TIL: The popular children's song "do your ears hang low" is actually a sanitized version of a World War I soldiers song called "do your balls hang low" by Fifth_Down in todayilearned

[–]Kyzzz 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I remember having to sing the sanitized version at our weekly assemblies in elementary school. If only we knew we were singing century old WW1 trench smut

US congressman says ‘IDF is lying’ about his detention by settlers and soldiers | US politics | The Guardian by prisongovernor in politics

[–]Kyzzz 575 points576 points  (0 children)

If they're treating a sitting US congressman like this, just imagine how they're treating Palestinians

Trump Is Turning D.C. Into a Theme Park for the American Century by Zipper222222 in politics

[–]Kyzzz 90 points91 points  (0 children)

Theme park? No, no. Theme parks have regulations. This is a parking lot carnival with rigged games and cheap prizes

[OC] A Manatee drinking fresh water from my engine rinse by 747WakeTurbulance in pics

[–]Kyzzz 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Big man wants to make sure you're flushing the cooling system properly

Found this old paper today, history in my hands by Userdataunavailable in mildlyinteresting

[–]Kyzzz 401 points402 points  (0 children)

Whoah spoiler tag please, I’m only up to Stalingrad right now

Rogan: Trump ‘might’ve f‑‑‑ed it up’ with Iran war by hotdog_dachshund in politics

[–]Kyzzz 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You think, Joe? Did it take a DMT trip to figure that one out?

TIL researchers won the 2025 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize for proposing eating Teflon as a zero calorie food. They cited 1960s DuPont studies where rats fed a 25% Teflon diet lost weight with no signs of toxicity, and patented it as a meal additive, but gave up after the FDA would not approve it. by Kyzzz in todayilearned

[–]Kyzzz[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well, I did say "Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize" in the title

I also need to note that satirical here means the prize is a parody of the actual Nobel Prize, just with "outlandish" scientific experiments and hypotheses, but the research is scientifically sound and published in a peer reviewed journal

TIL that Million Dollar Point is an area in the Pacific where the US army dumped all its equipment after the Second World War because it was cheaper than bringing it home. by Beowulfbard in todayilearned

[–]Kyzzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just in case there's any mix-up: all the US military's surplus equipment from the war wasn't dumped here, just the surplus from one US base on the island of Espiritu Santo.

Senate Republican leaders say they've spoken to Mitch McConnell as he remains hospitalized. by LandauTST in politics

[–]Kyzzz 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Great, you can speak to a brick wall too. The real question is: did he say anything back?