Today I learned about Eli Herring, a former Offensive Tackle for BYU who turned down an NFL contract to become a math teacher because he didn’t want playing on Sunday to come between him and his religion. latimes.com/archives/la-x…
The origin of the idiom "Red Herring" was itself a red herring. It was originally stated that red herring were used to help hounds sniff out prey. It's misleading because red herring were actually used to train horses and were only used if there were no dead cats available instead. mentalfloss.com/article/5…
There is a group of sea wolves on Vancouver Island that can swim for miles and 90% of their diet is seafood. They primarily eat salmon but also forage on barnacles, lams, herring eggs, seals, and river otters. nationalgeographic.com/ma…
Herring use secret, high-frequency fart codes to communicate with one another. Among insects, 1 species of beaded lacewing stuns and kills its prey by farting on it. Manatees have fart-storage pouches, because farts are so vital to their buoyancy that constipated individuals cannot swim properly americanscientist.org/art…
- Surströmming (Fermented Herring) is a Swedish delicacy known for being the worlds smelliest food. The smell is so bad in fact, severel airlines has banned passengers from from carrying tin cans of this stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sur…
Red Herrings (a smelly, smoked fish) were used to teach dogs to follow a trial, but it became used as a metaphor for distracting someone from following a trail. The term Red Herring is a Red Herring. worldwidewords.org/articl…
"sardine" isn't actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
Every year, large parts of the North American western coastline turn milky white as millions of herring collectively spray thousands of gallons of semen over their spawning grounds to take part in one of the largest mass-fertilizations of the animal kingdom. azula.com/herrings-semen-…
"sardine" isn't actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
There are sea wolves that live on the coast of British Columbia. They comb the beach for barnacles, herring roe, and beached whales, and some will even even eat salmon. Most of these wolves have never even seen a deer. ngm.nationalgeographic.co…
Surströmming is a type of fermented herring eaten as a delicacy in Sweden. Because the smell is so awful, one food critic said "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sur…
Monkey's tail, little duck, pickled herring, little snail and pig's tail, are a few of many translations of how people call the @-symbol in their respective languages. webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/…
Farting fish almost caused tensions between Sweden and Russia to bubble over in 1994. Sweden kept hearing giant shoals of herring farting little bubbles and mistook the noise for Russian submarines in Swedish waters. improbable.com/2012/02/29…
Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, died of digestion problems in 1771 after eating a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring, champagne, and 14 servings of his favorite dessert, semla in a bowl of hot milk. He is remembered by schoolchildren as "the king who ate himself to death." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
Surströmming, or canned fermented herring traditionally eaten in Sweden, is classified as an explosive device on several airlines due to its tendency to, well, explode. bbc.co.uk/news/world-midd…
Herrings communicate by farting at each other. This is because the farts are pitched high enough that their predators cannot hear them. youtube.com/watch?v=on1l1…
School-swimming herring expel tiny gas explosions from the anal duct to communicate. Called “Fast Repetitive Tick sounds” or FRTs, they acquire the gas when they surface and can save this air for at least a day to release it when needed. todayifoundout.com/index.…
The South Park joke "The Chewbacca Defense" is legitimately used instead of the term "Red Herring" in articles about criminal law. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com…
DNA is flame retardant, Italian scientists discovered this when they tried to set fire to cotton coated with herring sperm DNA and the fabric refused to burn wired.com/2013/03/firepro…
Rotting Baltic sea herring is a staple food in northern Sweden. The odour is so overwhelmingly putrid that it is ordinarily eaten outdoors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sur…
King Adolf Frederick of Sweden died of digestion problems on February 12, 1771 after consuming a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off by fourteen helpings of hetvägg (Semla), the king's favorite dessert. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sem…
The meaning of "red herring" (something misleading) comes from the use of pickled fish as a distraction while training hunting dogs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red…
Metallic auto paints were first available in the 1930s. They were made of powdered fishscales and reserved only for the very rich. It took approx. 150,000 herring to produce a gallon of paint. consumerist.com/2014/10/1…
: According to Japanese study, A freshly opened can of Swedish "sour herring" has one of the most putrid food smells in the world swedishfood.com/fermented…
It was once believed Russian Submarines were populating the Stockholm Harbour. Eventually it turned out that the signals were mistaken and were actually herring farts. abc.net.au/radionational/…
Herring communicate via fast repetitive ticks (or FRT's) by expelling gas out of their anus at fast rates. These FRT's are thought to help the fish form large shoals at night. news.sciencemag.org/scien…
Most small gulls (seagulls and the likes) usually live a maximum of 2 years, but the Herring Gull lives up to 49 years on average. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…
The term red herring originated from British fugitives rubbing a red herring across their tracks to confuse the bloodhounds. english.stackexchange.com…
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