TIL: Today I Learned

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The parts we kept had a trivial number of Mexicans in them at the time. The other parts had more. And the Americans at the time didn't want a lot of Mexicans in the country. Too brown, too Catholic.
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Baja California is sparsely populated now. At the time it was probably even less populated. If only the USians at the time had anticipated Cabo.
 
The United Nations runs a cemetery in Busan, for those who fell in the defence of the South during the Korean War.
 
Jack Cotton the inventor of the taser named it after fictional character Tom Swift, Cotton's childhood hero. It's the "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle." :sniper:
 
I discovered what two steaks make up a tbone- a strip and a tenderloin, joined together by the bone. I think I had seen that before, but I always forget.
 
It's akin to the best of steaks ie the Delmonico. You have to ruin two hearts of ribeyes to get one.
 
Zkribbler said:
Jack Cotton the inventor of the taser named it after fictional character Tom Swift, Cotton's childhood hero. It's the "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle." :sniper:
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TIL that Tom Swift has a middle initial.

(I have most of the Tom Swift, Jr. hardcovers)
 
Zkribbler said:
Jack Cotton the inventor of the taser named it after fictional character Tom Swift, Cotton's childhood hero. It's the "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle." :sniper:
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Coincidentally TIL:
The Soviet Laser Space Pistol, Revealed


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TIL that Apple is going for making a TV series based on the the Asimov Foundation trilogy :):):)

Does sound not that easy to me... but it has been a dream of me since I did read the Foundation trilogy long time ago.
When Asimov was writing the story for the SF pulpmagazine Astounding Science Fiction, he was a student of biochemistry and needed as poor Polish immigrant the extra money badly.
The setting of the Foundation trilogy has since then been used and inspired many great works of SF including Star Trek.


Isaac Asimov’s acclaimed science fiction Foundation trilogy might finally reach television. Deadline reports that Apple is putting an adaptation into development, adding to the company’s growing list of original content offerings as it seeks to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon, and Disney.

The show comes from David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Man of Steel) and Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles and the upcoming Snowpiercer TV show), who began work on the project last year with Skydance Television. The studio also worked on this year’s Altered Carbon. If the project moves forward, it’ll be a huge property for Apple: the novels are incredibly popular reads, and have served as a (forgive me) foundational basis for a number of other science fiction stories, such as Star Wars. Deadline notes that Apple is developing the project with an eye toward a straight-to-series order.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/...saac-asimov-tv-show-david-goyer-josh-friedman
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TIL Bryce Dallas Howard is Ron Howard's daughter. I never had any idea why people made such a big deal of her when before Jurassic World she hadn't starred in anything particularly noteworthy.
 
She had been in a Terminator fi- oh, I see what you're driving at.
 
Cutlass said:
TIL Bryce Dallas Howard is Ron Howard's daughter.
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Ron Howard's dad played two roles on Seinfeld: the blind guy in "The Glasses" episode and the farmer who uses a shotgun to chase Newman away from his teenage daughter as she screams after him, "I love you, Norman!"
 
TIL that ancient Rome's worst monster Emperor Caligula looks an awful lot like a certain Game of Thrones character. :dubious:
Caligula was murdered before he turned 30.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula
Scandals

Philo of Alexandria and Seneca the Younger describe Caligula as an insane emperor who was self-absorbed, angry, killed on a whim, and indulged in too much spending and sex.[104] He is accused of sleeping with other men's wives and bragging about it,[105] killing for mere amusement,[106] deliberately wasting money on his bridge, causing starvation,[107] and wanting a statue of himself erected in the Temple of Jerusalem for his worship.[100] Once, at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the audience into the arena during the intermission to be eaten by the wild beasts because there were no prisoners to be used and he was bored.[108][clarification needed]

While repeating the earlier stories, the later sources of Suetonius and Cassius Dio provide additional tales of insanity. They accuse Caligula of incest with his sisters, Agrippina the Younger, Drusilla, and Livilla, and say he prostituted them to other men.[109] They state he sent troops on illogical military exercises,[74][110] turned the palace into a brothel,[47] and, most famously, planned or promised to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul,[111][112] and actually appointed him a priest.[84]

The validity of these accounts is debatable. In Roman political culture, insanity and sexual perversity were often presented hand-in-hand with poor government.[113]
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Cutlass said:
TIL Bryce Dallas Howard is Ron Howard's daughter. I never had any idea why people made such a big deal of her when before Jurassic World she hadn't starred in anything particularly noteworthy.
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She did really good work in the Season 3 premier of Black Mirror.

I don't like Facebook, so the episode Nosedive was like my worst nightmare or my version of Hell on Earth.
 
Kaitzilla said:
She did really good work in the Season 3 premier of Black Mirror.

I don't like Facebook, so the episode Nosedive was like my worst nightmare or my version of Hell on Earth.
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I guess China isn't on the emigration list for you, then?
 
Three days ago I learned that that the traditional US happy birthday song is also sung at parties in China, but in Chinese.
 
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