It turns out the company that makes Sriracha, has never advertised it. All sales growth based entirely on word of mouth.
There’s a cute documentary on Netflix (or A.Prime) about Sriracha. The founder of the company talked about how much of it they sell. He said he uses his all the time, but a bottle lasts months.
Worth a watch.
Apparently the spikes on a stegosaurus tail didn’t have a name until Gary Larson named it.
Just alerted to this from the Larson fan facebook group.
I love it when things get named that way!
Meet the Colbert treadmill
Heard this morning on the BBC -
30% of all birds on Earth are chickens.
How are they measuring bravery amongst birds? Seems awfully subjective.
I think it might have been David Attenborough who said it. He’s an expert. 
What percentage of mammals are cows? Earth has a lot of McDonalds.
There are more sheep than cows. In some countries (Australia, New Zealand, Sudan, et al.) there are more sheep than people.
They haven’t trademarked the name, either. It’s a generic term.
Let me tell you something, chickens are not, actually, “chicken” in the sense of being cowards.
Some friends of mine got into raising chickens a while back. One day they heard a big ruckus in the backyard. One of their hens, a little black one, had attacked a predator that was going after her chick. The chick survived, but Little Goth Hen disappeared.
They’ve also had several instances where one of their roosters has tangled with predators in protection of the flock, but in those cases my friends chased the predators off. The roosters and flock were fine, but only because the rooster bought time for the humans to come out.
Lots of cultures consider the domestic chicken to be a fierce fighter; at least measured pound for pound.
The French have it as their national symbol for that reason. Many boxers of Latin heritage have “El {something} Gallo” as their fighting nickname. And of course cockfighting is a “sport” almost worldwide for a reason: those birds can put up a vicious aggressive fight.
Here’s some recent data on humans, livestock, and wild mammals. Sobering:
The actor Lance Henriksen only completed the first grade and didn’t learn to read until he was around 30.
Armadillos always have litters of four. They are identical quadruplets, and are usefull in the medical field as control animal for the study of Hansen’s disease(formerly called leprosy). The info I have seen says they are the only animal besides humans who can contract it.
This may have been mentioned already but I don’t feel like searching the thread. Over 25% of all animal species are beetles. Which led to biologist J.B.S. Haldane’s famous quip when he was asked what his studies had taught him about the mind of God: “He has an inordinate fondness for beetles”.
I recall being surprised to find out that about 80% of all species are arthropods… As explained to me at the time, it is the abundance of unique isolated environments that all those bugs can adapt to that led to the variety.
See also from just last week:
Bottom line being armored creepy-crawlies are just a darn versatile design.
Hens act chicken, alerting the whole flock.
Not like ducks, that duck down in the reeds and hope the fox sees some other duck.
And I use it to refer to our (rather large) puppy’s swishing, wagging tail. While not spiked, it’s certainly dangerous to get too close to.
To this day, Yale gives any tenured professor an honorary masters degree if they do not hold a graduate degree from Yale.