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Malagor the dank omen said:
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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So you're saying even goats have a good reason to hate on Jews?

But it does explain the Muslim hatred for the Jews. Imagine someone being so mean to your girlfriend
 
The Chinese warlord Cao Cao died of a brain tumor that was, despite the lack of medical technology, completely operable. His physician, Hua Tuo, accurately determined that the only way to remove the tumor was to break open his skull and cut it out, and that he would survive it through use of anesthesia.

Hua Tuo however procrastinated many times, making excuses that his wife was ill and he needed to tend to her. After many failed letters sent to Hua Tuo, Cao Cao's general Xun Yu had him forcefully imprisoned. While awaiting his sentence, Hua Tuo recorded all his medical findings in a green book, which detailed many cures to serious illnesses through the use of traditional medicine. When his execution came, Hua Tuo offered to give them the book to preserve for future use, but Cao Cao declined and had the book burned.

This dealt a massive blow to traditional Chinese medicine, and many medical findings within the book wouldn't be discovered for hundreds upon hundreds of years.

Not a "fun" fact, but there you go.
 
Fun fact/pro tip.

If you have leftover coffee in your coffee pot that has been out for a few hours or overnight, the best method of reheating it is over the stovetop. Put the leftovers in a small pot, sauce pan, etc (reflecting how much coffee you have), heat it over low to medium heat until it reaches the temperature you want, and voila.

Microwaving coffee kills the good taste and leaves only the bad bitterness.
 
Clockwork_PurBle said:
Fun fact/pro tip.

If you have leftover coffee in your coffee pot that has been out for a few hours or overnight, the best method of reheating it is over the stovetop. Put the leftovers in a small pot, sauce pan, etc (reflecting how much coffee you have), heat it over low to medium heat until it reaches the temperature you want, and voila.

Microwaving coffee kills the good taste and leaves only the bad bitterness.
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Who the fuck microwaves coffee? Seriously, is this a thing? I tend to boil new coffee several times per day, just a cup or two at a time.
 
The weird bit on the end of bananas is just the remains of the flower bud. Its not spider eggs or some shit. Joshua, its not spiders its flowers.
 
Just make your coffee in the saucepan from the start. Fill it with water, put coffee grounds in, set on high, when it starts to boil turn off the heat and bring the pan under the tap and run some cold water into it. The cold water makes the coffee grounds fall straight to the bottom within 20-30 seconds so it can be poured unfiltered into a mug, it also instantly stops the boiling and prevents it from going sour. Put the pan back on the stove top to keep warm.

This method is very fast and reliable, cooking the same amount of water/coffee in the same pan on the same stove can be timed down to seconds, and instead of fishing out soggy coffee filters or scrubbing the nooks of a percolator just pour the remaining grounds into the drain and rinse the pan.

Most importantly it makes good coffee with less acidity/sour taste, it sounds suspect but if you have a pan and some coffee and up to 10 minutes of spare time then you can and should try it.

Fun fact: this is called cowboy coffee
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Just make your coffee in the saucepan from the start. Fill it with water, put coffee grounds in, set on high, when it starts to boil turn off the heat and bring the pan under the tap and run some cold water into it. The cold water makes the coffee grounds fall straight to the bottom within 20-30 seconds so it can be poured unfiltered into a mug, it also instantly stops the boiling and prevents it from going sour. Put the pan back on the stove top to keep warm.

This method is very fast and reliable, cooking the same amount of water/coffee in the same pan on the same stove can be timed down to seconds, and instead of fishing out soggy coffee filters or scrubbing the nooks of a percolator just pour the remaining grounds into the drain and rinse the pan.

Most importantly it makes good coffee with less acidity/sour taste, it sounds suspect but if you have a pan and some coffee and up to 10 minutes of spare time then you can and should try it.

Fun fact: this is called cowboy coffee
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This is the kind of stuff i really like. I may be a foodie but i aspire to be a good cook as well.

And talking about drinks, the origin of the word Cocktail was thanks to bar in Campeche, in California. The bar served specialty drinks that were usually two kinds of liquor mixed with fruit juice. When it got popular it attracted many english speaking patrons who asked for the name of the drink, which was Cola de gallo, literally translated would be Cock's tail.
 
Coffee can reduce the effects of depression.
Apparently, being tired means you get more easily affected by the sadbrains, coffee not only counters this, the coffein also attaches itself to receptors in your brain that will also cockblock the chemicals that make you feel terrible.
You won't feel good, but you will feel significantly less shit.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Apparently, being tired means you get more easily affected by the sadbrains, coffee not only counters this, the coffein also attaches itself to receptors in your brain that will also cockblock the chemicals that make you feel terrible.
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What about when coffee makes you tired? Legit asking since coffee makes me more tired and irritable afterwards than before I drink it.
 
Malagor the dank omen said:
This is the kind of stuff i really like. I may be a foodie but i aspire to be a good cook as well.

And talking about drinks, the origin of the word Cocktail was thanks to bar in Campeche, in California. The bar served specialty drinks that were usually two kinds of liquor mixed with fruit juice. When it got popular it attracted many english speaking patrons who asked for the name of the drink, which was Cola de gallo, literally translated would be Cock's tail.
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I don't believe this can be true since the term cocktail dates to at least 1807 and probably earlier, and may have originated in New York or even England.

Here's a really long article on it: https://www.saveur.com/how-the-cocktail-got-its-name/

This only mentions a possible origin in Mexico in passing, and may have overlooked it, but the timing seems off. Also that would be Campeche in Baja California, I believe, which is different than the U.S. state currently called California.
 
Pay close attention to the statues of people riding horses in parks and similar locations; the horse's pose actually tells you how the person riding the horse died. If the horse has both front legs in the air, it means the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, then he died as a result of wounds received in battle. And if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Coffee can reduce the effects of depression.
Apparently, being tired means you get more easily affected by the sadbrains, coffee not only counters this, the coffein also attaches itself to receptors in your brain that will also cockblock the chemicals that make you feel terrible.
You won't feel good, but you will feel significantly less shit.
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Also, Caffeine is a natural poison created by the coffee plant in order to dissuade bugs from infecting the fruits of the plant. There is only one insect inmune to the effects of the caffeine due to its very rare capacity to process the caffeine it consumes in the same way humans do.
 
Malagor the dank omen said:
Also, Caffeine is a natural poison created by the coffee plant in order to dissuade bugs from infecting the fruits of the plant. There is only one insect inmune to the effects of the caffeine due to its very rare capacity to process the caffeine it consumes in the same way humans do.
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Pufferfish developed a neurotoxin to deter predators, although some fish like sharks eat them anyway. Humans being what they are deliberately eat them specifically for the neurotoxin because it is otherwise an unremarkable fish. Humans aren't alone. Dolphins have also been seen passing pufferfish between themselves literally to get high off them.
 
Mask_de_SMITH said:
Pay close attention to the statues of people riding horses in parks and similar locations; the horse's pose actually tells you how the person riding the horse died. If the horse has both front legs in the air, it means the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, then he died as a result of wounds received in battle. And if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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I remember a section in Mad magazine that had facts that almost sounded true but weren't. One of the "facts" was if the horse's front legs were off the ground, that person died during sex.

Interesting to learn that there is actual significance to the legs being off the ground.
 
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