Today I learned

The Sandbox General
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How far back? Like, back when Coca Cola had the extract of coca leaves?

Or, back when the company claimed that lithium was an ingredient?
wiki:

The drink did, initially, claim to contain lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug.[1]: §2 It was one of a number of patent medicine products popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.[8] In 1936 the federal government forced the manufacturer to remove a number of health claims, and because “lithium was not an actual ingredient”, the name was changed to just “7 Up” in 1937.[1]: §2

2697

Haha, I learned about it because I bought an old bottle with it listed. I guess I fell for their marketing hype, perhaps.

2698

Yes. (Not going to link, but I’ve followed this/used this info for my job)

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2699

Gangster’s Paradise heavily sampled the Stevie Wonder song Pastime Paradise. How could I have not known this? Stevie Wonder is the man.

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I believe that’s why it wasn’t eligible for the Academy Award when it came out for the movie Dangerous Minds.

2701

How much distributed revenue an airline makes on a flight

Very interesting to see the structure

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I wonder if that assumes a full flight? I’m guessing insurance is part of overhead?

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something wrong with that chart. Doesn’t include crew/labor costs, which is the biggest cost after fuel. Third biggest cost is maintenance

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but it is correct that cargo, ancillaries, and first class is where the profit is

2705

There is a line for “Cabin Crew”.
Other staff like baggage handlers is probably included in the other categories.

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2706

Definitely so on intercontinental flights.

Would also like to see what relative % of the airplane’s seating space that each class takes up.

2707

In Japan married people are required to have the same last name after marriage.

2708

The winter storm/blizzard that we just had here over the weekend is named Elsa. Now we’ll be Frozen the next two days. :slight_smile:

I didn’t know they named winter storms, too. I thought they only did that for hurricanes.

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I think naming winter storms is a The Weather Channel gimmick; the National Weather Service isn’t involved.

Did a search to make sure I wasn’t misremembering and it turns out there’s a Wikipedia page on it:

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Science class in the 1960s taught us that atoms were made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Life was simpler (?) then.

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Gerd Faltings to receive the 2026 Abel Prize

The director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics is the first German researcher to receive this prestigious mathematics prize

I never heard of this. Sounds important.

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People need to be careful when they are falsifying documents.

Calibri didn’t exist until 2007: [this story is from 2017, but I just learned about it now]

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2017 tactic - if your bogus claim is disproved by a Wikipedia entry, try changing the Wikipedia entry.

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The Abel is like the Nobel prize for math. I know the guy who won it a couple years ago, through my work at my alma mater. Listening to his speech at the school was a slooooog. There’s a reason he’s an academic and not…literally anything else.

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I was listening to some Marvin Gaye and really heard the lyrics from I’ll Be Doggone. Yikes.

Well, every woman should try to be
Whatever her man wants her to be
And I don’t want much, all I want from you
Is for you to be true to me