BrokenEye3
BrokenEye3 t1_ja9smxq wrote
Reply to TIL about the NOAA Corps, the eighth federal uniformed service, alongside the six Military services and Public Health Service. It has just 321 enlisted officers, and operates 15 ships and 10 aircraft. by ex-apple
Kinda bummed to discover they just wear Navy uniforms instead of having ones that are unique to their service
BrokenEye3 t1_ja55xng wrote
Reply to TIL there is a machine for cancer diagnosis from your poop noises, called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, or SHART by chockychockster
Classy, science, real classy
BrokenEye3 t1_ja1e8c5 wrote
Reply to comment by tewnewt in TIL that from 1991 to 2007, tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. successfully marketed Capri Sun to children, based on their executives' experience selling tobacco to young people. by 99-bottlesofbeer
♪♫ He gives the kids free samples / Because he knows full well / That today's young innocent faces / Are tomorrow's clientele ♫♪
BrokenEye3 t1_ja1bhkz wrote
BrokenEye3 t1_j9vmol7 wrote
Reply to comment by jxj24 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
Read that in Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice
BrokenEye3 t1_j9vmi7w wrote
Reply to comment by Royal-Doggie in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
Creating the universe was the first mistake
BrokenEye3 t1_j9vmewu wrote
Reply to TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
There are clothing lice?
BrokenEye3 t1_j9nspij wrote
Reply to comment by You_Bore_Me_ in TIL about Saint Josaphat (aka Būdhasaf), a legendary Christian saint whose life is based on Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. His life story tells of how Josaphat, a son of an Indian kind that persecuted the Christian Church in his kingdom, converted to Christianity. by kweenllama
Um... the Gautama Buddha was a historical person. Whether the (likely highly idealized) accounts of his life are representative of the man as he really was, I can't say, and whether he was truly enlightened I suppose depends on your beliefs, but he did live.
That said, all myths are based at least in part on other myths. It's unavoidable.
BrokenEye3 t1_j9l1aij wrote
Reply to comment by lostfromwandering in TIL about the birthday effect. A statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday, variously attributed to alcohol consumption, psychological stress, increased suicide risk, and other factors. by Deechon
"Attributed to different factors depending on who you ask"? That's what it usually means, anyway.
BrokenEye3 t1_j9ku0j6 wrote
Reply to TIL The US military once accidentally killed over 6,000 sheep with nerve gas when a weapons test went wrong by Cranyx
Why did the sheep have nerve gas?
BrokenEye3 t1_j9kt958 wrote
Reply to TIL about the birthday effect. A statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday, variously attributed to alcohol consumption, psychological stress, increased suicide risk, and other factors. by Deechon
Now I'm no statistician (thank god), but I wonder if it might have less to do with any of those factors on their own than with the very fact that there are multiple factors that could potentially result in you being more likely to die around your birthday.
BrokenEye3 t1_j9kcrp4 wrote
Reply to comment by kweenllama in TIL about Saint Josaphat (aka Būdhasaf), a legendary Christian saint whose life is based on Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. His life story tells of how Josaphat, a son of an Indian kind that persecuted the Christian Church in his kingdom, converted to Christianity. by kweenllama
It's a poor translation of a poor translation of a poor translation, etc. Several centuries of scribes going "Hmm... that doesn't seem right. Oh, I think I knew what they meant!" Haven't you ever played telephone?
I've read this article before, and I read it again just now. If you've got a second article that supports your claims, I'd be very interested in seeing it.
BrokenEye3 t1_j9inske wrote
Reply to comment by kweenllama in TIL about Saint Josaphat (aka Būdhasaf), a legendary Christian saint whose life is based on Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. His life story tells of how Josaphat, a son of an Indian kind that persecuted the Christian Church in his kingdom, converted to Christianity. by kweenllama
Christianity instead of Buddhism, Josaphat instead of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha himself being inexplicably split into two separate characters, etc
BrokenEye3 t1_j9ilw1g wrote
Reply to TIL about Saint Josaphat (aka Būdhasaf), a legendary Christian saint whose life is based on Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. His life story tells of how Josaphat, a son of an Indian kind that persecuted the Christian Church in his kingdom, converted to Christianity. by kweenllama
And the best part is, as far as historians can tell, the alterations to the story were completely accidental
BrokenEye3 t1_j9i6np3 wrote
Reply to comment by IDoPokeSmot in TIL an indigenous empire called the Purépechas (Tarascan Empire) denied an alliance request from their rivals, the Aztecs, when Hernan Cortez first arrived in present-day Mexico City. by freeeYou
Yeah, I hear he was kind of a dick
BrokenEye3 t1_j9hamoz wrote
Reply to TIL - That avocado seeds are so large because they depended on extinct megafauna to eat and disperse them. by byronhadleigh
So, what, big animals can't eat small seeds? I think evolution got that backwards.
BrokenEye3 t1_j8w1sdn wrote
Reply to comment by TantorDaDestructor in TIL of the Storegga tsunami, a tsunami that struck the North Sea in 6000 BC submerging an area of land the size of MD by MyDadsGlassesCase
Well Marylanders, for one. Maries? The Marylish? Marylingians?
BrokenEye3 t1_j8vxo9j wrote
Reply to comment by Snork_kitty in TIL of the Storegga tsunami, a tsunami that struck the North Sea in 6000 BC submerging an area of land the size of MD by MyDadsGlassesCase
Someone has now.
BrokenEye3 t1_j8vsxo8 wrote
Reply to comment by MathBuster in TIL of the Storegga tsunami, a tsunami that struck the North Sea in 6000 BC submerging an area of land the size of MD by MyDadsGlassesCase
As an American, I'm right there with you. Where the fuck did the D come from? Why not, like, M... Y? Is there an MY? I don't think there's an MY.
BrokenEye3 t1_j8thvvn wrote
Reply to comment by DiseasedGrave in TIL cashews are actually seeds that grow hanging beneath cashew apples, which are pear-shaped edible fruits that belong to the cashew tree by Arena-1
You've never tried deez nuts?
BrokenEye3 t1_j8qyvgr wrote
Reply to TIL cashews are actually seeds that grow hanging beneath cashew apples, which are pear-shaped edible fruits that belong to the cashew tree by Arena-1
Cashews are seeds. Almonds are pits. Peanuts are legumes. I'm starting to wonder if the only real nuts in the world are those of the deez tree.
BrokenEye3 t1_j8oqy0a wrote
BrokenEye3 t1_j8nuty9 wrote
Reply to TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow
Good old Eddie Lytton
BrokenEye3 t1_ja9t1ot wrote
Reply to TIL New Hyde Park, NY is neither named for London’s famous Hyde Park or the upstate NY hamlet of Hyde Park. It is named for a Governor’s Wife. by theAusterityClinic
Who names their daughter New Hyde?