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I hate you. This is messing with me even though it's so obvious when looking at a mapand Jacksonville is further West than South America
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TIL that Woody Harrelson's father was a notorious hitman that spent the last thirteen years of his life at ADX Florence after an escape attempt in 1995
Probably old news for some of you but did not know this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_HarrelsonCharles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) was an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century.
Probably old news for some of you but did not know this.
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Yeah, I just watched a video from some YouTube rando about popular German brands that are commonly mispronounced by English speakers. The Adidas/Puma thing was noted along with ALDI S/N; I had known the sneaker one for a while, but the grocery one was new.
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what in the hellTIL that Woody Harrelson's father was a notorious hitman that spent the last thirteen years of his life at ADX Florence after an escape attempt in 1995
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_HarrelsonCharles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) was an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century.
Probably old news for some of you but did not know this.
I wish the wiki article spelled out who hired him for the hits
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This is kind of a double TIL. HT to @the wicked child for the Derek Bell stuff as it led me to this.
TIL that Legionnaire's Disease is so named because the first outbreak/discovery was at the 1976 American Legion Convention in Philadelphia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Phil ... e_outbreak
However, this was in the Vice article that TWC posted:
TIL that Legionnaire's Disease is so named because the first outbreak/discovery was at the 1976 American Legion Convention in Philadelphia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Phil ... e_outbreak
However, this was in the Vice article that TWC posted:
Is that true? I thought the CDC coined it?Dvorchak—who apparently has a knack for military-related national stories, not only broke Operation Shutdown, but was also responsible for coining the term "Legionnaire's disease" while covering the outbreak at the 1976 American Legion convention in Philadelphia
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You don't remember when that was in the news?This is kind of a double TIL. HT to @the wicked child for the Derek Bell stuff as it led me to this.
TIL that Legionnaire's Disease is so named because the first outbreak/discovery was at the 1976 American Legion Convention in Philadelphia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Phil ... e_outbreak
However, this was in the Vice article that TWC posted:
Is that true? I thought the CDC coined it?Dvorchak—who apparently has a knack for military-related national stories, not only broke Operation Shutdown, but was also responsible for coining the term "Legionnaire's disease" while covering the outbreak at the 1976 American Legion convention in Philadelphia
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He’s a youngin, he’s not old enough to remember.
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the H in the Canadiens logo stands for "hockey", not "Habitants"
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Montreal Club de Hockey, I believe
Learned that when visiting Bell Centre
Learned that when visiting Bell Centre
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Fedexia is an extinct genus of carnivorous temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It lived 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. It is estimated to have been 2 feet (0.61 m) long, and likely resembled a salamander. Fedexia is known from a single skull found in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. It is named after the shipping service FedEx, which owned the land where the holotype specimen was first found.
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Extinct like an undelivered foosball table.Fedexia is an extinct genus of carnivorous temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It lived 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. It is estimated to have been 2 feet (0.61 m) long, and likely resembled a salamander. Fedexia is known from a single skull found in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. It is named after the shipping service FedEx, which owned the land where the holotype specimen was first found.
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Wow. That's a great TIL.Swaziland changed their country's name to eSwatini in mid 2018...
Apparently 26% of their population is HIV positive too. That seems high.
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TIL that Bob Einstein is Albert Brooks' older brother. I had no idea. That is a damned funny family.
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USB keyboards can only send six simultaneous keystrokes at once.
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Even fancy mechanical gaming keyboards?
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They're PS/2 just for that reason.
I was researching a mechanical for typing. I would get the PS/2 version but I am using it with a KVM connected to a laptop.
I was researching a mechanical for typing. I would get the PS/2 version but I am using it with a KVM connected to a laptop.
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