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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:07:05 PM EDT
Whatch got?
 Mine is currently the Tudor period of history in England. Ima going on about the ninth or tenth book, I think. My wife keeps finding em, and I keep reading em. God knows there are other topics in history I should be reading instead, but I'm hooked.  IMHO all knowledge is good knowledge and never a waste on a mind, but what strange, totally "useless" knowledge or topics or facts get you going, that you feel compelled to or actually enjoy spending your valuable time on? |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:34:51 PM EDT
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I am currently enjoying the history of 5th and 6th century Western Roman Empire and it’s decline. I won’t admit that it has fallen yet.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:37:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I am currently enjoying the history of 5th and 6th century Western Roman Empire and it's decline. I won't admit that it has fallen yet. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:37:56 PM EDT
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Bugs. As a kid I wanted to study Entomology. My mom told me I wouldn’t make any $ at it. I’ve hatched a Polyphemus moth and a Swallowtail in the past year, and planted milkweed in my back yard. But I like to see different kinds of bugs, especially ones around here.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:39:27 PM EDT
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I often find myself reading about space time and astronomy. Some of the concepts are truly fascinating. Certainly a trip down the rabbit hole.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:43:26 PM EDT
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I collect spores, mold, and fungi.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:44:54 PM EDT
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Genealogical information. I spend hours trying to find a new nugget of information that means absolutely nothing to others. "Holy shit, my great×87 uncle once sold horses to the Continental Army!" Literally everyone else:
 Unionists in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:45:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:48:50 PM EDT
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Anything about the Cocaine Cowboys of the 70's and 80's and the Motorized bandits of the 1930's.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 6:50:50 PM EDT
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I know a lot about tornado sirens! Even knowing the specific model gets me weird looks from people like "why do you know that?"
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Posted: 5/20/2022 7:18:16 PM EDT
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Anything historical fascinates me, I’m not an expert on any subject but have useless knowledge of a lot of different events/periods.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 7:23:47 PM EDT
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20th century battleships, battlecruisers, armored commerce raiders, and "large heavy cruisers".
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Posted: 5/20/2022 7:25:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/20/2022 7:31:08 PM EDT
[#13]
Tropical fish
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Posted: 5/20/2022 7:37:04 PM EDT
[#14]
Sirens. I don't find anything more pleasing to my ears than a Thunderbolt 1000T letting out a wail with the chopper level set to 5.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 7:50:44 PM EDT
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I know a whole bunch of shit I wish I didn’t. Mostly engineering related. Then I know a bunch a stupid useless shit like a ducks dick is as long as his body and the hens can store sperm from multiple mates and select the best sperm. Like who the fuck wants or needs to know crap like that? IF it’s even true. Now you are googling.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 7:58:55 PM EDT
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I go through phases, but I tend to get deep into physics and chemistry subjects.
Went through a phase of reading up on LD50s of common substances. You can more or less safely drink 6 oz of gasoline, and a gallon of bleach, as an example. Safely meaning you are very unlikely to die. Peculiar physics phenomenon interest me. Supercritical fluids, triple points, plasma phases, leidenfrost effect, intermediate axis theory, vestibulo-ocular reflex, heavy water...those are my most recent rabbit holes. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:16:07 PM EDT
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I'm a walking data base of useless information.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:18:06 PM EDT
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Cant, slang and secret languages like Chakobsa, the Warpath language of the apache or Cockney rhyming slang.
The use of Indian sign language.military hand signs, high signs and general body language. The masking language that criminals use(Cops too, we could have detailed conversations in a mix of 10 Codes, boilerplate criminal complaints and crook excuses) I enjoyed ghetto slang until it devolved into rap humtalk and hoodrat fry. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:27:37 PM EDT
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Music trivia, especially the 70's and 80's. My brain is full of it and it hurts.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:30:24 PM EDT
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I'll read pretty much anything that involves the invasion of Grenada in October of 1983.
I'm not a big military history buff but that particular engagement just fascinates me, I think because it was a big enough operation to be significant, but small enough that you can wrap your head around most of it. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:33:55 PM EDT
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The only part of a mammal that you cannot safely eat (excluding diseases) is a polar bear's liver. The concentration of vitamin A, from fish consumption, is toxic even for sled dogs.
ETA: Not to include mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:36:05 PM EDT
[#22]
Porn actresses. They just seem to fascinate me.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:40:29 PM EDT
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I remember distinguishing habits of people decades after seeing them.
