Gemmabeta

Gemmabeta t1_jc2u1qf wrote

Reply to 60% of US foods Contain technical food additives, new study finds by diosmio

So, the things they consider food additives include MSG, citric acid (i.e. lemon juice), Ethyl alcohol (i.e. regular drinking alcohol), corn oil, capsicum oil (i.e. hot sauce), sodium bicarbonate (i.e. baking soda), Carbon Dioxide and so forth.

This list is ludicrously over-padded with things that are completely harmless just to produce a hysterical scaremongering headline.

I am surprised they didn't declare water and table salt to be food additives as well just to bring up the number to a full 100%.

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Gemmabeta t1_j58sydw wrote

Reply to comment by Freak_Out_Bazaar in TIL Japan is considered the world's most powerful passport, with visa-free access to 193 countries. Singapore and South Korea are close behind with 192 countries. Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are the least powerful, all with visa-free access to 30 or less countries. by grandlewis

There were so many Japanese Tourists running around the world back in their economic heyday, that one of the most done to death jokes in 1980s movies was "the Japanese Tour Group blundering into somewhere they shouldn't be."

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Gemmabeta t1_j4qp3bn wrote

Reply to comment by Desertswisher in TIL about SubTropolis, a giant former limestone mine under Kansas City that was converted into the world’s largest underground business complex. The 1,100-acre complex is accessed through tunnels, and as of 2015, 1,600 people worked there. by corn_dog_22

A lot of it is archival storage. The constant cool temperature and low humidity means it's perfect for storing a lot of paper for cheap.

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Gemmabeta t1_j2v8lcj wrote

Reply to comment by amgodfrey in Withings' $500 toilet computer wants to be WebMD for your pee | The hardware sits in your toilet, analyzing what's poured forth into it by chrisdh79

This machine is basically a bunch of miniaturized urine test strips and a detector to read them.

Hospital labs have been using this sort of machines for decades.

And abnormal test results (blood, nitrites, sugar/ketones) is very important and can be an early indicator of oncoming issues. E.g. people go quite far into diabetes before they actually notice the symptoms.

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Gemmabeta t1_j2drtpz wrote

Reply to I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and I didn't find a deeper meaning in the story. Am I dumb? by -greek_user_06-

There is a term for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_nonsense

Alice as much as there is supposed to be a "point" to the books, the main one seems to be riffing of the endless number of po-faced didactic moralistic poetry that Victorian children were force-fed as part of their education.

All of the poetry in the two books are nonsense parodies of those poems.

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Gemmabeta t1_j1s8wei wrote

Reply to TIL that it's a common misconception that Tennessee Williams choked to death on a bottle cap and that his death report was corrected several months later (in August 1983) to say that he died from a toxic level of Seconal (a barbituary). by [deleted]

> Secobarbital (marketed by Eli Lilly and Company for the treatment of insomnia under the brand name Seconal) is a short-acting barbiturate derivative drug that was patented in 1934 in the United States. It is the most frequently used drug in physician-assisted suicide within the United States. Secobarbital is considered to be an obsolete sedative-hypnotic (sleeping pill), and as a result, it has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepine family. Seconal was widely abused, known on the street as "red devils" or "reds".

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Gemmabeta t1_j1p4dks wrote

Reply to comment by myusernamehere1 in TIL that incarcerated prisoners make a contraband drink in prison called "pruno" which entails fermenting fruit, sugar cubes, bread, and water in a ziplock bag a several days. by FlashyBehind

Many prisons ban or heavily restrict fruits and juices because of people making pruno on the sly, so inmates would make it using bread and potatoes.

End result was a massive botulism outbreak.

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Gemmabeta t1_j0lppe9 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Teddy Roosevelt's 2nd son Kermit Roosevelt joined his father's Amazon expedition and had a river named after him, resigned from US Army in 1917 to join the British Forces to fight in WWI. To join the first fight in Finland/Norway, he took help of Churchill to secure a commission in British Army. by Satvahana

Wrong Kermit. The Kermit this post is talking about died ten years before the coup happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt_Jr.

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