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50 Awesome And Insightful Graphs, As Featured By The Team At ‘Information Is Beautiful’
There’s something deeply satisfying about taking a huge amount of data and turning it into a gorgeous, easily understandable, educational graph. Presenting vast swathes of info in a way that everyone can understand is an incredibly skill.
The team behind the ‘Information Is Beautiful’ project are masters of data visualization, showing you the world in ways you might not have seen it before. Today, we’re featuring some of the intriguing graphs and diagrams that they’ve shared online to show you fresh new perspectives. Scroll down to check them out. And if you love what you’re seeing, be sure to visit their site and follow their socials for more.
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#1
Truthpaste! Love This Labelling - Let's Roll It Out Across All Products
Delta Dawn 6 months ago
this is something MAHA could work on that would be helpful, but no, let’s just ban science instead
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#2
Har Har Yes
#3
Revealing Cross Section Of A Road In England
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 6 months ago
I think the thickness of the modern road indicates something that you could base the scale around. A quick google search indicates that the minimum thickness would be 4 inches and the maximum 12 for asphalt or concrete. So guessing a foot on that first layer would be a high estimate 4 inches likely too low. Sorry to take the question super seriously, I was wondering too so I tried to figure it out.
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‘Information Is Beautiful’ is the brainchild of David McCandless. He is the author of three best-selling infographic books:
- Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections - Visualized;
- The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia;
- And—most recently—Beautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions.
The founder has also spoken at TED Global, as well as at 200+ conferences and events. What’s more, he runs the startup VizSweet, “a lovely artisan tool for creating beautiful interactive data visualisation.” McCandless, along with his dedicated team at ‘Information Is Beautiful,’ aims to explain, distill, and clarify data, information, and knowledge into beautiful and useful graphics and diagrams.
#4
Beautiful Elevation Art
BrunoVI 6 months ago
The only thing I don't like about it as that those mountains in Southern Brazil and Venezuela are quite formidable and pretty much unknown of by anyone outside of South America. This map keeps them hidden by coloring them so similarly to coastal plains and the Amazon basin.
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Nicole Weymann 6 months ago
And the mountains in the east are much older than the Andes!
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nope 6 months ago
Don't get me wrong, I love the purpose of this, but it is a visual map with data. This one specifically I would not call art
Susan Reid Smith 6 months ago
Cartography is an art as well as a science. It starts with the data but then like graphic design all of the elements have to balance with the actual map being most prominent of course.
Load More Replies... Nitka Tsar 6 months ago
Wow…. I knew there were mountains, but I never knew it looked quite like that.
#5
Because Vaccines Work
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
The anti-science and anti-intellectual attitudes among far too many people is sad and enraging.
amy lee 6 months ago
Making information accessible (simple) is the only way to fight misinformation
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SouthernGal 6 months ago
That measles number is going to start changing if antivaxers don’t wise up.
CP 6 months ago
It just upsets me that we have robbed our immune systems of glorious battle and a seat at Valhalla.
Robert Benson 6 months ago
The vaccines allow our immune system to prepare for the battle beforehand, instead of just tossing a desk worker into a glorious battle without training.
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Jane Hower 5 months ago
These are TRUE VACCINES - one shot and done - these UNTESTED Covid/Flu 'shots' are NOT VACCINES!!! Because you still get it, still spread it, and have to take boosters!!!!!!! IT WAS A SCAM!!!!!
Lil be lil 6 months ago
Chicken pox took over! It was ubiquitous in the 50's we kids all got it! Btw, I got vaxed against the Shingles.
Pursuing Peonies 6 months ago
That's because, like measles, mumps, rubella, and polio, it was nearly eradicated from this country. Or should I say like small pox, which was eradicated (which is why we stopped mass vaccines for it) from the US and anti vaxxers brought it back.
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#6
Most Offensive Types Of Pillow Cases
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
I like the kind that has the flap that closes up the end where the pillow goes in
Don't listen to me 6 months ago
All the actual pillowcases I've ever had are like that. Not the cushion covers.
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Mreoww 6 months ago
Don’t forget the one with decorative beads and buckles and other hard, shiny things.
Nitka Tsar 6 months ago
Those things are not for sleeping. They are purely ornamental
Load More Replies... Cydney Golden 6 months ago
The kind with the floppy edges is a sham, for decoration only. I use it to prop up in bed to read. It's not for actually sleeping on.
Lil be lil 6 months ago
My pillow is a stuffed pink owl! Can't sleep with any pillows I tried, even a babies flat pillow found on Amazon. Pink owl ends up under my arm anyways.
Jill Rhodry 6 months ago
Flappy edges is a sham for decorative pillows, not sleeping ones, if you use two this one goes on the bottom - zips closure, just poke the zip pulling thingy inside - lace edge, flip it over - too small, check sizes before buying
According to the team running the project, all of their visualizations are based on facts and data. They constantly update and revise them. McCandless and his team members actually mostly create their graphics by hand, using the Illustrator program (a personal favorite of some of us, too).
Meanwhile, many of the interactive data visualizations they make are actually created using their proprietary VizSweet software.
#7
In The First Half Of The 20th Century, Tens Of Thousands Of People (Mostly Children) Suffered Paralysis From Polio. The First Vaccine Was Introduced In The USA In 1955
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
We’ve been so successful at eradicating and mitigating so many diseases, far too many people think they don’t have to do anything
Lil be lil 6 months ago
You mean RFrankensteinK? "I swim in toxic cesspool", brain worm rfk?
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Karl der Große 6 months ago
Years ago, I worked with a woman who was an unapologetic anti-vaxxer. She said, "People really didn't get that sick with polio. For most people, it was just like a little flu." I offered to introduce her to my friend, who was an older fellow who had been quite disabled by the disease. She accused me of bullying her, and she said, "People die of the common cold, too. That doesn't mean it's bad."
