Feine13 t1_j9wp9nh wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:32 AM

Reply to comment by MasterLapp 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

Louse is the singular noun for lice, it was a pun, and an excellent one at that

ZhouDa t1_j9wp40v wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:31 AM

Reply to comment by Due_Platypus_3913 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 we were still in Africa at that time it wouldn't have been that difficult, especially if we had more hair/fur than we do now. I think only South Africa had glaciated during the last ice age.

MasterLapp t1_j9wouov wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:29 AM

Reply to comment by Stachemaster86 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 was your joke?

Edit: oh shiiit I see it now, I'm way too high, thanks.

[deleted] t1_j9wobps wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:25 AM

Reply to comment by Akiasakias 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

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Phoenix916 t1_j9wo51t wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:23 AM

Reply to comment by FlacidHangDown 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

Back in your day it was so much easier to find a nice hairy home of your own and raise a pubic lice family.

uncredible_source t1_j9wo3xi wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:23 AM

Reply to comment by HeartCrafty2961 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

Sashkachuan! Can’t spell it, don’t want to live there. FWIW lots of people enjoy winter as much or more than they do summer.

OrdinaryUniversity59 t1_j9wo10v wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:22 AM

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

Now I'm itchy...

CDinDC t1_j9wnhtb wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:18 AM

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

Iceland also needs this app because their surname system doesn’t make it clear who might be a cousin. If I meet someone with my great-grandmother’s maiden name as a last name, I know to avoid mating with them.

In Iceland, surnames are just your fathers first name + dóttir or son. It can be a lot less clear that you might be genetically connected to a hook up.

StudentMed t1_j9wnci3 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:17 AM

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

New York City is more southern than Istanbul Turkey.

dariamorgandorfferr t1_j9wn4s1 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:15 AM

Reply to comment by LorenzoStomp 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 think about this a lot especially with bed bugs. They're an interesting example in ecology because the species of bed bugs we know of .. only parasitizes humans. Unlike mosquitoes, they play 0 role in natural ecosystems, they're fully obligate humanivores. We could fully eradicate bed bugs with no negative consequences to mother nature. Science get on this lol

[deleted] t1_j9wmwxt wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:14 AM

Reply to comment by gurndygg2 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

Thank you!

Bewaretheicespiders t1_j9wmuqr wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:13 AM

Reply to comment by OsamaBinFuckin 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

Nobody there is a lot of demand for employees in a place that combines the low salaries of Europe with the few vacation days of the US.

gurndygg2 t1_j9wmt8e wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:13 AM

Reply to comment by [deleted] 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

the lack of

j-random t1_j9wmcl9 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:09 AM

Reply to comment by timojenbin 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

Publish or perish

Due_Platypus_3913 t1_j9wlxx8 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:06 AM

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

So our ancestors survived the first ice age(or two?) with NO CLOTHES?!?Yikes!Now that’s tough!

PrailinesNDick t1_j9wloe5 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:04 AM

Reply to comment by HeartCrafty2961 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

I work outside pretty much year round. Toronto has like 2-4 weeks in the summer where it's gross to be outside, and probably 4 weeks dispersed over a 3-month period in winter where it's too cold/snowy/slushy to be outside.

Sabres00 t1_j9wlb74 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:01 AM

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

Toronto is an awesome city too.

LorenzoStomp t1_j9wktvd wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:57 AM

Reply to comment by dariamorgandorfferr 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 don't think it would even have to be for that long. Like what's a lice lifespan? A month? Everybody stays shaved for half a year just to be safe and make sure we've tracked down all the stragglers and we're done.