102% tax rate. Once there was a country called Sweden. It was a social democracy. Government wanted so much to give everything nice to everybody, that they just had to tax a bit those rich bastards who had too much everything. And famous author Astrid Lindgren - mother of Pippi Longstockings - had too much. So that nice and kind government put her taxation per cent to very modarate 102%. Astrid did not like that. She thought it was a bit too much. So she wrote a childrens story Pomperipossa in Monismania about taxation. That was the end of that nice and kind and very, very intellicu... inteli... gentelli... wise government. https://everestlancaster.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/pomperipossa-in-monismania/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania https://www.astridlindgren.com/en/about-astrid-lindgren
Danish flag has birthday today. Respectable 800 years + oldest national flag in the world. Congratulations! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Denmark
"In 2018, 30,516 new pianos were shipped to retailers in the United States, down 3.2 percent from 2017, according to Industry Census of Music Trades, a magazine that covers music products." Source: Washington Post
It was flag day here in the US of A the other day. Didn`t know that until this morning so that tells you how big a holiday that is here. Useless Fact: JEvoh Witness wear massive amounts of makeup. They stay at the hotel for a convention throughout June and we put extra makeup wipes ou, towels come back covered in makeup, and they all dress to the nines. Even the kids which....bugs me.....I was raised in a kinda slightly cultish religious environment as a young kid and it sucked me in a bit. Bothers me seeing the children. They are also great tippers, will even hunt you down if they forget to tip. Most people just never tip at all. The odd thing is they are somehow super generous with there tips but also kinda super cheap. The rooms look like campsites because they bring everything they could possibly need a rather than buy anything. Air mattresses to save on rooms, fitting more people in. Also, my town apparently does have a trolly car so that`s a useless fact I found out today. I`d heard about it somewhat but never seen it assumed it was defunct. Nope, walking out tonight it was dropping off a wedding party.....because that`ll be fun.
A friend of mine worked at a hotel/convention center thing that every year hosted a conference of... well, of Jewish people, not sure exactly what the organization or event was, but I think it was a Passover thing maybe. Anyway, on the Sabbath observant Jews aren't allowed even to light a lamp, which scholars have apparently extended to the idea of pushing the buttons in an elevator, so during the conference the hotel had bell staff on elevator operator duty. Not sure about the tips, but the conference was lucrative enough for the hotel to find it worthwhile to make the necessary adjustments, and my friend never had any complaints about the participants.
Stress does weird things. For me it is little bumps on my hands. Turns out it is a thing, but it is weird... https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000832.htm
I get those as well. No advice, but they're also known as dyshydrotic eczema when you feel like going down the rabbit hole.
*Kisses them in the hopes of making them better* Thinking about it, I get those too. Tiny things, but annoying when you feel them.
Apparently Cecil Rhodes was stalked by Polish Princess Catherine Radziwill. She asked him to marry her, but he refused.
strictly speaking the flags of both austria and latvia are older, but have not been in continuous use hence why denmark holds the record. The Scottish saltire is also older and in continuous use, but historians have found that it want always white on blue, some early examples being red or black
The Manistee, Michigan fire station has the record for the longest continually-manned fire station in the world. The station had to prove it has been staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year as a fully manned, paid professional fire department since it opened its doors in 1889.
Well, the Great Michigan Fire of 1871 destroyed Manistee, so it might be a Never Again kind of thing.
In this part of Finland sun rises about four hours and 3o minutes after it went down. Our 4 hour 30 minute "night" is not dark. It's kind of... something between dusk and light. Long twilight?
The Mississippi legislature ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, which, in 1865, ended slavery in the US, in 1995.
Due to an oversight, Ohio wasn't formally recognized as a state until 1953, one hundred and fifty years after everyone thought it had been admitted to the Union.
The notation "son of a gun" was made on shipboard birth certificates when the mother refused to name the father (presumably a member of the crew).