AnthillOmbudsman
AnthillOmbudsman t1_je8hwar wrote
Reply to comment by stay_fr0sty in TIL Margaret Knight (1838-1914) invented a machine to mass produce flat-bottomed paper bags and, after winning a lawsuit against a fraudster who copied her design, the patent was issued in 1871. Her first invention was when she was 12 years old (and began working in a factory). She had 87 patents. by WonderWmn212
Hey, I run all day and night
I was built by Margaret Knight
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jdt22tw wrote
Reply to comment by VanAgain in TIL that seagulls not only eat other birds and animals, but are cannibals and often eat seagull chicks, even their own. by TrolleyMcTrollerson1
Bubbles, they come flying in late at night when there's a supershitmoon and the shit waves start rolling in. They swarm the beach and drag everyone off to the big shit abyss.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jda244b wrote
Reply to comment by kudichangedlives in TIL that mosquitos can be a nuisance for everyone but not for the people in Iceland. Simply because they don't exist there: by bringmeturtles
Sportacus puts a stop to Robbie Rotten's latest nefarious plan.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jda1p1x wrote
Reply to TIL that mosquitos can be a nuisance for everyone but not for the people in Iceland. Simply because they don't exist there: by bringmeturtles
Well, wait until they get a damaged shipping container from Miami that's caved in and shit has been breeding inside.
Texas got tiger mosquitos (a larger and more annoying variety) in 1985 from tires brought into Houston from Hong Kong. They're all over the state now.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jcuze6v wrote
Reply to TIL that in 2020, to educate the public about misinformation, researchers used AI to have Richard Nixon deliver the never-used "In Event of Moon Disaster" Apollo 11 speech. by [deleted]
OK that video is pretty annoying, it's about 90% the dude making the production. I have no idea how well the AI worked.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jbmqfsc wrote
Reply to comment by obsertaries in TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. by Rifletree
That's gotta violate all sorts of fire codes.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jbmqcfh wrote
Reply to comment by Mumbled_Jumbo in TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. by Rifletree
Vegas casinos don't seem anything like they were in the old days. Back in the 1990s you could definitely get lost in them. It seems a lot of those places have thinned out the machines and made the areas a lot more spacious and bright. I was also surprised they let kids all over the gaming floors now, it was never like that back then.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jbmptur wrote
Reply to comment by p4y in TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. by Rifletree
I always wonder what happens if an IKEA has a fire. It seems there would be hundreds of deaths from people not being able to escape the labyrinth, especially when you mix in smoke and emergency lighting.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jbmpnhk wrote
Reply to comment by DblClickyourupvote in TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. by Rifletree
I want to leave Mr. Bones Wild Mall.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jaehyeo wrote
Reply to comment by jason_abacabb in TIL American paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade mistakenly raided a working olive oil factory in Bulgaria as part of a large-scale joint exercise with NATO forces. by delano1998
The 1LT from Heartbreak Ridge would fit perfectly in this whole story.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jaehsws wrote
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jaeg4lv wrote
Reply to TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty. by geekteam6
No examples? Surely the National Archives would declassify some of this stuff.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jaef3wp wrote
Reply to comment by pyrrhios in Putin tells FSB security service to raise its game against Western spy agencies by northern_hero
Well there's the branch classified library at a certain estate in Florida. I'm guessing it's still there since the current administration seems cool with it.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jaeev8z wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Putin tells FSB security service to raise its game against Western spy agencies by northern_hero
Well the Sims 3 disc was lost in that blast, so Sims 4 it is.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jae18it wrote
"amid mud"... what awkward writing
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jadsxjw wrote
Reply to comment by GhettoChemist in TIL That a cat named Herman has his own US official passport for the US coast guard. by Urkylurker
The Coast Guard cat is dead. The time is upon us. We must convene the Brethren Court.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jadryy9 wrote
Reply to comment by VegetaIsSuperior in TIL the legendary story about a janitor who came up with Flamin' Hot Cheetos was a lie. by Station_Emotional
NPR: "Well it's in Newsweek, that's a magazine that's in every doctor's office waiting room in America, so it must be true."
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jacpwno wrote
Reply to comment by mortalcrawad66 in TIL the last B-52 Bomber produced for the US left the factory 10/26/1962 - the same day as the climax of the Cuban Missile Crisis - they're still used 60 yrs later. by GoGaslightYerself
The Air Force will almost definitely do the full 100 just for the recordbooks and to prove the endurance of their technology. It also looks good for Congress when you show how you're using old tech to save money.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jacplv5 wrote
Reply to comment by 5kyl3r in TIL the last B-52 Bomber produced for the US left the factory 10/26/1962 - the same day as the climax of the Cuban Missile Crisis - they're still used 60 yrs later. by GoGaslightYerself
Would be interesting to see them take out all the engines and then just stick two GE90s on it. I'd imagine you'd get amazing range and better performance.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jaa9a5q wrote
Reply to comment by WiseChoices in TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps. by SecretAgentIceBat
It doesn't help that the government at the time was literally a mob of gangsters. They thought nothing of enslaving millions of their own people for free labor.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_ja8r5v0 wrote
Reply to comment by Bobodahobo010101 in TIL On Christmas Eve 1969, Francisco Macias Nguema had 186 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo with the executioners dressed as Santa Claus, with the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song "Those Were the Days". by Osrever101
More like a scene out of A Clockwork Orange.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_ja5b0yt wrote
Reply to comment by Fetlocks_Glistening in TIL about Vesna Vulović, the Guinness world record holder for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi) by Cannabisseur78
Was but a scratch.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_ja5ay5a wrote
Reply to TIL about Vesna Vulović, the Guinness world record holder for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi) by Cannabisseur78
>Vulović travelled to the United Kingdom after completing her first year of university, hoping to improve her English-language skills. "I initially stayed with my parents' friends in Newbury," she recalled, "but wanted to move to London. It was there that I met up with a friend who suggested we go to Stockholm. When I told my parents I was living in the Swedish capital, they thought of the drugs and the sex and told me to come home at once." Upon returning to Belgrade
Jesus... giving up a dream of living in London in the early 1970s to move back to Yugoslavia. She would have probably had quite a different life in the UK, though I'm not sure what opportunities there were for Serbian expats in London 50 years ago. Maybe she would have ended up in the US.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_ja3grbn wrote
Reply to comment by Freekydeeky1258 in U.S. and Russia come together on ISS 'rescue' mission by Free_Swimming
Yahoo News printed a garbage story? My god, what next.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_jed7tkp wrote
Reply to comment by Ok-Bumblebee9289 in ‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics by pipsdontsqueak
But... what if they are decoy tools?