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“Asbestos Tastes Like Chalk”: 35 People Share Their “Don’t Ask How I Know” Random Facts
We all have different life experiences, and because of that, we all have a unique set of knowledge floating around in our brains. You might know off the top of your head that Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was the first woman in the world to be elected president of a nation, or you might be able to list the capital cities of every single country without having to pause and think.
Some of us also have interesting information living rent free in our brains that might immediately lead to some follow-up questions. Reddit users have recently been sharing their “don’t ask how I know” fun facts, so we’ve gathered their most bizarre responses below. Enjoy reading through this list, and be sure to upvote the information that makes you wonder why in the world anyone would know that!
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#1
If your cat chews on fresh eucalyptus, they might start hallucinating and fall over repeatedly, leading to a $400 emergency vet bill just to be told she’s just kinda high.
Lee 1 year ago
Two different animals. But yeah, they do look pretty alike.
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arthbach 1 year ago
Eucalyptus is toxic to cats! If a cat ingests some, get them along to a vet as soon as possible. The cat isn't 'kinda high', it's poisoned itself and needs to be properly evaluated. https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/eucalyptus
A B C the Third 1 year ago
This should be top comment. I hate it when BP propagates this wrong bs, probably causing some uninformed people around the world to feed their cats eucalyptus right now to laugh about them "tripping out".
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
WWF Australia: "Despite the rumours, koalas don't 'get high' or 'drugged out' on eucalyptus leaves. It's because the leaves are so low in nutrients that koalas need more sleep than most animals which basically helps them conserve energy."
Zaphod 1 year ago
I've never seen a cat at all interested in euc and I grew up in SoCal with many cats. My dad planted 18 varieties in 1969. Only 2 were left standing when we sold the house in 2019. They grew too tall for the Santa Ana winds.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Eucalyptus trees explode in fires. Deliberately planting them in a state prone to wildfires seems like a bad idea.
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Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
Good thing I'm highly allergic to Eucalyptus in all forms so we don't keep any in our home, no anaphylaxis for me, not hallucinations or emergency vet for the kitties
Bored something 1 year ago
My cats ignore it, both in dried and fresh format.
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#2
A pigeon will only eat a Starburst if you chew it up a little bit first. Just to clarify chew the Starburst not the pigeon.
Bored something 1 year ago (edited)
I am sure the pigeon is grateful for the clarification too.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I'll trade my greens for your pinks.
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#3
TV shows and movies go out of their way to make military/intelligence officers look bad a*s. Real life “spies”, by design and training, are boring. Regular house, standard 2nd hand cars, dress down, have vague boring”-job titles (accounts receivable) as cover and do not draw attention to themselves. Most come from specialized academia.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I have 2 close relatives who prove the truth of this. They are 'file clerks.'
Marno C. 1 year ago
It's one of the ways they catch double agents: conspicuous spending on flashy or expensive items. Many agents in the pocket of the 'other side' feel a little resentful that they aren't having the James Bond luxury life experience. (These are the ones motivated by money more than ideology, love, or revenge.) Aldrich Ames tried to claim the money was from his wife's rich family when he was flagged as suspicious.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
That's why I spend my money on stuff that's not obvious and won't draw attention.
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Astro 1 year ago
I always say my old beige 2004 Corolla would be the perfect spy car, as no one ever bothers to look twice at it :)
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David Paterson 1 year ago
It's like any other job. Mostly dull and boring with short episodes of pure terror.
H.J. carlson 1 year ago
That sounds great 👍 A lot like a normal job, eh?! 😆
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Scrappychick 1 year ago
Several years back I found out that the wife of an old family friend worked for an intelligence agency, I obviously had to ask what it was life and was disappointed to learn it was mostly meeting people and handing over envelopes......
Id row 1 year ago
So you're saying they don't wear a trench coat, fedora, have a cig dangling from their mouth and a little camera hanging around their neck?
H.J. carlson 1 year ago
If you've seen anyone done up like that, you're either on a move set or somebody 's in need of a psych rescue 🙂
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rumple slunkskin 1 year ago
I strongly suspect my great aunt husband (if not her too) were spies or something. She was a secretary, which is normal and he was a mechanic for the military. Seemed normal enough until I was cleaning out some of her files after she died and found a stipend letter awarding him 42,000 usd in 1960 for "mechanic" work, which is equivalent to like 400,000 toda. And they frequently traveled to Russia during the 50s and 60s, last name Smith, And he died suddenly in the mid 60s of a "heart attack" in his 40s... I'm keep.trying to make it make sense in a normal way and it just doesn't add up.
#4
The German guy who sought to meet men on the internet so he could cut of their genitals, with their permission, and fry them up and eat them. When asked by the judge why he rejected other ‘applicants’, he replied: There was a guy from Italy who wanted to be electrocuted first. I thought he was a bit weird.
Jesse 1 year ago
The Rotenburg Cannibal, Armin Meiwes. Do not read his wikipedia page, it's disturbing.
Santrikea 1 year ago
You know I'm going to look now....just because you told me not to. Thanks.
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Lee 1 year ago
I wonder if Roy ever did get to finally see the movie he was trying to watch!
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two-sided llama 1 year ago
in his defense the victim responded to the ad knowing what was going to happen and was voluntary.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I remember when he was charged, I don’t think he should have been jailed and charged, ooooonly cos of how consenting both parties were.
My O My 1 year ago
Yes, I find it hard to put him in jail too. He was open about what he was doing and it was in consens.
