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deadwlkn t1_ja816dx wrote
Reply to comment by Roughneck16 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
And a museum supply company
cramduck t1_ja812h6 wrote
Reply to 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
The game Monaco uses a steganographic technique to make the save l files for player-created maps. They create a preview image of the map for you, and tweak the color values pixel-by-pixel to be odd or even, corresponding to the 1s and 0s of a binary message. That binary message is the actual level data.
gutterbrain73 t1_ja81073 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
I'd say subby isn't from the USA, because this has been part of school curriculum for decades...
Outrageous-Pause6317 t1_ja80zwu 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
They should make a movie about that.
james_otter t1_ja80wwx wrote
Reply to comment by Mammoth-Mud-9609 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
Wouldn’t be surprising to see a revival in 2025
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teabagmoustache t1_ja80vhv wrote
Reply to comment by TheRealVillain666 in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus
When did you go to school? Because that's not how I was taught. Of course there was focus on victories and proud moments but the negative effects of the empire definitely were not glossed over.
BigBeeOhBee t1_ja80tqb wrote
Reply to comment by oswaler in TIL - Modern mammals are unique among vertebrates for possessing three tiny bones in the middle ear, which are unique in that they are separated from the jaw, critical because it allows the separation of hearing and chewing, and also allows hearing of high-pitched noises. by byronhadleigh
Is Jack eating doritos at the same time? If so, then Jack is being polite and not talking while eating. Jack has proper etiquette, be like Jack.
lord_ne t1_ja7zx8w wrote
Reply to comment by Doctor_Expendable in TIL there is a machine for cancer diagnosis from your poop noises, called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, or SHART by chockychockster
The Cox-Zucker machine
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LuxInteriot t1_ja7zmqw wrote
Reply to Today I Learned that the moon distances itself from the Earth by about 3,78 cm(1.49 inches) every year. by LucasOIntoxicado
So it takes a mere billion years for it to move 38,000 km, 10% of the current distance.
semi-nerd61 t1_ja7zmoa wrote
Reply to comment by cool_slowbro in TIL there is a machine for cancer diagnosis from your poop noises, called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, or SHART by chockychockster
Yess, but I prefer FART.
foo-jitsoo t1_ja7ze2y wrote
Reply to comment by No-Owl9201 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
Dumb *can* be funny, and your comment *did* make me exhale thru my nose a bit as I shook my head.
In response to your light-hearted reply, I have change my downvote of your initial comment to an upvote. You are welcome.
mgvertigo101 t1_ja7yy8s wrote
Reply to comment by hymen_destroyer in 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
Shouldn’t the chance of survival go way down at cruising altitude levels due to hypothermia, hypoxia, etc
velifer t1_ja7yr3b wrote
Reply to TIL that there is a plant known as the Coccoloba Gigantifolia which has leaves that can reach up to 8 feet in length (2.4 meters) by KitchenBag2164
And there are two plants with even bigger leaves
cool_slowbro t1_ja7yqa9 wrote
Reply to comment by semi-nerd61 in TIL there is a machine for cancer diagnosis from your poop noises, called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, or SHART by chockychockster
Do you not know what "shart" means?
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carcinoma_kid t1_ja7ygmn wrote
Reply to comment by Pale__Face in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus
Stopping the Nazi war machine dead in its tracks and fighting them tooth and nail all the way back to Berlin is pretty impressive
Ineedtwocats t1_ja7yg7u wrote
Reply to comment by panthereal in TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead. by A_Bruised_Reed
were any of you ground pounding just then?
im not allowed to ground pound - castle order
KuhlThing t1_ja7y6hr 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
It's really funny that the religious right still elevates "intellectuals" that have no better arguments than "if we came from monkeys, then why is they still monkeys?"
oswaler t1_ja7y56k wrote
Reply to TIL - Modern mammals are unique among vertebrates for possessing three tiny bones in the middle ear, which are unique in that they are separated from the jaw, critical because it allows the separation of hearing and chewing, and also allows hearing of high-pitched noises. by byronhadleigh
Then why can't I hear Jack when I'm eating Doritos?
Mammoth-Mud-9609 t1_ja7xz07 wrote
Reply to comment by 413mopar 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
Leaving behind an unsupervised child with a large box of fireworks and some matches is never a good idea.
TheRealVillain666 t1_ja81dk9 wrote
Reply to comment by teabagmoustache in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus
It was many years ago and many things were glossed over.
I'm proud of many things England achieved and not so proud about others.