Today I Learned… #2

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Sandi Toksvig has two children concieved by artifical insemination, with Christopher Lloyd-Pack, Brother of Roger Lloyd Pack (Trigger in Only fools & horses)!
 
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That the anti caking agent added to pre-grated cheese, to stop it from sticking together, stops it from melting
 
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That the anti caking agent added to pre-grated cheese, to stop it from sticking together, stops it from melting
It is OK if you rinse the cheese. Put it in a colander and run under a cold tap. You can dry it off or leave to dry depending on what you are using it for.
 
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In the 1830s tomato ketchup was marketed and sold across the US as a cure-all medicine for indigestion and diarrhea before it became a condiment.
 
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I just grate whole blocks of cheese up in the food processor and divide it into freezer bags to pull out as and when required.
 
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That double cream has a much higher large/calorie content than single cream. I know it might seem obvious, I just thought they were two slightly different types of the same thing.
 
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That a bird is not a mammal.. i thought mammals were just all warm blooded animals, apparently not.

Tell me I'm not on my own , I'm surely not the only person who didnt know this, its honestly blown my mind
 
That a bird is not a mammal.. i thought mammals were just all warm blooded animals, apparently not.

Tell me I'm not on my own , I'm surely not the only person who didnt know this, its honestly blown my mind
Sorry I think I always knew. Mammals are fed with milk producing mothers and usually have hair or fur?
 
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That a bird is not a mammal.. i thought mammals were just all warm blooded animals, apparently not.

Tell me I'm not on my own , I'm surely not the only person who didnt know this, its honestly blown my mind
birds lay eggs, whereas mammals give birth to live young - that is how I always remembered it! also helped me remember why dolphins & whales are mammals, rather than fish.

that said, it is a bit more complicated, as mammals also make milk to deed their young - so although some types of sharks do give birth to live young & others lay eggs, they don't have mammary glands/nurse their babies so all sharks are fish, not mammals.
 
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That a bird is not a mammal.. i thought mammals were just all warm blooded animals, apparently not.

Tell me I'm not on my own , I'm surely not the only person who didnt know this, its honestly blown my mind
Think you might be on your own with that one 😉
 
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Think you might be on your own with that one 😉
but to perhaps make you feel less alone in your animal knowledge, it is only recently I found out that kangaroo babies are born when they are still an embryo, only spending a month inside her before being born tiny little jellybean sized, blind and without any hair, they crawl by themselves into their mother's pouch - using their two front paws to climb using her hair - which serves as an external womb, they latch onto one of her nipples in place of an umbilical cord, and the fetus grows until the joey is ready to be "born" 7 or 8 months later! I always though the pouch was just a way the kangaroo carried her baby after it was born, not that it literally grew into a full-size kangaroo inside it! that's why baby kangaroos often want to be carried in their mama's pouch - because it feels safe & familiar to them, like being back in the womb and it is also in the pouch where they are fed milk after birth.

ALSO a kangaroo can get pregnant while she still has a baby that isn't ready to be born in her pouch, but she can't grorw two babies at once, so after fertilisarion, her body pauses the pregnancy at the embryonic stage, and when the baby she is already carrying reaches full-term, her body knows to reactivate the pregnancy and the embryo that has been. on pause for potentially over 200 days begins to develop!

literally blew my mind! 🤯
 
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birds lay eggs, whereas mammals give birth to live young - that is how I always remembered it! also helped me remember why dolphins & whales are mammals, rather than fish.

that said, it is a bit more complicated, as mammals also make milk to deed their young - so although some types of sharks do give birth to live young & others lay eggs, they don't have mammary glands/nurse their babies so all sharks are fish, not mammals.
I believe there is a mammal (platypus?) that gives birth to eggs rather than live young
 
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