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22 Jan 2019, 9:54 am

I learned that ADSL is no longer as good as it once was in terms of internet high speed performance, and yet I'm currently using such, but at the lowest tier though.



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22 Jan 2019, 11:55 am

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H. P. Lovecraft was racist and antisimitic.


And he was actually married to a Jewish woman! This didn't change the way he felt, however, and whenever he said anything nasty about Jewish people his wife would gently remind him who he was married to.



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22 Jan 2019, 12:00 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
H. P. Lovecraft was racist and antisimitic.


And he was actually married to a Jewish woman! This didn't change the way he felt, however, and whenever he said anything nasty about Jewish people his wife would gently remind him who he was married to.

Interesting...

One of my aunts dated a black man for a long time and yet she's pretty prejuduce towards black people herself. I guess opposites really DO attract. :lol:



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22 Jan 2019, 12:23 pm

Regarding Zimbabwe-- The country’s life expectancy, 46 for men and 45 for women, is one of the lowest in the world. This is attributed to poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although there has been a noticeable decline in HIV/AIDS population, Zimbabwe is still battling with poverty.



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22 Jan 2019, 12:24 pm

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Regarding Zimbabwe-- The country’s life expectancy, 46 for men and 45 for women, is one of the lowest in the world. This is attributed to poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although there has been a noticeable decline in HIV/AIDS population, Zimbabwe is still battling with poverty.

That's sad. :(



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22 Jan 2019, 12:26 pm

TW1ZTY wrote:
longshot wrote:
Regarding Zimbabwe-- The country’s life expectancy, 46 for men and 45 for women, is one of the lowest in the world. This is attributed to poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although there has been a noticeable decline in HIV/AIDS population, Zimbabwe is still battling with poverty.

That's sad. :(



True, though HIV infections are quite rampant across the African continent as a whole though..



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23 Jan 2019, 6:03 pm

Macau is the world's most densely populated place, with 48,000 people per square mile.


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23 Jan 2019, 6:40 pm

'Adlestrop' was written during WW1 and from the trenches.

Gives me more respect for it, if true.



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24 Jan 2019, 10:27 am

No#2 lead pencils are a misnomer as there is no lead in pencils these days, but there had been 1 century ago though.



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25 Jan 2019, 4:22 pm

John Williams has never seen any of the Star Wars movies he composed the music for.


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25 Jan 2019, 4:23 pm

I learned about CAD line work shorthand.


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25 Jan 2019, 4:34 pm

Lego produced 381 million tires in 2011, making the world's largest rubber tire manufacturer by number of units produced.


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26 Jan 2019, 10:42 am

It was John Mitchell who actually first proposed the idea of ‘dark stars’ or object. Later, in 20th century the term ‘black hole’ was coined.



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26 Jan 2019, 6:06 pm

Cartographers used to include fake towns on their maps to catch forgers.


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28 Jan 2019, 9:50 am

Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.



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28 Jan 2019, 10:04 am

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Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.

My sister goes to UF :D

I learned that I'm a bit pretentious. I need to stop. :(