Recent comments in /f/todayilearned
BoxingSoup t1_j9w5o4q 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
You want us to find... Fossilized pants?
OsamaBinFuckin t1_j9w5n68 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
Sounds dumb, I think its much more logical that it started with one cover and then another to protect skin and valuable parts.
forest_cakes t1_j9w5mwe wrote
Reply to comment by Bewaretheicespiders 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
Let’s ask the ancestors why they fled yurope
gourdsworth t1_j9w52yc wrote
Reply to comment by Shank6ter in TIL about the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, where veterans of The American Civil War met, they were on average 94 years old. by VengefulMight
The trenches certainly were a "ditch effort" -- last or otherwise
locri t1_j9w4hm7 wrote
Reply to comment by fanghornegghorn 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
OP is comparing a symptom of a deliberate food desert, the bodega, with something small Australian towns did to combat the food desert... Sell canned and dried food next to a single line of refrigerators that sell milk.
prassuresh t1_j9w4g42 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
But why did he call it Hershey’s chocolate when he stuck it up his bum?
locri t1_j9w4666 wrote
Reply to comment by idiomaddict 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
Okay, but is what I described in any way similar to a bodega? To me, bodega conjures images of people proud to live somewhere that inflames poverty.
ShortOldFatGuy t1_j9w453p wrote
Reply to TIL about the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, where veterans of The American Civil War met, they were on average 94 years old. by VengefulMight
A college history professor of mine told us the most significant world aspect of the Civil War was that it was the first 'Modern War', meaning large numbers of men killed in a very short period. Many tens of thousands in hours. Comments?
locri t1_j9w3zoj wrote
Reply to comment by idiomaddict 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
You know what else is culturally important in Australia? Telling it as it is; a bodega is a sign of food desert, a milk bar is a sign you don't live in a food desert.
PerfectlyImpurrfect8 t1_j9w3ukh wrote
Reply to comment by Flaxmoore in TIL about the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, where veterans of The American Civil War met, they were on average 94 years old. by VengefulMight
Right? Just absurd. Smh.
HeartCrafty2961 t1_j9w3t73 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'm from the UK and having worked in Toronto as an expat was seriously thinking of moving the family out to Canada, because it was easy to get in, compared to other countries. But not Toronto. Too cold in winter, too humid in summer. I went to a job fair at Kempton Park racecourse in London, and BC was like, don't bother if you don't have a degree (I don't, dropped out), to Sashkachuan and Alberta who said if you can arrange a job upfront you're in. Then I took a look at the climate. Frost on the ground may recede by May. FFS, respect to you people who live there, but not for me. That's too cold for a Brit where May is blossom time.
h2opolopunk t1_j9w3s05 wrote
Reply to comment by ThomasButtz 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
>diversity
Wasn't that an old wooden ship from the Civil War era?
Hartman3216 t1_j9w3kt7 wrote
Reply to comment by Pkuszmaul 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
Sorry, butchered that write up. I didn’t believe it when I first heard that Minneapolis is north of Toronto. Turns out, it is.
PerfectlyImpurrfect8 t1_j9w3gpw wrote
Reply to TIL about the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, where veterans of The American Civil War met, they were on average 94 years old. by VengefulMight
Only Muricans call war civil.
Pkuszmaul t1_j9w3570 wrote
Reply to comment by Hartman3216 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
You mean Minneapolis is north of Toronto?
Plus-Engineering6111 t1_j9w2yr6 wrote
Reply to comment by Free-Veterinarian714 in TIL that there are more than 160 endangered languages in the United States alone. In addition to many Native American languages, Cajun French, Eastern Yiddish, and Martha's Vineyard, Hawaii, and Plains Sign Language are all endangered. by afeeney
Yeah it essentially evolved into ASL
GiantRobotTRex t1_j9w2l2q wrote
Reply to comment by humanefly 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
Her name is Pony and she was rescued from the brothel in 2003.
It's easy to look up more details about what she was forced to go through, but I'd rather share a link that instead focuses on her recovery afterward: https://www.orangutan.or.id/update-on-pony
p314159i t1_j9w2a0k 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
Jealousy over everyone thinking the same person from a limited pool is the most compatible with them seems like it would be a bigger problem than people not being able to find anyone who was compatible.
[deleted] t1_j9w253x wrote
Reply to comment by JurassicCotyledon 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
[deleted]
idiotcosmonaut t1_j9w21os 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
if there is, we haven't found it yet, because very specific conditions have to be met for clothing to survive millennia of decay and many of them are dependent on chance
p314159i t1_j9w1zuv wrote
Reply to comment by danathecount 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
It should also be noted that the reason that app exists is not that this is a problem in iceland specifically but rather than iceland is a place where the data exists specifically because extensive records of the whole population going back generations exist.
mojomonkeyfish t1_j9w1mgl wrote
Reply to comment by HeavyMetalOverbite 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
If you have a minimally functional brain, incapable of qualitative analysis then, sure. It's "just another chain of convenience stores". I mean, really, it's just a building, right? It's no different from a dense thicket or pile of sticks! Wawa is just another collection of matter.
p314159i t1_j9w1j5d 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
Inbreeding is usually only a problem when there are multi-generational instances of cousins marriages. Singular cousin marriage so long as they are not repeated tend to not result in any apparent ill effects. The entire marriage history of Iceland has been studied and while they had more than 727 (current population 300k, it was below 100k before the 1930s) and absolutely no ill effects were observed from the range of third or fourth cousins. Even if the population never changed and everyone is your fifth or sixth cousin it is not worth worrying about.
Shank6ter t1_j9w1i3v wrote
Reply to comment by CharonsLittleHelper in TIL about the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, where veterans of The American Civil War met, they were on average 94 years old. by VengefulMight
Yeah I mean they did introduce Gatling gun but it didn’t have nearly as big an impact as the ironclads and the artillery. To be fair the trenches towards the end were likely a last ditch effort to hold ground. By late 1864 it was obvious who was wining that war
NewCanadianMTurker t1_j9w5xs8 wrote
Reply to comment by BoxingSoup 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
Yes. I'd assume 'pants' back then were made of animal skin and there have been numerous animal skin fossils found around the world.