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shortylickens

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The Hindenburg did not explode because of hydrogen.
The burn started from other flammable materials, most likely the cloth skin. The hydrogen simply made it burn longer.
 

MrSquished

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Whatever anti scratch coating or whatever the lenses ray ban uses on their aviators just may be proof that alien technology does reside on earth. I have dropped these things so many times, including on asphalt and pavement, and nary a mark on the lenses. Amazing. My thanks to the martians
 
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Stiff Clamp

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Amazon streams live infomercials to sell designs from the show Making the Cut. Tim Gunn + designers sit there and talk about their shiz, which is for sale.
Or maybe not just designs seen on the show . . . don't know.
IN PROGRESS NOW
 

shortylickens

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The flavor used in banana flavored candy is from a real strain of banana, that went extinct a long time ago.
Ditto blue raspberries.
 
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jpiniero

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Apparently according to levels.fyi, Amazon has a base salary cap. The number depends on location. Like if you were a first level manager you might get the cap and anyone above you will also make about that much right to below the C Suite. The only real difference in the compensation is the stonk options, which is crazy because they are very back loaded and you'd have to survive working there long enough for it to vest.

Never seen something like that before.
 

Amol S.

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You can track lightning strike locations online.
 

Torn Mind

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The flavor used in banana flavored candy is from a real strain of banana, that went extinct a long time ago.
Ditto blue raspberries.

Not quite extinct as a least one guy still farms them. But the flavoring is artificial to those who taste it.
 
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Captante

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The Hindenburg did not explode because of hydrogen.
The burn started from other flammable materials, most likely the cloth skin. The hydrogen simply made it burn longer.


To this day nobody knows for certain what destroyed the Hindenburg. (and no, saying "fire" does NOT count as a correct answer!)

;)
 

Stiff Clamp

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Schools used to tie left-handed kids' left hand behind their back, to retrain their brain. Right is right.
 

IronWing

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The Tank in Rangely, CO, once part of an old railroad water treatment system, is one of the best places on earth to play and record music. My wife just completed a session in the tank. Almost any sound one can make gets turned to music in there. Musicians wax poetic about how sound swirls up and down the tank, notes bending, harmonics singing, and it's all true. It's like living inside a singing bowl only better. It is worth making the pilgrimage just to hear it in person.

Some history on the tank:
 

shortylickens

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Schools used to tie left-handed kids' left hand behind their back, to retrain their brain. Right is right.
I heard about that. The world was kinda mean to lefty's for a while there.
Its bad enough we cant write on a chalkboard without smudging.
 

dank69

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Stiff Clamp

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There are lifelike carvings of various extinct creatures on ancient Indian temples - e.g. a barytherium, a four-tusked elephant, and a stegosaurus.

Two of those creatures are being ridden by a human. Nice to know they were alive back then.
 

shortylickens

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I mean, sure you can CALL it a shark if you want.
But really its just one of the first fish with bones.

Its kinda like saying warm blooded animals are 252 million years old therefore humans are 252 million years old.
 

IronWing

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The house of the Christ family is found in the middle of a street in Loreta, Italy after being miraculously moved from the Holy Land to Croatia and then to various spots in Italy. Angels have moved the house five times to date.


Our house, in the middle of the street…
 

IronWing

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Belyanas were enormous wooden boats built by Russians to float lumber down the Volga. The boats had no power, no sails, no oars, and each boat was used for a single trip. Journeys were up to two thousand miles. At the end of the journey, the boats were dismantled and the lumber sold. The Russians used them for over four hundred years, only abandoning the practice when railroads made the boats obsolete.

 

Captante

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The Hindenburg did not explode because of hydrogen

Myth's about the Hindenburg disaster

Primary Myth:

"Many hydrogen fuel advocates falsely claim that hydrogen was not responsible for the Hindenburg disaster."

"In fact, the Hindenburg was just one of dozens of hydrogen airships destroyed by fire as a result of their highly flammable lifting gas."


What actually caused the initial "spark" in the Hindenburg crash is still up for debate as I posted previously among folks who study that sort of thing (and we may never know for certain) but claiming that "hydrogen gas is not explosive" for that reason is simply absurd.

With this kind of "logic" a gasoline tanker jack-knifes and explodes BUT you would conclude that "gasoline did not cause the explosion"? (derp)
 
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IronWing

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When snakes shed, the membrane protecting their eyes sheds with the skin.

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One of two sheds I found this week, green rat snake.
 
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