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He also bought a white horse to ride around on (during combat on the dusty brown/green plains) after its former owner had been shot out of the saddle.
The man was not as smart as many seem to think.
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The man was not as smart as many seem to think.
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He was the guy responsible for Gallipoli, after all.
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Russian hinterlands had a game where, once a year, guys from one village would heckle the guys from the neighboring one, then start beating the shit out of each other with heavy objects. Fun times were had by all.
Red Army had to stop this practice because like 1 in 3 recruits from these places were mentally retarded.
Red Army had to stop this practice because like 1 in 3 recruits from these places were mentally retarded.
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One in Three? Your stats favor the Ruskies very favorably....
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Like 1 in 3, I don't remember the exact percentage or the name of this Flintstones vs. Barneys game.
I got that info over a bottle of vodka from an old geezer who translated Russian books into Polish, liked Russians and knew a lot about them. He could be shitting me AFAIK.
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Yesterday was the internet's birthday.
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Telnet was a protocol as early as 1969, although it wasn't until later that it was called that.
RFC 15: Network subsystem for time sharing hosts
Network subsystem for time sharing hosts (RFC 15, September 1969
datatracker.ietf.org
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There's a book about the neurobiology of arachnids. Supposedly, it's a very interesting book.
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Geological fun fact
A continental divide, in the generic sense (as opposed to "the" Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains), is a ridge along which any rivers on one side flow one way and any rivers on the other side flow the other way. The reason is, simply, water cannot (over any sustained distance) flow uphlil, so the ridge that is like the local maxima of height will divide it up. Based on this you'll get watersheds. Of course within these watersheds there are smaller divides, until you get down to the level of creeks.
In America, obviously, you will see a split between that which drains into the Pacific (Rocky Mountains and various Mexican mountain ranges), that which drains into the Gulf of Mexico (the Mississippi River watershed, which is a wonder of nature, and other smaller ones), that which drains into the Atlantic (east of Appalachians), and that which drains into the Arctic (don't actually know of any specific mountain ranges, Canaidan shield? glaciers?)
There is one river, though, that cuts through the Appalachian continental divide, the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. That's interesting, as it means the river is actually older than the mountains, which are themselves the oldest mountains on Earth.
Additionally, and this is of interest given the news in A&N about Salt Lake City, there are things called endorheic basins wherever a bunch of continental divides landlock some section of land. It can't flow into the sea, so whatever water is there just stays there. Naturally these basins are mostly dry hot hellscapes (look at the map), but they often boast our large inland seas, such as the Salt Lake and the Caspian. Note, however, the existence of several endorheic basins in Canada and Minnesota.
A continental divide, in the generic sense (as opposed to "the" Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains), is a ridge along which any rivers on one side flow one way and any rivers on the other side flow the other way. The reason is, simply, water cannot (over any sustained distance) flow uphlil, so the ridge that is like the local maxima of height will divide it up. Based on this you'll get watersheds. Of course within these watersheds there are smaller divides, until you get down to the level of creeks.
In America, obviously, you will see a split between that which drains into the Pacific (Rocky Mountains and various Mexican mountain ranges), that which drains into the Gulf of Mexico (the Mississippi River watershed, which is a wonder of nature, and other smaller ones), that which drains into the Atlantic (east of Appalachians), and that which drains into the Arctic (don't actually know of any specific mountain ranges, Canaidan shield? glaciers?)
There is one river, though, that cuts through the Appalachian continental divide, the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. That's interesting, as it means the river is actually older than the mountains, which are themselves the oldest mountains on Earth.
Additionally, and this is of interest given the news in A&N about Salt Lake City, there are things called endorheic basins wherever a bunch of continental divides landlock some section of land. It can't flow into the sea, so whatever water is there just stays there. Naturally these basins are mostly dry hot hellscapes (look at the map), but they often boast our large inland seas, such as the Salt Lake and the Caspian. Note, however, the existence of several endorheic basins in Canada and Minnesota.
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Examples please! With Funner Facts!
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The book was edited by someone named Barth.
Those tiny legs on spiders are called pedipalps. Males use them to transfer semen. Into female spiders, obviously.
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goddamn that book is EXPENSIVE.
$125 for new hardcover, $131 for new paperback
first time I ever seen that price structure...
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A Russian history professor told me that Russian peasants beat each other with sticks for fun. Maybe this was what he was talking about.
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The average life expectancy of a Soviet soldier in Stalingrad was 24 hours.
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Cats can produces up to 17 joeys within its first year. It does not matter, because it is the best thing in the world in my opinion. When cat lays his eggs sometimes she can come home a long day from work to find out that they all ready to hatch, the eggs will then turn hatched. Either way, do not inject any drug into the cats.
In the case that I do not think about the cat, the joeys, or the eggs, it comes dysphoria. Please do not make it into a mole hill; rather, create a lovely nest for cat egg bushel.
