I’m not much of a web searcher or YouTube and only search them occasionally. But there are excerpts of a TV show I really enjoy. It is very informative. The show is Man verses nature. He gives wonderful information that would be good in a fantasy book or elsewhere.
What better place to store notes then on my page for others to enjoy? Once I create a page of just ‘general knowledge’. I might call it Tidbits of knowledge, since it will be a catch all for different things I learn and I want to be able to come back to later and look them up. That is why I’ve been putting the Browser information into categories for easier access.
Man verses nature notes so far:
-Use a bottle to act as goggle to look into sea water.
-The eyes of the fish are a very nutritious part of the fish when you need to eat
-Cactus with a white milky substance is not edible. There is a plant called a ufoiba with long spiked limbs that looks like a cactus but it is not. Its milk is poisonous
-A group of sixteen people used the dried branches of a Ufobia as fuel for their fire. It poisoned their food and killed them.
-There is a green bush that has circular leaves the size of silver dollars. The leaves may look dry but you can squeeze the leaves and get a bitter juice that can give you needed moisture. Squeeze the leaves between your hands and use your thumb as a spout to have the juice drip into your mouth.
-Let good high quality boots be your weapon if necessary. One episode the guy stomped on a porcupine to kill it and the villagers he stayed with later ate the meat. That boots stopped the animal and prevented damage to the humans.
-When fishing for piranha fish you can single them out in shallow sections of water. Avoid large pools since a lot of fish can attack back. Make sure the meat is well cooked to killed harmful parasites.
There you go, a few useful points of information I gathered. I like documentaries when I watch them but I definitely need to take more time in seeking them out. See, school and college are not the only sources of fascinating information.
What are your sources of gaining interesting sources of knowledge? Please feel free to share the titles and links.
