Stuff you didn't know and probably don't care about

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah been doing the same. If it's a small amount of text I'll even paste it in my browser's address bar then recopy it. Do it all the time at work so I can put a ticket number in an email without messing up the email.

 

[KMFJD]

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

science rocks, Huntingtons disease breakthrough announced!

 

[IronWing]

Bananenbieger

German and Dutch word for a coworker who seems to be always busy but accomplishes nothing. The literal translation is banana bender.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

One of the most used greetings in Japan is "You got tired" (お疲れさまでした), pronounced otsukare sama deshta. It's like thanking someone for working so hard.

 

[IronWing]

In searching for something else, I came across this 1896 photo from the University of Arizona.

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The brick part of the building is "Old Main", the first building constructed on campus. Old Main is still in use. In 1896, it housed all the classrooms, prof offices, everything but the library and sleeping quarters. The wood addition is the mine engineering department's brand new stamp mill, used to crush ores using banks of drop hammers. Someone thought that attaching the pits of Orthanc to a classroom building was a good idea. I wonder how long the arrangement was tolerated.

Interior view, the vertical rods are the tops of the hammers (stamps).
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Today I learned that Old Main was initially named the School of Agriculture building even though almost all of the professors and classes were in the School of Mines. The reason is that the university ran out of money before the building was completed, with the roof unfinished. The university found out that the federal government was offering building loans for the construction of agricultural schools so School of Agriculture it was.

 

[IronWing]

The public knew a lot more about how to build an atomic bomb than one would conclude from history lessons. This is a newspaper article from Feb16, 1941.

 

[stargazr]

Some of the steel beams used in the construction of The Empire State Building were still warm upon arrival from the Pittsburgh steel mills.

 

[IronWing]

There now exist indoor RC rock crawling establishments.

 

[lxskllr]

 

[KMFJD]

awesome idea

 

[Red Squirrel]

Saw that video yesterday, I'm surprised at how stable it is, I would not have guessed it would work as well as it did.

 

[William Gaatjes]

The friendship between a stray cat that found a happy home and a gorilla young that lost both his parents.

 

[KMFJD]

 

[KMFJD]

great video as always but this is one of his best ones, especially the last part

 

[Red Squirrel]

Edison's color code is #042069. I like the hidden humour in there. It actually really does work out as being their blue branding colour.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Spiders have murder mittens. Look at those toe beans!

 

[lxskllr]

https://imgur.com/LAV5MZK

If you unmute you get a bit of a Prince song(meh), and a too brief description of what they are.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Woah that is so cool, never seen those before.

 

[lxskllr]

They apparently sell for hundreds $ in used channels. It's super cool. It could be replicated somewhat with modern tech, but that's less impressive than doing it with metal.