TIL: Today I Learned

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Corn smut is edible though and tastes like truffles. I learn new things everyday thanks to wikipedia.
 
cybrxkhan said:
Corn smut?
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Watch those sexy golden ears of corn getting their crisp, flaky tops off and rustling up a bowl of Weetabix between them! :mischief:
 
Glassfan said:
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!

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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!:bowdown:
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And yet he owned slaves. :p Lots of irony there.
 
Not really. It was illegal in Virginia to free slaves, under normal circumstances. Why? Because slave owners would "free" their old and sick slaves rather than to provide food and housing for them. Because there was virtually no free-man work in a plantation economy, freed slaves would have no alternative but to turn to thievery.
 
Zkribbler said:
Not really. It was illegal in Virginia to free slaves, under normal circumstances. Why? Because slave owners would "free" their old and sick slaves rather than to provide food and housing for them. Because there was virtually no free-man work in a plantation economy, freed slaves would have no alternative but to turn to thievery.
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That's actually really interesting
 
Zkribbler said:
Not really. It was illegal in Virginia to free slaves, under normal circumstances. Why? Because slave owners would "free" their old and sick slaves rather than to provide food and housing for them. Because there was virtually no free-man work in a plantation economy, freed slaves would have no alternative but to turn to thievery.
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I guess in some sick, twisted way it's like Virginia sort of protected the welfare of slaves by saying their owners couldn't just cast them to the winds and leave them to fend for themselves.
 
I don't think that's particularly sick or twisted. It sounds very reasonable for a slave state, after all.
 
Lohrenswald said:
So I just learned about CFC's invisible mode
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I find it annoying that many mafia players use it. I like seeing who's around.

Though I'd be lying if I said I've never enabled it myself when trying to keep low in a game.

FOS on Lohr for using IM.
 
Ah. But how do we know you don't use IM?

(I don't say you do, of course. As far as I'm concerned if you say you don't, then you don't. But we wouldn't know that you did if you did. You being invisible... and everything.)
 
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