Giles McArdell 6 months ago
Wait for a new spike in 2025 now the Orange 4rsehole and his vaccine denying cronies are in charge.
Nitka Tsar 6 months ago
Ooooh my goodness, today I finally googled what Polio is called in my native language, German, and it is Kinderlähmung! (Child paralysis). I never connected the two before.
Miki 6 months ago (edited)
In PL there are two names: Polio and Heine-Medin disease
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Jane Hower 5 months ago
Again, this is a TRUE VACCINE!! One shot and done!! Not so with the 'flu shots' like Covid. It was a horrible thing to misname these ineffective and bad side effect untested 'SHOTS' to be called 'vaccines'. It was a scam on the population - the shots are DESIGNED to depopulate the world - make infertility common, cause heart issues, etc etc. If you took one and survived, you are lucky - don't take any more.
Lil be lil 6 months ago
Seems I was born during the peak of polio infections. I got vaxxed in '55 or 56.
Monosyllabicgirl 6 months ago
My daughter's step grandma had polio around that time, she was part of the last wave. Knowing her in my late teens is what fully made me understand how important vaccines are and that it's not just something you do or are told to do. She didn't have full use of her legs, was on oxygen, and passed away before all of her other siblings pretty young, around 50 ish
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True? True
#9
Glix Drap 6 months ago
Africa is big. Really 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, but that's just peanuts to Africa.
Auntriarch 6 months ago
I'd say upvote for the reference, but I can't remember where it's from. HHGTTG?
Load More Replies... Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 6 months ago
You know, this is the first time I have really understood just how big Africa is, thank you for this. I know people come to the states not understanding the size but this really puts that in perspective.
BrunoVI 6 months ago
To emphasize that overpopulation is about resources, not land area: Take the wealthiest, poshes, low-rise neighborhood in Europe, a suburb of Paris. Now, go to Madagascar, that little chip off the Southeastern coast of Africa. Preserve fully half of the land for all those crazy, wonderful animals unique to Madagascar. On only the remaining half of Madagascar, and use it to build a city that's exactly like that Parisian suburb, except sprawled out to cover that area. That new city you just built would have a population equivalent to the ENTIRE PLANET EARTH. The entire rest of the Earth could be used for wildlife refuge, parks, farmland, whatever.
Phyzzi 6 months ago
A substantial amount would have to be farmland. You can put people in a fairly small space, especially if you use some verticality, but our food takes up a much more substantial chunk of land, especially if we (as a species) keep insisting on eating meat.
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Miki 6 months ago (edited)
I think I see Poland on top of that, so that's central Europe.
Load More Replies...Something else that’s mindblowing is that the founder of the project, McCandless, actually made The Helicopter Game. It’s something that we’ve played and thoroughly enjoyed during breaks in between IT classes at school.
At the time of writing, the ‘Information Is Beautiful’ Facebook page boasts 531k followers from all over the globe. Meanwhile, 232k social media users follow the project on Instagram, while another 119k do so on X (formerly Twitter).
#10
Lovely Chart Of Doggie Body Language
Jenna 6 months ago
Showing their belly could also indicate them opting out or saying "no thank you" (I'm a professional service dog trainer of 13 years). Also remember wagging tail really only indicates arousal and not "happy" - so yes it might mean happy/excited but it also might mean I might bite you
Karl der Große 6 months ago
It's a lot of little pictures to filter through if I think I'm about to get bitten.
#11
Wait, Who Is My Third Cousin Twice Removed? Oh
Ripley 6 months ago
It all makes perfect sense when I'm looking at the graphic, and the *second* it's out of sight I've forgotten everything and they're all just cousins.
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Joe Russo 6 months ago
Very confusing in Greece getting introduced to my wife's extended family. Anyone who is a type of cousin that is not a first cousin that is older than her is an uncle or aunt. If much older, is a grandparent of some kind. Everyone younger, no matter how distantly related is a cousin. Simple for the labels...but no clue how they're related.
The Majestic Opossum 6 months ago
This is so helpful! My kids have been debating for years what the children of my husband's cousins are to them (sadly, no cousins of their own, so it's the closest they have).
Monosyllabicgirl 6 months ago
I was given a chart like this while i was waitressing by an older gentleman who was researching his genealogy. After a while I felt like I knew his whole family back in Belgium lol. It was of particular interest to me because I carried as a surrogate for one of my mom's (regular cousin, child of her aunt) cousins, using my own eggs and donor s***m. I was curious how my daughter was related to the adoptive parents and kind of to herself. Her parents are my first cousins once removed and she is my own second cousin. Lol. No need for banjos in background as it's through adoption 🤣
Marnie 6 months ago
My ex-husband couldn't quite even figure out what it meant when I referred to my nieces and nephews. And, he didn't understand that I loved them very much. He thought I was just being emotional and attention-seeking by saying that. He didn't have any nieces or nephews. He did have siblings, aunts, and uncles.
Holly Herr 6 months ago
As soon as I saw this as a college student I copied it. (Pre-internet)
Rianna Lewis 6 months ago
I get it but at the same time it’s so confusing.. especially having the same title like “First Cousin one removed” but being related in that way as your first cousin is the reason their baby is related to you, but also you can be a “first cousin once removed” also by having a Great Auntie/Uncle’s kid having the same title as your first cousins kid.. who made this rule 😂
Monosyllabicgirl 6 months ago
once removed is for generation, regardless of age. so my moms cousins are cousins once removed because they are one generation from me
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Classic Isotype Infographic From The 1940s
Lil be lil 6 months ago
These are averages. Where do humans come in? I'm older than a whale, so I guess I'm above average
MsPlants 6 months ago (edited)
ugh alligators and crocodiles live up to 70 years in the wild, longer in captivity, alligators on the other hand live 50 years in the wild and longer in captivity... im not even going to touch the fact that the whales numbers are way off and so are the parrots so im just going to say this whole list is junk.
