Today I Learned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric

In the deep ocean, marine snow is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column. It is a significant means of exporting energy from the light-rich photic zone to the aphotic zone below, which is referred to as the biological pump.

The whole idea of putting something in your body that AI came up with is unnerving, but this microfluid jet stream method of injection is kind of blowing my mind.

“US corporations were conducting covert business operations with the Nazis: such as Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks and Firestone Tires, which had subsidiaries in neutral nations like Sweden and Switzerland…”

Despite relatively high education rates, an analysis of international assessments by Statistics Canada in 2013 showed that more than one in six adult Canadians fell short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests.

Link to the paper

not only on the british isles. wiki

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/30609876

Radiation

I guess it’s like “horoscope”?

I was watching this video about a bad sponsorship experience involving an electric scissor product. I didn’t know they were a thing!

Hey everyone! I’ve been building BritChat (britchat.co.uk) — a completely free, no-adverts social chat site for British people across all four nations.

I guess it makes sense, but I’ve never thought of it like that before.

Source: sign at a local farm

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/13/us/southern-practice-of-eating-dirt-shows-signs-of-waning.html

Source

@til Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

Thanks to BillyClark!

however, they might be prone to other illnesses and obesity, according to this reddit thread. (redlib link to the same thread)

*"inflammation is now understood to be a key mediator of OA that

True ‘skeletonization’ also includes the trimming away of any non-essential metal on the bridge, plate, wheel train or any other mechanical part of the watch, leaving only a minimalist ‘bare’ skeleton of the movement required for functionality.

His daughter Paulina suffered from mental illness and drug addiction. She died in 1930 at the age of 40 of a heroin overdose.