#todayilearnedthat

[officialhistoryandshit]

Ravens are also known to play with wolf pups.

#raven #ravens #wolf #wolves #nature #animalkingdom #corvids #corvid #bird #birds #factoftheday #learning #education #til #facts #funfact #learn #discover #funfacts #todayilearned #factsdaily #knowledge #todayilearnedthat #lessonoftheday

[vakoy]

TIL that cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts, but very few scientists have the patience to try and study them

[garbage-empress]

todayilearnedthat was deactivated by tumblr for some reason

i don't know why yet, i emailed support but who knows if/when they'll get back to me. i can think of a number of reasons why:

1. the last post i made before deletion was a text wall that contained Zalgo text and they might have deleted me for formatting abuse or something? this seems somewhat unlikely to me because in the past it's usually taken months for tumblr to act on reports, but who knows.

2. the fact that every post contains links might have flagged it as a spamblog. i suspect this is also why TILthat gets periodically deactivated without warning. some people have also accused me of linking to viruses, which i suspect is because either spambot crawlers find my blog linking to a non-existent URL autoregister it because they think it's an expired domain and fill it with malware -OR- because most of my links should go to a DNS error page and some malware infections will redirect all DNS errors to a site that tries to download even more malware, basically a prior malware infection being blamed on me.

3. The fact that it looked like the actual TILthat, even though I marked in my header that everything was lies, almost nothing I posted was remotely believable and the links were all jokes to tip people off if all of the above failed. I'm going to be pissed if that's the case because what I was doing was pretty much the exact US Supreme Court definition of "parody" and TILthat has literally taken all of their content down to the name/icon from the subreddit and as far as I know there's nothing officially sanctioned about it so like how do you steal something already stolen?

4. david karp was personally furious about that post i made over a year ago where i said tumblr was originally conceived as bumblr as a place where he could post pictures of his ass.

[super-metroid]

today i learned that the sole reason we’re able to walk is because each footstep creates a shockwave that bounces the other foot off the ground

[officialhistoryandshit]

When the bubonic plague hit the US at least 280 people were infected and it killed at least 172 over the next eight years. #plagues #plague #history #theblackdeath #bubonicplague #til #todayilearned #ushistory #todayilearnedthat #instahistory #americanhistory #historygram #historydaily #dailyhistory #historic #historical #historicaf #historylesson #historylessons #historylessonoftheday #historyfacts #historygeek #historynerd #historybuff #historybuffsofinstagram #historylover #historylovers #ilovehistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeWewol01y/?utm_medium=tumblr

[officialhistoryandshit]

The spiders use their specialized silk strands called stabilimenta to arrange the debris along.

#spider #spiders #arachnids #arachnid #nature #naturefacts #spiderfacts #factoftheday #learning #education #til #facts #funfact #learn #discover #funfacts #todayilearned #factsdaily #knowledge #todayilearnedthat #lessonoftheday #science #sciences #scienceiscool #spidersoftheworld #spidersarecool #decoy #stealth

[officialhistoryandshit]

Shrimp are born with sexual organs for multiple genders, with their male organs developing first and later giving way as their female organs develop.

#factoftheday #learning #education #til #facts #funfact #learn #discover #funfacts #todayilearned #factsdaily #knowledge #todayilearnedthat #lessonoftheday #shrimp #shrimps #oceanlife #riverlife #animals #animalkingdom #crustaceans #evolution #development #science #sciencefacts #sciencelesson #sciencelessons

[officialhistoryandshit]

Cobalt-60 has a half-life of 5.2713 years. #til #todayilearned #todayilearnedthat #learn #discover #knowledge #education #learning #lesson #lessonoftheday #cobalt #cobalt60 #radioactive #radioactivity #danger #dangerous #wowfacts #science #sciences #sciencefacts #sciencenerd #sciencenerds #sciencelover #sciencelovers #ilovescience #sciencelove #sciencerules #coolfacts #factsdaily #staycurious https://www.instagram.com/p/CgnA5LWJdIG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=