MattyKatty
MattyKatty t1_jdzkczt wrote
Reply to comment by Doxbox49 in TIL that there are official guidelines for muslims to perform their rituals from space since 2007, when the first malaysian astronaut join the space station. by TonahVilla
Actually the funny thing is all I’m thinking is that Mission Control must hate having to schedule blocks 5 times a day for prayer. It makes me unsurprised it took so long for a Muslim to get ISS time
MattyKatty t1_jdqhqd7 wrote
Reply to TIL the Domino's logo has 3 dots to represent the original 3 locations in Michigan. by eelikay
And also because it’s, you know, a domino..
MattyKatty t1_jddx740 wrote
Reply to comment by reddit455 in Is The X-Files Worth Watching Start to Finish? by ofthedappersort
I’m just glad you didn’t reference The Lone Gunmen show
MattyKatty t1_jd5kpz3 wrote
Reply to comment by muklan in That’s All, Folks: St. Elsewhere and the Everlasting Legacy of Its Strange Snow Globe Finale by Kryptoniian
and Mark Sheppard appears in both as well
MattyKatty t1_jabzhtq wrote
Reply to comment by Nivekian13 in TIL Thomas Jefferson regularly attended many different churches and declared "I am of a sect by myself" unlike many of the other devoted founding fathers. by skylightyourlife
Strange because the people behind the one DNA test say that it doesn’t prove that Jefferson was the father..
There were 13 potential Jefferson’s that could claim paternity for the one tested descendant, and a very strong candidate is Thomas Jefferson’s brother Randolph.
MattyKatty t1_jaby5bk wrote
Reply to comment by goteamnick in TIL Thomas Jefferson regularly attended many different churches and declared "I am of a sect by myself" unlike many of the other devoted founding fathers. by skylightyourlife
> including his own children from his rape victim
Not only is there no actual proof that he had children with Sally Hemings, but also there’s no proof that he had a sexual relationship with her at all.
MattyKatty t1_ja9cfln wrote
The United States is a no-smoking nation. No smoking, no drinking, no drugs. No women - unless of course you're married. No guns, no foul language... no red meat.
MattyKatty t1_ja1k1f2 wrote
Reply to comment by SandwitchCoveness in TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life. by w0mpum
Yes.
MattyKatty t1_j9y861m wrote
Reply to comment by a_common_spring in TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life. by w0mpum
>Apparently he was found not guilty after his death by a court
I was going to say this makes zero sense, but then I realized British
MattyKatty t1_j9y7i4d wrote
Reply to comment by CDinDC in TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s by emily_9511
> If I meet someone with my great-grandmother’s maiden name as a last name, I know to avoid mating with them.
That far removed, and that being the only familial connection, you would very likely be fine. Unless your great-grandmother also happened to be her own aunt/cousin, I guess.
MattyKatty t1_j9s60th wrote
That's kind of awkward.. Basically starting where he was a major character to ending with episodes where he barely appears. Apparently that was Belzer's own decision since he wanted to spend more time with his family, but still kind of weird to see from in a "Munch-a-thon"
MattyKatty t1_j9jfme2 wrote
Reply to comment by BlueKnightBrownHorse in TIL - That avocado seeds are so large because they depended on extinct megafauna to eat and disperse them. by byronhadleigh
Try thousands of years ago, and they weren’t really “around”, they were just on a few islands in low populations comparatively
MattyKatty t1_j9aajkj wrote
Reply to comment by hikeonpast in TIL: If you cut 2 different sponges up, disaggregate them (push them through a sieve), and mix the 2 cell-slurries together - the sponge cells reassociate with their own cells, but not cells of the other species. This is being studied to understand tissue repair and transplant rejection. by Geek_Nan
For me it was 4/5ths of the way through that “2 different sponges” actually mean 2 different species of sponge
MattyKatty t1_j5iv0a1 wrote
Reply to comment by BuffaloWilliamses in What popular TV shows ended and will NEVER get a reboot / spin-off series? by ericdeben
The music that needs licensing is usually episode centric, as in a full opening or perhaps my favorite. There's countless more that you can't really edit around, or even if you could it would ruin the episode anyway.
