What did you learn today?

[rtslinger]

You all may find this interesting

From the Babysitter the Honey Mooners


The lady tells Alice that the babysitting job is "only three blocks from here" and the address is 383 Himrod St. The Kramden's live on 328 Chauncey St. in Brooklyn and 383 Himrod St. is actually two miles from there.

 

[rtslinger]

I will add one more HoneyMooner fact Himrod street was also the place of this accident
Pal o Mine episode
There was an explosion in the sewer on Himrod Street.
Norton was hurt.
Norton was hurt? Yeah.
Yeah, he's in room 317 at the Bushwick Hospital.
He was hurt? Yes, he was.
It's my fault.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Alzheimer's may have met its match.

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Alzheimer’s disease, which attacks an individual’s memory, is the most common form of dementia – the umbrella term for the hundreds of different conditions that affect the brain.

In a paper published in Science Advances, private pharmaceutical company Cortexyme details the role of Porphyromonas gingivalis – a common bacterium linked to chronic gum disease – in driving Alzheimer’s disease pathology.

After finding the bacterium in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, the international team of researchers found the brains of mice whom they infected with the pathogen had rapid colonization and increased production of amyloid beta, a component associated with Alzheimer’s.

 

[bobba66]

Often, while working under the hood of my trusty 2002 Dodge Dakota, I would glance over at the alternator and wonder how long it would last. Yesterday, I found out.

 

[paste]

TIL it is 100% legal be to buried at sea in the USA. You basically wrap the body in a sheet with some weights, at least 3 miles from shore and throw it off the boat. The Navy even has a program to assist veterans of the armed services.

Burial at Sea | US EPA

 

[farshore]

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even if they are very affectionate.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Venezuela's awash with black gold. Reserves, reported in 2014, are understood to be the largest on the planet, at 297 billion barrels (4.72×1010 m3). Fancy that! — Oil reserves in Venezuela - Wikipedia. Then there's the Orinoco tar sands, comparable to Canada's — estimated to be somewhere between 100 billion barrels (16×109 m3) and 513 billion barrels (8.16×1010 m3).

 

[Tom Bomb]

"In his four months in Hawaii [Mark Twain] wrote twenty-five letters for the Union, watched a volcano erupt, saw native girls skinny-dip in the sea, ate horrifying amounts of tropical fruit, and tried and failed to surf."

Fancy that! Imagine what might've happened if he'd stuck with surfing There's more to it — How Mark Twain became Mark Twain: The amazing story of the lectures that made him a superstar — if you dig a little history.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Gallic spuds can really pack a punch, if you're not careful …

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[the harp unstrung]

Today is NASA’s ‘Day Of Remembrance’...

On Day Of Remembrance, NASA Honors Fallen Astronauts

 

[Tom Bomb]

Taking Atticus Finch and how he became a literary icon on board. He has a bio, dontcha know.

 

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TIL In WWII, U.S. heavy bomber pilots would make ice cream by strapping buckets of ice cream mix to their planes before missions. The cold and turbulence of the flight would churn the mix into ice cream by the time they landed.

How Ice Cream Helped the U.S. Military at War - The Atlantic

 

[spiritbass]

I had never heard of "Ghost apples" before my brother posted this image to my FB page. They are formed when rain freezes on rotten fruit, which turns mushy and drops out.

 

[Groove Doctor]

We’re discovering just how incompatable gluten is for humans.

“There is now, however, a huge dataset firmly establishing the likelihood that wheat intolerance, or better yet, wheat toxicity, is a universal, human species-specific problem, occurring only in differing degrees, and mostly sub-clinically, at least through the optic of conventional screenings and technologies.

One must also account for the "invisible thorn," which is wheat lectin – known more technically as Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA) -- and which can cause a broad range of adverse health effects, even while being undetected through conventional screenings.”

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[the harp unstrung]

Today (2.10.19) is the 48th anniversary of the release of Carole King’s “Tapestry”.

That’s a good thing!

 

[Tom Bomb]

Ahab the good oil for ye, today. But first … a song.

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Most significant? Doubt it. My name ain't there. Still, it is one whale of a tale.

… "We know that North American whalers, for a 30- or 40-year period, covered the entirety of the world's oceans looking for whales, but we have very little evidence of them actually making landfall, so they're an important find."

The names and dates were carved into the rock by men sailing on two different whale boats, several years apart.

Photo: Colour filters bring out the inscriptions left by the crew of the American whaling ship Connecticut on a rock on Rosemary Island. (Supplied: Alistair Paterson) ​

Historical records reveal identities

The first, the Connecticut, set off from the coastal city of New London in August, 1842 with a crew of 26 men and sailed from the north-west coast of the United States to what was then known as the New Holland whaling ground.

Photo: Professor Alistair Paterson said American whalers frequented WA's north-west coast throughout much of the 19th century. (Supplied: Glen Jones)​

Members of the crew carved the words "Jacob Anderson", "Crocker", "New London", and "in the Ship Connecticut of New London", on a high, rocky ridge overlooking the water, along with the dates of their travel.

Professor Paterson scoured the historical records to identify the men, including the captain, and wrote his findings in the international journal Antiquity.

"The historical records show that on Connecticut's departure, Captain Crocker was 33 years old, while Jacob Anderson was described as an 18-year-old seaman from New London of 'black complexion' — almost certainly an African-American sailor," he wrote.

The second lot of carvings were found on the nearby West Lewis Island and include the words "J.Leek, Ship Delta, 1849". …

 

[shadowtippy]

Never make snow angels at the dog park.

 

[the harp unstrung]

TIL that, despite the tropical heat (a high of 89f here in mid-February) Panamanian men never? wear shorts.
Long pants are the uniform.

Shorts are for little kids and Americans.

I’m OK with that...

 

[the harp unstrung]

TIL that dozens-of-thousands of Chinese and Japanese, and Korean laborers worked on the first effort to create the
Canál de Panamá.
That was in the 1880s & ‘90s, under the direction of French engineers and designers.

Today, one in five Panamanians can claim Asian heritage.

 

[PillO]

TIL that dozens-of-thousands of Chinese and Japanese, and Korean laborers worked on the first effort to create the
Canál de Panamá.
That was in the 1880s & ‘90s, under the direction of French engineers and designers.

Today, one of five Panamanians can claim Asian heritage.

What do the other 4 claim?