Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1306arrow-down118
arrow-up1288arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squareJojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·edit-21 month ago …invented by American thrower Bud Held and developed and manufactured by his brother Dick… Are we… are we just ignoring the fact that the guy making these was named “dick held”?
minus-squarevolvoxvsmarla @lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoI find it more impressive that someone decided to name their sons dick and butt
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoLeave Richard and Mary-Jane alone! The Held brothers don’t deserve the ridicule!
minus-squaretooclose104@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoI’m not, I’m also imagining an alternate timeline where their last name was Holder instead of Held
Are we… are we just ignoring the fact that the guy making these was named “dick held”?
I find it more impressive that someone decided to name their sons dick and butt
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Leave Richard and Mary-Jane alone! The Held brothers don’t deserve the ridicule!
I’m not, I’m also imagining an alternate timeline where their last name was Holder instead of Held