HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL domesticated pigeons (Columba livia domestica)are descendants of the rock dove (Columba livia)plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-linkTIL domesticated pigeons (Columba livia domestica)are descendants of the rock dove (Columba livia)plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square2fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 days agoTIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippinesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippinesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoTIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoTIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing onesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing onesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoTIL about silbo gomero, the "Gomeran whistle" historically used on the Canarian island of Gomera to communicate over large distancesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about silbo gomero, the "Gomeran whistle" historically used on the Canarian island of Gomera to communicate over large distancesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoTIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushingplus-squareuserweb.ucs.louisiana.eduexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushingplus-squareuserweb.ucs.louisiana.eduHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square1fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoTIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligradeplus-squarevanat.ahc.umn.eduexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligradeplus-squarevanat.ahc.umn.eduHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 days agoTIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershinsplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershinsplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 days agoTIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US stateplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US stateplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoTIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoTIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinctplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinctplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-217 days agoTIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized ironplus-squarewww.wordorigins.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized ironplus-squarewww.wordorigins.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-217 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoTIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&whiteplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&whiteplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoTIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square0fedilink
