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h3rpad3rp t1_j9wfkv3 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL That Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is not only south of London, Paris, and Berlin, but also south of Milan, Italy. by scorr204

It was around -25 in Calgary this afternoon. -4 tomorrow afternoon. +2 on Sunday. This cities weather is pretty stupid though. Wind form the north and we can see -35, wind from the west and we can see up to +15 in the winter. You can see it all within the span of a few days.

Chinooks are a great break from winter, but don't ever move here if you get migraines. Also if you move here, you might find out you get migraines.

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Wideawakedup t1_j9wehi0 wrote

Reply to TIL That Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is not only south of London, Paris, and Berlin, but also south of Milan, Italy. by scorr204

I was just talking to a coworker about a Reddit post about Scandinavian/Nordic countries leaving their babies outside in the winter to nap. He’s in Chicago and I’m in Detroit, I said I think our cold is a different cold because I can’t imagine leaving a baby with baby fine skin outside in the winter here, even when bundled up. He said he knew someone who has been to Antarctica and they said it gets colder in Chicago.

Oceans make a huge difference in temperatures.

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vampirevlord t1_j9wec9j wrote

Reply to comment by purplekaworu in TIL of Finnish man Lauri Allan Törni (born 1919) who fought in WW2 as both a Finnish and German soldier, and in the Vietnam War as a US Special Forces soldier. He was killed in a helicopter crash in 1965. by bermuda__

He did join the Waffen SS. However, the Finns have somewhat of an unfortunate history between themselves, the USSR and Nazi Germany. The USSR invaded Finland during the Winter War, so when Germany invaded the USSR many Finns signed up as a means of fighting back against the Soviets, this was called the Continuation War. The Finns did eventually switch sides to the allies, but the Finnish-German cooperation was born out of a common enemy.

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NewCanadianMTurker t1_j9we2uy wrote

Reply to comment by FlacidHangDown in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973

"Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years"

https://www.yourgenome.org/stories/evolution-of-modern-humans/

True, if it was out of millions of years it would be decently precise, but it seems it was out of 200k.

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idiomaddict OP t1_j9wdy9p wrote

Reply to comment by locri in TIL the way NYC has bodegas, Australia has milk bars. Modeled initially on American soda fountains, they’ve been on the decline since the 70s due to competition from supermarkets by idiomaddict

I’m not sure what the confusion is. A milk bar is different from a bodega. They’re not the same. However, there’s lots of bodegas in New York, and they’re recognizable as an aspect of home for New Yorkers. There are (or were) lots of milk bars in Australia, and they’re recognizable as an aspect of home for Australians. Again, it’s a shorter version of a quote from the article.

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intangible-tangerine t1_j9wdd7n wrote

Reply to TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life. by w0mpum

Her father died a few weeks after Janet from a suspected heart attack caused by stress so he was also an indirect victim of this outbreak.

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