ChristianBMartone
ChristianBMartone t1_ivc8kma wrote
Reply to 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
I'm here to tell you my daughter did use her hand to assist herself during delivery. I was there, tugging on her head along with the midwife.
ChristianBMartone t1_j6hsemo wrote
Reply to TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
Calling someone a cloud cuckoo lander fell out of fashion years and years ago