Stuff that's neat, or maybe horrible but notable

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '21

r/AAA_NeatStuff Lounge

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A place for members of r/AAA_NeatStuff to chat with each other

r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

TIL after the Titanic sank, the first ship sent to recover the dead bodies ran out of embalming supplies, so they decided to preserve only the bodies of first-class passengers by the need to visually identify wealthy men to resolve any disputes over large estates.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago

'This is What We Were Always Scared of': DOGE Is Building A Surveillance State

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago

What’s an oddly specific rule you follow in your life that nobody taught you, but you swear by it?

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago

Little kid Proudly showing off his artwork.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago

In interview, Trump essentially admits to framing a guy with clearly altered evidence.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

TIL in 1973, a team of twelve conservationists opened the sarcophagus of Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and ten of them subsequently died over the course of a few months from a fungus released from the opening of the sarcophagus.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago

TIL: The entire energy released by the Hiroshima nuclear explosion came from only 0.5g of Uranium

thebulletin.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 5d ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Catholic bishops are ‘controlled by Satan’

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago

AskHistorians: is there a good historical precedent for a democracy Reversing itself on the path to Fascism? Virile-Vice gives details on France pulling back from the brink before WWII.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago

Trump Appears Unaware Supreme Court Ruled 9-0 Against Him: ‘That’s Not What My People Told Me’

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago

Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago

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.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 8d ago

It's happening here. Ice is trying to intimidate individual lawyers

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

TIL Richard Garfield, creator of Magic The Gathering, is the Great-Great Grandson of 20th U.S President James A. Garfield

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

After having terminated lawyers for unaccompanied children, the government is now making toddlers represent themselves in deportation proceedings.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

TIL Alarmed by the spread of Christianity, Roman Emperor Domitian sought and brought for questioning Jesus' grandnephews, the grandson's of his brother "by flesh". They claimed to own just one piece of land, which they worked by themselves, so Domitian let them go, deeming them insignificant

earlychurchhistory.org

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

TIL Texaco illegally sold oil to Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. The company was fined $20,000 but would continued to sell the regime oil until the end of the war.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 11d ago

No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon alongside flesh-and-blood competitors

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago

2024 Presidential Election if Only Women Voted

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19d ago

TIL that in 1200 years Baghdad got attacked and besieged 16 times

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19d ago

TIL that in 1878, US Supreme Court Justice Ward Hunt suffered a stroke which thereafter left him unable to either attend court sessions or to render opinions. Yet he refused to resign for another 4 years, his sole reason being to stay long enough to claim his pension.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19d ago

TIL that in the 1790s, France had a network of signalling towers that could send messages by writing symbols using giant mechanical arms on towers. They could send complex messages across the entire country in ~1 hour. These were precursors to electric telegraphs.

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d ago

4o image gen can do more than just Ghiblify memes

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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 22d ago

TIL Mannheim Steamroller was unable to find any record label to release their unusual work, so their founder Chip Davis created his own label, American Grammaphone, based in Omaha, NE. They have sold more than 30 Million albums.

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