I bought a nice pair of fingernail clippers. ~$15 Green Bell from Japan. You hardly have to apply any force to the lever at all, and the nail just slices off neatly and falls inside. Not like my old cheapo pair that went "KACHONK" and endangered anyone in my vicinity of shrapnel injuries.
Look up an old newspaper from say 100-120 years ago and check out the obituaries.
TIL I've been a "quiet quitter" my entire life.
And then there's Dune: it's the year 40'000 (or something) and mankind is fighting a religious war in the desert over natural resources. Haha!
Eclipses might be a dime-a-dozen, but Halley's Comet doesn't mess around. My grandad saw it twice. I hope to, too. It comes once every 75 years. The last time was 1986. The next is 2061. If you were born today, you'd have to live to be 112 years-old to see it a second time.
Never thought I'd take the side of an insurance company.
While I also feel like the past is better left in the past, I am certainly not above a little schadenfreude, either.
It never left. My MP3 collection is getting kinda disgusting at this point. I really should delete a bunch of it, but you never know when I'm going to want to listen to that album I downloaded 15 years ago and haven't gotten into yet!
1999 was 24 years ago. 24 years before 1999 was 1975, when Wish You Were Here, Physical Graffiti, and Toys in the Attic all came out. Those were definitely classic rock then.
Supply and demand, right? Surely they'll get cheaper, right?
The year Titanic came out, I finally decided to see what the fuss was about in it's 18th week playing (a new record!) in our local theater. I took my seat, and there were a couple of teenage girls a few seats over from mine. They started sobbing during the opening credits. I'm fairly certain they'd seen the movie already. Probably more than once.
Last time my buddy sent me a Facebook link, it wouldn't let me view it without giving them my phone number. I did not.