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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2660 on: September 20, 2013, 06:57:46 PM »

One of my favorite things about the ol' home state is the air force base being called Seymour Johnson.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2661 on: September 24, 2013, 06:44:20 PM »

Sergio Aragones once studied to become a mime under the tutelage of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Jesus, now that's a mindfuck.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2662 on: September 26, 2013, 07:48:36 AM »

There are still Purple Hearts being issued today that date back to World War II.

The United States had commissioned a massive stockpile of the medals in preparation for a possible invasion of Japan. They believed that every Japanese soldier and civilian would fight to the death to defend the country, leading to innumerable American casualties.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2663 on: September 26, 2013, 07:50:54 AM »

The latter part, I knew about. I didn't realize that the current medal stock still dated back that far.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2664 on: September 26, 2013, 03:19:53 PM »

Sergio Aragones once studied to become a mime under the tutelage of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Jesus, now that's a mindfuck.

Yeah, he tells that story pretty frequently -- it sheds a lot of light on his talent for silent cartooning.  (Which of course was pretty essential when he first submitted his portfolio to Mad without knowing a word of English...)

Aragones is a great fucking raconteur and has had an amazing life.  If you're not reading Funnies, you are seriously missing out.  (His issue of Solo was wonderful too, and pretty much the blueprint for what became Funnies.)  My favorite recent story was the time he acted as tour guide when Gaines took the Usual Gang of Idiots to Mexico.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2665 on: October 12, 2013, 10:46:11 AM »

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Historian Hilda Kean says that it was just another way of signifying that war had begun. "It was one of things people had to do when the news came - evacuate the children, put up the blackout curtains, kill the cat."

There was a run on pet euthanasia clinics in Britain at the beginning of WWII.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2666 on: October 15, 2013, 11:08:23 AM »

Today I learned that if you make fun of John Byrne hard enough on a forum, goons from his website will show up to defend him.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2667 on: October 16, 2013, 01:12:34 AM »

Was this at Talking Time? I admit I don't go into any comics threads anymore after I quit funnybooks hard.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2668 on: October 16, 2013, 03:08:40 AM »

Admittedly, the information is secondhand testimonial.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2669 on: October 21, 2013, 06:10:44 AM »

The first full-scale use of women in official front-line combat roles (as opposed to nurses or the occasional one-off who might sneak in now and then) were the Women's Battalions formed by the Russian provisional Kerensky government in WWI (and not, as one might have guessed, by the Bolsheviks).

The formations acquitted themselves reasonably in combat, with good performance and low casualties. However, it was still only 1917 after all, so they eventually they were disbanded.

The truly bleak comedy came once the government decided they didn't like the idea after all. First they wanted to move them to non-combat roles (similar roles to US, UK, etc. in WWI and WWII), but then men in those non-combat jobs refused, saying better them than us on the front lines. Unable to figure out what to do, the government simply disbanded the units. Only when that happened, the women's battalions just hung around their camps for months, waiting for orders, because no-one wanted to be the guy who told them.

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For the record, the next use was not the Russians again, but the Poles, in the Russo-Polish war of 1919-1920 (which Russia lost horribly). The Poles tried to keep the women away from fighting but did train them for combat and wound up using the units when forced to in the north. This featured a lot less of the ridiculousness of the previous Russian attempt and again the woman were a credit to the uniform, fighting well.

There are cool photos of the Polish brigades!















































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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2670 on: October 21, 2013, 07:08:59 AM »

Someone on the boards had a tumblr post talking about the fucked up (sexist) bullshit involved in the aftermath of the women's battalions disbanding. Which was pretty horrifying.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2671 on: October 22, 2013, 02:28:53 PM »

Is a bug that costs $172,222 per second for 45 minutes the most expensive software bug ever? If so, I just learned about the most expensive software bug ever
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2672 on: October 24, 2013, 02:29:25 AM »

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L'esprit de l'escalier or l'esprit d'escalier (staircase wit) is a French term used in English that describes the predicament of thinking of the perfect retort too late.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2673 on: October 24, 2013, 07:38:10 PM »

The Shell sort is named after its inventor; it is not a reference to the shell game as I had always assumed.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2674 on: October 25, 2013, 03:52:05 AM »

A Russian project has created actual domesticated foxes

Not tame wild animals, but actual genetically domesticated foxes.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2675 on: October 25, 2013, 04:17:36 AM »

You should hang out with more furries! I heard about that years ago thanks to them.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2676 on: October 25, 2013, 04:20:36 AM »

That the Outlaw Star one-off characters of Angry Space Cop Dinosaur and his partner got their own spin-off (sort of).
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2677 on: October 28, 2013, 06:12:37 AM »

You can get moles and freckles and similar things on some of your internal organs! Not cancers or dangerous - just like regular external moles or freckles.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2678 on: October 28, 2013, 06:54:15 AM »

Gross.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2679 on: November 03, 2013, 04:39:28 PM »

Today, Google taught me that mentats exist
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