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Serious_Guy_ t1_jduvbs0 wrote
Reply to comment by PyrrhoTheSkeptic in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
Have you heard the story about Paul McCartney not recording Yesterday for months because the whole song came to him at once, so he thought he had subconsciously heard it somewhere, and spent months trying to find it?
Serious_Guy_ t1_jcy0jul wrote
Reply to comment by ilikecchiv in British man deported to Jamaica launches action against Home Office | Richard Wallace wrongly classed as Jamaican and deported after serving murder sentence, despite having been born in London by kwentongskyblue
36 years old, no previous convictions, murder weapon never found, pleaded not guilty, appealed, exceptionally good conduct in prison, including charity and educational work, gaining a BSc honours degree, peer tutoring and teaching in prison and a long list of other achievements, only expressed remorse and guilt at the point where not doing so would mean serving years longer before parole/release, the suggestion during trial that someone else may have targeted the victim due to drug dealing from the cafe rather than the alleged perpetrator commiting an opportunistic robbery. I would really like to see the evidence used to convict this guy before I say I don't feel sorry for him, especially as someone who has plead guilty to a crime I didn't commit as part of a pragmatic plea deal to save myself several years in prison.
Serious_Guy_ t1_j9xboht wrote
Reply to comment by culturedgoat in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
Was it clothing lice?
Serious_Guy_ t1_j8byxdc wrote
Reply to comment by Historical_Tea2022 in Chinese researchers have reported what they claim is the world’s youngest person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which may overturn the conventional perception that cognitive impairment rarely occurs in young people. by Wagamaga
April Fool's Day is a book written by Bryce Courtenay (Power of One author) about his hemophiliac son who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion back when very little was known about it. Highly recommend.
Serious_Guy_ t1_j29boc1 wrote
Reply to TIL In the 1980s, an obscene image was snuck into one of the ice cubes in a Coca-Cola ad in South Australia. The company recalled and destroyed all of the posters, and the artist responsible for the image was fired and sued. by 54_actual
In New Zealand too. I have one that they missed when they recalled them.
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Reply to comment by xyzqvc in Almost 100 years since being initially proposed, the location of adult European eels' breeding place (upon their 5-10,000 km migration across the Atlantic Ocean) has been demonstrated directly as the Sargasso Sea for the first time. by Litvi
Yeah, it's a shame. I have fond memories of catching and eating eels as a kid. They were everywhere. I would never catch one now.
Serious_Guy_ t1_isixzmr wrote
Reply to comment by xyzqvc in Almost 100 years since being initially proposed, the location of adult European eels' breeding place (upon their 5-10,000 km migration across the Atlantic Ocean) has been demonstrated directly as the Sargasso Sea for the first time. by Litvi
If it's anything like the New Zealand species of eels, it's largely the loss of habitat from land being drained for farming and rivers being blocked by dams for hydropower that have made them endangered, not overfishing.
Serious_Guy_ t1_is4vsk7 wrote
Reply to TIL that unlike most hybrid animals, pizzly bears (offspring of polar and grizzly bears) can successfully breed. by JustBreatheBelieve
OK. We now have polar bears that can climb trees and move south from the Arctic. Cool.
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Reply to comment by Impossible_Oil_3662 in Melting Antarctic ice predicted to cause rapid slowdown of deep ocean current by 2050 by Lakerlion
My country just had unprecedented major flooding over a huge part of the country just weeks ago, with huge crop losses in the affected parts. Just because they were the worst floods in recorded history doesn't mean they will be the worst this decade. Sure, some other parts of the country that normally have consistent year round rainfall were suffering drought. But hey, we're not starving yet so everything is fine, right? Surely there's no way that having weather extremes that break records almost every year on a worsening trajectory will impact our food security in the long term, right?