Mildly interesting
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Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn, pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters (later the Braves), was captured giving the middle finger to a team photographer. This grainy black-and-white image is considered the earliest known photograph of someone making the gesture.
Radbourn was known for his fierce competitiveness and iron will. In 1884, he pitched a staggering 678.2 innings and won 59 games, a Major League record that still stands. He was gruff, intense, and short-tempered, a man who once reportedly threatened teammates and argued with umpires regularly.
The photo wasn’t widely recognized for what it was until more than a century later, when historians and fans looked more closely at the team portrait and spotted Radbourn’s subtle act of defiance.
It is a small moment frozen in time, but it speaks volumes. Even in baseball’s earliest days, personalities like Radbourn were pushing against decorum with unapologetic flair.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Mildly interesting:
(x/100) * y == (x * y)/100 == x * (y/100)
Yeah, that checks out.
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Future HoF WR Larry Fitzgerald has more tackles than dropped passes….
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@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Not to brag, but I already knew that multiplication was commutative.
That's not even mildly interesting.
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@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Not to brag, but I already knew that multiplication was commutative.
That's not even mildly interesting.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Not to brag, but I already knew that multiplication was commutative.
That's not even mildly interesting.
Well it was a response to the previous post. And if responses are required to be at least mildly interesting then I’m afraid we are both self defeating.
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https://www.flyingmag.com/victory-verticals-a-forgotten-and-restored-piece-of-world-war-ii-history/
You may be familiar with the concept of pianos used as weapons—it happened frequently in cartoons—but did you know that Steinway & Sons, the makers of pianos since 1853, had a military contract to build pianos during World War II? And that these pianos, packed tightly in specially designed crates, were often parachuted into war zones?
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
And regardless which state you’re going the wrong direction.
As long as you are leaving Arkansas, it is definitely the right direction…
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Ha. Around 1980 I remember a professor having me sit down with her secretary to learn to use a word processor. I’d never used anything like this before. No backspacing with correction tape. Words were justified. But it seemed slow in contrast to typing on an IBM Selectric and even the little electric typewriter I used at home. Faster than a manual though .. oh my!
I wonder how many kids today know what “cc” stands for, or have seen carbon paper?