Pursuing Peonies 6 months ago
To be fair, it's from the 40s when they didn't really pay too much attention to wildlife (or the people who did pay attention to wildlife, unfortunately)
Load More Replies...With so much information flooding our social media and news feeds daily, it’s impractical to double-check and cross-reference every single bit of info we stumble across.
So, it’s much more time-efficient to evaluate the reliability of the sources you come across. Although all sources, even the best ones, make mistakes, not all sources are equal.
Reliable sources do their best to get to the truth, link to the info they use, and make corrections whenever they slip up. On the flip side, bad sources care only about sensationalism, clicks, and moving whatever agenda they have further.
#13
How Rich People Avoid Paying Tax
Giles McArdell 6 months ago
1) The income tax calc is wrong, but that's not what they're trying to show, so we can forgive that. 2) In "No Tax" he has to pay interest on the loan, probably still less than the other taxes though.
martin734 6 months ago
The income tax % in normal is wrong. Nobody pays 40% income tax on their whole salary. My salary is £67000, I pay £3000 in pension contributions and £12500 of my income is tax free. This means that my taxable income is £51430. £37701 of my income is in the basic tax band which means I pay 20% tax on it, which is £7540. The remaining £13729 of my salary is in the higher tax bracket and I pay 40% tax on it, which is £5492. The total income tax I pay is £13032, which is 19.5% of my total income. Most countries use these progressive tax bands including the USA.
RedMarbles 6 months ago
Yeah, I get the impression most people don't know that the highest tax rate is only applied to the money earned over a certain amount. It should be mentioned more often.
Load More Replies... Delta Dawn 6 months ago
Not quite. You pay regular income tax when your stock options are vested (fully given to you), and then capital gains tax on any increase in value when you sell it. But the capital gains tax is much less than 25% if you’ve held the stock for at least a year.
Robert Benson 6 months ago
Are you speaking from a US perspective? I have stocks that I am fully vested in, that I haven't paid any taxes on. They are part of my 401(k) or similar and won't be taxed until I liquidate them. I'm just a low-level worker, so I don't know what options the "big guys" have.
Load More Replies... Jane Hower 5 months ago
And whil running their companies, or investing in companies, they are providing JOBS FOR THE REST OF US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop being mad at rich people. WE NEED THEM!!!
Lil be lil 6 months ago
Not intended to be an accurate picture. But I certainly get the "picture" now! 👿👿👿
Pirate Luxe 6 months ago
This is a bit disingenuous... You borrow the money collateralized by the stocks. You still have a monthly payment on that loan. The money to make the payment comes from.....? Some use the proceeds from the loan to both live on and then make the monthly, then when the reserved funds get low they borrow more? How exactly does this work... Borrow til you die.
Michael Largey 6 months ago (edited)
The third one doesn't tell the whole picture. He will be paying interest to the bank every year, possibly more than the amount the stocks will increase in value. The stocks may fall in value, in which case the bank will insist that he make up the difference in collateral. To regain the stock to sell it, he must get the money from somewhere to repay the $1 million to the bank. He will pay a capital gains tax on everything he gets when he sells the stock. He's really no different from the second one, except that he sells the stock later in hopes of a bigger cash in and paying loan interest for the privilege.
Riley Quinn 6 months ago
Can't speak for other countries, but here in the US all you need are a bevy of lawyers in constant search of legal loopholes (i.e. poorly written laws that no one has bothered to correct) and a greedy Congress kowtowing to your lobbyists (and pocketing a substantial chunk of change).
whiterabbit 6 months ago (edited)
For the US in 2022, the top 5% of earners — people with incomes $261,591 and above — collectively paid over $1.3 trillion in income taxes, or about 61% of the national total. If you include the top 10% — everyone who made at least $178,611 — that figure rises to $1.5 trillion, or 72% of the total. The top 50% of earners contributed 97% of federal income tax revenue. The top 1% of earners pay 40% of income taxes. So, in other words, the bottom 50% of earners only paid 3% of the total federal income tax collected.
RedMarbles 6 months ago
Given how extreme wealth inequality has become, I wouldn't expect them to be a big percentage.
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Design Costs
#15
Periodic Table By Lickability
Remi (He/Him) 6 months ago
It's always funny how sodium and chlorine are both so dangerous alone, but get them together and it's just a bit salty
MsPlants 6 months ago
this is actually so funny! this is why I love science and especially chemistry. you take 2 dangerous substances and put them together and bam! you ahve something humans cant live without. to me that is amazing. just moving a few electrons around to bond the elements together and you get something essential to human life. on the flip side you can take something humans need and move just one thing and make it deadly. its such an amazing puzzle
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Riley Quinn 6 months ago
The answer is Yes. How many times you can lick it depends on the element.
Basic media literacy and the ability to recognize (un)reliable sources are skills that absolutely everyone should have. In this day and age of scandalous headlines, intentional misinformation, polarization, biases, and AI slop, there are so many ways to misinterpret information and mix up fact with fiction.
#16
Love A Revealing Cut-Away! (From A London Transport Museum Poster By Gavin Dunn)
Monosyllabicgirl 6 months ago
Id love to see this cutaway of the tracks under central park new york. Have heard its more than 5 tunnels deep and that some people live under there and never leave. Have kids down there. Send runners to surface to get food/d***s/cash ssi checks. Mind boggling
#17
Measurement Unit Differences Between The U.s.a. And Most Of The World
Tim Steil 6 months ago
"The smoot /ˈsmuːt/ is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R. Smoot, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.[1]"
Karl der Große 6 months ago
When I worked in a lab in the US, we used metric all the time. I think the American calendar system has to go - it makes no sense.
