brighter_hell
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Reply to comment by 7heTexanRebel in TIL the odds of winning jackpots at slot machines ranges between 1 in 5000 to 1 in 34 million, when using the maximum coin play. by carpitown
The only thing funnier than people who have a "system" to beat the slots are the people that pay money to learn about a "system to beat the slots"
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Reply to comment by smuggles908 in TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted. by jamescookenotthatone
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Reply to comment by waffles-n-gravy in TIL that flight recorders must be able to withstand an acceleration of 3400 g for 6.5 milliseconds and that this is roughly equivalent to an impact velocity of 270 knots (310 mph; 500 km/h). by IchBinKoloss
Parachutes for planes are becoming a thing, maybe that will be the next step.
brighter_hell t1_jdjdew5 wrote
Reply to TIL that Barq's Root Beer was first created by Edward Barq in Biloxi, Miss, in 1897. In 1934, Barq and a former employee, who moved to New Orleans, agreed to each distribute their own version of the root beer, with the New Orleans version having a red label and the Biloxi version having a blue one. by jdward01
What do you mean "Barq's has bite?"