TIL of axanthism, a condition that makes animals that are normally green appear blue due to a lack of yellow pigment (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Photo credit: Matt Minnich...
TIL that Chironomia is the art of using gesticulations or hand gestures to good effect in traditional rhetoric or oratory. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: How António Moniz Won the Nobel Prize for the Frontal Lobotomy in 1949 (medium.com)
TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: How Opioid sales quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, with 91 Americans dying daily from opioid overdoses (medium.com)
TIL: How the IMF Debt Trapped Kenya Causing Nationwide Protests (youtu.be)
TIL: Louisiana has 5 times more Prisoners than Saudi Arabia (youtu.be)
TIL norway has a homocide map with exact locations of murders. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Link to the site...
TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to “throwing” and essentially threading a needle across the sea....
TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why. (www.smithsonianmag.com)
TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners (medium.com)
TIL: The Chicken soup for the soul publisher owns redbox (www.foxbusiness.com)
TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first elected (www.thestreet.com)
TIL from the school of OMG why didn’t I think of that
Alt milk tetra pack repurposed as drink tray.
Today I learned Choice VA was created after the 2014 VA scandel. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL That reddits "most addicted city" is eglin air force base FL (lemmy.world)
www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/s/vMRsaTdMn0
TIL that in Melbourne, a 1 : 1 000 000 000 scale model of the solar system includes a mini-Proxima-Centauri that is one-time-around-the-entire-world away at this scale. (stkildamelbourne.com.au)
From the pdf:...
TIL Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" was NOT written to wake up sleeping audience members; that was just a myth
Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the “Surprise Symphony” because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth....
TIL India had a tradition in the 1970s of making military helicopters look like animals (www.peepultree.world)
TIL The candlefish is so rich in oils that when supplied with a wick it can be burned like a candle"
www.uapress.com/product/
TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers (medium.com)
TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) (radiooooo.com)
You can choose anywhere on earth, pick a decade, and hear music from that time and place. Pretty neat.
TIL most cultures and peoples all over the world have historically had trouble recognizing the color blue (www.ancientoriginsunleashed.com)
TIL Hunter S. Thomson got an early honorable discharge from the air force in part because, "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other airmen staff members." (en.wikipedia.org)
From Wikipedia: In 1958, while he was an airman first class, his commanding officer recommended him for an early honorable discharge. “In summary, this airman, although talented, will not be guided by policy,” chief of information services Colonel William S. Evans wrote to the Eglin personnel office. “Sometimes his rebel...
