Mildly interesting
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"I just flew in from New York. Boy are my...." 
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Speaking of air travel In flight entertainment at 1925 
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Some good clean humor from India. Link to video Link to video
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The FBI recovered a 495 year old (!) manuscript signed by Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortés that was about to be sold at auction in Massachusetts. “Don’t make me repeat myself” - history
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@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.
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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“Don’t make me repeat myself” - history
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>tipa-Caproni: Italy’s Bizarre “Flying Barrel” , 1932 > >The Stipa-Caproni was an experimental airplane designed by the Italian aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer Luigi Stipa, and built by Caproni, an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Despite looking like a cartoon air plane, the Stipa-Caproni could fly, and was briefly studied by NASA. 
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@mark said in [Mildly interesting](/post/190670): > Link to video Mark, that's great. This would make a useful topic for a physics question from hell! Try and derive an equation to describe the position of the ball over time.....
