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eric-sadahire · 7 months

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I love how the ocean is 85% filled with weird little freaks...

Today I learned that there is such a thing as a Tasselled Wobblegong Fox Shark and I need to share it with you all.

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officialhistoryandshit · 2 years

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Ravens are also known to play with wolf pups.

#raven #ravens #wolf #wolves #nature #animalkingdom #corvids #corvid #bird #birds #factoftheday #learning #education #til #facts #funfact #learn #discover #funfacts #todayilearned #factsdaily #knowledge #todayilearnedthat #lessonoftheday

#til #todayilearnedthat #todayilearned #raven #ravens #corvids #wolf #wolves

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taraross-1787 · 2 years

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This Day in History: The Marquis de Lafayette

On this day in 1757, a future Revolutionary War hero is born—in France! Do you know about the Marquis de Lafayette, the Frenchman who became like a son to George Washington? The two men first met in 1777, soon after Lafayette came to America, ready to help the American Army. Lafayette was then just 19 years old. General Washington was 45. Nevertheless, one of Lafayette’s biographers would say, “the two men bonded almost immediately.” Some people would find Washington rather stoic. Not Lafayette. He thought Washington warm and inviting—like the father he’d never had. For his part, Washington was taken by the enthusiasm of the younger man. Lafayette was invited into Washington’s fold almost immediately. Why was Washington so quick to include Lafayette in his inner circle? Historian James Gaines theorizes that Washington “saw something of himself in this ambitious young general with no battlefield experience who harbored dreams of his own division.” The friendship may have been further cemented a week later, as Lafayette was reviewing the badly trained, ragtag American force. The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-lafayette-washington

#tdih #otd #this day in history #history #history blog #American Revolution #George Washington #freedom #liberty #todayilearned #sharethehistory

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reaverdasnack · 7 months

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Amazon doesn't update your address on your wishlist when you change your default address for deliveries

#tips #lifeadvice #todayilearned #fuckamazon

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pianotrees · 7 months

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i was so disappointed when i learned silverback gorilla backs had "hair" and not silver

what is this sh*t

#silverback #todayilearned #disappointment

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lostindamist · 7 months

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i rlly hope my story isnt a tragedy

#interestingasfuck #conspiracy #astralprojection #todayilearned #luciddreaming #chaos magick #paganism #magick #black magic #occultism

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galby68 · 1 year

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TIL 13: ABass

I started off my Saturday rip roaring and ready to go. Mainly thanks to a full 8 hours of sleep, brought to you by the perfectly managed cross-fade. IYKYK. So, naturally, I stayed in bed reading for three hours. But then I was totally going to get up, exercise and then do more pre-potential-packing purging. An hour later, I ordered lunch and settled in to watch Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.…

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#beer #blogging #chrisism #todayilearned #movies

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david-d-levine · 1 year

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#TodayILearned that "eggnog" in French is "lait de poule" -- literally "chicken milk." (at New Westminster City of) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRXuIRO6th/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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craftygal65 · 1 year

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TIL: the painting famously called “Dogs Playing Poker” is actually called a”A Friend in Need”...I had no idea! #themoreyouknow🌈 #todayilearned link➡️ https://twitter.com/joshchafetz/status/1051964024118755328?s=21 https://www.instagram.com/p/CkAnkEOuRp5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#themoreyouknow🌈#todayilearned

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yatescountyhistorycenter · 2 years

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Aloha from Honolulu to Penn Yan

By Jonathan Monfiletto

For being a millennial (I was born in 1988, so I fall within this generation according to every definition I can find), I’m not really well versed in millennial things, especially when it comes to social media memes and trends and the like. But I recently came across a meme in which people start a sentence with “I was today years old…” or “Today I learned…” to announce an interesting fact they just found out or to offer a sarcastic commentary on something.

Well, for this article, I will go with the former object of the meme. I was today years old when I learned the Finger Lakes region has connections to both the 49th and 50th states of the United States of America. Most well known, of course, is Auburn resident William Henry Seward, who as U.S. Secretary of State under President Andrew Johnson secured the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. Less well known, at least to me, is Penn Yan’s own Darius Adams Ogden, who served as the first U.S. Consul to the Hawaiian Islands (then known to Americans as Europeans as the Sandwich Islands) after being appointed by President Franklin Pierce in 1854.

Ogden was born in Northville (now better known as King Ferry) in Cayuga County on August 14, 1813 and came to Penn Yan as a teenager to work in the general store of his uncle, Henry Bradley. On December 18, 1834, he married Judith Ann Lawrence, whose family had been among the early settlers in Yates County. The Ogden family made their home, which still stands today, at the northeast corner of Clinton and Hamilton streets, and Darius held several civic and political leadership roles during his lifetime.

Ogden served as Justice of the Peace for the Town of Milo in 1841 and then as Penn Yan Postmaster from 1843 to 1849. From 1850 to 1853, he worked as the owner and editor of the Penn Yan Democrat. After his tenure in Hawaii, he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1861 – during the Civil War – and also served on the Military Commission for the Congressional district to help raise volunteer troops for the Union Army. He was a member of the state Canal Commission, serving as Canal Appraiser and being appointed Canal Commissioner in 1876. He was a Presidential Elector that same year.

