@littlewhitemouse If only. I tried searching for it, but the results I got on Google aren't the book I remember. I'll try and remember to ask the next time I see him.
TIL that Black Wildebeest are a thing :D (Note that it's increasingly rare for me to find an animal species I haven't already heard of, so BONUS POINTS. Look at the little nose-mohawk! The exaggerated horns! Blue wildebeest and bongos get out, white-tailed gnu are my favourite wild african bovid now :D )
TIL: Peat bogs are excellent at preserving skin, but the flipside is that the bogs leech minerals from the bones to such an extent that they lose all rigidity. To quote professor, when early archaeologists started pulling bog mummies out, they would "roll them up like a carpet".
TIL that there are three known molecules that bind reversibly to oxygen (in the same way hemoglobin does) but do not permanently bind to carbon monoxide. These are hemocyanin (blue, has copper), hemerythin (bright pink/purple, has iron), and any coboglobin (has cobalt, is nearly transparent pink).
Probably not. It's a squid. It still needs water and oxygen, and hemocyanin isn't as efficient as hemoglobin.
TIL that the bone of your frontal sinus is unique to that point that it can be used to distinguish identical twins, and has the advantage of not decaying like fingerprints or footprints.
Where in town to bring trash that doesn't fit in one of the collection trash bags. I sense a glorious cleaning before me.
TIL there are insanely strict rules for bald eagle protection in the USA. you cannot kill, maim, touch, interact with, etc them. and if you happen to be an unlucky soul whose livelihood is endangered by bald eagles there is basically no recourse for you besides, maybe, getting a special permit that allows you to attempt to non-violently scare them off also, this is enough of a problem that there is a special grant for people experiencing this that compensates them up to $125,000 a year for damages to livelihood from federally protected species source: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/03/513302816/episode-752-eagles-vs-chickens
I don't think swans are actually that protected, you're just not allowed to eat them if not Queen or in St John's College, Cambridge.
If I eat a couple handfuls of classic smartfood popcorn, and then a handful of starburst jellybeans, the jellybeans taste like trix cereal to me. Very confusing.
nasa has a "space education handbook" webpage and it's hideous it's like one of those old geocities sites, complete with old cgi. bad old cgi. not even good for its time old cgi. also the background is vaguely starry and the text is yellow. Link here. ETA: apparently it was last updated in 2000, which at least explains the bad old cgi, if it's 17 years old.
so i learned this forever ago but it's my favorite Fun Fact: the pringles logo has a name, and it is Julius. Julius Pringles.
The S in Edward S Curtis's name does in fact stand for something. Not like Stephen or Stuart or something, though. Sheriff. :D
It's a big dang deal when the municipal budget passes even if they havent Super Officially finalized it. Adult Taxpayer Things that i Did Not Kno
The white-throated sparrow is developing into a four-sexed species. EDIT: Tan-striped egglayer/childrearer, Tan-striped fertilizer/childrearer, White-striped egglayer, White-striped fertilizer/territory-defender. Or, currently, Tan-striped female, Tan-striped male, White-striped female, and White-striped male.
