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crazyhadron t1_jdqgmxj wrote
Reply to TIL that the ratio of male births to female births is 51/49%, and it's thought the ratio of X and Y chromosomes in the man's sperm is most likely the cause. by iKickdaBass
Probably because rearing a male child takes way more resources than a female child, so a woman's body would generally abort a male fetus if she was starving and unable to bear the burden.
In modern times, due to access to far better nutrition, this innate adaptation has swung the other way.
Nah, I'm just talking out of my ass.
colonel_beeeees t1_jdqgl6c wrote
MSG - mono sodium glutamate - one sodium atom with a very basic amino acid, used in most proteins, and the actual savory molecule that the word umami refers to
The fear mongering was entirely racism/classism based, the stuff is nutritious unless you're just eating spoons of it
velvetashes0 t1_jdqgkg9 wrote
Reply to TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
this one tickled my funny bone
BstintheWst t1_jdqgejk wrote
Reply to TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
Are you fucking kidding me?! Those are the names? Lake Titicaca and Lake Poopo?
I know it doesn't mean the same thing in the language it's derived from but oh my god.
Admetus t1_jdqfxkm wrote
Reply to comment by nrkbarnetv in TIL Early Superman comics taught kids how to achieve super-strength through exercises in lifting armchairs, getting a super-grip, and achieving super-vision by glancing at distant and near objects repeatedly by Ok_Copy5217
That's the problem for in-city kids. They never need to look further than one block, and their infinity focus is seriously impaired.
artaig t1_jdqexuh wrote
Reply to TIL that the ratio of male births to female births is 51/49%, and it's thought the ratio of X and Y chromosomes in the man's sperm is most likely the cause. by iKickdaBass
"Most likely"? It's the male who determines whether the offspring is male or female, or are you trying to say something else?
Tutorbin76 t1_jdqexgr wrote
Reply to comment by Beheska in TIL of the Bolvano Train Disaster which claimed the lives of more than 500 people in 1944. After the train became stalled in a tunnel, the passengers and crew succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning when the locomotives attempted to continue and filled the tunnel with smoke. by MorsOmnibusCommunis
That's actually a fascinating/terrifying quirk of human physiology - unless there's CO2 present then so long as you're breathing you have no idea you're suffocating. You just start to feel a bit sleepy and uncoordinated, then doze off and never wake up.
Craw__ t1_jdqewnj wrote
Reply to TIL that Australia's longest serving aircraft carrier never fired a shot in anger during her service, but did kill over 150 Allied soldiers in two separate accidental ramming incidents by nyckidd
I used to work with someone ho was stationed on the Melbourne. This does not surprise me.
GratefulPhish42024-7 t1_jdqetpf wrote
Reply to TIL that the Eiffel Tower was due to be dismantled, in 1910, but survived as it could (and still is) used as a giant radio antenna to transmit and receive radio broadcasts. by greyhound_dreams
I knew that absolute eye sore had to be good for something
Front-Note- t1_jdqe0uo wrote
Reply to comment by Gamby227 in TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
Haha yeah you're right he did say that.
Front-Note- t1_jdqe02f wrote
Reply to TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
hehe poo
hehe tit
hehe caca
Atharaphelun t1_jdqdzvg wrote
Reply to comment by smartguy05 in TIL That the Hallway (as an architectural feature) was first recorded in 1597 by SalMinellaOnYouTube
And in other cases, all the rooms simply opened into and are arranged around a single central courtyard or covered space/atrium, thus the term courtyard house. This was especially ubiquitous in Ancient Rome and China (where the form is still used to this day, called siheyuan). In more complex forms of the courtyard house, there can be more than one courtyard/atrium around which another set of rooms open into.
nrkbarnetv t1_jdqcj6w wrote
Reply to comment by PMzyox in TIL Early Superman comics taught kids how to achieve super-strength through exercises in lifting armchairs, getting a super-grip, and achieving super-vision by glancing at distant and near objects repeatedly by Ok_Copy5217
Which does actually work.
Kids won't get x-ray vision, but the increasing need for eye-correction is due to a lack of simulation of the eye muscles.
And lifting chairs will indeed give you "super" strength. In that it'll make you stronger and more coordinated.
LittleFairyOfDeath t1_jdqc0i4 wrote
Reply to comment by jimfazio123 in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Again the spermcell provides very little. Yes 50% of genetic material but everything else, like the mitochondria is from the mother.
enigbert t1_jdqbz2p wrote
I-Nibble-Children t1_jdqbl51 wrote
Reply to comment by PettyLikeTom in TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
I see what you did there.
ElizabethHiems t1_jdqbkeg wrote
Tutorbin76 t1_jdqbglo wrote
Reply to comment by Dr_Hexagon in TIL That the Hallway (as an architectural feature) was first recorded in 1597 by SalMinellaOnYouTube
Good catch. Care to correct the Wikipedia page?
grating t1_jdqb6go wrote
Reply to comment by Bonaduce80 in TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
Carry On Bolivia
rescuedogsdad t1_jdqb2u7 wrote
Reply to TIL in 1979, in between a double-header, the White Sox exploded a crate filled with disco records to stands of over 50k disco haters. Thousands flocked to the field afterward, which became so destroyed that they forfeit the 2nd game to the Tigers - the last time in AL history. by JackMacWindowsLinux
“Disco Demolition”
mummoC t1_jdqaarl wrote
Reply to comment by AwkwardSquirtles in TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
Or the French Cajuns, caca also means shit in French.
JoLeTrembleur t1_jdq9wa7 wrote
Reply to TIL that Australia's longest serving aircraft carrier never fired a shot in anger during her service, but did kill over 150 Allied soldiers in two separate accidental ramming incidents by nyckidd
Ten years between the launching and the commissionning, that's unusual.
HansTilburg t1_jdq9u5f wrote
Reply to TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
I really wonder what you were searching for when you learned this today😂
MattyKatty t1_jdqhqd7 wrote
Reply to TIL the Domino's logo has 3 dots to represent the original 3 locations in Michigan. by eelikay
And also because it’s, you know, a domino..