oat milk is a thing and yes it is made from oats, but more in the 'strain the pulp out of juice' way than the 'pureed oatmeal' way
So I've known for a while that octopodes being able to change color to match their surroundings is weird because they seem to be colorblind: their eyes don't seem to have the necessary cells for detecting color. TIL that perhaps the resolution of this oddity is that an octopus' skin actually has photoreceptors, although it's not clear if these cells are hooked up to the brain or if they are part of an independent cognitive system. But the color changing thing is still weird, because the skin also seems to be colorblind. Source
Today I learned why you are supposed to feed crickets to beardies outside their tank. Apparently part of mines supper has been living in his driftwood log and has grown large enough to begin mating and keeping me up at night with their chirping.
TIL that there is a type of independent computer program called a Daemon. Your system is running them right now. The line between technology and magic grows ever blurrier.
I learned lateral movement in sword fighting by getting into a drunken bitchslap fight. I'm much better at it when wasted.
Like, 5 or so billion years ago proto-earth was a mostly molten ball of rock much much smaller that it is today until an entirely different planet the size of Mars came out of fucking nowhere and plowed directly into proto-earth like a game of galactic pool. (it's name was Theia) this basically liquefied both planets, which re-formed into the Earth we know today as well as our moon, which is why the Moon is proportionally huge compared to the other planets' moons in our system.
today i learned that Alexander Graham Bell thought that the standard telephone greeting should be "Ahoy hoy." (Thomas Edison popularized "Hello" as a phone greeting.) i also learned that my favorite Simpsons reference is even funnier than i ever imagined.
Sam Kean's latest book. It's about gases! IIRC, there's a section about the development of Earth in there and that's where I first read in detail about the whole Theia thing.
TIL that the main problem with the Bohr planetary model of the atom is not necessarily that he thought that electrons orbited the nucleus like planets orbiting the sun, but rather that he (and Sommerfield after him) firmly believed that electrons can't pass through the nucleus, and thus missed an entire set of orbitals, throwing off his energy and angular momentum computations. Source
Today I learned that goldfish do not actually have stomachs! They only have intestines, so their food passes straight through with a considerably shorter digestion period. (This makes sense to me because I already knew the mass amount of waste they output, I just didn't know why.)
