HobgoblinKhanate1
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_jaaihvo wrote
Reply to TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps. by SecretAgentIceBat
That’s the most Soviet title ever. I’m surprised they even got released
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_jaadkvl wrote
Reply to comment by malepitt in TIL the human body consumes and produces its weight in ATP every day. by Gullible_Skeptic
“Each equivalent of ATP is recycled 1000–1500 times during a single day “
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_jaadinj wrote
Can someone eli5
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_jaackoo wrote
Reply to TIL that the first woman to serve in the United States Senate was also the last member of Congress to be a slaveowner. by addemup9001
Is this surprising? She died in 1930 aged 94
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_jaa0zel wrote
Reply to What’s your longest play time in a game? 🎮 by UK-Gamers
Probably had like 5k total hours in guild wars 2
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_ja913nf wrote
Reply to comment by marioquartz in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus
Op was talking about British people though
I don’t remember learning about the second naval battle a year later. But most of everything else he said is bullshit
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_ja7iov1 wrote
Reply to comment by PrettyText in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus
What makes you think the Irish potato famine might not been known about at all? Or that it was wholly a tragic accident? I don’t know anyone that thinks this
In school in the 90’s, all we were taught was that the British Empire was a bad thing. I don’t ever remember being taught the empire was glorious at all
A good example (because I know someone is going to bring it up) is Oliver Cromwell. We learned about him in school as basically a dictator. He banned Christmas (probably didn’t personally) and was a Puritan. We’re taught that life under him wasn’t very good at all. In fact, after he died, the English exhumed his body and cut his head off. But, there is the article people get giddy over of “top 100 Britons” that they love to link. This gets twisted by people on the attack as “Brits see Cromwell as a hero”. In fact, people are just stupid and simply don’t know more than 10 historical Britons and that’s how he made the list.
Who is understating the role of the Soviet Union? What decade are you referring to, the 1950’s?
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_ja5yojd wrote
Me at the start of dead space
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_ja1f4uq wrote
Reply to comment by TheCloudFestival in TIL there's a rock formation in Saudi Arabia about 6 meters high and 9 meters wide, split curiously in half and balanced on two small, natural pedestals. The origin of the Al Naslaa rock formation is unknown. by OccludedFug
I totally expected you to throw mankind at the end
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j9iupob wrote
Reply to comment by OllieFromCairo in TIL that ligers (the offspring of a male lion and female tiger) are the largest big cat because, unlike lionesses, female tigers do not possess growth-limiting genes to counter the growth-maximising genes of male lions. by argh-ok
I once read big cats over the past millions of years go extinct because they get too big, need more food, then struggle to adapt to ecological changes. I wonder if lions are more successful because of this gene and the reason for it to stick around
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j97llvn wrote
Reply to comment by OrangeJuiceAlibi in TIL in the 1950’s statues depicting Christopher Columbus making an indigenous woman flinch on one side and Davy Crockett arresting an indigenous man in front of his family on the other were taken down from the US capital by hillo538
Wait til you find out what year they abolished slavery
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j8wlt7a wrote
Reply to comment by MyDadsGlassesCase 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
I mean I’m a Scotsman and had no idea MD meant Maryland
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j7ur0rx wrote
Reply to comment by sewankambo in New species identified, from 3D models of prehistoric penguins’ humongous humerus, may be the largest penguin ever to have lived. ~350-pound ‘Kumimanu fordycei’ weighed as much as an adult gorilla; waded the waters off New Zealand about 60 million years ago by marketrent
I’m not talking about the giant penguin specifically. More large mammals than this have existed before and since
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j7tjwtn wrote
Reply to comment by bigwavedave000 in New species identified, from 3D models of prehistoric penguins’ humongous humerus, may be the largest penguin ever to have lived. ~350-pound ‘Kumimanu fordycei’ weighed as much as an adult gorilla; waded the waters off New Zealand about 60 million years ago by marketrent
It was always normal to have big animals we just killed most of them
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j7qszy9 wrote
Reply to comment by XO-3b in People from the poorest backgrounds are far more likely to develop a mental disorder later in life than those from wealthier beginnings. More than half of people with a low educational attainment at age 30 will have a diagnosis of a mental disorder 22 years later by Wagamaga
Drop that avocado, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and open up a factory
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j6ki7z2 wrote
Reply to comment by Test19s in Ecologically Unequal Exchanges Driven by EU Consumption: Large Shares Environmental Impacts Are Outsourced to Countries and Regions Outside the EU, While More Than 85% of the Economic Benefits Stay Within the Member Countries by 9273629397759992
Even the small countries in Europe think they’re culturally superior. It’ll never go away. It’s deeply ingrained into our thoughts (like elsewhere, Japan for example). Even more left-wing people in Europe think they’re culturally superior, they just go a different way about it.
Also, we will dig deep into our history to dredge up something to justify hatred of our neighbours, even if it was 200 or 600 years ago. That’s just the way Europe is
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j67ogq6 wrote
Reply to comment by queasy_self_controL in What Is The Gaming Hill You Will Die On? by OutriderZero
Because it’s single player and most didn’t replay it. People did complain at the time while they were playing it. But the vast majority of people completed the game and stopped playing once done
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j67o5i6 wrote
Reply to comment by animebuttholesniffer in What Is The Gaming Hill You Will Die On? by OutriderZero
Fortnite did it the best, by far
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j60lqaa wrote
Reply to comment by Robocop613 in TIL that World War II Spitfires only had about 20 seconds of 'gun time' before running out of ammo, making most movie depictions wildly inaccurate by TimmyIsBaller
Now we need a WW2 dogfight sim where you fly to the front for two hours and have 20 seconds of shooting then fly back
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j5tg935 wrote
Reply to comment by Paradox711 in TIL about medically unexplained symptoms, almost 1/4 of all people who visit a GP in the UK have phsyical conditions that cannot be explained by gorge_orwoll
I also want to point out something people miss. There’s actually not much they can do for you for a lot of things. It’s not a case of “I’m fucked fix me”, that’s why people get ill and die every day. We can’t actually do anything anyway
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j5tfh2h wrote
Reply to comment by Runner_one in TIL about medically unexplained symptoms, almost 1/4 of all people who visit a GP in the UK have phsyical conditions that cannot be explained by gorge_orwoll
What a beautiful story. Not too sad but had a happy ending anyway
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j5qxcnn wrote
How would there be one super black hole when galaxies are moving away from each other faster than light?
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j5qmly3 wrote
Reply to comment by AbbreviationsWide331 in TIL that in 2020, researchers tried to determine the actual effects of ingesting George's Marvelous Medicine (from the Roald Dahl book), consisting of shampoo, anti-freeze, brown paint, floor polish, and 30 other household items. It would cause vomiting, kidney injury, convulsions, and likely death. by derstherower
It was 2020. People had a lot of time to think up weird shit
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_jcvh2wh wrote
Reply to TIL The people giving out free samples at Costco do not work for Costco but a separate company by CA_Mini
Isn’t this the same in every supermarket