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The number of people aged over 100 in Japan, according to government estimates. Japan has set new records every year for the last 55 years for the number centenarians in the country. The oldest woman is 114, while the oldest man is 111 — 88% of the centenarians are female. Japan has low obesity rates and high levels of activity in later life, the BBC reported, which are likely contributing factors. Although another contributing factor may be that some of the hundred-not-out cohort have in fact been dead for some time. In 2010 researchers found that “Tokyo’s oldest man” had been dead for 32 of his reported 111 years and was lying mummified in bed while his family collected his pension.
Good read. I didn’t know it was such a short career. I reckon it’s the same for all the old bank robbers. Before they figured out you lived longer if you didn’t kill people.
The word “buttload,” often used colloquially to mean “a large amount,” actually has roots in old English wine measurement systems.
A “butt” was a real unit used to measure large quantities of liquid, especially wine or ale, during medieval times and into the early modern era.
One butt equals two hogsheads, and each hogshead typically holds 63 gallons (in the imperial system), making a butt exactly 126 gallons.
This unit was most commonly used in England and parts of Europe, especially in reference to shipping and storing wine, beer, and other liquids in wooden casks or barrels.
These massive barrels were known as butts (yes, that’s the actual term), and they often appeared in old taverns and ships’ cargo.
Today, the term survives mostly as slang or humor — “a buttload of something” — but it does in fact originate from a formal measurement that once held legal and commercial significance.
@thatsinteresting Two of the most iconic toys in history came from the same household. The creators of Barbie and Hot Wheels were actually husband and wife, turning their family home into the birthplace of global childhood favorites.
In 1959, Ruth Handler introduced the world to Barbie, inspired by her daughter’s play habits and driven by a vision of a doll that allowed girls to imagine themselves as more than just caregivers. Less than a decade later, in 1968, her husband Elliot Handler co-created Hot Wheels, transforming the toy car market with colorful die-cast vehicles that could race on orange plastic tracks. Together, their ideas helped define Mattel’s rise as a powerhouse of play and cemented their legacies as partners in both business and life.
It is a rare example of how creativity shared within a marriage shaped generations of childhood around the globe.
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A species of Japanese dogbane (Vincetoxicum nakaianum) mimics the odour of injured ants to tempt the flies that feed on the insects to pollinate them. Botanist Ko Mochizuki noticed that flies were attracted to dogsbane, and found that the plant produces several scented chemicals that are also in ants’ pheromone SOS calls to their nestmates — the first evidence of plants copying ants.
@Stubble, going to be a shortage, get them while you can
NEW YORK (AP) — About 58 million pounds of corn dogs and other sausage-on-a-stick products are being recalled across the U.S. because pieces of wood may be embedded in the batter, with several consumers reporting injuries to date.
According to a Saturday notice published by the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the recall covers select “State Fair Corn Dogs on a Stick” and “Jimmy Dean Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick” products from Texas-based Hillshire Brands, which is a subsidiary of Tyson Foods.
The contamination problem was discovered after Hillshire received multiple consumer complaints, the service notes, five of which involved injuries. The company later determined that a “limited number” of these products included “extraneous pieces of wooden stick within the batter,” Tyson said in a corresponding announcement — adding that it opted to initiate a recall “out of an abundance of caution.”
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Humans say meow more often than their cats.
Somebody's gotta teach em how.
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Wyoming has a lower population than the other 49 states COMBINED!
LOL
https://gunsmagazine.com/guns/handguns/the-guns-of-john-dillinger/
Some really cool, iconic guns there.
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99,763
The number of people aged over 100 in Japan, according to government estimates. Japan has set new records every year for the last 55 years for the number centenarians in the country. The oldest woman is 114, while the oldest man is 111 — 88% of the centenarians are female. Japan has low obesity rates and high levels of activity in later life, the BBC reported, which are likely contributing factors. Although another contributing factor may be that some of the hundred-not-out cohort have in fact been dead for some time. In 2010 researchers found that “Tokyo’s oldest man” had been dead for 32 of his reported 111 years and was lying mummified in bed while his family collected his pension.
Good read. I didn’t know it was such a short career. I reckon it’s the same for all the old bank robbers. Before they figured out you lived longer if you didn’t kill people.
The word “buttload,” often used colloquially to mean “a large amount,” actually has roots in old English wine measurement systems.
A “butt” was a real unit used to measure large quantities of liquid, especially wine or ale, during medieval times and into the early modern era.
One butt equals two hogsheads, and each hogshead typically holds 63 gallons (in the imperial system), making a butt exactly 126 gallons.
This unit was most commonly used in England and parts of Europe, especially in reference to shipping and storing wine, beer, and other liquids in wooden casks or barrels.
These massive barrels were known as butts (yes, that’s the actual term), and they often appeared in old taverns and ships’ cargo.
Today, the term survives mostly as slang or humor — “a buttload of something” — but it does in fact originate from a formal measurement that once held legal and commercial significance.
It’s also where the term Boston Butt came from for pork shoulder.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
Does that mean they are filled and emptied through their butt-holes?
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Bung hole is the correct term.
That was a butt load of useless information
Since it originates in England, is it now a metric buttload? And what is the equivalent in metric sh*t tons?
@thatsinteresting Two of the most iconic toys in history came from the same household. The creators of Barbie and Hot Wheels were actually husband and wife, turning their family home into the birthplace of global childhood favorites.
In 1959, Ruth Handler introduced the world to Barbie, inspired by her daughter’s play habits and driven by a vision of a doll that allowed girls to imagine themselves as more than just caregivers. Less than a decade later, in 1968, her husband Elliot Handler co-created Hot Wheels, transforming the toy car market with colorful die-cast vehicles that could race on orange plastic tracks. Together, their ideas helped define Mattel’s rise as a powerhouse of play and cemented their legacies as partners in both business and life.
It is a rare example of how creativity shared within a marriage shaped generations of childhood around the globe.
The “standard” or “imperial system” came from England
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
Maybe, maybe not... this could be useful someday, yes?
Folderol;
Nonsense or trivial foolishness. Less than useful.
Wold that be like a bunch of tripe?
Sunrise today was 6:42 am, and sunset will be at 6:42 pm, giving MKE 12 hours of sunlight. Sounds like an equinox to me.
A species of Japanese dogbane (Vincetoxicum nakaianum) mimics the odour of injured ants to tempt the flies that feed on the insects to pollinate them. Botanist Ko Mochizuki noticed that flies were attracted to dogsbane, and found that the plant produces several scented chemicals that are also in ants’ pheromone SOS calls to their nestmates — the first evidence of plants copying ants.
Maybe the ants are copying the plants
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
@Stubble, going to be a shortage, get them while you can
NEW YORK (AP) — About 58 million pounds of corn dogs and other sausage-on-a-stick products are being recalled across the U.S. because pieces of wood may be embedded in the batter, with several consumers reporting injuries to date.
According to a Saturday notice published by the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the recall covers select “State Fair Corn Dogs on a Stick” and “Jimmy Dean Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick” products from Texas-based Hillshire Brands, which is a subsidiary of Tyson Foods.
The contamination problem was discovered after Hillshire received multiple consumer complaints, the service notes, five of which involved injuries. The company later determined that a “limited number” of these products included “extraneous pieces of wooden stick within the batter,” Tyson said in a corresponding announcement — adding that it opted to initiate a recall “out of an abundance of caution.”
Oh noooo...not my trailer park beef wellingtons. 🙁
Now with extra wood.
What do they do with 58,000,000 lbs. of inedible corn dogs?
Give it Mikey. He'll eat anything.
Feed it to the hogs.
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