Learn something new every day

‘Anagram cat’ is an anagram of Magna Carta

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Electric eels are not actually eels at all. They are a species of knifefish.

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Today I learnt that legislation to protect historic buildings began in Ireland before it did in England.

My thesis puts Sunday mornings on a razor edge of excitement.

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Im frickin starving.

An infant’s grip is so strong that it can support his own weight. The reflex is known as the “palmar grasp”.

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Censored the boys but not the woman?

I am learning Irish at around the rate of one word per month. (Most of the intervening time is spent working out how to pronounce it).

Did you know that there is such thing as Facebook flavored ice cream? It’s​ only available in Croatia if I remember correctly.

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I learned lately that solar systems with a single star/sun are a minority in our universe. Most systems appearently have 2 suns (one sooner or later dies) and there are even 8-sun-systems in neighbour galaxies.

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I was reading speculation that all systems have 2 Suns at the start, with 1 being ejected or consumed early on (relatively).

What I found funny was that they named our hypothetical 2nd Sun, Nemisis, or a name similar to that. As if our Sun was the inherently good Sun, well maybe our Sun shanked ‘Nemisis’ in a alley and stole his gig

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Everything you ever wanted to know about butterfly sex but were afraid to ask

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Also, my post has been posted post-…um…post:
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…Duh.

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11-SEP-92…:

people with kinds of dyschromatopsia (you have problems distinguish red and green tones) possesses often a better scotopic vision because their eyes (yes, the brain in fact) learning to focus more on shapes instead of colours over time.

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I’m not allowed to donate blood in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, or Germany because of ongoing restrictions about mad cow disease.

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TIL in 2017 a bill passed through the senate to make bestiality a federal crime. It has yet to pass the house, leaving this call up to state and local governments. Bestiality is legal in 9 states.

And now because I know this you have to know it too because nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

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Got a list of those juristictions?

So I uh, know where not to go

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I intentionally did not look it up because I’m at work and I want a surprise when internet outrage hits and people scramble to fix it when a case doesn’t get prosecuted.

… but Florida, probably.

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