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srcarruth t1_ja1wgmn wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
He studied language all his life, seems a natural fit
srcarruth t1_j6ovwgg wrote
Reply to comment by Fetlocks_Glistening in TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century. by CaptainCorpse666
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Reply to TIL about cargo cults, where indigenous people of small tropical islands would perform elaborate rituals to mimic air traffic control and marching patterns after witnessing airplanes drop supplies on airforce bases during world war II. by sciencedit
Cargo Cult was the theme for Burning Man a few years ago, fun stuff
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Reply to comment by Exact-Vast3018 in Eli5 How are seedless grapes made? by Exact-Vast3018
Maybe they are, all navel oranges are related to a single mutant tree. Made from cuttings and endlessly propagated. People think science is magic too often.
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Reply to comment by tranquil45 in ELI5: Why was Howard Dean's infamous scream infamous? by KingofSlice
It was more an example of how silly he was more than the driver of that perception, I think
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Reply to comment by Bierbart12 in A pan I got for Christmas came with a full size screwdriver for assembly of the handle! There was only one screw. by Andire
They could also not give you a driver at all, seems they made a choice
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Reply to comment by GodspeedNibbles in TIL that as of August, 2022 there were over 2.8 million podcasts available online worldwide with over 135 million episodes in total. by big_macaroons
We should start a podcast about podcasts
srcarruth t1_ixl0x0l wrote
I remember car ads in the 80s talking about cup holders like it was space age living. People used to have mugs with super wide bases that wouldn't fall over
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Reply to comment by Nebahera in Why didn't heavier atoms originate in the Big Bang? by omigodd
'Baroque' and 'Impressionism' are also both terms that started as derision and became canon
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Reply to comment by r1ch999999 in TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public by MoistCoyote
plus all them horny Pilgrims, woo woo! they could also be called hogs.