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#1
In the year 1910, in the American state of Ohio, there were only 2 registered automobiles...and they hit each other.
Zoe Vokes 2 weeks ago
Either they didn’t know what to do in the situation or they both thought, “I’m a very important man. They’ll swerve for me.”
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
I once watched two cars slowly but aggressively drive into each other while vying for a parking space. Seriously 5mph while glaring at each other until they collided. Then they jumped out and started blaming each other
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Victoria Howell 2 weeks ago
Claim: Photo showing an 1895 car accident involving the only two cars in the US state of Ohio. Fact: The photo shared in the photo shows an accident that took place in 1932 in the Back Bay neighbourhood area of Boston in the US State of Massachusetts. This photo was captured by an American photographer named Leslie Jones. The photo does not show an 1895 car accident in the US state of Ohio. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Marlene Ricker 23 hours ago
I hope that made you feel really good. I was just enjoying the post and having a laugh but no! you had to ruin it!
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#2
That in Germany attempting to escape from prison is not considered a crime in itself as the law recognizes the human instinct to seek freedom. If no other laws are broken while escaped, the escape is not punishable under German law.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
The essential presumption for any jail is that the prisoners would rather not be there.
Jalunney 2 weeks ago
Not being a tool but you really should look at what the Geneva convention was about.
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RedHairedDragon 2 weeks ago
I would like this one in reverse; which countries is it illegal to escape prison in?
Karl der Große 2 weeks ago
True in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Mexico and Chile.
Nicole Weymann 2 weeks ago (edited)
I'm not sure it's about "the instinct to seek freedom", since instincts are within the realm of biology rather than jurisdiction, but more that the "Grundgesetz" (basically our constitution) grants people freedom, and taking away that freedom - be it by kidnapping, enslavement, or imprisonment - means you're acting against basic human rights. You are entitled to defend your rights. Meanwhile, of course, the country's government is entitled to defend itself and the people from those who will harm them.
#3
Everyone has kicked a pregnant woman.
SCP 4666 2 weeks ago
I always thought I was a man trapped inside a woman's body. Then I was born
Auntriarch 2 weeks ago
And it's funny to watch, especially if she's balancing her sandwich on the bump at the time (fear not, she laughed as well).
Jaya 2 weeks ago
I don't wanna ruin the joke because it's very funny, but I do wonder if it's true. Because sometimes a woman gives birth without even knowing she was pregnant, which means the baby probably didn't really kick?
Jenna Kay 2 weeks ago
O, baby kicked, just not hard OR more likely she thought it was a gas bubble ... sometimes it hard to tell!!
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KatWitch57 2 weeks ago
And mine kicked the german shepherd in the face :)
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Everything in the universe is either a duck, or it is not a duck.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
And Chico Marx demands to know "Why a duck? Why-a no chicken?"
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David Paterson 2 weeks ago (edited)
This is called "the law of the excluded middle". It fails for self-referencial statements, which require four-value logic. It also fails for fuzzy logic.
BrunoVI 2 weeks ago
More specifically, it fails for Donald Duck (a fictional duck), turducku (fake duck), duck meat (former duck), a duck used as an alternative for a censored word, teals (various species in the duck genus, Anas, that aren't recognized as ducks) or even geese and swans (in the duck sub-family, anatinae), the act of ducking, seafood ducks (a thin-shelled, white mollusk), a drake (a male duck, when gender is specified, where "duck" refers specifically to a female)... I could go on virtually forever.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Some people are binary (belonging to one of exactly two classifications) and some are non-binary. But this means everyone can be put into precisely one of two groups, and therefore everyone is binary, including the non-binaries. Then we move on to the question of who's on first and who's not.
Nikole 2 weeks ago
That's what I said! And my mom and I did an unintentional homage to the "Who's on First" thing via text messages yesterday. It was very frustrating and involved different brands of cottage cheese.
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Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Unless you're one of the followers of The People's C*****e...in which case the duck is god.
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Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Holds true because either it's fertile and contains a duckling or it isn't and is therefore not a duck
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#5
In 1956, a drunken Thomas Fitzpatrick bet he could get from New Jersey to a Manhattan bar in 15 minutes. He then steals a plane and flies it to New York and lands on 191st in front of the bar.
2 years later, at the same bar, he's telling the story and someone said they didn't believe him... So he did it again.
#6
The Canadian British who burned the White House down in 1812, first held a session of Mock Congress where they unanimously voted to do said arson.
