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Hedenius posted:Mammoths were actually smaller than Elephants. I read this as "smarter" and was like "fat lot of good it did them".
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System Metternich posted:The Smilodon subspecies of the sabre-toothed cats is also known as “sabre-toothed tigers“. The largest ones were about the same size as modern tigers, even if they're not related. They only lived in the Americas, though. Common speech calls other sabre-toothed cats in Europe “tigers“ as well, I'm guessing because a) it sounds cooler and b) most people don't have the foggiest about paleobiology  dude America wasn't even discovered until way after those animals went extinct how could they have lived there check your facts 
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Jerry Cotton posted:
Oh poo poo, busted 
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Baronjutter posted:Maga and "Maga hats" stand for make america great again, trump's catchphrase, rather than a brand racists like. I always thought it was a rip-off of Krav Maga until a little while ago.
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mojo1701a posted:I always thought it was a rip-off of Krav Maga until a little while ago. They'd have picked the wrong word in that case, קרב is the part that means battle/combat.
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Len posted:Isn't that the green rangers clothing line? That's Jesus Didn't Tap. Tapout is the lovely MMA clothing line that's now sort of owned by the WWE.
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Hot Smart ARYAN Girl posted:what.cd is dead There's already replacement sites.
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IUG posted:There's already replacement sites. I doubt anything will come close to what again
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Hot Smart ARYAN Girl posted:I doubt anything will come close to what again Obviously you haven't checked out whoawtf.cd
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I just realized it's called the Silver Screen because the term was coined during or regarding the age of black and white movies.
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dirksteadfast posted:I just realized it's called the Silver Screen because the term was coined during or regarding the age of black and white movies. Meanwhile, in the real world, it's called the silver screen because of the reflective metal in the actual screen.
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Why is this huge light silver screen called a "silver screen" ?!
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dirksteadfast posted:I just realized it's called the Silver Screen because the term was coined during or regarding the age of black and white movies. Uh, nope. Movie theater screens used to be made from literal silver.
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Baronjutter posted:Why is this huge light silver screen called a "silver screen" ?! 
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I just realized that a "dark room" for photography is called that because initially early photography was in black and white and early photos were often very dark, it could also be a cultural reference to the "dark age" of photography during the time?? Obviously now they're red-rooms so the name makes no sense.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Meanwhile, in the real world, it's called the silver screen because of the reflective metal in the actual screen. Hooray, I get to keep contributing to this thread's title by not bothering to actually look stuff up. My bad for failing to do so (though I guess I figured something out still).
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Cars are called cars because they have 4 wheels and people inside like train cars. Automobiles are called that because people foresaw self driving cars. Flowers are called that because nutrients flow through the stems and people sometimes ground them up into flour. Ground is the past tense of grind because it's rubbing 2 pieces of ground together
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Towns ending in the suffix of -wich are called that to denote places of saltmaking, mostly through elaborate systems of evaporating pools. To be more concise, it's derived from wic, the Anglo-Saxon word for "dwelling" or "fortified place" as well as the Old English wic (wyck, wych) meaning "bay," denoting brine springs and wells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-wich_town Salt is actually a super fascinating topic that has its fingers in every pie and has shaped the world more than many of us realize. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky covers everything from saltmaking to politics to recipes to etymology. One small example is the word "salary," also derived from salt, as Roman soldiers were often paid partly in salt. I think it's super interesting!
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porkswordonboard posted:Towns ending in the suffix of -wich are called that for various possible reasons most of which have nothing to do with salt. I mean just because salt is made near bays doesn't mean that town names ending in bay "denote places of salt-making". The ending denotes the fact that it's by a loving bay. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 21:30 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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Dallas was named after all these fat bottomed girls.
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Makes sense. They do make the rocking world go round.
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The connection between the verb "heal" and the word "health." gently caress I'm stupid
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The Guinness Book of World Records has ties to, duh, the beer company. I can be forgiven for this to a point, since Guinness wasn't really a thing in the states when I was getting this via the Scholastic Book Club, where it was probably downplayed anyway. There might have been an intro or something, but who's bothering with front matter when you're flipping through it to find the McGuire twins on mini bikes? Also, the female backup singers who performed on One Of These Nights apparently only existed in my imagination. This was in fact the Eagles, and even though I've seen footage, it still does not seem possible they're hitting these notes.
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Marv Hushman posted:The Guinness Book of World Records has ties to, duh, the beer company. 
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Marv Hushman posted:Also, the female backup singers who performed on One Of These Nights apparently only existed in my imagination. This was in fact the Eagles, and even though I've seen footage, it still does not seem possible they're hitting these notes. Holy poo poo, call it folie à deux then because I must have hallucinated those women too.
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sweeperbravo posted:The connection between the verb "heal" and the word "health." gently caress I'm stupid It's called the "liver" because you need it to "live" Or so my doctor tells me
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Jasmine and lavender are two totally separate plants that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
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syscall girl posted:It's called the "liver" because you need it to "live" Nahh The etymology of liver comes from old Germanic words for being slimy or sticky.
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E: nm, same joke twice really
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You can have soul, but not be a soldier!
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syscall girl posted:It's called the "liver" because you need it to "live" For some reason my mother had a small comic book in Swedish and one of the strips had a small girl peering through an oven door asking "Lever du, låda?" and it still cracks me up even though it's the worst joke. Also since I looked up the actual etymology: liver spots have nothing to do with the liver 
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Jerry Cotton posted:For some reason my mother had a small comic book in Swedish and one of the strips had a small girl peering through an oven door asking "Lever du, låda?" and it still cracks me up even though it's the worst joke. I put this into Google translate and it gave me "Do you live, drawer?" I don't get it.
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Tiggum posted:I put this into Google translate and it gave me "Do you live, drawer?" I don't get it. Leverlåda is a "food", literally liver box (a drawer or casserole are just a kind of box anyway) whereas "lever du, låda?" translates to "are you alive, box?"
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from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital The word "bedlam", meaning uproar and confusion, is derived from the hospital's (Bethlem Royal Hospital) prior nickname. Although the hospital became a modern psychiatric facility, historically it was representative of the worst excesses of asylums in the era of lunacy reform. Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in London. Its infamous history has inspired several horror books, films and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. It has moved three times from its original location, and is Europe's first and oldest institution to specialise in mental illnesses. The place was so hosed up and crazy that it's name became shorthand for hosed up and crazy
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Nick Rivers posted:The place was so hosed up and crazy that it's name became shorthand for hosed up and crazy Think about this: the only other institution to manage this (and arguably even more so) is the loving postal system.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Think about this: the only other institution to manage this (and arguably even more so) is the loving postal system. Apparently you can thank Clueless for popularizing that phrase rather than the admittedly horrifying history behind it.
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