{"id":180869,"date":"2016-12-06T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/06\/your-awesome-fact-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2016-12-06T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:21:00","slug":"your-awesome-fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/06\/your-awesome-fact-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Awesome Fact of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jD1v2M3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jD1v2M3.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a>In a development that should surprise no one, this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/88286\/11-twisted-facts-about-far-side?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Partner&amp;utm_campaign=FBK\">fact about the Gary Larson Cartoon <i>The Far Side<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Stegosaurus is world-famous for its lime-sized brain and the quartet of nasty-looking spikes on its tail. A 1982 &#8220;Far Side&#8221; strip decided to have a little fun with the latter attribute. In that cartoon, we find an early human anachronistically lecturing his fellow cavemen about dinosaur-related hazards. Pointing at the rear end of a Stegosaurus diagram, he says \u201cNow this end is called the thagomizer \u2026 after the late Thag Simmons.\u201d Without meaning to, Larson\u2019s strip plugged a gap in the scientific lexicon. Previously, nobody had ever given a name to the unique arrangement of tail spikes found on Stegosaurus and its relatives. But today, many paleontologists use the word \u201cthagomizer\u201d when describing this apparatus, even in scientific journals.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is so full of awesome that there is a risk of injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a development that should surprise no one, this is a fact about the Gary Larson Cartoon The Far Side: Stegosaurus is world-famous for its lime-sized brain and the quartet of nasty-looking spikes on its tail. A 1982 &#8220;Far Side&#8221; strip decided to have a little fun with the latter attribute. In that cartoon, we &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[758,884,885,854,858,828],"class_list":["post-180869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-art","tag-paleontology","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}