Today I Learned #2: Gone for a Wiki Walk

[Zkribbler]

Today I learned that even when all the expansion/stuff packs are 50/25% off, buying the full collection for the Sims 4 will set you back a few hundred dollars.

Tis is why, after spending a fortune on Sims3. I refuse to spend a nickle on Sims4.

 

[Kyriakos]

Dare we ask how you discovered this?

You may dare.
I googled the name of that girl - she is a tv presenter - and the pic had the info it was from wikifeet.com or similar. I didn't visit the site

 

[amadeus]

Nazi General Franz Halder

Decorated by Adolf Hitler, 1939
Decorated by John F. Kennedy, 1961

 

[Birdjaguar]

TIL Where all the Bob Ross paintings are:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/...ngs-mystery.html?playlistId=video/Most-Viewed

 

[MaryKB]

TIL that Homelander is Judge Dredd.

 

[Zkribbler]

The Gilbert Chemistry Set I owned in junior high school was one of the most dangerous toys ever sold to children.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The Gilbert Chemistry Set I owned in junior high school was one of the most dangerous toys ever sold to children.

Those were the days.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

TIL Quebec is large enough to fit both Texas + France and still have some room left over.

The Gilbert Chemistry Set I owned in junior high school was one of the most dangerous toys ever sold to children.

More or less dangerous than the conglomeration of stuff Bootstoots had when TPTB made him get rid of some of it?

 

[Berzerker]

Greenland sharks are the oldest vertebrates with some living around 4 centuries

 

[Birdjaguar]

Greenland sharks are the oldest vertebrates with some living around 4 centuries

Tortoises?

 

[Arakhor]

The oldest one was about 250, I think.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Gay sex was only fully legalized in England in 2003. No kidding.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned (due to mention of it in this video) about uranium glass.

Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for coloration. The proportion usually varies from trace levels to about 2% uranium by weight, although some 20th-century pieces were made with up to 25% uranium.[1][2]

Uranium glass was once made into tableware and household items, but fell out of widespread use when the availability of uranium to most industries was sharply curtailed during the Cold War in the 1940s to 1990s. Most such objects are now considered antiques or retro-era collectibles, although there has been a minor revival in art glassware. Otherwise, modern uranium glass is now mainly limited to small objects like beads or marbles as scientific or decorative novelties.

 

[The_J]

Gay sex was only fully legalized in England in 2003. No kidding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory#Europe

Same-sex sexual activity: Male legal in England and Wales since 1967, in Scotland since 1981, and in Northern Ireland since 1982
Female always legal

(recognition of partnerships is a different thing, but that lists mostly 2005)

 

[The_J]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory#Europe


(recognition of partnerships is a different thing, but that lists mostly 2005)

TIL: I knew that MSM are blocked from donating blood in quite some countries, but TIL that heterosexual partners of MSM can temporarily be blocked too.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory#Europe


(recognition of partnerships is a different thing, but that lists mostly 2005)

A cursory wikipedia search is often misleading. "Group" gay sex (which was anything involving more than two iirc, so not "just" orgies) was still illegal until 2003.

 

[Takhisis]

Would a two-man-one-woman threesome have counted?

 

[Zkribbler]

Greenland sharks are the oldest vertebrates with some living around 4 centuries

How does anyone know that? We haven't been studying sharks for that long.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How does anyone know that? We haven't been studying sharks for that long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark#Longevity

In 2016, a study based on 28 specimens that ranged from 81 to 502 cm (2.7–16.5 ft) in length used radiocarbon dating of crystals within the lenses of their eyes to determine their approximate ages. The oldest of the animals sampled, which also was the largest, had lived for 392 ± 120 years and was consequently born between 1504 and 1744.n1 The authors further concluded that the species reaches sexual maturity at about 150 years of age.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

How does anyone know that? We haven't been studying sharks for that long.

Radiocarbon dating. It's a way to measure how old something is if it's made of anything organic that contains carbon.