Pearlnight's Lair - /todayilearned

08/03/26

Horses are nosebreathers and breeds with bigger nostrils tend to be better athletes.

07/03/26

Computer terminals can be multicoloured.

06/03/26

The diple is a typographical mark used to denote to an especially important section of a given text. It can be argued then that this, alongside its appearance, is the ancient ancestor of the imageboard greentext.

05/03/26

I forgot this bit but our photographer was named Eric Hosking. Despite the setback, he made a full recovery and went straight back to his routine!

04/03/26

In 73 AD, it is alleged that a Roman soldier farted in front of a crowd of jews before passover, which caused a riot and 10,000 deaths.

03/03/26

The owl hooting outside my house is actually a Tawny Owl. Not only is their breeding season not far off, but they're incredibly protective of their nests. One English bird photographer in 1937 learned this the hard way and lost an eye!

02/03/26

One of the most common methods of poisoning in 17th century Versailles was to poison an enema.

01/03/26

The definition of a pancake is far broader than I expected. A Yorkshire pudding is technically a pancake.