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matti posted:baden-baden is not a real place
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matti posted:
It is funnier in German. This is also a very good photo by the standards of wikipedia images of German food.
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GenX has been shown to affect the immune system by suppressing the ability of white blood cells to destroy pathogens.[25]
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Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews describes 61 different scenes, each told in a different style (generally poetic, elaborate, or circumlocutory) in which 61 different people (all of different ages, nationalities, and walks of life) masturbate. aka yospos:the novel
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In 2014, Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage was ranked #9 in the "10 Most Influential Punk Records of Arizona".[5]
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it's true, nobody understands meter
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The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'noS, is a translation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet into Klingon
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Modern pig casting machines produce stick pigs, which break into smaller 4–10 kg piglets at discharge.
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Garbo has been credited with popularizing the "slouchy hat".[127]
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Immature males will form schools that may exceed 100 individuals. These schools roam around, leaving a trail of destruction as they feed on insect larvae, crustaceans, and juvenile cichlids.[4]
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Although Frederick Lorz was greeted at the finish line as the apparent winner, he was later disqualified as he had hitched a ride in a car for part of the race. The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was near collapse and hallucinating by the end of the race, a side effect of being administered brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. The fourth-place finisher, Andarín Carvajal, took a nap during the race after eating spoiled apples.
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that whole article is a treat:quote:The South African entrants, Len Taunyane and Jan Mashiani, finished ninth and twelfth, respectively; this was a disappointment, as many observers were sure Taunyane could have done better if he had not been chased nearly a mile off course by wild dogs.
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Kazinsal posted:The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was near collapse and hallucinating by the end of the race, a side effect of being administered brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. lol at taking a poison that can kill you at like 100mg to put you on the verge of muscular convulsions so it's easier to keep moving even when you're dead tired. it's literally what one of the cyberware implant that boosts reflexes and movements does in shadowrun and it's one of those with the biggest side-effects. they were pretty hardcore back then i think they should probably go back to that; you're allowed to take all the performance boosting drugs you want as long as it's all insanely dangerous stuff
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Association Internationale pour le Développement de l'Apnée (AIDA) (English: International Association for the Development of Apnea) is a worldwide rule- and record-keeping body for competitive breath holding events, also known as freediving.
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Sweevo posted:that whole article is a treat: Lol, yes. Rotten apple guy's story deepens: quote:After losing all of his money gambling in New Orleans, Louisiana, he hitchhiked to St. Louis and had to run the event in street clothes that he cut around the legs to make them into shorts. Not having eaten in 40 hours, he saw a spectator eating 2 peaches. He asked if he could have the peaches, and the spectator declined. He then stole both peaches and ran away. Later, he stopped off in an orchard en route to eat some apples, which turned out to be rotten.[6]
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lmao that marathon article is great
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the jon bois video on it is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AhABManTw
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Tunicate posted:the jon bois video on it is great an absolute classic, worth watching
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 I feel like it would make more sense if this thread was called "post wikipedia without context"
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This was the first and only time in Olympic history when animals were killed on purpose.
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How do I print that pdf?
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Paladinus posted:How do I print that pdf? by accident, on the company printer
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Paladinus posted:How do I print that pdf? I used to know how to do a sequential print so I could print out huge, wall sized posters at the library. Idk how to do it anymore e: what I'm saying is, go to the library and print a country
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Objection! Because pdf image compression was turing complete, it is entirely possible to print a larger pdf by simply reprogramming the computer reading it.
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4lokos basilisk posted:on the company printer on your last day of work
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Tunicate posted:Objection! Because pdf image compression was turing complete, it is entirely possible to print a larger pdf by simply reprogramming the computer reading it. get some demoscene guy to convert your pdf to 3kb of postscript code and shove that directly into the printer
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An improperly managed human defecation resulted in a tomato plant taking root, which was also destroyed.
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The gun-powered mouse trap proved inferior to spring-powered mousetraps descending from William C. Hooker's 1894 patent. However, the 1882 patent has continued to draw interest–including efforts to reconstruct a version of it–due to its unconventional design.[3]
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In real life, he never used profanity, did not hate Karloff, owned no small dogs, nor did he sleep in a coffin.
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To give themselves courage, the soldiers placed the infant lord in a basket which they hung from a large oak tree overlooking the battlefield. While his men were in dire straits, the little duke rose up in the basket, and from his perch, urinated onto the troops of the Berthouts, who eventually lost the battle.[6]
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Despite his good fortune, his relationship with his family suffered. He frequently told visitors that his wife (who was actually alive) had died, and that the woman frequenting the building was simply her ghost.[2]
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Captain Hygiene posted:Despite his good fortune, his relationship with his family suffered. He frequently told visitors that his wife (who was actually alive) had died, and that the woman frequenting the building was simply her ghost.[2] This isn't even close to the best detail about this guys life. "At the end of the American Revolutionary War, he purchased large amounts of depreciated Continental currency that was worthless at the time.[4] At the war's end, the U.S. government made good on its notes at one percent of face value, while Massachusetts paid its own notes at par.[4] His investment enabled him to amass a considerable profit." "Eventually however, the Malden local government would bestow upon Dexter the position of the official informer of deer, despite the fact that, at the time, there were not any deer in Malden." "Because he was largely uneducated, his business sense was considered peculiar. He was advised to send bed warmers—used to heat beds in the cold New England winters—for resale in the West Indies, a tropical area. This advice was a deliberate ploy by rivals to bankrupt him. His ship's captain sold them as ladles to the local molasses industry and made a handsome profit.[5] Next, Dexter sent wool mittens to the same place, where Asian merchants bought them for export to Siberia.[2] People jokingly told him to "ship coal to Newcastle". Fortuitously, he did so during a Newcastle miners' strike, and his cargo was sold at a premium.[6][7] On another occasion, practical jokers told him he could make money by shipping gloves to the South Sea Islands. His ships arrived there in time to sell the gloves to Portuguese boats on their way to China.[6] He exported Bibles to the East Indies and stray cats to Caribbean islands and again made a profit; Eastern missionaries were in need of the Bibles and the Caribbean welcomed a solution to rat infestation.[2] He also hoarded whalebones by mistake, but ended up selling them profitably as corset stays." "At age 50, Dexter authored the book A Pickle for the Knowing Ones,[a] in which he complained about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. The book contains 8,847 words and 33,864 letters, but without any punctuation and with unorthodox spelling and capitalization." "In the second edition, Dexter responded to complaints about the book's lack of punctuation by adding an extra page of 11 lines of punctuation marks with the instruction that printers and readers could insert them wherever needed—or, in his words, "thay may peper and solt it as they plese".
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Jabberlock posted:This isn't even close to the best detail about this guys life. this guy absolutely won at life.
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Yep, reading that was one of the biggest "how have I never heard of this guy before right now" moments 
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