But it's cool that there's enough overlap that sometimes I can get the gist of it anyway.
I can understand if people talk slowly but can't talk back. But if it's two natives talking, forget about it, especially because each country has a specific accent and the words change a lot.I like that. How do you say it in Portuguese?
It is so interesting to run into Portuguese as someone who knows Spanish but isn't quite fluent. For a long time I would be like, "Did I suddenly just get very bad at Spanish?" until I realize I'm listening to Portuguese.
Weed was illegal in the United States because DuPont (yes THAT DuPont) invented nylon for ropes and wanged to push out hemp growers. Evem though hemp is more durable and easier to produce/cultivate. He and the company lobbied the government until they got what they wanted.
That's on the US side of the border, Porfirio Diaz didn't want anything that may help indigenous people make a living to be legal.
Have you ever read the book 1491? It's a deep dive into all of the beautiful things Columbus and his idiot friends ruined in Central America. It can be tedious sometimes but it's quite informative.
I should read it. I’m just wrapping up this book. I’m a narco-journalism freak, and this guy’s pretty good: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781324006558
And that the word chocolate came from the Aztec word Xocoatl, but the Spanish didn’t like the pronunciation so it became chocolate.
Thanks for sharing! I watch To Catch a Smuggler and Mariana Van Zeller's Trafficked, two very interesting shows on the underground worlds of drugs and other things.
With those saltwater varieties, I expect you have to watch out for marine fowl-ingTIL chickens can swim. Has anyone seen a chicken swimming in the ocean before? It's hilarious. Looked like it really enjoyed it
Wow, it is true! I had to look it up to believe it. Which lead me to learn that being topless is not illegal for women in my state. Which explains why I wasn't immediately arrested for being topless on my last fishing trip! Neat!
I just can't get past the thought of driving naked in summer with vinyl or leather seats..... yikes.
And they are the biggest bony fish in the ocean.
until the Great White comes a callingTIL that blue bottle jellyfish are not one animal, but more like a colony of different organisms coexisting and operating together. I also learned that Ocean sunfish are completely unbothered by blue bottle venom and eat them as one of their main sources of food. ( Their thick skin protects them.)
Sunfish also have the thickest skin of all animals.
Marine life is so cool!
Sharks are not "bony fish", they belong to the class of "Chondrichthyes" or cartilaginous fish!
I had a very close call with a shark while diving on the Great Barrier Reef off the Queensland coast almost 20 years ago.
