Mildly interesting
-
A thagomizer (/ˈθæɡəmaɪzər/) is the distinctive arrangement of four spikes on the tails of stegosaurian dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators.[2][1]
The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name. Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name "thagomizer" in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.
Etymology
The term thagomizer was coined by Gary Larson in jest. In a 1982 The Far Side comic, a group of cavemen are taught by a caveman lecturer that the spikes on a stegosaur's tail were named "after the late Thag Simmons".[3]
The term was picked up initially by Kenneth Carpenter, then a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who used the term when describing a fossil at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting in 1993.[4] Thagomizer has since been adopted as an informal anatomical term[5] and is used by the Smithsonian Institution,[4][6] the Dinosaur National Monument, the book The Complete Dinosaur[7] and the BBC documentary series Planet Dinosaur.[8] The term has also appeared in some technical papers describing stegosaurs and related dinosaurs.
-
@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Scrap of the papyrus written by Centurion Titus Ursus. Found in October 120AD in the Caledonian Forest. Taken to Rome, where it was presented to the emperor and then burned.
If it was burned, how is it we know what was actually written on it?
-
-
Hawaii is not covered under NATO treaty, so in theory, President Putin could attack Hawaii and to worry about the US having support from NATO.
https://www.military.com/history/hawaii-may-not-be-protected-under-article-5-of-nato-treaty.html
-
This is the most common order in which color terms are added to a language.
-
-
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
So then the rapist kills her probably.
Better to carry pepper spray
I would think that it could also be used by a woman that just wanted to be cruel or get revenge or something. Think Lorena Bobbett.
