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Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
wrote on 16 May 2022, 11:35 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.
wrote on 16 May 2022, 11:55 last edited by@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.
Before he got it right, he would miss it by just a few letters many billions of times.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.
wrote on 16 May 2022, 12:24 last edited by@Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.
A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."
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wrote on 16 May 2022, 12:48 last edited by
@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
TON 618 must be the stone God created when He was asked to create a stone He cannot lift.
Define “lift” when the object you’re supposed to “lift” is the dominant gravitational attractor.
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wrote on 17 May 2022, 13:56 last edited by
A lot of this is true
I don't care if it is all true, it is still interesting
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."
Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the "kicker":
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
AND...................:
Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...
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wrote on 17 May 2022, 22:13 last edited by
The Wonder and Tastykake food companies are supporters of USO. Between 2018 and 2022, they will have donated up to $1.8 billion to that organization.
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A lot of this is true
I don't care if it is all true, it is still interestingAbraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."
Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the "kicker":
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
AND...................:
Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...
wrote on 17 May 2022, 22:14 last edited byA week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
Bears repeating.
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A lot of this is true
I don't care if it is all true, it is still interestingAbraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."
Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the "kicker":
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
AND...................:
Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...
wrote on 18 May 2022, 14:17 last edited by@Copper said in Mildly interesting:
A lot of this is true
I don't care if it is all true, it is still interestingAbraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."
Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the "kicker":
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
AND...................:
Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...
I remember reading that probably 50 years ago when I was in grade school. Interesting stuff, though I don't think they mentioned Marilyn Monroe at the time...
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wrote on 18 May 2022, 14:19 last edited by
See how your area of the world used to look in the past.
It gives some perspective about the global warming alarmists....
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Nice ring! I wonder what a ring like that would sell for in an auction. That's a real piece of history.
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Nice ring! I wonder what a ring like that would sell for in an auction. That's a real piece of history.
wrote on 23 May 2022, 11:56 last edited by@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Nice ring! I wonder what a ring like that would sell for in an auction. That's a real piece of history.
If it belonged to Caligula, I'd hate to think where it's been.
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wrote on 23 May 2022, 11:56 last edited by
Not surprisingly, the ring caused a sensation when it was made available for purchase on an auction by Royal jewelers Wartski.
“This ring is one of the prestigious 'Marlborough Gems', having previously been in the collection of the Earl of Arundel.
It is crafted entirely of sapphire. Very few hololiths exist and I would argue this is the best example you can find.
We believe it belonged to the debauched Emperor Caligula and the engraving shows his final wife Caesonia,” Kieran McCarthy, Wartski director said.
Caligula’s ring was finally sold for close to £500,000 in 2019.
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wrote on 23 May 2022, 14:32 last edited by
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
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wrote on 23 May 2022, 14:49 last edited by
It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
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It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
wrote on 23 May 2022, 14:58 last edited by@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
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@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
wrote on 24 May 2022, 01:29 last edited by@George-K interesting story behind the ring.
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Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
wrote on 24 May 2022, 01:42 last edited by jon-nyc@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.
I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.
