TIL: Today I Learned... (7 Viewers)

[zeetes]

TIL I learned that lately a couple of you don't know what TIL is.

truth in lending?

 

[DaveXA]

truth in lending?

Today I'm lost

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I need to work on my balance

Not sure if you got two posts mixed up here or what- but that Tara Calico pic has haunted me for decades, ever since i saw the story on Unsolved Myseteries or a similar show



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Disappearance of Tara Calico - Wikipedia

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[baarbogast]

Not sure if you got two posts mixed up here or what- but that Tara Calico pic has haunted me for decades, ever since i saw the story on Unsolved Myseteries or a similar show



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Disappearance of Tara Calico - Wikipedia

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I tried to find the balance/arrow shooting on it own. That was the only one I could find.


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[Tapxe]

TIL Bill Gates is naive and overly optimistic.

Bill Gates thought the internet would make all of us more responsible, but he realized it just helped 'a critical mass of crazy people' find each other

Gates said tech leaders like him believed the internet would drive people to be more rational and factual, and encourage "Socratic debate."

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[The Nomad]

TIL Bill Gates is naive and overly optimistic.

Bill Gates thought the internet would make all of us more responsible, but he realized it just helped 'a critical mass of crazy people' find each other

Gates said tech leaders like him believed the internet would drive people to be more rational and factual, and encourage "Socratic debate."

finance.yahoo.com

Sir Terry is the most intelligent comic fantasy author of our lifetime and in a conversation with Gates, showed how naive Gates was. https://www.nme.com/news/terry-pratchett-warned-bill-gates-fake-news-back-90s-2502712

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

TIL Bill Gates is naive and overly optimistic.

Bill Gates thought the internet would make all of us more responsible, but he realized it just helped 'a critical mass of crazy people' find each other

Gates said tech leaders like him believed the internet would drive people to be more rational and factual, and encourage "Socratic debate."

finance.yahoo.com

We should have realized the internet would be more line early days of radio (essentially FCC had to be created bc radio was nuts)

 

[The Nomad]

We should have realized the internet would be more line early days of radio (essentially FCC had to be created bc radio was nuts)

I'm not one to root for more government, but, yeah.

 

[Madmarsha]

TIL Bill Gates is naive and overly optimistic.

Strange way to spell "idiot".

 

[Madmarsha]

We should have realized the internet would be more line early days of radio (essentially FCC had to be created bc radio was nuts)

You can't prove the martians didn't land in New Jersey in 1938.

 

[DaveXA]

Strange way to spell "idiot".

Even the smartest people have their share of blind spots.

 

[Madmarsha]

Even the smartest people have their share of blind spots.

Yeah. Like me spending a lot of time here with you lot.

 

[baarbogast]

Temple linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in ancient megacity in Iraq

Archaeologists have discovered two temples, one buried atop the other, in the ancient megacity of Girsu in Iraq. One temple is linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great.

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[baarbogast]

Young tyrannosaur found with baby dinosaurs in its stomach

An illustration shows a young tyrannosaur, Gorgosaurus libratus, tearing apart and eating its prey, a bird-like dinosaur called Citipes elegans, in what's now Alberta during the Cretaceous period. (Julius Csotonyi/Royal Tyrell Museum)Scientists have made a rare and extraordinary fossil find in...

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