Alex Ruddies 6 months ago
Well, the best way I was explain was that Fahrenheit was how feels for humans, Celsius was for water and Kelvin was for atoms. In all honesty, when it comes to temperature outside of professional settings, Fahrenheit works best. The rest, on the other hand, metric is the way to go. Although, it would be interesting if we used Kelvin for just a year. Like, it's about 87f, or about 31c, but imagine hearing that it's 304k outside...
Joe Russo 6 months ago
Having used both, I'd take all metric except temperature. Not being a scientist, Fahrenheit ranges lend themselves to 10s, and temperature differences of 10 are meaningful. The 70s are comfortable, for example. 80 starts to be a bit too hot. 90 it's freaking hot. 100 stay safe during the heat wave. That same range is 20 to 40 in Celsius, which feels too narrow...
MoBeLa 6 months ago
This reminds me of my all-time favorite SNL sketch about choosing the U.S. system of weights and measures 😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk&t=22s
Marissa Camacho 6 months ago
Oh, yes! Love that! They prove how silly Americans are.
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Stephen Hutchison 6 months ago
Celsius is STILL based on water freezing. It's less logical for measuring human temperatures because the scale is too coarse.
TheReader19 6 months ago
All I ask from you America, is that you get the date right. dd/mm/yyyy
Lil be lil 6 months ago
It's too complicated for me to convert! And it would be difficult. Like New Coke vs Original (classic) Coke, when that happened, omg!
#18
Global Antidepressant Use
Marnie 6 months ago
Or to move. I am now seriously working on moving to another country. I will be an immigrant and hope they don't treat me as crappy as we treat them here now!
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Nikki Sevven 6 months ago
Well, it's fücking depressing to live in the US, isn't it? There's so much that's awesome, but so much more potential that goes unrealized, largely due to greed and willful ignorance.
Gen X Feral 6 months ago (edited)
Boy isn't it? I mean there was just a mass shooting at a shopping mall yesterday and another one outside a bar last night with 4 deadd so far and like 14 people injured. There are so many absolutely awesome things here, but your risking your live just going outside.
Load More Replies... Nitka Tsar 6 months ago
Finland, Sweden and Iceland might be because there is less sun, mighned it?
CultOfBambi 5 months ago (edited)
That possibly has something to do with it - but if so, they should switch to a Vitamin D supplement rather - way fewer side-effects than with anti-depressants. Maybe (at least for Finland) it's the fact that they have Russia as a neighbour and are concerned about being invaded?
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Ange Marsden 6 months ago
This would be interesting to compare to the availability of mental health care - the two together would really make a difference
SouthernGal 6 months ago (edited)
And also the cultural attitudes about mental health and medication. Do some countries really have fewer depressed people or do they just go untreated?
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geezeronthehill 6 months ago
I was missing Russia until I realized you can't trust stats from that government, anyway.
Jane Hower 5 months ago
Does this measure how AVAILABLE or how EASY TO GET?? Maybe we just have more of it and can get it more easily.
A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is to always consider what the source you’re looking at might be hoping to accomplish, and what their intentions are. According to archival expert Margot Note, you should ask yourself the following questions when gauging the reliability of a source:
- Who made the record? When did they make it and why?
- Was the source actually created at the same time as the event that’s described in it?
- Does the source have an agenda, and did they take part in the original event, or are they using secondhand info?
- Is the information logical? Does it make sense in the context of the people, places, and timeframe being researched?
#19
One 18 Inch Pizza Has 'More Pizza' Than 2 X 12 Inch Pizzas!
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
Who says you’ll never use something you learn in school? Learning is a CHOICE.
#20
Telling. Quantity Of Male Versus Female Dialogue In Best Picture Films Of Recent Decades
Jaya 6 months ago (edited)
Movies with a lot of female characters are considered 'movies for women', yet movies with a lot of male characters are considered 'universal movies'. It sucks that men are seen as the default human. The amount of men and women in the world is about half-half, so it makes no sense.
Wild Cream 6 months ago
Yeah I remember reading some thing that said JK Rowling made Harry Potter a boy, because if she had still written the exact same story but made him a girl character, they’d be considered “books for girls” and boys wouldn’t want to read them
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Parmeisan 6 months ago
Now let's see in the rest of the movies released that year. I bet these are simply representative of what's being made.
Monosyllabicgirl 6 months ago
Yeah i don't see like, Annihilation in there. Main characters all female
Load More Replies... Jane Hower 5 months ago
WOW. Well, the movie industry is mostly male so I guess it's to be expected.
Marissa Camacho 6 months ago
Well, if you want something said, talk to a man. If you want something done, talk to a woman.
MagicJacket 6 months ago
Weird that The Hurt Locker, directed by a woman, has no speaking female roles. Did Evangeline Lilly use sign language?
#21
May I Present To You, The Potsdam Gravity Potato? Areas Of The Earth Where The Gravitational Field Is Mysteriously Weaker (Blue) Or Stronger (Orange)
Karl der Große 6 months ago
I can't see my office on this globe, but I know that there is a lot of gravity in there. Not a day goes by without me dropping something.
Nitka Tsar 6 months ago
Does it have any impact on those areas? For plants, wildlife or people?
john doe 6 months ago
No, it's a very scant difference, normal gravity is 9.8ms2 in the "less gravity areas" is 9.799999999ms2 it's nothing detectable by anything but the most precise instruments.
Load More Replies... Nicholas Rodrigo 6 months ago
Not in India, in Sri Lanka. It is in the center, that is why we play cricket.
Broadly speaking, information that is overly sensational and plays on your emotions is likely to be misunderstood by the person, biased, or even outright wrong. If something sounds too good or bad to be true, it likely is.
Real life is rarely—if ever—black and white. It’s nuanced. It’s subtle. It’s full of shades of gray and complexities that can’t be explained away so easily.
