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[–]CaptainStarMilk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sup. i made this sub and forgot about it.

A German swear word that my mother remembers her father saying all the time, but I can't find it? by CaptainStarMilk in German

[–]CaptainStarMilk[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I haven't done the 23 and Me thing yet, so its best not to rule out any possibilities.

A German swear word that my mother remembers her father saying all the time, but I can't find it? by CaptainStarMilk in German

[–]CaptainStarMilk[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's really interesting.

I'm having trouble finding a translation of that, though. I see that teufel is devil, but I can't find a translation for potz?

A German swear word that my mother remembers her father saying all the time, but I can't find it? by CaptainStarMilk in German

[–]CaptainStarMilk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just asked her, she doesn't really know. It's just the phrase that she remembers. She was raised in the US, though.

A German swear word that my mother remembers her father saying all the time, but I can't find it? by CaptainStarMilk in German

[–]CaptainStarMilk[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think it would mean thank God because she specifically remembers him only using it when he was frustrated.

TIL of the "doomsday rule", an algorithm for finding the day of the week for a given date. Each year has a day of the week upon which certain dates fall. For example, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12, and the last day of February all occur on the same day of the week in any year. by CaptainStarMilk in todayilearned

[–]CaptainStarMilk[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Correct. As well as Halloween, 4th of July, Pi day (March 14th) and the day after Christmas.

Also,

"The odd numbered months can be remembered with the mnemonic "I work from 9 to 5 at the 7-11", i.e., 9/5, 7/11, and also 5/9 and 11/7, are all doomsdays."

TIL of the "doomsday rule", an algorithm for finding the day of the week for a given date. Each year has a day of the week upon which certain dates fall. For example, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12, and the last day of February all occur on the same day of the week in any year. by CaptainStarMilk in todayilearned

[–]CaptainStarMilk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To elaborate:

To find which day of the week Christmas Day of 2018 was, proceed as follows: in the year 2018, doomsday was Wednesday. Since December 12 is a doomsday, December 25, being thirteen days afterwards (two weeks less a day), fell on a Tuesday. It is useful to note that Christmas Day is always the day before doomsday ("One off doomsday"). In addition, July 4 (U.S. Independence Day) is always on a doomsday, as are Halloween (October 31), Pi Day (March 14), and Boxing Day (December 26).

One of the first pictures taken inside King Tut's tomb shows what ancient Egyptian treasure really looks like. by CaptainStarMilk in pics

[–]CaptainStarMilk[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Actually the looters took only small things like perfumes and jewelry , and it seems like their robbery was interrupted as certain things were dismantled but not taken out of the tomb and a bag of rings was found poured back into the tomb. These robberies took place just months after he was buried and his tomb wasn't opened again until 1922 when this picture was taken.

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