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Tee Pussi 1 year ago
Yes. He put an ad in the newspaper, specifically stating that he wants to eat someone.
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#5
There's a guy in Germany who has a 1 year waiting list and makes 6 figures making leather harnesses and masks for people who like to roleplay as horses.
A girl 1 year ago
Nice user name. Cheers. I'll have a pan galactic gargle blaster in your honor
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Kaddiss Ventorum 1 year ago
As a furry this doesn't surprise me. There is MASSIVE amounts of money in that community and yall don't know it.
Raymond Smith 1 year ago
I’m in the wrong line of work. Guess I need to pull the reins and trot over to a new line of work.
#6
If you overfill a fast food gravy cup then put a lid on, it will create a pressurized gravy stream that sprays all over your face and uniform while your coworker looks on in horror.
Jonny Wilson 1 year ago
I actually knew this one lol. I found out after try to consolidate leftover kfc take out into as little amount of containers as possible
crazydogmama 1 year ago
People working in fast food (or other restaurant) don't always know about "displacement".
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Or... "Hey insert rival's name, let's stop fighting. I got you some lunch.
ELIZABETH A HIGBIE 1 year ago
Well say it ain’t so… smh But thanks for keeping the informed more informed
#7
Everyone here with the creepy crime stuff and I'm just "A soft-furred rat has 22 nipples".
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
great.now some fool is gonna make bikini tops for a taxidermized rat.
Ryder Watson 1 year ago
Another creepy fact.... A man mentioned Coca Cola in a post because he claimed that there was a dead rat in his drink. Coca Cola reached out back to him and stated that it was impossible for that to happen as the time it took for the drinks to get manufactured, shipped, and brought into stores, the rat would've been dissolved into the drink already.
AnkleByter 1 year ago
I think that was Mt Dew and Pepsi fought back. The guy tried to sue making the claim that he had gotten sick from drinking mountain dew and claimed there was a mouse in the bottom of the can. Pepsi proved him wrong.
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Ryder Watson 1 year ago
A creepy crime fact... If given a dead body, pigs will consume the entire body from the hair to the toes. The only thing they will avoid is the teeth.
My O My 1 year ago
Creepy crime fact 2: if given a body that doesn't defend itself they will also eat it
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When a drowning victim is revived, get them to a hospital as soon as possible. Drowning is the leading cause of death of kids from the age of 1 to 7 and is ruled as accidental drowning when it comes to secondary drowning or dry drowning. Basically your lungs are full of water despite being revived. Your lungs will absorb the liquid, but not before your body acidifies from high levels of carbon dioxide. The only chance to survive is to have the lungs pumped with oxygen via cpap machine and time.
Also drowning is extremely quiet. You don’t hear the victim go under. And if you see flailing, do not attempt to save the victim otherwise you’ll become another drowning victim. Throw them a life line and hope their amygdala realizes that there’s a rope or something floating near them and grabs on it.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
It always annoys me when, in a movie, an unconscious "drowning" person is pulled from the water, hurks up a splash, coughs and wakes up and is smiling and carrying on moments later. Cue the passionate kiss. I wouldn't want to be the kissee!
Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
Drives me nuts too, source....I survived a near drowning, definitely didn't happen like that
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Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
Another "fun" fact, drowning is incredibly painful and if you're conscious when you go under you know what's happening and when you're starting to slip away. I know, I was in a kayaking accident and I was stuck under debris, my life jacket was holding me up and I couldn't free myself. I knew I was dying and that my son was going to either see my lifeless body once rescuers arrived or watch me float unconscious down the river. By some miracle I was swept free of the debris as I was slipping away into darkness and had resigned myself to the fact that I was dying. I popped up after I was free and everything was pitch black, I couldn't see even though my eyes were open and yes I was coughing up water for quite a while. My lungs and chest hurt for days afterward and I couldn't put my face in water (even in the shower) for almost a year, I still don't put my head under water in pools any longer....trauma, it lasts a long, long time.
HTakeover 1 year ago
Wasn't painful for me but I was in clean fresh water river and was only 7 so didn't know any better. I was just looking around under water, unable to move, saw a fish swim by, then was out until after revival. The post-CPR was painful, but for me the drowning itself wasn't. Got to sit in a cool sports car of some stranger while waiting for the ambulance though, so that was nice.
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Roxy222uk 1 year ago (edited)
People have died from secondary drowning the following day, when they appeared to walk away from the incident unscathed. Also, it is vital to highlight that 'drowning does not look like drowning'. If a person gets into trouble in water all they have the resources to do is try and keep their head above water. They do not have the energy or spare thought to shout, and cannot raise their arms above their head without sinking. People have drowned right next to other people that didn't recognise the signs, even in swimming pools. It's really worth googling and reading up on it, just in case.
Zaphod 1 year ago
Idk about 1-7, but as of 2020, guns are now the LEADING cause of death for children and teens in the USA (19% of deaths aged 1-18) Source Google
Lee 1 year ago
That's an abomination. Here in the UK it's cancer, congenital problems, accidents and for the older age group it's suicide. I'm not gonna take a 'high-road' moral take on this but I'm so glad we have such strict gun laws here...though our knife problem is out of control.
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Ace 1 year ago (edited)
Nice 'fact' that's only partially true. Yes, secondary drowning is a real threat to people who've been revived, but no, it's not water remaining in the lungs that causes it, but rather the irritation caused by water previously inhaled, especially if it's seawater, causing the lung lining to secrete fluids, such that you can actually drown in your own mucus. But it's extremely rare, accounting for less than 1% of drownings (in the US).
Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
It's also caused by bacteria that was in the water being introduced into the lungs. Source- I'm a survivor of near drowning and was given info and advice for afterward on what to watch for and what could cause dry drowning. Drowning is also incredibly painful, it's not an easy way to go.
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Could you jump in with the life ring? That way you're not as likely to be pushed under and you can ensure their safety
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
It's about giving them something to hold on to that you can let go of if necessary (if I was literally drowning I would be trying to stay alive, I would not be able to think 'ooh, that might kill them along with me')
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Hollywood never bought a story that they thought was already good enough.
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Stacy Jones 1 year ago
That's true about how drowning is silent. I noticed my daughter go under and not come back up at the lake one day when she was about 10, and as I charged into the water to rescue her, all the other parents were turning around bewildered, wondering what the hubbub was. I'll never forget, there was a family with children playing less than 3 feet from her, and they never noticed/had no clue what was happening until I came crashing over, screaming for my daughter. (In case anyone was wondering, she was fine, no CPR required. But no, she doesn't enjoy the lake anymore.)
#9
Old human bones are very porous so if you lick them, they’ll stick to your tongue.
#10
Chlorine gas in ww1 was made industrially by running an electric current through salt water.
The more worrying one: bacon grease mixed with lye makes glycerine. Glycerine with nitric and sulfuric acid makes nitroglycerine. Nitroglycerine with wood pulp makes dynamite.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
Oh, goodie! A party! [ATF just gate crashed your event]
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Ace 1 year ago
Not sure why you'd want to start with grease, and particularly highlight bacon at that. Nothing special about bacon fat. Anyway, glycerin is readily available to buy and in no way controlled. The rest of the process effectively rules out the idea of making it at home for most people, other than Darwin Award candidates, that is.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Bacon fat is the best thing for frying eggs. That's special enough for me!
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DE Ray 1 year ago
Neither of these are accurate. If you electrolyze water (it has to have salt to conduct electricity), it splits into hydrogen and oxygen. Maybe a tiny amount of chlorine could be split off the salt molecules, but it certainly wouldn't be enough to be dangerous to humans. As for making dynamite from that description - it would explode before you finished step 2. Nitroglycerin is very unstable and unless it is made at freezing temperatures can easily self-detonate. It then needs a buffering/stabilizing compound to make it safe enough to make dynamite with. Wood pulp would be burned by the nitroglycerin (because it's very unstable), which could make a kaboom. Not saying it couldn't work, just that it wouldn't be the best option and could be dangerous. Fine clay or some other non-reactive, absorbent material would be better.
HTakeover 1 year ago (edited)
Both are correct, just missing a little key info/ingredient so not a step-by-step guide. In the first, a titanium electrode does cause the saltwater to produce HCL gas. You then collect and separate the gasses produced, which isn't hard. Remember the knowledge of chemistry was pretty advanced at that time. You can buy them off the shelf these days. You provided the missing steps for the second.
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Roxy222uk 1 year ago (edited)
(licks end of pencil) and how do I make nitric and sulphuric acid?
Miliukov Oleksandr 1 year ago
entire world of wonders awaits those skipped chemistry at school
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
All well and good. However do you know how to make undetectable hand grenades with plastic balls and tempered glass?
#11
The antidote if you drink antifreeze (ethylene glycol) is whisky (or any hard alcohol).
the harbinger of doom (she/he) 1 year ago
ooooooohhhh is *that* what that was there for oops.........
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Falcon on Dizzy 1 year ago
today on "world's dumbest criminals"! woman tries to kill husband with antifreeze, poisons his whiskey
Susie Elle 1 year ago
"The toxicity of ethylene glycol is associated with toxic metabolite production by the liver enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase. Administration of either intravenous ethanol or fomepizole, both of which competitively inhibit ethylene glycol metabolism by alcohol dehydrogenase and can prevent the production and accumulation of the toxic metabolites, can be used as an antidote." Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7827791/
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
Antifreeze is dangerous because a liver enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, will break it down into toxic byproducts (rather than the antifreeze itself being toxic). Alcohol or fomepizole will 'compete' with the antifreeze to use the alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes, and will block a proportion of the limited number from breaking down the antifreeze so it doesn't become toxic.
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Rob Woollard 1 year ago
I save time by cutting out the middle man and go straight for the whiskey
Rahb in Oz 1 year ago
I do hope it wasn't too painful or prolonged. So sad to feel SO depressed.
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Another useless piece of information that I definitely will never forget.
#12
Doctors, or surgeons more specifically, that make too many mistakes during surgery, ie, leaving instruments in patients, frequently gets ‘quietly traded’ to other hospitals where they continue their path of destruction with the patients not being aware of their past record. Hospitals tend to keep quiet about the matter to avoid lawsuits.
Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
How about firing them and stripping their medical license? Instead of allowing them to continue practicing? Or require they go back to school and change their field to something where they can't injure or kill a person....just a thought
Michael Largey 1 year ago
That would be admitting there was a problem and make suing the hospital where they worked much much easier.
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Bored something 1 year ago
So is it worth x-raying the patient before they are taken off the anaesthetic?
Hellcaste's Wife 1 year ago
How do you think "Dr Death" practiced for so long and left such a trail behind him...?
