Name an interesting fact you found out during the quarantine

Craft Cider is actually a thing.

Not gonna lie, I am excited to try some.

 

People are more likely to have 11 toes in Uruguay than Paraguay

 

Paraguay's closer to the equator, so that makes sense.

 

This dude learned that porcupines are not cute cuddly little animals.

 

That picture freaks me out every single time...

 

What if thats his comic book superpower.

 

Dolly Parton secretly produced Buffy The Vampire Slayer!!!! or something like that.

 

Jolene slowed down sounds really cool.

 

It's not the spines, it's his nose.

 

Will young Roscoe ever learn?

 

I finally listened to the words of that song and it's sad AF.

Still like it.

 

my weiner looks very small when I go fat

 

Porcupines sound like cartoons characters, or maybe Jawas.



Also, old world porcupines and new world porcupines evolved their quills independently.

 

Did you know Corn is the only vegetable that has to be cultivated by man to grow, as in it won't grow naturally?

 

look how close it got to his eye..... ughhhh **** this picture, porcupine quills are terrifying

 

The ancient Sumerian city of Ur was originally located where the Euphrates River entered the Persian Gulf. It is now more than a 100 KM from the Gulf and the Euphrates isn't close. Also all the land around it was very fertile but centuries of agriculture with insufficient rain caused the soil to too salty to grow anything and now it is all desert.

 

I've been learning about what the puncturing characteristics of medieval arrows. Tod of Tod's Workshop has done some great videos in the past doing probably the definitive test of the "English longbow vs French knights at Agincourt" scenario which I highly recommend checking out. He figured out recently that he can use a modern crossbow to simulate the exact same propulsion characteristics of a heavy-draw medieval longbow. And he's been using his "Lockdown Longbow" to shoot all sorts of stuff with it over the past four months. And it's fascinating.

Here's a good example:



And if you want to see the full ongoing series, here's a playlist.

 

Ancient archery is much different than has been portrayed.