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Capable_Pianist_9218 t1_jeeekdl wrote

Reply to comment by zipcodelove in 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

and then she ended up with Josh Homme from QOTSA. Crazy. ETA: I’m and idiot and mixed up Tobi Vail with Brody Dalle. 🤣 Carry on.

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Card_Zero t1_jeedybd wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that the oldest film on IMDb is "Passage de Vénus", a six second series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on December 9th, 1874. by PresLyndonBJohnson36

Fair enough! If we can include animations in any format, IMDB should maybe include that vase with the jumping goats from (if I remember rightly) about 3000 BC. Or if not that somewhat dubious example, there are definitely Chinese magic lantern type devices (走馬燈) from around 1000 AD that did a bit of animation.

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PublicSeverance t1_jeecyrt wrote

Reply to comment by Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 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

Doesn't make top 10.

  1. Ischaemic heart diseases

  2. Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease

  3. Cerebrovascular diseases (e.g. stroke)

  4. Lung cancer

  5. Chronic lower respiratory diseases

Much like the rest of the world, it's lifestyle diseases and being overweight.

Skin cancer kills about 2000 Australians a year. It's not even in the top 5 cancers for deaths! For context, about 5500 die a year from colon cancer. Or pulling numbers from their arse, much like your statistic.

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Daniel_The_Thinker t1_jeec6j9 wrote

Reply to comment by Snizl 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

Race is not a meaningful category in a scientific sense but it certainly exists in people's minds as its own category that comes with its own set of prejudices.

You can have an abused ethnic group within a majority race, case in point, Jews suffer from anti semitism but they would've been allowed to drink from white only water fountains because they were perceived as white.

It's really not that complicated, I don't understand your confusion to be honest.

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PublicSeverance t1_jeebny0 wrote

Reply to comment by eugene20 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

> get as dark under the sun after a few evolutionary cycles

Roughly 100 generations is the quickest it can happen.

That's 2500 years.

For context, in 500BC the global population was 100 million, the iron age had not yet started, none of the Abrahamic religions would exist for another 4 centuries, Rome had just become a republic but was still just a random unimportant little city, Buddha was born and Pythagoras discovered how to talk about triangles.

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VattghernCZ t1_jeebjog wrote

Reply to TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules. by jamescookenotthatone

Me, currently eating lunch - the biggest meal of the day, as is common everywhere around me - while reading it: huh?

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PublicSeverance t1_jeeao2s wrote

Reply to comment by NetDork in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

Yes, that is how you reclaim land in a swamp.

They dig water channels to lower the water table and drain the swamp. They then backfill with whatever solid material they can find and let it compress over a few years. Because it's still a swamp, any organic material quickly rots away, leaving nice fertile soil behind.

Boston harbor was reclaimed with literal trash. The city dumped all it's garbage into man made dikes to back fill and create the land. What is now the highest property prices in New England.

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PublicSeverance t1_jeea0h2 wrote

Reply to comment by gk99 in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

Not many destination holiday locations with abundant sunshine, Interstate access and cheap land to be found in moderate climates.

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bspanther71 t1_jee9w1h wrote

Reply to comment by leadchipmunk in TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules. by jamescookenotthatone

Heh, you'd be surprised what I saw in the nursing home I worked at. Yep, they still got libido if they aren't bed bound.

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