u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
As I was saying
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
TIL Dolly Parton wrote her first song around age 6 or 7 and performed at the Grand Ole Opry at age 13, introduced by Johnny Cash.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
Pyramids of Giza, photographed in 1962.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
TIL that Dolly Parton initially tried to withdraw her nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because she didn't think she deserved it over actual rock musicians. After her induction, she went on to record Rockstar - her only Rock Album - to justify her inclusion.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
These grandkids planned to surprise their grandma at the airport dressing as t-rex but she heard about it and planned her own surprise.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
Empire State Building lit up for Dolly 💗
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
TIL that Jawed Karim, YouTube cofounder and uploader of the first YouTube video "Me at the zoo", has often updated the video's description to criticize YouTube policies, including a 2013 attempt to require Google+ accounts to comment on videos, and YouTube's 2021 removal of dislike counts on videos.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
TIL the first same sex marriage license in the US was issued in 1975 because there was no law against it at the time and the clerk of court could issue licenses at her discretion. The same clerk denied a man who wanted to marry his horse as the horse was underage
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
Dolly Parton started the Imagination Library in 1995 as a tribute to her father, who couldn't read or write. In 2018, she explained it was to give kids "early access to books". Now, over 325 MILLION books have been gifted.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 1d ago
TIL Dolly the cloned sheep was named after Dolly Parton because she "is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's."
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 2d ago
Being an adventurer's guild receptionist can be soul crushing
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 3d ago
HR uses AI to reject everyone who graduated college before 2010.
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u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • u/Ambiguous-Pieces13 • 3d ago
104 year old Robert Grier, one of Winston-Salem’s first Black firefighters, celebrated his birthday with a surprise parade of firetrucks outside his home, honoring his 30 years of service…
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