KingGorilla t1_ja9cdar wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:17 PM

Considering we are in the mists of a periodic Ice Age and that only 10% of humanity survived, the global message that those astrial monuments that remained a mystery are warnings that that catastrophe can happen again.

DarkPasta t1_ja98byo wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:52 PM

Reply to TIL about 'Quahog Day', when Doug the Quahog predicts how many days of sunshine Cape Cod will get over the summer by SteO153

Giggety

PuddleCrank t1_ja989ed wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:52 PM

Reply to comment by bolanrox in TIL In Approximately 241,000 years, Nanga Parbat #9 tallest mountain in the world located in Pakistan will overtake Everest and will become the tallest mountain in the world. by AdClemson

No, it's the tallest because the air is the thinnest at the top.

brkh47 t1_ja97uzs wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:49 PM

Reply to comment by nicky7 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

There was also this link if you clicked on steganography in the article that digital cat is pretty cool.

[deleted] t1_ja97qnv wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:48 PM

Reply to TIL In Approximately 241,000 years, Nanga Parbat #9 tallest mountain in the world located in Pakistan will overtake Everest and will become the tallest mountain in the world. by AdClemson

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NationalNecessary120 t1_ja97jhz wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:47 PM

Reply to TIL there is a machine for cancer diagnosis from your poop noises, called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, or SHART by chockychockster

😂

bolanrox t1_ja97hzp wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:47 PM

Reply to comment by Neozea in 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

From what I remember from dancing bacons room service is a little robot like they have at kura sushi and the like

marmorset t1_ja97hcb wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:47 PM

Reply to comment by ninjabell in TIL that in the period of time since the introduction of the consumer price index, the highest inflation rate observed in the U.S. was 20.49% in 1917. by ringopendragon

You should have checked your math before being critical.

$2.45/2 is $1.23

$2.45 + $1.23 is $3.68

$3.75>$3.68

$3.75 is over 50% more expensive than $2.45

Funkiebunch t1_ja96ylp wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:43 PM

Reply to comment by InflamedLiver in TIL about 'Quahog Day', when Doug the Quahog predicts how many days of sunshine Cape Cod will get over the summer by SteO153

They are a little tough and chewy but they are good. My parents would use their large shells as ash trays

brkh47 t1_ja96fts wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:40 PM

Reply to comment by PaperPritt 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

I remember that. it really is communicating without communicating.

CashWho t1_ja968xf wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:39 PM

Reply to comment by InflamedLiver in TIL about 'Quahog Day', when Doug the Quahog predicts how many days of sunshine Cape Cod will get over the summer by SteO153

And now you know why their bar is called the drunken clam

Bobodahobo010101 t1_ja95i11 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:34 PM

Reply to comment by bolanrox in TIL On Christmas Eve 1969, Francisco Macias Nguema had 186 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo with the executioners dressed as Santa Claus, with the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song "Those Were the Days". by Osrever101

Dont look at me- DONT YOU F@#$^$G LOOK AT ME!!!

ScrunchyButts t1_ja95f1b wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:34 PM

Reply to TIL that the labels on Angostura bitters bottles are intentionally annoying. The original brothers entered a competition and due to a miscommunication, wound up with wrong size labels. A friendly judge suggested the brothers make that label their signature. The advice stuck. by dmanlian

The Dr Bronners of booze.

SecretAgentIceBat OP t1_ja95cgx wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:33 PM

Reply to TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps. by SecretAgentIceBat

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X17302042

Paywalled, academic source: "It was 1937, a period of massive oppression in the Soviet Union. This occurred in the party ranks, in the army, among scientists, artists, workmen, and peasants. The leader of the first expedition, Professor Zilber, and two of his team members, A.D. Sheboldaeva and T.M. Safonova, were arrested after slanderous denunciation. Zilber and his colleagues were accused of spreading Japanese encephalitis virus under the guise of performing scientific research and of spreading the newly discovered and isolated dangerous virus among military contingents in the Far East and among the inhabitants of Moscow (Kisselev and Levina, 2005). However, the charges were so absurd and Zilber’s innocence was so evident that he was released in 1939. Perhaps, this release occurred because of the arrival of the new leader of repressive measures, Lawrenti Beria, who tried to disguise mass terror by releasing a small number of prisoners (see also Kisselev et al., 1992). It also needs mentioning that Zilber’s followers and his colleagues, as well as the famous writer V. Kaverin and the microbiologist and epidemiologist Zinaida Ermolyeva, who gave the USSR penicillin during World War II, campaigned vigorously for Zilber’s release."

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