JuzoItami

JuzoItami t1_j9lgrli wrote

Reply to comment by A40 in TIL the worst snowstorm in the history of Los Angeles occurred in 1949 when up to two feet of snow covered the city for three days as it reached its lowest temperature ever recorded, 28 degrees Fahrenheit by SappyGilmore

Sam Spade was confused. "What am I doing in Los Angeles in the late 1940s?" he asked himself. "I'm a San Francisco based literary character from the late '20s and early '30s, if I start cross country skiing around L.A. I'm just going to get myself lost".

So Spade unstrapped his skis and went inside. He poured himself two fingers of rye, sat down, put his feet up, took a drink, grimaced, and then looked down into his glass and mused "I could definitely afford to buy better booze if I had a shiny new silver dime for every two bit Redditor that confused me with Phillip Marlowe."

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JuzoItami t1_j93pyqb wrote

Reply to comment by sotommy in Will The Last of Us take the generational crown from Breaking Bad? by MoonSpawn12

Yeah. There's a lot of money behind it and it's got a ready-made fanbase that LOOOOOVES the source material, but at the end of the day it's yet another show about a post-apocalyptic dystopian America. There's nothing we haven't seen before. There's no new ideas. No fresh perspective.

Of course, I'll keep watching it because I love that kind of show, but there's not much to it other than that it looks cool. Maybe even really, really cool. But that's it.

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JuzoItami t1_j6oo1w6 wrote

Reply to TIL Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos baseball team while still in high school, but instead chose to play football in college. This technically makes him the last player drafted by the Expos still playing professional sports. by _Abe_Froman_SKOC

Kinda like how Michael Jordan, Chris Mullin, and Patrick Ewing all retired 20+ years ago, but technically there's one guy left from the '84 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team who's still running up and down the court in the NBA every night: Leon Wood - the ex-NBA player who became a ref.

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JuzoItami t1_j1brpr8 wrote

Reply to TIL John Paul Jones, famed captain of the U.S. navy in the American Revolution, later became a rear admiral in the Russian navy. by Rufusisking

And then, while he was in Russia, he was accused of raping a 10 year old girl. He defended himself by saying the girl was actually 12; that she was a prostitute; that he'd previously paid her for sex on multiple occasions; and that the whole thing was a shakedown. This attempt at "damage control" didn't go over well and his career with the Russian Navy was over almost before it began.

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JuzoItami t1_iu5ynxh wrote

Reply to comment by DaveOJ12 in TIL about Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk. He was responsible for rescuing a team of French nuclear scientists and the entire world stockpile of heavy water from France during WW2. He also served as part of an unexploded bomb detachment, successfully tackling 34 unexploded bombs by SteO153

There was a great British TV series about forty years back called Danger UXB ("UXB" was the abbreviation for "unexploded bomb") about the guys who defused bombs in London during The Blitz. Worth seeking out

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JuzoItami t1_iu3b9h7 wrote

Reply to TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed. by The_Critical_Cynic

IIRC that was because a reaction time quicker than 0.1 seconds isn't humanly possible according to world track and field officials, so Allen must have cheated.

However... (also IIRC) that 0.1 seconds standard isn't actually based on science - it's literally just a number some bureaucrat from the World Athletic Championships decided upon because it sounded good.

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JuzoItami t1_ir0c0fe wrote

Reply to comment by sanmigmike in TIL that Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" aircraft had no front window due to fuel tank placement. The only forward vision was by a periscope. by p38-lightning

Well yeah sure, the girlfriend and her kids in Germany.

But also the two other girlfriends in Germany and their kids, too.

Three girlfriends in Germany, and seven kids: maybe he was trying to repopulate the Aryan race post WW2 all by himself.

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