TIL some species of ants farm aphids like we do cows (www.mcgill.ca)
Link: www.westcoastseeds.com/…/do-ants-farm-aphids....
TIL: There is a community on Lemmy where people share Weird and Oddly Specific (music) Playlists (lemmy.world)
TIL ants that farm aphids influence the aphids’ genes in a similar way that we do with cows. Aphid-farming ants prefer and select for red/green polymorphism. (www.nature.com)
From the article:...
TIL the word "vamoose" is an Americanization of the Spanish word "vamos" for "let's go".
Obligatory vamoose you little varmint.
TIL about this tool, the *Reinigungsschaber* ! (lemmy.world)
I had lost hope with my electric cooking plates. The white circles where completely hidden under a layer of diamond-grade burn residue that no amount of scrubbing with chemicals could even begin to remove. I found this 3€ scrapping tool and it’s amazing !!! Sorry, but I don’t have the before picture, believe me after 6...
TIL: "Don't mess with Texas" started as an anti litter slogan (www.youtube.com)
Seems wild that a now beloved phrase, started as a government slogan to get people to stop throwing trash on the road.
TIL about Halal Ribfest (barbecue/food that's permitted by a Muslim diet) and they go on tour. (www.halalribfest.com)
TIL that the judge in the Carroll rape case clarified that Trump did rape Jean Carroll (www.washingtonpost.com)
All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.
TIL - J and J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder and failed to disclose it to regulators or the public. (www.reuters.com)
TIL fermilab had a ferret to find obstructions in their particle accelerator in the 1960s (news.fnal.gov)
TIL Stonehenge has been 'restored' at least 3 times, and may not be in it's original position due to stone removal and replacement. (odysee.com)
Found as one of the top recommended videos on Odyssey.com
TIL - Pandanus tectorius, also known as Hala fruit, has segmented, large fruits with a diameter of 4–20 cm and a length of 8–30 cm. The fruits are made up of 38–200 wedge-like keys (phalanges) (midi.moe)
TIL the only guy in ZZ Top without a giant beard is named Frank Beard. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL not to microwave pancakes for 2 minutes
I learned this morning that if you microwave frozen pancakes for 2 minutes you’ll have to throw the plastic plate out
TIL in May 1864 the first record of electronic spam was sent by a dentist in London (lemmy.world)
TIL Some horses can grow a moustache (lemmy.ca)
Link with more horsestaches.
TIL Boeing, NASA, and United Airlines test sustainable aviation fuel (innovationorigins.com)
TIL about Wirtz pumps. Put a hose in a vertical spiral and spin it in a body of water and it'll pump water through the hose with way more pressure than you would think. (www.youtube.com)
TIL The Goodhart's Law: Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.
Here is the Wikipedia link.
The music usage "album" refers to the original practice of creating an album book of several 78s bound as separate pages, like a stamp or photo album. (lemmy.world)
www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/…/d3579rg/
TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop (e360.yale.edu)
TIL about Hector the Convector a thunderstorm and cloud system that forms nearly every afternoon from September to March in the Northern Territory of Australia (en.wikipedia.org)
Named by pilots during the Second World War, the recurring position of the thunderstorm made it a navigational beacon for pilots and mariners in the region. A mesoscale phenomenon, Hector is caused primarily by a collision of several sea breeze boundaries across the Tiwi Islands and is known for its consistency and intensity....
Great story about a small Danish town that helped rescue Jews during World War Two (www.bbc.com)
TIL that the only part of the UK that officially speaks English is Northern Ireland. (populationdata.org.uk)
Surprisingly, there is no law declaring English the official language of the UK....
TIL - After World War II, thousands of Nazis fled to South America along so-called ratlines — often with the help of Catholic clergy (www.dw.com)