#22
What Mood Will Your TV Detective Be In?
Riley Quinn 6 months ago
Apparently, Lithuanians tend to be prudish people, which would account for their over-the-top censoring. BP is a Lithuanian website.
Load More Replies... Judes 6 months ago (edited)
Based on this map, the dectives in Iceland maybe should be sad and drunk?
geezeronthehill 6 months ago
They wound off the coast of France, so they're probably confused.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 6 months ago
It's a cross between Sad & Wet and Sad & Drunk. I watch a lot of Britbox.
Fellfromthemoon 6 months ago
In the eighties, a German crime series "Ein Fall für Zwei" started, the main plot played in Frankfurt, and the detective was always very wet.. on the inside. The amount of alcohol that went down in every character's throat was something (checks infographics above) incredible.
#23
How Reliable Is The Us Weather Temperature Forecast? Didn't Know That About Florida
Giraffe Sitter 6 months ago
I’ve had the weather app tell me there’s a 0% chance of rain while it was raining outside.
Nikki Sevven 6 months ago
I live in the western part of Massachusetts in a region known as Pioneer Valley. It's east of the Berkshire Mountains (which run north-south) and south of the Holyoke Range (which runs east-west). No commercial or government forecast is ever accurate, largely because of the configuration of mountain ranges that partially protects us, often causing storms to blow north or south of us.
Vinny DaPooh 6 months ago
For 10.months of the year you can just say its gonna be hot as hades and get it right
Glen Ellyn 6 months ago
Arizona has only two seasons: hot, and not as hot. I lived there for 8 years and I swear the most frequent phrase said by the TV weathercaster was "High pressure dominates." Every single day for months at a time.
Shaggy 6 months ago
AZ is funny, The "Weather Guy" (Corey) is more of a restaurant critic/entertainer/weather guy. He is great!!!! Goes on site 4-5 days a week to different restaurants/fairs/Professional venues (sports etc..) and does 4-5 hits showing off the staff/customers/food. The weather is a 2nd thought... Good stuff.
Chris Landrum 6 months ago
it's hotter in the southwest, Florida rarely gets days over 100
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Africa Is Big
SaladSpinnerDeux 6 months ago
Africa is a continent. How do other continents compare to the size of Africa (Europe shown).
marcelo D. 6 months ago
yeah, but the problem arises that the most used map proyection is Mercantor, which shows the US as bigger than the whole continent of Africa, same as showing Europe bigger, and others
Load More Replies... According to the BBC, there are 3 main things to check for when you want to find out whether a source is reliable or not:
- Check who made the claim. Dig into the person or organization’s background and previous work to see if it’s accurate and unbiased;
- Check multiple sources to see what conclusions they come to. Having more sources report the same info increases the likelihood that a claim may be true;
- Check for reliable evidence. Look at the information that the source is using to back up their claims.
“It’s also good to ask yourself if what the source is saying sounds believable. If it appears a bit out of this world or too good to be true, then the chances are that it might well be,” the BBC writes.
#25
Yet Another Reason To Tut At The Mercator Map Projection
Ace 6 months ago
Yes. It's called navigation. The whole point of it is to enable sailors more easily to work out where they are. That is the only reason it was introduced.
Load More Replies... Jaya 6 months ago
I am 100% convinced that politics played a part in this becoming the most popular one. It makes the first world countries seem bigger and therefor more important, helping justify why it's okay for those countries to overpower third world countries and turn them into our colonies. If the first world countries had been the one who'd look smaller in comparison, I'm convinced they would have made another type of map popular.
#26
Frequency Of Red Hair In Europe
Karl der Große 6 months ago
I think this is also a map of all of the countries that Ed Sheeran visited on tour. I don't think that can be a coincidence.
#27
The World’s Solar Capacity Reached 1,419 Gigawatts In 2023, Way Beyond Any Predictions. 1 Gigawatt = Power For A Medium Sized City
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
And the Republicans want to move backwards on renewables. Idiots.
Nikki Sevven 6 months ago
I'm thankful my city has its own non-profit electric company. My rates are half those of neighboring cities, and we have our own solar farm. The power almost never goes out, and when it does, it's fixed quickly. They also text us about power outages and fixes, along with a timetable.
Khavrinen 6 months ago (edited)
And the off-shore ones k i l l whales!!!!
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#28
South America Is Big
#29
One Of Humanity's Greatest Achievements
detective miller's hat 6 months ago
Of course with USAID gone, and the existence of antivaxxers in general, I imagine we're about to see a new spike.
Jane Hower 5 months ago
Yes, for sure - they won't be showing gay movies etc with our US tax money. The waste is UNBELIEVEABLE - I'm sure even YOU wouldn't like YOUR money spent so stupidly.
Load More Replies... Parmeisan 6 months ago
I... I didn't realize that nearly FOUR PERCENT of children die before the age of 5. This is terrifying knowledge.
Pursuing Peonies 6 months ago
If it is any very very very small solace, it's mainly not from known preventable diseases or such issues. Things like cancer and other such terrible things. And unfortunately many of that number is before the first birthday.
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#30
The Nearest Other Country...
Bored Seb 6 months ago (edited)
I agree with this way of spliting everything. When do we start ?
StretcherBearer 6 months ago
I would gladly be part of Canada and I would sit quietly and shut my d**n mouth.
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Damn ... How Far Bilbo And Frodo Actually Walked (If The Shire Is Kansas, Mordor Is Jacksonville)
Tim Fawcett 6 months ago
With the Dark Tower somewhere around Mar-A-Largo?
