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The handshake was invented as a way for men to check each other's wrists for hidden assassin daggers, and originally meant grabbing and shaking the opposite person's wrist to feel or dislodge one.
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Jon Bois does some amazing statistical analysis but man is he a lefty twitter faggot irl
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...I never thought I could fall in love again.
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Lawrence marson (Ted) was actually high during the filming of Friday the 13th the final chapter, so his reactions to everything on screen is genuine
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Yeah, I don't like him for that but his videos are interesting.
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Is there a similar reason for why the turks grabs each others dicks? To check for boners?
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The word sabotage comes from Dutch workers throwing wooden shoes or sabots into machinery during the early industrial revolution as a form of protest against automation
Also
The dakimaura was based on a "lover pillow" issued to Japanese sailors in ww2 which in turn was based on "sex dolls" the Nazis issued to the werchmat in order to discourage troops from hiring prostitutes and curb the high number of STDs the German army faced during the war
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The dakimaura was based on a "lover pillow" issued to Japanese sailors in ww2 which in turn was based on "sex dolls" the Nazis issued to the werchmat in order to discourage troops from hiring prostitutes and curb the high number of STDs the German army faced during the war
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Ironically, there's also the term "Dutch wife" which describes this huggable thing. Pretty based, those Dutch.
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Wtf? why does that look like it's made of wood? It doesn't even look like you could use for a regular pillow let alone a sex one.Ironically, there's also the term "Dutch wife" which describes this huggable thing. Pretty based, those Dutch.
Edit ok I looked it up and it's actually somewhat more comfy that. It looks
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The saying "Hoisted with his own petard!" was introduced to the English language and is attributable to William Shakespeare in Hamlet Act 3 Scene 3.
Whereby Hamlet having a suspicion that Claudius intends to have him murdered in England, suspects Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are in on it, and carry a letter requesting his execution at the hands of the King of England.
The petard was a French medieval small bomb that was used for door clearances in sieges. Hoisting in the context of this was to be blown into the air from an explosion, and thus the expression became allegorical for someone getting done in by their own plans.
William Shakespeare had some experience as a soldier during his wilderness years, before becoming a playwright. It's likely he spent time in the continent as a mercenary due to his knowledge of France and Italy and soldiering as reflected in his writings and his plays.
Whereby Hamlet having a suspicion that Claudius intends to have him murdered in England, suspects Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are in on it, and carry a letter requesting his execution at the hands of the King of England.
The petard was a French medieval small bomb that was used for door clearances in sieges. Hoisting in the context of this was to be blown into the air from an explosion, and thus the expression became allegorical for someone getting done in by their own plans.
William Shakespeare had some experience as a soldier during his wilderness years, before becoming a playwright. It's likely he spent time in the continent as a mercenary due to his knowledge of France and Italy and soldiering as reflected in his writings and his plays.
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hmmm
it was 45,000 years ago that humans arrived in Australia from Indonesia
unlike a lot of birds, corvids actually stick around with their parents for a very long time, almost years. Usually they help out their parents with the new chicks.
The kakapo is the world's largest parrot and can live for 90 years
Horses' lungs can bleed if they run too fast
it was 45,000 years ago that humans arrived in Australia from Indonesia
unlike a lot of birds, corvids actually stick around with their parents for a very long time, almost years. Usually they help out their parents with the new chicks.
The kakapo is the world's largest parrot and can live for 90 years
Horses' lungs can bleed if they run too fast
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STD were a huge problem that all sides tried to curb in different ways.
Stan Lee apparently did a lot of media-related things while in the military during WW2 including information campaigns, education/training material and also posters like the one above(not created by him).
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Yeah but Uncle Sam supply my grandad with a blow up Betty? Then again maybe thats why we won they lost
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The term "scapegoat" comes from an ancient jewish tradition in which people would take care of 2 goats for a whole year. One of the goats represents the people chosen by God while the other represents the people that are astray. During the year the chosen goat would be taken care with love and affection while the other would be insulted and breated. At the end of the year, the people would do a ritual in which they would put all their sins on the astray goat and either sacrifice it or drive it out into the wilderness. By that logic, all the sins of the people would be gone thanks to their literal scapegoat.
