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12-21-2017 , 12:24 PM

#3601

JudgeHoldem

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interesting things explained well podcast is so good. man. that guy is the best

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12-21-2017 , 06:36 PM

#3602

samuri8

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I couldn’t find a Wikipedia article on this, but I think it fits the thread. Anyone who has seen enough Korean movies will be familiar with this. It’s a strange criminal justice practice to say the least.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug...pects-20100808

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12-21-2017 , 09:27 PM

#3603

golfnutt

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Nothing beats good old mob justice.

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12-22-2017 , 04:35 AM

#3604

AllBlackDan

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirin_Dajo?wprov=sfla1

Arnold Gerrit Henskes*(6 August 1912*– 26 May 1948), known by the pseudonym*Mirin Dajo, was a Dutch performer.[1]*He became famous for radically*piercing his body*with all kinds of objects and apparently without injury, even astounding the*medical community*at the time.[1]

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12-22-2017 , 04:43 AM

#3605

AllBlackDan

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrt...in?wprov=sfla1

She is about five feet high, has fair skin, blue eyes, and curly hair, and is very intelligent. A stranger, to see her in company, would only think her unusually broad across her hips, and with the carriage usual to one with clubbed foot. I have known Mrs. B. since she was a tiny child, as the 'four-legged girl,' but never realised the perfect dual development of both external and internal genital organs until she became my patient in [a] case of pregnancy" — Lewis Whaley, quoted in the*British Medical Journal, 1889*

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12-22-2017 , 06:44 AM

#3606

Rebelp

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Victorians seemed to like dead baby pics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36389581

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12-22-2017 , 04:52 PM

#3607

daveT

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"Behavioral sink" redirected from Universe 25.

Universe 25 was the penultimate experiment of a series of rat population studies. The behavioral sink is the inflection point where overcrowding leads to behaviors needed to keep a society alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

There are some YouTube videos on this. It's amazing how much work went into doing this.

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12-24-2017 , 04:43 AM

#3608

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Just subbing. Happy holidays fellow pagans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism

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12-25-2017 , 07:37 AM

#3609

kokiri

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd?wprov=sfti1

South Welsh Christmas tradition: singing plus added horse skull.

“The Mari Lwyd party would approach a house and sing a song in which they requested admittance. The inhabitants of the house would then offer excuses for why the team could not enter. The party would sing a second verse, and the debate between the two sides – known as the pwnco – would continue until the house's inhabitants ran out of ideas, at which time they were obliged to allow the party entry and to provide them with ale and food.”

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01-03-2018 , 08:57 AM

#3610

JudgeHoldem

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List of suicide sites around the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_sites

That Logan Paul news brought me to this

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01-03-2018 , 04:39 PM

#3611

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List of suicide sites around the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_sites

That Logan Paul news brought me to this

That forest has like 200 attempted suicides a year. Insanely high number and no wonder that Logan guy ran into one so quickly.

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01-06-2018 , 06:43 AM

#3612

blind squirrel

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Decent doc from a while ago

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01-08-2018 , 02:36 AM

#3613

daveT

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I'm wondering if this was posted already, but eh...

Emu War

Australian farmers set up plot of land on the migration route of Emus. The military comes in and... loses.

This really reads like a military account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

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01-08-2018 , 02:45 AM

#3614

daveT

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Originally Posted by JudgeHoldem

List of suicide sites around the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_sites

That Logan Paul news brought me to this

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California — official count halted at 997 to prevent "record breakers"

These two bridges confuse the heck out of me:

Coronado Bridge, San Diego, California — more than 200 suicides (1972–2000)

Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Tampa Bay, Florida — At least 130 people have committed suicide by jumping from the center span into the waters of Tampa Bay since the opening of the new bridge in 1987 and an estimated 10 others have tried, but survived.

^^ I cannot fathom how anyone survives that jump. The bridge is 430 feet high, and it's hard to appreciate that when looking at the photos of it.

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01-08-2018 , 02:11 PM

#3615

golfnutt

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You have to land, I believe, feet first. Your legs will get crushed and break, but it may insulate your other organs.

You also need, in all likelihood, to be rescued because you can’t swim.

There was an AMA here on a person surviving a jump off the George Washington bridge.

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01-10-2018 , 04:53 AM

#3616

IHaveThreePair

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Water conditions help too, choppy water can give you a higher chance of survival along with currents than a calm flat sea/lake.

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01-10-2018 , 05:25 AM

#3617

daveT

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This might give a little appreciation of how tall that bridge is...

I guess since it's relevant, list of bridges over 130ft in the US by height.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ates_by_height

I figured the Sunshine would be lower than the Coronado, but I'm surprised to see it's also lower than the Golden Gate bridge. I'm also suprised to see that the Bay Bridge and GG are the same height.

Washington bridge is also taller.

My mind has been expanded...

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01-10-2018 , 10:02 AM

#3618

JudgeHoldem

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there's a bridge into/out of delaware that is monstrous, well at least i thought it was big until i read that above post and saw this

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01-10-2018 , 12:27 PM

#3619

Yakmelk

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I have some serious height issues and get sweaty palms from just looking at those two bridges. Holy ****.

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01-10-2018 , 08:32 PM

#3620

JayTeeMe

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holy fack that thing was built in 1929!?

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01-11-2018 , 02:21 PM

#3621

daveT

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I don't know where that bridge is, but I'm pretty sure I don't ever want to cross it.

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01-11-2018 , 03:08 PM

#3622

kokiri

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living...es?wprov=sfti1

Living root bridges are a form of tree shaping common in the southern part of the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya. They are handmade from the aerial roots of Rubber Fig Trees (Ficus elastica[1][2]) by the Khasi and Jaintia[3] peoples of the mountainous terrain along the southern part of the Shillong Plateau.

Meghalaya gets 470 inches of rain per year.