TIL: Today I Learned

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What if a homeless person was given McD's French fires in an unsupervised manner by an uncertified person and they became addicted?

I can testify what an iron grip food addition has on its victims. At a very young age, I first began eating, and I've never yet been able to kick the habit.
 
I began drinking even before I began eating, and look at me now!
 
I can testify what an iron grip food addition has on its victims. At a very young age, I first began eating, and I've never yet been able to kick the habit.

I began drinking even before I began eating, and look at me now!

Clearly, Texas is ahead of the curve on Republican efforts to limit government intrusion with unnecessary regulation.
 
TIL about the original American BLM.

On a more serious note, TIL the only photographs of the Pentagon allowed for the public is at the Pentagon Memorial.
 
TIL Lille parties hard. Very hard.
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"Firefighters extinguish a burning car during New Year celebrations in Lille, northern France, on December 31, 2015. # Pascal Rossignol / Reuters"
 
TIL that sage, pork and onion stuffed roast chicken wrapped in bacon is the best food ever invented.

Om nom nom nom nom.
 
Well, it has bacon in it, bhavv.
 
TIL in Russia even roads get stolen - and resold. But that's not the news. The head of prison supposedly responsible for this crime is actually being prosecuted. With actual evidence of the crime. Although the suspect is now in custody, for fear of making evidence disappear (!). Estimated loss to the Russian treasury: a full 70,000 euro (!).

Apparently the prison service 'has a bad name'. Last year the then head of the service was arrested on suspicion of fraud with electronic ankle bracelets, by attempting to have the patent registered - even though he did not own it.

Reports of prison personnel ganging up with inmates to blackmail other prisoners for 'protection' and the use of sweatshops (earning the treasury an estimated 1 billion dollar in yearly returns) don't help their good name either.

https://libcom.org/blog/russian-prisoners-fight-back-against-corrupt-brutal-screws-02012013

(link in Dutch: http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland...arresteerd-voor-stelen-openbare-weg~a4225353/)
 
TIL that the software that keeps pairing me up with stupid teammates also pairs up strangers on Tinder.
 
TIL: 9/11 conspiracy theories are apparently still a thing. I weep for humanity.
 
You didn't know your car weight?

TIL that the software that keeps pairing me up with stupid teammates also pairs up strangers on Tinder.

Well...in love and war everything is allowed...so that makes sense ^^.
(or whoever that quote is in English)
 
That is the gist of "All's fair in love and war".

Anyway, TIL how American automobile culture is truly liberating.
Many blacks took to driving, in part to avoid segregation on public transportation. As the writer George Schuyler put it in 1930, "all Negroes who can do so purchase an automobile as soon as possible in order to be free of discomfort, discrimination, segregation and insult."

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You didn't know your car weight?


I could have looked it up easy enough. Just never bothered. I just knew that the car was somewhat heavier than other cars of a similar size. That's the price of all wheel drive. Well, that and not so great gas mileage. :p
 
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