Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
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As of tomorrow, the Berlin Wall will have been down for longer than it was up.
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I saw that too! We are old.
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My mind is blown. Wow!Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:02 pm As of tomorrow, the Berlin Wall will have been down for longer than it was up.
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I looked for this thread for Bozo, but couldn't find it, but now it has Bozo in the thread so it will be easier.
Anyhoo, I also just learned that Ted Allen from Chopped was on the Original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Anyhoo, I also just learned that Ted Allen from Chopped was on the Original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
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I still think of him as the QE guy every time I see him in a commercial.
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I never watched the show so it's a cultural blind spot for me.
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Maryland's Men's Soccer Coach made $602,000 last year. Based on experience that is likely before soccer camp profit and media stuff he does (dc untied tv work).
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Johnny Damon hasn't already been on Dancing With the Stars
he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The
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he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The
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Runners from either Kenya or Ethiopia have run the 65 fastest marathons of all time and 98 of the top 100.
http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mmaraok.htm
http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mmaraok.htm
Totally Kafkaesque
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I read on Deadspin that 2:10 is the benchmark for being an elite runner...unles you're from East Africa and it's 2:05Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 2:17 pm Runners from either Kenya or Ethiopia have run the 65 fastest marathons of all time and 98 of the top 100.
http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mmaraok.htm
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Yesterday taught us they ain't mudders though.
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And there's like 5 pounds of it in the back of my pantry. My wife bought a shit load for some health reasons. Like other things she's gone all in on, she doesn't realize that it doesn't deliver any benefits whilst sitting in a tupperwre.
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Bulgaria and Romania (and even Greece) are considered part of the Balkans, according to my friend from Bulgaria.
Also, Romanian is the closest language to Latin. Bulgarian is a Slavic language, closest to Serbian, but also similar to Russian.
Also, Romanian is the closest language to Latin. Bulgarian is a Slavic language, closest to Serbian, but also similar to Russian.
Totally Kafkaesque
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This surprises me. The Latins were a tribe from an area just south of Rome, and as you might guess from their name, they originated the language.
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1. List of Gothic brick buildings [922,980 bytes]
2. List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation [879,632 bytes]
3. List of compositions by Franz Schubert [831,553 bytes]
4. 1946 New Year Honours [739,344 bytes]
5. List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach [706,782 bytes]
6. List of Australian treaties [700,349 bytes]
7. 2016–17 Coupe de France Preliminary Rounds [690,191 bytes]
8. List of United States counties and county equivalents [678,541 bytes]
9. List of members of the Lok Sabha (1952–present) [670,446 bytes]
10. 1919 New Year Honours [665,069 bytes]
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Frank Gore's full name is Franklin Delano Gore.
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I know brothers named Franklin and Delano.
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Jack White took Meg's last name.
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In Animal House, the bass player in Otis Day and the Knights was 24 year old future blues and soul legend Robert Cray.
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Not sure why he would mess with a nice Scottish name like Jack Gillis but yep.
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The Gillis Stripes doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Maybe he could've partnered with Dobie Gray and called it the Dobie-Gillis band.
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The "PC" in "PC Load Letter" does not refer to Personal Computer, but to Paper Cassette. The message is asking you to load a cassette filled with letter-size paper. So that's what the fuck that means.
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Imagine being a US soldier and playing chess by mail against Humphrey Bogart. What a world.
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Playing chess by mail??
Good Lord, that's a lot of postage.
Good Lord, that's a lot of postage.
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The NHL Arizona Coyotes have a a cheerleading squad. Its name is The Paw Patrol.
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One can only assume that they got permission to use the name... right?sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Dec 09, 2018 2:15 am The NHL Arizona Coyotes have a a cheerleading squad. Its name is The Paw Patrol.
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For the first time in 20 years, works (anything published in 1923) will again enter the public domain on 1/1/2019.
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TIL that kid rock grew up in high privilege.
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"Grew up on a 60-acre estate in northern Macomb County" not quite as catchy as pretending you're from the ghetto in Detroit."
His dad owned several car dealerships in Detroit. That's like a license to print money.
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Bawitdaba-my is a DAR
And my daddy’s real rich
Can get me any car
My name is Robert....James....Ritchie
And my daddy’s real rich
Can get me any car
My name is Robert....James....Ritchie
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So I was at my kids' high school for a science fair a few Saturdays ago. In one of the rooms, a chemistry room, they had signs regarding the mole, which is as some of you might remember from high school chem, is 6.02 x 10 to the 23rd. It's basically the number of atoms of a pure substance (after checking) equal to the number of carbon atoms in 12 grams of C-12. Or in another way, it's how many atoms it would take to equal in grams the nuclear weight of a given element. So for Uranium-238 (that's the one they use for reactors), 238 grams of it (say about a half a pound) would have a mole's worth of Uranium atoms.
So yeah. It's a really big number. It's 620 billion trillions. And to give an idea of how large, there were signs indicating how many of certain things that would be. Like that many pennies in stacks would reach the moon 7 times.
One that stuck in my head is that it's a larger number than the number of grains of sand in Miami Beach. Which would surprise me. Because I would think that a mole number would be WAAAAAYYY larger than the number of grains of sand on the beach in Miami. Maybe it's just me, but if someone told me there was 620 billion trillion grains of sand on Miami Beach, I would think that number would be too large by a factor of at least 9 zeroes. Like 620 trillion would make sense to me on that calcuation.
Now if we're talking WIldwood...
So yeah. It's a really big number. It's 620 billion trillions. And to give an idea of how large, there were signs indicating how many of certain things that would be. Like that many pennies in stacks would reach the moon 7 times.
One that stuck in my head is that it's a larger number than the number of grains of sand in Miami Beach. Which would surprise me. Because I would think that a mole number would be WAAAAAYYY larger than the number of grains of sand on the beach in Miami. Maybe it's just me, but if someone told me there was 620 billion trillion grains of sand on Miami Beach, I would think that number would be too large by a factor of at least 9 zeroes. Like 620 trillion would make sense to me on that calcuation.
Now if we're talking WIldwood...
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Speaking of that sort of perspective exercise, I wish someone would take the millionaire vs billionaire equation and clean it up and somehow really drive it into the consciousness of the masses. The basics being that for someone who has $100K in assets*, you'd have to combine with 9 other people of the same means to equal one millionaire. If every person in the entire state of Vermont was worth $100K each, they'd still fall short of Zuckerberg. I'm sure there are better ways to illustrate, but when it comes to taxing wealth over $10MM or more, the idea that it "hurts" anyone, anywhere, at all, is incredibly misleading.
* Obviously not an immaterial number at all, but too low and people start exempting themselves from the equation since its just comparing "the poor".
* Obviously not an immaterial number at all, but too low and people start exempting themselves from the equation since its just comparing "the poor".
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Mochi ice cream was invented in the United States.
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