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purana t1_j6gbwn7 wrote
Reply to TIL that sperm whales are the loudest animal on Earth, and their clicks can literally kill you with sound by g1ucose
So they're basically Thunderdrums
OskaMeijer t1_j6gbitv wrote
Reply to comment by murderouscow101 in TIL redwood trees -- growing to heights of 350 feet or more (over 100 meters) -- have roots that go only about ten feet into the ground. by OccludedFug
I am not sure about that but it is 1.3 football fields by 1.3 football fields by 2 hummer driver's penises.
IronTemplar26 t1_j6gbijg wrote
Reply to comment by Gunner1Cav in TIL Slow Loris’ have a venomous bite that causes necrosis (flesh rotting) by samsg1
Oddly enough, Grafaiai from Scarlet & Violet is partly based on this
masterofn0n3 t1_j6gbfze wrote
Reply to TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
Til the term cloud cookoo land was a thing apparently.
rolloutTheTrash t1_j6gbds2 wrote
Reply to TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
TIL about the term “cloud cuckoo land”
_SinMan_ t1_j6gb8vh wrote
Reply to comment by grafxguy1 in TIL that sperm whales are the loudest animal on Earth, and their clicks can literally kill you with sound by g1ucose
Whale... fish...whatever
GetsGold t1_j6gb89y wrote
Reply to comment by sineroth745756 in TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
The paradox doesn't depend on continuously zooming, the problem is that the length changes depending on the accuracy of your measurement or how much you zoom. So you could choose a string, and choose how sharply to bend that string around the border, but that's arbitrary. Why not a thinner string with a smaller scale of tracing, or a thicker rope with less sharp tracing?
TonyWhoop t1_j6gazrc wrote
Reply to comment by DefiantStomp in TIL that sperm whales are the loudest animal on Earth, and their clicks can literally kill you with sound by g1ucose
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Chabubu t1_j6gaweb wrote
Reply to comment by murderouscow101 in TIL redwood trees -- growing to heights of 350 feet or more (over 100 meters) -- have roots that go only about ten feet into the ground. by OccludedFug
And also in ornamental gourdes for the vegetarians
dvdmaven t1_j6gaj3z wrote
Reply to TIL redwood trees -- growing to heights of 350 feet or more (over 100 meters) -- have roots that go only about ten feet into the ground. by OccludedFug
Because of the shallow roots, some redwoods have been killed by people compacting the soil around them. Redwoods can grow in areas where there isn't much rain but lots of fog. The branches and needles condense the fog and it drips down around the tree. The wide, shallow roots absorb enough to keep the trees healthy.
kgunnar t1_j6ga9ok wrote
Reply to comment by avfc41 in TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
You’re correct, whoops.
Danhuangmao t1_j6ga0sa wrote
Reply to TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
Am in my mid-30s, British, have heard this phrase a lot.
Malkyre t1_j6g9yir wrote
Reply to TIL that Manhattanhenge is an event when the sunrise and sunset aligns with the east-west main street grid in Manhattan, NYC by pagersky
How else do you expect Nicholas Cage to find Martin Van Buren's buried bureau?
Danhuangmao t1_j6g9xyw wrote
Reply to comment by Hexidian in TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
Nah, it come up every now and again like "cloud 9" or "timbuktu" or whatnot. Just an idiomatic expression.
AnswerGuy301 t1_j6g9q1t wrote
Reply to comment by elle_quay in TIL that in 1981, Congress voted to declare the Maryland 5th district congressional seat vacant after the incumbent, Gladys Spellman, was rendered permanently comatose by a severe heart attack. by RexSueciae
Yeah. He filled the seat and is still holding it to this day. (Although the district looks different now. Hoyer and Spellman’s home base from back then are now in a different district.)
GrandaughterClock t1_j6g9kyf wrote
Obi_Uno t1_j6g9c3b wrote
Reply to TIL there are three species of elephants, not two. African elephants are broken up into 2 species, Forest and Bush. by lightsdevil
Somebody just listen to Stuff You Should Know?
RadarOReillyy t1_j6g8zu0 wrote
Reply to comment by HalfAnP in TIL that sperm whales are the loudest animal on Earth, and their clicks can literally kill you with sound by g1ucose
Yeah when I read that I had a visual that did NOT include any whales.
Whiskeywiskerbiscuit t1_j6g8t1p wrote
Reply to comment by TheFirstSophian in TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
Or played banjo-tooie.
Edit: who downvoted Banjo-Tooie? The psychopaths
weirdkid71 t1_j6g8os3 wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
This is from 2012. I tried searching on EyeSee Mannequin and I found a bunch of news articles also from 2012, but nothing much since. I did find one article in 2015 about how they were incorporating speech recognition to determine if nearby customers are talking about what is on the mannequin.
So, either the tech was so expensive and unreliable that the company Almax went under and nobody else bothered going down this path, OR it was wildly successful and the tech has "gone dark" somehow. Though the real answer is probably somewhere between store owners found a cheaper way to do this by upgrading existing camera equipment, or because "malls are dying" nobody gave a crap anymore.
FWIW, back in the early 2010's there was a lot of talk of stores spying on you, using your phone's bluetooth or wifi radio to track your movements, too. But then Apple decided to randomize your phones wifi MAC address when searching for access points, kinda killing that idea.
muchadoaboutnotmuch t1_j6g8i1t wrote
HazelFrederick t1_j6g8hw1 wrote
Reply to comment by rawrc in TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
EVERYTHING IS COOL WHEN YOU’RE PART OF A TEAM
ZweitenMal t1_j6g8hfm wrote
Reply to TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
Or listened to the Lightning Seeds in the late 80s.
So_spoke_the_wizard t1_j6gcdzk wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
Kim Cattrall is not impressed.