“Cows Have Accents”: 40 Fun Facts “No One Asked For,” But You Might Still Enjoy

Let's get the opposition drunk enough that they forget what we were arguing about.

Supplemental fun fact: Until 2022, Denmark had a land border with only one other country: Germany. Canada also had only one land border with another country: the US. Now, they share a border with each other!

NGL, Kinda bummed this dispute ended. I quite enjoyed reading how it was playing out...

That's all well and good, but it should have been local 'nip. Just saying.

Amen!

Now we just have to tackle the big bear in the room. CO2.

I'm still convinced that ozone hole was the product of too much hairspray in the 80s!

Still skin cancer is a huge problem in Australia.

Sorry I was cloudgazing - I see a long haired person petting a dog, and beneath that a running goat…. so what are we talking about?

The fantastic news is that it's no longer growing, it's shrinking. It takes hundreds of years for CFCs to leave the atmosphere so we can't expect the hole to disappear overnight. There have been a lot of more successful environmental changes than that. Such as the ending of acid rain. Peak pollution was 50 years ago.

In 1802 Napoleon added a Polish Legion to the forces sent to Saint-Domingue (Haiti) to fight off the slave rebellion. Upon discovering that the slaves fought for their freedom, the vast majority of Poles eventually joined the slaves against the French. The Polish had a familiar situation back home, where they fought for their liberty against invading Russia, Prussia, and Austria that began in 1772. The unofficial motto of Poland is" For our freedom and yours " The concept is deeply rooted in the history of human struggle for liberty. It is a phrase that echoes the unwavering spirit of those who have fought and sacrificed for the freedom of others, often at great personal cost. Polish people were called "The White Negroes of Europe" and since then they created haiti- polish brotherhood. Beautifully story ❤️

Until recently I didn’t know that Haiti had to pay reparations to France for the money the slave owners lost due to the revolution. Only rescinded in 1947

The Haitian revolution was really fascinating and really awesome, sadly the world powers immediately started treating Haiti like c**p so their slaves didn’t get any ideas.

Part of the problem Haiti has is they only finished paying the French for their freedom inn 1947 - the equivalent of 21 billion dollars for their freedom (they had to recompense the slave-holders for their losses!!!)

I got confused by the uncapitalized polish for a second. What kind of polish did they send? Furniture? Shoe? Then I found the second Polish but haiti was also uncapitalized.

Took me 2 months to understand what those Scottish cows were mooing.

And the practice of separating newborn calfs from their moms as soon as they are born is despicable. The mother cows cry for their babies. Almost every milk farm does that, because the mother cows give more milk that way (the calf can't drink 'away' as much milk)

And how horrific it is for them and their calves when the calves are wrenched away from their mothers so humans can steal the milk for themselves

That's why you "process" the whole herd, so the survivors don't get depressed?

Of course they have friends...they are cows not rocks.

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