Today i learned

Well we’d need more unicode characters as those begone organisms for that first

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Today I learned that a daemon is a program that runs as a background process.

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A pretty menacing name for this sort of an utility…

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I remember that a Mr. Robot episode played on the definitions of β€œdeamons”.

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Huh, never heard of that show before

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Today I learned that there are zooflagellates with proboscis called Apusomonadidae. The proboscis is formed by the Anterior Flagella (AF) being covered by a membrane-like sleve.

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Maybe spore wasn’t all that inaccurate afterall

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Today I learned about Aestivation. It is like Hybernation, but it happens during the Summer to avoid the heat, rather than during the Winter to avoid the cold.

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Torpor is somethink similar to hibernation in amphibians and fish iirc

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Does every major living group have some sort of hibernation like behavior?

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I think so, it can do be useful when the environmental values get to extreme…

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Today I learned Ontario is named after the lake, and not the other way around. Also, Ontario means β€œGreat Lake” in Wyandot language.

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I think it means beautiful lake in some other language too

lake ontario was just renamed to lake america by trump (im not joking go check the news)

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AA already posted an article about that in the misc thread

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yeah i read all new posts in order from bottom to top, so i didnt see the misc thread while posting this

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I hope more names do NOT get bastardized like that…

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i saw a meme where trump would rename the universe to β€œThe united states of everything”

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Also apparently now the acronym for those lakes will go from HOMES to SHAME…

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I wonder if only the U.S. will recognize the new name, just like when the Gulf of Mexico was renamed to Gulf of America?

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