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TIL in 2014, the daughter of the chairman of Korean Air flew into a rage when she was served macadamia nuts in a packet instead of a plate while on a Korean Air flight. She forced the flight attendant who served her the nuts to apologise on his knees, ejected him from the flight, and demoted him.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46624293
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ysk, It would take 90,068 years on average to win your state lottery at two tickets per week.
Why YSK: Seek help if you have a gambling problem or just invest in index funds, you would have better chances at keeping or gaining money.
https://redd.it/1k7x22c
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TIL that the 1954 animated adaptation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” was funded in part by American intelligence agencies as an anti-communist hit piece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm_(1954_film)?wprov=sfti1
https://redd.it/1k83d4a
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LPT request: words i can add to the end of my full name in my email address and still keep it professional?
hi everyone i was wondering if there are certain words i can add to the end of my full name in my gmail email address and be able to use this email for everything — whether that be personal or professional endeavours. sadly i deleted the email that had only my full name when i was 13. 😬 i don’t really like using numbers because i feel like no matter the number i choose, people are going to think it means something specific like a year or age… thanks! 😊
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TIL Many of Benny Blanco's early tracks are at 120 BPM, the default tempo in Pro Tools, and he didn't realize he could adjust it, so he ended up using that tempo for many of his initial projects. This included hits like Kesha's "Tik Tok," Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," and Taio Cruz's "Dynamite”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/super-producer-benny-blanco-reveals-110255410.html
https://redd.it/1k7zsvt
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How can I stop dwelling on the past?
I can’t let things go from over 20 years ago (like getting bullied). How can I stop this?
https://redd.it/1k7wt3x
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TIL there are an estimated 3 million plus undiscovered shipwrecks in the worlds oceans.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230609-how-many-shipwrecks-are-there-in-the-worlds-oceans
https://redd.it/1k7tv65
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LPT Request: How do I get through 12 hour shifts at my assembly line job, when finding other work seems impossible?
I work 12 hour shifts on an assembly line, and getting through the shifts is brutal. Most of the common suggestions don't work in my case. I can't talk to anyone there as nobody is talkative; many of them don't want to speak at all, regardless of language or experiences or anything. There's often a 3-hour period where not a word of conversation is uttered by anyone on the entire factory floor (including two assembly lines and a testing area). There were only two people who wanted to hold a conversation there, and they both quit two weeks ago.
We're highly micromanaged and don't get to choose our own break times or spots to sit in, we can't have any food on the factory floor (no snacks) or even refill water/coffee/tea until our breaktimes. We can take bathroom breaks if they're short, but other than that we are not allowed to move from our stations until the end of the night.
We can't look at our phones during the shift except on breaks, wear headphones or earbuds, or play music through our phone speakers. Bringing a portable radio might be possible (I'll ask next week).
The most I can do is choose whether I stand or sit (although most of the work requires sitting), push my chair from one side of my table to the other, sip water (has to last me 3 hours per refill, so slowly), and go to the bathroom.
To top it all off, the work comes at an agonizing pace that is too slow to get into a flow and too fast to zone out and take mental breaks. Generally, I'll get something that takes 15 seconds to do every 30 seconds. Also if one of the production lines finishes their daily quota before the day's out, there is an endless supply of "prepwork" and other busywork to keep us occupied as the manager does not want anyone to be "idling". So even if we finish our work early, there's endless fake work waiting. Last week I spent an hour manually checking parts that I had already confirmed were good before, they just handed me a box of 500 pieces that had already been checked and I checked it again.
I'm seriously at my wit's end here. This job is crushing my soul. I don't even have the energy to apply to anything else on my off days because I'm so burnt out.
This isn't even mentioning the physical issues; my feet are soaking in their own sweat in my steeltoes which causes a ton of skin issues despite trying to wear moisture-wicking socks, and I don't have enough room to even wiggle my toes which gets oppressive. My shoulders are killing me from repetitive strain, and I have to spend half of both my breaks going to the very back of the building (by the loading docks) where my locker is to get some hand lotion so my skin stops cracking. We have to wear these cheap ESD straps that need to be pulled so tight they dig in and irritate. The air in there is full of dust that makes my nose just that little bit irritated, and because there's irritants used in the production process it's very hard to get the chance to scratch your face or anything.
