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This is the Way. Grogu has a full day of work on Content Day. Experience The Mandalorian and Grogu only in theaters May 22. Tickets are on sale now. Fandango.com/StarWarsTheMan… #TheMandalorianAndGrogu

There is a hotel in the southern United States that employs a man whose official job title is Duckmaster. The position exists nowhere else in the world. Twice a day he puts on a red and gold uniform, takes the elevator up to the rooftop, and walks five ducks down to the lobby. They march across a red carpet to a marble fountain in front of the guests, then swim there until evening. The tradition started in 1933 when the hotel’s manager came back from a duck hunting trip with too much whiskey in him and dumped his live decoys in the lobby fountain as a prank. Guests loved it. A few years later, a former circus animal trainer working as a bellman at the hotel volunteered to look after the ducks and taught them to march. The hotel gave him the title of Duckmaster. He kept the job for 50 years. The ducks now live on the rooftop in a marble palace that cost the hotel $200,000 to build, with their own miniature replica of the hotel inside. The hotel’s French restaurant has refused to serve duck on the menu since 1981.

@DoctorLemma I always regret not going there the weekend I was in Memphis, TN... One day

This is the cover and two pages of the wine list for the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC, from the early 50s.. @Ithildyn's father was front desk manager, and her mom was PBX manager... Look at those prices!

@Ithildyn That's gorgeous... And you with that would compliment my Coo purse perfectly 😉 I'm not enabling, I'm being supportive!

@Ninjababe 😍

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has completed one of the rarest achievements in gaming. The turn-based RPG from French developer Sandfall Interactive just won Best Game at the BAFTAs, giving it a full sweep across all five major awards shows this year: -Golden Joystick Awards -The Game Awards -DICE Awards -Game Developers Choice Awards -BAFTA. It joins Baldur’s Gate 3 as only the second game ever to accomplish this.

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In 1937, the United States Army approached Hershey's Chocolate with one of the strangest product briefs in food history. They wanted a chocolate bar, but they needed it to taste, in the words of the Army Quartermaster himself, "only a little better than a boiled potato." Captain Paul Logan of the US Army Quartermaster General's office sat down with Hershey's chief chemist Sam Hinkle and laid out four requirements for what would become the Field Ration D bar. It had to weigh four ounces. It had to be high in energy. It had to withstand high temperatures without melting. And it absolutely could not taste good. The Army's logic was straightforward: if the emergency ration chocolate was delicious, soldiers would eat it whenever they wanted rather than saving it for genuine emergencies. The solution was to engineer the palatability out of it on purpose. Hinkle and his team spent months developing the formula. They reduced the sugar dramatically. They increased the chocolate liquor to make it more bitter. They added oat flour, which created a dense, dry texture with an unpleasant aftertaste. The mixture was so thick it could not be poured into molds at all. Every single bar had to be pressed in by hand. The factory workers at Hershey's reportedly hated making them. The resulting product delivered 600 calories in a 4-ounce brick that soldiers described as nearly impossible to bite into without a knife. The instructions recommended eating the bar slowly over the course of thirty minutes, or dissolving it in water as a drink. Most soldiers said they would rather have had the boiled potato. The Army ordered 90,000 bars for field testing in 1937. They worked. By the time the United States entered the war in 1941 Hershey's was producing the D ration at extraordinary scale. Before the war ended, the company had produced more than three billion bars. The soldiers nicknamed them Germany's secret weapon, partly because of their effect on digestive systems, partly because they were so bad that trading them to civilians who had never encountered them was considered something of a scam. The D ration bar also survived in the most literal sense possible. In 1943 Louis Zamperini, an Olympic distance runner and Army Air Corps lieutenant, survived 47 days adrift on a life raft in the Pacific Ocean after his aircraft crashed, sustained in part by the few D ration bars he had on board. His story is the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 book Unbroken. Hershey produced a second bar for the Pacific Theater in 1943 called the Tropical Chocolate Bar, designed to withstand temperatures of 120 degrees Fahrenheit. It tasted slightly better than the D ration and was immediately nicknamed by soldiers the dysentery bar, because it was the only thing they could tolerate when they had dysentery. By the time the war ended Hershey had received five Army-Navy Excellence in Production awards. The chocolate industry had argued successfully that candy was an essential war material rather than a luxury, and won. The precedent that established chocolate as a mass market, everyday food for ordinary Americans rather than an occasional luxury was set partly in the factory lines at Hershey, Pennsylvania between 1937 and 1945. M&Ms were also invented during this period, specifically because Forrest Mars wanted to create chocolate that could be included in military rations without melting. The hard candy shell was the solution to exactly the same problem Hershey was trying to solve with the D ration bar. Mars got an exclusive military contract and M&Ms went to war first before they went to the general public. The entire modern American candy industry has roots in the specific logistical problems of feeding soldiers in extreme conditions, where survival over taste was a must. © Eats History #archaeohistories

The Kyoto Aquarium in Japan keeps a wall-sized flowchart tracking the romantic relationships, breakups, and drama between their penguins. They update it every year. Red hearts mean couples. Blue broken hearts mean it’s over. Purple lines with question marks mean it’s complicated. Yellow means friendship. Green means enemies. One female penguin reportedly ended six relationships in a single year. The comment under her photo, translated from Japanese, described her as “basically demonic.” Another penguin was caught dating someone 17 years older who also turned out to be their great aunt. And penguins who get broken up with sometimes refuse to eat. Apparently the staff say wing-flapping means flirting, grooming each other means it’s official, and if a penguin steals another penguin’s egg… well, it’s exactly what it looks like.

