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I think the "Sepia" filter exists on most cell phone cameras. My kids love it. After all that work making 12 meg HD pics a thing.
Not a recording, but a lot of thought and effort went into recreating how Joseph Merrick might have talked/sounded. It's actually pretty sad.
If all those AI companies want something for their AIs to do, get 'em to clean this up.
Gotta say, it doesn't feel right "liking" that one, but yeah. Nature is a cruel ***** sometimes.
The T-34, the Russian main tank of WW2, has a serious number of flaws and was lost in massive numbers. Most of these were less design issues(though it wasn't a perfect design) but production and supply issues, where T-34's were produced in huge numbers but also at breakneck speed and to do that, a lot of time, corners were cut....like everywhere.
A lot of WW2 stuff (and indeed, WW1 stuff) was like that. Though a lot of it (don't know if it was the case of the T-34) was due to several factories making the same stuff, and some are doing a better job than others, but people remember the bad ones, and distrust them all. Spanish small arms made for the French in WW1, for example.
I know. I guess it's because some people like to treat the T-34 like it's a super tank that did everything well and under ideal conditions, yeah, it can do a lot of things well. It just wasn't produced or used under ideal conditions, during when it's flaws were exposed.
The USSR obviously made it work but not without a ton of problems and mechanical breakdowns.
And to be fair, the other premiere tanks of WW2 had problems as well. I just happened to learn the T-34 had a troubled history during "the great patriotic war"
Ah, WW2 tanks fans can be weird, yeah. Mostly the fans of German tanks.
In 1875 in Dublin, a fire at a warehouse were undiluted whiskey was left to age led to a flood of flaming whiskey that the local fire brigade stopped by making dams out of horse manure.
Nobody was injured as people were able to evacuate in time (apparently one of the affected buildings was hosting a wake, so people had to run away carrying the body), but the crowd started drinking the free whiskey, not knowing it was undiluted, and 13 people died and many injured due to alcohol poisoning.
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Nobody was injured as people were able to evacuate in time (apparently one of the affected buildings was hosting a wake, so people had to run away carrying the body), but the crowd started drinking the free whiskey, not knowing it was undiluted, and 13 people died and many injured due to alcohol poisoning.
Dublin whiskey fire - Wikipedia
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That Saturn's rings wouldn't look that cool, seen from its satellites. 
Well, compared to this me finding out Megan Fox is nearly forty pales in comparison. Both blow my mind but for different reasons.That Saturn's rings wouldn't look that cool, seen from its satellites.
There's a derpy bear on Mars.
"Did Ancient Martians Worship Earth Bears" theories in 3, 2, 1....
What if the film Speed was all drunk or distracted cockneys? And set in the 1950s? And based on a true story?
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Did Double-Decker Bus Once Jump the Gap While London's Tower Bridge Was Up?
Albert Gunter's actions in December 1952 earned him hero status among the London populace.
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Tho gotta say, an invitation for your kids to "lord mayor's children' party" most definitely hits a different vibe in these modern times.On Dec. 30, 1952, a London city bus found itself in a precarious position: driving over the Tower Bridge as it opened to allow passage of a boat below. Today, the story is popular in meme form:
All the details included in this popular meme are true, as they were recorded contemporaneously in news reports. That incident was covered in a Dec. 31, 1952 Daily Mail Article:
That report appeared to have exonerated Gunter, who was hailed a hero in the press just a few months later. As reported in the Evening Telegraph in April 1953, Gunter was awarded both vacation time, money, and other gifts for his actions:
Because this event was recorded in multiple media reports at the time it happened, and because those media reports verify the details in popular memes about the incident, the claim is "True."
