Today I learned...

We live closer in history to Tyrannosaurs, than Tyrannosaurs did to Stegosaurs.

(No, I am not a 7 year old, I just happened to read a book on Dinosaurs recently)

I have a 5 yr old who is obsessed with dinosaurs and who was talking about pachycephalosaurs at 3 years old, so this was one fact I already knew!

We also live closer to the time that Cleopatra was alive than she did to the building of the pyramids in Giza.

I knew that when I was 10.

Though I was over 40 when I found out that a coyote can run faster than a road runner.

Today I learned that@lynx admits to being over 40.

Meep meep

We attended the Dinomania show this morning. They did a kids Vs grownups dinosaur quiz and this was one of the questions!

This must be why road-runners evolved the ability to run through holes painted on the side of rocks.

You are not funny. Yes, it is all cartoons. But even the basic part of the roadrunner being faster than the coyote. It was all lies, lies.

I went to a library and looked it up in books, several books, as the internet can lie.

I'll admit to a lot more, in private messages £4.99 per minute.

Well, who got it right ;)

This memory sticks in my head as many kids took a while to grasp as there were illustrations of the two dinosaurs fighting in books.

Laughing with you, not at you.

I'd fucking laugh at me for getting to an age and believing at least one bit of a cartoon is true.

There was a picture on face book that seems apt for this point will add later.

No matter what it says on the bottle, don't gargle diluted TCP for a sore throat. It did fuck all apart from stink the house out and make me nearly throw up. Even if it did work, I'd rather live with the sore throat.

That China has its own shoegazing subculture.

http://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinese-shoegaze-an-introduction

TIL Dick van Dyke is still alive.

Whales, giraffes and humans all have a neck with 7 bones.

That the duck billed platypus has been around longer than ducks have. So ducks should be called ‘platypus billed ducks’ really

You see that on an IG reel? Did you also see in the comments someone else pointed out that Grasshoppers have been around longer than Grass?

It's just not a cricket

I did, yes!

It blows my mind a bit that grass was only relative recently invented.

So what should grass be called then?

This reminds me of winding up my French pen friend by calling apples ‘pomme de terre de l'arbre’

Yeah but that island was just full of weird animals/plants that don't appear any where else. Nature is amazing.

Wasn’t Australia full of bizarre megafauna until humans rocked up there and ate it all?

I like the idea of it being a sort of sketchbook testing area full of batshit stuff not suitable for general release…

A quick google suggests grasses came about ~50 million years before grasshoppers

Platypus's are just interesting full stop. Not only are they mammals that lay eggs, but they also have a type of electro-location sense for finding prey underwater.

And if that's not enough, they're venomous.