What did you learn today?

[Navillus]

Today I learned that people leave weird stuff at the side of the road much more frequently than I thought-nyah.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

In 1981, Gregorios Sachinidis, a taxi driver from Thessaloniki, Greece, purchased a used 1976 Mercedes-Benz 240D from Germany. The car already had about 220,000 kilometers (approximately 136,700 miles) on the odometer.

For the next 23 years, he used the Mercedes as his taxi, driving it around the clock. His work wasn’t limited to the streets of Thessaloniki; he undertook countless long-distance journeys across Greece and into surrounding countries like Germany, Turkey, and Bulgaria. He even transported humanitarian aid to war-torn Yugoslavia in 1993.

By the time he retired the car in 2004, it had accumulated a staggering 4.6 million kilometers (about 2.85 million miles). This feat earned his car the distinction of being the Mercedes-Benz with the highest recorded mileage to date. To put that in perspective, 4.6 million kilometers is the equivalent of driving around the world 115 times.

Screw BMW, here's your ultimate driving machine. I wonder why Top Gear never mentioned this!

 

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[melchi]

I learned that Prior to Japan's surrender in WWII the emperor had never spoken on the radio. So for most of japan, that was their first time hearing his voice.

 

[Woolen_Monkey]

Bugs are annoying

 

[Deleted member 206441]

Canonically, Obi-Wan thinks the Sith don't need to use lightsabers to fight; Sith only use lightsabers to mock the Jedi and flex.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Canonically, Obi-Wan thinks the Sith don't need to use lightsabers to fight; Sith only use lightsabers to mock the Jedi and flex.

Doesn't Palpatine prove that this is true when talking to Dooku at a later point?

 

[Deleted member 206441]

Doesn't Palpatine prove that this is true when talking to Dooku at a later point?

Yes, I think so... iirc Palpatine was so good a duelist he thought fighting with lightsabres was so boring it's a chore.

but i dont know if that was canon or "legends" now.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Yes, I think so... iirc Palpatine was so good a duelist he thought fighting with lightsabres was so boring it's a chore.

but i dont know if that was canon or "legends" now.

Probably legends at this point.

 

[Deleted member 206441]

TIL that a person can hire a PR agency to run a psy-op to deliberately smear the character of an actress, but that's not the interesting part. The cost is around $30,000 per month USD.

Originally, it was less than that; it was 25k per month, but when things got harder, the agency jacked up the price, because across Reddit, X, Discord, TikTok, and Instagram, there were too many Taylor Swift fans for the PR agency to manipulate, so the cost went up, and 30k was where it landed.

And it's a contract for 3 months. So 90k is the price of character assassination. Not completely, tho, just a bit of assassination.

Spoiler

That being said, I also read about Southeast Asia's commercialisation of fake news and disinformation, for people to hire organisations in these places to churn out propaganda for them on a whole different scale is both scary and fascinating.

 

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[Navillus]

Today I learned that apparently you can have a headache in your dream without having a headache in real life when you wake up… as that is what happened to me-nyah.

 

[SwordSong]

Can any Tolkien fan verify if this is real?

 

[NotaNuffian]

TIL, nah, more like today I double checked that Kellin Quinn's a dude.

 

[NotaNuffian]

TIL 入关之后自有大儒替你辩经 (MTL: After entering the pass, there will be great scholars to debate for you), this chinese idiom is a recent internet lingo, not what I thought to be old wise words.

It means that once the nation or the person is strong, there will be folks flocking to explain recognize and even defend his actions.

Likewise, if they are weak, good game well played.

It runs parallel with "a truth from a pauper is worth less than a lie from a prince"

 

[Deleted member 206441]

 

[SwordSong]

Apparently Earth has a googly eye-shaped lake

 

[NotaNuffian]

TIL that racoons have goblin hands.

I'll admit, I might had seen them a few times but blurred it out of my mind because racoon cute (when they are not being fuckers).

But someone just showed me a close up on their hand rummaging through a small gap and I can tell why folks in past think green skin goblins exist.

 

[laccoff_mawning]

Apparently, Hushtness is an obsolete word with minimal useage from 400 hears ago.

I thought for sure it would be a more common word.

 

[Deleted member 206441]

Lol, Mary Shelley wrote that her husband went on boat ride 9 times in a period of 3 weeks.

He can't swimming but just loves fucking boat rides in big bodies of water.