HylicManoeuvre

There is a superstition that "a woman born in the year of the fire horse has a strong temperament, shortens her husband's life and bring ruin to their families and maybe even kill their husbands." It is said that the superstition in the early Edo period that "there are many fires in the year of the fire horse", changed to a superstition about women's marriage because Yaoya Oshichi was believed to have been born during the fire horse.

lol

More shockingly, three Indian researchers published a research paper that cited the preprint on the fake disease in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer. It was subsequently retracted.

lol

I see what you did there

TIL people used to think that dinosaurs had a 2nd brain

Thanks for reminding me lol

And I thinks that's still possible until September or so

I wonder how come, since C4 plants, such as corn, have high water-use efficiency

I love how length and time are unfathomably small to even conceptualize, then energy is just like car

Reminds me of this old 4chan greentext

Invoking snail biology is still a non-sequitur, regardless of the actual truth value of the initial statement

"sexual identities" lmao way to anthropomorphize freaking mushrooms 🤣

They're called mating types and are not at all comparable to the aforementioned, entirely human, concept

Ceci n'est pas une figue.

Lmaooo wasn't me, or rather, seems to have been automatic

I've now removed the flag

I never actually read it as a dig at "elderly" scientists but I think you're right haha

Tbf I think it's supposed to be understood more conceptually as seeing how many things we take for granted as being outside the realms of possibility have just not yet been tackled the right way.

No worries Yeah, sounded like a mixture of abstruse and obtuse 😂

They're using walking (region alpha) vs biking (region beta) region as an analogy: "paradoxically" you'll reach some further distances earlier, based on your choice of mode of transport. Which wouldn't work in my case cause I'll take the bike to the grocery store down the street. At any rate, your "choice" of defense mechanism influences your rate of recovery, is what they're trying to say

Damn, will I have to make another post?!

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TIL “ROOTS66,” a Japanese music festival open exclusively to musicians born in 1966—a year considered an “unlucky year”

Dumbass

how things become science

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Today I learned that dinosaur secondary brains are not actually a thing

How many do you have atm?

TIL: How the CIA Used Jazz Diplomacy to Cover Cold War Assassinations from Lumumba to Allende

I LIKE CORN!

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For reference

TIL domesticated pigeons (Columba livia domestica) are descendants of the rock dove (Columba livia)

TIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippines

TIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippines

TIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

TIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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TIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones

TIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones

TIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushing

TIL about silbo gomero, the "Gomeran whistle" historically used on the Canarian island of Gomera to communicate over large distances

TIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushing

TIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligrade

TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins

TIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US state

TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

TIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinct

TIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized iron

TIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&white

TIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"