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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 11:56 AM Feb 2016

What I learned in an Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office today.

Went in to get my new truck tags for the ancient hunk of junk that occasionally gets me from point A to B, and, being bored, started watching this video screen that they had that kept cycling through odd facts. Learned that human saliva boils at 3 times higher temps than regular water, that 8000 people in the US are injured by musical instruments every year, and that Bernie Sanders followers had been banned from Tinder for campaigning on the platform and that Hillary and Bill Clinton had made $153 million since 2000 or so giving speeches.

Those last two struck me as oddly political choices of 'random facts' to be showing in a BMV. I also noticed there were no similar 'facts' about any of the Republican candidates in the cycle that kept repeating on the screen.

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What I learned in an Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office today. (Original Post) Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 OP
Republicans are hot spit HassleCat Feb 2016 #1
Doesn't surprise Me...... jdadd Feb 2016 #2
Nothing about the Governor? left-of-center2012 Feb 2016 #3

jdadd

(1,314 posts)
2. Doesn't surprise Me......
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 12:08 PM
Feb 2016

We get bombarded by these brainwashing factoids on a daily basis. Greetings from a fellow Buckeye...

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