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  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

    That time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.

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    @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

    hat time when 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 1939.

    Holeee Cow.

    Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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      What way did their politics lean, within the context of America?

      Education is extremely important.

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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.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          No idea if this is true or not, but if so...cool!

          The Canadian Passport under UV light reveals its secret watermark.

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          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            That's very cool.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              Wonder if there are cool features that would be revealed on currency bills under UV light, too.

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                Just give it a second. You'll get it.

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                Please love yourself.

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                • AxtremusA Axtremus

                  Wonder if there are cool features that would be revealed on currency bills under UV light, too.

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                  Monopoly game pieces?

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                    Monopoly game pieces?

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                    @mark said in Mildly interesting:

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                    Monopoly game pieces?

                    👍👍

                    Please love yourself.

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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.

                      https://www.wctu.org/

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                      • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                        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.

                        https://www.wctu.org/

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                        @jon-nyc Evanston, baby!

                        It was a source of never-ending mockery when I went to college there.

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          Feels like the Flat Earthers. Or Area 51.

                          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                            I have learned that Madeleine Albright wrote a book with a mildly interesting title: Hell And Other Destinations.

                            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                              Only non-witches get due process.

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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."

                                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                  My secret.

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                                    Asking the hard questions.

                                    https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

                                    Please love yourself.

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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?

                                      Education is extremely important.

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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?

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                                        @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

                                        @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?

                                        There's a plaque.

                                        Please love yourself.

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                                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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