The management/supervision is also nasty. Not a big deal, but when there's already so many annoyances going on, it starts to upset me.
Any help? I'm seriously dying out here. I've been here a few weeks already, seen all the good conversationalists quit, but I have nowhere to go back to other than this (coming from a highly abusive home environment in a city where rent is prohibitively high). I don't see myself getting used to this at all; the tedium and discomfort is killing me. The pay here isn't even that good (1.3x minimum wage) but the job market is so bad right now there's not anything else I can do. I have an associates and a bachelors, both in STEM, and have sent over 350 applications out just since mid-November yet have gotten nothing. I've hired private career coaches and used my university's career services, gone to job fairs and networking events, reached out to everyone I know in industry, and there's just nothing. The market is bone dry unless you're an experienced
Motel Room Curtains Won't Close Completely? This hack fixes that.
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TIL Steven Spielberg offered Tom Sizemore a role in Saving Private Ryan (1998) under the condition that he would be given a drug test at the end of every day of filming, and if he failed even one time, all his scenes would be re-shot with someone else. He stayed clean and completed the movie.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/04/tom-sizemore-the-tough-guy-who-held-his-own-opposite-hollywoods-biggest-names
https://redd.it/1k7mmt0
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YSK that is wasn't depression that led to Robin Williams' suicide, it was Lewy Body Dementia
Why YSK: Under every post about Robin Williams on this site and others I always see comments talking about how sad it was that depression led to his death. This simply isn't true. His death was even more tragic, victim of a little known, and little understood disease called Lewy Body Dementia, Robin lived the last years of his life battling with symptoms like massive delusions and complete personality changes, not knowing why they were happening. For years he thought he was going crazy, and there was nothing he or his loved ones could do to help.
His death was as tragic as it was unexpected to his fans around the world, and I think we do him a disservice if we do not spread the word about how he actually died, and helped to raise awareness of the disease that killed him.
Please visit the LBDA (Lewy Body Dementia Association) site that I will link below. If you would like to know more about Robin's life and death there is also a documentary called Robin's wish.
https://redd.it/1k7l1bk
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TIL a father (5 years) & son (4 years) were sentenced to prison after they cashed in 14,000 winning lottery tickets over a 10-year period, laundered more than $20m, & then failed to pay the IRS $6m. They bought the tickets at a discount from people who wanted to avoid being identified by the state.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/father-son-duo-ran-20-million-lottery-fraud-scheme-sentenced-prison-rcna85759
https://redd.it/1k7hmed
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TIL that the British royal family owns a stamp collection worth over £100 million. In 1904, The Prince of Wales paid £1,450 for a rare stamp. A courtier asked the prince if he had seen "that some damned fool had paid as much as £1,400 for one stamp". "Yes," George replied. "I was that damned fool!"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-royal-philatelic-collection-london-england
https://redd.it/1k7g8yk
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TIL a Sheffield man killed his neighbor using a bag of Pokémon cards after an argument. Suffering from psychosis worsened by cannabis, he bludgeoned, stamped, and beat the victim, later saying it was “an act of mercy.” He got life with 17 years minimum.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-65533461
https://redd.it/1k7bwvo
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TIL Napoleon had planned an invasion of the UK but it was never carried out. Preparations were financed by the sale of the Louisiana territory to the US which the US financed with a loan from a British bank, so Britain was indirectly funding an invasion of itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon's_planned_invasion_of_the_United_Kingdom
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TIL in 2021, Lady Gaga's dogs were stolen in a violent robbery. Jennifer McBride got the dogs from the thieves and returned them, hoping for Gaga's $500,000 reward. A judge ruled she can't claim it, as handling stolen property is a crime. McBride's role in the crime barred her from profiting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67003283
https://redd.it/1k86e20
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TIL that Arthur MacArthur IV, the only child of Douglas MacArthur of WWII fame, has been living a private life since his father’s death in 1964, living under an assumed name and residing in the Mayflower Hotel until 2004.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_MacArthur_IV
https://redd.it/1k812xw
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TIL the first author to be named in all recorded history was a Mesopotamian poet, princess, and priestess called Enheduanna. She was born in 2285BCE and was the daughter of Sargon the Great.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20221025-enheduanna-the-worlds-first-named-author
https://redd.it/1k7wjev
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TIL that the idea for the original Final Destination (2000) film came after its co-writer, Jeffrey Reddick, read a story about a mother of a passenger who had a premonition for her daughter's flight, convincing her to switch flights and avoid her initial plane, which ended up crashing.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/25828/special-feature-final-destination-not-so-final-after-all/
https://redd.it/1k7wk08
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TIL about Empedocles, the 5th-century BC philosopher, who reportedly jumped into Mount Etna to prove his immortality. However, his plan failed when the volcano spat out one of his bronze sandals, revealing he had perished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedocles
https://redd.it/1k7uoeg
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YSK Starting May 7th you need RealID to travel or get into Federal Buildings
Why YSK: If you do not have an enhanced drivers license , you will need to use a passport or one of the options listed.
