1 Comment Took my wife to the Apple orchard for her birthday. We sat for half an hour just staring at the trees. by cringeyjokesman January 18, 2022, 6:57 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
3 Comments TIL “Solitary Orchard”, a piece of Chinese music composed for the guqin, is likely the oldest surviving piece of written music in East Asia and it features mysterious effects that sound modern to new listeners. The manuscript was written during Tang Dynasty, 7th century, and it is now in Kyoto by whatilearned July 31, 2021, 5:40 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
10 Comments TIL Kid Rock didn’t grow up in a trailer park, but on a six-acre estate with a 5,628-square-foot house and its own apple orchard. by whatilearned May 27, 2021, 5:41 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
5 Comments TIL that, in June 2020, a team of researchers in Japan used a drone that shot pollen-dusted soap bubbles to pollinate a pear orchard; 95% of the flowers bore fruit, which was the same success rate as hand-pollinating by whatilearned May 26, 2021, 6:55 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
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