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PetePensieve t1_ja7i4pt wrote
Reply to TIL there is a machine for cancer diagnosis from your poop noises, called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, or SHART by chockychockster
Sandy Lyle : "Reuben, I'm in a situation here. We have to leave now."
Reuben Feffer : "No. Can we stay a couple more minutes?"
Sandy Lyle : "Dude, no. This is serious. I just sharted."
Reuben Feffer :"I don't know what that means."
Sandy Lyle : "I tried to fart and a little shit came out. I just sharted. Now let's go."
Reuben Feffer : "You're the most disgusting person I've ever met in my life."
Rest in peace, Philip-Seymour Hoffman.
meizawesome t1_ja7i4l2 wrote
Reply to TIL about Vesna Vulović, the Guinness world record holder for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi) by Cannabisseur78
Do people not remember Felix Baumgartner jumping from space?
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Eudaimonics t1_ja7hjh9 wrote
Reply to comment by hymen_destroyer in TIL from 1851 to 1856, Utah's territorial capital was the town of Fillmore in Millard County. The town and county were so named to flatter then-President Millard Fillmore. by Roughneck16
He was one of the founders of the University of Buffalo and still has a house you can visit in East Aurora, NY.
He’s actually currently buried In Buffalo in the same grave yard as Rick James.
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jayessell t1_ja7h6cs wrote
Reply to TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925. by JesusLikesHisCheezIt
See the motion picture 'Inherit the Wind'.
Juggsernaut t1_ja7h4nz wrote
Reply to TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925. by JesusLikesHisCheezIt
And they're trying to bring back the "good ol' days". Beware brothers and sisters
Landlubber77 t1_ja7gzfq wrote
Reply to TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925. by JesusLikesHisCheezIt
His great grandson was just recently arrested for the exact same thing at the same school.
no_step t1_ja7guc1 wrote
Reply to TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925. by JesusLikesHisCheezIt
Scopes' involvement in the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial came about after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced that it would finance a test case challenging the constitutionality of the Butler Act if it could find a Tennessee teacher who was willing to act as a defendant.
A band of businessmen in Dayton, Tennessee, led by engineer and geologist George Rappleyea, saw this as an opportunity to get publicity for their town, and they approached Scopes.
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Landlubber77 t1_ja7gu0v wrote
Reply to TIL that in Japan, there is a hotel run entirely by robots. From check-in to room service, everything is handled by a team of friendly machines by Someperson404
It's really sapped all the fun out of "accidentally" letting the maid walk in on you jerking off.
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ElfMage83 t1_ja7g81y wrote
Reply to comment by laserdicks in TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages. by Geek_Nan
Encrypted messages are still messages.
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maine64 t1_ja7fwvs wrote
Reply to TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead. by A_Bruised_Reed
There was a Popeye arcade game, but I don't remember which company made it.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925. by JesusLikesHisCheezIt
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