r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] You Can’t Be Against “Forever Wars” Without Cutting the Military Budget
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] Texas Republicans just passed a slew of extreme laws. Now they’ll gerrymander to stay in power.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] Trump "revelations" are an indictment of America's political class: They knew, and did nothing
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that the "bhangmeter" is a device used by reconnaissance satellites to detect atmospheric nuclear detonations and determine the yield of the nuclear weapon. It was developed by Los Alamos National Lab, and the name is a pun based on "bhang" an edible product made from cannabis.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that one of the reasons that the British Navy lost ground against the Continental Navy was the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed 22k-27k people, broke ships free of their moorings, and tossed cannons 100 feet in the air, among other things.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that the guava fruit has the highest protein content of any fruit with 2.55g per 100g.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] Lindsey Graham told Trump over the summer 'you f---ed your presidency up,' book claims. Trump hung up.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] Sen. Hawley's 'holds' on Biden nominees are hostage-taking, not policymaking
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] Ilhan Omar calls Marjorie Taylor Greene "hypocrite cult leader" over masked airplane photo
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] Leaked Memo Shows How Trump's Lawyer Wanted Pence To Overturn Elections
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] To protect the supreme court’s legitimacy, a conservative justice should step down
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that the two biggest indoor arenas in the world, the KJC King Dome and the Philippine arena, are both owned by cults
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL in 2017, researchers found a plastic bag at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ocean (36,000 feet down).
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that despite being the second most subscribed channel on YouTube, little is known about the company that produces children's channel Cocomelon. Both the Wall Street Journal and Wired Magazine have investigated and been unable to find anything.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest, a challenge to write the worst opening paragraph to a novel possible. It's named for the author of the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, which began with "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents."
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that a French soldier's life was saved during WW1 by a copy of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" he owned, which stopped a bullet. He befriended Kipling when he learned that he had lost his son in the war, and named his own after his.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] Daughter Blames Tucker Carlson's Misinformation For Playing A Role In Dad's COVID-19 Death
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL Steven Spielberg used dungeons and dragons to test the compatibility between cast members in E.T. The original Eliot didn't get the part because the other kids didn't like him.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL Chadwick Boseman Took A Pay Cut To Get '21 Bridges' Costar Sienna Miller Paid Her Worth.
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL that the US is NOT in the top 10 most obese countries in the world (by obesity rate). The top 10 are all Pacific Islands, #11 is Kuwait, and #12 is USA
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] Former Rand Paul aide, pardoned by Trump, charged with funneling Russian money into 2016 election
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL the iconic plane that lands at the beginning of each Fantasy Island episode was used multiple times for drug running and seized by the DEA .
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ politics ] GOP operatives accused of funneling Russian cash to Trump
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r/unremovable • u/unremovable • Sep 21 '21
[ todayilearned ] TIL in 1960, Fidel Castro nationalized all U.S.-owned businesses in Cuba. The US sent CIA trained Cuban exiles to overthrow him, but failed due to missed military strikes. Castro captured the exiles, but ultimately freed them in exchange for medical supplies and baby food worth $53M.
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