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RE: TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked Kurt Cobain to parody 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' that Kurt asked him if it would be about food, and Al said it would be about how no one could understand his lyrics. Kurt found that extremely funny, and said absolutely.
Back when Myspace was a thing, when Weird Al covered Chamillionaire, the Weird Al cover was what played on Chamillionaire's Myspace page.
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RE: Parkinson's may start in the gut and travel up to the brain, suggests a new study in mice published today in Neuron, which found that a protein (α-syn) associated with Parkinson's disease can travel up from the gut to the brain via the vagus nerve.
The title of the post is a copy and paste from the subtitle and first paragraph of the linked academic press release here: > Parkinson's may start in the gut and travel up to the brain via the vagus
RE: Nearly 70% of Americans want the United States to take “aggressive” action to combat climate change, but only 34% would support an extra tax of $100 a year to help, and only 33% said they’d be willing to trade their car in for an electric vehicle.
Did we just go from $100 a year in tax to making thousands of dollars of investment in an EV? Cars are necessity for a huge part of the population and it's understandable why someone with limited resources
RE: TIL Muhammad Ali lost his heavyweight title, got his passport revoked and faced a five-year prison term for not wanting to join the US Army in the Vietnam War. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong," he said. "They never called me n****r."
Gotta love George Carlin's take on this: Muhammad Ali's back at work again; he's being allowed to work once again, Muhammad Ali. He wasn't for awhile, as you know. For about three and a half years, they
RE: TIL that Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land” sarcastically after he got tired of hearing Kate Smith’s “God Bless America” over and over again.
Fun fact: The Dropkick Murphy's song "Shipping up to Boston" was also written by Woody Guthrie. The Dropkick Murphy's bass guitarist found the lyrics while looking through Guthrie's archives.
RE: The world is increasingly at risk of “climate apartheid”, where the rich pay to escape heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of the world suffers, a report from a UN human rights expert has said.
Going to take this as a hint and move now. So where’s the best place to buy now and beat the rich?
RE: German locals purchase town's entire beer supply ahead of far-right music festival: "We wanted to dry the Nazis out"
Abbreviated version of article: Hundreds of neo-Nazis who descended upon a German town for a far-right music festival were prevented from drinking alcohol once there thanks to a court-imposed banning order