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Video showcasing the importance of PPE for workplace safety.
Grilling hotdogs on recently welded metal gets the point across to me. ~ learn more
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ChatGPT helps a dad diagnose his 3-year-old’s obscure dental issues.
“my 3yo has had tons of dental/cavity issues. we’ve been taking her to dentists for years, and they have spent an awful lot of time not even subtly intimating that selentelechia is a shitty mom. tonight i took our case […]
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Dutch uncle.
I watched an old video where Leo Burnett used this term and had to look it up. “Dutch uncle is an informal term for a person who issues frank, harsh or severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage or admonish […]
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My team’s intern just found a crigical bug by shitposting in our codebase.
“Turns out his Gen Z spider-sense wasn’t just tingling for the memes. Man actually found a validation bypass that’s been lurking in our code since Obama’s first term. The kind of bug that makes security auditors wake up in cold […]
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The invisible electrostatic wall at 3M adhesive tape plant.
“David Swenson of 3M Corporation describes an anomaly where workers encountered a strange “invisible wall” in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory. This “invisible wall” was strong enough to prevent humans from […]
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The most Mario colors.
“Most Mario games with polygonal logos have a different color per letter, but the sequence of colors in Mario’s name is rarely the same sequence across games. This captivated me—for some reason—and I set out to analyze every Mario video […]
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The invention of the laff box.
“Charley Douglass was the first guy who could make anyone laugh at the push of a button. The sound engineer invented the laff box and the laugh-track technique, which was quickly adopted by television in the 1960s and named “sweetening.” […]
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The feather heist.
This is kind of an insane story of a museum heist in the UK by an American kid with a obsession for creating fly fishing lures. “He was only 20 when he stole the birds, 299 of them. And not […]
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Torpedo juice.
“As of the beginning of World War II, American torpedoes utilized 180-proof ethyl alcohol as fuel for the miniature steam engines that drove them toward their targets. Lacking consistent access to liquor, opportunistic sailors occasionally drained the torpedoes of their […]
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52 things I learned in 2024.
Subscribed to this once-a-year blog after reading the 2023 post. The things that Kent Hendricks learns are very interesting to me, so I think they’ll be interestig to you! ~ learn more