The nice bright white glossy paper we have uses a high clay content to give the paper its qualities. Kaolin is the clay, it is named after the mountain in China where it was mined from in the early days.
And the Kaolin used to be mixed with a plant derivative pectin to make an anti-diarrhea medicine, Kaopectate. The types of clay were switched, then removed completely. The current formula includes bismuth subsalicate, like Pepto Bismol.The nice bright white glossy paper we have uses a high clay content to give the paper its qualities. Kaolin is the clay, it is named after the mountain in China where it was mined from in the early days.
I actually read a newspaper, honestly I find it clumsy the pages are so big that they are constantly falling over and you have to shake it back into place.(remember newspapers?)
busses (and trains..) used to be filled with people reading papers.. everyone had a knack of folding it just right to make it / them manageable..I actually read a newspaper, honestly I find it clumsy the pages are so big that they are constantly falling over and you have to shake it back into place.
A lost skill it appears…busses (and trains..) used to be filled with people reading papers.. everyone had a knack of folding it just right to make it / them manageable..
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And men wore hats.busses (and trains..) used to be filled with people reading papers.. everyone had a knack of folding it just right to make it / them manageable..
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And Wombat turds are cubes.Sloths don't fart.
See post #4And Wombat turds are cubes.
Your Google search landed me hereKoalas feed their poop to their baby Koalas which gives them the bacteria to digest Eucalyptus. As we're getting poopy....
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And as you're looking at this photo and wondering about 2 thumbs.....
https://www.google.com/search?-lm&q=would+2+thumbs+and+3+fingers+be+better
Beavers (as well as some other animals) eat their poop.
https://www.livescience.com/59601-why-do-animals-eat-poop.html
Random nerdy fact:Our dog occasionally chews on a dried turd she finds. She also seems to want to roll in any non-canine poop she finds. Like cat, which is awful. We got some gardening soil this afternoon to plant veggie beds. Let her out in the back yard where we were working and she started rolling on one of the bags; it smelled like manure is a significant component of the mix.
This has my vote as the best random nerdy fact in this thread!Technically, it can be said that the lightest element is not hydrogen. It's positronium (Ps), with one electron and one positron. It was postulated back in the 1940s. Unlike the other elements, in Ps the electron and positron circle about their center of mass.
Ps-H and Ps-Ps have been made. Such materials would make rather interesting propellants if it weren't for the fact that the lifetime of Ps is about 0.1 ns.
There are analogues of Ps, e.g., protonium (proton and antiproton).
And, because rabbits are among those, but only eat particular turds, it is suspected that this might be the reason that rabbits were counted among ruminants as "clean" animals in ancient Hewish dietary laws.Beavers (as well as some other animals) eat their poop.
https://www.livescience.com/59601-why-do-animals-eat-poop.html
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