Rachel Parker 2 weeks ago
Only the duly elected President is allowed to destroy the Whitehouse.
Anne Roberts 2 weeks ago
And he is doing a bang-up job of that as we speak.
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Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
No Canadian troops were with the force that captured Washington DC and burned the White House. All British regulars. All Canadian troops in the War of 1812 were used (quite effectively) for homeland defense.
#7
Manatees fart to control their buoyancy.
V 2 weeks ago
We all live in a farty submarine doesn't quite have the same ring to it...
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#8
Two pharmacists were trying to recreate a fish sauce from Asia. The result was basically inedible. So they stuck it in the basement for 18 months and before throwing it away decided to try it and Worcestershire sauce was born.
Barbara Wilcock 2 weeks ago
I love how we (British) can always pronounce Worcestershire. But 90% of the world cannot
Earthquake903 2 weeks ago
What do you mean? It's easy to pronounce. "Washyersister" sauce
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Alex Kennedy 2 weeks ago
So wait, after leaving it in the basement for 18 months, they thought “let’s give this stuff one more try!”
JL 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I hope this wasn't their scientific method. "This tastes terrible, let's taste it again in a year and a half."
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G A 2 weeks ago
They are correct. No one in the UK uses the 'shire' part. It's just 'wooster'.
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thewallsarewatching 2 weeks ago
It's Wuh-stuh-shuh or Wuh-stuh-sheer. Good rule of thumb for British place names is that -cester is pronounced just -stuh (apart from Cirencester where it's pronounced sigh-ren-sess-ter). Shire is never pronounced like the place where Hobbits live. It's either shuh or sheer depending on where you're from/how posh you are. And a lot of people drop the shire part when talking about the sauce anyway.
Load More Replies... Karl der Große 2 weeks ago
The guy who owned a Vietnamese sandwich shop showed me how he made fish sauce. Essentially, it was a bunch of dead fish in a big green storage container he kept under the counter. Not much different from this, I guess.
#9
The spikes on a tail of the stegosaurus was named after a term in a ‘the far side’ comic.
The thagomizer.
Sam Trudeau 2 weeks ago
Neat. The Far Side, by Gary Larson. Basically memes before there were memes
ADHD 2 weeks ago
Adoption by scientists: The term was catchy and descriptive, and the scientific community embraced it. It is now the standard term for the spikes, even though the original name was coined in a comic strip.
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If you are bored, you can rotate a cow in your mind. It's free and the cops can't stop you.
Sofia 2 weeks ago
I tried to count and count and count sheeps. There was always 2 missing. Was so frustrating...
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
Or you can sit and time how long you can go without thinking of a purple giraffe.
Roxy222uk 2 weeks ago
If you try a geranium all you’ll hear is “oh no, not again"
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#11
When Lockheed Martin was working on the prototype that would eventually become the SR-71 blackbird spy plane they decided they needed to make the airframe out of titanium. It was the only metal that could withstand the insane heat this thing would undergo when cruising at Mach 3+ without being structurally compromised. So they sourced the massive amount of titanium they'd need from the largest producer of titanium metal in the world...The Soviet Union.
You heard me right. Through a series of shell corporations and dummy accounts the CIA helped buy titanium from The Soviet Union to build a plane that would go on to spy on The Soviet Union.
David Paterson 2 weeks ago
Due to a presidential blunder, this aeroplane was originally named the RS-71. The blunder was a good one because, where I come from, RS stands for Rat Sh*t.
#12
A bridge once collapsed because 300 or so people gathered on it to watch a clown in a bathtub be pulled along a river by 4 geese.
Imola Miklós 2 weeks ago
You are all laughing, but I bet most of you would be up that bridge to watch the clown. I know I would be. You don't see that every day.
David Shaw 5 days ago
From Wikipedia; "Yarmouth suspension bridge spanned the River Bure at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk from 1829 until its collapse in 1845. The bridge was widened in 1832, which had not been anticipated by the original design. On 2 May 1845, the bridge collapsed under load from a crowd who had gathered to watch a circus stunt on the river. Some 79 people, mainly children, were k****d. An investigation found fault with the design and quality of the bridge. A modern-day memorial marks the site of the disaster."
#13
If you stack all the blue whales in the ocean on top of each other to build a tower to the moon, they would die.