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

@Ithildyn I listened a bit on break... Pictures are coming later after processed in Earth... So, capsule insides etc is it for now

Mug number 3 of tea.

I did get up early, but so far it's just been inside the capsule and mission control. I thought there would be photos or video of the moon. Maybe that's still coming? I'm really tired.

@Ithildyn @ChloeChloeChl19 First thing I watched when I got Disney Plus...

@ChloeChloeChl19 It's @Ninjababe's fave as well.

Probably my favorite Disney cartoon.

This is hilarious because it's true 😂

Ada Augusta Byron was born on December 10, 1815, the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbanke. Her father left the family when Ada was just five weeks old, and died in Greece when she was eight, leaving her mother as the sole parental influence in her life. Lady Byron, determined to suppress any trace of her husband's perceived instability in their daughter, insisted Ada be educated heavily in mathematics and science from an early age. Despite suffering serious illnesses in childhood, including a bout of measles at age thirteen that left her temporarily paralyzed, Ada pursued her studies with remarkable determination. By the time she was seventeen, her mathematical talents had become unmistakable, earning her private instruction from some of the leading scientific minds of the era. Through her tutor Mary Somerville, Ada was introduced to the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage in June 1833, a meeting that would define her intellectual legacy. Babbage, who was developing plans for a mechanical general-purpose computing machine he called the Analytical Engine, was immediately struck by Ada's sharp and unusual mind. He affectionately called her the Enchantress of Number, a title that reflected both her charm and her extraordinary grasp of complex mathematical ideas. In 1842, Babbage gave a lecture at the University of Turin about the Analytical Engine, which an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea transcribed into French and published. Babbage's colleague Charles Wheatstone commissioned Ada to translate Menabrea's paper into English, a task she completed over a nine-month period in 1842 and 1843. Rather than simply translating, Ada expanded the paper with seven lengthy explanatory notes, labeled A through G, which ran roughly three times longer than the original article. Her Note G described in complete detail a method for using the Analytical Engine to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers, a step-by-step procedure now widely recognized as the first published computer program. Ada went further than anyone else of her time in imagining what such a machine could ultimately do, envisioning that it might one day manipulate not just numbers but symbols representing music, language, and other forms of information. She was the first person to articulate the distinction between mere calculation and true general-purpose computation, a conceptual leap that anticipated the foundations of modern computing by more than a century. Her notes also addressed the limits of machine intelligence, arguing that the Analytical Engine could only do what it was instructed to do and had no capacity to originate or discover anything on its own. Debate has persisted among historians about the precise extent of her independent contribution, with some scholars crediting Babbage with prior unpublished programs and others emphasizing that Ada alone grasped the machine's broader potential. Outside her work with Babbage, Ada struggled with recurring health problems, financial difficulties stemming from heavy gambling losses, and a complicated personal life largely kept from public view. She died on November 27, 1852, at the age of thirty-six, from cervical cancer, and was buried at her own request beside her father in Nottinghamshire. In the decades following her death, her contributions were largely forgotten, but in 1953 her notes were republished and scholars began to reassess her place in the history of computing. Today Ada Lovelace is commemorated through a programming language, an annual day celebrating women in science and technology, university buildings, awards, coins, statues, and countless other tributes around the world. #archaeohistories

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

Undeniable evidence that Nessie the Loch Ness Monster is real has been unearthed. Haters will say it's AI. #LochNessMonster

Artemis II launches today so I've mapped out the detailed flight path for those interested NASA won’t show you this level of detail

I post this every year during Holy Week! 😂 It cracks me up every time. Good Christian humor.

😴 AN ALL-NIGHT FIGHT FOR A CAUSE 🌙 SHHH! @samriegel is training (sleeping) before his Shirts Off Sam's Back Charity Stream: An All-Night Fight Against Cancer begins! Sam’s sleepless 24 hours for a cause kicks off Wednesday, April 22nd at 7PM PT as he auctions off a whole wardrobe of his screen-worn Campaign 1-3 t-shirts (and more) to support @criticalrolefdn partners The Pablove Foundation & HNC Living Foundation! BUT WAIT, WE’RE NOT LETTING SAM REST JUST YET 🤖📝 The Darrington Brigade RETURNS that same Thursday evening (4/23) as Sam brings back Exandria’s adept adventuring squad for a full one-shot after the stream ends! Watch the stream and help leave the world a better place starting April 22nd, 7pm PT! WATCH ON eBay LIVE⬇️ bit.ly/CRFauction #Sponsored by @ebay Live