TIL why we can only see in grayscale in dim light
The Human Eyes Are Color Blind At Night: Two Views Of The Milky Way - PMC
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TIL During the 6th Wargrave Nursery Gaint Vegetable Weigh-off, the heaviest pumpkin was record to weigh 2,819.3 pounds while the stem to blossom girth was 649.8 cm (255.8 inches). The pumpkin was grown by two brothers, Ian and Stuart Paton, from Lymington, Hampshire, UK. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-giant-pumpkin-world-record-just-crept-closer-to-3000-pounds-heres-how-science-sweat-and-soul-crush-keep-growers-reaching-for-the-heaviest-fruit-possible-180987563/ #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qy70b3/til_during_the_6th_wargrave_nursery_gaint/
TIL that Christopher McDonald declined playing Shooter McGavin twice because he was tired of playing villains and he wanted to spend time with his family. He became interested in the role after winning a round of golf.
Happy Gilmore - Wikipedia
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TIL that the average person’s belly button hosts about 67 different species of bacteria, and a study of 66 people identified over 2,300 species in total.
Belly Button Biodiversity
Citizen scientists navigate ‘the intimate forests of the umbilicus.’
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TIL that the U.S. uses the 13th Amendment loophole to force incarcerated people into work, producing over $11 billion in goods & services while they earn pennies per hour and often lose most pay to fees.
Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia
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TIL a survey involving more than 1,000 people found that one in three (37%) UK shoppers admitted to stealing at least one item when using self-checkouts. In addition, 38% of shoppers admitted to having put through loose items incorrectly, a tactic known within the industry as "the banana trick".
Yahoo News
One in three shoppers ‘admits to stealing from self-checkouts’
More than a third of shoppers admit to stealing from self-checkouts amid fears that the technology is worsening Britain’s shoplifting crisis.
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TIL that 44% of the world's adult population has never consumed alcohol
Teetotalism - Wikipedia
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TIL the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can repeatedly revert to its young form, effectively avoiding death
Turritopsis dohrnii - Wikipedia
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TIL a farmer cut off his own leg with a 4-inch pocket knife to free himself from a grain auger. After his leg got stuck, he kept getting pulled in deeper & deeper and with nobody around to help, he had to cut off his leg before time ran out. He then crawled 150 feet to a landline to call for help.
ABC News
Nebraska farmer recounts sawing off his leg with a pocket knife to save his own life
Kurt Kaser says the accident occurred on his Nebraska farm on April 26.
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TIL that, in video games, "ludonarrative dissonance" is the technical name for the conflict between the story told in the gameplay, and the story in the non-interactive scenes (for example, the way that Drake in "Uncharted" is a fun-loving rogue in the cutscenes but a killing machine in the game).
Ludonarrative dissonance - Wikipedia
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