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• What Can DNA Tests Really Tell Us About Our Ancestry?
• The St. Scholastica Day Riot
• The Live-Action <i>Cinderella</i> Film You Never Saw
• Success Kid, 13 Years Later

What Can DNA Tests Really Tell Us About Our Ancestry? Posted: 16 Jul 2020 11:15 PM PDT If you know a little about genetics, you might be baffled by DNA tests that purport to tell us where our ancestors come from. For one thing, you don't get an equal number of genes from each ancestor, outside of our two parents. For another thing, what makes genes from, say, France, different from genes from Spain? This TED-Ed lesson from Prosanta Chakrabarty explains the limitations of genetic tests. -via Geeks Are Sexy

The St. Scholastica Day Riot Posted: 16 Jul 2020 11:14 PM PDT Oxford University is getting close to being a thousand years old. Here's a post that drives home how old the school is. So it stands to reason that some wild drinking was going on from time to time during that long history, as college students are prone to do. One such memorable occasion was a pub brawl that got completely out of hand.    On 10 February 1355, the entire town was celebrating the feast day of Saint Scholastica. Some students were drinking at Swindlestock Tavern, when two of them complained about the quality of the wine served. The landlord and the tavern's owner, who also happened to be Mayor of Oxford at the time, allegedly responded to their complaint with "stubborn and saucy language"; whereupon a student threw his drink on the owner's face, followed by the empty wine jug that landed straight on the tavern owner's head. A fight erupted and other customers present in the tavern, both locals and students, joined in and soon the fight spilled out of the tavern and onto the streets. Somebody rang the bell at the town's church to summon assistance, and the students rang the bells of the University Church in response. When the Chancellor of the University tried to intervene, arrows were fired at him and he had to retreat. The trouble continued the next day, as townspeople sought revenge on the students. Before the fight was over several days later, 90 people were dead. Read about the St. Scholastica Day Riot and a few other deadly university incidents at Amusing Planet.

The Live-Action <i>Cinderella</i> Film You Never Saw Posted: 16 Jul 2020 11:13 PM PDT The 1950 Disney film Cinderella was produced at a time when Disney was struggling financially after World War II, so they cut corners every way they could. They had used reference films for earlier movies, but every scene in Cinderella was filmed with actors in costume for reference, which the animators copied and were told not to stray from. You can see some footage in this video, starting at 1:45. Still images from the original production are more numerous.   Learn some of the behind-the-scenes trivia about the production of Cinderellain a pictofacts list at Cracked.

Success Kid, 13 Years Later Posted: 16 Jul 2020 09:56 PM PDT Sam Griner's mother took a picture of him at the beach when he was a baby. She posted it, and found out what can happen when you post family photos on the internet. Luckily, the viral photo did not ruin Sam's life, as so many other viral memes do. Now a teenager, Sam is a budding artist. -via the A.V. Club

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