Things you were shockingly old when you learned

learned today that mules are donkey/horse hybrids and can't mate with each other

Male donkey with female horse = mule
Male horse with female donkey = hinny (less common, and look different than mules)

I didn't realize miniature donkeys were a distinct mediterranean breed until now!

and can't mate with each other

tbf they can *mate*

they just don't need protection

speak for yourself. those things can kick

Sprinklers are actually timed to go a full rotation in one minute

tbf they can *mate*

things you are shockingly old when you haven’t learned yet

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Male donkey with female horse = mule

Our gut biome is external to our body, total "wait, whut?" moment.

i'm sorry...what?!

I know!!

aiui if we turned ourselves inside out, all that stuff is living separately/symbiotically on the surface of our body?

So...how does it get in there? Is it transmitted from adults to babies (via mother's milk or something)?

Turns out...yes!

Each person has an entirely unique network of microbiota that is originally determined by one’s DNA. A person is first exposed to microorganisms as an infant, during delivery in the birth canal and through the mother’s breast milk. Exactly which microorganisms the infant is exposed to depends solely on the species found in the mother. Later on, environmental exposures and diet can change one’s microbiome to be either beneficial to health or place one at greater risk for disease.

The internal/external is both counter intiuitive and logical — open your mouth wide and it’s obvious the cavity belongs to the outside world and is not a part of your body, that remains the case all down the alimentary canal and beyond

Very true. Also the gut and the inner lung surface is very much the largest surface area exposed to the outside world, each about the size of a tennis court if you flattened them out. The defence systems are pretty remarkable but that’s why most infections get to us via the airways or ingestion of pathogens.

Also despite being a biomed lecturer, one thing I was very late to realise is that the lungs are a pouch which grows off the gut tube during development. It’s why they have a common opening.

And of course now I'm thinking of the Terry Bisson story "They're Made Out of Meat"...

I love the Leonard cohen lyric about being nothing but the brief elaboration of a tube

also thinking of Kristeva's notion of "the abject" - from us, but not us

This is making me think of the idea that in 3d, we'd break in half because of our digestive tube.

Ugh. In *2D* I meant.

did they ever slice up anyone vertically, or has it always been horizontally?

(am thinking of The Visible Human project where they freeze dried and then sliced up and scanned somone who'd donated their body to medical science - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/full_color_png.html )

(i think the digitised results were turned into full 3d model so you can spin and slice them in other axes, should you want)

for my birthday one time a friend so-called gave me a flipbook of this (the vertical slicing) :\

HR from Bad Brains was born in Liverpool.

Jackie Collins and Joan Collins are different people.

aren't they sisters?

Were.

The drink WKD is pronounced Wicked not WKD

I was in the bandvan when HR popped out to collect a souvenir from the Liverpool hospital he was born in as Paul Hudson. Trying to think what he came back with a bit of a sign or something.
Solo tour with brother Earl, Kenny Dread on guitar and a bassist who came from Leytonstone who was known as Englishman.

Wound up staying on their hotel room floor after they played Manchester. & got a lift to Liverpool with them.

Now surprised if that was the first time he'd been back to the town. I know Id seen the Bad Brains in 86 and think they'd been over at least once before that.

Was the bassist this guy?

https://www.discogs.com/artist/465496-Englishman

Cool!

Just found a story linking him to HE so yeah would seem to be
https://legendaryreggae.com/2014/06/19/the-mighty-roots-of-englishman/

mis-pronouncement of words when younger redux: portakabin as por-taka-bin

(there's a lot of it in the book I'm currently reading and every single one is still por-taka-bin even though i know it's wrong)

That Marc Andreessen comes from Iowa and not, as I had imagined, Norway or something.

yeah, the public sphere software he nebulously contributed to and commercialized into Netscape was developed at the University of Illinois of all places

H. G. Wells was part of the Bromley Contingent.

I thought they the piggie was going to market to buy groceries until about 2 months ago. I'm 45.

He is still going shopping as far as I'm concerned.

Ha yeah. I was about 45 when the horrible truth was revealed to me.

nah he's a shoplifter.
or he's the man, man.

I was so shocked. It never occured to me tha the was going anything other than picking up some bits for dinner. I wil never get over this.

Quiie how late Jim Crow was imposed in the United States. Or at least just sinking in this morning from reading teh Meier and Rudwick history.
It has it as around the turn of the century which is like 35 years after teh end of the civil war.
Like Andrew Johnson sunk the Reconstruction much earlier but the laws leading to Jim Crow are all right around the turn of the century

I remember how popular bacon became as an ingredient in sweet stuff a decade and a half ago. accoutrement for cakes and buns and things.
Do believe it has been part of a financial transaction for quite a while longer like

Okay, just realized that the piggy was not shopping.

I'm so sorry.

At least we're not alone.

Poor piggy.

https://www.artnet.com/WebServices/images/ll00161lldOj0GFgVeECfDrCWvaHBOc7nnD/beatrix-potter-this-pig-went-to-the-market;-this-pig-staid-at-home-(+-3-others;-4-works-from-this-pig-went-to.jpg

oh no

How does the one who eats roast beef get his beef if not from the one who shops?