BumbleBloom 1 year ago
This really isn't a thing anymore in the US. I work in the medical field doing something called "credentialing". I basically do all the background check stuff on doctors for insurance plans and hospitals. Any kind of adverse "out comes" get reported to a national database. That is available to every insurance company, hospital and prospective employer. Everyone makes mistakes, but if a doctor has too many they
Verena 1 year ago (edited)
In the Netherlands everybody studying medicine will get their approbation, as long as their test results are satisfying. Your ability of interacting with patients as a doctor is not counted. Universities struggle with this, because they have no means to remove students, even if everybody knows that they won't be good doctors.
FranklySpeaking 1 year ago
Leaving a surgical instrument in a patient should be caught by the surgical nurse. A forgetful doctor isn't the only problem here. They are supposed to do inventory before they close.
Mr. Nurse Man 1 year ago
In the grand majority of situations, it is. I worked in a surgical unit for a year after graduating and participated in instrument counts more times than I can remember. No mistakes made on my watch.
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Bleach alone doesn’t get rid of blood from a UV light however hydrogen peroxide does for the most part. If you need to clean out a large amount of blood pour hydrogen peroxide on it, wait about 5 mins scrub it then use bleach. After cover the smell with candles or if it’s in the bathroom open a window and turn on the shower for about 10-20 mins.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Just in case one of us here on Bored Panda needs to make use of that knowledge later.
Zach Bigalke 1 year ago
Kosher salt also works really well for cleaning blood out of white fabric. (Nothing malicious... I was a cook for 10 years.)
Kaddiss Ventorum 1 year ago
If you read chemicals in your shampoo bottles, a LOT of food grade salts are used because they clean! Congrats on learning this through real life experience tho!
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago
I know periods exist, but this seems also kinda useful to get rid of any other slightly less legal sources of blood stains. /jk
Firefly 1 year ago
A fisher bit my dog's ear. There was so much blood even though it wasn't a bad bite. He was shaking his head spraying blood all over the room, also. It looked like a murder scene from t.v. Thank goodness for hydrogen peroxide.
#14
Rare af, but sometimes 2 ova are released during ovulation. If you have multiple partners and either very poor (or very good. No judgment) timing, the resulting twins could have different fathers. It's called heteropaternal superfecundation.
Ace 1 year ago
The two-egg release is very common, all non-identical twins are formed this way. It's only the different father thing that is so rare, and that rareness is more a result of social behaviour than biology.
Astro 1 year ago (edited)
Thanks for the info! I’m a fraternal twin and we’re not that uncommon :)
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PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
superfecundation is a word I will attempt to integrate into my vocabulary
Bryn 1 year ago
not the two ova release, that's fairly common. The rare part is heteropaternal superfecundation
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Taught a woman in a college class who had two boys this way. She made an in-class presentation about it. The amount of students who were dumbfounded this could happen was quite high. I would be a bit embarrassed to admit I'd had "relations" with two different men in such a short amount of time!
Auntriarch 1 year ago
I wouldn't be embarrassed about having relations with two different chaps in a short time, but I would about having done it without protection
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
There is an Australian couple who had twins this year, but one twin was older than the other by about a week, because mum had two eggs released, but not at the same time. Same father but still very rare. There was also another Aussie couple who had twins this year, but the mum had two wombs which is also rare. There were news reports on them about two weeks apart (but they were reported on months after the births, so probably didn't happen that close together).
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
Happens a lot with cats. 1 birth delivers kittens from 2 or more fathers. Shocking!
#15
You have quite a lot of time, certainly more than ten seconds, to turn back on the main pumps of a nuclear reactor once you have accidentally turned them off.
David Paterson 1 year ago
I used to know someone who was the operator of a nuclear power plant in the UK (think Homer Simpson). He used to shut down the nuclear reactor a different way each time, there are that many different things that can cause it to shut down. He lost his job when somebody in upper management discovered him not following protocol.
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ShellsBells 1 year ago
From my understanding from working as a conventional mechanic in the reactor department of a nuclear aircraft carrier, within those "10 seconds" you would probably want to SCRAM (Safety Control Rod Axe Man), or safely shut down, the reactor instead of attempting to turn on something that might not turn back on. SCRAM drills are conducted regularly, which are almost second nature to "nukes." I'm also pretty sure, due to safety regulations with the Nuclear Safety Commission, you couldn't just "accidentally" turn off the pumps.
Hippopotamuses 1 year ago
Glad I'm not there. I would be more inclined to evacuate myself.
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Robert T 1 year ago
The one thing you don't want to do to a nuclear reactor, at least not if you want to keep your job, is to trigger the emergency shutdown by releasing the boron beads. The work by absorbing the neutrons, just like the control rods, but they fill the reactor and cannot be removed. Source, high school trip round a nuclear power station.
Na Schi 1 year ago
Thanks @Robert T for adding your source. Because OPs statement raised, at least for me, another question (also/partlyaddressed in the other responses): What type of nuclear reactor: is it a nuclear powered U-boat? A nuclear power plant (as there are different types!!!) or a secret thingy of a government operation?
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Xenon 1 year ago
With a nuclear reactor (power plant, not sun), you could turn off the main pumps feeding water to the core and walk away. Once water level got too low, the reactor would automatically SCRAM, and emergency water pumps would automatically start and keep water levels in the safe range. There are numerous emergency water systems not just one or two, and all will initiate automatically if need be. Source: Me, a retired nuclear reactor operator.
#16
If you ever trying to survive in the arctic, don’t eat polar bear liver. It is so high in vitamin A it will [end] you.
