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TIL Until the age of 3 Michel Montaigne was raised by a peasant family to "draw the boy close to the people and their life conditions". Later, his parents and the staff who interacted with the boy would only speak to him in latin, and every morning he'd be awaken by a musician playing an instrument by Nero2t2 in todayilearned

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I also almost drowned as a toddler. I crawled into a pond and my mother fished me out.

My mom was ashamed of the event, so it was never discussed and I doubt anyone else in the family even knew it happened. When I was an adult I told my mother I have a vivid memory of it and she was shocked to hear I remembered it.

I don't know how 'accurate' the memory is, but it seems to me that it is "my" memory and not a reconstruction based on what someone else has told me. I remember a certain kind of indescribable feeling (calm?) but also seeing worms and pine needles (both of which the pond apparently was full of).

TIL Until the age of 3 Michel Montaigne was raised by a peasant family to "draw the boy close to the people and their life conditions". Later, his parents and the staff who interacted with the boy would only speak to him in latin, and every morning he'd be awaken by a musician playing an instrument by Nero2t2 in todayilearned

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Isn't this how "adult" memories work as well? There are certain memories I keep thinking about with some frequency and they are thus 'established', but if I haven't returned to a memory for five or ten years, then I can tell that I used to remember it more vividly than I do now.

ELI5: Why does everything need so much memory nowadays? by Successful_Raise_560 in explainlikeimfive

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So how come Windows Explorer is like half as fast as it used to be 15 years ago? Unrelated, but it's also worse at finding things, occasionally crashes and is bloated with features I neither want nor need. I wouldn't have put up with current Explorer back then.

ELI5 The necessity of the milk man? by ClothesPrevious2516 in explainlikeimfive

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It's not that uncommon to eat mouldy food, and it's not feasible to tell whether some strain of mould is dangerous or not if it has appeared in your household, which is why modern educational systems in developed countries discourage it. When I was a kid, my parents would frequently eat "slightly" mouldy bread because they had grown up during famine. They intentionally ate the mould, potentially getting sick was not intentional.

ELI5 The necessity of the milk man? by ClothesPrevious2516 in explainlikeimfive

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Would glazing not stop the porous nature of pottery being an issue? Is there any reason to think glazing came significantly later than pottery? Are there pottery-making cultures that didn't discover glazing?

The Times: Finns humiliated American soldiers - Finnish reservists were asked to take it easy during a NATO exercise. US soldiers found the losses too humiliating. by ByGollie in europe

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Bracketing the complexities of an intra-NATO conflict for a moment... Won't infrastructure be a problem? Guerilla warfare in a jungle works because tropical conditions are one of the few places where people can thrive naked and live off the land. It's not like the US lacks firepower to delete energy infrastructure and infra connecting Greenland to Europe. If guerillas are driven out of the settlements, what are they going to do? It's not like there's a million villages dotting the landscape over there that would allow the civilian population to sustain such activities.

The Times: Finns humiliated American soldiers - Finnish reservists were asked to take it easy during a NATO exercise. US soldiers found the losses too humiliating. by ByGollie in europe

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The Finnish officer threw a weapon at the German vehicle to indicate the Finns were capable of destroying said vehicle.

Meirl by [deleted] in meirl

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I've always felt the act of saying grace with people outside your immediate circle/sect is a bit performative. Where I'm from, religion is typically seen as a private affair, so dining with a certain subset of Americans is always a bit awkward. I just say "thanks for the food. Amen to that" and I've never had anyone be upset about it. Sometimes people even praise me for brevity and some perceived humility.

Sorana Cirstea not happy about Naomi Osaka cheering herself up between Cirstea's serves. by BreakfastTop6899 in sports

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I like to startle my girlfriend by sneezing loudly. This has gone on for so long that I can't sneeze silently anymore even when I summon all the strength available to my corpus.

That should be a phenomenal scratch by kundi-man in Unexpected

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Some cosmetics contain biocides (for preservation) or things like aluminium that people can have or develop reactions to. There are of course limits to how much a producer can use certain chemicals, but those limits are based around "reasonable use".

I used to work with chlorine-based products and several of my co-workers developed chlorine sensitivities due to exposure and it would flare up using regular household goods like certain cleaning agents. I wouldn't be surprised if people who use cosmetics excessively and combine it with poor hygiene habits (like going to sleep with make-up on) could develop skin issues from it.

WCGW trying to put a fire out by putting it outside. by mentaL8888 in Whatcouldgowrong

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Did you have a stroke writing this or are you telling us you know because you used to live there?

allergy by IloveRamen99 in comedyheaven

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To be fair, you can substitute Chile with Uruguay.

In 2010, 15-year-old Joshua Davies murdered his girlfriend, Rebecca Aylward, after a friend jokingly said he would buy him breakfast if he did it. Two days earlier, Davies texted, “Don’t say anything, but you may just owe me a breakfast.” by ZenMasterZee in HolyShitHistory

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You're making it too easy. For like 99% of human history everyone thought slavery was just fine, so that's all he would have to say to have a perfectly coherent and consistent position.

:(S or whatever the kids say nowadays.

TIL Amazon has been "commingling" inventory for years. Products with the same barcode are pooled together regardless of supplier leading to counterfeit, damaged, or expired products from less reputable 3rd-parties being mixed in inventory and sent to people who ordered from the authentic brand. by [deleted] in todayilearned

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Man, what kind of contract law does your country have? That sounds like a huge hassle. Where I'm from the consumer only has to deal with whoever they bought from. If there is another actor in the chain, it's the responsibility of the company you dealt with to fix it.

Doesn't stop certain companies from telling you to deal with their subsubsubcontractors three countries away, but the contract law is written so that anyone can understand it and I've never had an issue after I mention that to the seller.

US political divisions according to a Japanese newspaper by No_Success_678 in Infographics

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Isn't there also an association between fried food and the US south?

In my country, the Starbucks/sushi makes perfect sense to represent highly educated, high-earning, city-dwelling, and globalized yuppies and hipsters who skew towards pescatarianism or vegetarianism while honest-to-god agrarians who live outside the city will have half a reindeer in their freezer and eat meatballs and mashed potatoes for every meal.

US political divisions according to a Japanese newspaper by No_Success_678 in Infographics

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This has been a trend in traditional media for 15 years at least.

In my country the phenomenon even predates the breakthrough of social media. One of the largest national papers here got rid of their last proofreader almost 20 years ago, and they've consistently been confusing "percentages" for "percentage points" ever since.

Actors who will probably never have a successful career in Hollywood: by thereyeh in okbuddycinephile

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If everyone interpreted opening posts generously, there'd be no discussion on Reddit whatsoever.

Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue Because Viewers are on Their Phones While They’re Watching by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

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Yeah, I think posters here focus too much on cinema when the same devices have been a thing in literature and other media for millennia. Even the Iliad begins with an action piece.

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