TIL: Today I Learned

[Kyriakos]

Luxury. I still haven't tried the internet!

That's rich.

But i haven't yet been born

 

[Arakhor]

Link to video.

 

[Kyriakos]

TIL that french troops and ottoman troops killed a couple hundred greek people who were trying to avert the french ship in 1821 from stealing the Venus de Milo statue and carry it over to the Louvre where it is one of the main attractions to this day.

Classy.

Reminds of how well other POS in 1922 France cost us eastern Thrace and maybe even Constantinople.

 

[Arakhor]

Classy indeed.

((In a similar vein to the above, I should point out that certain other Frenchmen cost us the entirety of the British colonies in North America, so we're still worse done by the French!))

 

[PhroX]

Link to video.

Wow, nice find with the '48 Show version. Usually only see Python's rendition of it. Damn good either way though.

 

[gay_Aleks]

TIL that french troops and ottoman troops killed a couple hundred greek people who were trying to avert the french ship in 1821 from stealing the Venus de Milo statue and carry it over to the Louvre where it is one of the main attractions to this day.

Classy.

Reminds of how well other POS in 1922 France cost us eastern Thrace and maybe even Constantinople.

I wouldn't complain too much about that. You still got western Thrace. And we lost it. So, feel good! Feel good!

 

[Kyriakos]

I wouldn't complain too much about that. You still got western Thrace. And we lost it. So, feel good! Feel good!

They would have signed that back too if it wasn't technically signed over by Bulgaria as a result of ww1, not 1919 or 1922-23...

And you shouldn't complain, given you got part of dobrudja or how it's called in bulgarian, as a reward for being on the side of the nazis in ww2

 

[Takhisis]

My friend has been trying to get me to make an account on tumblr. I might actually do it.

Don't.

TIL that french troops and ottoman troops killed a couple hundred greek people who were trying to avert the french ship in 1821 from stealing the Venus de Milo statue and carry it over to the Louvre where it is one of the main attractions to this day.

Classy.

Reminds of how well other POS in 1922 France cost us eastern Thrace and maybe even Constantinople.

And Northern Ḗpeiros. (YIL about that when looking up how to spell the name of a Greek weightlifter. Some people really shouldn't be allowed into politics, e.g. the whole of PASOK)

They would have signed that back too if it wasn't technically signed over by Bulgaria as a result of ww1, not 1919 or 1922-23...

And you shouldn't complain, given you got part of dobrudja or how it's called in bulgarian, as a reward for being on the side of the nazis in ww2

I believe they spell it ‘Добруджа’ instead of the far more sensible ‘Добруџа’.

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL: Celebrated computer game reviewer Total Biscuit's cancer has returned. The doctors now say that it's incurable.

 

[Hygro]

TIL: Celebrated computer game reviewer Total Biscuit's cancer has returned. The doctors now say that it's incurable.

That's depressing. I've been listening to him caste a recent sc2 tourney the past couple days.

 

[Phrossack]

TIL about the terrifying Greenlandic dish known as kiviaq.

I also learned about a terrifying bakery in Thailand that specializes in selling bread that looks exactly like gruesomely dismembered human bodies.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

eww eww eww eww eww

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

TIL you can bomb a marathon in Fallout 4.

 

[Takhisis]

TIL about the terrifying Greenlandic dish known as kiviaq.

Someone email that to Humon so that all the proponents of surströmming and similar dishes are humbled by the Skrælings.

 

[Takhisis]

TIL that the Koreans have their own [wiki=Saturday_Night_Live_Korea]SNL[/wiki].

 

[Civ'ed]

Someone email that to Humon so that all the proponents of surströmming and similar dishes are humbled by the Skrælings.

I'm actually scared of Wikipedia's list of delicacies.

 

[Takhisis]

Balut, for example? Or, even worse, England's very own boiled mutton with mint sauce?

 

[Civ'ed]

Balut, for example? Or, even worse, England's very own boiled mutton with mint sauce?

Balut, but also Milt or Huitlacoche.
Someone looked at this and thought "yeah I want to eat that"

Spoiler :

 

[cybrxkhan]

TIL during WWII, though the Pacific island of Nauru was occupied by the Japanese, the Allies never attempted to invade and secure it and generally bypassed it on their island hopping campaign because it was considered too well defended. The Japanese garrison surrendered peacefully at the end of the war. However, the island was bombed many times, partly because it had a major airfield.

 

[Glassfan]

Recently in the news, presidential candidate Ben Carson misspoke concerning Thomas Jefferson writing the US Constitution (not). Of course Jefferson was a prolific writer and thinker, having penned A Summary View of the Rights of British America, the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, Notes on the State of Virginia, and was a principle contributor to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. His literary achievements are impressive enough for his day, but...

TIL, that while Minister to France (1785-89), Jefferson was in cahoots with Lafayette and other troublemakers,...and consulted with Lafayette while the latter drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Damn!

Spoiler :

The Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen), passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.[1] The Declaration was directly influenced by Thomas Jefferson, working with General Lafayette, who introduced it.[2] Influenced also by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by law. It is included in the preamble of the constitutions of both the Fourth French Republic (1946) and Fifth Republic (1958) and is still current. Inspired in part by the American Revolution, and also by the Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on the development of liberty and democracy in Europe and worldwide.[3]

The declaration, together with the American Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, inspired in large part the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

So the Declaration of Independence and The Rights of Man! Damn!