TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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Hopefully the fact it doesn't work might do that.
>The only NHS hospital run by a private company has asked for a £10m taxpayer-funded bailout.
Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, is due to be handed back into NHS hands in March after the company outsourced to manage it, Circle, said it could no longer cope with rising demand and funding cuts.TIL Europeans all have public healthcare, because they fail at making private hospitals.
America has charity hospitals.
Which is like a private hospital, that does it for free....
mind. blown.
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TIL about a species of rodent called "armored rat" (hoplomys gymnurus) with spines on their back.
Freaky.Ok @RaceProUK, we know know you're just a sock puppet, you can stop pretending now...
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TIL you can't actually escape check by castling. I've been playing chess on-and-off for like 15 years, and yet it never came up until today, and even then not during the actual play, but when I was keying the game in for analysis in Chessmaster.
Also, I need a chess clock. My girlfriend plays fine, but she's the slowest thinker ever.
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you can't actually escape check by castling
toe-may-toe ta-mah-toe.
They've changed the rules in chess enough in the last hundreds of years that it isn't all that interesting to me anymore.
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TIL you can't actually escape check by castling.
Next you'll be telling you've never heard of en passant...
They've changed the rules in chess enough in the last hundreds of years that it isn't all that interesting to me anymore.
Yeah - I hated it when they gave rooks a smart bomb
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Next you'll be telling you've never heard of en passant...
One of my favorite moves to use on less ... educated players.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
Next you'll be telling you've never heard of en passant...
One of my favorite moves to use on less ... educated players.
I can almost hear the cries of "Wait! What are you doing!"
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DAMMIT<sdf
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@xaade said:
They've changed the rules in chess enough in the last hundreds of years that it isn't all that interesting to me anymore.
Yeah - I hated it when they gave rooks a smart bomb
Well, at least some of the new moves are interesting:
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Well, at least some of the new moves are interesting:
More interesting chess
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TIL two things:
Hedgehogs can swim (knew that already), but they hate water. Sonic's fear of water finally makes sense!
Also, bookmarks override thread muting.
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TIL that there's more ways that S3 can be misconfigured, and that students are mysteriously incapable of googling for the answer themselves.
Sometimes I wonder whether we ought to give extra marks to the plagiarists as they at least show they can search for an answer instead of sitting there like undercooked puddings.
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An astounding lot of animals can swim, though a lot of them avoid it if possible. Some people are surprised when they learn elephants can swim. I believe giraffes are actually a corner case, who can really only swim in theory.
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a corner case, who can really only swim in theory.
They've never encountered water they can't just wade through?
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Giraffes have a built-in periscope.
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They've never encountered water they can't just wade through?
Swim != wade.
Giraffes have a built-in periscope.
Apparently it's a weight distribution problem.
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Some people are surprised when they learn elephants can swim.
More or less surprised than when they learn that hippos can't?
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TIL hippos sink.
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TIL hippos sink.
They can also float; they only sink when they want to get out of the water (they walk along the bottom to the shore)
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They can also float; they only sink when they want to get out of the water (they walk along the bottom to the shore)
Citation?
If you see a hippo in water, the water is shallower than the height of the hippo.
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Wikipedia says hippos can't float, but these guys say they can
I guess the only way to find out for sure is to get a hippo and some deep water, and put the two together
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Wikipedia and everything else I could find except one other link that says the same as yours. Though it's entirely possible that Wikipedia saying something can lead to every source saying it. But I notice that link says
A hippo’s fat makes it buoyant enough to float very well.
But they actually have very little body fat.
That link has no citations for the fat or the floating - there are two 'read more' links but neither covers that.
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Apparently it's a weight distribution problem.
Center of gravity issue, maybe? (I'm imagining them hitting water too deep to wade in and spinning upside down like @blakeyrat's last KSP video.)
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Center of gravity issue, maybe?
[url=http://xkcd.com/1278/]link[/url]
like @blakeyrat's last KSP video
"If [this end] starts pointing towards space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today."
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Title text:
If you fund my Kickstarter ...
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If you see a hippo float it means it's a witch.
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I'm wondering how big your root beer is.
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Normal size.
It's a very small hippo.
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More or less surprised than when they learn that hippos can't?
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Thought this was this:
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TIL: The Man With One Red Shoe was a remake.
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TIL all it takes to get a pedantry badge it do be in one hell of a bitchy mood and jump into an argument where you probably should have let it go....
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not sure if i should be happy or ashamed at learning that fact.
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TIL all it takes to get a pedantry badge it do be in one hell of a bitchy mood and jump into an argument where you probably should have let it go....
:-/
not sure if i should be happy or ashamed at learning that fact.
It was mostly because @boomzilla was in the mood.
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my mood helped i'm sure.
i'm pretty sure if i wasn't this frustrated and didn't have this... headache... i would have let it go at the first post without making the followup.
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I got mine without even being dickweedy. It wasn't even that pedantic. Was still happy to get it.
I thought that was one of the ones you wanted anyway?
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It was mostly because @boomzilla was in the mood.
Flaggers tend to be fond of pedantry. I'm more of a dickweed guy. :shockedface:
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I thought that was one of the ones you wanted anyway?
it's not whether i got it or not in this case, but how i got it. (specifically by being, frankly, a bitch about it)
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Flaggers tend to be fond of pedantry. I'm more of a dickweed guy. :shockedface:
I prefer a mix.
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@boomzilla said:
Flaggers tend to be fond of pedantry. I'm more of a dickweed guy. :shockedface:
I prefer a mix.
Of course. But I'm not going to flag (or award prior to 3 community flags) a dry pedantic discourse on the etymology of some greek word. For example.
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it's not whether i got it or not in this case, but how i got it. (specifically by being, frankly, a bitch about it)
It didn't come across that way to me
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TIL Australia is a European country.
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