Sdog1981
Sdog1981 t1_iy5joyt wrote
Reply to comment by gunboatdiplomacy in TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly by alcapwnage0007
Violence of action is a another way of saying it too.
Sdog1981 t1_iy5i11o wrote
Reply to comment by Jumpy-Win5810 in TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly by alcapwnage0007
Everyone wants to be a Nelson
Sdog1981 t1_iy50xts wrote
Reply to TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly by alcapwnage0007
“on August 19th, Guerriere's Captain James Richard Dacres engaged, confident of victory against the larger, better-armed U.S. ship.”
Sounds like he fucked around and found out.
Sdog1981 t1_iy134kh wrote
Reply to TIL that as of August, 2022 there were over 2.8 million podcasts available online worldwide with over 135 million episodes in total. by big_macaroons
Who’s more annoying? Obscure podcast snob or obscure music snob?
Sdog1981 t1_iuxzv8b wrote
Reply to TIL the former members of Timbuk 3 have refused to license the song "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" for commercials, including a $900,000 offer from AT&T and offers from Ford, the U.S. Army, and Bausch & Lomb for their Ray-Ban sunglasses. by big_macaroons
They won a Grammy? TIL x2.
Sdog1981 t1_iuogiz8 wrote
Reply to TIL that the first movie to have surround sound was from 1940; Walt Disney's Fantasia. Some versions of 'Fantasound' called for 52 speakers. by infected_scab
I wonder what people thought about it when it happened. Queen talked about hating recording in stereo the first time because it did not "sound right".
Sdog1981 t1_itorlpy wrote
Reply to comment by SwallowYourDreams in Snap shares plunge nearly 30%, closing at lowest since early 2019 by Additional-Two-7312
And drug sales
Sdog1981 t1_iszyaze wrote
Reply to comment by ExperienceKCC in TIL the price of textbooks increases by an average of 12% with each new edition by ExperienceKCC
Because 90% of the time you never need to buy the book.
Sdog1981 t1_iryrpya wrote
Reply to TIL of Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, who had his leg blown off by a cannon in the Battle of Waterloo. It was put in a shrine in the garden of the house where he was amputated, becoming a local tourist attraction. by 1945BestYear
The whole family got in on the act.
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"Uxbridge's close family lost several limbs in the service of the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars: his brother, Major-General Sir Edward Paget, lost his right arm in the crossing of the Douro during the Second Battle of Porto in 1809, and his daughter lost a hand tending her husband on a battlefield in Spain."
Sdog1981 t1_iryqti1 wrote
Reply to TIL about Ragamuffin Day, a celebration in the New York metro area in the late-1800s and early-1900s in which children wore costumes and went door-to-door asking for candy or money on Thanksgiving. It fell out of favor as trick-or-treating on Halloween gained acceptance in the 1940s and '50s. by PikesPique
So some of these boomer bastards were double dipping Ragamuffin day and Halloween too. These guys got everything.
Sdog1981 t1_irw6gpg wrote
Reply to comment by guitarnoir in TIl the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer was built in Germany during world war 2 by Konrad zuse but received no press coverage because of the war by mankls3
And they are still being used today.
"Two upgraded World War II-era U.S. Navy fleet submarines (USS Tusk and Cutlass) with their TDCs continue to serve with Taiwan's navy and U.S. Nautical Museum staff are assisting them with maintaining their equipment."
Sdog1981 t1_iyf78qa wrote
Reply to comment by atheist_bunny_slave in TIL about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed an estimated 224,000 people. It is not even not even in the top 10 for deadliest natural disasters in history. by ProfoundPenguin
I would like to report a hate crime.