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contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 10 months ago

TIL about magnolia plants are so old that they are pollinated by beetles, because they were around before the advent of bees.

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TIL about magnolia plants are so old that they are pollinated by beetles, because they were around before the advent of bees.

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contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 10 months ago
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  • veroxii@aussie.zone
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    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.

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      I can’t tell if this is a serious comment or if you are just trolling the lyrics to Country Roads

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        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”

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      Oh, wow. Two cool factoids in one thread.

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        Facts, rather. Factoids are things commonly believed to be true, but are not.

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          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.

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            Thanks for this factoid.

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          Ah, interesting distinction. Thanks for clarifying.

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            Don’t believe him!

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    Couldn’t bees like still do their thing though?

    Spiders were around long before screen doors, and they still figured out how to make webs on mine.

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