TIL

[faftorial]

Foo Fighters coming up, I'm out.

[RonnieFranchise]

Where Cyndi Lauper at?

[blackjack68]

Foo Fighters coming up, I'm out.

Yeah, cause they’re the worst thing on there.

[shafnutz05]

TIL about "Inland North American English" or the Great Lakes dialect. Featured in the "Da Bears" skits from SNL back in the day,

Interesting that it has spread to Allentown, Scranton, and parts of North Jersey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_No ... an_English

[Gaucho]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

[shafnutz05]

TIL there is a word for this kind of stunted tree/shrub growth due to cold temps and high winds. Krummholz. @Gaucho

[robbiestoupe]

Looks to be around a lot of chaparral, which is a word I learned reading a lot of John Muir books.

[Gaucho]

Huh, why not call it crooked wood?

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

right now I just learned "krummholz" literally means crooked wood

I got some krummholz in my pants

[Ad@m]

right now I just learned "krummholz" literally means crooked wood

I got some krummholz in my pants

Til you have Peyronie's disease

[Gaucho]

TIL

[AuthorTony]

TIL Sportage is pronounced so that it rhymes with Taj (as in Taj Mahal) everywhere aside from the US.

[robbiestoupe]

That’s funny bc my wife and I pronounce it that way all the time as a quasi joke. We assume it’s pronounced that way, but Americans pronounce it backward

Comes from our adventures of portaging up in Canada with a Canadian friend. He pronounced it the non-American way so we just adopted it.

[RonnieFranchise]

At the end of this year America will be down to just 6 K-Marts. 20 years ago there were 2100.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/kmart-cl ... 5fb0e.html

Frankly thinking back to 20 years ago when I'd walk into that mystery Super K Mart on the hill in Robinson and be one of maybe a dozen people ever in there, I'm surprised they've lasted this long.

[Gaucho]

t-rex lived closer to our time than that of stegosaurus

[Gaucho]

Abraham Lincoln died in 1865. Japan didn't abolish Samurais until 1868. The fax machine was invented in 1843. There was a 22-year window in which a samurai could have faxed Lincoln.

[shafnutz05]

t-rex lived closer to our time than that of stegosaurus

This is one that always gets me. The Age of Reptiles/Mesozoic was looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

migratory birds sleep while flying with only half of their brain sleeping at a time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemisp ... wave_sleep

[mikey]

I feel like dolphins or someone in the sea does this too...

[faftorial]

For other computer nerds TIL:

Flip Wilson popularized the phrase "The devil made me do it." The catchphrase "What you see is what you get," often used by Wilson's Geraldine character, inspired researchers at PARC (and elsewhere) to create the acronym WYSIWYG for computer software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Wilson

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

my Veggie Straws post got me curious as to how we can calculate the amount and types of macronutrients in food

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/k ... -item.html

dietary fiber, for example

Dietary Fiber is measured using the enzymatic-gravimetric method. After preparing the food sample, it is treated with enzymes that mimic the digestive process in the human small intestine. Digested nutrients are removed from the sample using precipitation and filtration. Whatever remains is dietary fiber, proteins, and some other inorganic material. The remaining sample is weighed and the number of proteins and inorganic stuff (measured beforehand using analytical methods) are subtracted from it. The final number represents the amount of dietary fiber in the food.

[dodint]

Neat.

[Gaucho]

Barbara Anne Marie Wellhöner Jakobs was born in Bielefeld, Germany on January 10, 1951.[1] Aged 17, she met the 32-year-old Orbison when he asked friends to introduce him to her at Batley Variety Club, West Yorkshire, England, during Orbison's UK tour. (...) Barbara and Orbison married on March 25, 1969, in Hendersonville, Tennessee.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Orbison

Her mother went to school with the mother of a friend of mine. Small world.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting#As_food

French people eat Ortolan birds whole while covering their heads in a towel

The birds are caught with nets set during their autumn migratory flight to Africa. They are then kept in covered cages or boxes. The birds react to the dark by gorging themselves on grain, usually millet seed, until they double their bulk. The birds are then thrown into a container of Armagnac, which both drowns and marinates the birds.[13][14]

The bird is roasted for eight minutes and then plucked. The consumer then places the bird feet first into their mouth while holding onto the bird's head. The ortolan is then eaten whole, with or without the head, and the consumer spits out the larger bones. The traditional way French gourmands eat ortolans is to cover their heads and face with a large napkin or towel while consuming the bird. The purpose of the towel is debated. Some claim it is to retain the maximum aroma with the flavour as they consume the entire bird at once, others have stated "Tradition dictates that this is to shield – from God’s eyes – the shame of such a decadent and disgraceful act",[13] and others have suggested the towel simply hides the consumers spitting out bones.[15] This use of the towel was begun by a priest, a friend of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.[16]

[dodint]

Is this the thing from Billions?