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temujin64 t1_jan5i30 wrote
Reply to comment by absolutelyshafted in TIL that Crusaders granted safe passage to Mamluk armies to fight Mongols in 1260. by MimirHinnVitru
Didn't the Mamluks also decisively defeat them too?
temujin64 t1_jaejypd wrote
Yentl.
temujin64 t1_j93no1a wrote
Reply to comment by Desolecontra in TIL a woman was once drafted by the NBA but had to turn the team down bc she was pregnant. She’s also in the hall of fame. by Desolecontra
Exactly. For example, women at the peak age for marathon times would be about as good a man in his late 50s.
She just wouldn't have the stamina, speed and power of even the worst make NBA players.
temujin64 t1_j233q81 wrote
temujin64 t1_j21wy4c wrote
Reply to TIL that Persian limes, the fruit that most Americans and Europeans know as simply “limes” are actually a hybrid of lemons and real limes, what we call “Key limes” today by evclides
Where I'm from limes are true limes. I've never seen any of those hybrid limes before.
temujin64 t1_j0twsb8 wrote
Reply to comment by IchiThKillr in Greek Hinduism - any surviving legacy? by Isabella1293
Lafcadio Hearn? Although he was half Irish and only born in Greece raised in Ireland.
temujin64 t1_iu0s0mv wrote
Reply to TIL that Hachiko, the dog famous for waiting for his owner for years after the owner's death, was stuffed and put into a museum by Yurekuu
A Japanese TV show interviewed a bunch of people who knew Hachiko. They all said that the story about waiting for the owner was an embellishment.
The entrance he waited next to was next to a yakitori restaurant and the patrons used to give him some. He was just begging for food.
They even did an autopsy of the dog and he had a bunch of bamboo sticks (used to skewer the chicken in yakitori) in his stomach.
temujin64 t1_jduq7o0 wrote
Reply to comment by Archamasse in Do you agree with the ending of The Terror S1? by Boss452
Crozier's family where planters in Ulster. They were colonisers.
He's no more an oppressed Irishman than any white American is an oppressed native American.