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago
If you see a polar bear in the wild, maybe consider running before it sees you. If it sees you, byebye
Laugh or not 1 year ago
They run a lot faster than you. If you see a polar bear in the wild, pray it is not hungry or in a bad mood.
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Raymond Smith 1 year ago
Had a survivalist once tell me if you go into the wild to carry bear spray and little bells with you. The bells so the bear can hear you coming. Also to tell the difference in bear poop. Black bears will have berries in it. Grizzly or polar bears poop has little bells in it and smells like bear spray.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
Just don't eat the livers of carnivores. That includes (most) human livers.
Adrian 1 year ago
What about pig's liver? I've been eating it since I was a kid
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Thenatural 1 year ago
Yeah...coz them polar bear livers just be lying about all over the place...
Ridiant 1 year ago
I believe they found this out because of Arctic adventurers back in the day, so I guess there really were just livers lying around
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Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat soluable, so it is possible to have too much. Whereas, the other vitamins are water soluable. You will p**s out any excess. Also, vitamin B2 (riboflavin) makes your urine yellow. I'm just sayin' in case you need to pass a drug test through dilution
JuniorCJ82 1 year ago
Dear God, they didn't blur the K word!!! I'll have to wash my eyes out with soap!!!
Lee 1 year ago (edited)
Tbh I don't know how I've almost made it to 40 after seeing that word decade after decade! My pearls have been clutched so many time they look like salt on a string! I don't know why language is being sanitised so much whilst the world literally burns.
Load More Replies... Bored something 1 year ago
I know, it seems a bit rash to just go up and start chomping on his liver. No wonder polar bears try to steal our first.
Load More Replies... HTakeover 1 year ago
This is kinda misleading, but you're still better off not eating any unless you're desperate for meat and/or Vitamin A. The LD50 (amount that causes death in greater than 50% of test subjects) of Vitamin A in primates and mice, which tracks pretty well with humans is roughly 2g/kg of body weight. 1 gram of polar bear liver contains anywhere from 0.0045g to 0.009g of Vitamin A. So an average 80kg/176lb person would need to consume somewhere between 17.8kg/40lb and 35kg/78lbs of liver in one go to die from it. And given an polar bear liver is only 500g/1.1lbs, that's a lot of polar bears and a lot of stomach space. Now... Vitamin A poisoning is still an issue, just not insta-death. So eating more than 28g/1oz, you'll still get Vit A poisoning which comes with some really nasty effects, and can eventually lead to death if you don't knock it off or get treated. And in the context of the 1500s explorers who got it, sure.
Rupp 1 year ago
Yep, people are confusing eating liver with the people that were trying to survive and were making liver a large part of their diet.
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#17
During the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by Native American protestors, a drunken Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike of the island, but the order was ignored.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
I miss the classic republican party from the 1850's :(
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Robert Radford 1 year ago
Reminds me of how Trump floated the idea of nuking a hurricane that was about to hit land during his presidency. I imagine a few of his ideas had to be ignored by his handlers.
Octavia Hansen 1 year ago
So this man was drunk on the job and had his finger on the button? And he was the popular choice for president? OUCH!
Nimitz 1 year ago
Wait till you hear about what the last guy was doing...
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Captain Flapjack 1 year ago
Henry Kissinger did this. He knew he was drunk and told him to go to sleep.
Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
hopefully the same would happen if Agent Orange man were to try that one.
#18
[Ending] someone by smothering them is not a foolproof way to commit m**der, as smothering-caused asphyxiation damages a specific capillary in the eye. The pathologist will check the eye and immediately pronounce the corpse a m**der victim, and there are many, many people in jail around the world that did not know this prior to their conviction.
David Paterson 1 year ago
There are also other causes of petechiae of the eye. But what i want to know is whether it can also be caused by anaphylaxis when the throat suddenly swells shut after inhaling an allergen. Asking for a friend.
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Boo-Urns 1 year ago
The censoring is WAY out of hand. MURDER. KILL. SUICIDE. These are REAL WORDS and DON'T NEED TO BE CENSORED. If you can't handle the real world, stay in your bedroom with your emotional support carrot.
Lee 1 year ago
And in Victorian times, it was very briefly believed that the eyeballs of murder victims worked like a camera at the moment of death. So the authorities would cut the lens of the eyes off, look at them closely and try to see if they could find the face of the killer. Good on them for trying such zany and, I suppose, innovative ideas back then- can't really blame them when they already had such little scientific help to solve crimes.
TheTrueBT 1 year ago
This was actually tried somewhat recently, and the crazy part is that it kinda worked. At least in rabbits, but the pictures were extremely blurry and not useful. They could not get it to work with humans.
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Lee 1 year ago
Download TikTok for them, make them watch it for an hour and they'll lose the will to live themselves?
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meow point1 1 year ago
Bored Panda: We can't say death-related words! Also Bored Panda: *advice for wannabe murderers*
#19
Hershey’s chocolate has the strong smell of vomit or feces to some people (me), and that’s because they use butyric acid as a preservative. Butyric acid is the compound that makes vomit smell so bad.
Lee 1 year ago
The one and only time I went on holiday to the USA, I bought SO much of this as I had been wanting to try it for years (this was before we had those 'American' food aisles in our UK stores.) It was New York I went to- completely bypassed that massive M&M store and bought Hersheys. My word- it was vile. I just left it for the owner of the apartment we had rented out downtown! Under no circumstances would you ever find me abandoning chocolate in any other situation- you can pry it from my cold dead hands.
