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Landlubber77 t1_jegk9q4 wrote

Reply to TIL that The National Library of Medicine has a Pillbox dataset made up of 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills. by jonkeegan

We had something similar back in the early to mid 2000s, it was a website called DanceSafe that had pictures of all the ecstasy tabs making the rounds, what their chemical composition was and if they were "safe." That safety being relative to the pills whipped up in some asshole's bathtub full of various cleaning solvents.

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CypripediumGuttatum t1_jegk3er wrote

Reply to TIL about Companion Planting, which helps gardens grow by planting strategically based on root compatibility and soil optimization by diatriose

You learned about something that is mostly made up with little science based evidence. There is some nuggets of truth in there but it’s pretty logic based stuff, tall things shade shorter things, rotate crops etc but always look for why and how a certain plant does better with another and some evidence to that effect before believing too much about this. https://www.gardenmyths.com/companion-planting-truth-myth/

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Kiariana t1_jegjzch wrote

Reply to comment by Lopsided-Ad-6696 in TIL In the West the largest meal of the day has historically been eaten at midday. It was not until Napoleon's empire there was the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening" as British travelers reported. The British adopted later dinners by 1850 from changes in work schedules. by jamescookenotthatone

Same in Newfoundland and Labrador up in Canada. It's a running joke in my family as my stepdad is a Newfie and refers to lunch as dinner, while we refer to supper as dinner/supper interchangeably

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DungeonicGushing t1_jegjqhy wrote

Reply to comment by Bruce-7891 in TIL that on top of the 3 matters of state that we’re all familiar with (solid, liquid, gas), there are at least 24 more, though most only exist under extreme conditions by gianthooverpig

It’s the outrage that kills me. How am I supposed to guess you identify with clowns? If you truly identify with some obscure label, foster understanding, but don’t post cringe videos on TikTok about how people are purposefully mislabeling.

But also like yeah man, when my professor told me there are as many genders as there are people, he didn’t mean this. He meant people have different ideas of masculinity and femininity, on a spectrum, not that people would suddenly decide they identify their gender with the random fucking non-human things.

I identify as a human, not a baseball. I am male, but I think cars and sports are gay.

I’m also completely stoned right now.

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PM_ME_UR_TAMAGOTCHIS t1_jegjfzz wrote

Reply to TIL Hou Jing, a general during the China's North-South period, seized control of the government of the Liang dynasty by rebelling. After that, in an act of vanity, he gave himself the title of "General of the Universe, Past, Present, and Future, Commander of all Forces in the Six Directions". by zhuquanzhong

Ah, the Hou Jing Disturbance....one in a long line of 400 years of civil wars and rebellions.

The entire "Period of Disunity" from the fall of the Han Dynasty to the rise of the Sui is probably the most co fusing but interesting historical periods ever.

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heisdeadjim_au t1_jegi9sz wrote

Reply to comment by _Dnikeb in TIL: honeycombs start out circular, and the surface tension of the beeswax pulls them into hexagons as it solidifies, because it is the most energetically favorable conformation. by craigdahlke

I did this yesterday. You're completely correct.

Chef wanted some Australian native bee honeycomb as an accoutriment to a dish. We got delivered the frame from the hive today.

Fascinating, and, rather tasty!

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