Today I Learned #3: There's a wiki for everything!

[Colon]

That the Texas capitol building has a separate "fast-track" allowing those with concealed guns-licenses to bypass metal detectors.

 

[Samson]

Previously I had thought that Molotov cocktail's were so named because Vyacheslav Molotov popularised their use against the Germans. TIL that the origin is somewhat more darkly humorous:

The name's origin came from the propaganda Molotov produced during the Winter War, mainly his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. As a result, the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with his food parcels".​

 

[Kyriakos]

Previously I had thought that Molotov cocktail's were so named because Vyacheslav Molotov popularised their use against the Germans. TIL that the origin is somewhat more darkly humorous:

The name's origin came from the propaganda Molotov produced during the Winter War, mainly his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. As a result, the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with his food parcels".​

A common anarchic wall graffiti here reads (if translated to English) : The Molotov-Kalasnikov pact.

 

[Josu]

There is a law in Spain that prohibits exaltation of Francoism in streets naming

TIL that a court has allowed a street named Blue Division, because it invokes Nazis, not Franco

 

[Kyriakos]

I like that Feynman pretended he was using heavy-duty tools to break the safes.

So don't use birthdays or known constants as part of the key, if you live in the 50s.

 

[Samson]

TIL that there is a strong correlation between head injuries in women and prison, violent offences and longer in prison. These are mostly caused by repeated domestic abuse.

We recruited 109 (31%) of the 355 women in [Scottish] prisons. Significant head injury (SHI) was found in 85 (78%) of 109 women, of whom 34 (40%) had associated disability. Repeat head injury was reported in 71 (84%) of the 85 women with SHI and, in most cases, this resulted from domestic abuse that had occurred over many years. Women with a history of SHI were significantly more likely to have a history of violent offences than those without a history of SHI. Women with SHI had spent longer in prison than women without SHI.
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Spoiler Table of effects :

 

[GinandTonic]

There is a zoo of other correlating causations with that one.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The most popular baby names of 2020....

Boy names:
1. Liam
2. Noah
3. Oliver
4. Elijah
5. William
6. James
7. Benjamin
8. Lucas
9. Henry
10. Alexander

Girl names:
1. Olivia
2. Emma
3. Ava
4. Charlotte
5. Sophia
6. Amelia
7. Isabella
8. Mia
9. Evelyn
10. Harper

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL that KFC chicken sandwiches are far superior to McDonald's chicken sandwiches ... as are their fries.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Add some sweet and sour sauce.

 

[shadowplay]

Pretty much any fast food outlet has better chicken sandwiches than McDonalds.

 

[Kyriakos]

The most popular baby names of 2020....

Boy names:
1. Liam
2. Noah
3. Oliver
4. Elijah
5. William
6. James
7. Benjamin
8. Lucas
9. Henry
10. Alexander

Girl names:
1. Olivia
2. Emma
3. Ava
4. Charlotte
5. Sophia
6. Amelia
7. Isabella
8. Mia
9. Evelyn
10. Harper

Why is Liam so popular?

 

[shadowplay]

I assume that list is for the United States?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Why is Liam so popular?

I haven't a clue.

I assume that list is for the United States?

Yes.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Why is Liam so popular?

Hm. Three of the boy names are characters in my ongoing story (Liam, William, and Alexander). One of the female characters is Amelia.

Not that I took my character names from this list. They already had names.

'Evelyn' was the name of one of my dad's old girlfriends. Awful woman. She kept badmouthing my grandparents and trying to prevent me seeing them.

 

[Samson]

TIL that in the famous "you cannot shout fire in a theater" case, there was actually a "fire".

Some socialists distributed a leaflet saying the 1st world war was a bad thing, and you should not go there and fight [1]. The SCOTUS decided this is not protected speech, using the famous line "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic". It does not seem very controversial to say that they actually were right.

Also TIL that the police did an incorrect and much more dangerous "shouting fire in a theater" in 2007 and did not get done:

On the morning of January 31, 2007, the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED advertising placards [2] depicting the Mooninites as bombs, and kind of closed down the city for the day.

Spoiler [1] Shouting fire in a world on fire :

Spoiler [2] Finger up to the world on fire :

 

[Kyriakos]

Til that Alec Minassian sounds exactly like Ali G.

I also like this ridiculous quote (at around 15.00) : "basically [...] to overthrow the chads, which would force the stacys to be forced to reproduce with the incels".



Force to be forced is a rather nice phrase. It's not guaranteed to work if they are casually forced; but if they are forced to be forced, there is no way around it.

Also, "convert the life status of individuals to death status", sounds rather sinister

 

[Takhisis]

TIL the FBI was founded by a US-born great nephew of Napoleon, Charles Joseph Bonaparte.

 

[GinandTonic]

TIL they moved most of Chicago. Just picked up whole terraces.

 

[GinandTonic]

TIL that we can breath through our arses.

Pigs can breathe oxygen via their rectum, so humans probably can too

Piping an oxygen-rich liquid through the anus could be a life-saver. A new treatment for failing lungs that involves such a process has been successfully tested in pigs.

People with low blood oxygen levels may be treated in intensive care by being put on a ventilator, which blows air into their lungs. But this usually requires sedation and can injure delicate lung tissue. “It can be really damaging,” says Takanori Takebe at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

Takebe wondered if people could absorb oxygen through their intestines, which happens in some freshwater fish. In mammals, the rectum is lined with a thin membrane that allows absorption of certain compounds into the bloodstream, and doctors already exploit this by giving some medicines as suppositories.

Takebe’s team tested the idea on pigs by giving them enemas of a type of fluid called a perfluorocarbon, which can hold high levels of oxygen. Such fluids have been investigated as a way of breathing liquid, and are already used to help protect the lungs of premature babies, so are likely to be non-toxic when used in this novel way, says Takebe.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/articl...tum-so-humans-probably-can-too/#ixzz6vD8LNRnD

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