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GetsGold t1_j68pczs wrote
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Reply to comment by Willem-Die-Zwijger in TIL that Haiti and Lichtenstein showed up to the 1936 Olympics with the exact same flag, which they had both been using for decades without knowledge of the similarity by Rickerpool
International law I assume.
GetsGold t1_j65jwuv wrote
Reply to TIL that Haiti and Lichtenstein showed up to the 1936 Olympics with the exact same flag, which they had both been using for decades without knowledge of the similarity by Rickerpool
Technically that made them the same country.
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Reply to comment by 7heTexanRebel in TIL the odds of winning jackpots at slot machines ranges between 1 in 5000 to 1 in 34 million, when using the maximum coin play. by carpitown
How to tell if you actually have a winning strategy: you're not allowed in the casino anymore.
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Reply to comment by 10secondmessage in TIL Pluto hasn't completed an orbit around the sun since its discovery. Pluto's orbit takes about 248 years, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. by irbinator
So you're saying that they estimated comet paths but were off and so hypothesized the existence of other bodies or forces? Is there a quote in the article about that?
That's interesting, but not the same as predicting specific planets, and especially Pluto. Pluto is less than a fifth the mass of our moon and orbiting 30+ times the distance from the Sun as us. They wouldn't have close to the precise data to estimate that.
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Reply to comment by MrBenjaminBraddock in TIL Pluto hasn't completed an orbit around the sun since its discovery. Pluto's orbit takes about 248 years, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. by irbinator
Yeah, that's right. Fixed.
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Reply to comment by 10secondmessage in TIL Pluto hasn't completed an orbit around the sun since its discovery. Pluto's orbit takes about 248 years, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. by irbinator
They did not predict the existence of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto thousands of years ago based on gravity. We couldn't even predict Pluto with modern equipment and math. You need some sources on this.
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Reply to comment by 10secondmessage in TIL Pluto hasn't completed an orbit around the sun since its discovery. Pluto's orbit takes about 248 years, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. by irbinator
They didn't even know about Neptune and almost certainly didn't know about Uranus even though it was technically just barely visible. They weren't making gravitational predictions about Pluto thousands of years ago when we couldn't even do that ourselves a hundred years ago.
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Reply to comment by 10secondmessage in TIL Pluto hasn't completed an orbit around the sun since its discovery. Pluto's orbit takes about 248 years, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. by irbinator
They didn't have math at that level. You're describing how Neptune was discovered, but that was in the 1800s. It was found due to irregularities in the path of Uranus that would be explained by another planet.
Further discrepancies led to searching for another planet, and that led to finding Pluto. However Pluto was later found to be too small to explain them.
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Reply to comment by irbinator in TIL Pluto hasn't completed an orbit around the sun since its discovery. Pluto's orbit takes about 248 years, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. by irbinator
He discovered Eris, which was more massive than Pluto.
Ceres was a planet that was discovered between Earth and Mars and Jupiter in 1801. Around 50 years later after several more planets were discovered in that region they started referring to them as asteroids instead.
That's similar to what happened with Pluto. At first it seemed unique in its part of the Solar System, but by the 90's we started discovering many other objects in that region, another belt. So with Eris they decided to treat it like the asteroid belt and stop calling its members planets.
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Reply to comment by mic3ttaa in TIL The longest word in the English language, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica particles. by mic3ttaa
There are two pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises in your comment.
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Reply to comment by mic3ttaa in TIL When you open your eyes in a prefectly dark room you don't see black, but " eigengrau ", a shafe of grey by mic3ttaa
Delete your account.
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Reply to TIL The longest word in the English language, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica particles. by mic3ttaa
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises.
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Reply to TIL On land, when you are in an emergency situation, your survival instinct is usually to stay on your feet so you’re prepared to maneuver out of the danger. When you’re in the water in an emergency, that same instinctive reaction can lead to one of the most deadly accidents: foot entrapment. by Rhacoon
This is why it's important to carry a foot saw when going in water.
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Reply to comment by Implausibilibuddy in TIL honeybees can understand the concept of zero. by BogdanAnime
They were taught that fewer symbols is better, and then applied that logic when no symbols became a possibility. Regardless of what they based this association on, they appeared to learn less vs. more and apply that concept to 0, not just learn none vs. some.
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Reply to comment by I_see_dumb_poeple in TIL honeybees can understand the concept of zero. by BogdanAnime
This isn't just knowing something vs. nothing, this is about understanding the order property of numbers and of zero being one of those numbers.
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Bees could be trained to pick which of two cards had the fewer number of symbols.
Then when shown a card with no symbols, the bees would pick this one more often than should happen randomly, implying that they could figure out "zero" was a number on the number line smaller than any positive number.
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Reply to comment by wannabe414 in TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard. by Bubbly-Incident
30s.
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Reply to comment by GlandyThunderbundle in TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard. by Bubbly-Incident
Yeah, since then.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard. by Bubbly-Incident
Still better than today's "music".
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Reply to comment by Banea-Vaedr in TIL Oreos are vegan! by bethebumblebee
I realize you might be joking, but just for your information, the fish guts weren't used in the original process of making Guinness, they were only used starting in the mid-19th century. It was done to save costs and they were filtered out, so not related to taste.
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Reply to comment by Alexlam24 in TIL that the 1983 Dodge Caravan was the first car with built in cup holders by FiredFox
It's downhill though.
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Reply to comment by SeraxOfTolos in TIL that the 1983 Dodge Caravan was the first car with built in cup holders by FiredFox
That's probably 200 in kilometers though.
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Reply to comment by Willem-Die-Zwijger in TIL that Haiti and Lichtenstein showed up to the 1936 Olympics with the exact same flag, which they had both been using for decades without knowledge of the similarity by Rickerpool
It should be!