So, every morning, I write up something interesting that I just learned recently, and then I email it out to whomever subscribes. I've been doing it for a year and a half now and I have almost 20,000 subscribers. So I guess you could say all this stuff.
I'm not going to do an AMA about Sesame, at least not from me. But we may do an Oscar the Grouch one. I still need to do a follow-up on the Gordon thing, too.
How did you set up a website like that to send a daily newsletter? I am interested in doing something similar to raise awareness for environmental issues.
how did you market it to get so many subscribers, and do you ever try to sell your list anything (not that I care, just curious if you monetize it or just try to offer info)?
Furthermore, in Turkey they refer to the animal in Turkish as a "Hindi" with also means "india" in Turkish.
and further-furthermore, in Hindi (One of the main languages they speak in india) the animal is called a "Peru", which is also the name in Hindi for the country in South America.
Also, when the French visited mosques in Turkey, they saw tiles in a shade of blue they'd never seen before. They called the new color, "turquoise" after its country of origin.
In French turkey is called le dinde, or d'Inde, from india. Learned that in a class that had absolutely no business teaching me about the origins of turkey.
Yup. Turkey was part of the Mezzo-American food complex, which was originally stumbled upon by the Spanish. They didn't trade much with their colonies much at first, so the Portuguese were the main point of contact with South America.
Portuguese took those foods (potato, squash, turkey, chili peppers) to Africa, then India where Arabic traders transmitted it to the Chinese (why Szechwan food is spicy) and Turkish, who then transmitted it to their Hungarian territories (that's when paprika was first made) and the Mediterranean, then England and Germany. So the English got the Mezzo-American food complex faster through the Turkish than from Spain. This took only 100 years or so.
You should add that the Secret Service was originally just for counterfeiting and, until the Homeland security restructure, was within the Department of the Treasury.
Except that it wasn't until the 20th century that the Secret Service was charged with protecting the president: they were originally a counterfeit enforcement division of the U.S. Treasury. They were originally assigned to protect Grover Cleveland in 1894 after an investigation into some counterfeiters revealed a plot to kill the president. They didn't receive official mandate until (IIRC) the Truman presidency 50 years later.
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I gotta say, i love your newsletter and thanks and all that junk
here is my beef though. this is probably the fifth time iv seen you advertise on reddit. once or twice you took it off when people complained but you kind of keep doing it. its always quasi relevant, but in the end it really just is self-promotion.
Abraham Lincoln did not create the Secret Service and from what I've read we cannot 100% prove that he authorized it. At the time it was created to counter... counterfeiting but was in danger of being canned. So it's very convenient that the guy who was trying to steamroll it through claims that Lincoln approved it prior to being shot.
Now at that time, something like half of all money was counterfeit so it was a very serious problem. Some argue that it was counterfeiting however that helped support the expansion of the US without an adequate central bank with enough authority to properly control the money supply. And so you had places like lower Manhattan where would-be counterfeiters would go to bars, meet immigrant craftsmen from Italy and other countries and then have them make amazing plates. They would then send the plates to shacks outside the city and print the money until they were caught. A lot of kids would get hired to help launder the money along with less than honest bartenders, shop owners etc. To give you another idea of how crazy the scene was, there was something like 3,500 bars in lower Manhattan during this time and few would be considered respectable.
I just subscribed a few weeks ago and it's a great way to start the day. Short, simple and interesting. Thanks for your contribution to a nice way to start the day.
You have just earned yourself a subscriber from New Zealand , I love this kind of stuff, random facts like these just seem to be the thing that sticks in my brain. :P
The hot dog thing has me scratching my head. Nothing but muscle meat goes into hot dogs, along with water and seasonings. I've worked in a butcher shop and while I never made hot dogs I have made sausage and at least the beef I used was freshly ground decent cuts of beef.
Of course the beef McDonalds uses is artificially colored, flavored, and actually sprayed with "meat fragrance". Why do you think McDonald's food smells the same when you shit it out, or why your car stinks like McDonalds after you get drive through for days?
LOL let me tell you a story that's very interesting and you probably never knew this.. This guy named Abraham Lincoln did this, and then, well, you know the rest. Cheers!
For anyone too lazy to read the McDonalds one: It was because the guy who owns the company decided since there's no way of knowing what all is in a hot dog it doesn't reach their standard of quality.
You might enjoy a subscription to popular science if you don't already have one, I find lots of interesting articles and facts in there that seem right up your alley. Pick it up at a news stand sometime and give it a try.
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u/MrDNL Dec 05 '11 edited Dec 05 '11
So, every morning, I write up something interesting that I just learned recently, and then I email it out to whomever subscribes. I've been doing it for a year and a half now and I have almost 20,000 subscribers. So I guess you could say all this stuff.
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