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frostanon t1_ja27wt0 wrote

Reply to comment by Nixon4Prez in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

Yeah he invented a language, but he also knew language can't exist without culture/history/mythology so he started working on that.

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ReplyFriendly8071 t1_ja278if wrote

Reply to TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

It's funny that this used to be a job a person could have. These days all the words are already in the dictionary, even the ones towards the end of the alphabet.

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I-do-the-art t1_ja26jhe wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that despite having brains the size of poppy seeds, bees are able to recognize and remember human faces. In a study, researchers paired images of human faces with sugar-laced water, and bees were able to recognize and remember the faces even when the reward was no longer present. by MaleficentTop6074

Bruh, if a bee was 30cm (12inchs) away from you face it’d be able to see freckles on your face that you can’t even see because their vision is optimized to see in the UV spectrum. Not only that but they are able to recognize more objects at once than a human can so those freckles could easily paint a unique enough picture for them to recognize it visually.

Copy/Paste from somewhere else

“The multi-faceted eyes of honeybees consist of up to 8000 individual eyes, the so-called «ommatidia». Although the bees have a large field of vision, they are short-sighted and can only see sharply in the centimeter range. A human can distinguish two points at a distance of 18 m as separated, while a bee can do this at only 30 cm. In contrast, bees have a much better temporal resolution. Bees are able to resolve up to 200 images per second, while humans can only perceive 20 images per second. This high resolution gives bees a quick reaction time and is also important for the estimation of distances (see below under orientation).”

I think you’re the one being dumb here homie

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