TIL: Today I Learned
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He deserves it.
Zkribbler
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TIL: the difference between butterflies and moths.
Butterflies fly during the day. Moths fly at night.
Butterflies rest with their wings vertical. Moths rest with their wings horizontal.
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Butterflies fly during the day. Moths fly at night.
Butterflies rest with their wings vertical. Moths rest with their wings horizontal.
You're welcome.
Snerk
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Nah, the only kind of moths we have here are small and slim.
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
Nightswarmers go about in the night
Moths are specifically those that like eat clothes
Snerk
Smeghead
Do the mothmen crave light and/or textiles?
shadowplay
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I knew someone who was terrified of moths and butterflies. That's gotta be rough. I hate spiders enough and they don't even have wings. It's bad enough that ninja crap they do where they descend 4 inches in front of your face on a wire from the ceiling.
TIL there are whistled languages: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170525-the-people-who-speak-in-whistles
TIL there are whistled languages: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170525-the-people-who-speak-in-whistles
Butterflies do not eat my clothes.
Narz
keeping it real
Today I learned where/what Guernsey is. Never heard of it before. The man I met from Guernsey told me about Viking Chess & that I should buy a set.
Hm. It's incomplete - it doesn't mention his published fiction.
If you're interested, look up why one of the Queen's many titles is specifically Duke of Normandy.
As I recall, that's probably exactly what he would intend.
He published fiction under an assumed name for marketing reasons. Not because he was trying to hide the fact that he wrote it.
People use pseudonyms for various reasons. One year I was at a science fiction convention in Calgary and happened to pick up a novel about the Trojan War. The bookseller told me who really wrote it, and that if I wanted it autographed, the author was standing across the room at another table. Since I had already read some SF by this author and knew he wrote good stories, I bought the book and asked him to sign it. When he looked surprised that I knew he'd written it, I mentioned what the bookseller said.
So he explained that the reason for the pseudonym was because he already had a couple of books out around the same time as this one and his agent advised him not to appear to have too many new books out at once - so he wouldn't be in competition with himself.
So he explained that the reason for the pseudonym was because he already had a couple of books out around the same time as this one and his agent advised him not to appear to have too many new books out at once - so he wouldn't be in competition with himself.
Regarding Plotinus, I've actually read some of his books, but the wiki entry is new information. Thanks.
TIL that the ‘first Australian ship’ really was manned by convicts, and that they did get to Japan -it is interesting to see, for once, the view of Japanese people on the gai-jin rather than the other way around.
Zkribbler
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Pseudonym use is nice. Particularly if you invent your own nemesis and have him/her write polemics against you. Not that i ever did that. But there is still time
Benjamin Franklin used to do that during his newspaper days. He was known to use a pseudonym to argue with his other pseudonyms.
Oh, so he's the one who invented DLs?
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