A passionate Methodist and an ardent Free Mason, Ogden was devoted to the interests of the mentally ill as a Trustee of Willard Asylum and committed to schoolchildren’s education as a founder of Penn Yan Academy and a 30-year member of the Board of Education. He was also appointed to the commission to revise and codify the laws pertaining to state prisons in New York. Throughout all of his work, Ogden was known as a gifted speaker and noted orator, so his talents were often in demand as he was frequently invited to address several groups and organizations around the county, state, and nation.

In a letter to John L. Lewis Jr. dated March 26, 1855 – and published in the July 23, 1936 edition of The Chronicle-Express – Ogden described life in Hawaii, which was then its own sovereign kingdom, and offered his impressions of the islands. The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898, established it as a territory two years later, and adopted it as the 50th state in 1959.

Ogden indicates in the letter he arrived in Hawaii on October 19, 1854, having spent 42 days travelling from Penn Yan to the islands, and immediately went to work in what was a busy season for the consulate. Ogden states much of his business during that season involved the whaling fleets that cruised the Pacific Ocean. These ships, he writes, leave eastern ports to spend from two to five years around the Pacific; in the summer months, crews would travel to the Arctic Circle or the Ochotsk Sea, bordered by Russian territory, in search of whales. In the fall, fleets traveled to the Hawaiian Islands to recruit new crew members and refresh themselves for the next round of work the following year, spending the winter months in the ports of the islands.

Whaling fleets apparently paid their crew members and hired new ones through the consulate, as Ogden details in his letter, so his arrival in October meant hitting the ground running to serve the fleets in their work. “It was one continued scene of activity and strife, requiring much patience and in many cases involving grave questions and calling for prompt action and decision,” Ogden tells Lewis. “I was green, had but little idea of the peculiar and important duties I was called upon to perform and I confess I was oftentimes sick at heart and tired of the conflict; true the pay is good, better even than my expectations but I feel notwithstanding very often as though I would much prefer Penn Yan than Honolulu.”

Ogden also describes the native Hawaiian people – noting, in his own words, they are not quite like Negroes but not quite like Indians. He talks about the people’s lifestyle, the clothes men and women wear, and the food they eat, among a few other details. “The climate of the islands is delightful most of the time and hence it is a pleasant place to live so far as mere animal life is concerned,” Ogden writes. “Society is very good what there is of it. During six months of the year there is but little doing either commercially or at the consulate. These are some of the good things to be put in the balance against the trials to be endured.”

Ogden closes his letter to Lewis by commenting on some of the political happenings going on back home in Penn Yan and asking Lewis to provide him with more hometown news. If possible, he asks, Lewis should send him some Democrat newspapers as it is news and newspapers he misses the most and he seldom receives. He offers his greetings to some friends and family back home, but one thing he doesn’t say in his letter is, “Aloha!”

#history #historyblog #yatescounty #pennyan #hawaii #alaska #todayyearsold #todayilearned

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crazyicebuzz · 2 years

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I've Got my Bullet Ice! 🤓

Learn more about bullet ice at icemakerpedia.

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piedude · 2 years

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That person immediately after pressing the button:

#mine #todayilearned

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officialhistoryandshit · 2 years

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Scientists believe that the cats natural status as a carnivore is responsible for their inability to taste sweetness, as there is no necessity for it in their diet. #caturday #caturdays #caturdaysaturday #cat #cats #kittycat #kitty #kitties #til #todayilearned #science #todayilearnedthat #learn #discover #knowledge #education #learning #lesson #lessonoftheday #sciences #coolstuff #coolfacts #factsdaily #catfacts #sweet #taste #sciencedaily #sciencefacts #carnivore https://www.instagram.com/p/CiDxykUpKuD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ciego64 · 2 years

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Today I learned that parrots and photography equipment don’t mix! . . . . . #todayilearned #funfact #parrotsandphotographydontmix #parrots #parrotsofinstagram #anythingisachewtoy #softhood #nikon #nikkorlens #shotoniphone #shotoniphonexr (at Kismet Oasis) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdHmlJrlWE3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#todayilearned #funfact #parrotsandphotographydontmix #parrots #parrotsofinstagram #anythingisachewtoy #softhood #nikon #nikkorlens #shotoniphone #shotoniphonexr

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slugass · 5 months

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the advantages of hyperfixating on a character who is an anthropromorphic object/animal/whatever:

you google things about said object/creature/thingggg bc you like being reminded of that character, and you google fun facts about that thing and learn cool shit about it

#go check out r/todayilearned #this post is targeted towards my son in particular #my son from gregory horror show #it doesn’t just apply to him but #i’m looking up shit about clocks on on the internet #that’s what inspired this post #hfhfhghfhfhfhhf bABBYYYYYYYYYY AAAAAAAAAGH HE’S SO ADORABLE

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pianotrees · 7 months

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today i learned that my firm belief in green being the color of evil may be due to my excessive and obsessive watching of Little Shop of Horrors

#littleshop #littleshopofhorrors #green #todayilearned #audreyii #seymourkrelborn

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