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Post by anaix3l on May 8, 2022 0:27:24 GMT -5
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Post by AeroCooper on May 15, 2022 6:07:47 GMT -5
Forrest Mars, who created Peanut M&M's, couldn't even enjoy his own invention because he was allergic to peanuts.
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 16, 2022 0:35:10 GMT -5
Canada has a land border with Denmark. On Hans Island, a patch of barren land coming out of the sea: ... on which they've planted flags and bottles of booze.
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Post by anaix3l on Sept 26, 2022 7:34:16 GMT -5
The only song I can sing well at karaoke has to be an instrumental.
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Post by anaix3l on Dec 19, 2022 11:31:45 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Mar 12, 2023 2:22:15 GMT -5
Turning 30, 50, 60 and so on, other numbers like that, used to be a really big deal in Finland, accompanied by big celebrations. You'd even see it advertised in newspapers. Here's one from 1971. But it's not like everybody wanted to see their house invaded by so many relatives and acquaintances they didn't care for, plus... to have to prepare food and drinks for all those people?! Fuck that! So some started using those local newspaper ads to let everyone know they'd be traveling around their birthday (you can see a bunch of "matkoilla" in the image above), preferably somewhere far away, so people stay the fuck away. Whether they actually went to the Canaries or anywhere... or just locked themselves in and kept their lights off... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are people who have stories of others they know sitting quietly inside, door locked, lights off... while a drunken celebration consisting of people who ignored the announcement was still taking place outside. Then it seems to have devolved into ads saying just "won't celebrate" ("en juhli") for just about any birthday. Some people even started doing this for their pets.
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Post by AeroCooper on Apr 9, 2023 8:31:51 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 22, 2023 6:22:58 GMT -5
^They could have explained some of those a bit more. For example, the name of the first asteroid reflects its date of discovery. It was discovered in 1998 on the 2nd of June by the Spacewatch project. It completes a full rotation in only 10 minutes, something to keep in mind when complaining our 24 hour days are short There are plans for the Japanese asteroid sample-return mission Hayabusa2 (which translates to Peregrine falcon 2) to visit it in 2031. When that happens, it will become the smallest and fastest rotating object to be studied by a spacecraft. Dimorphos is a moon of and asteroid and the DART impact broke a bit off it so it's now smaller. Like a lot of other comets, the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet is thought to have originated in the Kuiper belt in the outer Solar System (which is basically a disk of leftover matter going around the sun... unlike in cartoon depictions, that leftover matter is very spaced out and the chance of hitting something very small), then the gravity of Jupiter successively moved its orbit inwards. Some might remember from the news in the early '90s the most famous comet drawn inwards by Jupiter (and which ended up orbiting and then smashing into the gas giant), Shoemaker–Levy 9. 67P's two-lobed shape is thought to be the result of two objects colliding at low velocity and sticking together (this is called a contact binary). The ESA space probe Rosetta studied it in detail for a couple of years, starting from 2014 when its lander module performed the first ever successful landing on a comet and until 2016 when it crashed into it. Halley's Comet is one of the earliest observed comets, with observations dating back to as early as 2500 years ago in Greece and China. It's supposed to return close enough to be studied in 2061. Eros is an asteroid that occasionally crosses the orbit of Mars, but doesn't get close enough to cross Earth's orbit. It was studied by the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker space probe for over a year. This was the first time a spacecraft orbited an asteroid and successfully landed on it. Hale-Bopp is the one tied to a religious cult committing mass suicide because members were told it wasn't really a comet but a UFO that would take their souls... some bullshit like that. You might remember this from the 1990s news. I think this was the second most famous cult gone horribly wrong story I recall from the '90s after the Tokyo sarin gas attack. 216 Kleopatra is thought to be another contact binary, resulting after an oblique low-velocity impact. 704 Interamnia is one of the largest asteroids ever discovered (and probably one of the largest in the asteroid belt). Miranda is not just the closest satellite of Uranus, but also the smallest. Even so, it's thought to have the tallest cliff in the solar system, of over 20km - this is bigger than the elevation difference between Everest and the Mariana Trench. Fun fact: since Miranda has a low gravity (though still enough to keep it spherical), if you were to free fall from the top, it would take about 12 minutes to hit the bottom, where you'd smash into the ground at 200km/h. The only time this moon was studied from up close was during the Voyager 2 flyby. Enceladus... well, this is a pretty well-known one, studied by both Voyagers and by Cassini. Anyway, I have work to do, but if you want some more random trivia on the rest, let me know... some people go to sleep watching porn, I go to sleep watching space videos, mathematical videos, stuff like that... ---
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Post by anaix3l on Jun 23, 2023 13:34:54 GMT -5
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Post by AeroCooper on Jul 1, 2023 7:18:02 GMT -5
Women in Saudi Arabia have been allowed to drive since... 2018
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Post by anaix3l on Jul 1, 2023 8:04:02 GMT -5
^Oh, yeah, lovely country. 2018 was also the year a Saudi journalist critical of the government and co-founder of DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) was murdered and chopped into pieces inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Then last year, they tried to get the other co-founder of DAWN.
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Post by anaix3l on Jul 4, 2023 3:26:52 GMT -5
ChatGPT sounds like "chat, j'ai pété" ("cat, I farted") in French.
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Post by anaix3l on Jul 7, 2023 7:03:13 GMT -5
Fun fact: about half of that 1% is in Indonesia.
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Post by AeroCooper on Sept 25, 2023 10:48:04 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Nov 22, 2023 13:49:10 GMT -5
In Finnish, "pussi" means "bag". There are normal bags of snacks that have "pussi" written on them and big bags of snacks that have "megapussi" written on them.
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