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A_Melee_Ensued t1_jegmpfh wrote

Reply to TIL, that Sierra Blanca Peak in New Mexico is the southernmost mountain in the lower 48 to reach above 11,000 ft. Being just 19ft shy of being the southernmost point above 12000ft by NeutronicTachyon

Few people know about New Mexico's mountain ranges. Wheeler Peak, above Taos, NM, is over 13,000 feet. For perspective, that is higher than Mount Hood and bit less high than Mount Rainier. But nobody knows Wheeler is even there.

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A_Melee_Ensued t1_j1qzi69 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL the FDA’s Food Defect Action Levels Handbook details the acceptable levels of contaminants of food from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, “foreign matter”, mold, rodent hairs, and insect and mammalian feces. by anogre8me

Aflatoxin and other mycotoxins, primarily from aspergillus mold, are a big concern with raw wheat flour and corn products. Rodent excreta is not difficult to sieve out. Wheat and corn for human consumption is usually randomly sampled and tested for mycotoxins but nothing requires this, though most grain sale contracts specify testing and thresholds.

Mycotoxins can cause severe illness (usually not lethal though) and are not deactivated by normal cooking temperatures.

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A_Melee_Ensued t1_j1ku6gk wrote

Reply to TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard. by Bubbly-Incident

My Dad had a portable reel-to-reel we used to play with. Back in the day all the music that was released on vinyl was also released on r2r. This was before 8-tracks and long before cassettes. Splicing was routine, splicing made it possible to edit, you could make radio interviews flow by cutting out the dead space and the mis-speakings, you could edit your garage band recordings, for the first time you could record church services for distribution, etc. You could make concert bootlegs which was revolutionary. R2r was immensely important into the 70s.

Here is an r2r bootleg of the last time Duane Allman played the recently composed "Blue Sky" live before he died, no studio version with Duane was ever made but we have this.

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