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Post by Captain McDerp on Apr 14, 2016 19:25:08 GMT
TIL That when people say "Be there or be square." it's because you're not a-round.
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Post by TheCreator on Apr 17, 2016 17:25:01 GMT
The reason we never killed off the Neanderthals was because that would be just plain dumbāwe came north to an unknown territory with wierd diseases and plants, and if we hadn't interbread, we would have likely died for the colder local environment and new predators. That said, we were supperior to the Neanderthals in that our vocal cords were strucutred differently, which allowed us to produce a larger variety of sounds much more easily. We were better at communicating with each other and could better coordinate our actions.
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Post by tammio on Apr 18, 2016 17:47:38 GMT
Well the way I ment our better coordinating it it's not only about the ability to speak better, but about having bigger groups that are more stable. So Chimpanzees for example live in groups, but these groups are created by mutual trust/ personal relations. The Alpha male isn't actualy the strongest or fiercest, but the one who heads the largest "faction" within the group. But since these factions and groups depend on working personal relations of each member with each other member the groups loose their stability with increased numbers. This is why you never find chimpanzee cities, even if enough food is provided. The same was the case with Neanderthals. Current data suggenst they lived in small, intimate groops. But a neanderthal groop propably coundn't actualy cooperate with the group in the next valley, just as different Ape groups can't cooperate. We Sapiens on the other hand can cooperate with total strangers, due to our belief in non existent/ imaginative (or to be tolerant non proven) concepts such as dieties. Or money. Concepts that can create a sort of Bond without knowing each other. So, for example you don't need to know a shopkeeper to buy his wares. A would just kill him. And yes we did mingle with Neanderthals. But just 2-3% of our DNA are neanderthal, suggesting only occasional mingling. Also it's enough if we just displaced the Neanderthals instead of killing them. Population pressure from Homo Sapiens could have forced them to migrate into ever more hostile areas were they just couldn't sustain themselves in the end.
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Post by tammio on Apr 18, 2016 19:34:53 GMT
Anyways TIL in the year 2000 56 million people died. 2.25% died in Car accidents (1.26 million) and about 815,000 commited suicide (1.45%). And 310,000were killed in Wars. And 520,000 in violent crimes. This means a total of 830,000 or 1.5% of deaths were caused by human violence. And how many were killed in 2002,one year after 9/11 by what causes? Take a guess... Deaths in 2002: -57 million deaths -741,000 victims of human violence -873,000 committed suicides
In 2002 you were more likely to kill yourself than to be shanked by a drug dealer or shot by a soldier
someone with too much time on their hands is welcome to calculate the percentages, but I just can't be bothered Seriously guys (and Gals too!) im just reading Yuval Noah Harari's book "Sapiens A brief history of Humankind". While I don't aggree with her on some of her statements about Capitalism and Consumerism (her arguments seem to one sided to my humble self) she presents some extremely interesting theories about... well just about everything that's happened since the first monkey climbed from his tree.
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Post by limeyhoney on Apr 26, 2016 0:06:00 GMT
Today I learned that Minecraft uses the system time when you don't enter in a seed. SO, if two people in the same timezone were to generate a world at the same time, then they would get the same seed, and thus the same world. Interesting.
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Post by Atrox on May 1, 2016 23:52:42 GMT
I went to an aquarium today and I learned that sea anemones are capable of movement.
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Post by elementalred on May 2, 2016 16:23:41 GMT
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Post by Atrox on May 2, 2016 16:35:53 GMT
Oh my gosh it just flails around. This is hilariously cute!
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Post by mitobox on May 13, 2016 19:48:09 GMT
Today, I learned that the word "hello" as a greeting didn't really exist until the early 1800's, when it became the accepted telephone greeting and spread out from there. It competed with "ahoy" for telephone use and came out on top, and I have no idea what came before them both.
Probably "salutations" or something.
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Post by Atrox on May 13, 2016 20:15:33 GMT
Today, I learned that the word "hello" as a greeting didn't really exist until the early 1800's, when it became the accepted telephone greeting and spread out from there. It competed with "ahoy" for telephone use and came out on top, and I have no idea what came before them both. Probably "salutations" or something. Hallo, hullo, hey, good afternoon, good morning, good evening, etc etc
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Post by tjwhale on May 14, 2016 13:14:57 GMT
TIL that the only thing that differentiates us, Homo Sapiens, from other Human species such as Neanderthals or even Apes like Chimpansies (except that if we had as huge testicles as they had, we would carry Melons in our Pants). It's not Language, because the other Humans propably did too. It's not the ability to lie, 'cause Apes Lie, for example by shouting "carefull Lions" even when there aren't any in order to steal each others food It's simply (or maybee not simply) the ability think/envision things that DO NOT exist. No Neanderthal, Homo Erectus or Gorilla will envision a Man with a Shakals head. WE DID. And prayed to him. Since we were able to create Gods from our imagination we were able to cooperate in larger groups than all the other "inteligent" beeings on this planet. IN a 1 on 1 fight a Neanderthal would rip any of us appart. But 10 Neanderthals against 150 Homo Sapiens (US)? Let's just call it an uneaven fight. How do you know what a gorilla can and can't envision? A lot of animals dream, but maybe they only dream of what they've seen. Edit: TIL this thread exists and that it is really cool. I learned some great stuff from it.
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Post by elementalred on May 14, 2016 17:36:26 GMT
TIL that the moon is very important to life. Many species have a "biological clock" that tells them on which lunar phase they will reproduce; and it appears that since the moon is responsible for tides, it has had an impact on the terrestrialization of the first tetrapods and even plants and arthropods before them, because with the tides, they had to adapt to live in shallower water and even out of water for several minutes, then hours, days, and finally being able to live completely out of water.
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Post by The Uteen on May 16, 2016 14:37:36 GMT
TIL that the moon is very important to life. Many species have a "biological clock" that tells them on which lunar phase they will reproduce; and it appears that since the moon is responsible for tides, it has had an impact on the terrestrialization of the first tetrapods and even plants and arthropods before them, because with the tides, they had to adapt to live in shallower water and even out of water for several minutes, then hours, days, and finally being able to live completely out of water. TIL the solution to the world's overpopulation problem - stop the moon.
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Post by alexthe666 on May 17, 2016 0:52:03 GMT
all the other "inteligent" beeings on this planet.
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Post by Atrox on May 17, 2016 0:54:42 GMT
Hehe... "beeings"
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Post by robertthebobert on May 25, 2016 21:13:49 GMT
Today I learned that Xylem tissue is dead tissue when mature, but the cells are still alive in the Phloem.
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Post by elementalred on May 26, 2016 18:44:11 GMT
TIL that, according to the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, USA, there were "mega-tsunamis" on Mars 3.4 billions years ago. The waves could have been 120 meters high and have been caused by several asteroids striking the planet. That also confirm that there was once an ocean on Mars.
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Post by timetraveler22 on May 30, 2016 19:28:06 GMT
TIL that Alligators are ornery because they got all em' teeth and no toothbrush.
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Post by Atrox on May 31, 2016 15:38:48 GMT
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Post by elementalred on May 31, 2016 19:44:47 GMT
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