TIL: Today I Learned

[really]

TIL that there is such a thing as Canadian Football.

Denmark has a book of approved names - I know of an Irish couple who had to go through a rigamarole to get Liam - a relatively common Irish name added.

 

[Silurian]

@Yeekim but they were mainly dynastic.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I recall being asked "when did English Civil War take place?" in some pop history quiz and feeling slight panic, because afaik there's been like half a dozen.

yes, but for some reason only one of them is called "the english civil war" and that's the one people remember

 

[Traitorfish]

yes, but for some reason only one of them is called "the english civil war" and that's the one people remember

Even "the English Civil War" was actually three wars. I wouldn't break a sweat trying to rationalise this naming schema.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

yes, but for some reason only one of them is called "the english civil war" and that's the one people remember

Even "the English Civil War" was actually three wars. I wouldn't break a sweat trying to rationalise this naming schema.

The English Civil War didn't even take place exclusively in England.

 

[Silurian]

The English Civil War didn't even take place exclusively in England.

I think it started in Scotland. (will check)

Added

This was what I was thinking of

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

 

[Takhisis]

Even "the English Civil War" was actually three wars. I wouldn't break a sweat trying to rationalise this naming schema.

We could just call it the Wars of the Three Kigndoms.

 

[Dachs]

I recall being asked "when did English Civil War take place?" in some pop history quiz and feeling slight panic, because afaik there's been like half a dozen.

the real funny part is that the English like to pretend that they really only had the thing in the 1640s

whereas the Glorious Revolution counts neither as an invasion nor a civil war, but rather "just some thing that happened and please stop reminding us that the Stuarts were a thing"

also they pretend that nothing that happened in Ireland counts as a civil war but they ALSO get very uptight if you refer to what they did in Ireland as "colonialism" so it's like PLEASE CHOOSE MY DUDES

Ireland is NOT EVEN A FOREIGN COUNTRY BY LAW

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I recall being asked "when did English Civil War take place?" in some pop history quiz and feeling slight panic, because afaik there's been like half a dozen.

Would they have accepted "frequently"?

 

[Takhisis]

the real funny part is that the English like to pretend that they really only had the thing in the 1640s

whereas the Glorious Revolution counts neither as an invasion nor a civil war, but rather "just some thing that happened and please stop reminding us that the Stuarts were a thing"

also they pretend that nothing that happened in Ireland counts as a civil war but they ALSO get very uptight if you refer to what they did in Ireland as "colonialism" so it's like PLEASE CHOOSE MY DUDES

Ireland is NOT EVEN A FOREIGN COUNTRY BY LAW

hashtagunbeatensince1066

 

[Hrothbern]

the real funny part is that the English like to pretend that they really only had the thing in the 1640s

whereas the Glorious Revolution counts neither as an invasion nor a civil war, but rather "just some thing that happened and please stop reminding us that the Stuarts were a thing"

also they pretend that nothing that happened in Ireland counts as a civil war but they ALSO get very uptight if you refer to what they did in Ireland as "colonialism" so it's like PLEASE CHOOSE MY DUDES

Ireland is NOT EVEN A FOREIGN COUNTRY BY LAW

No sitting government likes the idea that revolutions could be succesful.

Making revolutions that are directly considered as "not a revolution at all" the most succesful revolutions for the ones taking over.
And yeah... somehow you have to silence the ones part of the revolution that did not win big prices. Silver or lead, marginalisation and rewriting history. That's where bards were always useful for.

 

[Morty]

Evidently, in France, it is illegal to name a child "fraise," strawberry. Stupid anywhere, but illegal?!

Which reminds me of this story:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/30997173

A French court has stopped parents from naming their baby girl Nutella after the hazelnut spread.
It was decided that the name would make her a target for people to pick on her.
The judge ordered that the child be called Ella instead.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yeah, I think the Jeopardy clue listed Nutella as another thing that it was illegal to name kids in France.

 

[BenitoChavez]

TIL that cow tipping is not a thing

https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...ula-that-proves-cow-tipping-is-a-myth/279357/

Reason number one: The phenomenon is not documented anywhere on YouTube. Like, anywhere. And if there's one place where cow-tipping would be documented, it would be YouTube.

Reason number two: Actual farmers don't think cow-tipping is real. "There’s more cows that have been tipped in people’s imaginations,” Nate Wilson, a veteran dairy farmer, tells Swearingen, “than in the real world.”

Reason number three: Cows don't actually sleep standing up. Horses do; cows tend to rest on their stomachs. So the core logic of cow-tipping -- taking advantage of a slumbering beast while it's doing its slumbering -- is based on a lie.

The big reason, though -- reason number four -- is simpler. And also more complicated. Physically, mathematically, scientifically ... cow-tipping is simply not feasible.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

What about horse tipping ? Is that a thing ?

 

[Synobun]

Horse tipping: for when you want to get deader.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Horse tipping: for when you want to get deader.

An angry cow would be just as dangerous as an angry horse.

 

[BenitoChavez]

A mildly offensive demonstration

Spoiler :

 

[Kyriakos]

Some animals have little patience with abusive humans. Donkeys in particular can attack in rather nasty manner...

 

[Samson]

Runt refers to a particularly small animal in a litter, I have heard it used lots for dogs and pigs, probably any animal that has many pups in a litter. I wanted to know if the phenomenon can be referred to as runtism, so I googled it. It seems it is, but only in crocodiles, as the top 6 hits are all about crocs. I do not understand that.