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Added them above.
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I googled around a bit to find some actual Roman jokes [0][1][2]: One man complains to another: "The slave you sold me died!" "By the gods!", the other replies. "During the time he was in my service, he never did su
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This reads like an April's fool joke: > The ADE 651 consists of a swivelling antenna mounted via hinge to a plastic handgrip. It requires no battery or other power source; its manufacturer claimed that it is powered solely by the us
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Wiktionary lists as an interesting possible origin of the German equivalent "ficken" the sound it makes when two things rub against each other ("fffppp, fffppp, fffppp"). [0] [0] https://de.wiktionary.org&#x2F
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> At the time of his death in 1525, Fugger's personal wealth was equivalent to 2% of the GDP of Europe. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger
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I don't know. When I was a kid in the 90ies, it was still common to see older men drive a car wearing a hat. On the other hand, if your car is really not high enough to wear a hat, is it really that inconvenient to take it off when y
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> Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten cube can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary.
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> Because when you’re finally in a situation where you could use its insights, you’ve completely forgotten them. I once read a short essay by Patrick Süskind (author of "Perfume - The Story of a Murderer"). I am paraphrasing, b
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> For those of you old enough to remember landlines, it reminds me of those [...] When we all switched to cell service audio quality took a huge hit I don't understand - are landline phones not in use anymore? I only use a landline
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> On the other hand, the fade-to-black ending of The Sopranos was, in my opinion, a total violation of that contract. Nowhere did they setup that kind of ambiguity. I respectfully disagree. One of the qualities of "The Sopranos&quot
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Regarding classic film-noir movies, I found "The Lady from Shanghai" by Orson Welles much more baffling, and also frustrating. The first time I watched it, I didn't really get the plot. As a big Orson Welles fan, I assumed
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This is also exactly how I felt when I first watched "The Godfather: Part 2". There was just so much left out, and so much of extreme significance was only slightly hinted at (just take the scene where Michael realizes the betra
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Extreme political views tend to produce similar results, regardless of their justification.
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When I first saw smart lightbulbs, my first thought was that even shooting at a lightbulb to turn if off has less technical overhead.
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In our apartment, we have the following smart features: * Multiway light switches [0], which allow switching lights on and off from several different locations. * A boiler, which heats water up automatically should it become too cold. This
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> Watch [...] the post murder cover up from Death Lends a Hand. Personally, I find the projection on the sunglasses a bit kitschy.
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Apparently, the author does not have children.
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I think there are 4 things that make a Columbo episode enjoyable: 1) Peter Falk 2) Creative murder ideas 3) Great plot 4) Supporting performances In "Any Old Port in a Storm" the acting by both Falk and Pleasence is outstanding. R
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One of the earliest (and also one of the best) Columbo episodes ("Murder by the Book", 1971) was directed by Steven Spielberg. If you watch it, it is immediately clear (even during the initial shot) that this episode is simply i
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In this 1977 documentary film, Werner Herzog visits the island of Basse-Terre on which the volcano La Grande Soufrière is predicted to erupt. Everyone but two men have left the island.
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Werner Herzog: La Soufrière – Waiting for an Inevitable Disaster(youtube.com)
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The deep sea terrifies me enough [0] that I wouldn't be too surprised if a fish would return from down there with an arrow through its body. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea_creature
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Why not 1806, when the Holy Roman Empire, considered by many in the middle ages to be the legal successor of the Roman Empire, was dissolved?
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> The details of this [reachability=]"unknown" case can be found in the smtp.error and mx.error fields. Indeed they can, my mail server seems to block the service because it already appears on multiple spam lists.
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I don't want delivery, I want to order online and pick up my goods already in a bag. I have been using this heavily because we moved during the pandemic, and IKEA only offered such a pick up service (called "Click&Collect&quot
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> Seriously. How many times have you crashed out on a knotty problem and awakened with a clear solution? It's the opposite that is usually happening to me: I go to sleep thinking I finally solved some problem. When I wake up, litera
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> In 1973, he recalled, he persuaded Shannon to give the first annual Shannon lecture at the International Information Theory Symposium, but Shannon almost backed out at the last minute. “I never saw a guy with so much stage fright,” Ber
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> In Germany, Donald Duck comics are extremely popular, outselling even superheroes like Superman. I remember being shocked a few years ago when I learned that the hero of my childhood, and in my opinion one of the greatest comic book ar
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A bit off-topic, but I just googled some IIT-JEE questions and found the following: A large number of bullets are fired in all directions with same speed u. What is the maximum area on the ground on which these bullets will spread. T
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If you are interested in a real imposter who succeeded multiple times in working as a physician without any training at all and who was nearly made a professor, look at Gert Postel [0]. If you understand German, there is also a great docume

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