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In the 1980s, the Sony Walkman (and other portable cassette players) had a fair amount of controversy surrounding them, since (for the first time ever) you could basically just tune out the entire world around you. Also the first Walkman models had a switch that would lower the volume and enable a microphone, so that the user could have a conversation without having to stop the player. There's even a name for the phenomenon, the Walkman effect.
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MF-690T said:
Also the first Walkman models had a switch that would lower the volume and enable a microphone, so that the user could have a conversation without having to stop the player.
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Can confirm; my first Walkman had a bright orange ‘hot line’ button that activated a microphone and muted the tape/radio.

Clockwork_PurBle said:
There is a film called Dark Night of the Scarecrow and guess what! It has nothing to do with Batman.
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For those interested, it’s on Tubi for free right now.
 
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Yugica said:
Tycho Brahe kept a moose as a pet
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It is said that Karl XI tried to train mooses to replace horsies for military use. idk if that's true but attempts were made to do this. A moose can easily travel through terrain that are unfit for horses, so cavalry could come in from angles they were not supposed to.

Imagine being a poor polack or russian and this, x200, is suddenly rushing your rear flanks.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Meanwhile, the spectrum of a red dwarf is like that of flame or that of an incandescent bulb. So if you were out in the sun all day on some planet with a "normal" environment around a red dwarf sun, you may not need sunscreen.
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Until the solar flares occur :). Red dwarfs are cool(pun intended) though and I'd love to see what it's like on a world lit by one. Here's an article covering the harsh UV radiation that can come from the flares though.
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
It is said that Karl XI tried to train mooses to replace horsies for military use. idk if that's true but attempts were made to do this. A moose can easily travel through terrain that are unfit for horses, so cavalry could come in from angles they were not supposed to.

Imagine being a poor polack or russian and this, x200, is suddenly rushing your rear flanks.
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The meese could band up with the geese and be unstoppable if we ever domesticated them. Never underestimate the geese.
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Did you know that there is at least one mostly herbivorous spider out there? Bagheera kiplingi is a species of jumping spider that primarily eats special nodules, called beltian bodies, that the acacia trees they inhabit make. The trees make these nodules to feed the ants who then protect them from pests, however the ants sometimes act like parasitic castrators and will harm the trees' ability to reproduce.
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I've actually been able to feed spiders fish flakes before. You'd be surprised at what spiders might be willing to partake in.
 
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The above two figures are rearrangements of each other, with the corresponding triangles and polyominoes having the same areas. Nevertheless, the bottom figure has an area one unit larger than the top figure.
 
𒀭Δημιουργός χάος said:
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The above two figures are rearrangements of each other, with the corresponding triangles and polyominoes having the same areas. Nevertheless, the bottom figure has an area one unit larger than the top figure.
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The grid is pretty helpful here. Neither of the figures are triangles - the top one, that looks like a triangle, is really a quadrilateral. The blue triangle has a hypotenuse with a slope of 2/5 or 0.4, while the red triangle has a hypotenuse with a slope of 3/8, or 0.375
 
Cats have a righting reflex that allows them to land on their feet usually.
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Most people would think of minnows as rather boring and unimpressive. However in North America there exists a kind of minnow that is very odd and cool: The fathead minnow.
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For most of its life it's rather unimpressive and the females are nothing that really catches the eye. However during the mating season the males will darken in color and develop spiny points(tubercles) on their heads. They use these horns to defend their nests, as the males take on the parental care role in this species. They will literally ram into any fish that gets near their nests in order to deter said fish and protect their babies.
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They also look really cool like this. I'd love to have these bred to always have their spiny head projections. Beyond that they're also very hardy fish and are used in toxicology research.
 
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To “bolo” something is a slang term in the U.S. military meaning to fail an evaluation (e.g. “wow I really bolo’d that test”), particularly with regards to marksmanship, or when used as a noun a soldier considered an unskilled fuckup (e.g. “Private Jensen is a total bolo”). This term originates from the Philippine-American war, in which U.S. soldiers who failed their marksmanship evaluations were given a Bolo knife in place of a firearm.
 
Former members of the Warsaw Pact in general had a taste for Latinamerican media and culture. The Mexican telenovela Esmeralda is pretty much the only thing they know about Mexico in Uzbekistan. Yugoslavia enjoyed the golden age of Mexican cinema and mariachi so much they created their own music genre, Yu-Mex. The USSR in general enjoyed watching the Brazilian telenovela Escrava Isaura and the Mexican telenovela Los Ricos También Lloran. This last one was so popular its lead actress, Verónica Castro, visited Russia as a modest publicity stunt.

 
N Space said:
Former members of the Warsaw Pact in general had a taste for Latinamerican media and culture. The Mexican telenovela Esmeralda is pretty much the only thing they know about Mexico in Uzbekistan. Yugoslavia enjoyed the golden age of Mexican cinema and mariachi so much they created their own music genre, Yu-Mex. The USSR in general enjoyed watching the Brazilian telenovela Escrava Isaura and the Mexican telenovela Los Ricos También Lloran. This last one was so popular its lead actress, Verónica Castro, visited Russia as a modest publicity stunt.

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the most funny fact is that "Esmeralda" isn't even the original version. The original version was made in Venezuela during 1970's and it was so popular and famous in America, so it was made 4 versions:
 
Bunny Tracks said:
The Batman villain Professor Pyg is partially based off of Harry Harlow, the zoosadist psychologist who tortured baby monkeys in the name of "science".
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He even had the Batman villain origin story of going completely off the rails after the death of his wife.

He had multiple wives, though. He was always a psycho. His previous wives probably fled out of horror at what a piece of shit this psychotic asshole was.

Imagine how sick a person has to be to design a "rape rack" and a "pit of despair" to torture animals that are just a shade less than human, while being a person with an advanced degree who was entirely aware of the vileness of what he was doing.
 
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