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PhlubbaDubba , to til in TIL: There is a sculpture with four cryptic passages in it that stands outside the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence in Virginia

It looks like they already have two plaintext samples, would they be able to try Vignere keys that result in both plain texts simultaneously? Every other panel was solved with Vignere

ThePantser , to til in TIL: There is a sculpture with four cryptic passages in it that stands outside the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence in Virginia
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George Bush Center for Intelligence, that’s funny

Plopp ,

It’s next door to the Trump Center for Humility.

Aurenkin ,

Up the road from the Biden youth centre

RealFknNito ,
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Adjacent to the Raegan center for racial tolerance.

MojoMcJojo ,

Beside the Kennedy School of Driver’s Education

Igloojoe ,

John Quincy Adams Native American Museum.

model_tar_gz ,

The Bill Clinton Marijuana Museum.

BackOnMyBS ,
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The Andrew Jackson Museum for the Appreciation of Native American Culture

squiblet ,
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It’s named after the elder George Bush, GHWB.

Cheradenine ,

Yes it is. If it was named after dubya it would be funnier. Still the worst levels of the old testament, but funny, in an ironic, we are all doomed way.

Mr_Blott ,
towerful ,

Damn, thats a callback

HootinNHollerin ,

Who was CIA Director before VP, President

squiblet ,
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Yeah. Only for one year though. I had previously thought his CIA involvement was more extensive.

Aussiemandeus ,
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When i was 14 i won a scholarship for school and was able to travel to Canberra and do some random crap.

Ontop of that we were able to put on a play for some high up generals and MP’s.

I put in one joke that was basically “we have received intelligence from he USA… then someone intergects America has intelligence?”

Had the crowed in stitches.

GBU_28 ,

It’s fun to think you’re political opposites are dumb. But in reality the dude did exactly what he and his squad wanted, changing the course of history for decades to come. Yes rove and Cheney did lots but ultimately they all played their role and achieved (terrible) greatness

Nurgle ,

Right, this is named after George H Bush.

usualsuspect191 , to til in TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand.

Man, the word “vanilla” has become so ubiquitous with “plain, unaltered, default” that I was really confused at first.

Seleni , to til in TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand.

Created the entire vanilla industry pretty much single-handedly and died in poverty. Sounds about right.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Horrible that he died in poverty, but he did die a free man, which is a lot more than you can say for most black people on Réunion.

evasive_chimpanzee , to til in TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand.

That’s why “Madagascar vanilla” is such a funny marketing term. It’s trying to make it sound exotic, but it’s the biggest source of vanilla. Vanilla pretty much has to come from a super impoverished country to be able to be cultivated with hand pollination. They grow vanilla on hawaii, and a single bean costs $20. It might taste better than $1 madagascan beans, but probably not 20 times better.

EvergreenGuru , to til in TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand.

That’s only outside their native range. In Mexico, where they’re from, they’re pollinated by the Melipona bee. Mexico is currently 3rd place in vanilla production at 6.5%, so you’re not wrong to say the majority of vanilla plants are pollinated by hand, but they do have a natural pollinator. In theory, you could introduce the Melipona bee to areas where Vanilla has been imported to cut down the labor time/costs.

CraigeryTheKid ,

Thinks makes me wonder if they could make a “closed system” outside the natural range - like a giant greenhouse that includes the plant AND the bee.

Which would then turn into a movie-worthy story about the bees getting out and somehow causing the zombie apocalypse.

OR - it would just be BioDome with Pauly Shore. But with bees.

swab148 ,
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Ya like jazz?

gears ,

You should edit the wikipedia entry and include this!

EvergreenGuru , (edited )

I just looked at the Wikipedia page and I think it’s fine. They’ve cited some sources which detail the debate about which pollinators actually pollinate the plant. Compared to someone who’s got a degree studying plants, I know basically nothing. I’m just repeating what I’ve heard. If they’ve got a list of pollinators and are trying to narrow down the right one, then they’re closer to the truth than I am.

nitefox , to til in TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand.

You could make an anime about that

Sabata11792 ,
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The Time I got Reincarnated as a Professional Plant Wanker in Another World.

Hazmatastic ,

It would be a damn isekai

Mango , to til in TIL that a short film named "100 Years" starring John Malkovich was shot in 2015, destined to be released in the year 2115

K

Zachariah , to til in TIL that a short film named "100 Years" starring John Malkovich was shot in 2015, destined to be released in the year 2115
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I love shirt like this. I won’t be around, and I don’t care if they did it for stupid reasons. I think it’s cool.

Zorque ,

I forking love it too.

Zachariah ,
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Oh my gourd… Ducking autocarrot!

Akasazh ,
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I like this shirt too

IgnatiusJReilly , to til in TIL that a short film named "100 Years" starring John Malkovich was shot in 2015, destined to be released in the year 2115

Like Dolly Parton’s “My Place in History,” locked away in a Dollywood time capsule to celebrate the 31st year of the park opening and her to be 100th birthday.

sebinspace , to til in TIL that a short film named "100 Years" starring John Malkovich was shot in 2015, destined to be released in the year 2115

If by some miracle of science I make it to 2115, I still won’t give a shit about a cognac commercial.

miseducator ,

For sure. There will also be a shit ton of other one-hundred-year old short films that were available, but you never watched that you also won’t give a shit about.

sebinspace ,

No film is worth waiting 100 years for. CMV.

Akasazh ,
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Well if you’re born in 1877 in a world of telegraphs and steam engines and got to live a hundred years and see Star Wars I in the cinema I think you’d have a bit of an epiphany about how much the ability to fantasize about the future has grown over your lifetime.

sebinspace ,

Star Wars wouldn’t have been worth a 100 year wait.

Boozilla , to til in TIL that a short film named "100 Years" starring John Malkovich was shot in 2015, destined to be released in the year 2115
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I like Malkovich, but I wouldn’t watch this stupid movie if it leaked tomorrow. Lame advertising stunt.

runjun ,

That’s funny because it will “leak” at some point not far into the future.

Son_of_dad , to til in TIL that a short film named "100 Years" starring John Malkovich was shot in 2015, destined to be released in the year 2115

And nobody will give a shit. This movie is just marketing for some booze anyways, and I doubt it’s even real

Grimy ,

It’s an interesting concept but 100 years is stupidly too much

Unaudited7874 , to til in TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones.

Wow, this brought back memories and I feel old.

I don’t know, way back in the internet 1.0 days… my child brain hung out with some other kids of similar age on chat channels. Time zones fucking boggled my mind at the time, and I tried to sell some other people on this shit so we could always meet up at the same time to chat.

TL;DR - I “bought into” the marketting as a kid… I always did like watches, tried to convince some internet buddies to use the shit. Later in life, understood how timezones worked.

umbrella , to til in TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones.
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timezones make sense to me, and this just looks like UTC+1 with extra steps.

lud ,

Decimal time is the interesting part.

I wish that all time and calendars were decimal. Or at very least we should have something like the Hobbit calendar where every month is the same amount of days and the same date is the same weekday each year.

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