Today I Learned

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by oph, Oct 24, 2015.

  1. Wingyl

    Wingyl Allegedly Magic

    some of them, we don't really expect to be edible. for example, dandelions are edible.

    others are not particularly good-there's a type of carp that tastes good enough, and is easy to catch (just...put a net up and run your boat's motor for a bit and they'll jump into the net), but they're really bony.
     
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  2. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    You might have some difficulty getting that solution to work with cane toads, but it certainly works for some species.
     
  3. Xitaqa

    Xitaqa Secretly awesome

    Today I learned: humans have died from eating cane toads

    So, uh, yeah
     
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  4. Wingyl

    Wingyl Allegedly Magic

    cane toad guts are nontoxic but everything else in them is poisonous

    make them into fertilizer, maybe?
     
  5. Saro

    Saro Where is wizard hut

    Zebra mussels are also not great eating, from what I understand. No one wants to eat invasive seastars, except maybe seagulls. A lot of people would shy away from the insectile invaders, and it's real tough to get enough of invasive microfauna to justify the effort.

    Tldr it works with some invasives but by no means all. Plus there's the worry that if people find an invasive to be really good, it might encourage them to try to actually promote the invaders for better harvesting or the like.
     
  6. Aondeug

    Aondeug Cringe Annoying Ass Female Lobster

    Japan turns their invasive species of jellyfish into candy.

    Fuck you invasive jellies. Japan will eat you. Japan eats all of the ocean.
     
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  7. Elph

    Elph capuchin hacker fucker

    They're disgusting, though. I used to have this dandelion tea, and... ew. Just ew.
     
  8. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    Where there are no predators, be the predators?
     
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  9. Snitchanon

    Snitchanon What's a mod to a nonbeliever.

    Tell that to the judge.
     
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  10. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    From what I understand, it's heavily dependent on when and how they're harvested. e.g. they get way more bitter after they flower.

    There's also situations where the invasive is entirely edible, but very few people live in the area where they're the biggest problem. Like rabbits in Australia- there aren't enough people living in the middle of the Outback for rabbit stew to be much of a solution.
     
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  11. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    I dread being the messenger
     
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  12. Exohedron

    Exohedron Doesn't like words

    Two weeks after opening, soft apple cider turns hard in about two days in the fridge.
     
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  13. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    Til what exactly happens when you get bit by a venomous snake

     
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  14. Everett

    Everett local rats so small, so tiny

    some of the emotes look really weird in the Dark Teal theme

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    the dreamworks face is only visible in that little sliver of gray: image.jpeg image.jpeg
     
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  15. keltena

    keltena putting the fun in executive dysfunction

    Apparently it actually would have been legal for me to record my sessions with my abusive ex-therapist without her knowledge. Go figure.

    I honestly have no idea if it would have helped anything—and honestly, I don't want to consider the possibility that it wouldn't have—but it's not like it's important now, so that's fine. There's one former burning question answered, though. (And I guess if I ever have need to consider that kind of thing in the future, I'm better informed now.)
     
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  16. Everett

    Everett local rats so small, so tiny

    I forget where i stopped being able to hear the tone but i briefly had a rough idea of how high is too high for me to hear :p

    Edit: like 14k
     
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  17. Carrickfergus

    Carrickfergus abstractor of the quintessence

    Today I learned that musical instruments that are not guitars cost a MASSIVE WAD OF CASH to buy, but a shockingly affordable amount to rent. Although there is a certain degree of expectation that that basically means you'll be paying a rental fee until you just pay off the instrument entirely in like 3 years or whatever.
     
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  18. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    Til there's a type of race called a stiletto run where you have to run a half k in at least 3 inch high heels and i am very frightened and very impressed at these people.
     
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  19. budgie

    budgie not actually a bird

    TIL that in Chile, kefir is also known as yogur de pajaritos, or yogurt of little birds. (I have no idea why, but I'm envisioning sparrows in tiny milk maid hats like this.)
     
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  20. budgie

    budgie not actually a bird

    TIL sarcasm comes from a Greek word literally meaning "to strip off the flesh".
     
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