YSK that horses evolved in North America, migrated to Eurasia across the Bering land bridge, then went extinct in North America.

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YSK used to have a rule that asked "why we need to know this/should know this.

  This is a TIL not a YSK.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah this is helpful I was in a serious situation and now I made it out alive thanks to this. Thank you OP

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The horse reiki mafia wont ever cease their pursuit of you.

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  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder what trials and tribulations this man has faced where he feels to make this PSA

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    • GONADS125@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe he was a redditor who watched as every subreddit became an r/AdviceAnimals and r/funny clone, where relevant discussion was buried under the same lame ass jokes on every post.

      When morons posted r/funny material in r/nonononoyes, but were too ignorant to understand how that was a problem, this example was usually helpful:

      Do you think it’s okay for r/wtf material to be posted in r/awww or r/EyeBleach? If r/TheOnion posts were posted in r/WorldNews?

      There exist different communities for a reason. This is so obvious it’s painful to imagine how some people can’t grasp such a simple concept.

      Why should the boundaries of the two different communities with different purposes errode? Because of laziness? Stupidity? What’s the point of even having communities if people just post the wrong content?

      When you’re at a grocery store, are you one of the jackasses who decides “Actually, I don’t want this steak” and just set it on some random unrefriderated shelf in the wrong section?

      This is the type of bad user behavior that turned reddit to shit.

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• squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why should I know this

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  • Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It will be on the test.

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    • Streetdog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It better be, I’m not gonna lurk everything on Lemmy fort it to not be on the frigging test.

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  • Pinklink@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because until 30 seconds ago you thought horses were not native to America

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You won’t be asking that when you step through a time portal back to 58 million years ago and need something to pull your plow.

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    • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      need something to pull your plow
      ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its a cool bit of trivia

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t that more TIL?

      I thought the point here was for useful information that you might actually need.

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  • Lennnny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Useful in survival situations

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• Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think this is sufficiently useful to warrant a YSK. The more important question is were the horse moustaches evolved before or after the migration, anyway.

  This is more TIL territory, at any rate.

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• CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks as a 54 million year old North American stallion I was wondering where all my friends were.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why should I know this?

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  • stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because the horses are coming. And they are ANGRY.

    The only way to survive is to win three rounds of trivia nights on various horse topics. So quit horsing around!

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  • figaro@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Horses are mentioned in the book of Mormon. If you happen to believe in the book of Mormon, this fact might be interesting to you

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• bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  OP, YSK what YSK stands for

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  • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TIL YSK is LPT.

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• dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is relevant to exmormons, since the Book of Mormon has horses in America a few thousand years ago.

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  • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now we got them. Now they have to admit that josepth Smith lied when he wrote his fiction. The horse-fact will surely bring that cult down.

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A reason why it can be a YSK is because the native people of the great turtle island remembered the creature when it came back. It spread so fast because everyone had a cultural remembrance of them and was able to remember stories about them to tame and ride them. Much of the history taught to Americans is that the natives were primitives and lacked a rich history. Many stories that were passed on from elder to youth were done in literal languages and deviation from the story was not to be done.

  The tribes have lots of other stories that are told from time forever and those stories should be more well known. Many times in the past people didn’t listen to the tribal knowledge and

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  • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Since horses disappeared from America 8000 BCE, I highly doubt that there would be any reminiscence of how to tame them. And I highly doubt that they were domesticated anyway when they disappeared (sheep and goats as were first domesticated around 9000 BCE)

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I highly doubt that there would be any reminiscence of how to tame them.

      Look into it, its not really contested.

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• EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure wild horses still exist…

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  • rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All "wild" horses in North America are actually feral horses. There are no wild horses in North America.

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  • blivet@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are descended from horses brought over by Europeans.

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• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I woke up in the middle of the night a few weeks back with the question “where are horses from”.
  I had to look it up.

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• downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  now tell em where whales come from

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The process was described in “The hitchhiker guide to galaxy”

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not again….

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  • littlewonder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Easy, just watch the Star Trek movie about it!

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  • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    lemmy.ca/post/7746795

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine how different history would be if they’d stayed in NA and never went extinct.

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  • GONADS125@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Native American culture could have developed much differently if they had been better able to transport resources. Maybe larger societies. That is an interesting thought.

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