04-25-2016, 08:43 AM | #76 |
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Sally Field was cast as Tom Hank's love interest twice (in Punchline and Mrs. Doubtfire) before finally being cast as his mother in Forrest Gump.
The Latin word for the Greco-Roman God of Death Hades is Orcus, from which derive the words orc and orca. So if you dislike the name "killer whale" in favour of "orca", too bad, it's all the same thing!
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Th-fronting is spreading in the British Isles but dying out in Australia. I find that kinda fascinating. I would've thought it'd either die out in the UK for the same reasons it's dying out in Australia or else vice versa it would've continued to spread in Australia for the same reasons it's spreading in the UK.
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I've been picked on for th-fronting for years I WISH I KNEW IT WAS A LEGIT THING ;A;
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I was interested on if horses would do better over unpaved terrain versus a car (still don't know but intuition says yes) and stumbled upon this discussion.
These two quotes are pretty insightful: Quote:
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At first, it was surprising that the first guy implied humans are better than horses at long distances, and he's right when you consider humans evolved to handle long distances, and are unique among mammals and most animals in their ability to do so. I myself, in January of 2015, was capable of running 24 miles in 4-ish hours non-stop. So I could handle what a horse could do in a day, with stops for rest/recuperation. Certainly though I wasn't capable of holding much when I did those runs, but it does really put the distance power of humans into personal perspective.
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Read from top to bottom, starting with the thread's title.
That's amazing, I thought. I bet gmoyes would want to know. And so here I am, sharing.
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yooooo I had heard about the great Magnemite trading but I never knew why. That's actually really funny
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That whole conversation was about as accessible to me as Dexter's hydroxyl ion joke.
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I was discussing languages with a coworker today, including Japanese, which an elderly gentleman overheard. He hopped into our conversation and shared that when the U.S. forces were deployed to Korea for the Korean War, they were taught Japanese, not Korean. I asked him why they would do that. He explained:
No clue if this policy changed throughout the course of the war or not. He said he was deployed in '52, which is around the middle of the war. From M*A*S*H to Seinfeld, I always imagined that people who served in Korea would have picked up Korean, not any other language and certainly not Japanese. Interesting.
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The 2012 MLB offseason results broadcasts are just reaching Alpha Centauri.
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That's actually faster than I would have expected. But I guess it is about four and a half light years away so it makes sense.
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Eric from Boy Meets World = Ron from Kim Possible = Terry McGinnis from Batman Beyond :o
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Today, I learned that just as America has Freddy vs. Jason, Japan has Sadako vs. Kayako. You may know them better as "the girl from The Ring vs. the woman from The Grudge."
I don't really understand how this would even work. How could either onryou achieve victory over the other? Would they even hold any power whatsoever over one another? Rhetorical questions, though, 'cause I ain't lookin' for hard answers -- I might try and find this movie in the near future and check it out just out of sheer amusement that it was even made.
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A 2016 article announced that the Greenland Shark is the longest living vertebrate on Earth, with one specimen having been born 512 years ago. That year (1504) was right in the middle of the Renaissance. The bowhead whale remains the longest living mammal at >200 years; both marine animals live in extremely cold environments, suggesting that a slowed metabolism (along with anti-cancer resistance in the bowhead whale) are the major factors in promoting longevity.
Incidentally with the age discovery, the scientists realized the Greenland Shark only reaches sexual maturity at 150 years of age. This set of a panic as while the shark isn't killed often by humans, and population-wise isn't threatened by climate change or predation, it's highly susceptible to extinction just because of that slow birthrate.
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Do 150 year old Greenland Sharks go to jail for having intercourse with 149 year old Greenland Sharks?
But it's nuts that the 512 year old shark that's still alive could have met Martin Luther on one of his crazy undersea adventures.
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The wild boar currently roaming the forests of Europe is considered the ancestral form of the domesticated pig. Not a descendant of the ancestral form, the actual ancestral form. This seems pretty incredible given the boar's fecundity. With a high number of genetic events, given the litter size of the pig and its relatively short lifespan, one would suspect some significant genetic turnover in the 10,000 years since the pig was domesticated. Apparently not!
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10,000 years is a very, very short time on the evolutionary scale. For some perspective ...
● a "species" is often formally defined as the largest taxonomic grouping within which two members can produce fertile offspring. So for example, lions and tigers are not the same species (because ligers are infertile); horses and donkeys are not the same species (because mules are infertile); but the wild boar (Sus scrofa) and the feral pig (Sus scrofa) are the same technical species, capable of interbreeding ● the earliest hominids we generally speak of date back some 2 million years. This is hominids we're talking here, not apes ● Homo sapiens diverged from Homo neanderthalis some 500,000 years ago. (And lots of people speculate that we bred Homo neanderthalis out of existence, i.e. we technically belong to the "same species" and Neanderthals are more of a subspecies than a species proper.) ● the common ancestor of all modern human populations lived some 200,000 years ago 10,000 years is nothing. A flash in the pan.
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At the same time, dogs are a wildly different species from wolves, and in fact wolves are not the ancestors of dogs. There's another thing that came before both. That's probably one of the things that led Dopple to go looking for things that coexisted with their genetic ancestors.
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In the U.S. state of Oregon, there is a county the size of Maryland with only 7,000 residents: Harney County.
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When learning "Oh my Darling, Clementine" as a child though, most of this hyperbole is completely, utterly lost. Young listeners cannot pick up on the ideas like boxes without topses as ridiculous. So this comes across as a big surprise to me. Though, the original song - "Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden" is far more serious and cautionary in nature. In that, Clementine and her lover (the singer) are drunk when Clementine falls in the water. The lover is simply too drunk to realize he has to rescue her, rather than averse to swimming for...some reason, like in the parody. Which makes way more sense than the surreal mockery makes it sound.
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I have always thought the singer was the father. "Oh my darling [daughter] Clementine", not "Oh my darling [lover] Clementine". Also I do not remember any verse that mentioned Clementine's sister. Last verse I remember is the one that goes "Ruby lips a/bove the water/, blowing bubbles soft and fine/; but alas I was no swimmer/, so I lost my Clementine."
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Hey Concept, is the reason the clocks in my car slow down relative to stationary clocks at work and home due to a very slow version of special relativity?
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