TIL: post things you learned today.

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Slowboat to China said:
Today I learned that through one side of my family, I'm descended from Captain John Underhill, a Puritan-turned-Quaker who massacred Pequot Indians in the 1630s. This isn't a powerlevel because this guy had like a dozen kids from two different wives and there's thousands upon thousands of people (including John Kerry, apparently) descended from this one lawfully-married murderous fuck machine.

Apparently he only managed to get the Pequot because the local Mohawks helped him out, though. Those tribes didn't like each other. So if I want mass murder bona fides, I'm gonna have to go out and earn them myself.
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That man used his gun a lot. He also used his rifle a great deal.
 
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Today I re-learned that Lukas Graham is actually the name of a band, not a single solitary person.

Although the frontman's first name is Lukas. I also learned that Lukas apparently grew up in an anarchist community.
 
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Today I just noticed that David Bowie had heterochromia.
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He didn't have heterochromia, he actually had a permanently dilated pupil because he was punched really hard when he was young and it stuck that way! https://www.thecut.com/2016/01/story-behind-david-bowies-unusual-eyes.html

His eyes were the product not of genes but a teenage fistfight that resulted in anisocoria, a condition in which a person’s eyes have different-size pupils.

In the spring of 1962, Bowie got into a fight with his school pal — and, later, lifetime artistic partner — George Underwood. Bowie, it seems, was in the throes of teenage love, and his best friend in school, Underwood, not only was crushing hard on a girl but found out Bowie was similarly enamored with the same girl, too, when the singer began “boasting to my mate [Underwood] about what a Casanova I was,” he told biographer Mark Spitz in an interview. As the story goes, Underwood wasn’t exactly pleased, and in fit of passion reportedly punched Bowie smack-dab in his left eye. “At first he [Underwood] thought I was kidding,” Bowie recounted to Spitz. “It wasn’t a very hard punch but obviously caught me at a rather odd angle.” Underwood’s fingernail had scratched the surface of Bowie’s eyeball, paralyzing the muscles that contract the iris.
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TIL that the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings are called hibakusha, literally "explosion affected person". It encompassed everyone who were either caught in the blast or suffered radiation sickness because of it. Even today some of them and their children suffer discrimination in job and marriage departments because of possible hereditary illnesses, though according to statistics they aren't anymore predisposed to it than the Japanese average.
 
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Night Owl said:
TIL that the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings are called hibakusha, literally "explosion affected person". It encompassed everyone who were either caught in the blast or suffered radiation sickness because of it. Even today some of them and their children suffer discrimination in job and marriage departments because of possible hereditary illnesses, though according to statistics they aren't anymore predisposed to it than the Japanese average.
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At least one of them got to do a manga about his experience during that.
 
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Phone numbers in old movies always start with 555, because up until cell phones became prevalent, the 555 exchange wasn't used except for testing so they could say it and not have morons calling some random person who then sued the studio.
 
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Today I learned the line "ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars" from Kill la Kill is a reference to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, where the phrase is actually "how can a little songbird understand the ambitions of a grand swan" and is credited to a Christian rebel named Chen Sheng.
 
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I found out that John Bolton is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Is John Bolton the most dangerous man in the world?

The US is closer to war with Iran than it has been since the Bush years, or perhaps ever. And Bolton is largely to blame‘But Bolton is on a fast track, seemingly aware that Trump’s time in office may be limited.’ Photograph: Jim Young/ReutersDonald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton wants
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I just think he does not have enough fiber in his diet.
 
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