tnoy23
tnoy23 t1_ixv78ir wrote
Reply to comment by Hopeful_Optimist_ in LPT: If your microwave dies, donate the glass tray before throwing out the appliance. Someone has broken theirs and will love finding it at a thrift store. by pioneertele
You don't have an infinite amount of shelf space but it's not like it has to stay until it sells. No reason you can't take it off if it doesn't sell in 2 weeks and then toss it. At least it was attempted to be resold then and maybe someone would buy it, maybe not, but you can't know if you don't try.
tnoy23 t1_ivdk9zg wrote
Reply to comment by Jertob in Insects get stuck in a spider's web, why doesn't a spider get stuck in its own web? by Koning_Health
Spiders can be remarkably intelligent. The Portia Jumping Spider is a spider that preys specifically and solely on other spiders. It's smart enough to analyze the web of other spiders, know which strands to snip to make the spider it's hunting be less mobile and easy to catch, smart enough to know how slow to go to not alert the spider, it knows how many to cut and not cut, it knows the spider is essentially blind ((Jumping spiders are among a few spiders with good eyesight)) and it knows which strings of the web to pluck to emulate a bug trapped in the web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjYYY9KjnU - If you can handle the cheesy sound effects ((I can)) this is a documentary-esq video of the portia vs a long jawed orb weaver.
tnoy23 t1_iyplm1w wrote
Reply to comment by greatgerm in [OC] Number of Union Army Units/Companies during the American Civil War. by BLAZENIOSZ
My first thought seeing Washington actually contributed soldiers was "Wait there were people there then?"
Absolutely wild and I had no idea anyone besides native Americans were present there at that point, much less enough to come back and actually contribute to the civil war.