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Upon inception it was set at $0.25. It is now $7.25.
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Upon inception it was set at $0.25. It is now $7.25.
Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2...
In light of the recent Crowdstrike crash revealing how weak points in IT infrastructure can have wide ranging effects, I figured this might be an interesting one....
The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!
I was reading about Dungeon Meshi and Kuro, the “kobold”....
It was initially used by BP to shift blame to consumers instead of oil companies.
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I always believed that there were none, but on a rewatch of QI, I learned there are actually two:...
Hail corporate and all that....
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I think he would love Vegas source...
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Obligatory vamoose you little varmint.
Australia is about 200 times bigger, by landmass, 7.7 million to Taiwan’s 36,000 square km
While $1m USD in 1988 is worth only $2.6m in 2024, if they just put it in the S&P 500 back then and left it there, it’d be worth over $44.6m today....
I thought that the distinction existed only between Americans (astronauts) and Russians (cosmonauts), but no, Chinese also have their own term. I guess Indians should come up with their own, as well =)
I learned this morning that if you microwave frozen pancakes for 2 minutes you’ll have to throw the plastic plate out
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Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the “Surprise Symphony” because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth....
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The substrate for the fermentation is a carbohydrate, usually molasses or a sugar, such as raw beet, refined beet, or cane sugars, or a syrup. … Certain inorganic nutrients, such as ammonium nitrate, potassium phosphate, magnesium sulfate, zinc sulfate, and potassium ferrocyanide, are added. The pH is adjusted to between 3 and...
Richards graduated from Thousand Oaks High School. In 1968, he appeared as a contestant on The Dating Game, but was not chosen for the date. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1970. He trained as a medic and was stationed in West Germany where he was a member of a theatrical group called The Training Road Show.[12] He...