other to the death. Or something like that. Just don't look up at the robber barons. They don't want you to see what's going on at the table. Make sure the masses are fighting down on the floor.
RingGiver t1_je4x1mz wrote
Reply to comment by AngelSucked in TIL that after a flood killed thousands and devastated the economy, California legislators and State employees worked unpaid for a year and a half. by WhatsAMisanthrope
At any time, they can quit and get real jobs.
KypDurron t1_je4wzbi wrote
Reply to comment by olioster in 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
Mantling is completely different. TLDR Mantling is when you embody the attributes and actions of a deity so well that the universe can't tell you apart. "Walk like them until they must walk like you."
I'm not sure if any of the Walking Ways specifically rely on accumulating followers or worship, actually.
If you subscribe to the not-entirely-confirmed theory that the Thalmor are trying to destabilize the Mundus by stamping out the worship of Talos, you could sort of argue that they're trying to do the opposite of this - de-canonize Talos/Tiber Septim by depriving him of followers and/or worship, but that may actually require killing all Men, not just stopping Talos worship...
[deleted] t1_je4wrdm wrote
daneelthesane t1_je4wntd wrote
Reply to TIL that the official motto of Fall River, Massachusetts was ‘We’ll Try’ from 1843-2017. by Sea_Entertainment754
Yoda was very disappointed in them.
B-in-Va t1_je4wg9o wrote
That just doesn't look right.
Adventurous-Mark2477 t1_je4wf7v wrote
Reply to comment by _jimbo- in TIL: 5 pin bowling was invented in Canada - and is mostly only played in Canada by sammer003
Yes. Does that clarify?
Sorry, just being a dingleberry.
Aye_Eye_Captain t1_je4vwiu wrote
Reply to TIL The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute, is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear. by gonejahman
The idea that Neanderthals were kind of slow and dim-witted is completely inaccurate. Recent archaeological research has revealed that they were quite advanced and perhaps as intelligent as our modern human ancestors
dicky_seamus_614 t1_je4vn7i wrote
Reply to comment by Robbotlove in TIL that there's a breed of a domestic chicken tall up to 1.2 metres by ravennesejaguar
Really if these Raptor-bastards were people size, they’d rule this planet!
Turn a mouse loose in a chicken coop pen some time and watch the carnage
_jimbo- t1_je4vmmo wrote
Reply to comment by Adventurous-Mark2477 in TIL: 5 pin bowling was invented in Canada - and is mostly only played in Canada by sammer003
You do or don't want to live in Canada? I don't understand what you're saying.
Zorothegallade t1_je4v0o5 wrote
That's half a cassowary, holy shit.
WaitingForNormal t1_je4uxsu wrote
Reply to comment by packetfire in TIL that children born earlier in the academic year have a higher chance of participating in upper echelons of sports or academia. This is known as the Relative Age Effect. by ThatFaultyGamer
I know this well. October. They weren’t as strict about cut off dates when I went to school.
teotronix t1_je4ulrj 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
one time i saw a pile of dead geese at the dump and several bloody-headed seagulls absolutely shredding them to pieces. might as well have been a pack of hyenas, they were fighting over organs and making gutteral noises before plunging their entire heads into the geese to tear out another bite....they'll also eat big crabs by flying them up and dropping them onto parking lots or rocks or cars or whatever hard surface it takes to incapacitate the crab just enough so they can flip it over, rip its claws off like little paper towels and turbo peck out the insides. never turn your back on a seagull
fatuous_sobriquet t1_je4u2gy wrote
Reply to TIL Early drones were developed during the First World War. These radio controlled planes were primarily for target practice but by 1942 a drone with a built in TV camera was capable of delivering a torpedo to a ship 20 miles from the controller. by jamescookenotthatone
> The first pilotless aircraft were built during World War I.
They didn’t fly them into buildings until much later, though
TPixiewings t1_je4ttue wrote
Reply to comment by packetfire in TIL that children born earlier in the academic year have a higher chance of participating in upper echelons of sports or academia. This is known as the Relative Age Effect. by ThatFaultyGamer
I graduated at 16 because I was in kindergarten at 3.5 or something. It was awful being smaller than everyone else.
hoarder59 t1_je4trve wrote
Reply to TIL that children born earlier in the academic year have a higher chance of participating in upper echelons of sports or academia. This is known as the Relative Age Effect. by ThatFaultyGamer
The system also applies to racehorses, so breeders try for foals to be born first week of January.
acebandaged t1_je4ydl2 wrote
Reply to comment by dmr11 in TIL that after a flood killed thousands and devastated the economy, California legislators and State employees worked unpaid for a year and a half. by WhatsAMisanthrope
Probably economic health of the state is more important, as it should be. People shouldn't go around getting rid of taxes, they're what allows the country to function.