Exactly, you can see the hair style here:
Shit, wait, that’s the wrong picture… uhhhh, here:
TIL learned that the Amazon river, the largest river in the world by volume and the second longest river in the world at 6,400km has exactly zero bridges across it.
Further, the sum total of all the traffic bridges crossing the major tributaries is one.
I think Matt Gaetz has more of a pompadour.
Did you know that there was a “St. Adam” who died in 1210? Hermit and abbot, a native of Fermo, Italy, where he began a severe life of recollection in a cave on the slopes of Mount Vissiano. Attracting many followers, Adam was invited to join the Benedictine Order and entered San Sabine Monastery. Within the monastery he maintained his prayer life and rigorous self-discipline. His example led to his election as abbot. His Feast Day is celebrated on May 16th.
Which makes May 15th “Adam’s Eve”.
If you, when making a call on your cell, type *#06# you’ll be rewarded with your phones MEID and your serial number.
No more firmer than Christian (Catholic) Women in Renaissance art 
I’ve never been a huge Elvis fan, but I’ve seen many of his movies and I like some of his songs. I’ve always thought he was really handsome in his younger days. When I saw the trailer for the new movie, Elvis, I thought, what ridiculous casting, they have a blue-eyed actor playing Elvis! Upon a bit of internet research, I found out that Elvis had blue eyes! I never knew that. In my defense a lot of the movies were B&W. But even in some color photos of him, his eyes look brown.
I wonder if they’ll show Elvis with his natural hair color (Elvis was blond https://www.countrythangdaily.com/was-elvis-presley-blonde-old-photo-proves-it/)
Did you know that for 30 years people watching golf tournaments on TV could actually call in and get players penalized for things they saw them do on TV? It started when somebody called in and accused Craig Stadler of “building a stance” because he was kneeling on a towel in an effort to keep his pants dry. That towel “built his stance” by a whopping quarter of an inch I bet. They actually accepted that and upheld the rule. Not only that, they disqualified him because he signed an incorrect score card even though he had no idea it was going to be declared incorrect a day later.
It only took them 30 years to figure out that their sport was absurdly skewed.
This was some specific rule change in 1992?
Actually, it happened in 1987 and set a precedent that was honored for 30 years.
Yes, in 2017 it was decided by the golf’s ruling body that players would no longer be penalized by fans phoning in real or imagined transgressions.
That must be the most interesting thing I’ve ever heard about golf. Of course the bar is incredibly low.
There’s a famous, possibly apocryphal, story about William Randolph Hearst which was reenacted in the movie Citizen Kane. A reporter whom he had sent to Cuba to cover the Spanish American War sent him a telegraph stating, “Everything is quiet. There is no trouble here. There will be no war. I wish to return.” He replied, famously, “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.”
The random fact is something I stumbled across while reading a book about the war that gave me a, “Huh, no kidding” moment. The reporter he was corresponding with was the artist Frederic Remington much better known for his paintings and bronze sculptures of cowboys in the old west including “The Bronco Buster” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I never knew this and wouldn’t have guessed. Mind blown! (especially by the second part)
Given that players are supposed to penalize themselves if rules are broken, it makes sense (if you squint) to penalize them when they fail to self-police. The biggest problem in my mind is that popular players will get ruled on more often because they’re the ones who have every single stroke broadcast to viewers.
For a fun fictional take on this subject, read The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist: A Novel and Slim and None by Dan Jenkins.
There is a women’s clothing store in Uruguay called “Tits”.
Today I went down a rabbit hole, and came across this:
In the year 2000, the number of veterans in the U.S was 26,745,368. Today there are 18,792,191 – a difference of 7,953,177. I’m going to assume this is due to WWII, Korea, and now Vietnam vets passing away. However, in that same period the number of vets utilizing medical care through the VA jumped from 3,462,082 to 6,317,059 – not quite double. Also, there are ~812k non-veterans utilizing the VA for their care. Why either of things are the case, I haven’t a clue.
So today’s interesting random fact is that in the past 22 years the number of living vets has dropped nearly 30% while the number of vets using the VA for healthcare has nearly doubled.
From here (pdf), page 32:
The number of vets entering decrepitude and thus needing healthcare is likely close to the number dying. Almost 100% of the vets who die today were accessing VA healthcare yesterday.
This occurred to me and is undoubtedly true but was it not true in 2000? In 2000 WWII vets were (give or take a few years) more-or-less the age Vietnam vets are now. Overall there were significantly more WWII vets than Vietnam vets. It stands to reason that those vets, at a given age, would be accessing VA healthcare at the same rate that Vietnam vets are at the same age (I hope this makes sense… maybe it only makes sense for me). So there would be more WWII vets accessing healthcare in 2000 than Vietnam vets in 2022.
Of course, we now have Iraq/Afghanistan vets utilizing the VA.