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mojo, in in Western Australia, until 2021, it was illegal to transport more than 50kg of potatoes in your car unless you were a member of the potato corps.

Does that include if it’s in your stomach?

Spacebar, in An ice sheet collides with the shoreline
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Now imagine ice age glaciers that were over 2 miles thick hitting that same shoreline.

Spliffman1, in in Western Australia, until 2021, it was illegal to transport more than 50kg of potatoes in your car unless you were a member of the potato corps.
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In USA go to McDonald’s drive in with a medium sized family and super size your fries you may leave with close to 50 kg of potatoes

Robert7301201, in An ice sheet collides with the shoreline

Considering how thick that ice is and how fast it’s moving, this is actually pretty terrifying.

It’s really cool to see in real time an example of how a glacier can erode the terrain though.

gibmiser, in An ice sheet collides with the shoreline

Closer to a gruesome grinding death than they realize

Fried_out_Kombi, in An ice sheet collides with the shoreline
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It looks like it might be Lake Baikal. It’s a huge lake in Siberia that freezes over like this.

Nach,

Kill the camera man. I was getting whiplash. Just take a few steps back and get the whole thing in frame.

Adulated_Aspersion, in An ice sheet collides with the shoreline

Achievement unlocked:

Congratulations! You learned the basics of plate tectonics.

PaperTowel, in TIL: ferns have sperm that swims

I do too, but no one finds that interesting

captainlezbian, in TIL: ferns have sperm that swims

Flowering plants first evolved in the late Cretaceous. Ferns are old. Ferns are really old. They aren’t fertilized by insects

UltraMagnus0001, in in Western Australia, until 2021, it was illegal to transport more than 50kg of potatoes in your car unless you were a member of the potato corps.

Always a middle man taking their cut

Penguinblue, in TIL: ferns have sperm that swims

Only flowering plants are pollinated by bees and even then not all of them. Ferns evolved before flowers existed so of course they need a different way to breed.

ClockworkOtter, in TIL: ferns have sperm that swims

That’s extremely interesting!

cizra,

Does this mean it’s off-topic for Mildly Interesting?

boyi,

yes. this is TIL.

yoz, in in Western Australia, until 2021, it was illegal to transport more than 50kg of potatoes in your car unless you were a member of the potato corps.

Fucking weird state filled with baby boomers.

tictac2, in in Western Australia, until 2021, it was illegal to transport more than 50kg of potatoes in your car unless you were a member of the potato corps.

My home state!

burningquestion, in TIL: ferns have sperm that swims

More interesting to me is that a full fern life cycle takes two generations to play out. A diploid (two sets of each chromosome) fern throws off spores, and the spores grow into haploid (one set of each chromosome) plantlets. The haploid plantlets fertilize each other, and boom, the offsping are diploid ferns.

meyotch,

Truly interesting, isn’t it? Even cooler is that more ‘modern’ flowering plants do the same thing, but they have truncated and miniaturized the haploid phase so it is completely dependent on the diploid sporophyte.

Don’t get me started on mosses. I have to go to work!

captainlezbian,

Ok but what if we want to know more about mosses

PlasticExistence,

I would like to subscribe to your moss facts newsletter

Akasazh,
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Did you know that Richard Ayoade, who played Moss in ‘the IT-crowd’ debuted on tv in ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’?

PlasticExistence,

That is technically on topic, so well done!

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