▲ 291 r/bestof
Redditor in r/williamsburg describes how an untalented ex-girlfriend transformed into a successful artist through sheer willpower and work ethic.
reddit.comu/smrad8 — 5 days ago
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r/AngineDePoitrine r/OnenessMovement r/bestof r/DivinityOriginalSin r/mapporncirclejerk r/ShermanPosting r/SacredGeometry r/40yearsago r/CornerGas r/AzumangaPosting r/AncientCoins r/Fractalish r/weirdal r/coinsfromafrica r/oddlysatisfying r/coins r/TheSilphRoad r/SilverCrowns r/PakLounge r/mildlyinteresting r/mapswithoutnewzealand r/DisabilityHistory r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl r/NewOrleans r/todayilearned r/ChatGPT r/Silverbugs r/thatsinterestingbro r/Autographs
▲ 167 r/AncientCoins
Our very first ancient coin arrived - a Saturninus denarius from around 100 BC. It came sandwiched in cardboard so I tried to push it (gently!) into a plastic flip … OMG … Friends, I did not know they were so brittle! 😭 Intact for 2100+ years until … ugh. I am so sorry.
u/smrad8 — 15 days ago
A new favorite, perhaps the most unique in our collection - a silver 5000 franc commemorative from the West African Monetary Union
u/smrad8 — 1 month ago
TIL the television series Better Call Saul was nominated for 30 Primetime Emmy Awards and won zero.
en.wikipedia.orgu/smrad8 — 1 month ago
TIL in a narrative review published in the journal Biomolecules, Australian researchers reviewed evidence that dementia-causing neuroinflammation may result from microbes introduced into the olfactory system by, in their words, “hands contaminated with soil and feces when picking one’s nose.”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govu/Kiki1701 — 1 month ago
▲ 291 r/todayilearned
TIL music and film icon Bing Crosby once co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates. During his ownership tenure, the Pirates won two World Series. Crosby once personally intervened to influence future Cy Young winner Vernon Law to sign with the team.
timesonline.comu/smrad8 — 2 months ago
▲ 192 r/Silverbugs
Anybody got a spare $2.9 million?
I'll take 10 of those ...
u/smrad8 — 2 months ago
TIL Aardman Animations’s Nick Park, who later created Wallace & Gromit, helped animate Peter Gabriel’s iconic 1986 music video “Sledgehammer.” Gabriel said he lay under a sheet of glass with a raw fish for 16 hours while filming the video, which became the most-played all-time in MTV history.
en.wikipedia.orgu/klsi832 — 3 months ago
▲ 811 r/todayilearned
TIL in 2007 consumer products conglomerate Proctor & Gamble won $19.25 million in a civil jury trial against four Amway distributors who left customers thousands of voicemails trying to link the company to Satanism. The trial took 12 years to conclude.
nbcnews.comu/smrad8 — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/ChatGPT
ISO AI-enabled podcast editing software
We’ve recorded about 2.5 hours of a two-host podcast episode on music history but editing has been a massive undertaking. We’d like to produce a one-hour finished product. Is there anything out there that can help condense our messy audio and multiple takes into a compact draft?
Note: Not looking to generate content or to recreate our voices, just hope to edit existing audio.
u/smrad8 — 3 months ago
TIL that in 1984, "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody song "Eat It" went No. 1 in Australia, surpassing the original, Michael Jackson's "Beat It," which only hit No. 3 in that country. "Eat It," personally approved by Michael Jackson, went gold in multiple countries and landed Yankovic a Grammy Award.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Major_Associate_9550 — 4 months ago
▲ 240 r/TheSilphRoad
Crazy battle hangup: Goes straight to shield after switch. (Plus bonus Mimikyu win footage.)
Second PVP game playing after update. When opponent does first switch it prompts me to immediately shield as if an attack happens, but no attack comes. I shield, but it doesn’t take a shield off. Ended up missing a fast move as I tried to process what was happening, but got it back at end game as Mimikyu’s special ability brought the win.
u/smrad8 — 4 months ago
My wife navigating a Red Prince/Lohse romance and then watching him in the dream world with Sadha.
u/smrad8 — 4 months ago
▲ 56 r/AngineDePoitrine
What would happen to a baby’s brain if the only music they heard for their first 18 months of life was AdP?
Asking for a friend, who is a baby.
u/smrad8 — 4 months ago
TIL the Republic of San Marino, a landlocked, independent principality entirely encircled by Italy, allied with the Union during the U.S. Civil war and made Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. Lincoln responded in a letter saying “your State is … one of the most honored, in all history.”
en.wikipedia.orgu/RO16 — 4 months ago
Advertising she barely graduated high school
u/SirHerald — 4 months ago