Mildly interesting

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Wild mammals are just 4% of the total.

Cows are tasty, thus the sum mammalian consciousness at any given moment on the planet is largely that of a cow.

[Copper]

Take lifespan into account

Beef cattle live for only 2-3 years.

African Bush Elephants live for 60-70 years

[jon-nyc]

[Copper]

Invasion

[mark]

What about Dogs and Cats? Why are Buffalo not classified "wild"?

[Mik]

The Cook pines.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133476-the-strange-cook-pine-trees-that-always-lean-towards-the-equator/

[Copper]

[jon-nyc]

He’s the biggest sports star in the world. What do you expect?

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

He’s the biggest sports star in the world. What do you expect?

Yeah, but $789 to watch Inter-Miami? It's like the elephants graveyard for great footballers.

[jon-nyc]

In 1990-91 I was working in Miami. You could walk in 2 minutes before any Miami Heat game and get great tickets.

Except when Jordan and the Bulls were in town. That sold out immediately.

[LuFins Dad]

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

What about Dogs and Cats? Why are Buffalo not classified "wild"?

Those were my questions as well…

[George K]

[Mik]

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik Me too. I am very gruntled to have learned a new word.

[George K]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gruntle

Which Came First, gruntle or disgruntle?

The verb disgruntle, which has been around since 1682, means "to make ill-humored or discontented." The prefix dis- often means "to do the opposite of," so people might naturally assume that if there is a disgruntle, there must have first been a gruntle with exactly the opposite meaning. But dis- doesn't always work that way; in some rare cases it functions instead as an intensifier. Disgruntle developed from this intensifying sense of dis- plus gruntle, an old word (now used only in British dialect) meaning "to grumble." In the 1920s, a writer humorously used gruntle to mean "to make happy"—in other words, as an antonym of disgruntle. The use caught on. At first gruntle was used only in humorous ways, but people eventually began to use it seriously as well.

Word History

Etymology
back-formation from disgruntle

First Known Use
1926, in the meaning defined above

[Mik]

Grunt. That was the origin. Grunts of happiness, or pleasure.

[jon-nyc]

So in other words, it’s a synonym of combobulated.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Man lives 36 years with twin living inside him.

https://www.historydefined.net/sanju-bhagat/

[George K]

@jon-nyc there are several channels on cable that talk about these medical oddities. Usually they're in impoverished countries with little/no access to healthcare.

Here, he went to a hospital in Nagpur, India in 1999. At that time the population was about 2 million. I would think that a city of that size would have access to a CT scanner, or at the very least an x-ray, so that a pre-op diagnosis could have been made.

With the possible tumor restricting Sanju’s respiration, Mehta got right to work and opened Sanju up.

That’s when things got weird. As soon as Dr. Mehta sliced into Sanju’s stomach, an unusual amount of fluid spilled out. Then he looked inside...

Yeah, that should not have been a surprise if they had taken a picture beforehand.