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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/

"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

The first microwave ovens created were being used to gently re-warm frozen live hamsters, because when they tried to reheat the hamsters with conventional cooking methods, they heated unevenly and burned at the edges, which isn't good for the hamsters.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone else randomly think of Joe Cartoon for the first time in a very long time?

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

You ain't got the balls! No. Balls.

I probably got that wrong, but it's also been at least 20 years since I last pressed those blender buttons.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have to assume the microwave didn't work either, because they cook far more unevenly than an oven.

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It was actually rather successful! Some papers about this research are available here (first use of a microwave to thaw living rats) and here (comparison of some other warming methods), and there’s a good Tom Scott video on the experiment as well.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

On high, yes. Lower and intermittent power in micro wave heats far more evenly than an oven

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Modern ones do have hotspots and cold spots because of resonance and design tradeoffs, but I don't think that was a problem for the hamster application. IDK, maybe they were structured a little more small and special-purpose, but regardless it was just penetrating radiation basically all throughout the hamster which is better than heating it from the outside in and having the heat having to conduct its way through the frozen tissue.

Basically the same reason you can defrost meat in the microwave, but you can't throw it in the oven to defrost more quickly without also cooking the edges.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They were invented because a microwave radar unit melted the chocolate in a guys pocket.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

That's actually one of those Urban legends things. The guy made it intentionally to Cook and it was later refined to had stacks of die punched metal sheets instead of the carefully machined blocks.

[–] DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok what the fuck. Is there a source beyond the youtube video I don't want to watch right now. That's pretty wild claim. The few sites I visit seem to reference the YouTube video as the source

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do these white hamsters keep turning brown!?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 2 points 2 months ago

I used to have a really smart hamster. But something... happened... to him.