adamcoe
adamcoe t1_jefutpf wrote
Reply to comment by bradorsomething in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01
Is it really unfortunate?
adamcoe t1_jefqkie wrote
Reply to Periscope “telephoto” only for those who buy the most expensive iPhone. A well-known analyst revealed details about the new iPhone 15 Pro Max camera by chrisdh79
"Apple product will cost more because Apple"
adamcoe t1_je1w2mm wrote
Reply to comment by drfunk4848 in TIL that Chick-fil-A started in 1961, after founder S. Truett Cathy found a fryer that cooked chicken as quickly as a fast food burger. Chick-fil-A licensed the sandwich to 50 restaurants, including Waffle House, until 1967, when the first standalone Chick-fil-A was opened. by jdward01
It has to do with you knowing full well what everyone here is talking about and pretending like you just walked out of the woods and don't know what chick fil a is despite showing up on purpose to comment on it. It's tired, boring, and unimaginative. Like you!
Anyway hope you're enjoying yourself, I won't be responding anymore and I hope others will follow my lead. Later troll
adamcoe t1_je1voqs wrote
Reply to TIL that Chick-fil-A started in 1961, after founder S. Truett Cathy found a fryer that cooked chicken as quickly as a fast food burger. Chick-fil-A licensed the sandwich to 50 restaurants, including Waffle House, until 1967, when the first standalone Chick-fil-A was opened. by jdward01
Overrated, boring chicken. Popeye's, Mary Brown's, hell even KFC before those lame bigots and their mediocre chicken. The In-N-Out of chicken. Though INO is much more passive with their religious fervour, and from what I gather, treat their employees much better.
adamcoe t1_je1ujks wrote
Reply to comment by drfunk4848 in TIL that Chick-fil-A started in 1961, after founder S. Truett Cathy found a fryer that cooked chicken as quickly as a fast food burger. Chick-fil-A licensed the sandwich to 50 restaurants, including Waffle House, until 1967, when the first standalone Chick-fil-A was opened. by jdward01
Just visit one. Oh, but not on sunday
adamcoe t1_jdu4u8v wrote
Reply to TIL of BioSteel, high-strength fiber-based material produced by goats, genetically modified to produce spider silk. by Grothorious
and apparently a high performance hydration solution as well
adamcoe t1_jdsxeqv wrote
Reply to TIL: 5 pin bowling was invented in Canada - and is mostly only played in Canada by sammer003
Definitely a standard kids birthday party when I grew up. Plus even as an adult you feel like a big man when you throw because the balls weigh like 3 lbs
adamcoe t1_jdfegtc wrote
Reply to TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public by MoistCoyote
Excess? Seems to imply that there's a stock of wild horses they keep just hanging around.
adamcoe t1_jcv468v wrote
Reply to comment by QristopherQuixote in TIL In the history of the Catholic Church there has been over a decade without a Pope on the throne. The longest continuous time the throne was empty was two years ten months from 1268 to 1271. by jamescookenotthatone
Good. It's long, long overdue. Let's make the pope irrelevant everywhere.
adamcoe t1_jcpqajr wrote
Reply to TIL Dr. Henry Kissinger was the first honourary member of the Harlem Globetrotters by Greene_Mr
Well I definitely didn't have "honorary globetrotters slash war criminals" on my bingo card today, but here we are
adamcoe t1_jazio99 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in The iPhone 15’s USB-C port might come with a catch - new report says third-party cables might not support fast charging by MicroSofty88
Sorry to hear that you were not only taken in by a war about video games, but also haven't learned basic grammar.
adamcoe t1_jawzsh5 wrote
Reply to The iPhone 15’s USB-C port might come with a catch - new report says third-party cables might not support fast charging by MicroSofty88
Standard idiot tax for using their overpriced garbage
adamcoe t1_jadxv58 wrote
Reply to comment by adamcoe in TIL the last B-52 Bomber produced for the US left the factory 10/26/1962 - the same day as the climax of the Cuban Missile Crisis - they're still used 60 yrs later. by GoGaslightYerself
Rain your downvotes on me by all means, you know I'm right and every one is confirmation of it. Honestly it'd be a little sad if the world's most grotesquely funded military wasn't maintaining their stuff well, wouldn't it?