MattyKatty t1_j5iutdf wrote
Reply to comment by tagen in What popular TV shows ended and will NEVER get a reboot / spin-off series? by ericdeben
There is a Restoration project in the works over at /r/TheDrewCareyShow but I'm not sure if I can link to the project directly here since it'd probably be considered warez (even though you can't buy it digitally and it's available all over archive.org in worse quality).
MattyKatty t1_j1d65xr wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that DMVs in the US are allowed to sell some of your personal information and do. This practice is legal under federal law. For example, Florida’s DMV made $77 million and California’s DMV made $52 million in 2017 through this practice alone. by TheKeyboardKid
I’ve got the tar for this guy if someone else brings the feathers
MattyKatty t1_j06bshr wrote
Reply to comment by TarnishedGalahad in TIL that roosters don’t have a penis. They pump their sperm into females using a 'cloacal kiss' by [deleted]
Birds did not descend from dinosaurs; they are the only extant species of dinosaurs.
MattyKatty t1_ix7lag6 wrote
Reply to TIL that the use of chimpanzees and other exotic animals in media makes the public think these animals aren't as endangered as they really are. by HyenaJack94
I would happily sponsor a cloning/mating program for Annie’s Boobs
MattyKatty t1_iwg3uro wrote
Reply to comment by MrchntMariner86 in TIL that the civilian sailors of the U.S. Merchant Marine had a higher casualty rate during World War II than any branch of the armed forces. by p38-lightning
I still remember watching an old Ninja Warrior (long before it went American) episode starting from the initial tryouts where it’s a bunch of weird dorky Japanese dudes in costumes and then in comes this swole white Merchant Marine who surprised everyone and made it close to the grand finale before literally brute forcing himself across a ravine with a pole in a manner that technically disqualified him (despite finishing).
That was when I realized that Merchant Marines were on a different level
MattyKatty t1_iuh404m wrote
Reply to comment by atomicsnarl in The Thing (1982) -- the scene with MaReady checking on Blair in the cabin by darthvirgin
> I've always wondered why, if the alien was smart enough to mimic/occupy a human, why it just didn't communicate that way and say "take me to your leader" or some such.
"This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open." - Macready
It's too scared to do that, and it knows it can win if it hides successfully in people.
MattyKatty t1_iuh3ogx wrote
Reply to comment by CMelody in The Thing (1982) -- the scene with MaReady checking on Blair in the cabin by darthvirgin
I somewhat agree and disagree with this assessment. Longtime fans would have rooted for the two Norwegians seen in the beginning of the 1982 movie, except only one is really shown at a decent length. I agree that they should have had more character development in that direction.
But I think having the Norwegians be separate from the main characters, in a suspicious way as they mumble to each other in a foreign language, was an interesting take on it. The language gap was a realistic barrier.
Edit: Also I made this comment before opening the actual conversation so I didn't know you commented on the language barrier above, though that was in reference to the 1982 movie.
MattyKatty t1_iuh3buz wrote
Reply to comment by BOEJlDEN in The Thing (1982) -- the scene with MaReady checking on Blair in the cabin by darthvirgin
It's ambiguous in the 1982 version. It was meant to be shown in the 2011 prequel but then they CGI'd over it.
MattyKatty t1_irjhtyt wrote
Reply to comment by imapassenger1 in TIL A 2017 study found that the introduction of iodized salt in 1924 raised the IQ for the one-quarter of the population most deficient in iodine. by kstinfo
It’s blessed by a Rabbi
MattyKatty t1_iri68mv wrote
Reply to comment by auroraboringalice in TIL: Beer Consumption Increases Human Attractiveness to Malaria Mosquitoes by [deleted]
Wanna change that?
MattyKatty t1_je2t5wr wrote
Reply to comment by Doxbox49 in TIL that there are official guidelines for muslims to perform their rituals from space since 2007, when the first malaysian astronaut join the space station. by TonahVilla
Russia is 10% Muslim, so I doubt that's true.