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The letter reads:

Happy Birthday Princess,

We get old and get used to each other.  We think alike.  We read each other’s minds.  We know what the other wants without asking.  Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit.  Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.  

But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met.  You still fascinate and inspire me.  You influence me for the better.  You’re the object of my desire, the #1 earthly reason for my existence.  I love you very much.

Happy birthday Princess.  John

 

TIL in 1970 Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin Cty., CO and lost. His “Freak Power” program included disarming policemen, renaming Aspen “Fat City”, punishing dishonest drug dealers, harassing those committing “land-rape” and limiting hunting and fishing to residents.

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His opponent had short hair so Thompson shaved his head to call the other guy his “long-haired opponent”.

 

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Arthur Griffin. Demonstration of Cryovac Latex Balloon to solve the problem of packing quick-frozen meats. Ca. 1939

 

TIL Elvis once handed Alice Cooper one of his guns and asked him to point it at him to show off his karate skills. Cooper later said that he genuinely wanted to pull the trigger to do something legendary with his life, but Elvis knocked the gun out of his hand and pinned him before he could fire.

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crouching tiger, hidden Elvis

 

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucano_people

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“The Tucano are multilingual because men must marry outside their language group: no man may have a wife who speaks his language, which would be viewed as a kind of incest. Men choose women from various neighboring tribes who speak other languages. Furthermore, on marriage, women move into the men’s households or longhouses. Consequently, in any village several languages are used: the language of the men; the various languages spoken by women who originate from different neighboring tribes; and a widespread regional ‘trade’ language. Children are born into the multilingual environment: the child’s father speaks one language (considered the Tucano language), the child’s mother another, other women with whom the child has daily contact, and perhaps still others. However, everyone in the community is interested in language-learning so most people can speak most of the languages. Multilingualism is taken for granted, and moving from one language to another in the course of a single conversation is very common”

 

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I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. -  Friedrich Nietzsche

 

TIL That 80% of Lightning Strike Victims are Male

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A Ford Modeling Agency girl poses in a crime illustration advertisement, which was later banned for being “too undignified.”  Shot by Nina Leen, 1948.

 

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“1970 (Showa 45). Due to business difficulties, the Tokyo Design College, a cartoonist training technical school, has decided to close it. Some of the students who were informed of the school closure are standing up at the school and protesting. It is a stray cat picked up by students that sleeps on a futon.”

 

TIL In 1774, Frederick the Great ordered Prussians to grow potatoes as protection against famine, but the populace were disgusted by them and refused. The king then planted “royal potato field” but allowed peasants to steal from it, which re-marketed the potato into a major food crop.

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Nam June Paik
„Video-Synthesizer“, 1969/92.
Installation, 210 (305 with monitors) x 155 x 150 cm,
Original incl. synthesizer, two moving frames, 12 monitors of different sizes, 2 DVD players, @ Kunsthalle Bremen - The Kunstverein in Bremen,
© Nam June Paik Estate, New York, 2010.

Photo by Jürgen Nogai