Sentences I never ever thought I would write:
ITALY WIN BY TEN WICKETS
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Sentences I never ever thought I would write:
ITALY WIN BY TEN WICKETS
A more recent account of the Stendhal syndrome was in 2018, when a visitor to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence suffered a heart attack while admiring Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.
TIL about Stendhal syndrome where individuals have physical reactions upon being exposed to objects, artworks, or phenomena of great beauty.
The staff at Florence's Santa Maria Nuova hospital are accustomed to tourists suffering from dizzy spells or disorientation after viewing the statue of David
TIL Japanese insurance companies offer insurance for holes-in-one, because in Japan, if the golfer hits a hole-in-one — they are expected to buy gifts and drinks for their friends
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A Wooden ladder leaning against a red wall, with a bike in the foreground.
Wooden ladder, Khan Market, Delhi, India 2025
Pentax 17, Kodak Gold (xpro’d Ecn-2)
#India #Fieldwork #HalfFrame #BelieveInFilm 🎞️📸
His defense, which was accepted by the US Track Federation (??), but not the IAAF, was that the previous night he had, "five bottles of beer and sex with his wife at least four times... it was her birthday, the lady deserved a treat" (2/2)
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Dennis Mitchell came in 5th (later upgraded to 4th) in the 100m in the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1998, he was banned by the IAAF for having high levels of testosterone. (1/2)
Can't imagine being this soft in life
"That man will never set foot in Perugia again," he fumed. "He was a phenomenon only when he played against Italy!
"I am a nationalist and I regard such behaviour not only as an affront to Italian pride but also an offence to a country which two years ago opened its doors to him. (2/2)
There have been 4 golden goals in World Cups (across the '98 and '02 editions).
One of them was by Ahn Jung-hwan for South Korea against Italy. Perugia (the club he played for) president Luciano Gaucci was furious (1/2)
New Mexico state apparently has an official "state question" which asks "Red or green?" referring to people's preference for red or green chillies.
TIL the first purpose-built mosque in the UK is called the Shah Jahan mosque and is located in Woking, Surrey. But it's not named after Mughal emperor. Instead it's named after the Begum of Bhopal — Shahjahan Begum who partially funded its construction
TIL of the Jedi Census Phenomenon which was a grassroot movement to mark Jedi as your religion on the census form. Over 390k people marked this in the UK making it the fourth largest religion, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism
173 years ago today, attorney Henry Welles Smith, feeling that there are already too many “Smiths” practicing law in the city of Boston, has the Massachusetts legislature change his name to “Henry Fowle Durant.” Using his sexy new name, the former Mr. Smith will go on to found Wellesley College.
Which is all very fine I guess. But...why would you challenge your guests with a riddle and a wager at your own wedding?
(n/n)
Samson then goes off to another city and kills 30 of their tribesmen and takes their clothes to pay off the debt owed to his wedding guests. Then, angered by his wife's betrayal, he returns to his own family, and the woman is given instead to one of the guests.
(6/n)
Samson's wife passes the solution on to the wedding guests, who repeat it to Samson before sunset on the seventh day. Samson replies (rather strangely imo), “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle”
(5/n)
However, the guests threaten Samson’s new wife to discover the solution for them, threatening to burn her and her father's house if she fails. he accordingly pleads with Samson to tell her the answer to the riddle, and on the seventh day Samson capitulates.
(4/n)
The reason for this is that solution is impossible to discern through deduction alone, since it is based on a private experience of Samson's, who had previously killed a young male lion and found honeybees and honey in its corpse.
(3/n)
Samson wagers that the guests will not be able to guess the solution to the riddle within seven days (the duration of the feast); the stakes of the wager are thirty linen garments and thirty outfits of clothes.
(2/n)
For reasons not entirely clear, during Samson’s feast, he takes the time out to ask his wedding guests a riddle:
"Out of the eater came something to eat,
And out of the strong came something sweet."
(1/n)
"Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" is 1982 student film by Spike Lee (who submitted it as his master's thesis). Assisting Spike as an Assistant Director and Cinematographer respectively were his classmates...Ang Lee & Ernest Dickerson
Pretty interesting watch in case you have an hour to kill
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TIL Linus Pauling recommended that people take 3000mg of Vitamin C per day and himself at point was consuming 18,000mg per day
In 2005, Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands, was preparing for its annual Domino Day, in which millions of domino bricks are toppled, when a sparrow flew into the building & knocked over 23k dominoes. Organizers called in a hunter to kill the sparrow leading to an international animal rights controversy
TIL In 2006 Disney traded Al Michaels to Universal to regain the rights to Walt Disney's first character, Oswald the Rabbit
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My initial thought was, "Wouldn't Westbrook be a more appropriate pick?" before I remembered the NIMBYism 😭😭
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Alright why are there so many cases of exploding whales?
Sidenote: Point to note — McComb also owned the Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Vikings at various points in his career.
I *feel* it's somewhat appropriate that a car salesman owned a South Texas team at some point in its history.
Beyond getting George Gervin though, the Spurs didn't do particularly well under McComb's ownership. He finally sold the team in 1993 to local businessman Peter M. Holt.
4 years later the team got Tim Duncan in the 1997 draft and the rest is history. (n/n)
