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  • Fun fact: The Russian Revolution of 1917 went underway when the Russian Navy joined in. I believe it happened just after Bloody Sunday, but I can't find it now. Anyone here remember what the catalyst was for the Russian Navy on some island to join the Russian Revolution?

  • What is this? What's an alias for email?

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  • You're welcome! I was nervous about it, so I'm happy it worked out 🙂

  • No, but I would love to read up on that. lol , brb gonna do an internet search

    Edit: I couldn't find anything on them crashing during their convoys, but I found a couple that lived out of an RV they decked out in Trump stuff and would sell things out of as their business. The same exact RV was involve into incidents; you can't make this up! In the first one, they stopped in the right lane of a highway early in the morning. Another woman stopped to help them. Their trailer was hit by yet another motorist and killed the woman that stopped to help. In the second incident, which happened recently, they totaled the RV by crashing it into a pole. I hope they stay off of the road because they seem like a hazard (either oblivious or neglectful at the least) and one person already lost their life.

  • remember when they were so obnoxious and inconsiderate that they used their wake to sink the boat of one of their own?

  • Fun facts!

    Origin

    The name Marathon comes from the legend of Pheidippides, the Greek messenger. The legend states that, while he was taking part in the Battle of Marathon, which took place in August or September 490 BC,[3] he witnessed a Persian vessel changing its course towards Athens as the battle was near a victorious end for the Greek army. He interpreted this as an attempt by the defeated Persians to rush into the city to claim a false victory or simply raid,[4] hence claiming their authority over Greek land. It was said that he ran the entire distance to Athens without stopping, discarding his weapons and even clothes to lose as much weight as possible, and burst into the assembly, exclaiming "we have won!", before collapsing and dying.[5]

    Modern Olympic marathon

    When the modern Olympics began in 1896, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the glory of ancient Greece. The idea of a marathon race came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. This idea was heavily supported by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, as well as by the Greeks.[15]

  • Cool! Check this out...

    The following is a list of the first two rivers by outflow and the Mississippi in acre-foot:

    RiverOutflow (ac-ft/s)
    Amazon181.6
    Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna35.6
    Mississippi17.3

    Crazy that the top is over 5 times more than the next one 😮. The largest outflow in North America and the one I've seen in person is the Mississippi, which is only 9.5% the outflow of the Amazon. The Amazon is over 10 times more than the Mississippi, which I thought was humongous in person 😮.

    On to sewers, which is what one of the uses for the acre-foot according to your quote. The following is a list wastewater generated by location:

    LocationGeneration (ac-ft/s)
    Asia5,073.6
    NA & Europe2,124.6
    All 3 Continents7,198.2

    So the outflow of the Mississippi alone is greater than twice the wastewater of Asia, North America, and Europe combined 😮!

    My math may need to be checked 😬

  • Yep! I was worried when they told me. Having high cholesterol at 37/38 is a bad sign of what's to come. I'm happy it was situational rather than permanent.

  • WET AF

    omg, I was laughing so hard when I saw that 😂

  • I don't mean to belittle your feelings about it, but I would find that cute af. There are certainly people around you that would feel the same.

  • Maybe it's not that you can't be what someone else wants, but that you aren't finding or building relationships with the people that would want you. There are so many people with such vasts tastes, that there is someone for everyone, even serial killers or 40 year olds that dress in diapers. Whatever you are, there are people that are looking for that. It's a matter of finding and building a relationship with them. ♥️

  • What community was that? I want to check the mod log to confirm and then possibly block the community. I don't want to subject myself to a news feed that prevents people from sharing straight facts.

  • Can someone explain the humor of the 4 panel comic the character in the first panel likes? What's the red liquid in the container about?

  • This is me. I've never said, "This is too much garlic."

    Fun fact: I tend to get obsessed with eating the same thing for months. One of those obsessions was kettle-cooked salt & vinegar chips. I'm talking about a large bag before bed every 2 days. I did this for about 3-6 months. During that period, I had a regular primary care check up with routine blood work. My cholesterol came back terrible. My HDL was too low and LDL was too high. It was so bad that the doctor told me that they were putting me on Lipitor eventho I was in 37/38 years old and otherwise athletic shape.

    I argued with the doc explaining that I could fix it on my own with diet. We negotiated and the compromise was that I had 3 months to fix it. In 3 months, we would run blood work again. If it was still high, Lipitor time. I cut off all chips and started eating raw garlic however I could with meals. I would mostly use a garlic press and marinate it in olive oil. Then, I would drip a lot of this on rice, beans, pasta, pizza... anything that would go good with raw garlic. When we ran the blood work again, I was in the clear with completely healthy cholesterol levels, both HDL and LDL.

    I don't know if the garlic had anything to do with it, or if it was merely just abstaining from the chips, but something worked. If you're dealing with cholesterol issues and don't want to be on meds, maybe consider eating raw garlic. It might help, and even if it doesn't, it's delicious 🤤

  • After watching Narcos on Netflix and seeing how bad it is in Mexico, I cant even imagine a practical solution. The narco seeps thru all of society.

  • You saw ads on reddit, but they were disguised as posts and comments from "real" users.

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    What are your pros and cons for noise cancelling headphones vs ear buds?

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    Anyone else travel with a backpack nearly everywhere you go? If so, what's in there?

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    How can I learn to dance/glide like this guy?

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    What are your ARFID eating tips?

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    Real footage of me leaving the psych ward smooth af (not really me)

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    How did people tell time at night before clocks?

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    Neurotypicals, what do autistic people look like to you?

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    Neurotypicals, what do autistic people look like to you?

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    Why do some people at the gym wear an extraordinary amount of warm clothes to the point that they're sweating uncomfortably?

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    Anyone get that feeling of pure euphoria/ecstasy after eating following a period of malnourishment? What is that??

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    Seriously, why is the USA supporting Israel?

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    What opera do you think has a good production that was shared freely on the Internet?

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    How long will food be safe to eat if frozen immediately after cooking it?

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    I saw myself on video, and my autism is so evident

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    Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts?