We live closer in time to the first T-Rex than the first T-Rex does to the last Stegosuraus
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No way T-Rex did high fives
Due to its tiny arms and non-pentadigit hands the T-Rex would commonly high five with its teeth. This lead to the T-Rex being unfortunately labeld a carnivore.
They were just threes
And not so high; more close.
Close 3s, we can be assured, we're quite popular until the event.
Maybe that’s why the Pachycephalosaurus had thick skulls and kept head butting each other, they were just trying to close 5 but their heads kept getting in the way (apparently these actually had 5 fingers)
McSorleys in NYC was men only until a 1970 legal ruling, and didn't have a women's restroom until 1986.
Their motto prior to 1970 was "Good Ale, Raw Onions and No Ladies"
Nothing more manly than being surrounded by dudes and raw onions while getting drunk because you’re too much of a wuss to go to therapy or even address emotional trauma yourself.
I also like how they had a gender neutral bathroom.
For some of the kids here: SPAM of the mail variety was not a thing before 1995.
Fist bumps, obviously.
Dapping. Its called dapping. To dap someone in greeting.
Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.
Credit scores may be relatively new, but Equifax as a company existed since 1899 as "Retail Credit Company" and has always done some form of credit reporting.
Do people want to go back to the system that was used before credit scores? Where the person serving the loan just made the choice based off if they thought you seemed trustworthy? Aka were a white man who went to the same church as them.
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1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it's when Special Relativity came out.
That's older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it's also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.
In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.
The wright brothers flew almost 2 years before special relativity came out.
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Chicken tikka masala was supposedly only invented in the 1960s - 1970s. Butter chicken only in the 1950s. Now I'm scared to look up naan for fear of learning it was invented by Nestle in 1994 or whatever.
Naan is safe.
General Tso's chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.
Same with orange chicken.
In fact, most "Chinese" food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.
I find it preposterous to believe that nobody made these dishes before the 1960s. Surely people did. They just weren't popular or have the branding associated.
New dishes are invented all the time.
But the reason who these two are so ubiquitous is simple.
General Tso's chicken was featured on 60 minutes. The guy being interviewed showed how to make the dish with each ingredient. After that, it quickly showed up on every Chinese restaurant menu.
Orange chicken was specifically designed for American tastes by Panda Garden, which then spawned imitators.
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This is a dumb one, but I've watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like "Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah" Yeah... It was made up in the ~~50's~~ 1910s by some dude.
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The high five thing always fucks me up. Mostly because I'll see it in movies about WW2 and other historical things that it shouldn't be in and I always have to say something lol.
You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.
I still can't do that
Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980's by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.
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Carbonara was invented around 1950.
No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact
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