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Reply to TIL Porters bringing tourists up 5,895m high Mt Kilimanjaro experience health issues caused by high altitude sickness. Their wages are fixed at $10 a day (some paid $6), while carrying 20 kilograms of baggage and camping gearing on the head by Ok_Copy5217
Americans are the worst!
Still better than them not getting paid.
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Reply to comment by Singaya in TIL Roman Polanski sued Vanity Fair for libel in the UK over an article claiming he tried to seduce a Scandinavian model after Sharon Tate's death. by Its_Alive_74
Polygraphs are junk science. He is the worst though.
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Reply to comment by Suitable_Item_4893 in ‘That’s So Raven,‘ ‘Family Matters’ Star Orlando Brown Arrested for Domestic Violence by MarvelsGrantMan136
Ha. But IRL, stalking is scary.
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Reply to comment by PoopIsAlwaysSunny in TIL while writing "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens was "taking night-time walks of 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 km) around London." to build out the story in his head. by SuperMcG
Jogging is a new sport. Before sneakers, running and walking was even more unpleasant.
Walking 15 miles in a day is too much damn walking in any era.
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Reply to comment by DragonTonguePunch in ‘That’s So Raven,‘ ‘Family Matters’ Star Orlando Brown Arrested for Domestic Violence by MarvelsGrantMan136
Right? Racism now. Racist then too.
Urkel stalking his crush hasn't aged well.
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Reply to comment by KingGeorgeIVE in ‘That’s So Raven,‘ ‘Family Matters’ Star Orlando Brown Arrested for Domestic Violence by MarvelsGrantMan136
Nick didn't want to offend gay people with his denial?
OB is mentally ill though.
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Reply to TIL Stan Lee made the X-Men mutants because he didn't want to come up with a reason for their super powers, instead they were just born with them. Additionally the 1963 comic was initially a flop until the 1975 reboot by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum. by jamescookenotthatone
People hate mutants but they're okay with Captain America? A Nazi have him superpowers! He failed to kill Hitler!
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Reply to comment by JazzFestFreak in TIL Drive through liquor stores are legal in most US states by DEEP_HURTING
Game well played!
Open containers are illegal.
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Reply to comment by Goalie_deacon in TIL: George Carlin was arrested for 7 words. by PseudoPatriotsNotPog
Pretty sure they were vandalizing cars.
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Reply to comment by YourWiseOldFriend in TIL: George Carlin was arrested for 7 words. by PseudoPatriotsNotPog
He was quite short, actually.
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Reply to comment by blackjackgabbiani in TIL: The final night of women's figure skating in 1994's Winter Olympics is the 6th highest rated TV broadcast in US history. Remembered for the Kerrigan-Harding subplot, 48.5% of all households with a TV watched the final. Since then, no other broadcast has matched that rating. by theotherbogart
Didn't Nancy get silver? Second best is pretty good.
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Reply to TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent. by TychaBrahe
Remind me of when the US Army went looking for a missing soldier and found another missing soldiers corpse.
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Reply to TIL In 1939 chess Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf started regular simultaneous blindfold exhibitions hoping that international news coverage would reconnect him with family in Poland. He succeeded in setting the record and getting international coverage but his family had already been killed by nazis. by SigmaGrooveJamSet
That took a turn.
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Reply to Most random series that no one but you would consider among the best shows ever made by HitmanSK007
Brilliant but cancelled.
The Outer Limits revival of the 90s. One of the better anthology series. Ran almost ten years.
Long Ago and Far Away. PBS series for kids animating various stories.
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Reply to comment by RedSonGamble in TIL "Hey Jude" evolved from the song "Hey Jules" which Paul McCartney wrote for John Lennon's son, Julian, to comfort him while Lennon and his wife were getting separated, He recorded first part of the song on his way to Cynthia and Julian in his Car with a recorder installed in his car's dashboard. by Knight_TheRider
Join Lennon was the liberal Jesus for awhile, but Reddit long hates him. Good
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Reply to comment by TUGrad in TIL "Hey Jude" evolved from the song "Hey Jules" which Paul McCartney wrote for John Lennon's son, Julian, to comfort him while Lennon and his wife were getting separated, He recorded first part of the song on his way to Cynthia and Julian in his Car with a recorder installed in his car's dashboard. by Knight_TheRider
Still yoko wasn't legally required to give Julian anything. So she didn't
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Reply to TIL that in 1979, a charity special episode of the academic student quiz show "It's Academic" was held between a team of three Democratic U.S. Senators, three Republican U.S. Senators, and three members of the press. The special was handily won by the press team. by FranklinDRoosevelt32
You don't have to be book smart to be in politics.
Journalists tend to be over educated. Not necessarily likeable.
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On the street? Duck into a business.
Driving? Drive to a police station.
Make three left turns. If the guy behind you is making left turns, you're being followed!
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Reply to comment by Fuck_Lasagna in [OC] 2016 vs 2020 US Presidential Election Vote Shift Percentage by notspoon
A lot of minorities and rich white liberals. So...yes.
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Reply to comment by blatantninja in TIL During the 20th century TV series that reached 100 episodes were generally preferred for syndication, since that meant stations could run 20 weeks of programming without repeating a story. In recent years that number has fallen to 88 episodes. by UndyingCorn
Speaking gives creators a large budget and one guaranteed season. Low interference.
NBC, for instance, would fund a pilot. Then 8-12 episodes. Then maybe 10 more episodes. Then maybe a second season of 12-26 episodes.
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Reply to TIL the Iowa Writer’s Workshop was used to fight communism abroad and domestically from the 1940s through the 1970s, and received substantial funding from the CIA to do so. by big_papa_geek
Hell, during the depression, US government funded art.
Art funding tends to require a political reason.