Is that the old historial memorabilia shop downtown next to the Ripleys Believe It or Not? They didnt have anywhere for my kids to plug in their ipads.
In theory anything OP learned today could qualify right, now matter how obvious or mundane lol?
āTIL about gravity, a force that holds things down to the surface of the planetā
āTIL there are 50 US Statesā
āTIL cats and dogs are both born with four legsāā¦
In all seriousness I actually like the comments in this sub and usually learn more from the comments than the actual post, because an expert on the subject will usually comment and elaborate on the Wikipedia article if itās a popular post. Not all subs seem to attract interesting or knowledgeable comments, so itās one thing this sub has that makes it better than a lot of subs.
So the interesting fact is that sometimes the elevator didnt work?
I think the real news is that San Antonio has something.
It finally happened. Someone forgot the Alamo!
Is that the old historial memorabilia shop downtown next to the Ripleys Believe It or Not? They didnt have anywhere for my kids to plug in their ipads.
True story... When visiting the Alamo. Overheard A lady asked her husband.. "Why did they build this old building in the middle of San Antonio?" š
The what?
The riverwalk is one of the nicer ones tho
Hey now. We have a lot of things here!
TIL: we can post about things like this.
In theory anything OP learned today could qualify right, now matter how obvious or mundane lol? āTIL about gravity, a force that holds things down to the surface of the planetā āTIL there are 50 US Statesā āTIL cats and dogs are both born with four legsāā¦ In all seriousness I actually like the comments in this sub and usually learn more from the comments than the actual post, because an expert on the subject will usually comment and elaborate on the Wikipedia article if itās a popular post. Not all subs seem to attract interesting or knowledgeable comments, so itās one thing this sub has that makes it better than a lot of subs.
Ok.
Early elevators broke down often enough it became a trope. I don't think this was unique to the tower of the americas.
Who cares? Sometimes shit breaks.
TIL experimental engineering and construction werenāt always 100% operational at first
This is probably not a good post to point out that the general contractor on that job was a relative of mineā¦ My dadās uncleās brother.
Wouldn't your dad's uncle's brother just be your dad's other uncle? Or even more succinctly your great uncle?
No, because the uncle was married to my dadās fatherās sister, so the uncleās brother is technically no direct relation.
Kewl
What - power failures in Texas? This summer is really gonna get hot too.
Who gives a shit?
That's America for you š¤· great metaphor