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Ok_Cranberry_1936 t1_j9xuczb 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
Been hovering around 0, with lows in the negatives for a few days over here in Vic. Lemme tell you, I hate the cold!!
kingbrasky t1_j9xu9wb wrote
Reply to comment by DataWeenie 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
The closest US state to Africa is Maine.
crystalGwolf t1_j9xu9u9 wrote
Reply to comment by anthonybsd in TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s by emily_9511
As a British person, couple points:
- There's no such thing as a British accent, it includes 3 countries each with their own substantial regional differences
- Received pronunciation or standard southern or just London accent is most dominant and you'll find it around London and home counties but only there
- Some Americans may pronounce certain words with similarities to London Shakespearean English but there's no way Elizabethans/Georgians walked around with the nasally accent Americans do today. Village towns in the black country and south west of England are going to be consistently more correlated
iox007 t1_j9xu3fp wrote
Reply to comment by HistoryStillRepeats 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
>pelee
What a dorky name
Confident_Essay_7515 t1_j9xu2nu wrote
Reply to comment by GoGaslightYerself in TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s by emily_9511
Northern Irish accent is similar to that.
PuddingSlime t1_j9xtvur wrote
Reply to comment by IterationFourteen 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
gd I hate that you are right about this
LurkForYourLives t1_j9xtva7 wrote
Reply to comment by NewCanadianMTurker in TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s by emily_9511
….have you met the majority of our entire world yet? Women have only relatively recently had any choice in who they married. We’ve been chattel for aeons.
darcys_beard t1_j9xtnle wrote
Reply to comment by dariamorgandorfferr 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
You go first. I'm right behind you.
nubsauce87 t1_j9xtbbk wrote
Reply to TIL there's an "ancient druids temple" in England that was actually built 200 years ago as a solution to local unemployment by alexwasashrimp
Son of a bitch... I went there in 2015 while visiting my then girlfriend's family... They took us there, telling us it was a druid ruin, and never told us it wasn't real (if they even knew)...
... god dammit...
[deleted] t1_j9xt3hu wrote
Reply to comment by Norwester77 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
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Naamibro t1_j9xsj3q wrote
Reply to comment by dariamorgandorfferr 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
Public lice live inside the hair follicule, so unlike head lice, if you shave your pubes it does not eradicate the lice.
thisusedyet t1_j9xsg73 wrote
Reply to comment by shalafi71 in TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
I used to like Revenge of the Nerds, until I got old enough to realize how rapey it gets
thisusedyet t1_j9xscq8 wrote
Reply to comment by Double_Distribution8 in TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
Yeah, the face peeling scene is the one that got me
warheadmikey t1_j9xsb6y wrote
Reply to comment by Life_Less_Ordinary in TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
Back of pickup going 45
iamwizzerd t1_j9xs98v wrote
Various_Succotash_79 t1_j9xs5dy wrote
Reply to comment by klsi832 in TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
That was the first one, yeah.
But the reason they came up with the rating was supposedly all the complaints they got about Gremlins and Temple of Doom.
Due_Platypus_3913 t1_j9xryxe wrote
Reply to TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
This movie scared the shit out of people in the theater!I was in 7th grade,it was 100% of what I could stand.Many people fled the theater,some with bawling kids!
Exoddity t1_j9xrcwl wrote
Reply to comment by SirRuto 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
There are lice that have their own lice and fleas that have their own fleas.
Careful-Prior9639 t1_j9xr8ah wrote
Reply to TIL about Kaktovik numerals, a base-20 number system based on a on Inupiaq language, and created by a class of middle students by CreatrixAnima
That was a great read. Those numerals are a really elegant way of representing numbers.
laprawnicon t1_j9xr18l wrote
Reply to comment by _corleone_x 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
Thats not right either, the only requirement is the existence of polar ice caps, or significant glaciation and ice sheets. Similar but not the same
p-d-ball t1_j9xqvt0 wrote
Reply to comment by iamwizzerd 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
Yeah, DDT was widely used to kill insects. It successfully got rid of malaria in the continental USA to Canada (malaria used to be all the way up to southern Canada), combined with draining swamps, pavement and sewer systems (to drain water away). Mosquitoes returned, but not with malaria, which requires a minimum population to spread.
DDT was also used to stop bedbugs. They are making a comeback partly because it was stopped, but probably also because of growing social inequality - extremely poor people just don't have the means to kill them where they live. And some people are immune to the itchiness and so aren't motivated enough to kill the bedbugs feeding off them.
DDT, it turns out, weakens bird's eggs. So, raptors were dying out all over the place.
inapewetrust t1_j9xqs52 wrote
Reply to comment by DataWeenie 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
I didn't really grasp how far north Europe is till I moved here. Like Florence, Italy is on the same latitude as Buffalo, NY. It was the swing in seasonal daylight hours that tipped me off.
p-d-ball t1_j9xqo6d wrote
Reply to comment by SirRuto 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
You're correct.
Derpy_County t1_j9xqbf5 wrote
Reply to TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
Scariest thing about the marijuana scene is him trying to roll it directly on his bed covers, giving up because he can’t do it and then jumping about on the bed - weed everywhere!
WCAttorney t1_j9xuomo wrote
Reply to TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
There was a poltergeist sequel with an old man preacher ghost that gave me nightmares for weeks ~ does anyone else know the movie ?