The other day I ran into a former co-worker and when she was getting a soda, I recalled from 20 years ago that she only drank soda and coffee at room temperature. For some reason anything deviating from a normal habit stays with me forever. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:42:06 PM EDT
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I go through phases. Right now it's small islands. Find one on Google Earth, read everything I can find about it them move on to the next one.
Chile had a shitload of islands. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:48:08 PM EDT
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i spend 10-12 hours a week practicing 2 different japanese sword arts.
almost anything would be a more useful time investment.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:49:40 PM EDT
[#26]
WWII aircraft armaments debates.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:54:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The only part of a mammal that you cannot safely eat (excluding diseases) is a polar bear's liver. The concentration of vitamin A, from fish consumption, is toxic even for sled dogs. ETA: Not to include mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease. Same goes for husky livers. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb50269.x |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 8:59:44 PM EDT
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LSD experiments, like with Theodore Kaczynski or the famous dolphin LSD experiment by John Lilly. Fascinating.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 9:12:22 PM EDT
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I saw a History channel show on Boudica, then read a thick book on Boudica. It focused mostly on the Roman conquest of England.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 9:14:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/20/2022 9:16:10 PM EDT
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Physics and space stuff
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Posted: 5/20/2022 9:49:05 PM EDT
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Johnson's atoll ( just plain crazy what they did there )
abandoned military bases Stage lighting for plays and concerts |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 9:52:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LSD experiments, like with Theodore Kaczynski or the famous dolphin LSD experiment by John Lilly. Fascinating. I've spend days browsing the Erowid archive trip reports. The DMT ones are really crazy. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 10:09:31 PM EDT
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Every topic ever posted in the GD.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 10:37:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: i spend 10-12 hours a week practicing 2 different japanese sword arts. almost anything would be a more useful time investment. See the Scotty Reitz interview. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 10:43:59 PM EDT
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I am fascinated with learning about Quantum Mechanics. I paint for a living
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Posted: 5/20/2022 10:45:48 PM EDT
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Sharpshooter & WW II sniping and wrote the definitive book on both.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 11:10:02 PM EDT
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UFOS
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Posted: 5/20/2022 11:17:52 PM EDT
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Pretty much anything that does me the least amount of good. History, economics, physics, aviation (as long as it’s not assigned. As soon as I Have to do it, It’s torture.). Speaking of which, Psychology is another big interest.
Reading; Mark Twain wrote about that phenomenon.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 11:18:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Rome is next on my list. Can't wait! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I am currently enjoying the history of 5th and 6th century Western Roman Empire and it's decline. I won't admit that it has fallen yet. Roman history is incredibly engrossing. |
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Posted: 5/20/2022 11:19:50 PM EDT
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I want to know as much as I possibly can about history, and to at least have a passing knowledge of science, philosophy, and literature.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 11:20:27 PM EDT
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Wastewater treatment stations.
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Posted: 5/20/2022 11:23:47 PM EDT
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I will go down the YouTube rabbit hole on anything Space, Electronics, Aircraft, Astronomy, or physics.
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Posted: 5/21/2022 4:05:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryWhat does nis mean? 
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Posted: 5/21/2022 4:09:18 AM EDT
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Botany, dendrology, Petrology, and Entomology. I'm always walking around the forest and waterways here looking at everything.
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Posted: 5/21/2022 4:29:16 AM EDT
[#46]
Serial killers
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Posted: 5/21/2022 4:43:53 AM EDT
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Lost tribes of Israel
Pecans JFK assassination Country music trivia from back in the day Weather especially Hurricanes Wild West History especially gunfighters Now where are my shoes? |
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Posted: 5/21/2022 6:09:49 AM EDT
[#48]
Everything outer space. It's mind boggling.
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Posted: 5/21/2022 6:59:25 AM EDT
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Internal combustion is one of my long time fascinations. Pretty much to the point that most people who think they know a lot about the subject don’t really have a clue.
Machine learning & deep logic are the next thing I’m going to embark on. Quote HistoryQuoted: I go through phases, but I tend to get deep into physics and chemistry subjects. Went through a phase of reading up on LD50s of common substances. You can more or less safely drink 6 oz of gasoline, and a gallon of bleach, as an example. Safely meaning you are very unlikely to die. Peculiar physics phenomenon interest me. Supercritical fluids, triple points, plasma phases, leidenfrost effect, intermediate axis theory, vestibulo-ocular reflex, heavy water...those are my most recent rabbit holes. Super solids would interest you. |
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Posted: 5/21/2022 6:59:56 AM EDT
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Cosmology - specifically, the age of the universe, stellar evolution, and the entropy that will end it all.
None of it has anything to do with how I live, except the awe I have for the scientists who are figuring it all out. |
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