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bparry1192 t1_j8ury2b wrote

Reply to comment by ComprehensiveFlan638 in TIL cashews are actually seeds that grow hanging beneath cashew apples, which are pear-shaped edible fruits that belong to the cashew tree by Arena-1

For me it's the relatively complex to make foods like cheese, wine, soy sauce etc.....like how the fuck did peeps invent these 17 step processes to make food, while their 11 children all have some disease that could be solved by hand washing

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TomieTomyTomi t1_j8umi9t wrote

Reply to comment by myeff in TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow

One of my favorite things, look forward to every year! Some really impressive awful stuff

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DarkNinjaPenguin t1_j8ugxup wrote

Reply to TIL Gross Tonnage is Measure of a Ship’s Internal Space, Not its Weight. by theAusterityClinic

This is one of the reasons Titanic was classed as the biggest ship ever built at the time, despite being exactly the same length, breath and height as her older sister Olympic. Some open promenade decks on Olympic were covered over on Titanic, making them count as internal space, increasing her volume and her GRT (Gross Register Tonnage). But the ships were the same size, and both displaced approximately 52,000 tonnes.

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jh937hfiu3hrhv9 t1_j8udvl4 wrote

Reply to TIL Gross Tonnage is Measure of a Ship’s Internal Space, Not its Weight. by theAusterityClinic

The ton is derived from the tun, the term applied to a cask of the largest capacity. This could contain a volume between 175 and 213 imperial gallons, which could weigh around 2,000 pounds and occupy some 60 cubic feet of space.

The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey. It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes were also used.

Edit: Copied from wikipedia.

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