General TIL thread

[Filthy]

TIL that Jackie Robinson could have played any professional sport.
he lettered in every sport in HS, and was running back for UCLA.

His brother won the silver medal in the 1933 Munich Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.

 

[Speaker to Animals]

Today I learned that a town I used to live in called Kalamazoo was one known as "Celery City" for its production of that marvelous, useful crap.


Be sure to revitalize your celery zone with Celerytone!

 

[Shinkicker]

I learned they are now using cocaine for (pig) heart transplants. I think it was @Splinty 's idea.

The first pig-to-human heart transplant required just the teensiest bit of cocaine

Last we checked in on porcine-derived organ transplants this past Halloween, doctors made the medical breakthrough of fooling a human host into accepting a genetically modified pig kidney—a feat as impressive as it was seasonally appropriate. Perhaps to get in the Valentine’s Day spirit of...

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The man with the pig heart died.

 

[Speaker to Animals]

A fossilized vampire squid was just named after Sleepy Joe

 

[Filthy]

 

[Robbie Hart]

That ants can sense water and electricity

 

[Speaker to Animals]

That ants can sense water and electricity

Well sure, everything needs water, and ants still use the death penalty

 

[Robbie Hart]

Subterranean termites will fuck your shit up
Here’s a tree that got fukt up

 

[FINGERS]

17 Year-Old Juliane Koepcke Was Sucked Out Of An Airplane In 1971 After It Was Struck By A Bolt Of Lightning. She Fell 2 Miles To The Ground, Strapped To Her Seat And Survived After She Endured 10 Days In The Amazon Jungle

 

[FINGERS]

 

[Grateful Dude]

17 Year-Old Juliane Koepcke Was Sucked Out Of An Airplane In 1971 After It Was Struck By A Bolt Of Lightning. She Fell 2 Miles To The Ground, Strapped To Her Seat And Survived After She Endured 10 Days In The Amazon Jungle

I've heard that story before. She had some legit skills that kept her alive and was very resourceful to survive the way she did, especially considering her injuries. Tough and smart gal for sure.

 

[Hauler]

So I took off work for the basketball games today. I'm making sure I can stream the games in the garage and CBS has The Price is Right on right now.

The model chicks on this show are fucking STACKED.

No wonder nobody wants to work.

 

[Hauler]

So I took off work for the basketball games today. I'm making sure I can stream the games in the garage and CBS has The Price is Right on right now.

The model chicks on this show are fucking STACKED.

No wonder nobody wants to work.

WTF. There's a dude model on this show now. What the fuck is this world coming to?

 

[Qat]

 

[Speaker to Animals]

Today I leaned that the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, the one that released Sarin gas on the Tokyo subway, was far far bigger and powerful than I'd thought. By a lot. They had chemical weapons factories and shit

 

[John Lee Pettimore]

Today I leaned that the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, the one that released Sarin gas on the Tokyo subway, was far far bigger and powerful than I'd thought. By a lot. They had chemical weapons factories and shit

Yeah they were fucking ridiculous.

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[FINGERS]

How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irish man?



























None.


Too soon?

 

[Speaker to Animals]

Today I leaned that possibly my favorite film ever, SW the Empire Strikes Back, originally had scenes shot where a big group of Wompas break through the ice walks into the rebel base.

Probably not integral or necessary

 

[Qat]

 

[Speaker to Animals]

Somehow that sizing don't seem right

 

[Qat]

Somehow that sizing don't seem right

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[Speaker to Animals]

Ahck. I have some color blindness and hadn't seen too carefully, only the Stripes of Freedom