adamcoe t1_jad9pnr wrote
Reply to comment by malepitt in TIL that when you say a word many times over, and it stops sounding like a word, that is called 'semantic satiation.' by Bean_Superiority
"oh God you are so big. So absolutely huge. We're all pretty impressed down here, I can tell you."
adamcoe t1_jad8e89 wrote
Reply to TIL that in Japan, there is a hotel run entirely by robots. From check-in to room service, everything is handled by a team of friendly machines by Someperson404
This was a marked improvement from the previous incarnation of this hotel, which featured only very mean and verbally abusive machines
adamcoe t1_jad7zqc wrote
Reply to comment by malepitt in TIL that when you say a word many times over, and it stops sounding like a word, that is called 'semantic satiation.' by Bean_Superiority
Mostly people say that because it gives them an opportunity to think of something to say. Politicians use these kinds of things a LOT, so they can think of something clever sounding (or what they think is clever sounding) to respond to journalists.
"You know my team and I have been spending a lot of time talking about that very issue, Bob" (I'm barely familiar with whatever you just said and my assistant is going to give me the talking points about this on the bus so I'll have a better answer for this question when I get asked it 5 more times today.)
"I'm glad you brought that up, because I think that's a question that a lot of people here in (town/state) have, and I'm glad that finally my party has an answer for them." (Proceeds to give that "answer" in the broadest terms possible, like "we're bringing jobs back to (area)!" or "that's why that once we're elected, we're going to make these streets safe again!")
adamcoe t1_jad6fgr wrote
Reply to TIL American ballet dancer Tanaquil Le Clercq contracted polio at age 27 in 1956 and was confined to a wheelchair. Le Clercq began studying with George Balanchine at age 12 and married him at age 23. When she was 15, Balanchine choreographed a dance for a polio benefit which presaged her illness. by WonderWmn212
Nothing creepy about that
adamcoe t1_jad4tgq wrote
Reply to comment by TwoFrontHitters in TIL the last B-52 Bomber produced for the US left the factory 10/26/1962 - the same day as the climax of the Cuban Missile Crisis - they're still used 60 yrs later. by GoGaslightYerself
A testimony to the military industrial complex and an essentially unlimited amount of money.
But sure, western maintenance, whatever gives you an old fashioned, red blooded American chubby
adamcoe t1_ja58gm6 wrote
Reply to comment by Habaneroe12 in TIL of the 1955 Le Mans disaster. French driver Pierre Levegh crashed into a crowd of spectators. The crash, explosion and subsequent fire killed 84 and injured more than 120. It is still the deadliest car race crash ever. by triviafrenzy
Is that worse somehow? Adult heads aren't worth as much?
adamcoe t1_j9qmbq5 wrote
Reply to comment by Sdog1981 in TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis. by NYstate
Good thing that kind of stuff could never happen today, we really learned our lesson
adamcoe t1_j9qgpfq wrote
Reply to comment by Minute-Major7782 in TIL NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days between March 1979 and October 1997. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time and his last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer by Ok_Copy5217
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385639/
Patton Oswalt had a great bit about it on one of his earlier records.
adamcoe t1_j9qghxt wrote
Reply to comment by idontknowjackeither in TIL NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days between March 1979 and October 1997. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time and his last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer by Ok_Copy5217
Many, many, many pros would shoot test shots on Polaroid at shoots to get a baseline idea of what stuff would look like. Without the instant feedback we have now with digital, you had no idea what it would look like after developing so it was incredibly common to shoot a fair number of Polaroids to help gauge light levels and balance, etc. Obviously very few of these were used for anything but a rough reference, but pro photogs of the time would definitely have had plenty of polaroid film around.
adamcoe t1_j9gt1j3 wrote
Reply to comment by WalkerBRiley in TIL that Milton Bradley originally had been in the business of selling pictures of celebrities. After his biggest seller Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard and rendered his entire stock of lithographs worthless and had customers demanding their money back, MB switched to selling board games by Loki-L
This is going to be a shocker to you, but you don't have to be a condescending asshat. It's not like the guy was on tour and seen in public every damn day
adamcoe t1_jefvywo wrote
Reply to comment by saliczar in TIL over the course of his 23 published adventures, Herge's Tintin was knocked unconscious 43 times. Between 1929 and 1973, he was hit with a rake, a brick, a whisky bottle, an oar, a giant apple, a camel femur, a block of ice, and countless punches and clubs. by morerubberstamps
Your life would be longer as well