People not knowing that most jellyfish are meat eaters reminds me of how even more people are surprised that sea anemones are meat eaters. It always tickles me because that was the very first thing I ever learned about them as a kid and the first fact I still think of, that a sea anemone is like an animal living as a carnivorous plant.
It’s incredibly hard to find photographs of it anymore though because all anybody photographs and talks about are the fact that clownfish happily live in them and even then they often neglect to mention that clownfish will lure other fish into their anemone to keep it fed
On this day, 16 February 1943, German American translator, writer and anti-Nazi resistance activist Mildred Fish-Harnack was beheaded in Berlin: the only woman to be executed on dictator Adolf Hitler’s personal orders. Part of the so-called “Red Orchestra” of socialist anti-fascist underground activists, she was tried and sentenced to hard labour, but then retried on Hitler’s direction and sentenced to death. She and her group assisted Jews and forced labourers, recruited other resistance activists and distributed anti-fascist propaganda. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1653200031531807/?type=3
“That’s the thing about human life — there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (via quotespile)
