Today I learned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva

His wife stood by him, even after he was discovered.

So glad to see this. Always found it helpful. Great job

The pilot turned on the autopilot before handing the controls to his son, expecting that it would keep him from doing anything stupid. However, the son accidentally disengaged the autopilot.

We've all seen this image of a blobfish, hyperbolically labeled by the internet as the 'Ugliest Being on the Planet'. Well, that's just a terrible photo. What you're really seeing is the dead body of a species of blobfish, that died from horrific barotrauma. These fish live in the deep DEEP ocean layers and are occasionally accidentally fished up to the surface. The process of rapidly ascending causes them to undergo the bends and the pressure change destroys their body. In reality he probably looked more like this and while still a face only a mother could love, is not nearly the grotesque flesh mass we've all seen in news articles

Smithsonian Article

mander.xyz is a pretty small instance devoted to science and nature communities. It's relatively tiny compared to lemmy.ml and beehaw.org. In order for a community to appear in the smaller instance's community list it must first be "fetched". To do this, you have to enter the full url for the community you want to fetch into the community search bar.

So for example, I was trying to find [email protected] and it just wasn't coming up in the mander.xyz community list. I tried entering "nfl", "[email protected]" into the search bar. I even navigated to https://mander.xyz/c/[email protected] which was giving me a 404 at the time but is now working after the fetch.

So if you're on a smaller instance and aren't seeing communities from larger instances, try entering the url of the community as it would be hosted from the larger instance. Hit enter to do a fetch, then try typing the name of the community again to execute the search.

PS: I had to do the same trick again on mander.xyz to find this community.

It is used in Tropicana grapefruit juice and Dannin yogurt to name a couple big companies.

https://www.vegparadise.com/news13.html

That the jumping was staged, that I knew already.

TIL via this reddit post: "The Tunitcha mountains of Arizona may be related to the word "Khan" (as in Genghis Khan)"

According to https://the-federation.info/lemmy

Every Sikh shrine has a religiously sanctioned moral and humanitarian obligation to serve and provide hospitality, provisions, nourishments and meals to any man, regardless of race, creed, religious profession, identification, or affiliation. At the Langar (the temple's community run free kitchen), food is served to all visitors regardless of faith, religion, or background. Only vegetarian food is served and people eat together as equals. The institution of the Sikh langar was started by the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak. It was designed to uphold the principle of equality between all people regardless of religion, caste, colour, creed, age, gender, or social status. In addition to the ideals of equality, the tradition of langar expresses the ethics of sharing, community, inclusiveness, and oneness of humankind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger#Research