contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 4 months agoTIL about magnolia plants are so old that they are pollinated by beetles, because they were around before the advent of bees.www.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1212arrow-down1external-linkTIL about magnolia plants are so old that they are pollinated by beetles, because they were around before the advent of bees.www.wikipedia.orgcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareveroxii@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up44·4 months agoReminds me of another post the other day about how the Appalachian mountains are older than trees. (And Saturn’s rings) Geological time scales really are something else.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoOh, wow. Two cool factoids in one thread.
minus-squareConfused_Emus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·4 months agoFacts, rather. Factoids are things commonly believed to be true, but are not.
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-24 months agoFactoid works. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid You might be thinking of alternative fact, lie, wives tale, myth, fallacy, falsity, fiction, fib… or factoid.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 months agoAh, interesting distinction. Thanks for clarifying.
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoDon’t believe him!
minus-squarev_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoI can’t tell if this is a serious comment or if you are just trolling the lyrics to Country Roads
minus-squareveroxii@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·4 months agoHaha. Yeah in that post people were mentioning how they didn’t realise the song lyrics were quite literal and not just a saying. So not just “older than the trees” like in the song but “older than trees… anywhere”
Reminds me of another post the other day about how the Appalachian mountains are older than trees. (And Saturn’s rings)
Geological time scales really are something else.
Oh, wow. Two cool factoids in one thread.
Facts, rather. Factoids are things commonly believed to be true, but are not.
Factoid works. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid
You might be thinking of alternative fact, lie, wives tale, myth, fallacy, falsity, fiction, fib… or factoid.
Thanks for this factoid.
Ah, interesting distinction. Thanks for clarifying.
Don’t believe him!
I can’t tell if this is a serious comment or if you are just trolling the lyrics to Country Roads
Haha. Yeah in that post people were mentioning how they didn’t realise the song lyrics were quite literal and not just a saying.
So not just “older than the trees” like in the song but “older than trees… anywhere”