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

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The correct term for a baby echidna is a 'puggle'.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Ok, I knew this from before but it's a nice reminder: Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke left a photo of his family on the moon.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ok, I knew this from before but it's a nice reminder: Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke left a photo of his family on the moon.

Fucking litterbug.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Apollo astronauts who investigated lunar geology on the surface carried procedure check list for their tasks as laminated flip cards attached to their space suit sleeves.    For one of the missions, I can’t recall which at the monument,  the backup crew, who trained together with the primary crew and acted as support for the main crew during pre-launch prep, replaced the procedural flip cards with nude photos of various playmates of the month as a prank.   The prank was not discovered until the primary crew was on the surface of the moon.

The primary crew played it cool, remembered the procedures and did not reveal on air what actual mountains and valleys they were actually looking at when they were supposed to be looking at geology field work check lists.

The playmates of the month photos made it back to earth and are currently catalogued in nasa’s historic mission archives

[Fireball]

Could have been looking at Mons Veneris, but that would be the wrong heavenly body. Notwithstanding the fact that Playboy didn't expose the Bunny's genitalia in those days.

[Fake Messiah]

This is a visual representation of the actual amount of copper extracted from a minesite

[Rev. Rye]

This is a visual representation of the actual amount of copper extracted from a minesite

I can't tell if that's supposed to be a large amount or a small one. Although Reddit assures me that that's a big hole, and about 4.1 million tonnes of copper and the hole is 2 km wide.

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Also, I'm currently reading Rob Chapman's biography of Syd Barrett, and it's painting a pretty illuminating picture of his life. And two of the most interesting things I've learned so far:
1) From what little he's showing us of his madness (he seems more focused on recontextualising some of his most notorious incidents as extensions of an interest in performance art and not adjusting to the sort of breakneck touring schedule the managers had in mind) it seems to map more closely onto bipolar disorder than schizophrenina (and even then, not that well).
2) Some of his songs were apparently ripped off wholesale from other sources. And Chapter 6 includes quite of exegesis of where most of the lyrics of this song came from:



And apparently, the first two lines of the song were lifted from a play by Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare.

[The Valkyrie]

The correct term for a baby echidna is a 'puggle'.

Boru

The correct term for a baby with no bones is a puddle.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Eww.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In 1920, at the age of 24, actress and writer Ruth Gordon checked herself into a Chicago hospital to have both of her legs broken and re-set to cure her bow-leggedness.

Boru