El Dee 1 year ago
I have accidentally eaten American chocolate. Doesn't taste like chocolate..
Ivy la Sangrienta 1 year ago
And this, among with other reasons, is why I refuse to touch American "chocolate".
Robert Radford 1 year ago
They also use slightly spoiled milk in Hershey's chocolate. It's because the inventor used spoiled milk when developing the original recipe and when he tried to use fresh milk later, it didn't have the same taste.
ELIZABETH A HIGBIE 1 year ago
Yess this was exactly what I was thinking of. By itself not so yummy.
Load More Replies... Joshua 1 year ago
Technically Hershey denies adding butyric acid to its chocolate. It's just a naturally occurring by-product from how they process the milk in the chocolate. Butyric acid can be found in many other products we consume such as red meat and vegetable oil. So it's not some foreign thing that doesn't appear anywhere else.
AnnaRachelle 1 year ago
My brother brought me some back from the US. As soon as I bit into it I tasted vomit. Spat it out immediately. I cannot comprehend why anybody would want to eat them
#20
A severed human head has a strange uneven weight distribution. So you better hold it tight or you will be known as the guy that dropped the head.
Lee 1 year ago (edited)
Muscle memory movement still happens for a while too. In my younger years I was one of those people that were shown a beheading video without consent (by an older family member of all people, because you know, it's somehow better to scar a younger mind than no mind at all?) and will never forget the bizarre movements the lips and tongue made all of a sudden some time after the head was off. Not back then but I'm pretty sure there is a law in place to prevent people from being shown such footage without consent. I hate how it takes so long for laws to catch up with modern society.
HTakeover 1 year ago
You can tell who had some formative years in the 90s & early 00s by whether they saw a real beheading and/or torture video, whether online or something like Faces of Death videos.
Load More Replies... Raymond Smith 1 year ago
It takes about four minutes for the brain to die from lack of oxygen so if they cut your head off and show it to the body will you still be able to see it for those four minutes?
whiterabbit 1 year ago
I've held 4 severed human heads, for medical device studies, and they just seemed top-heavy to me.
PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
I think I just subconsciously was confident I would pick it up by the hair, and any unexpected dynamics would most likely not result in droppage :-D too many movies, I guess, rendered me desensitized to medically warranted respect :-/ another subtle reminder of hidden systemic influences in our cultures :-/
Load More Replies... My O My 1 year ago
I'll try to explain. Basically it's the same as the beheaded chickens running around for a while. There is always a low dose action potenial (think of it as the electricity that runs in your nerves) at your nerves. When your brain says "move your tongue!" the action potential becomes revved up and the nerve transmittes the signal to the tongue muscle to move (electricity is turned up and travels along the nerve to your tongue. When it reaches the tongue it moves). So, normaly this only happens when the brain says "Move Now!". But when you die by force all the action potential left in your body just travels along your nerves and if enough of it reaches a muscle the musle will move (all left electricity just fires through your nerves at once. And then it like touching an electical fence). When all the neural firework is fired the body will stop moving. Fun fact: you can make the muscles move again if they are still intact my heating them up enough. That's why frog legs squiggle
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Maybe not, but they need sharing. Just in case they're good questions.
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PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
In mass, in density? Because volumetric asymmetry isn't enough in itself for uneven weight distribution. More specific elaboration is necessary
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CherylinCanada 1 year ago
I'm guessing this person is either a medical examiner or in funeral service.
#21
Most people put effort into "hiding the body" however what you need to focus on is ANYTHING that can link you TO the dead body. "I don't know, he was dead when I got here!" Don't say anything else. It's up to them to link fingerprints, DNA evidence etc. Anything else is just circumstantial evidence. Of course you should avoid any circumstantial evidence to a dead person obviously if you can.
Bored something 1 year ago
So we have this advice along with the 'don't smother with a pillow' and the peroxide to clean up blood. We've got a fair bit of this covered.
Lee 1 year ago (edited)
Don't forget they gave us the shopping list to create bombs too. Yet on the other 364 days of the year, they sensor words like suicide and the name Dịck.
Load More Replies... Angela B 1 year ago
*After throwing away pillow, salt, bleach, manages to find a pencil and paper while muttering furiously.*
Mjskywalk 1 year ago
If you need to dump the body don’t take your cell phone or a car with GPS. The cops can track the locations. Saw this on a true crime show (The First 48).
ShellsBells 1 year ago
Also, purchase all necessary equipment during hurricane season. No one questions why you need rope, zipties, tarps, etc. during this time, and so many other people will be purchasing as well. But pay with cash, throw away receipts.
Load More Replies... The Other Guest 1 year ago (edited)
Dude. Any evidence that is not eyewitness is circumstantial, including fingerprints & DNA. Also, circumstantial evidence is generally stronger than eyewitness for a variety of reasons (people lie, misremember the order of events, misidentify suspects, etc etc). (Edited to correct spelling)
Cjay 1 year ago
Yeah but if they never find the body there’s no DNA evidence/fingerprints in the first place. Plus they could’ve just run away
Oddly Me 1 year ago
Not true. People have been convicted of murder without the victims body being found.
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When Marie Antoinette was awaiting her execution , Her best friend Marie-Thérèse Louise de Savoie Carignan, Princess of Lamballe was taken and tried..They offered her grace only if she swore to Liberty and Equality, and hatred of the King and Queen. She agreed to the first part but refused to claim hatred and denounce her best friend even after her father begged her to in order for her life to be spared..... she was taken to a slaughter yard and a mob brutally m**dered her. Then... the mob decapitated her and crudely impaled her head on a pike... and then placed the pike on front of Marie's cell window so she could see what had become of her best friend and what fate awaited her.
Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago (edited)
For the record, Marie-Antoinette never saw her friend's head on a pike as she was in the Temple prison and no window allowed to see the street. The queen however was told about the event and fainted upon hearing about what happened. Source: I'm fond of History.
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
The princess also was known for her very long blonde hair. It is said it floated around like a golden cloud as they ran through the streets with her head on the pike. Source: I’m very fond of history.
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Shane G 1 year ago (edited)
People were dieing of starvation while these women were constantly throwing lavish parties and bankrupting the kingdom. Maybe the people didn't need to meet cruelty with cruelty, but how are you going to tell that to people who watched friends and family starve to death?
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#23
Wikipedia has shockingly accurate nuclear munitions counts for locations and weapon types.
Zaphod 1 year ago
Transparency is good, I guess. Btw, everyone should see, *Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* It's a 1964 comedy about nuclear war by Stanley Kubrick. It stars Peter Sellers in 3 roles and is super funny! Spoiler alert: this photo looks like the end.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
You can't fight in here! This is the War room!
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Skip Reynolds 1 year ago
By the way, that vertical black stripe on the right side of the mushroom's "stalk" is a Battleship.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Not accurate enough! The old book by Cochran "Nuclear Weapons Databook" was better but is way out of date now. For example, look up wikipedia for nuclear weapons of India and Pakistan. Both uncertain for total megatons by a factor of about ten. In addition, I have seen an important article about the transfer of 200 tons of highly enriched (weapons grade) uranium from Russia to America vanish from wikipedia. The transfer began shortly after the end of the cold war and was completed during the reign of Obama. 200 tons of highly enriched uranium was close to the Soviet Union's total nuclear arsenal, enough to make God knows how many thousands of megatons of H-bombs.
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
Don't use a nuke, or we'll know who made it, stored it, shipped it, used it. Each bomb has a nuclear fingerprint. (you can't blow something up and make it look like someone else did it).
#24
Asbestos tastes like chalk. And if you lick it, it has the texture of extremely gritty sandpaper. Which is actually the feeling of microscopic asbestos needles piercing your flesh!!!
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I am haunted by the fact our school (built 1923) had asbestos pipe wrap on steam lines. Much of it was picked at and left a powder on the floor
Load More Replies... OhBlahDi OhBlahDa 1 year ago
"If you or a loved one has ever been diagnosed with mesothelioma you may be entitled to compensation"
Ridiant 1 year ago
Well, since it was considered safe back in the day, so it was probably less like licking something dangerous and more like licking a wall. Which is still unusual, but there's weirder things to taste.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
There are three totally different types of asbestos. Different chemical composition, different physical shape, totally different risk. The only thing they have in common is that they're all fibrous and mined from the ground.
Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
Who on earth decided to test this???? I'd like some asbestos to lick....said no one ever🙄
PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
Fiberglass is almost EXACTLY the same as asbestos, in every unpleasant way. Their industry just lawyered up after asbestos got hit first.
David Paterson 1 year ago
The "almost" is extremely important here. The damage from asbestos is physical damage and the cancer results from the needles that are about 1/3 of the diameter of a human cell, less than 3 microns in diameter. Fibreglass fibres are of order 12 microns in diameter. Another difference is that there are three radically different types of asbestos. Blue asbestos is about a hundred times as deadly as white asbestos. The effects of white asbestos are sufficiently mild that nobody can accurately measure how dangerous it is.
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Christof Irran 1 year ago
Licking asbestos isn't dangerous as it is not toxic. Neither is eating it. It's the inhaling of the fibers (referred to as 'asbestos needles' above), getting them into your lungs, can stress the lungs to the point of eventually developing lung cancer.
#25
There is a species of turtle that can breathe through its butt.
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
From National Geographic: hibernating painted turtles get the limited oxygen they need through their butts in a process called cloacal respiration. The blood vessels around the cloaca—an all-purpose orifice found in many reptiles—are able to take up oxygen directly from the water.
My O My 1 year ago
Thanks. I hate this information. And I'm a naturallycurious person
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Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
This is how he shoots fire out of his arms and legs. He farts out of them and ignites it. Also smthn to do w his all Coal and Oil diet.
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Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
Joseph Pujol, better known by his stage name Le Pétomane, was a French flatulist and entertainer. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly fart at will..............a trait like that would have been invaluable in grade school.
#26
A significant component to what makes stealth aircraft stealthy comes down to how their parts are painted.
DE Ray 1 year ago
Specifically, they are painted with "radar absorbing material" (RAM), which is mostly powdered carbon suspended in a gel. That's why most stealth aircraft are black - the carbon coating. Some stealth aircraft are also mostly made of wood because it reflects less radar energy than the aluminum aircraft are usually made from.
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago
I made a model kit and got the paint so good i couldnt find it afterwards
Vermonta 1 year ago
When I was in the Air Force, one of the planes I worked on had paint that cost $1,600.00 a pint. It was more than just paint. The plane was a target in war games.
OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
Yeah, not so stealth to ex commie radars https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
Leslie Donsen 1 year ago
I got to walk under one at an air show. It was the only plane that had armed guards (facing the plane) around it. You were forbidden to TOUCH it. So I doubt it's the paint. The surface did however remind me of a tire. It's the surface itself. JMHO
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
You aren't allowed to touch it because you could unobtrusively scrape off some of the paint.. The surface is very precisely engineered and the paint is super-expensive, so they don't need some passer-by scratching it up.
