Mildly interesting

[Mik]

Pop culture is disposable. An endless stream of vacuous circuses.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc said in [Mildly interesting](/post/189356): > https://twitter.com/beschlossdc/status/1594205521241903104?s=61&t=Ddwt0141lUJzni9fUqW5LQ I was in Dallas a couple of years ago. Here is the view from the window where President Kennedy was shot. It was a lot closer than I thought it was. I always thought it was a super long distance, but it wasn't really. 

[Copper]

I can still remember the first time I walked that scene. It was kind of spooky. Not a lot of people , but still, tourists standing and staring at the street, and the grassy knoll and the Hertz sign and the book depository.

[jon-nyc]

https://twitter.com/dr_thehistories/status/1594735605992525825?s=61&t=AR4vNfR97-1arbkltyz_9Q

[Mik]

All hail the Bar-Tailed Godwit! This bird is a champion flyer and once again an individual has broken the world record for the longest continual flight. This week a juvenile godwit just 5 months old landed in Ansons Bay in northeast Tasmania, Australia. It had been tagged in Alaska and departed there on October 13, 2022 before flying non-stop to Tasmania. Godwits are regular visitors to Tasmania so it’s likely that many undertake a similar flight but it's the first time a tagged bird has flown between Alaska and Tasmania. This bird flew a minimum of 13,560 km in 11 days 1 hour, that’s an average of over 51kmh continually for those 11 days. And don’t forget there will be no eating, drinking or sleeping during that journey! 

[George K]

"I just flew in from New York. Boy are my...." 

[taiwan_girl]

Speaking of air travel In flight entertainment at 1925 

[jon-nyc]


[jon-nyc]

More on that here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc Eek!!

[Horace]

Some good clean humor from India.

Link to video

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

https://twitter.com/beschlossdc/status/1595449098274062337?s=46&t=6p7-Pz9KhjdpwYE6Iuh7cQ

[kluurs]

Cat with cat pattern on its back... 

[jon-nyc]

https://twitter.com/masaccio60/status/1595484332663226394?s=46&t=XZp8Bpr7DfVcp37TqeV5qA

[George K]

https://twitter.com/desdelboy/status/1595844974985216001?s=20&t=WCJlRVWD1gTyYf-ZwJbv4w

[jon-nyc]

The FBI recovered a 495 year old (!) manuscript signed by Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortés that was about to be sold at auction in Massachusetts. 

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in [Mildly interesting](/post/190269): > The FBI recovered a 495 year old (!) manuscript signed by Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortés that was about to be sold at auction in Massachusetts. > >  That should finally be sufficient information to draw some conclusions about Hernando Cortes.

[Copper]

How to run a marathon 

[jon-nyc]

Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities. > Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years. > Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years. > Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years. > — Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912

[George K]

https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1596541416934887424?s=20&t=_I2SkZZBJqs7MTewHpFmEw