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Cheerful Dragon Posted Jul 16, 2016
I don't intend to, although it isn't usually a problem. It's just that on this occasion my tablet wouldn't accept the word Tippex, no matter what I did.
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 17, 2016
On that podcast Mike Nesmith explains in more detail about how brilliant his mother was in creating Liquid Paper. One of the crutial aspects about it was her realization that at the time, the early 70s, something like 90% of the secretarial and other typographic work was performed by females. So, she designed the bottle and brush to resemble nail polish.
She also considered many more aspects like price point, knowing that with small bottles costing less than a dollar or so, typographic workers could by it without purchase requests.
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Baron Grim Posted Aug 9, 2016
The first American woman to win first place in an Olympic event, never knew she was competing in the Olympics.
The 1900 Paris games were poorly organized and promoted so when Margaret Abbott won first place (she received a porcelain bowl, medals weren't awarded in the 1900 games) she wasn't aware the event, a golf tournament, was part of the Paris Olympic Games. This wasn't clarified until after she died in 1955.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Abbott
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swl Posted Aug 10, 2016
Today's human population is descended from twice as many women as men. DNA studies indicate over 80% of women reproduced throughout history compared to only 40% of men.
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Baron Grim Posted Aug 22, 2016
Beer was the drug responsible for the first disqualification of an Olympic athlete.
Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall and his team were disqualified in the 1968 Summer games because Liljenwall had drank two beers to calm his nerves before the pistol shooting competition.
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Baron Grim Posted Aug 24, 2016
The effective* focal length of the Hubble Space Telescope is 57600mm.
*(as compared to a full frame 35mm camera lens)
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Aug 24, 2016
So if I wanted to use it to take pictures of the squirrels in my backyard, I'd have to back up a whole lot...?
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Baron Grim Posted Aug 24, 2016
The James Webb Space Telescope has an effective focal length of 131.4m (f/20).
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Baron Grim Posted Aug 24, 2016
Yes... If you want to take pictures in your, (or someone else's) back yard, you'd have to back up a bit. I suggest you back up to low Earth orbit. The Hubble was based on an existing spy satellite (Keyhole IIRC). They just pointed it the other way.
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swl Posted Aug 27, 2016
Humans are 90% water. Basically we're just cucumbers with issue.
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