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GlopticalIllusion t1_j6k9h2v wrote

Reply to TIL about Kwihnai Tosabitʉ or "White Eagle," a Medicine Man and messiah of the Comanche Native American tribe. Uniting all of the Comanche people and several other groups, he led them to an immediate defeat and was renamed Isatai'i "Wolf's Vulva." by marmorset

Is this the same White Eagle the White Eagle Lodge was named after, or just a coincidence? I've had a run-in with the White Eagle Lodge and the name made me do a double take

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Redpandaling t1_j6k947w wrote

Reply to comment by Budget_Bathroom_1056 in TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. by awawe

Probably not. At best, you get hormones passed from the baby through the mom and then to the other baby, but that blood travels a very significant distance between the two babies, which should substantially dilute the hormones.

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Axolotlist t1_j6k6jaa wrote

Reply to TIL that St. John's University's sports teams formerly being called the Redmen actually referred to the team wearing red uniforms and not Native Americans as often interpreted. Regardless, the mascot name was changed to the Red Storm in the 90s. by J_S_M_K

Here's a good one for you. In 1998, the Alberta government changed the name of one of the Rocky Mountains from "Chinaman's Peak" to "Ha Ling Peak", because it was deemed to be offensive. Ha Ling was a Chinese railway labourer who did two things: he scaled the mountain in 1896 to win a bet, and to honour his fellow Chinese railway workers, he named it Chinaman's Peak.

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Nadaesque t1_j6k58b1 wrote

Reply to TIL of Sloth Moths, unique species of moths that live exclusively in the fur of Sloths. They feed off algae on the sloths fur and secretions from the sloths skin, and even use sloth dung as a part of their reproductive process. by cjm81499

SLOTHS: You know what, I am gonna head down this evolutionary dead end by eating these plants nobody likes. Sure, we have no real future but at least there's not a lot of competition.

SLOTH MOTHS: Oh cool, mind if we come with?

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indr4neel t1_j6k40re wrote

Reply to comment by UnknownQTY in TIL American WW2 airplanes were sent to war unpainted starting in 1943. The polished surface made the planes faster and lighter, giving more range to all planes and more cargo hold for the bombers by PatmygroinB

Mm, technically. Interceptor aircraft couldn't reach them because there weren't any interceptor aircraft by late war. The 1941 A6M2b Type 0 Model 21 (the most produced variant) actually had a higher service ceiling than the (admittedly not model-specific) stats Wikipedia gives for the B-29, at 33,000 vs 30,000 feet. "So high interceptors can't reach them" has historically been a pretty washed defense mechanism outside of stuff that's high and fast like the Blackbird.

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NoBSforGma t1_j6k1kxd wrote

Reply to comment by MikiLove in TIL of Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and congressman during the Civil War. The Union deported him for supporting the Confederacy. After the war, he died by accidentally shooting himself during a murder trial while trying to show the murder weapon could have misfired. His client got off as a result by MikiLove

I don't disagree with anything you have written - except - that "outliers among the Western world" when there were still slaves in the Caribbean islands and elsewhere in Central and South America.

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Yurekuu t1_j6k1jdr wrote

Reply to comment by Budget_Bathroom_1056 in TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. by awawe

Apparently it does affect the twin somewhat but nowhere near the amount it affects most other mammals. It might be because we take so long to develop and that sex differences aren't so huge at a younger age for humans? That's just a guess from me though.

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