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LipTrev t1_jcg516m wrote

Reply to comment by PunkPint in TIL about Saint-Malo, Brittany. This city on the French coast has some of the highest tides in Europe, rising as high as 40 feet during parts of the year, and the water withdrawing hundreds of yards. A sea wall, built in the 17th century, protects the city from the tides. by marmorset

Tom Scott makes amazing engaging videos, but he gets so many things half right that I kinda want to call him QI the YouTube guy.

I love QI, and they ask such great questions, and have smart funny people on to talk about them. Might well call them Tom Scott the TV Show, for their likability, and interesting topics, and humor. But man they get so many things wrong. Which, thankfully, they lean into as the show goes on, as Allan Davies often loses points for simply stating as fact something that was stated as fact on previous episodes, and in fact was just wrong.

Tom Scott, on the other hand, justs leaves his misunderstandings out there without comment. I still love his videos, but it is very much buyer beware as to whether he gets things right.

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LipTrev t1_jabx967 wrote

Reply to comment by Livebeam in TIL Hawaii is the best place on earth to see rainbows. There are words for Earth-clinging rainbows (uakoko), standing rainbow shafts (kāhili), barely visible rainbows (punakea), and moonbows (ānuenue kau pō). The rainbow is seen as a symbol of transformation and a pathway between Earth and Heaven. by -AMARYANA-

It's more than that, as other tropical islands do not have the same amount of rainbows, though they have the rain and sunshine happening.

It is that the islands are new (Big Island is still growing) and so the mountains are still high enough to make all the rain fall, at increasing altitude all the way up the mountains. So pretty much all the time rain is falling somewhere on the windward sides but it is up the mountain so sea level still has clear skies so the sun can do the light bouncing around in rain drops thing to make rainbows.

On the windward side, there are mountains and rain and waterfalls and rainbows. On the leeward side there are near desert conditions and few rainbows. Hawaii has a couple of places with over 400 inches of rain a year, with basically the most rain outside of places that have seasonal monsoons.

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LipTrev t1_jabjmpe wrote

Reply to comment by DowntownScore2773 in TIL In Approximately 241,000 years, Nanga Parbat #9 tallest mountain in the world located in Pakistan will overtake Everest and will become the tallest mountain in the world. by AdClemson

> This isn’t an entirely accurate statement. Chimborazo is the mountain that is farthest from the earth’s core and closest to the sun due the earth’s centrifugal bulge.

But centrifugal is a false force /s

Chimborazo is a perfect example that people who say centrifugal force is a false force really need to close mouth, sit down.

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LipTrev t1_jabj486 wrote

Reply to comment by UnfinishedProjects in TIL In Approximately 241,000 years, Nanga Parbat #9 tallest mountain in the world located in Pakistan will overtake Everest and will become the tallest mountain in the world. by AdClemson

> Considering that one of the proposed methods of keeping people away from toxic landfill sites in the distant future is to setup a cult that keeps people away from "the sacred sites", actually I don't remember where I was going with that, but it reminded me of it.

You would love to listen to Joe Walsh interviews.

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LipTrev t1_jaax64k wrote

Reply to comment by Klin24 in TIL Last year 93yo actor James Hong became the oldest person ever to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has over 600 acting credits spanning 70 years. by n3xus-7

43 years ago, when he was a spry 50!

For some reason I responded to the Wayne's World clip instead of the In-Laws clip. Ah well!

I meant to respond here: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/11dmkdr/til_last_year_93yo_actor_james_hong_became_the/ja9pjv5/

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LipTrev t1_j9x39yl wrote

Reply to comment by daisy0723 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

Humans have as much hair as any other great ape.

>humans are not really hairless at all. Per square centimetre, human skin has as many hair follicles as that of other great apes. The difference is not in the number, but in the fineness of the hair that grows from those follicles.

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LipTrev t1_j9g4ehj wrote

Reply to comment by Uranusspinssideways in Today I learned that there is enough evidence to suggest that orca are actually an occasional predator of moose, due to the fact that moose can dive up to 20' for vegetation underwater in killer whale territories. by Uranusspinssideways

Watching orcas just throw seals in the air because they could was a reminder that there are also sociopathic animals.

Orcas scare everybody, everywhere.

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