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onometre t1_j9vsqpw 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
apparently they're on the rise again after a social move towards a more natural look
Cool_Shallot_2755 t1_j9vr8no wrote
Reply to 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
TIL there was someone called yankee doodle
TerribleIdea27 t1_j9vr2my 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
The reason for this wide range is the fact that you can't see in DNA how old it is, you need to combine all different kinds of data and make educated guesses. You can't just say there's x mutations so there's y times x years divergence between these two lines
morsodo99 t1_j9vqheb wrote
Reply to 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
The Outer Banks of North Carolina have a similar accent called the “Hoi-Toider”. Talk to an old timer there and it’s this weird half Scottish accent.
kiwi_8 t1_j9vq948 wrote
Reply to 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
Am I the only one who didn’t know Yankee Doodle was a real person?
HypocriticalGinger t1_j9vpfmi wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in 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
-27°C with a wind chill of -35°C in Edmonton right now.
Stachemaster86 t1_j9volee 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
Way better than my lousey joke.
scorr204 OP t1_j9vodyx wrote
Reply to comment by Norwester77 in 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
And Portland...
Norwester77 t1_j9voasc 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
It’s also south of Seattle.
benefit_of_mrkite t1_j9vo11m wrote
BrotherGreed t1_j9vnfnt 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 clothing lice is a thing
BrokenEye3 t1_j9vmol7 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
Read that in Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice
BrokenEye3 t1_j9vmi7w wrote
Reply to comment by Royal-Doggie 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
Creating the universe was the first mistake
BrokenEye3 t1_j9vmewu 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
There are clothing lice?
scorr204 OP t1_j9vmd0w wrote
Reply to comment by MrJigglyBrown in 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
Based on the downvotes it seems like people dont like the fact that Scandanavia is far north.....weird lol.
OutdatedElements t1_j9vmcju wrote
Reply to comment by cwood1973 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
Silly question, but wouldn’t gorilla’s be far to dangerous and unpredictable to try to breed with?
MrJigglyBrown t1_j9vm41e wrote
Reply to comment by scorr204 in 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
No please continue
Godtiermasturbator t1_j9vlrhb 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
Won’t someone think of the pubic lice?
[deleted] t1_j9vlfy4 wrote
Reply to comment by blackcatkarma in TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis. by NYstate
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myfuntimes t1_j9vlevo 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
I’ve been to the island. Yes, inbreeding is a problem there. There’s actually some disease or something named after the island.
A lot of the tomb, stones on the island have the same two or three last names.
Also, they really aren’t super isolated.
DrunkOnShoePolish t1_j9vl7wz wrote
Reply to comment by AspiringSkrimper in 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
Considering Toronto is south of a good chunk of US states it applies to this quite well
dyskinet1c t1_j9vkhrv wrote
Reply to comment by Throwaway7219017 in 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
That's Reykjavík, Iceland.
AspiringSkrimper t1_j9vkew1 wrote
Reply to comment by Mammoth-Mud-9609 in 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
Ok, yes...but this is interesting because it's about Canada.
Real_Jackraps t1_j9vt52c wrote
Reply to comment by OutdatedElements 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
Your grandma was a nice lady. Don't put that on her.