> REAL ID is a law, not an actual piece of ID. Per the law, there are many pieces of existing identification options that will work including:
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Permanent Resident Card (Green Card)
U.S. Military ID
U.S. Passport
U.S. Passport Card
Foreign Passport
Enhanced Driver License (EDL)
Enhanced Identification Card (EID)
Federally Recognized Tribal-issued Photo ID
Border Crossing Card
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Employment Authorization Card (I-766)
https://www.dhs.gov/real-id
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professional wanting to work for below-newcomer rates - like literally taking what new grads are historically supposed to make, slashing it by 20%, and then only accepting people whose experience should be earning them double that.
Any advice?
https://redd.it/1k7rx5h
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TIL that in the early 20th century it was believed that submerging yourself for 30 hours inside a decomposing whale would releave rheumatism arthritis for up to a year.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/bizarre-whale-treatment-for-rheumatism-revealed-20140329-35q0w.html
https://redd.it/1k7muea
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LPT: Take your strolls in reverse every now and then
If you walk on a routine (lunch break, dog walks) take it in reverse every now end then. Recently I've been doing lunch break strolls with a colleague and I asked her if she wanted to go right (instead of left, reversing the path) because the stroll will feel different and you'll see things you haven't noticed before. She was amazed every time she saw something she hadn't noticed before wondering how she missed them.
https://redd.it/1k7pecz
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TIL that a cat named Tommy called 911 to help its owner, Gary, who had fallen from his wheelchair and couldn't get up. Gary had tried to train Tommy to call 911, but never expected it to work.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10663270
https://redd.it/1k7kbo2
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LPT REQUEST: what are some of the most effective ways (even if unethical) to relieve stress? I find myself suffering from too much performance stress when studying and/or when gaming
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TIL the president of NBC at the time tried to persuade the creator of Family Ties to replace Michael J. Fox. He said "that’s not a face you’re going to see on a lunchbox". Fox later had a lunchbox made with his picture on it and sent it to the exec with a note, "this is for you to put your crow in".
https://virginradio.co.uk/entertainment/116209/michael-j-fox-nearly-lost-tv-series-producers-strange-belief
https://redd.it/1k7hbml
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LPT: if you need motivation to clean house…
Put on an episode of Hoarders. After one episode, I am cleaning everything in sight.
https://redd.it/1k7cdeg
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How to remove a very small piece of wood stuck in my finger bed?
So I was going to turn on the light in a room of the house I am living in during night time (it was dark) when my right hand middle finger accidently hit into corner of a teak wood stand. Upon close inspection, I saw the corners weren't smoothed so today morning i smoothed it out with a cellotape. When I got hit, my hand was hurting and I observed that two very small wood layers got stuck in my finger bed. I applied dettol as well as some turmeric and decided that I try to get the small pieces of wood out of the fingerbed today morning after waking up. I was successfully able to remove one of the pieces (some bleeding was there) but unfortunately wasn't able to get rid of the other piece with the nail cutter as it was paining. Do I just leave the wood piece as it is or should I try to take it out? If taking it out is a better option, how should I do so?
Sorry if the image isn't very clear, the phone which I am using doesn't really have a good camera.
One small piece of wood stuck in my fingerbed
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LPT when showing someone a pic zoom in a little so they can't swipe.
https://redd.it/1k7boxq
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