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RaisinEducational312 t1_jedg6ay wrote

Reply to comment by food_chronicles in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

That’s why the beauty standard is say LA is to be tan but in China is to be white.

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cranberrystew99 t1_jedfbne wrote

Reply to comment by PerpetuallyLurking in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

Same here! It's weird how the internet syncs up like this at times!

Feminist, nazi icon, Coco Chanel.

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stay_fr0sty t1_jedf9z6 wrote

Reply to TIL id Software’s first attempt at a first-person shooter game - before Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, or even Catacomb 3-D - was Hovertank 3D, a vehicular combat FPS released for MS-DOS in 1991. by astrodomekid

I'm old. I played it. It wasn't great. It was whatever.

The take away is we always see our idol's successful creations, and we want to do "that."

We rarely think about all of the failed startups that some smart person had to take loss after loss on before they made it big, the 100 songs someone wrote before having a single reach 88 in the top 100, the terrible performances on stage or in movies that an actor suffers before landing a big role, the number of humiliating rejections a girl/guy got before landing that hottie bf/gf, the living in bed bug infested apartments for years while making no income while building a fanbase through touring.

Carmack is a legend. He started out as a average. I just want people to realize that your 1st, 2nd, or 20th idea might not be the one that makes you money. Just keep trying as long as you can stand it and you won't regret it (even if you fail over and over and over and never succeed), very few people regret believing in themselves and chasing their dream.

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rayinreverse t1_jedf61l wrote

Reply to TIL that Kurt Cobain got the inspiration to make Nirvana's famous song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" when Kathleen Hanna, the singer of the band "Bikini Kill" wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on a board. Teen Spirit was a woman's deodorant and he didn't knew it until he was done with the song. by WonderfulWanderer777

It’s not like Smells Like Teen Spirit was actually in a single lyric. Pretty sure this story is BS. Kathleen Hanna probably did say that, but naming the song that was very intentional.

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mobilehobo t1_jedew0g wrote

Reply to comment by NewPassenger6593 in TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an 'exception' to copyright laws. by [deleted]

I would of thought he meant probably one of the better funded legal teams in corporate America, as well as one that seems to be on top of their stuff for how quickly they act on potential copyright infringement.

Examples like this whole current thing with desantis vs Disney world in Florida if you look at some of the details, their legal team knows their stuff. At the very least anecdotally.

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Away-Bee-616 t1_jedcxup wrote

Reply to comment by ThatDarnedAntiChrist in TIL That There's a Bible Belt In The Netherlands by iamasinglepotassium

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the Court drew on Thomas Jefferson's correspondence to call for "a wall of separation between church and State", though the precise boundary of this separation remains in dispute and the terms "church" and "State" do not appear in the Amendment.

Also I couldn't open the link. My phone's fucky I'm getting it fixed soon. The first amendment just says the federal govt cannot make any religion a state religion. This implies a separation of church and state and for all intents and purposes that's what it means but for instance law makers can still use their papist or Mohammedan values when writing or voting for a law.

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Sdog1981 t1_jedcu45 wrote

Reply to TIL that, during the Cold War, every infantry and armor battalion in the U.S Army had one officer trained to deploy the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), commonly known as the backpack nuke by nomad_556

The Army Times is the national enquirer of the Army.

There are thousands of publications and declassified documents describing NATO’s plans for war in Europe. They did not include every battalion to use a backpack nuke.

The Soviet plan was called 7 days to the Rhine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine

NATO’s plan to defend the Fulda Gap

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap

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Kargathia t1_jedbzbc wrote

Reply to comment by SuedbyHogs in TIL That There's a Bible Belt In The Netherlands by iamasinglepotassium

If there's such a correlation, it's more likely to be indirect, with large urban areas being less religious, and the same large urban areas being likely to be sited next to a river or coast.

As a direct example, the province of Zeeland is often considered to be part of the Dutch bible belt, and it doesn't get much more coastal than that. It does lack a major city.

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ThatDarnedAntiChrist t1_jedb6i3 wrote

Reply to comment by Away-Bee-616 in TIL That There's a Bible Belt In The Netherlands by iamasinglepotassium

Number one, the separation of church and state isn't an idea, it's the first line in the First amendment.

Number two: the article I posted the link was warning about Christian nationalists. I'm not advocating for a Christian theocracy, I'm concerned people too stupid for their own good think we can have one here. I'm all for a secular government and the free practice of one's faith. God has no business in government, and government has no business in religion, as long as that religion doesn't deprive anyone of their rights.

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