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TIL Neanderthals sailed the Mediterranean. Stone tools, of the kind made by Neanderthals, were found in areas that were known to be distant islands at the time.
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TIL Neanderthals sailed the Mediterranean. Stone tools, of the...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/Bronesey • 71 points and 12 comments
Forwarded from E. Michael Jones
Good for him.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251305/archbishop-cordileone-nancy-pelosi-communion-abortion
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251305/archbishop-cordileone-nancy-pelosi-communion-abortion
Catholic News Agency
Archbishop Cordileone bars Nancy Pelosi from Communion until she ends abortion support
Archbishop Cordileone said that the step was ‘purely pastoral, not political.’
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TIL Spitfire planes were "crowdfunded" in some cases in World War II. Large scale contributors were allowed to give the plane a nickname which was printed on the side. For example, ‘Dorothy of Great Britain and Empire’ was named by a group of women, all with the name 'Dorothy'.
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TIL Spitfire planes were "crowdfunded" in some cases in World War...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/AkashicRecorder • 22,930 points and 398 comments
Forwarded from 𝕱𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖆𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖗
FUN FACT: The first person to introduce smallpox inoculation to England was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a fabulist and serial adulteress, famous in literary circles for befriending Alexander Pope and then mocking him ruthlessly when he declared his love for her. Unsurprisingly, she spent her later years writing her estranged husband about their son's gambling debts. She had had that same son, Edward, inoculated when he was not yet five years old, the "first English person to undergo the operation." In case you were wondering where the English-speaking world contracted its fascination with vaccines: they got it via Lady Mary who learned it from the Ottomans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu#Smallpox_inoculation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu#Smallpox_inoculation
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TIL Mel Gibson could not get any studio to fund ‘Passion of the Christ’. Instead of scrapping the film, he chose to fund it all by himself, an action which analysts labelled as “idiotic”. He spent $30M on the film & went on to make over $475M because he didn't have to split the profits
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TIL Mel Gibson could not get any studio to fund ‘Passion of the...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/iNeedHelp2903 • 452 points and 156 comments
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McLuhan on television politics, and charisma: "Charisma means to look like a lot of other people." To succeed in television politics, you need to look like a stereotype. A cartoon character, as it were.
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Forwarded from Jack Posobiec
I published this piece back in January, which explains the rise of the theater kid authoritarian phenomenon
Had no idea it would come in handy just a few months later in taking down a government censorship board
https://humanevents.com/2022/01/04/hollywood-consultant-admits-glee-started-the-wokeness-epidemic/
Had no idea it would come in handy just a few months later in taking down a government censorship board
https://humanevents.com/2022/01/04/hollywood-consultant-admits-glee-started-the-wokeness-epidemic/
Human Events
Hollywood Consultant Admits ‘Glee’ Started the Wokeness Epidemic”
Where did cancel culture and wokeness come from? This is the question that consumes many conservative writers almost as much as the question of how to beat it.
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TIL Civil War Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg once served as both a commander and quartermaster simultaneously. He submitted a requisition for supplies to himself and then denied them - twice.
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TIL Civil War Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg once served as both a...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/Snarti • 163 points and 32 comments
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TIL about The Skeleton Lake of India. In 1942 the skeletons of over 200 people were found in a frozen lake in northern India at a height of 16,000 feet. It is believed they were travelers who died in a freak hailstorm over a thousand years ago.
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TIL about The Skeleton Lake of India. In 1942 the skeletons of...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/0oOO00o0Ooo0OOO0o0o0 • 245 points and 18 comments
Forwarded from Jack Posobiec
The Turkenschanz, at the foot of Khalenburg Mountain
The site of the Battle of Vienna, 1683 where the Polish Hussars smashed the Ottoman Empire and saved Christendom
The site of the Battle of Vienna, 1683 where the Polish Hussars smashed the Ottoman Empire and saved Christendom
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🇷🇺 The Russian Foreign Ministry announced important facts: The employees involved in work with dangerous pathogens in Ukraine were US citizens and had diplomatic immunity. Ukrainian biological laboratories were engaged in activities to enhance the pathogenic properties of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases using synthetic biology methods.
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TIL a plane crashed because a crocodile that was smuggled onboard caused passengers to panic and shift the weight balance of the plane when they ran away from it. 20 people out of 21 died in the crash. The crocodile survived.
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TIL a plane crashed because a crocodile that was smuggled onboard...
Posted in r/todayilearned by u/Finn_MacCool • 361 points and 29 comments