#14
In the Middle Ages, Catholic theologians wrestled with the idea of God’s omnipotence. If God is unlimited then he could have created more worlds, more men, even whole other civilizations. That led to other debates: was Christ’s sacrifice on the cross infinite enough to redeem beings beyond Earth or would God stage separate incarnations for them?
In short medieval theologians debated about aliens living on alien worlds.
For All Pedernity 2 weeks ago
And even though it was obvious already back then that it was a crock of s**t, people still believe...
Ace 2 weeks ago
The lengths that they used to go to to try and make the universe fit the things they read in the bible, and indeed many other suppositions that weren't even written there, beggars belief. Oh, sorry, did I say "used to"?
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
The nuns told us that if God's word could be taken to other continents it could be taken to other planets as well. So it might be one and done. But He might have chosen some other way because, of course, He can. My 8th grade nun got out of answering tricky religious questions by saying "Just ask God when you meet Him." (Besides, English grammar was her actual religion, and diagramming sentences was her high sacrament.)
Sam Trudeau 2 weeks ago
As we know from animals like muskrats, "Just because it isn't mentioned in the Bible doesn't mean God didn't make it". As for the Big Bang Theory, probably not a coincidence it's so similar to the Christian origin
JackrabbitJax 2 weeks ago
I had the same question as a kid! Turns out, scripture is very clear Christ came to erase the sin of ADAM, meaning human kind. If beings on another planet are descendants of Adam ( ie humans who have colonized space), then yes, Christ redeems them. If the beings are truly alien (or non human), no dice - a human Christ saved humans, a Vulcan Christ would have to save Spock. BUT ALSO. Jesus only came to save mankind because man had sinned. If aliens on other planets never sin then there’s no need for Messiah ET to come redeem them.
Cristi nah 2 weeks ago
Giordano Bruno died in the I*********n bonfire because of his ideas like stars being other Suns with their own planets and other people
nottheactualphoto 2 weeks ago
How CAN I forget? They kept we awake all dаmned night with their whoopin' and hollerin' and carryin' on.
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Australia lost a war against birds.
DeShotz 2 weeks ago
If you want to learn more about the story with an amusing video, search for “oversimplified emu war” on YouTube.
Bryn 2 weeks ago
Stuff You Missed in History has an excellent podcast episode on it
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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 2 weeks ago
If they lost to Emus I wonder what would happened if they’d fought against Cassowaries.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
But since it's Australia, the same is possible for the emus.
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#16
The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.
JenC 2 weeks ago
Chosen beacuse it is the natural enemy of the lion, the national animal of Britain
Surly Scot 2 weeks ago
I like to think we chose it cus we're just insane. Brave lion? Nope. Fierce dragon? Naw. Give us the torpedo horse!
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ALittleKnownGoddess 2 weeks ago
Thank you for getting me to look up Glasgow kiss! TIL.
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#17
At the zoo here, an orangutan named Fu Manchu figured out how to pick the lock of his enclosure. He used a piece of wire that he hid in his mouth during the day, escaping at night. The wire was only discovered after he'd broken out multiple times.
#18
Whales are mammals which mean they lactate. Their “milk” is the consistency of toothpaste and has so much fat in it that it’s pretty much butter. They squirt it into their calf’s mouths.
The milk tastes fishy from the whales diet.
Jeremy James 2 weeks ago
We have to taste everything. Nature hides delicious stuff in some weird places.
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Sam Trudeau 2 weeks ago
Why is it that drinking cow milk is normal, drinking human milk is (age-dependent, of course) normal, but any other animal is weird?
Lady Eowyn 2 weeks ago
Lots of people drink goat's milk. I've never tried it myself. And in Mongolia/Siberia they drink mare's milk. They also ferment it into a drink called kumiss.
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#19
Kathleen Coronna is an NYC resident who was severely injured at the Macys thanksgiving parade when a float knocked over a light pole. Almost 10 years later, NY Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into her apartment building and sent wreckage into her apartment (she was not home). That’s some Final Destination stuff.
#20
When Spanish explorers brought tobacco to Europe from the Americas. One of them demonstrated smoking in his home town. His neighbors were frightened to see him exhaling smoke because it seemed demonic. The Spanish Inquisition threw him in prison for 7 years.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Nobody ever expects the Spanish I*********n
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TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Lol that's like someone being hit by a car, at least it wasn't lung cancer!
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 2 weeks ago
Smoking is like drinking. It would be great at winnowing the population down if it didn't k**l so many others that don't smoke.
Roxy222uk 2 weeks ago
It’s a rubbish way as it kîlls them so slowly, giving them plenty of time to reproduce.
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Robert Millar 2 weeks ago
Miguel:Here, put this in your mouth and set fire to it. Sanchez: Arg, that's horrible! Miguel: I know, it's a potato.
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Nope.. it's documented fact in multiple primary source documents. You have to remember that at the time the fear was incredibly high and people were fully convinced demons were everywhere and out to get them...then some guy walks out with smoke pouring from his mouth. So they freaked and assumed the worst
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I was taken to the police station three times in one day because of some robbery.
U.p.d.
In my country, a former USSR republic, the police operate very differently from those in America or Europe. At the time this happened, the situation was even worse. Our police officers could routinely take someone to the station for arbitrary reasons, such as saying, "A crime happened here, you are a suspect," or "We need to check your identity to see if you are a criminal."
These measures were not always lawful. Sometimes, people were taken to the station where police would demand a bribe for their release, or force them to confess to crimes they hadn't committed.
On the day when I was walking home from college in the evening with my friend. As we approached my building, a police car pulled up. An officer got out and immediately told us we were suspects in a crime that had occurred in the area.
They drove us a long distance to the precinct. Once there, the duty officer told the arresting officers that the investigator was unavailable. The officers simply told us, "You are free to go."
I asked them to at least drive us back, since they had brought us so far and would be returning to the area anyway. In response, they swore at me. My friend and I had to walk all the way back home.
The moment we reached my building, a different police car stopped us. It was the same line: "There was a robbery committed here."
We explained that we had just been to the station and were released because the investigator wasn't there. They didn't believe us, and we were taken to the precinct again. And once again, the duty officer confirmed: "The investigator is absent." We were let go a second time.
Eventually, we made it back. My friend lived in the next entrance, so he went home, and I went to mine. A little while later, my cousin called and asked me to go for a walk. I thought, "Surely this can't happen a third time," and stepped outside.
I was wrong. It happened—I was arrested for the third time that day.
I don't know if a real crime had actually taken place, or if they were simply trying to find someone they could pressure into confessing.
But I am grateful to the investigator who, for whatever reason, wasn't there.
Remi Flynne 2 weeks ago
Innocent until proven guilty doesn't really mean what people think it means. It just means that the prosecution must present sufficient evidence to prove the defendant's guilt. If the evidence does not meet the required standard, the defendant must be acquitted. Lots of people get remanded into custody by courts until trials, usually because they suspect they'll flee, tamper with evidence/witnesses, or pose a danger to the public - all seems a bit 'we're rather assuming they're guilty' in actual reality.
Load More Replies... Gianna B D 2 weeks ago
The investigator had gotten arrested and was being held at a different police station.
Jaya 2 weeks ago
This would be impossible in the US. You can't bring a "suspect" into the station 3 times if you've already shot him to death during the first encounter.
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Zachariah Tastad 2 weeks ago
Say you're from a third world, former Soviet hellhole without saying it.....
#22
Our Milky Way galaxy contains something like 500,000,000,000 (500 billion) stars, each with around 3 or 4 planets orbiting them on average. And that's just our galaxy. There are about 250,000,000,000 galaxies in our observable universe , each with about as many stars as our own. And that's just the observable universe. Some theories suggest our observable universe is only about 10% of the whole thing, while other theories suggest the universe is infinite.
Space is really big.
SheHulk 2 weeks ago
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space". THGTTG.
For All Pedernity 2 weeks ago
And still people go around thinking Earth is the only one of those rocks that has life on it.
GenuineJen 2 weeks ago
My brain stopped after "Our Milky Way contains something like 500 billion stars"...
BrunoVI 2 weeks ago (edited)
When Galileo republished Copernicus's claims that Earth was the center of the universe, the Pope demanded that Galileo call his work a conjecture, because there was a problem with it for which Galileo had no answer: If the Earth moved, why didn't the distant stars appear to move? When Galileo labeled the Pope an idiot ("Simplicus"), he was sentenced to saying several short prayers ("Hail Marys") each day, which his niece actually said for him. But there was a solution: Cardinal Nicolas di Cusa had already proposed that the universe was unimaginably huge, so huge that no matter what star you looked from, you would always appear to be in the center. He also posited that EVERYTHING moved in imperfect circles, that the Sun was HUGE, and that the distant stars were distant Suns. Ironically, since Einstein we know that wherever you are *is* the exact center of the universe. You could travel billions of light-years, and still be at the exact center of the universe.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
I note that the pope here did not make into a single Queen single - not even a B-side!
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Ryan Mercer 2 weeks ago
Most stars are red dwarfs, and there are a lot of reasons that may preclude them from producing life. As someone else said, our star is a single star (as far as we know), and it's also a yellow star. This makes it unusual. It's possible the necessary conditions for life are insanely specific and it just doesn't happen otherwise. Here are some things we know have played a major role in the development of life on Earth: Yellow star, single star, rocky planet with water in the goldilocks zone (which I call the baby-bear zone, for obvious reasons), a large moon (which is very unusual for planet our size) that creates tides, plate techtonics (something Mars never had), a distant gas giant that absorbs asteroids and comets, a liquid iron core that produces a magnetic field, and importantly a massive late stage collision with Theia, which churned up the phosphorous deeper in the Earth and dumped it onto the surface. We know these things lead to life and it might take exactly that. *RARE*
Giles McArdell 2 weeks ago
..."“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” - RIP Douglas Adams
Andrew Keir 2 weeks ago
... munch ...swallow ... "One fewer than when you asked "
Load More Replies... Peter Bear 2 weeks ago
You might think it's a long walk down to the corner drugstore, but that's just peanuts to space.
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago (edited)
To put this into context, our galaxy is about 105,000 light years across (some estimates double that), and it would take about 26,000 light years to get to the galactic centre. That's longer than all recorded/known human history travelling at the speed of light. Going to the centre of the galaxy in contemporary space vehicles would take you infinity years. Technically at the sort of speed Voyager 1 is travelling, it would take around 470 *million* years, but as you get closer you would be fighting against the solar wind pushing out from the centre.
#23
A cat can theoretically fall from any height and survive.
The way I like to phrase that is, "The terminal velocity of a cat is non-fatal.".
Barbara Wilcock 2 weeks ago
I accidentally stood on my cats tail today. Nearly had a breakdown. Got the good shrimp out of the freezer to apologise
FloC 2 weeks ago
Now your cat is going to place his tail under your feet to get shrimps :D
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Giles McArdell 2 weeks ago
There is a small height range that is more dangerous though, it's above where the fall is too short to hurt them but below where they have had time to get their legs ready to absorb the momentum.
Tom Brincefield 2 weeks ago
Falls between 7-9 meters and 21 meters is where the most injuries are reported.
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Hugo 2 weeks ago
I'm sure it depends on the size & weight of the cat, and the nature of the surface it lands on.
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Ryan Mercer 2 weeks ago
This is inaccurate. Tests were conducted in which cats were tossed off of buildings of different heights. Something about the 10th floor is particularly bad for a cat's ability to right itself while falling. Who conducted these tests and did they manage to escape once their neighbors realized what they were doing?
Tom Brincefield 2 weeks ago
They didn't perform tests. They collected and analyzed verified cases of cats falling out of buildings. The most dangerous heights are from the 2nd to 7th floors. This doesn't mean that severe injuries can't occur from higher or lower falls. Any cat falling from a large height should be examined by a vet ASAP.
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Hugh Davis 2 weeks ago
Wrong, I treated a cat that fell from 25 stories. The “treatment” involved an exam for significant injuries (there were none) and 24 hours observation to make sure nothing showed up (nothing did)
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#24
Pluto has not made a complete orbit of the sun since its discovery.
#25
Modern humans are closer in time to the T-Rex than the T-Rex was to Stegosaurus.
David Paterson 2 weeks ago
The first true birds, and the first true mammals, were both almost contemporaries of Stegosaurus. Even the first primates were around before T rex.
BrunoVI 2 weeks ago
About the primates: that's much more iffy. The T-Rex lived 69 to 66 million years ago, dying off in the Cretaceous Extinction Event caused by an asteroid. The oldest recognizable primate fossils, something sort of like a tarsier, is 53 million years old, but there are fossil teeth that appear to belong to a primate that are 66 million years ago, and based on the amount of differentiation from other fossils and a "fossil clock" based on the genetic differences between mammals, mammals could be 73 million years old. It's worth noting, however, that the applicability of a "fossil clock" during evolutionary bottlenecks such as created by the asteroid is highly unproven.
Load More Replies... Gianna B D 2 weeks ago
So if T Rex were more intelligent, they could have had their own museum for gawking at Stegosaurus bones.
#26
K***r whales are a known predator of moose.
thewallsarewatching 2 weeks ago
And it's because moose are pretty good swimmers and are known to swim between islands to get food. And orcas hunt in those areas.
Heather Menard 2 weeks ago
I'm not surprised. Moose swi. To islands. So they get preyed upon during the swim.
#27
Nintendo used to run a brothel and casino, and at one point their largest customer was the yakuza.
#28
There’s a species of jellyfish that’s basically immortal. Like, it just... respawns. Nature said “nah, death is optional.”.
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
It fully reverts to polyp stage ( think newborn kid) and then goes back through the full set of developmental stages to become an adult. It can do this at will.
Load More Replies... Ryan Mercer 2 weeks ago (edited)
Theoretically, humans can do this as well. We can turn an adult skin cell into a stem cell and create a clone. That's essentially what the sea-jelly (it's not a fish) is doing.
Paulina 6 days ago
Except the animal is actually doing it on their own. Humans need technology and previsions to even attempt that.
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#29
There are more bones in gummy worms than actual worms.
GenuineJen 2 weeks ago
No!! Don't a*****t my poor innocent mind with this horrifying idea!! 🤮🤮🤮
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 2 weeks ago
Gelatin is made from bones processed with sulfuric acid
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#30
The dot above 'i' and 'j' is called a tittle.
Agfox 2 weeks ago (edited)
...& for no reason at all: There once was a lady named Pat, Who had triplets named Nat, Mat and Tat. ‘Twas fun in the breeding, But not in the feeding, Because there was no tit for Tat
John Dilligaf 2 weeks ago
but the word has an even older origin: A tittle is a letter extension, a pen stroke that can differentiate one Hebrew letter from another. A jot is the tenth letter in the Hebrew alphabet and the smallest. It was written above the line and looks to us rather like an apostrophe. Jesus spoke of jots and tittles in Matthew 5:18 (KJV).
Gabriele English 2 weeks ago
Because the language Jesus used was apparently english :)
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#31
69.
That’s the world record for number of babies birthed by a woman (throughout her life, not all at once).
#32
So I got one of my own, one of the founders of the D.A.R.E. program in the US was the founder of Herbalife, Mark R. Hughes, which explains why the program didn't work at all.
Bookworm 2 weeks ago (edited)
It's main accomplishment was teaching kids about what different (illegal not prescription) dr$gs are available for use.
BK BigFish 2 weeks ago
D.A.R.E. was started by Daryl Gates in LA as a cover so he could legally send police officers to spy in schools (the LAPD had dozens of spies around the world, for what reason?). The researchers who had invented the program had already proven it didn't work.
Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 2 weeks ago
whippit! Whippit good!
Load More Replies... kansasmagic 2 weeks ago
Nah, it didn't work because a "promise" you make during a school assembly when you're 8 doesn't mean s**t when you're older.
sturmwesen 2 weeks ago
hmmm that might be why I did not end up marrying Silke... my backup fiance for hitting 30 single
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Dragon mama 2 weeks ago
I told my date teacher I found weed in my mom's drawer and they told me to ignore it, she probably rolls her own cigarettes. Cue disillusionment.
#33
Statistically, the average number of arms per human is slightly below two.
Stephanie A Mutti 2 weeks ago
Is it? I see the thinking but how does it account for pregnant women who for a time have 4 arms?
Angela Corvaia 2 weeks ago
I have read this one before but wouldn’t pregnant women having 2 extra baby arms negate the population of one-armed people?
Facefullopubes 2 weeks ago
It depends what average you use. If you take the mode it is two, the median is one and the mean is just under two.
Ryan Mercer 2 weeks ago
While trying to carry her book bag and a box of art supplies home from school, my daughter said, "It's a good thing we have two arms." I said, "No kidding. If we had three we would just give ourselves more to do."
Billie Jackson 2 weeks ago
I imagine that due to July 4th and alcohol, Americans have a lower average of fingers than the rest of the world.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 2 weeks ago
Because as a species we’re more likely to have one-armed than three-armed people.
#34
The human body is bioluminescent; the light it produces is just too weak for us to see.
The light we produce is about 1000% weaker than that of a firefly.
thewallsarewatching 2 weeks ago
We also have stripes called Blaschko's lines that are only visible under certain kinds of UV light.
Bored Trash Panda 2 weeks ago
Can't cats see them? Or is that just some dumb urban legend?
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#35
Pepsi (technically) briefly had a navy in 1989. As in, they owned literal warships and submarines.
brian vervliet 2 weeks ago
but they couldn't produce the Jetfighter to John Leonard for his 7 million pepsi points
#36
The 10th president John Tyler's grandson died in May last year. John Tyler was born in 1790.
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
John Tyler had his last kid at 70. His son Lyon had his last kid at 75. Harrison Tyler( the grandson) was born in 1928.
#37
Death Row Records was owned by Hasbro Toys for a while...
#38
I always liked that Venus's day is longer than it's year. It also spins the other way.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 3 days ago
"Its". It is not that difficult--theirs, ours, his, hers, its.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 weeks ago
Noooo... technically it spins the same way, just at a hectic angle. (Seriously, look up the official info.)
#39
Ohio is the only state to not share a single letter with the word Mackerel.
Kelly H. Wilder 2 weeks ago
And no US state does not share a letter with the word INSANITY...and that may explain both everything and nothing.
Lady Eowyn 2 weeks ago
How much time to you need to have free to even think of checking this out?
#40
Weasels do not mate for life and are polygamous. The males mate with multiple females and don’t help to raise any of the offspring. Same with ferrets and stoats. It’s why I always thought they were so savage in the Redwall books.
BrunoVI 2 weeks ago (edited)
Is this why an unfaithful or promiscuous woman is called a "mink," or why a cheater or liar is called a "weasel"? (Weasel is one of those words applied to an entire family of creatures, many of which have more specific names, also including fisher, martin, wolverine and otter, mink, polecat, ferret and stoat. In some dialects, "polecats" and "ferrets" are the same animal, but not in America; ermines only exist in the winter, because they are white-furred stoats.)
Multa Nocte 2 weeks ago
I believe that is a minx - "minx - noun informal - an impudent, cunning, or boldly flirtatious girl or young woman."
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#41
Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin owned the same Galapagos tortoise. It was named Harriet.
David Paterson 2 weeks ago
Debunked. Steve Irwin's tortoise was one of a group of three that lived together. Charles Darwin's ditto from the same group. But not the exact same tortoise.
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Did you ask the tortoise? Because they are kind of visually interchangeable and I think the tortoise would know
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The ducks at the pond are free. You can just take them.
Sam Trudeau 2 weeks ago
Canada doesn't need legal protection for this. If you kidnap a Canadian goose, goose law will handle it
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 weeks ago
There are ducks at the Zoo Lake in Johannesburg. Years ago cops busted a restaurant nearby for stealing and cooking them.
#43
Gislane Maxwell has access to a puppy at her prison.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 2 weeks ago
This isn't true- She is at a prison who has a program where prisoners train service dogs, but anyone whose conviction includes a***e towards minors or animals doesn't get to participate. I'll post a link below with more information! On the whole I think programs like this are really good as a whole for many prisoners, but I'm very glad access to the dogs is limited to make sure they aren't hurt!
Roxy222uk 2 weeks ago
Don’t believe everything you read online. “access to a puppy” is tellingly vague
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The real scandal - if such a thing counts anymore these days - is that days after her testimony absolving Trump of any seedy relationship with Epstein, she was moved to a minimum security prison, where her correspondence indicates how nice her new prison is.
#44
A man once saved a boy from drowning, and in gratitude the boy's family paid for the education of the savior's son. The saved boy was Winston Churchill. The son was Alexander Fleming, who went on to discover penicillin.
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago
An obvious one to anyone who knows anything about Churchill's father.
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Crystal Taggart 2 weeks ago
This is not true. Alexander Fleming's family supported education. His older brother Thomas became a doctor in London and Alexander stayed with him, paving the way for his education. AND his uncle left Alexander an inheritance so he could study instead of work at the docks. AND it required 3 other men to make it into a manufacturable product (Florey, Chain and Heatley). These men saved countless lives and almost no one remembers their names. History focuses on monsters, not heroes.
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StPaul9 2 weeks ago
It wasn't Old Man Jenkins who pretended to be the Ghost of Captain Simmons to scare tourists away so he could keep the gold. He was framed by Young Man Jenkins. Thankfully Officer Jones caught him.
StPaul9 2 weeks ago
It wasn't Old Man Jenkins who pretended to be the Ghost of Captain Simmons to scare tourists away so he could keep the gold. He was framed by Young Man Jenkins. Thankfully Officer Jones caught him.
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