HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-225 days agoTIL domesticated pigeons (Columba livia domestica) are descendants of the rock dove (Columba livia)plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down12
arrow-up169arrow-down1external-linkTIL domesticated pigeons (Columba livia domestica) are descendants of the rock dove (Columba livia)plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-225 days agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyzOPtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the PhilippineslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoLmaooo wasn’t me, or rather, seems to have been automatic I’ve now removed the flag linkfedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippinesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down11
arrow-up113arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippinesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square7fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
arrow-up110arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing onesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing onesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about silbo gomero, the "Gomeran whistle" historically used on the Canarian island of Gomera to communicate over large distancesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about silbo gomero, the "Gomeran whistle" historically used on the Canarian island of Gomera to communicate over large distancesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushingplus-squareuserweb.ucs.louisiana.eduexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushingplus-squareuserweb.ucs.louisiana.eduHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square4fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligradeplus-squarevanat.ahc.umn.eduexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligradeplus-squarevanat.ahc.umn.eduHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershinsplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershinsplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US stateplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US stateplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinctplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinctplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized ironplus-squarewww.wordorigins.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized ironplus-squarewww.wordorigins.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square0fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&whiteplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&whiteplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square3fedilink
HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgHylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square1fedilink
Lmaooo wasn’t me, or rather, seems to have been automatic
I’ve now removed the flag