• A delightful melody
• shaking cat's head for fun
• a nest friction is very interesting
• joey rising and falling in front of the cat
In the case that I do not think about the cat, the joeys, or the eggs, it comes dysphoria. Please do not make it into a mole hill; rather, create a lovely nest for cat egg bushel.
• A delightful melody
• shaking cat's head for fun
• a nest friction is very interesting
• joey rising and falling in front of the cat
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In the final days of WWI, Vorarlberg voted to secede from Austria to join Switzerland. Switzerland refused to annex them, so nothing ever came of this.
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Naked mole rats are the only mammalian superorganism ("hive" animal like bees, ants, and termites).
Those shell fossils you see, called ammonites? I thought they were just ancient snails. They're actually ARMADILLO SQUIDS.
Grafted cacti (the green cacti with colorful ball cactus on top) are not a single plant, but are created by taking a trunk cactus and a moon cactus, scraping their sides raw, and then setting them together so that they'll grow into each other like a Human Centipede. The moon cactus lives off the trunk as a parasite.
Bonsai trees are not a special tree type, they are literally just tiny trees that, like catfish, will grow to fill the size of their container. People have grown bonsai apple trees that have successfully born fruit.
Trail trees are an American Indian creation in which saplings are bent by means of ropes and other restraints to put curves in them. As the tree grows older and hardens it keeps its shape, which are used
Related, trailblazing refers to the practice of notching a "blaze" in a tree (carve off a chunk of bark, or paint over it) to mark a trail. The same term is related to the use of the word blaze to refer to a patch of differently-covered hair on a horse's head.
Those shell fossils you see, called ammonites? I thought they were just ancient snails. They're actually ARMADILLO SQUIDS.
Grafted cacti (the green cacti with colorful ball cactus on top) are not a single plant, but are created by taking a trunk cactus and a moon cactus, scraping their sides raw, and then setting them together so that they'll grow into each other like a Human Centipede. The moon cactus lives off the trunk as a parasite.
Bonsai trees are not a special tree type, they are literally just tiny trees that, like catfish, will grow to fill the size of their container. People have grown bonsai apple trees that have successfully born fruit.
Trail trees are an American Indian creation in which saplings are bent by means of ropes and other restraints to put curves in them. As the tree grows older and hardens it keeps its shape, which are used
Related, trailblazing refers to the practice of notching a "blaze" in a tree (carve off a chunk of bark, or paint over it) to mark a trail. The same term is related to the use of the word blaze to refer to a patch of differently-covered hair on a horse's head.
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I've mentioned before that ants ranch aphids for their sugary excretion like humans ranch cattle for milk.
It turns out that's just the start of it, because ants have also been known to selectively cull aphids for meat, killing them but not at an unsustainable rate.
There is also a certain species of beetle (this comes from "Intxociation: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances") that a species of ant will ranch to sup from its excretions, too, but these excretions produce a profound intoxication in the ant. The presence of the beetles, whose practical use is unknown, often results in widespread addiction among ants that do nothing but attend the beetles. When the anthill comes under threat, the ants will evacuate the beetle larvae before their own larvae.
In general, animals demonstrate a strong drive to consume intoxicants and hallucinogens and suffer the same dependence behaviors as humans from them, except even harsher given a lack of ability to understand their situation.
Ants and bees both have a profound sense of sanitation that emerged from the needs of a social animal subject to epidemic disease just like humans are (and unlike humans, their sense is innate). They form sanitation details, have naturally-produced disinfectants. Bees form trash heaps outside of their hives; ants have special graveyards in which they lay their dead to rest.
Sometimes you will see massive piles of what looks like tiny white rice around anthills. As I gather, there are multiple reasons why those can appear, but in general they are mass graves of larvae found in the aftermath of a plague or conquest.
Not all bees are social. Carpenter bees in particular are solitary animals.
It turns out that's just the start of it, because ants have also been known to selectively cull aphids for meat, killing them but not at an unsustainable rate.
There is also a certain species of beetle (this comes from "Intxociation: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances") that a species of ant will ranch to sup from its excretions, too, but these excretions produce a profound intoxication in the ant. The presence of the beetles, whose practical use is unknown, often results in widespread addiction among ants that do nothing but attend the beetles. When the anthill comes under threat, the ants will evacuate the beetle larvae before their own larvae.
In general, animals demonstrate a strong drive to consume intoxicants and hallucinogens and suffer the same dependence behaviors as humans from them, except even harsher given a lack of ability to understand their situation.
Ants and bees both have a profound sense of sanitation that emerged from the needs of a social animal subject to epidemic disease just like humans are (and unlike humans, their sense is innate). They form sanitation details, have naturally-produced disinfectants. Bees form trash heaps outside of their hives; ants have special graveyards in which they lay their dead to rest.
Sometimes you will see massive piles of what looks like tiny white rice around anthills. As I gather, there are multiple reasons why those can appear, but in general they are mass graves of larvae found in the aftermath of a plague or conquest.
Not all bees are social. Carpenter bees in particular are solitary animals.
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I love these things. Easily the coolest ancient cephalopods.