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Reply to comment by CletusDSpuckler in TIL the majority of ancient Greeks and Romans that were literate read out loud. Reasons for this include a lack of space between letters and no formalized system of punctuation that helped with pauses in reading. by Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse
Yesitareallyhardtohearindidividualwordswhenitcomestoromancelanguagesingeneralwhichiswhythesoundsallblendintooneanotherunlikegermaniclanguageswhicharegenerallymoredefinedphonetically
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Reply to comment by Godtiermasturbator in TIL: A family of 12 performers, 7 of whom were dwarves, all survived Auschwitz after being separated by Mengele. Several prisoners who survived claimed they believed they were hallucinating when they saw seven well-dressed dwarves passing by. by 0verlyAnxious
Yes he's one of few people that hell would almost be worth it just to know he was there... it galls me that he managed to escape justice
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Reply to comment by dingo1018 in IVO Quantum drive to test all-electric thruster on controversial basis of "Quantized Inertia" by J_K_
I can see you're a real smart guy.
Could I interest you in my perpetual motion machine that is guaranteed to make you a bazillionairre (this is a very large new number that hasn't been discovered yet).
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Reply to comment by mfb- in If earth was a smooth sphere, which direction would water flow when placed on the surface? by Axial-Precession
This is a really smart answer ^
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Reply to comment by CptHammer_ in NASA’s DART data validates kinetic impact as planetary defense method | DART altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos by 33 minutes by mepper
You're such an edgelord, maybe you should start spending some money on alcohol
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Reply to comment by AnaphoricReference in Homo sapiens may have brought archery to Europe about 54,000 years ago by Yazan_Research
With a sharpened wooden arrowhead one can harden it in the ashes of a fire relatively easily.
Similarly, if / when it does blunt or splinter you can re-sharpen it relatively quickly.
The advantage of flint heads imo is more in terms of the amount of internal contusion and resultant blood loss happening a lot more quickly vs a wooden head that penetrates but also seals the wound.
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Reply to TIL: The wires helping hold up antenna and poles are not "guide wires" by actually "guy-wires" by HanSolo71
It's one of those phonetically similar words whose ending gets confused regularly.
Like duck tape / duct tape.
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Reply to comment by allenout in TIL about split brain theory, which explains that a person's brain hemispheres cannot share information with each other if the corpus callosum is severed. by Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder
Its not one eye, it's one hemisphere (i.e left or right field of vision) of both eyes and they're flipped.
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Reply to comment by ItsACaragor in I'm the head of video at France’s leading newspaper Le Monde. Our team recreated Charles De Gaulle's lost 1940 recording for France to resist the Nazis using historical sources and artificial intelligence. AMA about our investigation. by LeMonde_en
Yes so my question is how it compares in terms of believability vs what you could achieve with an actor?
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Reply to I'm the head of video at France’s leading newspaper Le Monde. Our team recreated Charles De Gaulle's lost 1940 recording for France to resist the Nazis using historical sources and artificial intelligence. AMA about our investigation. by LeMonde_en
Hi, thanks for sharing this!
Q:
How did you find the output differed from what you would have expected from a human re-enactor?
For example, do you feel that the integration of AI got you closer to the likeness of De Gaulle than a human actor might have done having studied him closely?
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Reply to comment by duplicitea in TIL the UK experiences more tornados per year than any other country in the world relative to its land area. by blr126
Very good points.
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Reply to TIL that only about 4% of the Earth's surface has two points on opposite sides of the world that are both on land by A_1337_Canadian
This is actually genuinely very interesting.
Good Op.
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Reply to comment by zstandig in TIL John Steinbeck IV wrote an article in January 1968 about marijuana usage among the troops. This set off a media firestorm, & the Army began clamping down on marijuana usage, arresting ~1000 G.I.s a week for possession. Many G.I.s switched to heroin, which was odorless and thus harder to detect. by The_Critical_Cynic
Lol I love three things about this:
The navy knew men were drinking it and added poison to deter them.
The crews worked out various ingenious ways to remove the poison.
And that the article ends with the recipe!
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Reply to TIL green beans, pinto beans, kidney beans and many other beans are all the same species of bean. by Zemi99
You're a bean
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Reply to comment by fotorobot in TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket) by foodtower
She dies, what is there to misunderstand, it's not a happy ending dude it's just that she gets to die in the same way that humans die. IF you actually read it as a child then the ending is, unless you're deeply religious, extremely sad.
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Reply to comment by foul_dwimmerlaik in TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket) by foodtower
Yeah another guy fell for it hook line and sinker, guess he will need therapy now
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Reply to comment by fotorobot in TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket) by foodtower
Dude she dies, the foam part is just there to help you with the trauma.
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Reply to TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket) by foodtower
Lol wait till you hear about the little mermaid.
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Reply to comment by SolarisBravo in TIL honeybees can understand the concept of zero. by BogdanAnime
You're're undefined
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Reply to TIL that a typical fire extinguisher only lasts seconds while continuously being sprayed. A 20 pound extinguisher can only be sprayed for 25 seconds. by rtpkickballer
It's a shame the BCF Halon extinguishers are no longer manufactured (since Halon is the worst CFC depleter known to science) I remember a single 1/4 second spray on a full-on oil fire (as in, a barrel of burning oil) put it out immediately, remarkable shit.
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Reply to comment by NetDork in TIL about The Hymn to Nikkal, the oldest piece of annotated music known to history, dating from between 1400 and 1200 BCE. by Triskan
Omg I see what you did there
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Reply to comment by WeHaveSixFeet in How did the Romans manage to arm most of their soldiers with swords? by Horror_in_Vacuum
This ^ celtic longswords were used as slashing weapons and became a hindrance in the press - gladii were able to thrust out between the shield wall and were used, sensibly, as thrusting weapons.
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Reply to comment by zendonium in TIL a special law in the UK was created to ensure that the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital will forever be able to collect royalties from stage performances, audiobooks, book releases, etc. of Peter Pan in the UK. This is the only work with an 'exception' to copyright laws. by [deleted]
That's a lovely way to put it.