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Pursuing Peonies 6 months ago
Doesn't that just mean they went down the Mississippi and along the Gulf coast (basically) lol I appreciate your nerd lol
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Rubbish? Fine? Brilliant? British Superlatives Graded And Ranked
Craig Aitken 6 months ago
Not to mention putting f*****g in front and adding a sarcastic tone can make f*****g perfect either double positive or supremely negative
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
The Brits just use so much more of the language than most Americans. Having limited language limits thought and feelings.
#33
Woah Australia - Global Cancer Rates In People Under 50
Ange Marsden 6 months ago
I think Slip, Slop, Slap only started with Millennials
Load More Replies... BoredPangolin 6 months ago
Careful, that could be caused by screening that doesn't necessarily exist in country with more modest health care systems.
Craig Aitken 6 months ago
Ironically there are white supremacists in Australia who believe they're superior to Aborigines. The Sun would disagree.
Load More Replies... Jane Hower 5 months ago
I imagine a lot of cancer goes undetected in alot of the countries in yellow, etc.
Huddo's sister 6 months ago
I just heard that in Australia there has been a big increase in cancer in people aged 20-40, likely caused by early exposure to forever chemicals and microplastics.
Riddle Me Fish 6 months ago
Then don't move to Australia (Before I'm crucified this is a joke)
Parmeisan 6 months ago
Seems to be the exact opposite, actually. At least, I thought that being at the equator would give you more sun?
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Every Hotel Bar Ever
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
The orange dot: “I scored four touchdowns in a game against Polk High.”
#35
Ever Heard Of The Butter Line?
Ace 6 months ago
I'm just a few hundred metres away from the oil/butter mix, on th butter side.
Load More Replies... DeoManus Argentem 6 months ago
Imagine people using more olive oil in places where olives grow!
General Anaesthesia 6 months ago (edited)
Judging by supermarket shelves there should be a 'margarine and butter' zone, too.
#36
If You're Aged 30 Or More, Then 50% Of All Human Fossil Fuel Emissions Happened During Your Lifetime
Lost Panda 6 months ago
The year of publishment would be helpful. (Still believing that I fall in the greater than 50% area, but yeah)
#37
We Were Curious
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
This should go without saying but: don’t fück your relatives, y’all
Jane Hower 5 months ago
Since women have the same eggs all their life I would have thought as they aged the problems would be more than men since they produce new s***m all the time, don't they?
Monosyllabicgirl 6 months ago
was actually reading the other day about men who over donate s***m and have hundreds or thousands of kids, many of them in grouped geographical areas. This is a pretty big fear for all those moms who discovered they used a Johnny Appleseed who lied about number of offspring. There is something called like familial attraction where these half siblings are slightly more likely to be attracted to each other unknowingly, because the person may share some physical traits and even pheromones.
#38
How The World Will Look In 250 Million Years
Nicholas Rodrigo 6 months ago
Me Sri Lankan, proud to be an island nation still, now really a frog in the well.
Ouija 147 6 months ago (edited)
Read something about once pangea happens the climate change will cause all life to go extinct no ocean circulation and stagnant atmosphere
Earonn - 6 months ago
Probably no total extinction, because we had these conditions before, but yeah, it could be as bad as the Permian extinction, and compared to that, the one that killed the non-avian dinosaurs was like puff rice vs a nuclear warhead.
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Warning! This Image May Trigger Pinsecurity. From An Analysis Of 3.4m Pin Code Leaked From Several Data Breaches
Wild Cream 6 months ago
Oh interesting, my PIN is fairly uncommon :) it’s honestly just the first two and last two digits of one of my childhood best friend’s phone numbers lol
Neva Crook 6 months ago
Same! Even SHE doesn’t remember her old phone number lol
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The Phantom Stranger 6 months ago
My pin is the birth year of a character from a story I wrote 30 years ago. Only he's an alien from a planet with an entirely different calendar.
Monosyllabicgirl 6 months ago
i used my best friend's card once, liked the pattern of his pin and over the years slowly changed all my numbers to his. i finally asked what it symbolized or if it was random... it's the numberic equivalent on old phones of the letters of nickname he calls me. i just about melted from the sweetness ❤️
LittleTeapot 6 months ago
The black dots are fascinating! Like, why? Inquiring minds want to know! 9629? 9480? 3794?
#40
What’s Actually Worth Doing To Make A Climate Difference, According To Data?
Nikki Sevven 6 months ago (edited)
I recommend an extremely flavorful marinade!
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 6 months ago
Why are we supposed to bear this burden? Yes, we all need to pitch in and live more sustainably, but give me a break. It's not us little people causing this much pollution. It's the wealthy, and until those greedy bastards are reeled in, we won't make a dent in climate change.
marcelo D. 6 months ago
making meaningful regulation so that factories have to actually lower their emissions, since the industry is actually orders of magnitude more than car usage.
Seedy Vine 6 months ago
"Stop making more human beings" is not even on the list. Surprise, surprise /s
Inigo Montoya 6 months ago
"Have one less child" would make all these other bars look like specs of dust.
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Catherine Maven 6 months ago
I hate graphs like this that ignore industrial and commercial factors and make us feel like it's all our fault, somehow ... Not to say that we shouldn't help, but let's get REAL about the REAL causes of emissions. For example, we're encouraged to buy an electric car to reduce emissions, but producing electricity accounts for 30% of total emissions in the U.S. (2023 data)
Marnie 6 months ago
Cumulatively, most of these WON'T HELP. Because when you do these, you save money. Do you just throw that money in the garbage? No, you don't. You spend it, which just means you're using fossil fuel somewhere else (an extra vacation, or flying further away, or purchasing something you wouldn't have otherwise purchased).
