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LipTrev t1_jabx967 wrote

Reply to comment by Livebeam in TIL Hawaii is the best place on earth to see rainbows. There are words for Earth-clinging rainbows (uakoko), standing rainbow shafts (kāhili), barely visible rainbows (punakea), and moonbows (ānuenue kau pō). The rainbow is seen as a symbol of transformation and a pathway between Earth and Heaven. by -AMARYANA-

It's more than that, as other tropical islands do not have the same amount of rainbows, though they have the rain and sunshine happening.

It is that the islands are new (Big Island is still growing) and so the mountains are still high enough to make all the rain fall, at increasing altitude all the way up the mountains. So pretty much all the time rain is falling somewhere on the windward sides but it is up the mountain so sea level still has clear skies so the sun can do the light bouncing around in rain drops thing to make rainbows.

On the windward side, there are mountains and rain and waterfalls and rainbows. On the leeward side there are near desert conditions and few rainbows. Hawaii has a couple of places with over 400 inches of rain a year, with basically the most rain outside of places that have seasonal monsoons.

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throwawayforyouzzz t1_jabvvje wrote

Reply to comment by Airp0w in TIL that the Slurpee was invented by accident when a Dairy Queen owner would provide frozen soda, from a cooler, to customers when his soda fountain would break down. The owner, Omar Knedlik, improvised the Icee machine out of car parts, which was eventually licensed by 7-11, to become the Slurpee. by jdward01

I’m from Singapore and used to get Slurpee from 7-11 when I was young. They don’t seem to sell it here anymore.

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PreciousRoi t1_jabvmun wrote

Reply to comment by FuschiaKnight in TIL that the first woman to serve in the United States Senate was also the last member of Congress to be a slaveowner. by addemup9001

>As a result, white Southerners wouldn’t be Democrats for generations. Started to change around Wilson, especially FDR, though the final big push wasn’t really until LBJ passed civil rights and voting rights legislation during his huge Democratic-majority Great Society agenda.

Uh...what? The Republicans didn't get traction in the South until Nixon, in the wake of LBJ. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Wilson was the intellectual godfather of the Lost Cause and all those Confederate statues put up around the turn of the century. He was quoted in the opening to Birth of a Nation and even screened it in the White House.

Republicans were Yankee Carpetbagger scum, before Johnson, and many a racist Democrat died and was honored by their Party upon their death.

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Exoddity t1_jabu9pf wrote

Reply to comment by goteamnick in TIL Thomas Jefferson regularly attended many different churches and declared "I am of a sect by myself" unlike many of the other devoted founding fathers. by skylightyourlife

The arrogance and conceit to think nothing is good or wise unless accompanied by the transubstantiation of water to wine or some other such bullshit.

How much does it say about your beliefs that the only thing shackling you to them seems to be its supposed tie to divinity, or fear of some eternal torment?

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whycuthair t1_jabtuca wrote

Reply to comment by iTwango in TIL the deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian. The poet Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side". He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and comedians. by ALasagnaForOne

In some churches they keep relics of saints, that is old and decomposed body parts that once belonged to that "saint" and they pray to those things and kiss them. And they called others pagans man.. That's some vodoo shit right there.

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