Things I learned today (Part 1)

@habanerocat

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Well I can reliably inform you that it works for adult clothes also.

Waterford is in the ocean off New Zealand.

There is a place in New Hampshire called Londonderry where they are predominantly Biden voters.

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A new was majorly for the creation of zyklon gas

Used to drive the road from Boston to Hanover, New Hampshire a fair bit. On the way up you’d pass Derry first, then Londonderry.

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Visited them out of curiosity when I was living in Boston back in the day. Of their place and time levels of interestingness.

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On today FM of all places.

The 538 is 438 reps plus 100 senators. That gives an outside weighting to smaller states in the presidential vote and is an important point in explaining variation in popular vote versus electoral vote.

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Does that mean that smaller states have more reps in the house of representatives? Like giving Kerry a few extra Healy Raes at the expense of some of the myriad of FFers in Cork?

Some states only have 3 electoral college votes so as every state has two Senators then some states must only have a single Congressman/woman.

The population of ancient Egypt was about 4 million.

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How do you/they know that?

Listening to the Other side of history - The Great courses on Audible.

Covering Egypt now.

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That’s a lot of building for a small population. And most of them were layabouts.

Is that where IT is set? Never knew the town had 6 silent letters

They were first society to organize labour. Ever year Nile flooded. Any land within five miles was arable and great for crops but they needs to clear the silt, clear irrigation canals etc.

They had no interest in changing anything or experimenting or developing, very conservative - their art was exact same over millennia. Their civilisation lasted 3000 years.

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There is a town in America called Chevy Chase.

Was there not a few cities in Syria just as advanced prior to them mĂ te?

Its a subject that fascinates me, and one that I know very little about to be honest.

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Mesopotamians. The lectures say they had agriculture maybe 9 thousand years before Egyptians who came relatively late to that.

It’s on audible. It’s great stuff.

Other fact was in those days infant mortality was about 25 per cent.

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Is this from a podcast or book?