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DreamySweet , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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LegalAction , in TIL the UK’s oldest joke is a crude riddle that features in the Exeter Codex and dates back to the 10th Century AD - What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked bef...

That’s surely not true for a number of reasons. The UK wasn’t a thing, and modern English wasn’t a thing. Beowulf has a fair bit of jokes in it, and that’s some 200 years earlier, in Old English, than this thing.

Hell, I’m pretty sure Plato’s Symposium starts out with a three word pun. That’s Greek and not English of course, but the idea of picking out an earliest joke is just ridiculous.

Azzu , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

That’s just what the bots would want us to think!

Usually_Lurker , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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Nice try bot. You’re not going to get me.

chackl , (edited ) in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

Don’t some communities that reject most modern technology still use washing machines?

teft , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...
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Anyone who has ever washed clothes by hand understands this. That shit is difficult af.

athos77 ,

I remember watching some BBC documentary and they said that whenever a household for enough money that they started to buy appliances, the first one they bought was almost always a clothes washer.

smashboy ,

And to think, back in those days people also often had 5-10 children. Imagine the amount of laundry 💀

Ghost33313 ,
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Been there. A freshening up wash isn't bad, but if you have a stain, forget it you will be cursing.

suckslumps , in TIL married people who undergo gastric bypass surgery and lose significant weight are twice as likely to get divorced.

I feel like very heavy people who are in marriages are often married to people who are into people who are heavier. I once saw an episode of My 600lb Life where the husband left the wife because she was losing weight and he wanted her to be as heavy as possible.

coldv , in TIL A disgruntled Chinese man, who was recently single, organized for every odd numbered seat to be bought for the premiere screening of a romance movie on Valentine's Day, forcing couples to sit o...

I mean… I have no choice but to applaud the creative execution of this pettiness.

teft , in TIL A disgruntled Chinese man, who was recently single, organized for every odd numbered seat to be bought for the premiere screening of a romance movie on Valentine's Day, forcing couples to sit o...
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That’s some chaotic evil shit.

JollyTheRancher , in TIL A man was awarded $7 million in damages after he developed a lung condition from eating two bags of popcorn every day and inhaling the steam from the bag

I had a popcorn kernel stuck in my throat for a week before an ENT doctor got it out (Saliva wont dissolve popcorn kernels ever apparently). She told me she knew a surgeon who believed popcorn was the worst food a person could eat because of what it does to the intestines. I asked the ENT doctor what food she thought was the worst - “Popcorn, definitely”.

I know 7 million is a lot, but, I’ve got a feeling it still wasn’t worth it.

cosima_takeyama ,

Not to mention it’s around 800 mostly empty calories a day (at least based on the calories in the popcorn I eat). For me, that’s half the calories I need in a day to stay in deficit.

2dollarsim ,

Goddammit why did you have to say that. Now I can’t just gobble everyone’s movie popcorn.

Hypx , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...
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Did Washing Machines Change The Global Economy More Than The Internet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvsz_vc7B0

Economists have pointed out the washing machine had an arguably larger improvement on productivity than the Internet.

Sivar , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

There’s this amazing TED talk by Hans Rosling about this. Worth it to check it out! ted.com/…/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_machine

Edit: sorry, someone posted this earlier. Lemmy not showing comments…

sab , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

Some consider it the greatest invention of the industrial revolution. Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberation.

...hmmm.

cornbread , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

If only they’d invent a “put laundry away” machine.

FlyingSquid , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...
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Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberation

Makes sense. My wife makes me do all the laundry.

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