Today I Learned

Sounds like I’d better eat as much chocolate as I can in the next 2 years and 1 month before I turn 40 and start losing those taste buds.

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Oh I’m about to go down a rabbit hole

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The daughter in Friday Night Lights has a crush on another lifeguard nicknamed The Swede and that’s what I’m gonna call my new grass cutting friend

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I am campaigning to switch to scything from mowing but losing the battle. Guess I should watch competitions for pointers

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In Gent they also used sheep.

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I have also lost my sheep/mini sheep requests UNLESS I agree to them being eaten

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Hunky Swede is a bonus :joy:

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Bread and circuses.

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Did you know that after the zoo closes, they take some of the animals out for walks? This anteater was being rewarded with licks of mashed avocado.

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TIL about the invention of PrEP and the scientists who spearheaded its use in South Africa. And there is a newer HIV prevention drug that’s just an injection every 6 months, incredible stuff

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today I learned about how they parachuted beavers in the 1940s, and that there are now at least two folk songs about it

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