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LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why

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TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why

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LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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The mystery of the medieval fighting snails
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The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious monster: the fighting snail.
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    Monks did most of the writing and artwork.

    Monks main diet was brassicas.

    They grew their own food.

    Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment

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      Brassica, it is ALWAY brassica.

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        Always

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        Mate, when a full monastery is blowing the covers off every night to the sound of foghorns i care little for correct plurality

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          I read their response not as “The correct plural is brassica”, but as “Friggin’ everything is a brassica cultivar”.

          If you didn’t know: cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, collard greens and cauliflower are all selectively bred cultivars of the same species.

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            No, not everything is brassica.

            But everything that isn’t brassica is cucurbita.

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              Yo mama’s so something something biologists something something brassica cultivar.

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                Yo mama’s so widespread they renamed brassica after her

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            You are correct. Not sure why he felt so attacked.

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      I think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think

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      Explains the rabbits as well! You come up with this on your own?!

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        Monty Python makes so much more sense now

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      This makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!

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      Removed by mod

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      That’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?

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