Tag: imported from reddit
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It's quite possible to subdivide a dick. [from our very own /r/nocontext!]
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Owl you need is love!
AltOwls in love
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TIL that in 1952, 4,000 people were killed during a five-day smog in London
The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital of London in early December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal—to form a thick layer of smog over the …
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I'm sure it doesn't mean much to you, but finally making my first Mün landing means the world(s) to me.
AltMun landing
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Memorial to Quakers' wartime service
A memorial recognising the wartime work done by Quakers has been unveiled at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
Quaker beliefs, among them pacifism, meant that many were unable to serve in the armed forces during wartime.
Many volunteered to serve in warzones in the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU).
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TIL that microcomputer pioneer and inventor Clive Sinclair avoids the Internet because it "blurs the mind"
Personal flying machines will be a reality, home computer and electric car pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair has said.
He told BBC Radio 4's iPM programme that soon it would be "economically and technically possible" to create flying cars for individuals.
Sir Clive is best-known for the Spectrum computer and his failed electric car effort, the … -
TIL that in 2004, a book was published that suggested that TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer was valuable as a guide to spirituality
What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide is a book relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.
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My partner and her husband are on Orangered, but I'm on Periwinkle. How do I come out about this, to them?
Also: what in the world is going on with Reddit today?
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My old IAmA throwaway is on Orangered, so I infiltrated their camp and downvoted everything there.
AltDownvotes on 'the other' Reddit camp
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TIL that more than 1 in every 365 people die on their birthday, and nobody's sure why
A study by Swiss researchers has generated a startling statistic - you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day of the year. But why should that be?
As the researchers put it, "birthdays… appear to end up in a lethal way more frequently than expected ."
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TIL that the most uncontacted people in the world, the Sentinelese, live in a hunter-gatherer society that isn't even known to make fire.
The Sentinelese (also called the Sentineli or North Sentinel Islanders) are the indigenous people of North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands of India. One of the Andamanese people, they resist contact with the outside world. They are one of the uncontacted peoples, although like all of today’s so-called uncontacted people they have a history …
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Mikey: the awesome cow who thinks she's a dog [x-post from /r/pics]
AltCow brought up as a dog
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Silly cow. You do not belong here.
AltCow and dolphin
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MS Paint sloth [x-post from /r/funny]
AltMS Paint sloth
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[x-post] "The northen Hawk Owl is an explosive killer, and extremely hard to capture. 1/2000 of a second shutter speed and 5 hours in -22 Celsius got me the shot :)"
AltSuperb owl