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Postby columbia » Fri Jul 08, 2016 9:45 am

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Postby Silentom » Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:11 am

The 5AF dynasty.
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Postby mikey » Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:22 am

Like the Clintons...
This simile/analogy stuff isn't so tough...
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Postby Silentom » Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:31 am

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Postby MWB » Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:42 am

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Postby dodint » Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:42 am

I clicked that spoiler expecting a sloppy ham sandwich.

You have me conditioned.
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Postby Silentom » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:00 am

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:57 am

nerdily interesting list of the etymologies of the chemical elements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... tymologies


apparently four elements were all named after the same Swedish town...
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Postby count2infinity » Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:00 pm

nerdily interesting list of the etymologies of the chemical elements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... tymologies


apparently four elements were all named after the same Swedish town...
Read "The Disappearing Spoon" by Sam Keans. It's good stuff.
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Postby PFiDC » Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:53 pm

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/07/new-yor ... -2035-deal

Bobby Bonilla is getting paid over a million dollars a year from now until 2035. I don't follow baseball so no, I have not heard about this until now.
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Postby MWB » Wed Jul 13, 2016 2:03 pm

If you followed baseball and read the baseball thread you would have known about it sooner :slug:
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Postby Blue Canary » Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:45 pm

Bruce Springsteen was a fan of the protopunk band Suicide. I never thought about it, and I've seen Springsteen a handful of times and have heard him do "Dream Baby Dream."
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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:37 pm

TIL Lt. Col Buck Compton, famous for his heroics as an integral part of Easy Company during World War II, was the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's 1968 trial for the assassination of Robert F Kennedy. This guy for reference:

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Postby PFiDC » Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:31 pm

Howard the Duck was the first Marvel movie
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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:50 pm

TIL Lt. Col Buck Compton, famous for his heroics as an integral part of Easy Company during World War II, was the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's 1968 trial for the assassination of Robert F Kennedy. This guy for reference:

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For some reason, in my head I was imagining Carwood Lipton.

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Postby columbia » Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:12 pm

TIL Lt. Col Buck Compton, famous for his heroics as an integral part of Easy Company during World War II, was the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's 1968 trial for the assassination of Robert F Kennedy. This guy for reference:

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Really? It seems like you would have heard that at the end of BoBs.
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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:14 pm

TIL Lt. Col Buck Compton, famous for his heroics as an integral part of Easy Company during World War II, was the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's 1968 trial for the assassination of Robert F Kennedy. This guy for reference:

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Really? It seems like you would have heard that at the end of BoBs.
May have. Feels like an eternity since I've watched it.
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Postby columbia » Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:15 pm

I just watched again a few weeks ago. It's - of course - on HBO Now.
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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:53 am

The closest crocodiles and alligators are related is through the order Crocodilia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodilia
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Postby Gaucho » Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:57 am

George S. Patton participated in the 1912 Olympic Modern Pentathlon and placed fifth.
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Postby Gaucho » Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:58 am

The closest crocodiles and alligators are related is through the order Crocodilia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodilia
I don't get it.
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Postby Shyster » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:16 am

The closest crocodiles and alligators are related is through the order Crocodilia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodilia
I don't get it.
That means they're fairly distantly related, taxonomically speaking, even though they look so much alike. The major taxonomic ranks go Kingdom -> Phylum -> Class -> Order -> Family -> Genus -> Species. For example, humans are:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: Sapiens

The farther you go up the tree, the more distantly related species are.
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Postby eddy » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:22 am

What does TIL mean?
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Postby Gaucho » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:24 am

Yeah, alligators and (true) crocodiles are families of the order Crocodilia. I don't know how to put it anther way but I knew that and I still don't get it.

I probably sound like an arse, so I'll just drop it.
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Postby LITT » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:58 am

What does TIL mean?
today i learned
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