What did you learn today TIL

[MissBarbara]

Under the U.S. Constitution as originally ratified, when I presidential election was held, the candidate who received the most vote became president, and the candidate who received the second-most votes became vice president.

After a couple of administrations -- most notably John Adams's presidency from 1797-1801, where Thomas Jefferson, a political opponent, served as his vice president -- Congress quickly realized that this provision was unworkable. Congress passed  and the states ratified the 12th Amendment in June 1804, which created the system still followed today, where the president and vice president run together as a ticket, and voters voted for tickets.

That was 220 years ago. In the ensuing years, and spanning 55 presidential elections, a sitting vice president has been elected president only twice: Martin Van Buren in 1836, and George H.W. Bush in 1988. That's it.

In fact, there have more sitting VPs who lost their election bids than those who won them: Al Gore (2000), Hubert Humphrey (1968), Richard Nixon (1960), and John C. Breckinridge (1860).

[watcher1]

June 4, 1923

Jockey Frank Hayes crossed the finish line as the winner, but what officials didn't know was that he had died during the race, most likely from a heart attack, yet his body had somehow remained in the saddle throughout the jumps.

His death was said to have been caused by rapid weight loss before the race combined with sheer excitement.

Hayes remains the ONLY jockey to ever win a race while dead. As for the horse, Sweet Kiss, he never raced again because no jockey was brave enough to ride the horse that was eventually known as "Sweet Kiss of Death."

[Pornhubby]

Wow watcher. That’s what I told Liz when she tried to put a saddle on me. 

[Pornhubby]

TIL "Nude Photos Are Sealed At Smithsonian". New York Times. January 21, 1995. Retrieved March 11, 2008. "The Smithsonian Institution has cut off all public access to a collection of nude photographs taken of generations of college students, some of whom went on to become leaders in American culture and government. The pictures at first were taken to study posture. Later they were made by a researcher examining what he believed to be a relationship between body shape and intelligence."

[watcher1]

Wow watcher. That’s what I told Liz when she tried to put a saddle on me. 

Liz managed to put the saddle on me but I stopped her from using her spurs and whip. 

[Pornhubby]

TIL the theory an asteroid caused the dinosaur mass extinction did not emerge until 1980.

Geologist Walter Alvarez noticed iridium (a substance found in meteors and not naturally rarely found on Earth) at a certain layer at a dig site. He asked other geologists around the world to see if they could also find iridium at the same level and all did. Given that dinosaur fossils ended at this level, he wondered if a meteor could have wiped them all out.

Fortunately his father was Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez. They did the math and determined that a meteor of the right size could have done it. So they went looking for a crater of the right size and age. That took a while because as it turned out, the one they were looking for was on the bottom of the ocean and only known by oil company geologists who don’t write academic papers. Eventually they found it near Yucatán Mexico, and confirmed their hypothesis.

Walter still teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.

[Pornhubby]

ȚIL Costco (COST) sells about 200 million $1.50 hot dogs a year, more than all of the Major League Baseball stadiums in North America combined.

[purpleshoes]

ȚIL Costco (COST) sells about 200 million $1.50 hot dogs a year, more than all of the Major League Baseball stadiums in North America combined.

Notably, the price has not changed since the company was founded in 1983. Their rotisserie chicken has been $4.99 since 2009.

Other interesting things about Costco:

• As of 2021, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world, and is the world's largest retailer of choice and prime beef, organic foods, rotisserie chicken, and wine as of 2016.

• Costco is ranked #11 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Costco uses a club warehouse wholesale retailer channel of distribution while also selling their private label brand directly to consumers.

• Costco's worldwide headquarters are in Issaquah, Washington, an eastern suburb of Seattle, although its Kirkland Signature house label bears the name of its former location in Kirkland. Products with the Kirkland label are generally considered to be very high quality.

• The company opened its first warehouse in Seattle in 1983. Through mergers, however, Costco's corporate history dates back to 1976, when its former competitor Price Club was founded in San Diego, California

[watcher1]

Aretha Franklin required that she be paid in cash before any performance. The cash went into her handbag and the handbag either stayed with her security team or would rest on the piano during her onstage performance.

[msslave]

Well she must have had one big handbag.

