“[T]he United States is the world’s leading producer and consumer of gravel.†— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel#Modern_production
#wikigem
Things you don’t see anymore
Things you don’t see anymore: curses inscribed in books to discourage their theft. “[W]idely employed … during the medieval period[,] [t]he use of book curses dates back … to pre-Christian times, when the wrath of gods was invoked to protect books and scrolls.†— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_curse
A ghost drawn by HR Giger?
A ghost drawn by HR Giger? No — it’s an artist’s reconstruction of a glyptodon, published in 1839. (via Wikipedia)
“The vole clock is a method of dating archaeological strata using vole teeth.”
“The vole clock is a method of dating archaeological strata using vole teeth.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vole#Vole_clock
I found this gem on Wikipedia yesterday
I found this gem on Wikipedia yesterday:
Lucius Licinius Crassus was mocked by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 54 BC) for weeping over the death of his pet lamprey [as told in Plutarch’s Morals, vol. 5 at the end of section 14 of “POLITICAL PRECEPTS”]