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Poor goat. People are dicks.
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They should have just picked a scapejew, possibly an orphan, and spared the poor goat.
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Roger Bacon 1219 - 1292 was a Franciscan Friar who studied a variety of subjects and would become the prototype for the idea of the Renaissance Man. His contemporaries were so afraid of some of his experiments, that they considered him a Wizard.
He was well educated in a multitude of subjects, including the sciences, Greek and Roman classics, and having particular interests in alchemistry and automation and was a general man of science.
His contributions include reformation to the University systems with an expansion of teaching of subjects beyond the core four of the period. Early books on the grammar and usage of the language and grammar, as well as a 800 page book on science, mathematics and logic for the period.
He even had an steam powered brass head, referred to as the Brazen Head, an automaton that he could control with steam power to have rudimentary locomotive movements.
The biggest contribution to science however was his testing and perfecting of the Chinese recipe for gunpowder, it is to Roger Bacon that the firearm first gained traction in medieval warfare.
He was well educated in a multitude of subjects, including the sciences, Greek and Roman classics, and having particular interests in alchemistry and automation and was a general man of science.
His contributions include reformation to the University systems with an expansion of teaching of subjects beyond the core four of the period. Early books on the grammar and usage of the language and grammar, as well as a 800 page book on science, mathematics and logic for the period.
He even had an steam powered brass head, referred to as the Brazen Head, an automaton that he could control with steam power to have rudimentary locomotive movements.
The biggest contribution to science however was his testing and perfecting of the Chinese recipe for gunpowder, it is to Roger Bacon that the firearm first gained traction in medieval warfare.
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The popularly known North Bridge of Edinburgh is a bridge in the Old town of the city. It was built in the late 1800s due to railways becoming a common way of transportation.
The problem was that to build the bridge the mayor ordered the old lake next to Edinburgh castle to be drained. The lake had a dreadful reputation due to the more than 300 witches that met their death in it as well as taking the filth fo Edinburgh for hundreds of years. When construction started the very first day a worker died because the mud on the bottom of the lake didn't dried up properly and so people started to say that the bridge was cursed.
When the bridge was finally finished years later people still said that it was cursed, and so the mayor came up with a brilliant idea: to pass Scotland's oldest person through the bridge in order to prove it wasn't cursed. And so an old woman in a wheelchair was brought to him a few days before the inaugural act. But then the poor lady died the night before the inauguration and the mayor was desperate. He decided to take the body of the old woman, put it on the wheelchair and try to pass it through the bridge. It obviously didn't worked and people more than ever said the bridge was cursed.
Tired of all this, the mayor took matters in his own hands and signed a law that required public servants to cross that bridge every time they went to work to the Town hall in the Old Town. Of course, the mayor took a different way.
The problem was that to build the bridge the mayor ordered the old lake next to Edinburgh castle to be drained. The lake had a dreadful reputation due to the more than 300 witches that met their death in it as well as taking the filth fo Edinburgh for hundreds of years. When construction started the very first day a worker died because the mud on the bottom of the lake didn't dried up properly and so people started to say that the bridge was cursed.
When the bridge was finally finished years later people still said that it was cursed, and so the mayor came up with a brilliant idea: to pass Scotland's oldest person through the bridge in order to prove it wasn't cursed. And so an old woman in a wheelchair was brought to him a few days before the inaugural act. But then the poor lady died the night before the inauguration and the mayor was desperate. He decided to take the body of the old woman, put it on the wheelchair and try to pass it through the bridge. It obviously didn't worked and people more than ever said the bridge was cursed.
Tired of all this, the mayor took matters in his own hands and signed a law that required public servants to cross that bridge every time they went to work to the Town hall in the Old Town. Of course, the mayor took a different way.
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