With the money Taylor Swift is raking in on her ERAs tour guess she'd need a few semis. No wonder I'm a senior Swiftie.

[Pornhubby]

Following Franklin’s death in 2018, the IRS filed a motion claiming that the late singer owed roughly $8 million in unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest. They shared that the funds added up over the course of the seven years prior to her passing.

[watcher1]

Following Franklin’s death in 2018, the IRS filed a motion claiming that the late singer owed roughly $8 million in unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest. They shared that the funds added up over the course of the seven years prior to her passing.

If no one else catches you, the IRS will. I can imagine her heirs thinking how much she may be leaving them and then the IRS shows up.

[ObiDongKenobi]

TIL that Henry VIII and all his six wives were related via a 7/6/4 x great grandparent Edward I (1272-1307).

[purpleshoes]

It probably happens more often than you might think. Long after she died I learned through my genealogy research that my aunt had married her 7th cousin. It's very unlikely that either of them knew that when they met.

[Pornhubby]

The estimated world population in 1600 was 500 million people. Today it is 8.2 billion. Lots of cousin fucking required.

[Writers Bloque]

The estimated world population in 1600 was 500 million people. Today it is 8.2 billion. Lots of cousin fucking required.

If you believe the theory of degrees of separation then everyone is at some point a genetic cousin to each other. There are relatively few pure genetic lines that are free from outside sources, the sentinelese (sp) are one of them. Also the Aborigines, who today are the closest connection to the Stone age man we can trace. Almost like that fact that Genghis Khan spread his seed far and wide through Asia and Russia, right into eastern Europe.

I tend to believe we need to slow down on the "Go forth and Multiply" thing, now that our population have boomed to the billions. Funny kind of theory, Scientists believe I read somewhere that we are on the brink of the threshold for genetic change in the theory of evolution. We have the numbers, and there has been long enough. Scientists think that Autism may be that evolution, due to the fact that we now have to change in a different direction as we have kind of cheat mode through survival and now nothing short of disease will affect the populations.

[Vela Nanashi]

We need to be many many more if we are to spread across the whole galaxy and make dyson swarms and other mega structures full of life but if we only want to live on this world and die when the sun cooks it we can let our population collapse.

[msslave]

We need to be many many more if we are to spread across the whole galaxy and make dyson swarms and other mega structures full of life but if we only want to live on this world and die when the sun cooks it we can let our population collapse.

I've always loved the concept of Dyson Sphere. Such a perfect use of a sun's energy. I just finished relistening to Larry Niven's "Ringworld. That was a.sorta type of idea.

Why be satisfied with messing up one world when there's whole galaxies we can mess up.

[Writers Bloque]

We need to be many many more if we are to spread across the whole galaxy and make dyson swarms and other mega structures full of life but if we only want to live on this world and die when the sun cooks it we can let our population collapse.

I've always loved the concept of Dyson Sphere. Such a perfect use of a sun's energy. I just finished relistening to Larry Niven's "Ringworld. That was a.sorta type of idea.

Why be satisfied with messing up one world when there's whole galaxies we can mess up.

Messing up ones environment isn't wholly a human thing. Bacteria for example will kill themselves off by their own pollution, after multiplying beyond controllable capacity. It is speculated one of the reasons why during the ages of dinosaurs that green house gas emissions were highest was because of the the piles of shit from the multi ton animals. Also, Rhinos and Elephants will clear a path through trees by knocking them down. Humans mess up their environment more elegantly. Besides, I personally believe that if we do make it beyond the Sol system, we will take care of any world we have to work hard at terraforming. Because why go through all the trouble of creating an M class planet that can sustain life, removing all the barriers that would stop us from colonizing if we will just fuck it up. Though I am leaning towards our demise in space being like the unfortunate crew of the Nostromo. We will find something we shouldn't, get face fucked and bring it back to earth to squeeze all of its potential uses, it escapes and peoples property values drop harshly as they live next to a hive.

But I also hold in high regard the Dark Woods theory/paradox. Maybe we shouldn't make waves and fuck up any planet we are allowed to colonize, not just to be kind to it, but to not draw attention from something lurking in the cold darkness of space.

[watcher1]

That chickens carry DNA that can be traced back to the dinosaur.  They are that closely related.