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That time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.
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Etymology fun fact: The arteries in the neck are called "carotids," from the Greek word "karotides", relating to the word "katotikos" (to stupefy) and "karos" (deep sleep).
The ancient Greeks used it/knew that compression of the carotid arteries would produce unconsciousness.
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Just give it a second. You'll get it.
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@mark said in Mildly interesting:
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The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, to which we owe the failed experiment of prohibition, still exists. It claimed 5k members in 2012, down from 350k a century earlier.
On the website it tells you how you join. You print out the temperance pledge, and mail it to Evanston IL along with $20.
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From the preface of the book Information Wars by Richard Stengel: "In 2010, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, said we create as much information every two days -- about five exabytes -- as all the information created from the dawn of civilization until 2003."
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Asking the hard questions.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:
Asking the hard questions.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds
DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?
The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?