2 Comments TIL The mean center of population for the USA has slowly migrated from the eastern coast to present-day Missouri by whatilearned March 24, 2022, 4:23 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
1 Comment TIL the indigenous Sami people of northern Scandinavia are actually people who broke off from Eastern European tribes around 1500 BC and migrated far north. They lived in relative isolation until the 19th century, subsisting on reindeer and fishing. by whatilearned March 16, 2022, 5:56 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
I just migrated my site from Gatsby to NextJS in around 20 hours of code. I’m globally happy, thought the build is strange. by ProgrammerDude November 8, 2021, 11:13 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments TIL White skin in Europe originally comes from 7800 years ago from farmers who migrated from the near east. Lactose tolerance in Europe arrived from a migration of pastoralists who arrived 4800 years ago. Lactose tolerance swept through Europe around 4300 years ago. by whatilearned November 6, 2021, 6:12 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
4 Comments TIL the Grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at 3.5 AU (1AU=93million miles), then migrated inward to 1.5 AU, before reversing course due to capturing Saturn in an orbital resonance, eventually halting near its current orbit. by whatilearned August 19, 2021, 3:06 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments TIL Europeans did not realize that birds migrated until they found a stork with an african arrow stuck in its neck by whatilearned July 24, 2021, 3:47 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
6 Comments TIL: The Great American Interchange happened 2.7 million years ago when the Isthmus of Panama arose and connected N. & S. America. Horses, cougars & bears migrated south. Armadillos, opossums & porcupines etc moved north* by whatilearned June 30, 2021, 2:12 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
6 Comments TIL For millennia, Europeans did not know where birds went in Winter time. The mystery was partly solved in 1822, when a German hunter shot down a stork. The stork had a 80cm long Central African spear impaled in its neck. This provided the first evidence that they migrated to Africa. by whatilearned June 1, 2021, 2:13 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments Women who migrated from a socially conservative country to a progressive country how significantly has your life changed? by QuestionGuy May 16, 2021, 1:19 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
1 Comment TIL that “glitch” is a Yiddish word. It was in use in the 1940s by radio announcers to indicate an on-air mistake. By the 1950s, the term had migrated to television, where engineers used glitch to refer to technical problems by whatilearned May 1, 2021, 5:51 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
1 Comment TIL about George McJunkin, a former slave and self educated geologist, who discovered the remains of an ancient bison that had been killed by humans in New Mexico. This discovery is the basis for our current timeline of when humans migrated to the Americas. by whatilearned April 20, 2021, 6:54 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
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