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smallz86 t1_jeghatm wrote

Reply to comment by jackmon in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

My parents went in Feb of 22 and they said something similar.

But when we were there in Feb of 23 they said it was drastically less crowded. So maybe last year was like COVID hangover vacations?

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ryschwith t1_jeggy3q wrote

Reply to comment by A40 in TIL an amateur archaeologist discovered European cave paintings used a proto-writing system meant to convey the gestation period of the various animals they painted by using dots to indicate the lunar cycle. by AudibleNod

I don’t know, the paper has some pretty compelling data. Certainly not a slam dunk—I’d like to see the symbols interpreted/recorded by someone not directly associated with the study to remove possible bias from that process, for example—but solid enough to be worth getting more eyes on it.

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helpful__explorer t1_jegfg4c wrote

Reply to comment by bonalisalovesyou in TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules. by jamescookenotthatone

Now I'm having flashbacks of the parks and rec episode where leslie tries to teach senior about condom usage and the local maude flanders demands they promote abstinence instead.

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andre5913 t1_jegeyb6 wrote

Reply to comment by th3h4ck3r in TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules. by jamescookenotthatone

Same in several countries in latin america (...which makes sense considering our past with Spain).
Breakfast can be sightly bigger, with smth like scrambled eggs, cereal bowl/a sandwitch and coffee, and dinner is even lighter, just a biscuit or so. Sometimes its skipped altogether besides a hot drink.

Lunch is the big one. Taking a siesta is less common though

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backcountrydrifter t1_jegebyz wrote

Reply to comment by colonelsmoothie in TIL that New Orleans chicory coffee mix started during the American Civil War when Union naval blockades cut off the port of New Orleans bringing coffee shipments to a halt. New Orleanians looking for their coffee fix began mixing chicory with coffee to stretch out the supply. by GeoJono

I’ll die on the hill of claiming that Vietnamese and Cambodians have coffee dialed.

From the flavor to the coffee shop experience. In a just world, every neighborhood on earth will have a Vietnamese run coffee shop with macarons and the most attentive polite wait staff in the world. It’s an art to them and it should be rewarded.

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circuitbreak t1_jegd5vo wrote

Reply to comment by KingKratom00 in TIL in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a local style of accordion folk music known as Famo has sprung a fierce bloody gang war which has contributed to its high homicide rate. Little-known to the outside world, scores of musicians and hundreds of DJs, fans, family members etc. have been slain. by delano1998

I forgot what I was responding to tbh. I think the deleted comment was some dude being racist though.

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ledow t1_jegcy49 wrote

Reply to comment by Brave-Examination-70 in TIL that The National Library of Medicine has a Pillbox dataset made up of 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills. by jonkeegan

I'm always amazed that they aren't required to have a standardised code marking on them.

Sure, it won't stop fraud, but this isn't about that... it's about knowing exactly what white pill little Johnny just swallowed out of grandma's bathroom cabinet when nobody was looking.

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Brave-Examination-70 t1_jegbq46 wrote

Reply to TIL that The National Library of Medicine has a Pillbox dataset made up of 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills. by jonkeegan

Kind of strange considering most medications come in a variety of colors, and forms, sometimes with letters/numbers, sometimes without. Might be useful to have a standardized color and labeling system.

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