What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Not only can platypi glow under UV light, but when they do so, they look almost exactly like Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^No hat.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Fritz Haber was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who was:

1.  an enthusiastic war monger who headed the chemistry section of German ministers of war, and was dubbed  the “father of chemical weapons”

2.  The Inventory of chemical fertilizer manufacturing process upon which about half of the world’s population today depends for food.

He won a Nobel prize for inventing the fertilizer during the very war which saw the extensive use of his chemical weapons.

[Anomalocaris]

Fritz Haber married Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to receive a PhD in chemistry from German University.   She was a pacifist and regarded chemical weapons a” perversion of the ideals of science” and “a sign of barbarity”. She shot herself with Fritz’s service pistol the night after Haber returned from supervising the first use of chemical weapons on the western front.    The morning after her death by suicide Haber departed for the eastern front to supervise the first use of chemical weapons against the Russians.

After the end of WWI he remained involved in Germany’s secret continued development of chemical weapons.   However his dedication to Germany’s war effort during the Great War and his prominence in the field of chemistry won him no reprieve.   He was Jewish, and was thus dismissed from his positions,  and exiled in 1933.  He died in 1935.

A little known aspect of his post war work in Germany’s continued chemical warfare development is Japan secretly funded significant portion of that work.

[Rev. Rye]

^No hat.

Boru

Hence the almost.

[Silver]

Luan - Of Portuguese and Chinese origins, this name means “moon." This is a masculine form of the popular name Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon.

https://www.familyeducation.com/baby-nam...the%20moon.

[Silver]

Gandalf was born of a falling star.

[Rev. Rye]

For Netflix, a day begins at 2 AM Central time. Why, yes, I did learn this while waiting for Series Six of Black Mirror to drop already.

[Silver]

For Netflix, a day begins at 2 AM Central time. Why, yes, I did learn this while waiting for Series Six of Black Mirror to drop already.

3am, my time, and I too have been waiting for it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Lucy's gait was more human-like than chimp-like. Supports the contention that bipedalism precedes an increase in brain size.

Boru