What did you learn today TIL

[ObiDongKenobi]

Open your mouth when chopping onions.  Breath heavy and it will help prevent that crap from hitting your eyes making the acid that makes you cry.  Cheaper than some racket ball goggles 

I thought the trick was to peel them underwater (only the onions, not the peeler  )

[MintJulie]

I didn't learn this today.  I've known this.  But maybe you didn't know this, so maybe it's something you learned today....

If you happen to be looking at pictures and come across a post that the picture is no longer visible, you can click the Report To Moderator button at the bottom of the post to make us aware of it.   One of us will go in and delete it.  

Sorta kinda imagine it like picking up a piece of garbage in the forest.  Just helping us to keep the place a little cleaner.  

[purpleshoes]

I learned how f-ing old I am. I haven't seen this picture since the 1960s. It made quite an impression on my young brain. At the time, it wasn't at all uncommon to see people toss trash out their car windows. The Keep America Beautiful campaign made a difference since streets now are much cleaner than they were when I was a kid.

[MintJulie]

I learned how f-ing old I am. I haven't seen this picture since the 1960s. It made quite an impression on my young brain. At the time, it wasn't at all uncommon to see people toss trash out their car windows. The Keep America Beautiful campaign made a difference since streets now are much cleaner than they were when I was a kid.

In my 7th grade Conservation class, I had to write a report on littering.   His picture was the cover photo.  In years earlier, the commercial would run during Saturday morning cartoons.

[ChirpingGirl]

That guy was Italian. 

[_priapism]

Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was an Italian-American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements from the group Keep America Beautiful. Living in Hollywood, he began to insist, even in his private life, that he was Native American, over time claiming membership in several different tribes. In 1996, Cody's half-sister said that he was of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death, it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage, and not Native American at all.

[Army of One]

So, I learnt that the world's oldest dildo is 28,000 years old. And like all other Paleolithic "meat substitues", it was well worn at the tip.

Conclude from that what you please.

[MintJulie]

Started posting in this topic about something I did know.

And now, because of my post, I learned this today. 

That guy was Italian.  

[msslave]

Italian Indian...new to me also.

What a great site this is! So educational.

That's sorta like the old Charlie Chan movies. I think there were two or three actors who played the roll. Not one of 'em Chinese.

[_priapism]

Italian Indian...new to me also.

What a great site this is! So educational.

That's sorta like the old Charlie Chan movies. I think there were two or three actors who played the roll. Not one of 'em Chinese.

Yeah, and Tom Cruise is “The Last Samurai.”  Western cinema has been sticking anglos into POC roles from the outset.  Hell Ben Kingsley is Gandhi.

[Shiela_M]

Italian Indian...new to me also.

What a great site this is! So educational.

That's sorta like the old Charlie Chan movies. I think there were two or three actors who played the roll. Not one of 'em Chinese.

Yeah, and Tom Cruise is “The Last Samurai.”  Western cinema has been sticking anglos into POC roles from the outset.  Hell Ben Kingsley is Gandhi.

Didn't your girlfriend scary Jo do the same thing in a japanese movie or something.  Think it was based off a cartoon.

[_priapism]

Italian Indian...new to me also.

What a great site this is! So educational.

That's sorta like the old Charlie Chan movies. I think there were two or three actors who played the roll. Not one of 'em Chinese.

Yeah, and Tom Cruise is “The Last Samurai.”  Western cinema has been sticking anglos into POC roles from the outset.  Hell Ben Kingsley is Gandhi.

Didn't your girlfriend scary Jo do the same thing in a japanese movie or something.  Think it was based off a cartoon.

Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell




Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux



Both movies were based on Japanese anime, but were cast with Caucasian blondes in the title roles.

[Shiela_M]

Aeon Flux sounded familiar so I looked it up.  I remeber seeing some videos as a kid.  MTV or VH1 had a segment called liquid television.  Bunch of short clips and aeon flux was one of them.  She always died if I remember correctly.

[SmuDoodel]

Not to be confused with Lux Interior front man for The Cramps

[Gonfalon]

Western cinema has been sticking anglos into POC roles from the outset.

True dat. Though if you go outside the West, there are tons of movies, plays, and musicals in which, for example, Asians take the roles of Caucasians. I've seen Japanese Hamlets and Chinese Sherlock Holmes.

Hell Ben Kingsley is Gandhi.

His father was a Kenyan of Gujarati descent and he was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji. That I'd known for some time, but it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I discovered that Merle Oberon was also half-Indian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Oberon

[xXshepXx]

Yeah, and Tom Cruise is “The Last Samurai.”  Western cinema has been sticking anglos into POC roles from the outset.  Hell Ben Kingsley is Gandhi.

To be fair, Tom Cruise didn't play an asian character at least. Still better than Keanu Reeves in 47 Ronin.
I also hope, that the life action Hollywood version of Akira will never see the light of day.

[_priapism]

Yeah, and Tom Cruise is “The Last Samurai.”  Western cinema has been sticking anglos into POC roles from the outset.  Hell Ben Kingsley is Gandhi.

To be fair, Tom Cruise didn't play an asian character at least. Still better than Keanu Reeves in 47 Ronin.
I also hope, that the life action Hollywood version of Akira will never see the light of day.

Yeah, but it was the whole “white savior” saves natives... Dances With Wolves, Amistad, The Help, the list goes on...

[MintJulie]

Speaking of Tom Cruise, I just learned he is going to the International Space Station to do some filming for the next Mission Impossible.

[MissBarbara]

That I'd known for some time, but it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I discovered that Merle Oberon was also half-Indian.

Speaking of Indians (well, kind of), Charles Curtis, who served as vice president for four years under President Hoover, was half-Native American. His father was a British immigrant, and his mother was of mixed Kaw, Osage, and Potawatomi heritage. Curtis grew up bilingual, speaking English and Kansa. 

Curtis appeared on the cover of "Time" magazine three times, in 1926 ad 1928 while serving in the Senate, and again in 1932, shortly after being elected vice president. Curtis also holds the unique distinction of being the last U.S. president or vice president who wasn't born in a U.S. State. Curtis was born in the Kansas Territory in 1860 -- a year before Kansas became a state.

The overwhelming majority of Americans today have never heard of Charles Curtis. And as people right now are touting the possibility that Kamala Harris might be the first non-white vice president, I'm sure Curtis is smiling ruefully.

[xXshepXx]

Replicating a small sun on earth wouldn't be very efficient for energy generation.
The energy density of the sun is approximately 276.5 watts per cubic metre at the center of the core, which is about the same energy density as inside a compost heap.

The enormous power output is just due to the large size of the sun.