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enigbert t1_je7gow8 wrote
>To be considered an Índio Gigante, the rooster should be at least 105 centimeters (1.05 meters), with a minimum weight of 4.5 kilograms as an adult
So they're only bones, skin and feathers...
to_the_elbow t1_je7gf5w wrote
Reply to TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever. by RedditPrat
I call it Farmacology.
That word looks funny. Maybe we put Ph instead of the F?
Yeah, that works.
sixteenpoundblanket t1_je7fupb wrote
Reply to TIL that there is an art installation in Burlington, Vermont that is called the world's tallest filing cabinet. It's name is "File Under So. Co., Waiting for". It was built in 2002 in response to years of delays building the Interstate 189 bypass into downtown Burlington by IAmDavidGurney
The Southern Connector is still not built.
buddybennny t1_je7flas wrote
Reply to TIL that the official motto of Fall River, Massachusetts was ‘We’ll Try’ from 1843-2017. by Sea_Entertainment754
And all this time I thought it was "40 whacks."
Jestdrum t1_je7f7vd wrote
Reply to comment by squats_and_sugars 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
We got an extra two paid days off per month for it though. I'm sure it was hard on lots of people, but it totally counts as a furlough.
TheFiniteThrowAway t1_je7f0wk wrote
Reply to TIL that there is an art installation in Burlington, Vermont that is called the world's tallest filing cabinet. It's name is "File Under So. Co., Waiting for". It was built in 2002 in response to years of delays building the Interstate 189 bypass into downtown Burlington by IAmDavidGurney
What's up fellow citynerd watcher ;)
bros402 t1_je7e5cx wrote
Reply to comment by buntopolis 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
Nope - they were at a different facility. You can request them here
Longjumping_Owl5740 t1_je7dknw wrote
Reply to comment by Gee-Oh1 in TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever. by RedditPrat
You're probably right, the article used as a source for that claim on Wikipedia even goes on to say that claim makes no sense.
>Johnson’s claims about the origins of Terramycin were inaccurate. Ehrlich’s employer didn’t develop Terramycin; a different company, Pfizer, applied for the patent in 1949, after Terramycin was isolated from a soil sample from Terre Haute, Indiana. Ehrlich wasn’t involved. Additionally, companies were racing to find new antibiotics; if Terramycin had in fact been discovered in 1944, there was no reason a company would wait five years to patent it.
wargleboo t1_je7dgpy wrote
Reply to TIL that there is an art installation in Burlington, Vermont that is called the world's tallest filing cabinet. It's name is "File Under So. Co., Waiting for". It was built in 2002 in response to years of delays building the Interstate 189 bypass into downtown Burlington by IAmDavidGurney
How could stacking some office garbage be in response to a highway extension delay?
It's just an ugly pile of shit in a little town.
jtpo95 t1_je7debk wrote
Reply to TIL that there is an art installation in Burlington, Vermont that is called the world's tallest filing cabinet. It's name is "File Under So. Co., Waiting for". It was built in 2002 in response to years of delays building the Interstate 189 bypass into downtown Burlington by IAmDavidGurney
the highway project was called the “Southern Connector,” and without that information the joke is non-existent.
ScrotumFlavoredTaint t1_je7d1hr wrote
Reply to comment by cheesefondue in TIL that there's a breed of a domestic chicken tall up to 1.2 metres by ravennesejaguar
No, he may have accidentally a word shuffled.
Kelend t1_je7cvc5 wrote
Reply to comment by Sindri556 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
The most crazy thing about this little part of history, is not that it happened... but that it worked.
Genius-Imbecile t1_je7cd52 wrote
Reply to comment by gutterbrain73 in TIL that there's a breed of a domestic chicken tall up to 1.2 metres by ravennesejaguar
Size isn't everything though. Sometimes, I'm in the mood for a little cornish hen.
snacktonomy t1_je7bnz2 wrote
Reply to comment by botaine in TIL that the official motto of Fall River, Massachusetts was ‘We’ll Try’ from 1843-2017. by Sea_Entertainment754
Lynn, Lynn, city of sin 😏
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Reply to comment by nomnomnomnomRABIES 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
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popsickle_in_one t1_je7bhim wrote
buntopolis t1_je7awfh wrote
Reply to comment by bros402 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
Army and Air Force records - were Navy records lost in the fire too??
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duglarri t1_je7a7d2 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
There was the US Navy program in the Pacific in 1943 that resulted in video-guided kamikaze drones that may have actually been the inspiration for the real kamikazes. The Japanese didn't start deploying Kamikazes until very late 1944- prior to that, though, the would have seen American "planes" diving and crashing into Japanese targets in the Pacific, part of trials of some very effective drones by the Navy.
The drones actually worked very well, with success rates of around 25%, compared to bombing hit rates of 2% for conventional attacks. And the drone attacks were risk-free for the crews, because they stayed kilometers away from the targets. Zero casualties in all the test missions they flew.
But the Navy brass in their infinite wisdom killed the project because they felt they had enough conventional aircraft available to do the job, and losing five or ten aircrew on any particular target was perfectly fine as far as they were concerned.
So American drones may have been the inspiration for the Kamikaze.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/drone-strike-180964753/
Marcultist t1_je7a4sg wrote
Reply to comment by xopranaut in TIL the United States is the country with the most Nobel Prize winners by Heliochem
It didn't appear to me that they were debating you. I saw it as supporting the importance of per cap data.
Psych_Crisis t1_je78xmm wrote
Reply to comment by kelldricked 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
We have a lot of weird things that we make sacred in my country. It's not all inherently bad, and every country should have it's on flavor, but yeah, we like graves.
Fast food. Baseball. Graves.
that_yeg_guy t1_je78tkb wrote
Reply to 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
As a government employee… fuck that. I still have bills to pay that won’t give me a year and a half break.
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413mopar t1_je78poy wrote
Reply to comment by the_ballmer_peak in TIL: The outflow from Amazon River could fill 83 Olympic sized swimming pools per second. by the_ballmer_peak
Poor bastard looks sick!
Brodellsky t1_je7hw81 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
Literally. My local museum has a chicken in the dinosaur exhibit even.