contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 month 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-up1210arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1206arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareveroxiilinkfedilinkarrow-up42·1 month 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-squarev_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoI can’t tell if this is a serious comment or if you are just trolling the lyrics to Country Roads
minus-squareveroxiilinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 month 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”
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoOh, wow. Two cool factoids in one thread.
minus-squareConfused_Emus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·1 month agoFacts, rather. Factoids are things commonly believed to be true, but are not.
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 month 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-down1·1 month agoAh, interesting distinction. Thanks for clarifying.
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoDon’t believe him!
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.
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”
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!