“Today I Learned”: 50 Interesting Facts About The World That Many Have Just Learned (New Posts)

I’ve never heard a frog howl but I imagine it’s a very sad sound :(

Thank you for the sanctuary names. Maybe if I go donate to these two wonderful charities I'll feel a tiny bit better after reading such an awful story.

Oh, I'm definitely crying.

he's a free guy ;)

Plus he had a very big stake in things getting done.

Yea, good ol Ryan Reynolds is a true stand up guy, one of 2 actors that i love unconditionally, the other is Keanu

Right? Also who was the person who leaked the Deadpool test footage?

This didn't age well.

He's gotta have some flaws hiding somewhere...right?!?

He don't even need to move ... just cast himself around the vict ... the ... the recipient.

Me too! I had front row tickets for a Billy Idol show in like 1986. I touched his foot. Tee hee! I held up a few black rubber bracelets for him and he took them and put them on while he was singing. *swoon*

Let's be fair, many people still use/hang them nowadays, is not like nazi svastikas or the KKK symbol, so being ignorant about the confederate flag's meaning is not too out of touch. And this was the 90's, so lees info about many stuff. Either way, I get where you're coming from but is not fair.

It was a topic that had to be explained at work to the foreigner employees. Just like how we had to explain we can't put out ethnic costumes, like Pocahontas. We don't put them out in the store for sale. People tend to donate them. Not everyone in the world is aware of the issues in North America surrounding these sensitive topics.

He's English, how would we know about the meaning? I couldn't even tell you what it looks like.

I grew up in the South in the 70s and 80s, and while I never owned a confederate flag, I know many people who did. However, as I grew up into my teens and later young adulthood, I started to become more aware of what that flag represents, and wanted nothing more to do with it. People don't know something until they make the effort to learn it.

And/eaten by animal

Absolutely. Humans do have conflict, but they are much more likely to cooperate and/or manipulate each other. Most violence is aimed against outside groups.

There was a similar story (in WWII), where 31 Japanese sailors/soldiers were in the same situation with a single woman....half the men died... "queen of anatahan"

That’s pretty rad

To be fair, the book was published nine years after the eind of WW II. It's understandable humans were seen as rather awful at the time.

It's a work of fiction, what kind of "accuracy" were you expecting?

You're not alone, the author hates it too.

Not humans: boys. White Boys. Lord of the Flies was never supposed to be a generalization about all humans.

Funny :D

It’s being worked on. And since cancer isn’t particularly transmissible the anti-vaxxer idiots will only be killing family members rather than spreading plague through the population.

They're on it. Article in New Scientist this week.

Anti vaxxers will refuse it. Darwinism at its finest

All fine and dandy until you grow tusks.

Sadly you can't just administer a shot to transfer a gene :(

*Proceeds to think about an elephant human hybrid*

It's already a thing and saving lives daily.

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That's not remotely how any of this works.