jstor.org

kJEK7 TIL: there is a Roman epitaph about a freed enslaved woman that praises her virtues as a housewoman and also her white breasts and beautiful legs. bonus content: a thruple
9wERG TIL that after reading Rutherford’s paper on atomic disintegration, Henry Adams wrote in 1902 : “At this rate, thought will be overturned; law replaced by force [...] explosives will reach cosmic violence.” Less than 50 years later, the first nuclear bomb exploded in New Mexico, July 16, 1945.
ZpEa4 TIL that potato “eyes”come from undifferentiated stem cells that can sense their environment and decide whether to grow roots or shoots based on where they are. If they are underground they become roots, above ground they become shoots and grow leaves.