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History Hijinks
Welcome to History Hijinks! I started this blog to tell/spread historic stories
I love history and learning about other cultures.
I don't want to spread misinformation, so if I make a mistake, please do tell me!
p.s this is a side blog
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A bit of #Caturday history: Salty, mascot of the San Diego Coast Guard Air Station. In 1945, she was the first cat to participate in an air rescue mission when she and her kitten stowed away on a plane just before it took off to rescue a pilot who had gone down at sea.
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When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.
In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.
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call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.
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Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade, Seattle, Washington, 1991.
James May
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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That's Pinsent Tailoring (Zack Pinsent) and yes he is gay
Here's his instagram
...from men
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Graffiti spotted in Quebec City
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hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.
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'If you don't like graffiti look away like you do for genocide"
Seen in Austin, Texas
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the gifs i find on this website... you guys are art curators
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"No climate justice on occupied land"
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