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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 1, 2022 10:18:16 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 14, 2022 21:13:09 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 21, 2022 8:20:38 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 24, 2022 23:11:43 GMT 5
TIL that one advantages horses have over some other ungulate livestock is that in winter, they'll dig through the snow and ice to get food underneath. Sheep and goats apparently dig with their noses, bloody their noses, stop digging, and then die. Cattle don't even dig through the snow through any means, and must be fed throughout the winter. Also, as hindgut fermenters, horses end up having a lot of mass (from their intestines and cecum) in the back part of their digestive system that must be held up by a reinforced, rigid backbone. This trait made them well suited for us humans to ride on their backs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg3lt5zYO_k&list=WL&index=8&t=568s |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 28, 2022 9:15:13 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 19, 2022 6:54:06 GMT 5
The other day I learned the American Museum of Natural History used to have a diorama where an orca bursts out of the ice and threatens a leopard seal. Doesn't exist anymore, sadly. ( link->)  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 30, 2022 2:08:02 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Apr 10, 2022 19:29:50 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Aug 9, 2022 5:41:18 GMT 5
TIL that the real name for a spoon-fork-knife combination is 'splayd'. And they actually made a combination of all three utensils on just one end instead of tools on both ends.  I used to have one of these as a kid. Apparently these are called 'sporfs'. Now I want another (though this time maybe one made of metal).  |
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Post by creature386 on Aug 10, 2022 1:46:15 GMT 5
I swear I heard of these things before, but I was still surprised by their existence when I saw this post.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Aug 10, 2022 5:39:37 GMT 5
I knew sporfs existed, having once owned one, but I had no idea splayds existed before coming across a photo of one. I didn't think it was even possible for you to combine all three functions into just one end of a utensil.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Aug 15, 2022 23:54:36 GMT 5
TIL there is a mostly herbivorous species of spider called Bagheera kiplingi. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagheera_kiplingiA herbivorous spider is literally the last thing I'd have expected to be named after Rudyard Kipling and one of his characters (a leopard). |
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Post by creature386 on Aug 18, 2022 1:46:51 GMT 5
TIL that buffaloes are the third biggest mammal livestock after cattle and pigs (apparently because the Hindu don't eat cows and India has its fair share of the global buffalo market; that's not evident from the graphic, just something I heard on Discord).
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Post by Infinity Blade on Aug 18, 2022 2:53:51 GMT 5
TIL that buffaloes are the third biggest mammal livestock after cattle and pigs (apparently because the Hindu don't eat cows and India has its fair share of the global buffalo market; that's not evident from the graphic, just something I heard on Discord). The silhouettes used in this graph seems to suggest "buffalo" refers to American bison, but your comment suggests domestic water buffalo. The latter makes more sense to me, since I don't imagine bison are anywhere near as prolific as livestock as water buffalo. Or could it be referring to both combined? Anyway, these are very interesting, but disturbing statistics. |
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Post by Supercommunist on Aug 18, 2022 7:34:50 GMT 5
^I always lol when people bend over backwards to deride human overpopulation as a myth.
Not saying that the sheer number of people alive will cause an apocalypse or anything, but there are obviously some serious negative effects of a massive human populace.
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