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Civil_Speed_8234 t1_j68u4s8 wrote

Reply to comment by MaliciousHippie in TIL workers dismantling the wrecked MV Primrose off of North Sentinel Island were confronted by the isolated Sentinelese, but defused the situation by giving them bananas and letting them on board to acquire scrap metal. Workers were visited by the Sentinelese 2-3 times a month for 18 months. by CaptainJZH

Similarly, most people suffer in our society, and some have found peace. Maybe they're better off

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Civil_Speed_8234 t1_j3l8fbt wrote

Reply to comment by 10secondmessage in TIL Pluto hasn't completed an orbit around the sun since its discovery. Pluto's orbit takes about 248 years, and Pluto was discovered in 1930. by irbinator

Planets up to Saturn were known to the ancient Greeks, but Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were named after the invention of the telescope (with the first one in 1781), and they just continued the naming convention in the same way. All the moons, dwarf planets, planetoids and other things in our solar system were named for Roman myths as well, but most of them weren't known until much more recently

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Civil_Speed_8234 t1_isimbnq wrote

Reply to comment by flakAttack510 in TIL that Napoleon once gave an ornately decorated tiara (a crown) to the pope with 3345 precious jewels inlaid into it. This was actually intended to be an insult, as the tiara weighed 18 pounds and was too small to fit on a human head. by Specific_Success_875

Using the same sentence that people use to talk to religious people, on someone that hates religious people. And completely correctly too. Well done!

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