ELI5 How did people steal PPP loans? Was it really easy or did they just know how to get around the red tape and stuff?
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TIL In the 1800s, individuals secured government jobs through connections to presidents, not by merit. This practice ended after a disgruntled job-seeker assassinated President James A. Garfield,
Can we get a weekly post of communities that are scrubbed from lemmy just like we get a weekly question promoting active communities? This way it gives a person to take over.
Why are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards?
TIL about Tuffi the elephant. In 1950 Tuffi the elephant survived a fall from the suspended railway (Schwebebahn) into the river Wupper 12 meters below with just minor injuries. She died in 1989
If the US stayed out of other countries politics and there were no coups or installation of people favorable to the US what would the world look like?
Historians or Lemmy what are your go to sites besides wikipedia you got to to answer questions?
TIL Columbus never set foot in North America; he only explored the Caribbean and parts of Central and South America.
TIL that in Japan, they have a thing called "nagashi somen", which are restaurants with flowing troughs of water where noodles slide down and you have to catch them
IWTL: How to make a community more active without being a serial poster?
TIL that Salvador Dali's famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" was only about the size of a sheet of office paper.
TIL that in Sparta, after the wedding, brides would have their hair cut short and be dressed in men's clothing so that they would appear less threatening to their groom during the wedding night.
Holy Rollers (FULL MOVIE) Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Orthodox Jewish Community, Israeli Cartel
I am for the latter that way more people will sub to the best communities instead of takeoffs/or the dead ones/ or a mod who is a bot.