Trivial Facts

[ChristineM]

...which is made from suet

Which is made from animals. Definitely not good for veggies and vegans to go around spending British money.

 

[exchemist]

Mediaeval houses had cat holes,

Door with Cat Hole | The Walters Art Museum

This door, decorated with panels carved in a linen-fold pattern, was probably a back or interior door of a middle-class home. It is remarkable for its cat hole. Cats were primarily kept as working mousers at a time when there was no refrigeration and spoiling grain could tempt mice. Few doors...

art.thewalters.org

Makes sense. Cats had real uses in those days of mice-infested houses. I have a cat hole in my kitchen door, actually, which I have never bothered to fill in even though I have no cat.

 

[Ella S.]

The 8086, for which the x86 architecture is named after, is sensibly named so because it came after the 8085. Except the 8085 came after the 8080, and the 8080 came after the 8008.

Most of the numbers are symbolic, and they don't actually correlate with any kind of linear sequence. They're only sequentially larger so that they're sorted by the order of release in an alphabetical listing.

 

[Secret Chief]

Which is made from animals. Definitely not good for veggies and vegans to go around spending British money.

Yes, I recall the changeover.

- Bank of England to keep animal fat in banknotes despite complaints

 

[Secret Chief]

Cats are redgreen colourblind and nearsighted. They cant see well up close but they do have better side vision then humans and are better at spotting faster movements then us

They also are unable to decide if cat food is edible unless it's in the right bowl with just the right amount of crunchies on top.

 

[Revoltingest]

Some early steam engine lubricators
were called "tallow cups".

 

[Revoltingest]

BOS National marketed its operating system, BOS,
as a competitor to Microsoft's DOS. One reason
it failed is that instead of giving away development
software, it charged an arm & a leg.
This is why no one has ever heard of BOS.
I still use the system I bought in 1986.

 

[ChristineM]

Nutmeg is a hallucination

 

[Quintessence]

Humans didn't invent agriculture.

Leafcutter Ants are Farmers Who Grow Fungi

Leafcutter ants can strip as much as 17% of the leaf biomass from plants in their ecosystem and can clear entire trees in under a day. Next to ours, leafcutter ant society is the most complex society on earth. They build nests that can contain thousands of rooms and cover up to 0.5 km2, a feat...

www.mcgill.ca

 

[exchemist]

Boustrophedonic means a style of writing in which successive lines are to be read in opposite directions, e.g. one line goes left to right while the next goes right to left and so on, as when an ox (βοῦς, from which we get "bovine") turns (στροφή) when ploughing a field. I came across this when visiting la Sainte Chapelle in Paris, in which there is a series of stained glass scenes which are meant to be followed in sequence in a boustrophedonic manner. My wife and I ageed it was a splendidly obscure word to know.

 

[Revoltingest]

Andor is the best Star Wars series.
(This is factual because it is my opinion.)
It's less geared for children than the others.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

The singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson once had a flat in London, where he let people he knew stay when he wasn't there. In July, 1974, Mama Cass (of the Mamas and Papas), on a gig in London, asked to stay over, and died of a massive heart attack in bed, at aged 32.

Four years later, the great drummer Keith Moon asked to stay. Nilsson didn't want to let him, since he thought it was cursed, gut Pete Townsend convinced him that "lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place." So, on September 7, 1978, Keith Moon died in the exact same bed of a massive drug over-dose, aged 32.

 

[libre]

The last Mcdonalds cheeseburger sold in Iceland was in 2009, and it is displayed in the National Museum.
Glad to hear Mcdonald's has suffered losses to it's hegemony in parts of Europe.

 

[Revoltingest]

Starting fluid often has ether.
Some people call it "Cosby juice".

Is it because Bill Cosby has trouble starting engines?

 

[Revoltingest]

Australia has a colorfully named starting fluid too.

Spoiler

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[Shadow Wolf]

Cats are redgreen colourblind and nearsighted. They cant see well up close but they do have better side vision then humans and are better at spotting faster movements then us

Seeing distant objects better is farsighted. It's when you can see close up stuff is when it's nearsighted.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Australia has a colorfully named starting fluid too.

Spoiler

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Its stuff like that is whyI wish I was born in Australia.

 

[JustGeorge]

Its stuff like that is whyI wish I was born in Australia.

Same.

 

[VoidCat]

Seeing distant objects better is farsighted. It's when you can see close up stuff is when it's nearsighted.

Yeah. I said they can't see up close. Meant to write farsighted. Tho they are technically more midsighted

 

[Mock Turtle]

Real sex has occurred many times in films:

35 Tasteful Nude Movies That Feel Like Art

Steamy and sensual, but in an elevated way.

www.marieclaire.com