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Ten examples of prohibited baby names reportedly include King, Queen, Jesus Christ, III, Santa Claus, Majesty, Adolf Hitler, Messiah, the symbol @ and 1069.
I went to high school with a guy named King. He set the state scoring record in basketball, so it worked for him.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/baby-names-reportedly-banned-america-what-to-know
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.
I think you'd get it if you walked underneath it.
It would certainly elicit a gut level response, one way or another. Much like a roller coaster.
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Mildly Interesting: Copper Edition
On September 30th, 1956, During A Drunken Argument In A New York City Bar, A Man Named Thomas Fitzpatrick Claimed He Could Fly An Airplane From New Jersey To New York In Under 15 Minutes
To prove himself, Fitzpatrick left the bar, stole an airplane from a New Jersey airfield at 3am, flew without lights or radio completely intoxicated, and landed the airplane in the street in front of the bar.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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It’s not a painting or a photograph. It’s a recently discovered waterfall in Peru, named Bride waterfall. See the beauty of nature!
More details/video http://bit.ly/3WS1Gg5
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It’s always something.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Several surprises here.
I had breakfast with my parish priest a few months ago. He told me that in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia post Covid Mass attendance is 12% of what it was before the lockdown.
The bishops closed the churches and told everyone to not go to Mass, and 88% of the Catholic still haven't returned.
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@Ivorythumper said in Mildly interesting:
The bishops closed the churches and told everyone to not go to Mass, and 88% of the Catholic still haven't returned.
Eventually they'll start selling indulgences on Amazon.
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@Ivorythumper said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Several surprises here.
I had breakfast with my parish priest a few months ago. He told me that in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia post Covid Mass attendance is 12% of what it was before the lockdown.
The bishops closed the churches and told everyone to not go to Mass, and 88% of the Catholic still haven't returned.
Wow. And this graph shows a 40 trend and stops well before Covid.
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It’s always something.
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Zebra stripes not just for camouflage:
Seeking a potential solution to this situation, a team of Japanese researchers cleverly applied lessons from research on zebras. Animal scientists have long pondered the function of zebras' dsitinct stripes, and a growing consensus now suggests that they deter insects, possibly by confusing bugs' motion detection systems that control approach and landing.
And so, the researchers painted six Japanese Black cows with black-and-white stripes, which took just five minutes per cow. They then observed the cows for three days, taking high-resolution images of them at regular intervals to count the insects on the animals and also recording any fly-repelling behaviors like leg stamping, tail flicking, and skin twitching. The same cows were also observed for three days with painted-on black stripes (to see if it was the paint chemicals, not the coloring, that repelled flies) and and with no stripes at all.
The apparent effects of the stripes were remarkable. The number of biting flies observed on zebra-striped cows was less than half the number seen on unpainted cows and far less than cows painted with black stripes. Moreover, zebra-striping reduced fly-repelling behaviors by about 20%, indicating that the cows were less bothered by the insects
Oh, and for those who will say "TTIWWOP", here you go:
