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50 Of The Most Interesting And Fascinating Facts Shared On “Amazing Facts”
Interview With Expert
It’s time for another brain exercise session, dear Pandas. Strengthening our mental muscles improves memory, focus, concentration, and creativity. Meanwhile, keeping these cognitive functions in tip-top shape allows us to enjoy our daily life experiences longer.
One way to keep our noggins sharp is to challenge them by learning something new. Therefore, today’s brain exercise is brought to us by the Instagram account ‘Amazing Facts’ full of fresh and captivating information about practically anything and everything. Scroll down to start your mental workout, and make sure to share it with people close to you.
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with brain trainer Holly Stokes and certified brain health coach and author Patty Tashiro, who kindly agreed to give us a few extra tips on how to keep our brains happy.
This post may include affiliate links.
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
This happened in 2019. A report from 2023: "Oscar Saxelby-Lee: Cancer survivor boy becomes big brother". https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-65979073
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WindySwede 1 year ago
hopefully, but it's not the ones with kindness I'm worried about. 🙀
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Amanda Bednorz 1 year ago
Considering this was in the UK, I bet 1/2 of them didn't know what they were in the queue for
Certainly not Dan 1 year ago
To clear up a few things: Oscar is doing well. He had treatment overseas and is back at school with his friends. The charity was DKMS (https://www.dkms.org/get-involved/become-a-donor) The registration was at Oscar’s school and we had expected a few hundred people at most. The response was amazing, over 50s can’t donate so we had to turn people away, even more would have registered if they could. The whole community came together to help people register, help with parking, keep spirits up in the rain! It was an amazing day and showed that most people are just good. Another benefit is that most people who registered are still potentially a donor to someone else who needs a transplant.
klove62 1 year ago
Please sign up! It’s a global registry. . https://my.bethematch.org/s/join?language=en_US
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
You have to be a resident of the United States or one of its territories or freely associated states, and between 18 and 40 years of age.
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MauKini 1 year ago
That used to be a thing. Now its forbidden due to possible health risks. Nothing ever happend that would justify that scare, but it still got forbidden.
Kim Karlotta 1 year ago
I believe it was a thing during the time when official government or communal aid for the homeless was shut down because of COVID. People thought up a way of providing food without in-person contact.
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Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
In my city, we have “community fridges” in the streets of disadvantaged neighborhoods: we put homemade or purchased food there.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
They won't let us do that anymore in my area because they specifically say not to put perishables inside (for consumption safety) and some fool kept making tuna casseroles & leaving them. You can imagine what that looked & smelled like after a few hours in the heat 😖 Some of us still put basic first aid & toiletry kits inside the boxes & we'll keep doing it until someone takes them down.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
No people in sight.. a great idea as long as the right people get the food.
Ivana Hotdog 1 year ago (edited)
Where I live, we have a scarf/jacket fence for the less fortunate
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Even though I'm an atheist, I buy loads of shelf-stable foods for a friend to bring to his church's food pantry for people who've lost their flats to fire/landlord greed, immigrants, and folks just down on their luck. Included is cat/dog food.
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Terran 1 year ago
My cats definitely wouldn't adopt one. They might still take care of it though...
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Barong 1 year ago
Yes. Squirrels have been documented eating the squirrel offspring of another. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2158
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Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
Squirrels are so aggressively maternal that they will also steal babies from other parents
Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
Same thing for wolves! They say there are no orphans among wolves.
“Any activity that engages your cognitive skills can be called a brain exercise. These activities stimulate the brain and help develop memory skills,” explains Dr. Rashmi Byakodi.
Just like our body, the mind needs exercise in order to be healthy and serve us longer. "As we exercise the brain, whether doing brain puzzles, crosswords, sudoku or learning new things, it continues to encourage the neuroplasticity of the brain, which keeps it generating new connections," tells brain trainer Holly Stokes to Bored Panda.
Meanwhile, certified brain health coach and author Patty Tashiro adds, "Your brain controls every aspect of your life, from your health, wealth, and happiness to the quality of your relationships. Do you want that organ that runs your life to operate at its best? Or do you want it to struggle to function, lost in a fog, not sure how to make the most of your life? Exercising your brain, just like a muscle, helps your brain be at its best!"
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Look, it took me a lot of time. Do you know how hard it is to chase a barn swallow with a tape measure? It's freakin' exhausting. But you're welcome!
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
What happens when it is Summer? I guess they are skimming to catch their prey along with leaves clever birds
Donald Holder 1 year ago
It's all because of their rare wing span and ability to lower or raise the end of their wings. Almost like a person hold arms outstretched and you can position your hands with the wrist.
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Alli K. 1 year ago
Fact-Check:This was part of an experiment.The "bizarre arrangement" is intended to make the prey and predators accustomed to one another, and make the tigers more docile, officials told Reuters in 2009. Just as the tiger fed the camouflaged piglets, a sow fed tiger cubs as well. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/31/fact-check-female-tiger-did-not-adopt-piglets-zoo-experiment/5400661001/
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
What the hell is wrong with us? That we need to make an apex predator "more docile"?
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 1 year ago
Geez, no. This was for entertainment, for amusement. The caption is utter bs, and the zoo in question was illegally breeding protected wildlife (tigers) and exporting them (for the TCM animal parts trade). https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tiger-and-piglets/
Menacing Duck 1 year ago
this one isn't actually real, it was part of an expirement in which a tiger and a pig were given each other's cubs
Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
yeah she is just raising them till they are nice and fat then its dinner time
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
Common sense tells you that if you have allergies you don't go to a restaurant where you'll be served random dishes. For everybody else, aside from being served a dish you don't like why would it be unsafe?
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MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
It seems like a fun experience, but you know that there's one guy who expected to get EXACTLY what he ordered and complained when he didn't.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
This is why I wouldn’t go there. I know what I like, and I know what I don’t. I’m generally not an experimental eater, and that would go double for experimenting with random choices. Fun for some, not for me.
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UKGrandad 1 year ago (edited)
It's still in business. https://www.japan.go.jp/tomodachi/2019/winter2019/restaurant_of_mistaken_orders.html
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KnightOwl 1 year ago
Sounds awesome, I love the idea of places like this but unfortunately I could never eat there as I'm a very picky eater as are most people I know. I have autism and ADHD as do a lot of my friends and family so eating out anywhere is very stressful for us and therefore incredibly rare.
Emie N. 1 year ago
Well good thing you have the option to just not go there. Lol
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Everyone can benefit from incorporating a couple of brain exercises into their routine, all it takes is a few minutes a day. In fact, studies have shown that it’s most effective to do these activities little by little each day instead of dedicating a few hours every week.
Since our brain is at the core of everything we do, keeping it healthy can improve a lot. Mental workouts help older adults have a more positive outlook on life and be more mindful and aware of their surroundings. It also can make daily tasks quicker and easier to do, which saves time and brings much satisfaction.
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MrLiesegang 1 year ago
It‘s not a subspecies but a rare color variation. It’s a variant of the bengal tiger.
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Jules 1 year ago (edited)
Ok so I'm gonna get downvoted for this but here goes anyway. This is NOT a species. White tigers are also NOT a species, despite some places/animals parks trying to kid you otherwise. But because humans think they're pretty to look at, they try to find others and breed more. So whilst yes, some are very striking, there will be a whole number of those you never get to see that are stillborn or so badly deformed they have to be euthanised due to inbreeding. So, if less than 30 of these so-called Golden Tigers exist, that is a good thing and if anyone asks you to make a donation to help preserve the species, please don't. Same if you're offered the chance to have your photo taken with an exotic animal, please don't as you're perpetuating the cruel trade in animal exploitation. Why am I saying all this? Because I work with big cats and know what I'm talking about.
David Beaulieu 1 year ago
This is a genetic variant of the bengal tiger, not a different breed. Kind of like saying there are only 40 humans with tails that exist today.
Tomi Smith 1 year ago
Only 30 because of people. I wonder how they would feel about having their skin on someone's wall.
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MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Possibly better than our own construction, if we still used logs for things like this.
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
The caterpillars spin bags of silk. And then they attach the tiny sticks to the bags. These two photos show the sticks as being perfectly symmetrical. And indeed, they do build amazing structures, but not always so normalized. Also leaves, pine needles, and other debris can be incorporated. What's particularly interesting is that only the males will fully mature into moths. The female caterpillars will mature, but never into a month-like form. In fact they end up with non-functioning legs. The moth itself is quite pretty Iphierga-6...560cd4.jpg 
Jesse Alban Scott 1 year ago
I bet this is what Hayao Miyazaki's howl's Moving Castle was modeled after!
The trick is that these activities have to be varied and complex enough to challenge us. If something becomes too easy, it’s a sign that we need to change it.
“The more something is second nature, the less our brain has to work to do it,” notes Dr. James R. Bavis. If you solved the mini New York crossword puzzle in record time, moving on to something more difficult to get the most out of your brain might be time.
Aside from learning something new, one brain exercise that cognitive scientists approve is various Sudoku, board, and crossword puzzles, and other games that rely on logic, math, words, and visuospatial skills.
Such activities engage multiple cognitive abilities, which get our brains working and improve information processing speed and memory. So, it’s okay for adults to set aside some time in the day to play games!
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TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
this looks like an advertisement for saving energy or something
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Smart as long as it is not an electric one..nature makes fewer mistakes than humans do
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PFD 1 year ago
*Extinguished* an incendiary bomb that landed in her owner's living room. Do not attempt to "defuse" bombs using this methodology - at least I assume it's unlikely to work, or a lot of thrillers would be very different.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Thanks for that clarification. For a brief moment I had a vision of a cheap-as-chips method for demining.
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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
The medal says “who for the second time…”, what was her first accomplishment?
InfamousBerry34 1 year ago (edited)
I think the lines beneath say "saved her master's family from fire" but idk what she did to save them
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Daggie_style 1 year ago
He was a great dog. Tremendous. He was the best dog. _I_ am the best dog. This is why I should be president, because I am a person and a dog. Not with rabies. Rabies is terrible, I would not vote for rabies and you shouldn't either.
Debra Newell 1 year ago
Dogs are a gift from God. Please treat them with love, respect, kindness and compassion !
Practicing meditation has also been proven to improve memory and processing power. Achieving a calm mental state engages our brain in different and interesting ways. “It helps stimulate the neural paths in your brain and thereby improves your observational skills, mental flexibility, focus, and concentration,” adds Dr. Rashmi Byakodi.
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Ace 1 year ago
Well yes, but it only shifts the suicides away from those blue-lit areas. They're only really concerned with the cost of dealing with them.
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KnightOwl 1 year ago
They did this in a few scottish cities too, it drastically cut down crime. For example in my home of Glasgow, Scotland the city centre can be very dangerous at night especially during weekends when pubs, bars and nightclubs close. So the city installed blue lights at busy areas like taxi ranks, and outside bus and train stations, they saw a huge difference in people's behaviour and the no. of violent incidents fell dramatically.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Supposedly they have blue lights in bathrooms, too--makes it more difficult for IV users to find their veins, so they have to get high somewhere else! :-D
Irishwoman abroad 1 year ago
Again, all that does is make them go elsewhere, it doesn't help them.
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
In the Netherlands we used to have that everywhere in the 90s (or was it 80s?), but nowadays you don't see them anymore here.
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Around here they use similar lights to stop people from shooting up on the bus (because you can't see your veins).
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Kira Okah 1 year ago
The use of gillnets in the area is illegal, so it's illegal fishing. Areas where they are protected have rebar hooks underwater to shred gillnets, which have been helping prevent illegal fishing in the area.
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Slytherin4Lyf 1 year ago
There are actually fewer then that now. I'm not sure when that Reddit post was, but in 2024 there are only 6-8 left. They are actually extinct because the demand for totoabo swim bladders for Chinese medicine.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
That was in the survey area, that wasn't their whole habitat, and didn't account for water critters having the ability to swim outside of an area. The biggest threat to them is being caught up in gillnets for illegal shrimp fishing, areas where they are protected have hooks for destroying gillnets.
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Dragons Exist 1 year ago (edited)
This definitely seems like the animal to bring back with science if it goes extinct - it's not gonna kill us (like a dino) and it's not been extinct for 10k years (dodo)
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Everything harming these animals is illegal. Criminals going to crim though.
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G A 1 year ago
Very sadly, it is likely too late for it to escape the abyss. Should have set up a captive breeding programme and sufficient protection in the wild when there was still a chance.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
A species is considered functionally extinct if there are too few of them to maintain the population. 15 individuals, no matter how fertile, cannot provide sufficient genetic diversity. The species can survive only by inbreeding, which is what did in the last isolated populations of mammoths.
Load More Replies... lisa_l_ross58 1 year ago
If people stopped eating fish, the world would be a better place. Go vegan!
Kira Okah 1 year ago
In the survey area, that was not their whole habitat and cetaceans have a thing about moving around and going outside of an area.
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Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Ya know how it's a scarab that rolls the sun across the sky? Well it's an ant that does the moon.
Microwaved Robot 1 year ago
I watched an Ant crossing a parking lot, pulling a leaf that had a huge dead roach on it. It was amazing to watch an Ant using a tool.
nuberiffic 1 year ago
Wouldn't a microscopic lens be impossible to use because you can't see it?
In addition, research shows that one of the best ways to exercise our brains is to use our non-dominant hand. As we’re used to doing everything with either the right or left hand, changing it up can make your brain work harder.
"Don't always read the same things or do the same puzzles. Mix it up. Try doing things with your non-dominant hand. It's challenging, but it's making new neural pathways!" notes Tashiro.
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Joran Quinten 1 year ago
It's not really older than America. It's older than when idiots from Europe sailed and unfortunately landed on it
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
They meant that it’s older than the United States of America and technically Canada as a country, Mexico as a country, and all of the different countries in South America
Load More Replies... Sunny Johnson 1 year ago
Is it still alive, because it does seem that whenever humans come across something like this, they kill it to study it.
NoNicknamePanda 1 year ago
We really do suck at animal and earth stewardship.
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Ace 1 year ago
The first printed newspapers were produced in 1605. And America as a place is much older than that too, having been so named by the Spanish a century or so earlier.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
How do they know? I guess she must have a mate somewhere to breed so the researchers know they exist. I wonder her secret?
Roy Phillips 1 year ago
Oldest animal I could find any record of is a turtle named Jonathon who is 191 years old IF he's still with us.
Luann DeLuca 1 year ago
Please don't advertise this. We all know the yahoos out there that will hunt it for its fame.
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Kiyoko_tanaka 1 year ago
There is debate over if he became a Samurai or just a noble figure/warrior but nevertheless he's really cool!
David 1 year ago
He achieved a lot, but the Samurai claim is from modern western historians, no Japanese historians believe that, bc the documentation doesnt support that. He was the equivalent of a squire to a Samurai lord, something impressive on his own.
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
An amazingly detailed sculpture must be created by true persons with true events
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David Beaulieu 1 year ago
It's worth what humans are willing to pay for it. It has no value on its own.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
What would you do with it? if it was worn who would think it a real pearl?It is quite amazing How did it become orange I wonder
Socializing, reading books, expanding vocabulary, picking up a new language, playing an instrument, or listening to music are also great ways to improve our cognitive skills and be overall happier.
"Learning a new language is highly effective in developing new neural connections, which also creates new brain growth and enhances continued neuroplasticity and growth.
Also, learning to play a musical instrument does several things as well to generate continued brain flexibility and growth, including activating the whole brain, engaging in skill and flow activities, activating centers of creativity and focus, and also engaging the alpha brain wave states when we are focused on playing music," explains Stokes.
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Jesse Alban Scott 1 year ago
And did you know they are "born" from their cocoons without mouths!!! The die within about 2 weeks living off of its stored fats only.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
They scare me too except I don't think snakes fly often. nature has so much mystery and unending design for all things, whereas Man does all he can to destroy it
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WindySwede 1 year ago
Yes, please insert full name and scientific (latin) name as well. Otherwise very unspecific.
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One species of penguin (Gentoo). It's not really a proposal, it's an offering "if I help you build your nest, will you bonk me plz", she can and will take the stone and make him shoo.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Haha. I can just see her adding it to her pile of pebbles from all her prior denied suitors. Next!
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k1ddkanuck 1 year ago
Not just male penguins to females. Gay penguin couples do the same! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphen_and_Magic
El Dee 1 year ago
Don't humans do the same? Isn't a diamond engagement ring just another shiny rock?
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
This is so romantic and she never loses her uniting pebble either.
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Family's_disappointment 1 year ago
I don't know whether I should be amazed or afraid..........
Vanessa Steis 1 year ago
I'd love to see a sky like that. But I also know, I would so freak out, to actually see that many stars and be reminded of the vastness of space.
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Kelly Scott 1 year ago (edited)
If you go to a very dark area with no light pollution on a new moon night, you can see by the light of the stars. And yet, how often has some whack job wanted to put a fully lit ad in the night sky? If you want to keep the night sky dark and free, join the Dark Sky Association. Ask your city council to replace glaring streetlights with streetlights that beam the light down, not out. Discourage super bright outside lights when a dimmer light will do. And vote NO on every lit up piece of c**p some billionaire wants to put up in the night sky!
arthbach 1 year ago
There are a number of dark sky sites nearby, and I'd been meaning to do some star gazing for a while. But there was always some reason - busy, too tired, cloudy etc. There was a wonderfully clear night, and we set out. It wasn't until we got there, and put out the headlights on the car, we realised there was huge, full moon, and we could see nothing in the sky as the moon was so bright. It was creating moonshadows.
ƒιѕн 1 year ago
It is awesome all the time. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Load More Replies... Belynda Young 1 year ago
I walked home from work one night when the power was out in my small town. It was amazing.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
I'm actually going to a dark sky preserve next week to take photos. I'm sooo excited!
Russell Tilling 1 year ago
Imagine all the night time insects, birds, moths, bats, etc trying to navigate and live In the top picture. Dark night skies are important for half the species on the planet! Plus they save a shed load of electricity!
Jane Hower 1 year ago
When LA went dark a few years ago people were frightened by the stars they had never seen.
However, mentally challenging the brain isn’t enough to keep it in tip-top shape. It’s important to exercise your body too, as our anatomy is interconnected. “The most important exercise you can do for your brain is physical exercise for your body. Your brain is 2% of your body weight but uses 20% of your oxygen! Your brain needs blood flow to get the oxygen it craves! So get moving! Get out and walk in nature. Go dancing. Find a way to move that you enjoy," urges Tashiro.
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XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
For those saying "why don't we release these everywhere?" Wax worms are invasive to honey bees. That issue probably needs to be worked out before just releasing things everywhere.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
A potential solution to waste plastics. Set up on an industrial scale composting bins stocked with the worms. Cycle out the organic output for use as a soil amendment (screened thoroughly to avoid escaping worm), and feed in new waste periodically. We still need to massively reduce single use plastic packaging, but this will reduce it to organic compounds instead of microplastic pollution.
Laserleader 1 year ago
We are finding new species that can consume plastics more and more now. It's not surprising at all since plastics is just organic remains of ancient organisms
Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
if we could just STOP making any more plastic and recycle what we have...
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
The sooner they breed the better as long as they do not turn out a pest for many other things as well like Cane Toads and Fire Ants
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Bookworm 1 year ago
He only looks so big due to perspective. He was 120 pounds and 5'6", which was still 3 inches longer than the woman in the picture. Sadly Yuki died in 2020. Here's an interesting article about the photo. https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/12/wolf-dog-yuki-popular-four-years-after-2019-viral-photo-what-to-know/70199259007/
Irina Simanschi 1 year ago
Love the doggo, but why did we use capital letters for Wolf Dog, but not for DNA, Siberian and German? Just asking :D
G A 1 year ago (edited)
It isn't a dog. It's a wolf with some enhancement. Don't think I'd be very trusting with it, personally. They often have the wild nature of wolves but they are also not afraid of people the same as dogs. Throw in the hyper nature of a husky, this could be a very dangerous animal.
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Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
Norway is a big country. This is what the northernmost part of Norway looks like.
Verena 1 year ago
12pm, as in one minute after 11.59pm aka midnight. pm = post meridiem (after noon), am = ante meridiem (before noon). Whereas meridiem means sun at the crest.
Nutrition is also crucial for our brain health. "Habits that support brain health are eating a low-glycemic and anti-inflammatory diet. Research is finding links between alzheimer's and inflammatory states of the body, which can be aggravated with inflammatory-causing foods," says Stokes.
"We need to eat real food," mentions Tashiro. "We can't do that if we don't make time for it. Your body hasn't evolved to understand what highly processed food is and how to deal with it. Our brain is much happier when we give it good fuel."
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Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
This is only one of 34 rock-hewn Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples carved in the 8th century (not 6000 years ago). Complex is known collectively as the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra state. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa_Temple,_Ellora
Cathleen Cummings 1 year ago
It isn't 6000 years old! It was carved in the 8th century and into the early 9th.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
A common theory is that Kailasa temple originally had a thick layer of white plaster on it that made it resemble the holy Kailash mountain, hence the name. Scholars do claim that the entire temple was in fact painted and plastered, which is why it was also known as the Rang Mahal, or painted palace. --IndianCulture.gov
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Master craftsmen and artists, sculptors engineers have been discovered for millenniums
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Brian Garcia 1 year ago
Actually not quite...multiple outer layers are used to power "repeaters" which boost the signal to get further down the line. While cables are armored for protection, much of the surrounding structure is powered. And if you notice, there are multiple fibers in this picture...many cables are laid with twice as many fibers as needed to account for back-ups. No expert, but worked at an oceanographic consulting firm that helped lay cable.
Barong 1 year ago
My father used to work for AT&T and they had this underground hub (cable landing station) where the undersea cables came in onto shore. It was fascinating. At the time they were just switching over to fiber optics and now even some of those are becoming obsolete as they removed a 6,000 mile stretch between China and California.
G A 1 year ago
You'd kinda think there would be a couple of redundant back ups hidden in there too...
Brian Garcia 1 year ago
You would be correct! The additional cost for extra fibers is small relative to an overall installation. In the mid 90's or so you'd have maybe 4-8 fibers, one redundant back-up for each active. And at the time...don't quote me on this...I believe each fiber could handle on the order of ~40k-80k phone calls at a time with their capacity. Out of the biz for quite a while...figure today's capacities are off the charts.
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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
I know what you mean by that, but I can‘t stop thinking, that the ugly women deserve that too
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G A 1 year ago
US GOP doing it themselves, banning abortion, increasing fossil fuel extraction, encouraging nazism, etc.
Load More Replies... DetriMentaL (It/That) 1 year ago
Read that a new ban may pass where the women are not allowed to be heard in public.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
There's a faction here in the U.S.A. that's striving mightily to drag us backwards as well.
goldoche 1 year ago
Your laws are bringing you backwards and are way more dangerous
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El Dee 1 year ago
I wonder what country first interfered in Afghanistan back in the 70s to set of this chain of events??
Sand Ers 1 year ago
The British Empire, in 1838, as part of Cold War maneuvering to contain an expansionist Russian Empire which considered south and Western Asia it legitimate sphere of influence. The British took sides in an Afghan civil war triggered by a succession dispute.
Load More Replies...Giving your brain the rest it deserves additionally contributes to it being happy. "Sleep is essential to brain health and living a happy, healthy life for as long as possible. Don't accept ongoing disrupted sleep. You deserve better. (And your family, colleagues, and roommates deserve the best you too!) We can't be at our best if we don't sleep well. So many terrible outcomes are associated with poor sleep, including memory loss later in life," explains Tashiro.
Lastly, she encourages people to reach out to others and connect if we want to keep our noggins healthy. "We're not meant to be isolated or alone. In fact, the US Surgeon General equated the health impact of loneliness to smoking 15 cigarettes a day! Put out that loneliness cigarette and phone a friend. Volunteer somewhere you want to make a difference."
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KnightOwl 1 year ago
I love this! I can't help thinking how awkward I'd feel climbing in and out with random strangers standing around looking at the bookshelves. I'm too self conscious and would probably spend a lit of time listening to hear if anyone is nearby before even thinking about leaving.
David 1 year ago
No thanks. Interesting gimmick but not very practical. It appears to be a raw plywood box so they can't easily clean or sanitize it. Looks awkward to get in/out. No toilet so you probably have to climb out / walk down the hall if you have to pee. You are basically paying money to sleep in a plywood box.
KnightOwl 1 year ago
I agree, I love the idea of it but the reality is never as good. Realistically it seems completely impractical and uncomfortable, not to mention how awkward it would feel trying to climb in or out while random strangers are walking around perusing the bookshelves around you.
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Broadredpanda 1 year ago
Surprised those idiots didn't find it and cut it down. Just because they could (referring to the two men that cut the 250 year old sycamore tree here in the UK)
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
It has had the fortune not to be scarred by carving initials 'who was there..and destroyed by man. Does it still live are there new leaves? The vibrations it must send out
Spittnimage 1 year ago
Now ya done it. Tourists will be hacking pieces out of it now they know about it.
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Daniel Gómez 1 year ago
Contemporary. In art, the term modern is very specific, from the impressionists, up to abstract expressionism in the 1950's.
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okpkpkp 1 year ago
My fastest one was a year and a half. my best friend caught her red-handed. Besides, she hit me, bit me pretty good, and threw s**t at me when she felt like it and was drunk enough. My longest is now. we still write love notes. 23 years and I'm 70 now so not for much longer.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
She had a great idea...at 15.. I wonder what she was creating at 25
Debra Newell 1 year ago
Brilliant! I hope this young lady has continued in her “artistic “ journey. She’s very creative and talented.
"The good news is that you can give your brain what it wants and needs. You just have to know the little lifestyle changes you need to make, that could make a big difference in your life," concludes Tashiro.
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Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
it's also hollow so it weighs almost nothing but it's very strong. Love Nature
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
That is a tiny skull to house the brain.The beaks are so heavy not unlike the cattle breeds with huge horns horns that would drop anything yet they trundle along as if they were not there.
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Serena Myers 1 year ago
Unless you happen to be female and don't have a pocket big enough to carry the phone in, of course!
Bec 1 year ago
It was true for a short period of time, now I think cell phones are too big, and I agree, they will not fit in many of MY pockets, and even some of my husband's pockets
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago (edited)
I knew that then too.. also the message machines would have two-way cameras so remember not to answer the landline if you just got out of the shower without a towel, or if the girls forget to brush their hair before pressing the buttons and answering, things that we were all v very conscious of then. I also remember the exact time I was looking at my basic connected message machine and phone, and a cordless one with the same abilities, imagining how it would be done, just knew someday it would. That day came and passed and created more so what in the next 60 years in communication. I won't be here unless reincarnated for a reason! Maybe to think about the plans for future communications and who with! I am sure 900 million people thought the same too..
ronniebeaton00 1 year ago
The first newspaper cartoon to make fun of "pocket phones" dates to the mid 1920s.
David 1 year ago (edited)
I was alive then but have no memory of this article except from modern social media posts. But what I do remember is the D**k Tracy (I'm so sorry BP Censor Bot. Obviously I mean RICHARD Tracy) comic strips and those communicator watches they had. And I remember thinking one day, they literally have those now. And a close relative would be the communicators in the original Start Trek TV series in the 60s. Sometimes it's weird to think how much things have changed in my life time.
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ZGutr 1 year ago
Ohhh I wanna build one on a smaller scale! But I fear my wife would make us being a part of he wedding dress above.
Joshua David 1 year ago
Maybe the local billionaire will build it for everyone to enjoy.
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Zaach 1 year ago
Seattle has something similar named "Sound Garden" - it is a series of wind pipes that shift with the wind (yes, the band was named after the art not vice versa). It is on federal government property on the shore of Lake Washington - the only way for non-feds to see it is to approach by water
Mike F 1 year ago
Really. Hide this thing before my next door neighbor finds it and adds it to the collection of wind chimes that sound like Quasimodo lives there.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Sadly, it's not a pleasant sound. More like an entire hive of dying bees buzzing their last buzz or the background sound in a horror sci-fi movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYlblqXUmk
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Is it this one from The Fast Show? :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XqMF5ou7hE
nuberiffic 1 year ago
"music" is a bit of a stretch in definition. Pleasing sounds for sure, but most people agree that music requires arrangement.
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Chocolate llama 1 year ago
It looks like she's sitting in a plastic dish and not on the actual plant? I also remember reading that - contrary to what some video games made me believe as a kid - they can NOT hold up a human
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
They can hold up a small young human. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62037376
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Heather Atwood 1 year ago
If you notice, she is sitting in a plastic circle that is displacing her weight.
LittleWombat 1 year ago
These are SOOO COOL, even if they couldn't support the weight of my fat a*s hahaha
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
A plant so dangerous that merely laying under one for a few minutes can be fatal.
Mary Tonningsen 1 year ago
Per Wikipedia: "The leaf is able to support a weight of up to 32 kilograms (71 lb), suitably distributed, although the leaf surface is delicate: so much so that "a straw held 6 inches above and dropped perpendicularly upon it would readily pass through it"."
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Wynter Fever 1 year ago
I have my grandfather's, I was his only grandchild when he passed so he gave it to me kinda like a joke since i was a baby
Mary Tonningsen 1 year ago
We had one of those for years, it had belonged to my great-grandfather. It stayed on the bookshelf until somehow it got broken. :( It was pretty cool!
SageHare37 1 year ago
I inherited one of these. Apparently it belonged to "great uncle Otto". I'm still researching trying to find out more about him, including how many greats he is back, time-wise.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
My grandmother, who had a few whiskers like a lot of old women, had several of these moustache cups on display in the parlor. I'd tease her about using them, but she never appreciated her smart mouthed grandkid.
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Laura Gillette 1 year ago
He does amazing things but in his videos he's always constantly smiling through the whole thing and it creeps me out.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I love this guy!! Check out his youtube channel, he can make almost anything out of chocolate! Including a foosball table!!
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
It will never be eaten. It MUST NEVER be eaten, but displayed for as long as chocolate lasts in an airtight glass box
Satya Bain 1 year ago
I love watching his videos! He's a chocolatier, a sculptor, engineer, painter, and more!
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doredde 1 year ago
Might be the initiation of a young boy/men, before going to a buddhist monastery.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
They would continue to mourn until their eyebrows grew back. But I found no explanation on why their eyebrows. Maybe it's because they shaved their heads to keep lice at bay, and their eyebrows were all that was left.
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Farnzy 1 year ago
1...personal space. 2...Personal space. 3...get outta my personal space
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Thank you! The "completely natural" made me suspicious. And the head looks deformed. These look more balanced. Still massive and awesome!
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Chocolate llama 1 year ago
This just feels like tax evasion with extra step and not actually helpful for the poor? "Hey, local billionaire, can I have food?" - "No, but look at this version of Taj Mahal I built for you. You are welcome."
crazy_cat_notAlady 1 year ago
Why did I read the part within the quote in an Indian/Bangladeshi accent? 🤦♀️
Load More Replies... Leslie Victor 1 year ago
How about giving people money so they can live better lives instead....
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Not an uncommon notion. It Washington, DC, Franciscan friars have built an impressive replica church of the Holy Sepluchre, complete with catacombs; the original was built over the tomb of Jesus. There is also a replica shrine of Lourdes, there.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Seriously? 🤯 I lived in Maryland/DC for 30+ years and never knew! Thanks!
Load More Replies... Mary Gibson 1 year ago
Could have used those millions to feed the poor instead of showing how rich he is and how poor you are!!
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Michael None 1 year ago
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke
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looking at physics is fascinating and extraordinary yet really just practical science. I have never tried to invent anything similar I would not know where to start
KittyGaming 1 year ago
And a piece of paper on top of a ruler keeps that ruler on your table no mater what you drop on it
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MrLiesegang 1 year ago
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/food-waste-transforming-solar-panels/
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Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
Nah, microports are much smaller now. When I was at journalism school 10 years ago, they were already like a third of this size.
David 1 year ago (edited)
I believe this is/was real but is this old tech? It looks very bulky by modern standards. I've seen professionals (actor, stage performer etc) show their wireless mic and it is typically one 'box' on the back of their waist. As a comparison, consider that you could use a cell phone on your waist and a blutooth mic to livestream. And for a reporter, the blutooth could be connected to gear the cameraman was holding, in which case they wouldn't even need the cell phone.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
You would never use a Bluetooth connection in TV because of the delay
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highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
I work in sound for TV and this is only what a reporter's back would look like if you were using outmoded tech, and in a rush,
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UnpopularPanda 1 year ago
There are 10 kinds of people; those who know binary and those who don't.
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Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
Not very comfortable and not very practical for walking. But I imagine that the Egyptians who were noble and rich did not have to walk 🤷♀️
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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
None of these are even high rises. Are we taking about how many buildings are close together or people per sq. meter when we say densely populated?
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I watched a doco on this place it’s really interesting, a lot of brothels and bars
Sand Ers 1 year ago
The weird part is that there is a 10x larger island 200 meters to the East, that’s virtually empty.
Krzysztof Gajda 1 year ago
Lol those couple of shacks are supposed to house more people per m² than scyscrapers in say, Manhattan? B******t.
David 1 year ago
when I see pictures like this I wonder about sewage and waste. Also, while post is probably true for islands, I'm seen some poor neighborhoods in PI with similar density. It's sad when they get a fire because they can't get fire fighting equipment to the scene. There was one about 2 years ago and several hundred homes (shacks) burned up.
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This panda votes 1 year ago
If he was female in certain states in the USA he'd be required to keep it living inside of him.
RagDollLali 1 year ago
This made me chuckle until I remembered I live in Texas where they are trying to eradicate women's rights completely 😭
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Bay Bo 1 year ago
So if my kids eat the watermelon seeds or grape seeds they will have a plant growing inside...here I thought I was being a silly mom
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
Nothing wrong with eating seeds. The tree was in his lung, he inhaled a seed.
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago
There was a case in the USA where a man had a chest X-ray that seemed to indicate lung cancer. He went for a biopsy and they found a sprouted pea plant. (He had been eating raw peas some time before and apparently inhaled one).
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Proof that the plants ARE farming us, not the other way around.
Broadredpanda 1 year ago
There's a man who inhaled a pea, and it grew into a plant in his lung! After struggling to breathe and coughing profusely, an X-ray showed it. The lungs have the right conditions to grow such specimens. Nasty though
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DetriMentaL (It/That) 1 year ago
Just went ahead and took all the spare parts at the lost n found didntcha lil buddy?
PFD 1 year ago (edited)
Apparently, a nerve ganglion. But it still doesn't add up. They have 32 segments, 21 of which each have a nerve ganglion. In addition they have an anterior and posterior brain. It's all rather weird and complicated but the post itself is probably wrong in this. Also the stomachs claim, though I've had enough of leech anatomy for now.
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Holy c**p, I was once covered in 50, so doing some times tables made it worse 😂 I had 500 stomachs attached to me at one point in time 🤮 the testicle part is funny 😂
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Alex Martin 1 year ago
Some males are involved in the creation of their offspring. Male Anacondas are committed to the process. Would this be considered child support?
Donald 1 year ago (edited)
Most snakes are cannibalistic and this is misleading. Green anacondas mate in large mating balls, dozens of males to one female sometimes. While I'm sure this does happen its not a praying mantis situation where its guaranteed to happen.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
The praying mantis situation is not guaranteed t happen, in fact it happening is incredibly rare. It only happened at all in that study because the mantises were being stressed out by being constantly watched. Leave them alone and cannibalisation of the male mantis is unlikely.
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Alexx Liindholm 1 year ago
No, they are not pregnant, the female lays her alreadybfirtilized eggs, male has a special pocket to house them for safety.
Kim Kermes 1 year ago
Carrying a fertilized egg to birth is what people call pregnant. Didn't see the rule about where the egg gets fertilized.
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Cydney Golden 1 year ago
No, they carry the babies after the eggs are fertilized. They do not get pregnant. There are other male animals that do this, but I think all underwater.
MAKtheknife 1 year ago
He carries the young until they can be on their own. The female transfers the fry into his pouch.
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago (edited)
That statement would not have made sense. We determine which of the female vs male based on which one gets pregnant. It’s not like animals came already identified as male or female. So we would classify all animals in the animal kingdom as female based on the one that is impregnated except the seahorses that we decided to do the opposite? I think they meant the only animal where the male delivers the offspring.
Laura Lawson 1 year ago
I think the issue here is getting pregnant versus being pregnant, which isn't a phrase I thought I'd ever write. The female produces the eggs so technically she is the one to get pregnant. If my science is correct, & it may not be, the female then transfers the fertilised eggs to the males brood pouch. Then he becomes pregnant, keeping the eggs safe until they hatch. He does go through labour to push all of those babies out, which does make me wish we evolved from these guys instead! 🤣
ManuelQue 1 year ago
I read in another post here that the male fertilizer the eggs once they are deposited. Makes sense to me. How would they otherwise get fertilized?
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_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
Sue me, but if you could just randomly look like that WITHOUT getting struck by lightning, I'd be happy.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 1 year ago
I believe, if I was lucky to survive such an incident, that I would have to get a tattoo to replicate the images left behind for eternity.
NoNicknamePanda 1 year ago
My orthopedic surgeon was struck by lightning as a young adult. He could play classical piano afterward, and even recorded an album. He had never touched a piano before. He can't read music, either; he just plays by ear, and flawlessly.
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Sue Mcquay 1 year ago
It's harder to measure than you'd think. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-climate-antarctic-sea-ice-extent It is expected that the ice we have now will last 6 millennium.
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KWilly 1 year ago
IDK- I can feel this picture.... and I don't wear heels!!!
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
I tried wearing high heels once. Once. Never again. Good thing I acquired the shoes through Freecycle.
Load More Replies... NoNicknamePanda 1 year ago
I don't wear them anymore. They cause incredible pain in the ball of my foot. They also cause the muscles in the back of the leg to constrict, sometimes permanently. You have to rotate between heels and flats.
LittleWombat 1 year ago
I loved wearing high heels - I was obsessed since high school and often wore them to school from the age of 13, with all the walking that entailed. (The 80s made it all the cooler, and the higher the better.) I started having severe foot pain during pregnancy decades later, after wearing heels at every job, always lots of walking. The signs of my CRPS in my feet were there already, preventing me from walking more than a block without severe pain. A fool for a dr did surgery on those painful feet and I've lost my ability to walk much at all. Had I ever, ever guessed that constant heels could have been part of the trauma to my feet, I'd like to think I'd have made better choices. But the shoes didn't hurt and I was proud I could walk easily in 6 inch heels. Now I just want to walk. 😪
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
I'm so sorry this happened to you, but your story was really an eye opener for me. 😳 I was the same, but didn't get into wearing heels until high school. I wore super high heels all the time, and not just high, but pointy like Jimmy Choo & Louboutin. I stopped wearing them much when I went to vet school & hardly ever once I became a vet, but I was just looking wistfully at my heels the other day. I was thinking I might want to start wearing heels again but not anymore! Thank you for sharing, you may have just saved my feet.
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Edgar Rops 1 year ago
Didn't want to build over the perfectly fine farmland, besides fields on either side are sloping, adds to construction expenses.
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Luke Branwen 1 year ago
You may laugh, but this is acutally better than the modern "beauty contests" where there are 10 copies of Chris Hemsworth competing.
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Felipe Souza 1 year ago
After he finishes delivering this order of mine, he'll get the orders of other people.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
With this kind of balance and juggling talent he was wasted in the food industry!
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Edgar Rops 1 year ago
Seen by humans, not total number of those sharks in existence. Probably live in deep places
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Well, others may have been spotted by people who became - ah - unavailable to report the sightings.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Well, if he’s anything like a guy I used to help care for, it would be hell on the whole family until it was restored to its exact before-ness. I once moved one dvd from a collection set up like this, and next thing you know, I HAD no choice but to go through 50, 000 dvds to find the EXACT copy (he would have multiples of same dvd and cover etc) and put it back.
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
If you follow the recipe on the back of the bag, a step is missing: chill the dough for a while before baking, it will prevent the dough from spreading so much when it bakes :)
Nicky 1 year ago (edited)
My aunt Edna called Mrs. Fields and asked the price of their cookie recipe. They told her four eighty and she thought it was $4.80 instead of $480. When she got her credit card bill, she xeroxed off the recipe and sent it to all the relatives as their Xmas presents!
Theresa 1 year ago
Uh huh. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neiman-marcus-cookies/
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Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
He went on to live among other humans for over twenty years but never learned to speak, and remained seriously impaired his entire life.[4][12] Sanichar was a heavy smoker.[13] Apparently being raised by canines is not ideal for Homo Sapiens.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
When the internet was new, me and my sister used to visit some Indian website in garish green graphics to read about their feral abandoned (special needs) children, its way super common there
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Looks more like the ones that show up when I put out a bird feeder..... 😆
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Austin L 1 year ago
Perhaps use it as a suitable material to make submersibles with and use them to retrieve more indestructible biscuits.
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David Beaulieu 1 year ago
Rich people are crazy. Imagine having so much money you could waste $23K on an old biscuit. It better be magic.
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
The "Ugly law" in Chicago (and many other places in the US): "an 1881 municipal ordinance that fined "any person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object" for appearing in public". Often to prevent begging. The fact that the law was on the books until 1974 doesn't mean it was strictly enforced the whole time.
digitalin 1 year ago
I wonder if this was because such people are unsightly, or to prevent self-maiming or maiming of children to increase pity for begging. I've heard of this happening.
Load More Replies... Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Lucky for me that I live 1000 miles away (Denver), or else I'd have gotten the death penalty
Sunny Johnson 1 year ago
'.....to prevent begging.' Because this country treats it's needy so well.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Where did you find that photo of me? 😁 Spoiler alert dear reader: I did not get any better looking 😁😁😁😆😆😆
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PattyK 1 year ago
I learned the value of Pi in high school. In the 60 years since then, I have never once needed to know it. Same with Avogadro’s number.
Pandemonium 1 year ago
I refer to Avogadro's number everytime I make guacamole
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Susan Reid Smith 1 year ago
I use Pi in sewing but I round up to as much as 3.25 and include seam allowances.
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LittleWombat 1 year ago
I'm guessing people would have a more thoughtful reaction to cutting down trees if they appeared to bleed when cut!
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Is this the same "Dragon's blood" tree that incense is made from? or a different one? This is why scientific names are important! 😊
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MrLiesegang 1 year ago
1.2 Million Books aren’t that many. Maybe this means there 1.2 Million public accessible. I‘ve worked at the ZLB in Berlin, altogether we had 3.6 Million items.
doredde 1 year ago
The British Library in London is the largest one, with 170 million media units, 25 million of them books.
MC C 1 year ago (edited)
the Library of Congress is actually larger, not much, but the British Library is the second largest
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I need the 12,555,676th book on the 30th shelf, waaaaaay up thereeee....
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Jay Steele (Low-intelligence Lifeform) 1 year ago
you mean women dont naturally have plastic skin and glittery eyelids?!?1/1/1? 😱🤯🫨😲
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I think she's beautiful without makeup personally. Not a super model--but natural. Kinda wondering what the groom to be was really expecting.
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Nicky 1 year ago
Wait... does that mean if we chemically analyze it and patent it, the company would have to pay us?
Hans Georg 1 year ago
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but there would still be prior art. Coca Cola is so old, you would not invent something new.
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Laura Gillette 1 year ago
Who's gonna work on the ward when they all have maternity leave at the same time?
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BrunoVI 1 year ago
I've seen that claim, but it in no way, shape or form resembles a butt upside down, and the basis for the claim is absolutely stupid. ... but I'm highly skeptical of this one, too.
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Avoidance_Panda 1 year ago
Wasn't it shakespeare who was the first to reference the heart as a symbol of love?...any littarery BP's out there?
Ace 1 year ago
Goes back to at least Roma times, apparently https://www.verywellmind.com/romantic-symbols-of-love-8656991
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Ace 1 year ago
I could be wrong, but I think these were children with American fathers, so 'back' as in 'back home', even though it was the first time, sorta makes sense, almost.
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago (edited)
Back to? Abducted after their parents were murdered is more fitting
Hans Georg 1 year ago
Why would you take your baby to a war to bring it "back" to the United States?
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Some of those babies need to be ON their back... they're on their tummies, and while that's cute, it's not good for them... they'll snufficate! Think they used to call it "cribdeath"
Emie N. 1 year ago (edited)
This was 1975...... they didn't know the 21st century method of the position babies should be in. I was born in 1988 and even then babies being on their stomach was the norm. My mother's doctor told her to put me on my stomach with my face to the side. The point of doing that was that if I vomited (or "spit up") in my sleep, which is a normal baby thing, it would keep me from choking on it.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
Hahahaha I’ll take this one, I was raised by Asians, a lot of Asian places, the people have like 0 body hair other than eyebrows, pubes etc. I was always jealous of my Asian family growing up with their hairless arms and ‘no need to shave’ legs 😂 and like most humans, some men grow facial hair and some don’t. I’m hairier than most men in family 😂 (I’m a gypsy Jewish mix/east Europe area).
Load More Replies... Michael None 1 year ago
He was either the happiest or most miserable bastard in the whole world.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
Is he even vaccinated? If not, how has he not died from like a thousand diseases?
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Edgar Rops 1 year ago
The vintage one. You can still find all kinds of seeds, if you want to bother with growing them yourself
Load More Replies... Sunny Johnson 1 year ago
Modern tomatoes are bred for looks and ability to survive shipping, not taste.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
There are different varieties of tomato. Some have been around a VERY long time.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
There was a lamb last year born with it, at theee months she was just the sweetest cutest thing, and I put off photos cos I knew the fate, being smal myself but not a little people. The day I went to get a photo and show the world ‘dinkie’ as I called her, she collapsed and died from her condition. The farmer wasn’t going to spend money on that and I knew it would happen but she was lovely to watch in the me time, her twin was normal and still alive now with her first baby
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PFD 1 year ago
Whodathunk it! Another one that doesn't pass the sniff test. https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/anti-cheating-helmets-were-student-idea-says-professor/
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
Thanks for this, the post is severely misleading. Going through the article (from 2013 by the way) the students opted to use the helmets, and their professor was very respectful of their choices.
Load More Replies... Murdock Schlegel 1 year ago
Maybe just use a larger room instead of making students uncomfortable?
Irina Simanschi 1 year ago (edited)
I only see pieces of paper added to a band placed on the head, a veeery hi-tech helmet
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PFD 1 year ago
Made from self-contained prefabricated stainless-steel modules that literally bolt together (it can theoretically be disassembled and moved, as well). All the electrical ducting, plumbing etc. is built in. I don't see an obvious reason to assume this will be problematic - I'd assumed it was gonna be standard concrete prefab and in that case I'd assume shoddy work, but, but with snap-together steel units, it just depends on how well it was built in the factory. The 28 hours is just putting the units together and the speed results from the simple assembly.
Jan Rosier 1 year ago
And how long until the vibrations of a heavy truck passing by makes it collapse?
#79
iseefractals 1 year ago
And electrically conductive. It's made by arranging a layer of carbon atoms, 1 atom thick in a honeycomb pattern.
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*raspberry sound 1 year ago
Does it go the other way? Could you take a photo of an alien's shoe from Albuquerque?
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Michael None 1 year ago
Great now throw the CEO of the corporation who started this catastrophe in.
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Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
why did he have to 'solve' them - they come correct when you buy them, and I don't remember them being while unless you take the stickers off
Bec 1 year ago
I pictured him emotionally removing and mixing up each cube
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
He had to program them to create the image I’m guessing
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
Saying 'no' to a marriage proposal automatically means the woman is bad?
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Travelling Stranger 1 year ago
probably translated from spanish - there, a pronoun/adjective must conform to the noun that follows in terms of gender and number, also google translate shows "su' in spanish is used to mean his/her/its..
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I HAD a roomie back in the day who was a player/root rat/ slüt etc whatever word you wanna use. In 5yrs he got like 25-27 girls pregnant in one night stands that had the kid 😂 i remember seriously sitting him down and asking how he felt knowing when the kids go clubbing when they hit 18, there’s a chance of them hooking up or casually having sex leading to another pregnancy - the guy did not care one bit and found it funny. He was really gross
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Bryn 1 year ago
Because he told them he was only going to donate to them.
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similarly 1 year ago
It's actually not because of the water quality, but because of rapid cooling. Even boiled water rapidly cooled will have gases that move towards the center during freezing. When cooled slowly in a special freezer (that freezes the water in layers), you get clear ice.
Bec 1 year ago
Yes, my brother was trying to make clear ice by [putting the water inside a cooler inside a freezer to try to achieve as clear as possible for making drinks
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Actually true that our brain limits them, to prevent us from lifting too heavy and damage them. Not sure about the car part though
Load More Replies... arthbach 1 year ago
This is true. There are cases of mothers lifting cars to rescue their babies. It's called 'hysterical strength'. It should only be use in cases of extreme need. There is a reason why our bodies stop us from doing a load of crazy things - we will break, and destroy ourselves.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
I have picked up an armoire off my daughter. But more impressive, these two teens picked a tractor off their dad. https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/11/tv/teen-girls-describe-saving-dad-by-lifting-3000-lb-tractor-off-his-chest/index.html
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Lene 1 year ago
I do this with my eldest kid when I'm really angry that she won't get out of bed and she's about to miss her school bus. Usually I can't carry much weight (i can carry about 25kgs) but during these mornings I lift her (weighing ca. 32kgs) out of bed. I know it's not as impressive as cars and all that. But it is a big deal to me. And I can only carry her or lift her when I am angry.
OldButNewButBroken 1 year ago
If I'm not mistaken, that is a image from the movie Hancock.
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PFD 1 year ago
A truly spectacular amount of c**p in this one. Though it can be fun going gown rabbit holes trying to find what's true, what's inaccurate and what's downright rubbish.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Also, please make sure the captions are written in proper English - and check for spelling errors.
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Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I think some of these are nonsense, but I was disappointed by some of the fatuous comments.
BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
I wish BP would filter out the posts that have appeared a few times before.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
This was enormous fun and I could read this type content all day.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Not so's you'd notice. But Pandas do, so it all works out in the end
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A truly spectacular amount of c**p in this one. Though it can be fun going gown rabbit holes trying to find what's true, what's inaccurate and what's downright rubbish.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Also, please make sure the captions are written in proper English - and check for spelling errors.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I think some of these are nonsense, but I was disappointed by some of the fatuous comments.
BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
I wish BP would filter out the posts that have appeared a few times before.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
This was enormous fun and I could read this type content all day.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Not so's you'd notice. But Pandas do, so it all works out in the end
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