TIL: Today I Learned

[Arakhor]

The middle toe on my left foot is longer than my second toe.

 

[Kyriakos]

According to that chart, Greeks and Celts all have a condition called Morton's Toe (the second toe is longer than the big toe, which can cause pain and bleeding)

That is a barbarian term for it, but nevermind that; how would it cause pain and bleeding? Shoes don't work that way.

 

[Ryika]

Because of this, I just realized that my left second toe is quite a bit longer than my left big toe (not too much, but a bit), but my right second toe is about as big as my right big toe.

 

[Kyriakos]

So many freaks here

 

[shadowplay]

o_o Isn't it supposed to be like that?

No... your big toe should extend the farthest.

That is a barbarian term for it, but nevermind that; how would it cause pain and bleeding? Shoes don't work that way.

Your big toe is meant to bear the pressure when you push forward with each step. If you're pushing off with a different toe, it can cause problems for that toe.

 

[Broken_Erika]

That is a barbarian term for it, but nevermind that; how would it cause pain and bleeding? Shoes don't work that way.

Ever stub your second toe on something hard?

 

[Kyriakos]

Your big toe is meant to bear the pressure when you push forward with each step. If you're pushing off with a different toe, it can cause problems for that toe.

Any studies showing more cases per capita where this happens/causes problems? Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, toe problems aren't a thing one comes across.

 

[CKS]

Your big toe is meant to bear the pressure when you push forward with each step. If you're pushing off with a different toe, it can cause problems for that toe.

I don't think this is the problem. Because my toes are bendy, they all get to push, regardless of their length.

The only issue I have with my second toe being longer is that when I wear socks with my skates (but only very rarely with shoes), the ends of the socks get pulled back hard against my toes, and over time it smashes my toenail painfully.

I tend to stub all my toes fairly often, not just the longer ones.

 

[Ryika]

I'm not even sure my feet work like that. When I walk, it's clearly the big toe that pushes me "off the ground", the other toes support that movement, but the toe that presses me off the ground is the big one.

 

[Takhisis]

I just realised that the Celtic and Greek toes are, essentially, giving you an f-you sign at all times. Nice.

 

[Bootstoots]

TIL that lithium chloride tastes just as salty as sodium chloride does! I already knew that potassium, rubidium, and ammonium chlorides taste a little bit salty but also trigger bitter and sour responses too, which is why salt substitute (which is just KCl) doesn't work very well. Apparently LiCl briefly took off as a salt substitute in the 1940s, and then a bunch of people died from lithium overdoses and the FDA put the kibosh on that.

In closely related news, my chances of entering a hypomanic episode today are quite low.

 

[The_J]

Please don't order uranium chloride just for tasting it .
EDIT: Or for anything else ^^.

 

[Kyriakos]

TIL that lithium chloride tastes just as salty as sodium chloride does! I already knew that potassium, rubidium, and ammonium chlorides taste a little bit salty but also trigger bitter and sour responses too, which is why salt substitute (which is just KCl) doesn't work very well. Apparently LiCl briefly took off as a salt substitute in the 1940s, and then a bunch of people died from lithium overdoses and the FDA put the kibosh on that.

In closely related news, my chances of entering a hypomanic episode today are quite low.

Hypomanic episode? ... Those tend to last for quite some time, due to their nature. Although it is possible that they last less than a day, usually they get to The Black Monk (Chechov story) proportions

 

[Ajidica]

United is flying their last 747 flight this November and trying to recreate their early 747 flights with a 70s theme.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/trav...nal-boeing-747-flight-hawaii-nov-7/677603001/

Sort of sad to see one of the icons of the Jet Age, world aviation, and the now slightly comical idea of flying being a luxury event.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I was reading "DEBT the first 5000 years"
The Ancient Greeks had a reverse Tax ............................ Looks at Greece today and see nothing has changed.

EDIT: The Greeks used slaves to mine and distributed wealth to its citizens in a reverse tax. So this was only made possible by slavery.

 

[Ryika]

Apparently, Hispanics are lucky enough to have a lower chance to give birth to twins than non-hispanic whites and blacks, but the gap is closing (page 3), and older women are more likely to give birth to twins as well (page 4):

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db80.pdf

I don't even remember how I got that study.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Liu Bang was a peasant

I thought he wasn't

 

[Arakhor]

Likely so was Basil the Macedonian, as was Theodora, the wife of Justinian the Great.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Theodora being one kinda isn't as shocking if Justinian wasn't

I knew Zhu Yuanzhang was a peasant though

 

[Arakhor]

Justinian was also of peasant birth, but at least he was brought into the ruling classes in the traditional fashion.