BoxingSoup t1_jd3scze wrote on March 21, 2023 at 5:06 PM

Reply to comment by milo159 in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone

Because salting the earth is almost as bad as a low, slow fire

BoxingSoup t1_jaavg0o wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:35 AM

Reply to comment by RonSwansonsOldMan in TIL that in the period of time since the introduction of the consumer price index, the highest inflation rate observed in the U.S. was 20.49% in 1917. by ringopendragon

Hope no longer, it's closer to 6%!

BoxingSoup t1_j9w5o4q wrote on February 25, 2023 at 12:03 AM

Reply to comment by NewCanadianMTurker in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973

You want us to find... Fossilized pants?

BoxingSoup t1_j0wj0dw wrote on December 19, 2022 at 11:05 PM

Reply to comment by Zhuul in TIL that due to anti-Chinese sentiment in San Francisco in the late 19th century, Levi's jeans briefly held the slogan "The only kind made by white labor" on its logo. by lemming-leader12

Bro you post in r/Philadelphia. The fuck do you mean your culture doesn't revolve around alcoholism and violence?

BoxingSoup t1_ive5vzj wrote on November 7, 2022 at 8:39 AM

Reply to comment by ledditlememefaceleme in TIL that most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal. Human infants do not, but their grip strength is much higher during the hours immediately after they are born. by afeeney

You just went through a whole thread on why we are special in design, and your takeaway was that we are not special?

BoxingSoup t1_irpdc45 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 12:38 AM

Reply to comment by jrex703 in TIL that in 300 B.C. turkeys were viewed by the Maya as vessels of the gods and honored accordingly also were originally domesticated to play a part in religious rites. by cristianmonroy

Except you didn't hear it from a Ph.D. You heard it from some random guy who claims to have a wife who supposedly is a graduate student in the subject. Why people lie for Internet points, I couldn't tell you. But they do, and taking comments at face value is plain silly.