Nick Hinkell 6 months ago
This is not accurate by a long shot. Eating a plant based diet is far more impactful than every other change we can make combined. The "studies" that show the animal agriculture industry as being less problematic than the fossil fuel industry are highly flawed, which makes sense because they are paid for by the animal agriculture industry. In truth, reducing methane and nitrous oxide emissions and rewilding the 83% of ag land used for farming animals an their feed crops is the only feasible way to reduce heating before we trigger multiple catastrophic tipping points that make climate collapse accelerated and irreversible. Fortunately, since so many large corporations rely on this incredibly inefficient industry to maintain their profits, this would also help create a degrowth economy that would break capitalism and allow us to build a better, solar punk style economy in its place, and rich people would no longer exist. Resources would be plentiful for all.
Nick Hinkell 6 months ago
Climate collapse is caused by farming animals, not plants. Stop regurgitating industry propaganda.
Load More Replies... George Costanza 6 months ago
How is buying a hybrid car somehow less impactful than "buy a more efficient car"? I went from a 28 mpg Camry to a 53 mpg Prius. I can't imagine how it would have been better for me to get a "more efficient" non-hybrid car instead. Especially since the battery in a Prius is only 1.4 kWh, which couldn't have much CO2 impact at all overall.
marcelo D. 6 months ago
probably cause of all the parts needed to make a electric car, specially the lithium, are more wasteful and poluting than regular car parts, with less time between needed to replace them.
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Al-Barquq > Albercoc > Aubercot > Apricot
Jaya 6 months ago
So interesting! I love seeing things like this. I also think it's funny how the Arabic 'al' (meaning "the") often becomes part of the word when it gets to another language like Spanish, because they didn't realize that was just the particle and not actually part of the word itself. Most Spanish words that start with 'al' come from Arabic.
Delta Dawn 6 months ago
does… does Albuquerque mean apricot?? (Google says the city was named after a town in Spain and the literal translation is “white oak”)
Jaya 6 months ago
It makes sense to assume that, because they look quite similar, but it's just a coincidence. It comes from alb + quercus, not al + barquq.
Load More Replies... Stephen Hutchison 6 months ago
So there's a city in New Mexico called Albuquerque. From a Spanish root, so clearly also Apricot.
#42
Guess What % Of Plastics Have Been Recycled
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
And plastic can be recycled only a certain number of times. We’ve got to get off hydrocarbons.
Deep One 6 months ago
There have been a number of plastics created from plants/plant waste that are biodegradable. We need to focus on increasing research into that.
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marcelo D. 6 months ago
the problem with recycling in general is that it put the work, and the blame, on the user, not the manufacturer, even though it was the manufacturer that decided to use non sustainable materials for the product (when they use to do glass, or metal, and a lot of the times, reusable containers)
#43
Oil
#44
Africa's Most Dominant Religions
Lil be lil 6 months ago
Is "tradional religion" Voodou? If so can you please make some voodou dolls of a certain politician?
Eva Sawyer 6 months ago
that's not really how Voodou works in real life...
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How The Concept Of Marriage Has Changed Across Centuries
The Majestic Opossum 6 months ago
I didn't, but I went back and reread it as that and it makes the whole chart way better
Load More Replies... Lil be lil 6 months ago (edited)
Love, A divine madness! I'm for it! (always found outside of marriage)
#46
Cars Per 1,000 Inhabitants
#47
Some Interesting Variations Here
MontanaMariner 6 months ago
Dang. I'm 40 with no kids, but most of the c****h goblin manufacturers I know started business in their early 20's. 'Murica!
MontanaMariner 6 months ago
Heaven forbid I use the word crøtch as an adult, in front of adults. BP, get over yourself.
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Deep Truth
#49
Sweet Teeth In The East. How Much Sugar In Fanta
Christophe Beunens 6 months ago
I poured a bottle of Fanta away recently, as it is was too sweet. I need to buy Slovenian Fanta, I guess.
Ace 6 months ago
The problem with a lot of these is that the sugar has simply been replaced with artificial sweetener. The UK is particularly bad in this respect, nearly all soft drinks and even cordial/squash/syrup had fallen victim to the "sugar tax" but is still ridiculously over-sweet. And undrinkable for some of us, not because it's too sweet per se, but because all the sweeteners leave a disgusting aftertaste,
Load More Replies... Nitka Tsar 6 months ago
Interesting. Need to tell my aunts to bring me a fanta from Poland, when they visit in a month. Then I can compare to our German one. Hmm… I wonder if I could get one from Italy or Switzerland, too… hmmmm
#50
Which Countries Have The Most Cat Owners? Maybe Not What You Expect
Nicole Weymann 6 months ago
Turkey may not have many cat owners, but (from my trip to Istanbul) BOY, do they ever have cats!
#51
Not Sure About "Cold Shower" But These Seem Like Intuitive Fixes
TheGreaterDebater 6 months ago
I suck at singing. It's even worse when I'm mad, which will p**s me off even more. I don't think I should try it.
#52
The True Digital Divide In Europenote: Oct 2022 Data
#53
Population Density Of Africa
#56
Another Reasons To Tut At The Mercator Map Projection - How A Circle With A Radius Of 5,000km, Centred On Paris, Looks According The Mercator Map
Christophe Beunens 6 months ago
Every maps has it's purpose. For Mercator it was navigation purposes. If you can map a globe on a flat map, you will be the richest person on earth (an opportunity for a flat earth believer maybe)
#57
Most Popular Car Colours By Year. Purple And Green Cars Rip. Note: Data From Poland.
aubergine10003 6 months ago
Why don't people have green cars!? If I had a car (which I don't because NYC), it would be green.
Wild Cream 6 months ago
The sad thing is, these are the colour choices we have because these are the colours people buy 😅 people love to complain that cars are boring colours these days, which is very true, but if car companies made more exciting colours, they wouldn’t sell as many vehicles. I’d love a brightly coloured car but most people don’t 😅
#58
A Woman's Age vs. The Age Of The Men Who Look Best To Her vs. The Same Chart For Men
Multa Nocte 6 months ago (edited)
OMG! Does this mean that Leonardo DiCaprio is just "one of the guys"?
