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epochpenors t1_j9ddw46 wrote
Reply to comment by Djinn42 in TIL that Milton Bradley originally had been in the business of selling pictures of celebrities. After his biggest seller Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard and rendered his entire stock of lithographs worthless and had customers demanding their money back, MB switched to selling board games by Loki-L
If anything you’d think it would make the picture more valuable, considering they couldn’t take new ones of that style
epochpenors t1_j9ciwp2 wrote
Reply to comment by DankVectorz in Gritting routes are ‘sexist’ says Cambridgeshire highways chief and ‘must change’ by Bald__egg
If they opened up a place called “Mudflap’s Oversized Lip-Smackin’ Chicken” and only brought it to black neighborhoods, yes that would be extremely racist. If Chik-Fil-A opened up locations in black neighborhoods and white neighborhoods without significant bias I’m sure no one would care really.
epochpenors t1_j99d22c wrote
Reply to comment by kaenneth in TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow
How about “he knelt, she gasped, the cunnalingus classes had paid off”
epochpenors t1_j95uugg wrote
Reply to comment by OrangeJuiceAlibi in TIL in the 1950’s statues depicting Christopher Columbus making an indigenous woman flinch on one side and Davy Crockett arresting an indigenous man in front of his family on the other were taken down from the US capital by hillo538
Same! When I saw the year I assumed they were removed for painting our settlers in a negative light, I was surprised to see the 1939 declaration about how badly we fucked over and stole from the natives too.
epochpenors t1_j8p9z4e wrote
Reply to comment by TheCloudFestival in TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow
“I wrote a story that was only one sentence!”
“Oh like the classic ‘for sale: baby shoes, never worn’?”
“No it was about two hundred pages”
epochpenors t1_j871xda wrote
Reply to comment by _PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN in TIL that due to a restaurant offering free sushi to anyone with Chinese characters for salmon in their name, hundreds of Taiwanese changed their names in a situation that was dubbed "salmon chaos". Some are now stuck with names like Salmon Dream or Dancing Salmon. by Kurma-the-Turtle
There was a pizza place near me that offered free slices for life if you got their logo visibly tattooed on yourself. People did it, then it immediately went out of business.
epochpenors t1_j5aswb4 wrote
Reply to comment by Embra_ in TIL the Japanese United Red Army conducted an internal purge of its members in 1972, killing 12, including 1 member killed for asking for tissues. by JakeyZhang
Which is funny because here in the US there’s still a massive bureaucracy that takes decades and we somehow constantly execute innocent people
epochpenors t1_j4w7s59 wrote
Reply to TIL the public library in Aarhus, Denmark has a 25-ft 3-ton bronze bell named 'The Gong' that rings every time a baby is born in the city. It is connected to the maternity ward in the local hospital, where mothers can press a button after giving birth to ring The Gong by ergotpoisoning
I’m surprised they don’t have problems with some dumbass kid just spamming the gong button while they’re at the hospital
epochpenors t1_j0tycjf wrote
Reply to TIL that in 1983, Purina's Chuck Wagon dog food was given a promotional video game for the Atari 2600 called "Chase the Chuck Wagon". It could only be received by proof of purchase labels and is considered the "Holy Grail" of Atari 2600 video game collecting. by ZootyCutie
Damn, only worth about $1,100 in top tier graded condition. Guess Atari collecting isn’t too widespread anymore.
epochpenors t1_ixpedqx wrote
Reply to comment by DocAdrian in BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters' identities by Tough_Gadfly
The ultimate gaslighting attempt to convince his wife he isn’t having an affair
epochpenors t1_ixlj0zh wrote
“Braille books so we can keep reading when our eyes get tired”
Neeeeeerrrrrrrrrdddd
epochpenors t1_ixa9hqi wrote
Reply to TIL The Red Power Ranger actor was charged in multimillion-dollar PPP Covid relief fraud scheme by stepneo1
Damn, crazy how many people decided to take advantage of that program after the federal government publicly announced it had no intention to oversee applications or review recipients
epochpenors t1_iulhsll wrote
Reply to TIL that Koreans have had heated floor technology since at least 1,000 B.C.E. by Nice-Violinist-6395
Any house can have heated floors if the material is flammable enough
epochpenors t1_itudbt4 wrote
Reply to TIL that France and Spain "went to war" over a few stop signs in the 1970s and 1980s when France built two new roads that crossed a Spanish road and installed new stop signs which Spanish citizens continually removed over and over again for years. This became known as the "War of the Stop Signs". by AxelNotRose
If I woke up to a French ass stop sign on my street I would start swinging, on the sign most likely
epochpenors t1_itesywz wrote
Reply to comment by MyCatThinksImNeat in TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis
Of course, Ed Kemper killed his mother and fucked her head. I’m not quite sure who you’d go to to get him back in line…
epochpenors t1_ireyl2m wrote
Reply to comment by royiroyi in TIL that following their execution (by beheading) for treason, the heads of Baron Saye and his son-in-law were unceremoniously impaled on pikes by a mob and pushed together so that they appeared to kiss. by SilasMarner77
On that note, the fact that his full name is Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes
epochpenors t1_jdl3t0f wrote
Reply to TIL that the man who played the radiological technician in the movie The Exorcist is also a convicted murderer, and was briefly portrayed on screen in season 2 of Mindhunter. by MrAnderson-expectyou
Damn, and the extra murders for which he was suspected were the real life basis for the movie Cruising