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horsemagicians t1_j59akyo wrote

Reply to comment by larrylevan in TIL Japan is considered the world's most powerful passport, with visa-free access to 193 countries. Singapore and South Korea are close behind with 192 countries. Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are the least powerful, all with visa-free access to 30 or less countries. by grandlewis

Not true according to this. It changes yearly so if you heard that 3 years ago that doesn’t make it true now. Germany was first from 2014-2017 but have dropped since.

https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index

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horsemagicians t1_j2asuqc wrote

Reply to comment by Miserable_Bugger in TIL a UK punk band called the FF'ers were bottled at the Reading Festival in 2008 after rumours circulated their set was a secret Foo Fighters gig. Their bassist said items thrown included "bottles, shoes, clumps of earth, phones, a full packet of cigarettes (exactly what we needed after the gig)" by electricmaster23

That wasn’t 12? So everybody older than 12 was acting like a bunch of children because they didn’t like that band.

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horsemagicians t1_j2ar86m wrote

Reply to TIL An American Flag survived the Challenger explosion and was the flag raised at the 2002 Winter Olympics by I_like_the_titanic

So a bunch of metal medallions melted into a single clump but a plastic flag survived completely unscathed. Lmao okay, I call bullshit. Not only that but they found it after months of floating around in the ocean. Can’t find a plane but can find a flag in a bag. Obviously the thing Americans bow down to everyday survived.

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horsemagicians t1_j25idwa wrote

Reply to comment by AlexBucks93 in TIL that the narrative that Coca-Cola designed the modern Santa Claus as part of an advertising campaign is not true, because Coca-Cola did start using Santa in advertising in 1933. But Santa had been portrayed almost exclusively in red from the early 19th century by giuliomagnifico

It says what the top comment in this thread said, like quite literally in the first 2 sentences. They said they didn’t invent Santa Clause but helped shape it. Taking a bunch of regional ideas and putting it into one character and because it was nation wide advertising that idea spread everywhere.

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horsemagicians t1_j25e8bl wrote

Reply to comment by roobinsteen in 120v Extension Cord with USB outlets by HardSn0wCrash

>The majority of wire run through conduit (think commercial electrical applications) is all stranded, not solid.

As a commercial electrician I can promise you this absolutely isn’t true. 99% of the time it is solid. Far easier to terminate solid in a panel then stranded. The only time stranded is really used is when you have to because the wire size is 8awg or larger and it’s only stranded at that point.

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horsemagicians t1_j1zaeo6 wrote

Reply to TIL: Frank Slide, 44 MILLION tons of rock fell in one of the largest landslides in Canadian history back in 1903. It partially buried a town and killed 70-90 people. Also, a horse, Charlie. Survived for a month underground, only to die after being overfed oats and... brandy. by chrisbe2e9

The debris field is still there. They moved enough rubble for the highway and train tracks and that’s it.

aerial view

You can hike through it and so many of the boulders are house sized that climbers have bouldering routes up them. It’s really interesting to see in person. It’s pretty much half a mountain of debris. And for those that only look at titles, this occurred in the middle of the night when everybody was sleeping.

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horsemagicians t1_iyfcbks wrote

Reply to Chinese milestone sets stage for new space race with U.S. by Soupjoe5

You know what, good. Unlike the salty Americans in this thread, that’s a good thing. Look how much was accomplished with the space race against Russia. Despite what people in this thread apparently think, China has caught up very fast in the past couple decades. It was a country of mules being used to farm when the US first went to space, a cart was the main form of transportation in the 80s still.

Russia has pretty much become pointless, and the more countries in space sending out orbiters, rovers, cameras, doing scientific studies, the better it is for everybody who enjoys space. Competition is always good and the US has been pretty stagnant the past decade or so. If it weren’t for SpaceX then China would currently be ahead of the US.

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