Today I learned +

[Aeson]

::checks clock::

Sounds about right.

It's a Democratic Republic not an empire. . Ah, who am I kidding. It was fun while it lasted.

 

[Bohandas]

TIL the average empire survives 250 years.

does the end of an empire in this sense need to be a balkanization or are they counting nominal regime changes as the ends of empires as well?

 

[trappedslider]

I still use my Bluetooth. I just don't talk about crimes I'm committing or about people that could hear. You never know who's listening on the other side.

 

[CleverNickName]

Today I learned what a "disappointment room" is in a house, and when/where/why they were built.

I was just Googling around, looking for inspiration on my next D&D adventure, and was looking up different types of rooms that were used throughout history. "Disappointment Room" had an interesting-sounding name, so I read up on them and hoo boy.

And that sent me down a rabbit hole on the Internet, where I came across "ugly laws" in American cities and how they weren't repealed until friggin 1974 somehow.

Now I need to go lie down. Geez.

 

[Ryujin]

Today I learned what a "disappointment room" is in a house, and when/where/why they were built.

I was just Googling around, looking for inspiration on my next D&D adventure, and was looking up different types of rooms that were used throughout history. "Disappointment Room" had an interesting-sounding name, so I read up on them and hoo boy.

And that sent me down a rabbit hole on the Internet, where I came across "ugly laws" in American cities and how they weren't repealed until friggin 1974 somehow.

Now I need to go lie down. Geez.

It's also the title of a horror movie starring Kate Beckinsale. Couple buys a house with a disappointment room, that was definitely used. Death ensues.

 

[overgeeked]

Today I learned what a "disappointment room" is in a house, and when/where/why they were built.

I was just Googling around, looking for inspiration on my next D&D adventure, and was looking up different types of rooms that were used throughout history. "Disappointment Room" had an interesting-sounding name, so I read up on them and hoo boy.

And that sent me down a rabbit hole on the Internet, where I came across "ugly laws" in American cities and how they weren't repealed until friggin 1974 somehow.

Now I need to go lie down. Geez.

TIL Goonies contained some real history after all.

 

[CleverNickName]

Today I learned that the A-TEAM was a real thing that actually existed (briefly) in 1964. It was an acronym for Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Today I learned what a "disappointment room" is in a house, and when/where/why they were built.

I was just Googling around, looking for inspiration on my next D&D adventure, and was looking up different types of rooms that were used throughout history. "Disappointment Room" had an interesting-sounding name, so I read up on them and hoo boy.

And that sent me down a rabbit hole on the Internet, where I came across "ugly laws" in American cities and how they weren't repealed until friggin 1974 somehow.

Now I need to go lie down. Geez.

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus wept wow that is a LOT worse than what I was expecting.

 

[CleverNickName]

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus wept wow that is a LOT worse than what I was expecting.

RIGHT?!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Today I learned that the A-TEAM was a real thing that actually existed (briefly) in 1964. It was an acronym for Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers.

The TV show The A-Team is also named after a different real thing as I learned yesterday from either Behind The Bastards or Lions Lead By Donkeys (the war history podcast, not the weaksauce British politics guys) - link goes to the specific part describing "A-Teams" as used in the Vietnam war.

United States Army Special Forces - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org