Mildly interesting
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@Aqua-Letifer is the last one Russian?
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@Aqua-Letifer is the last one Russian?
wrote on 10 Apr 2022, 14:14 last edited by@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
@Aqua-Letifer is the last one Russian?
Could be!
Seriously, this wasn't an internet search. Someone took all of those photos himself. Crazy.
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I almost started a new thread for this one as I find it quite a bit more than just "Mildly" Interesting.
The Sun and the four inner planets path through space.
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They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.
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It is said that an exploration of the wormhole connected to Uranus, known as the intestinocontinuum, has led many of our contemporary thinkers to embrace leftist ideology.
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They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.
wrote on 10 Apr 2022, 21:52 last edited by@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.
Somehow, I'm sure the German equivalent of a "Uranus Joke" isn't quite the same.
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@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.
Somehow, I'm sure the German equivalent of a "Uranus Joke" isn't quite the same.
wrote on 10 Apr 2022, 22:52 last edited by@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.
Somehow, I'm sure the German equivalent of a "Uranus Joke" isn't quite the same.
Not a problem, we don't have a notion of humour anyway.
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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.
Somehow, I'm sure the German equivalent of a "Uranus Joke" isn't quite the same.
Not a problem, we don't have a notion of humour anyway.
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Pangolins are bipedal
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
It's also why "leading" isn't pronounced "leeding"—it was literally strips of lead.
And "mind your ps and qs" doesn't mean "pints and quarts", that's ridiculous. Glyphs are upside down and backwards, so it's very easy to mix up the ps and qs. It means, "make sure you don't fuck up with basic mistakes," not "watch how much you're drinking."
"Cliché" originally referred to lead stamps for stock art. These would be very time-consuming to produce, so the same ones typically got used over and over again.
"Stereotype" is another one. It was a saved layout that could be reused as-is without recreating the layout every time.
"Out of sorts" referred to an unorganized galley and glyph case.
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https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus northropi is the largest known animal to have ever been able to fly. When it was first discovered, scientists estimated that the fossil came from a pterosaur with a wingspan of up to 45 feet (13.7 meters), choosing the middle between three extrapolations from the proportions of other pterosaurs that gave an estimate of 40, 50 and 70 feet respectively. in 1981, a further study showed that this estimate was too large, and lowered the estimated wingspan to 50 feet (15 meters). More recently, the wingspan estimated has been reduced yet again, this time to 36 feet (10.9 meters).
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Lightning in a volcanic eruption from Chile.
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From the Wikipedia article on Arturo Toscanini:
At the end of his final season with the Metropolitan Opera in May 1915, Toscanini was set to return to Europe aboard the doomed RMS Lusitania, but instead cut his concert schedule short and left a week early, aboard the Italian liner Duca degli Abruzzi.
