Mildly interesting
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wrote on 25 Aug 2023, 13:33 last edited by
The last execution by guillotine was Sept 10, 1977. The Atari 2600 video game was introduced on Sept 11, 1977. The age of the guillotine and the age of video games is only separated by 24 hours.
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wrote on 25 Aug 2023, 16:01 last edited by
A Frenchman's first reaction to trying Coca-Cola in 1950.
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wrote on 25 Aug 2023, 18:39 last edited by
Coca-cola? Merde alors.
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wrote on 25 Aug 2023, 18:49 last edited by
They should use that photo in their advertising. They could be the next Anheuser Busch.
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wrote on 25 Aug 2023, 22:38 last edited by
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wrote on 25 Aug 2023, 23:06 last edited by Horace
Yeah but the timeless themes can be fit into any number of symbolic narratives. It’s not like Hemingway can forbid that or call it wrong.
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wrote on 29 Aug 2023, 00:56 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Aug 2023, 01:00 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
This is a language I don't understand. I'll take your word that it's "mildly interesting."
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wrote on 29 Aug 2023, 01:09 last edited by
I find this fascinating. My favourite one is Euler's identity -
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wrote on 29 Aug 2023, 03:19 last edited by
I know a woman with Euler’s equation tattooed on her arm.
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wrote on 29 Aug 2023, 03:26 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Aug 2023, 15:59 last edited by
They installed the fountains in Horace Pond. A short 11 months after we moved in.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2023, 11:35 last edited by
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wrote on 30 Aug 2023, 11:40 last edited by
Oh, I thought you said "fluffer."
Never mind...
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wrote on 30 Aug 2023, 11:46 last edited by
Only 4 people have served in the House of Representatives, the Senate, Vice President, and President:
- John Tyler
- Andrew Johnson
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Richard Nixon
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wrote on 30 Aug 2023, 12:05 last edited by
I forgot Nixon was a senator for a short time.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2023, 15:15 last edited by
Kamala will probably end up with 3 of the 4.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2023, 17:13 last edited by jon-nyc
What’s particularly interesting, now that I think of it, is Nixon and LBJ overlapped in the House AND the Senate, LBJ succeeded Nixon as VP and Nixon succeeded LBJ as president.
They basically did this at the same time.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2023, 17:54 last edited by
And JFK had 3 of the 4 jobs at about the same time.
There was talk of JFK for VP in 1956, JFK's father supposedly made a cash offer to LBJ to have his son as LBJ's VP. That didn't work out.
Then JFK wanted to be the VP on a 1956 ticket with Adlai Stevenson. Lucky for him that didn't happen either.
So he came close to having all 4 jobs.