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 6 months ago
I know I'm only a single data point, but even in my mid 30s I'm finding women under 25 to look like high schoolers.
Robert Benson 6 months ago
Note that it says "looks best", not "would be ideal partner". I'm not saying the data would change, but just clarifying what the statistics are reporting. I am fully comfortable with concluding that "men are pigs".
#59
The Lethal Doses Of 55 Substances
Multa Nocte 6 months ago (edited)
What is the blacked out one - methamphetamine? OK, I checked with the source. The one is indeed methamphetamine and the other one is MDMA/Ecstacy
Fellfromthemoon 6 months ago
So, I can consume more gasoline (and live) than lactose and Vitamin C? Allright.
meeeeeeeeeeee 6 months ago
I'll make sure not to take 0.096g of the thing that looks like snow, but since cocane isn't here, I assume I can have as much as possible.
#60
Seems To Fit?
Nicole Weymann 6 months ago
My several-X L self ordered some lined 5XL leggings from Amazon for homewear. My mother likes and wears them a lot. She's a EU size 42/44, US 10/12.
Wild Cream 6 months ago
I have a lovely jacket that’s an XXL but fits me perfectly (I usually wear an S or M). Found out it’s because it’s from Asia haha
#61
Pain Is Temporary, Tattoos Are Forever
Don Golosso 6 months ago
Generalizing comments on other peoples life choices, always a sign of how stupid you are.
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Accurate
#63
The Age You Peak
#64
World's Most Contagious Falsehoods
#65
Countries Where Non-Voters Would Be The Strongest Voting Bloc / Party
Tucker Cahooter 6 months ago
If you can't be bothered voting, don't whinge and moan about the government you end up with
Jan Rosier 6 months ago
Wondering why our Belgian triangle shows red? We are obligated to show up to governmental votes (until recently also for local community/mayoral votes). And when you're there, most people do vote.
#66
How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Pernille 6 months ago
Yes, but shortened tp halvfems. And I never thought about it until BP told me.
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Ace 6 months ago
I hate French numbering system really annoys me. I recall once a French radio station was giving out its number for a phone-in competition, The number was red out, quatre-vingt-quinze quatre-vingt quinze. 95 90 15. Renders in English as four twenty fifteen four twenty fifteen. You need to be able to 'hear' the dash or to mentally insert a comma to get it right.
#67
The Climate Colours Of Africa
#68
World Population Visualized
#69
Should You Trust That Doctor? (Maybe More Relevant Today Than Ever)
General Anaesthesia 6 months ago (edited)
With your life, yes. College humor can be quite cynical.
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Caffeinated Ape 6 months ago
Hey, to be fair to Zoidberg he DID have a doctorate! In art, but still!
#70
Lord Of The Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions In The Book. The Further From The Dotted Line, The Further Off Trend
#71
How The Makeup Of Us Households Have Changed 1960 vs. Today
BoredPangolin 6 months ago
Interesting that the amount of couple with no kids has remained the same.
#72
Didn't Realise That About The East Coast... Topographical Map Of Australia
Judes 6 months ago
But they're pretty small compared to many of the world's mountain ranges (they're very old and erroded), with the maximum height only 2228m. Fun fact: the highest mountain in Australian territory is not on the mainland but on tiny, uninhabited Heard Island (Mawson Peak, 2745m) way out to the south west.
#73
This Feels True
#75
Demographic Time Bombs Ahoy! Woah China.
#76
Faces Of Women, Averaged From Thousands Of Photos
Robert Benson 6 months ago
It is unclear if they are referring to the country, South Africa, or to the southern part of Africa
Load More Replies... ocean todd 6 months ago
What?! No Walmart American? https://e3.365dm.com/16/07/1600x900/obesity-1_3526683.jpg?20160704144416
#77
Hmmm. Greenland Possesses Significant, Largely Untapped, Mineral Resources, Inc. Rare Earth Elements, Graphite, Lithium, And Other Critical Minerals
Pernille 6 months ago
You'll have to get past me first, and I'm wide, and my battle axe is sharp.
Load More Replies... Abdullah Abd Rahman 6 months ago
No wonder Trump wants to annex Greenland ! No deal, says Denmark.
#79
Interesting Reframing. Cost Of Aid To #ukraine In Cups Of Coffee Per Month
#80
A Spot In The Gurbantünggüt Desert Approximately 320 Km (200 Mi) North Of The City Of Ürümqi, In Xinjiang Region, China, Is (Likely) The Farthest Point In The World From Any Coast
#83
Faces Of Men, Averaged From Thousands Of Photos
Kit-Ginevra 6 months ago
Interesting that they don't have the same categories as for the same one with the women's faces
#84
Dude, Bro, Buddy, Fella
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
Is the use of “pal” statistically insignificant? I feel like it’s used mostly in confrontational situations; “Listen, PAL; don’t tell me what to do!”
#86
Consumption Of Ultra-Processed Foods (Upfs). Wtf UK?
Multa Nocte 6 months ago
No wonder the UK visitors are always complaining about French food when they come here.
Ace 6 months ago
IME they're usually the opposite, but maybe that's just the sort of people I get visiting. But yes, I'm shocked by some of those numbers just to the North of us.
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#88
Alligator Population By State... Good To Know!
#89
Really Liked These Radiohead Song Visualisations, Using Midi Data & Colour Intensities To Give Each Song A Beautiful Digital Signature
#91
Love It As A Teen, Love It Forever
#92
Simple Egg-Boiling Chart. If You Can Afford Them
Don Golosso 6 months ago
But is this when you add the egg to boiling water or when you start with cold water and eggs together?
nottheactualphoto 6 months ago
This looks like a low-rent version of Kenji Lopez-Alt's work. And that trope is getting old; prices have been coming down.
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