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NewCanadianMTurker t1_j9v61n0 wrote
Reply to comment by dmart444 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
Good point. It would be better to ask a prehistorian. Or maybe even an archeologist.
dmart444 t1_j9v5thl wrote
Reply to comment by NewCanadianMTurker in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
what do you think "prehistoric" means?
RainManToothpicks OP t1_j9v56ei wrote
Reply to comment by Flemtality in TIL certain moths have developed sound absorbing wings that make it harder for bats to hunt and eat them with their echolocation. The structure of the moth wings might someday help people soundproof places by RainManToothpicks
"Places" that are "loud" lol, movie theaters, recording studios, nightclubs etc spend quite a bit on sound proofing, most of it's bulky & super expensive
NewCanadianMTurker t1_j9v4yuk wrote
Reply to TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
"between 83k and 170k years ago" isn't very specific.
Also, this seems like a question that can be better answered by historians than by scientists.
SocksOnHands t1_j9v4j6m wrote
Reply to comment by daisy0723 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
I guess when you are studying lice, it's a good time to lose your body hair. Those things are gross. (Wording)
Roadkill997 t1_j9v466i wrote
Reply to comment by CrystalBeachDrama in TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life. by w0mpum
TIL ...
Royal-Doggie t1_j9v3edb wrote
Reply to TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
and since then it went downhill
CrystalBeachDrama t1_j9v3e3q wrote
Reply to comment by Roadkill997 in TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life. by w0mpum
Smallpox vaccine need boosters, it loses effectiveness after 3-5 years.
[deleted] t1_j9v2x0n wrote
Fetlocks_Glistening t1_j9v2w04 wrote
Reply to TIL That Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is not only south of London, Paris, and Berlin, but also south of Milan, Italy. by scorr204
Last time I looked, it was West
godamen t1_j9v2mls wrote
DAHFreedom t1_j9v2kg6 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that the reason Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it 'macaroni' was because at one time macaroni was slang for something very fashionable or trendy by elephantsgraveyard
The original Dark Brandon
disneyvacafacts t1_j9v1hzl wrote
Reply to comment by jxj24 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
Nice n' precise
daisy0723 t1_j9v155c wrote
Reply to comment by pete1901 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
That's wonderful.
pete1901 t1_j9v12i0 wrote
Reply to comment by daisy0723 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
Due to modern pubic hair trends, pubic lice are becoming far less numerous too.
stainedglasseye t1_j9v0txu wrote
Reply to comment by bees422 in TIL that in 1846 Christian Friedrich Schönbein discovered a formula for nitrocellulose when working in his kitchen. He spilled nitric acid and sulfuric acid on the kitchen table, wiped it up with a cotton apron, then hung it on the stove door to dry. As soon as it was dry, the apron ignited. by Do_Not_Go_In_There
That’s right! Lacquers and what not.
daisy0723 t1_j9v0rwn wrote
Reply to TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
They can also determine when we lost our body hair by studying the differences between head lice, body lice and genital lice. I watched a documentary about it years ago.
jxj24 t1_j9v0psn wrote
Roadkill997 t1_j9v0oe3 wrote
Reply to TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life. by w0mpum
She should have had the chance to be vaccinated as a child (routine vaccination against smallpox stopped in the UK in 1971). I guess her parents never got her the jab?
Pkuszmaul t1_j9v0371 wrote
Reply to TIL That Toronto, the largest city in Canada, is not only south of London, Paris, and Berlin, but also south of Milan, Italy. by scorr204
I used to blow people's mind when I told them I lived north of the majority of Canada's population when I lived in Northern Wisconsin.
Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and all their suburbs are south.
[deleted] t1_j9v01hd wrote
greenappletree t1_j9uzx3b wrote
Reply to TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
TIL there is a difference in lice, yikes. But wow that is a loooong time
zomebieclownfish t1_j9uzrfp wrote
Reply to comment by NewCanadianMTurker in TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s by emily_9511
In my experience with mating, a plethora of alcohol can bring the risk of not finding a match to nearly zero.
Adrian_Alucard t1_j9v6dt1 wrote
Reply to comment by godamen in TIL the way NYC has bodegas, Australia has milk bars. Modeled initially on American soda fountains, they’ve been on the decline since the 70s due to competition from supermarkets by idiomaddict
Spanish bodegas are better
https://d35hsl9am8s2ta.cloudfront.net/public/images/2019/04/bodega-ruta-del-vino.jpg
https://www.luciavigilarquitectos.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/bodegas.jpg
(In Spanish a bodega is a place where you store and produce wine)