Saturnalliia
Saturnalliia t1_j1n94i2 wrote
Reply to TIL about Saturnalia - a Roman Holiday held between 17 - 23 December. The holiday was celebrated with a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn, in the Roman Forum, and a public banquet, followed by private gift-giving, continual partying, and a carnival atmosphere. by TurboBennett
No need to thank me!
Saturnalliia t1_j1ej7vf wrote
Reply to comment by SciPhiPlants in Rosetta, Me, Digital, 2022 by noahbradley
At my local gym my buddy and I have dubbed a girl who goes there "squat girl" because we see her there at least 4-5 days a week and we have only ever seen her doing some variation of squats.
Saturnalliia t1_iuguldn wrote
Reply to comment by wowbobwow in TIL When soul legend Wilson Picket recorded his iconic version of "Mustang Sally," he & his band rushed to hear the playback. The tape machine broke, cutting the tape into 30-40 tiny pieces. The engineer Tom Dowd carefully spliced them all back together, & that's the famous album version by wowbobwow
"So how'd you end up meeting Eric Clapton?"
"Well it all began when I was working on weapons of mass destruction..."
Saturnalliia t1_iudhd4l wrote
Reply to comment by Gemmabeta in TIL dunce caps were originally a sign of high intelligence and wisdom. Philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus was a proponent of pointy hats as a way to funnel knowledge to the mind and his followers, called Dunsmen, wore them. By the 1500s the Dunsmen fell out of favor as “behind the times”. by Aequitas05
The auto-de what now?
Saturnalliia t1_iu8rgy3 wrote
Reply to comment by theswordofdoubt in TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT. by icbm67
Tokyo medical school has a dark history.
Saturnalliia t1_itf9mli wrote
Reply to comment by kozmonyet in TIL the Port Chicago disaster accounted for 15% of all African American casualties in World War II by Butthole_Alamo
How did they get this information? Did they just make shit up?
Saturnalliia t1_j1oxxi3 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in I recently learned that humans can smell rain / petrichor (ozone and geosmin) better than sharks smell blood, now considering we don't have any extra hyper specific olfactory organs like some other animals do, how do we achieve this level of detection? by Corvuscoraxaphro
So what you're saying is that a person could literally smell the bulbs deteriorating before any other noticeable deterioration actually happens?
Would this be like me bringing the milk out of the fridge and leaving it on the counter and with less than a minute start to smell it going bad?