Landlubber77

t1_ja012ah wrote

Reply to TIL that Ben S. Cauley, Jr. was the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding & 6 other people in 1967. Cauley took off his seat belt shortly before the crash. He managed to cling to a seat cushion for 20 minutes, until a rescue boat pulled him from the freezing lake waters. by

Thank god someone was sitting on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away or they wouldn't have known someone needed resucuing.

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t1_j9y2f03 wrote

Reply to comment by in TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by

The majority of Redditors are Americans, where we're allowed to see extreme violence as long as there's not a stray female nipple or something. We'd be more likely to expect a more adult rating for this movie because of the scene where the wife gets dragged all over her ceiling and you see her panties, then when the older daughter runs out in the front yard and you see hers. The puritans can't help but lose their minds over that ^^^after ^^^pausing ^^^and ^^^masturbating ^^^to ^^^it.

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t1_j9ojuhs wrote

Reply to TIL that in 1554 Elizabeth Crofts hid in a wall on Aldersgate Street, where she pretended to be a heavenly voice. Reputedly 17,000 people came to listen to her give out anti-Catholic propaganda. by

"You are loved forever, without condition."

"Thank you heavenly mother."

"There is a healing light inside of your heart, let it shine always."

"I will heavenly mother."

"The Pope wears a butt plug under that robe."

"He does heavenly mother fucker what?!"

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t1_j8ncwg3 wrote

Reply to TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by

>...which blew my fancy little nips off the tips of my tits and did there make me spontaneously explode at my loins with an ejaculate so frothy it would cause the ocean's waves to turn green with envy.

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t1_j7kdony wrote

Reply to TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by

We who gather here today shall not allow his name to be lost to the sands of time! Each one of you who sees this post, go out into the world today and speak his name. Tell one person about his deeds at work, in the drive-thru, during a polite bank robbery or home invasion, while buying nails to finally hang that goddamn frame that has two hangy things on the back instead of just one in the center so now you have to make sure the nails are perfectly level or the picture is gonna be crooked and drive you absolutely fucking nu--just tell somebody, anybody!

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t1_j6o6qeh wrote

Reply to TIL Maria Sabina was an indigenous medicine woman who introduced the western world to psilocybin. Her community's rituals were appropriated for power and fame, and she died in poverty. by

> The Mazatec sacred mushroom veladas have survived into the 21st century and are now accepted by the Catholic Church there.

"Body of Christ?"

"Yes father."

"Blood of Christ?"

"Yes father."

"Radical psychedelic mushrooms?"

"You fucking know it, son."

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t1_j6ifp42 wrote

Reply to TIL of Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and congressman during the Civil War. The Union deported him for supporting the Confederacy. After the war, he died by accidentally shooting himself during a murder trial while trying to show the murder weapon could have misfired. His client got off as a result by

Thank god the victim didn't die of spontaneous human combustion, that would've been a much harder feat to pull off in court.

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t1_j6himhb wrote

Reply to comment by in TIL that World War One flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker became a long-time head of Eastern Air Lines and survived well into the 1970s by

We can chop this up however we want but it always goes back to the fact that the guy lived until he was 82. That's not "shocking." Yes of course WW1 was a long time ago, but 1973 when this guy died was 50 years ago itself. It would be like us hearing someone died today who was born in 1941. That's not shocking lol.

Anyway, like I said to the other guy I was discussing this with, this isn't a big deal and you posted an interesting TIL, I just found the wording sorta funny. He lived "well into the 1970s." First of all, not sure making it to '73 constitutes making it well into the decade, but fine. Secondly, a great number of people who fought in and survived WW1 made it to 1973. You talked about how older Redditors would view this story, my whole thing is how young ones view it. They hear WW1 and think we're talking about a bunch of cavemen riding into battle on the back of an ankylosaurs.

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