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If you are going to dismember a corpse after m**dering them, when pulling the teeth, don't forget the impacted wisdom teeth. They may contain enough mitochondria DNA to allow an ID
TheTrueBT 1 year ago
Yeah, but the teeth last the longest, so people like to focus on that
Load More Replies... Jon Steensen 1 year ago
Ehem, I don't think that pulling the teeth is about preventing a DNA test. Basically every cell of the human body contains DNA, so finding a way to get a sample when you have a dead body (with or without teeth) should be quite easy. However if you don't have any idea who the victim is, knowing their DNA sequence is of little help, and you need some other clues to identify them. And that is where the teeth comes in handy. As most people goes to the dentist on a regular basis, and taking x-rays are a common part of the checking procedure, many dentist have picture of a lot of people's teeth stored in the record, with a label stating which teeth belongs to who. Hence if the police has a set of distinguished teeth, they will call the local dentist to see if they can find match amongst their (former) patients.
My O My 1 year ago
But the body composes quite quickly under the right circumstances. If the teeth are sleek to the lick they are still of an age usable for an dna check
Load More Replies... Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
I didn't realize this was all about how to get away with murder and manufacture bombs. BP I'm getting a little concerned with your holiday plans🤔
Becky Lombard 1 year ago
It's harder than it seems to burn a human body and almost impossible to leave no trace.
Load More Replies... tom 1 year ago
as a forensic odontologist I identified human remains from the impacted wizzies that weren't extracted. however if they have ante mortem dental records the trabeculation of the bone can also be used as a unique point of concordance for comparison
MagicJacket 1 year ago
Wouldn't the DNA in the blood, skin cells, mucous membranes etc be enough? Pulling teeth is meant so that ID from dental records cannot be made. If they are trying for a DNA identification, the teeth don't matter.
#28
If you work 40 hours a week and spend 10 minutes a day pooping it equals a whole week of paid vacation per year.
Nimitz 1 year ago
A former roommate of mine would avoid pooping at home at all costs, just so he could get paid to poop at work
#29
The smell of a dead body can stick with you for a day or two no matter how many times your wash your hands or shower.
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
its sooooooo hard to get out of clothes, i've lost so many t-shirts this way.
Deeelite 1 year ago
Yes! Found a relative that had been deceased in the home for a month. Had to throw out the clothes i was wearing and called in to work the next day cuz after 12 showers I could still smell it
Valdemar 1 year ago
The rotting body fats are very sticky and it translates into the odor. The grocery store next to where I worked in the 90's has a waste bin for the butcher shop and it was kept behind the building and all the fat and scraps went into it. One summer it sprung a leak and the liquid run off traveled across our back parking lot to a storm drain in the hot August sun. For two months it smelled like absolute rotting death and no amount of rain and power washing would get rid of it. That smell is still ingrained in my memory and I have a heightened sense of smell for decaying flesh and have to hunt down dead rodents and other pests that get in my workplace to keep my sanity.
BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
I am sorry to say I can confirm this. It has a smell unlike anything else.
Nimitz 1 year ago
Yeah. Discovered this doing fire/flood/restoration work. 2-3 days for the smell to fully get out of your nose and off your skin. The Vicks vapor rub trick really does help, especially if you have facial hair cause it will make the hair smell like menthol instead of... that...
#30
The act of cannibalism is not illegal in the Netherlands. If you were to aquire human flesh in a legal way, you are allowed to eat it.
Zaphod 1 year ago
Like eating the PM! See BP article from last week, item #1. https://www.boredpanda.com/interesting-maps-europe/
Anonymouse 1 year ago
In fact they ate their prime minister. https://www.historydefined.net/when-the-dutch-murdered-and-ate-their-own-prime-minister/
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
Remember that there is no law (in the us) preventing you from taking an amputated limb back home, you just have to argue with the hospital. The act of cannibalism also isn't illegal itself, but I didn't tell you that.
John Dilligaf 1 year ago (edited)
figures, this is the nation that once ate their Prime Minister after all......https://dutchreview.com/culture/dutch-history-crowds-ate-prime-minister/
Russell Bowman 1 year ago
Guess that explains the demise of former Dutch politician Johan de Witt
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Cannibals don't live long lives, human flesh is an unhealthy food choice.
BlueEyesWhiteDragon 1 year ago (edited)
Is this because of the time they ate their Prime Minister? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt
#31
Male and female beavers have different colored fluids that come out of their anal glands. In males, brown, and in females white or clear. It is one of the main modes of gender identification, as they don't have external genitalia.
Zaphod 1 year ago (edited)
Castoreum is used as a flavoring in many food products, including vanilla ice cream
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
No, no it isn't. Almost nothing available today still uses castoreum. It's especially NOT found in vanilla ice cream.
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PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago (edited)
According to Wikipedia, although actually rarely used in food, castoreum is used in perfumes widely: "In perfumery, the term castoreum refers to the resinoid extract resulting from the dried and alcohol tinctured beaver castor.[13] The dried beaver castor sacs are generally aged for two or more years to mellow. Castoreum is largely used for its note suggesting leather, typically compounded with other ingredients including top, middle, and base notes. Some classic perfumes incorporating castor are Emeraude, Chanel Antaeus, Cuir de Russie, Magie Noire, Lancôme Caractère, Hechter Madame, Givenchy III, Shalimar, and many "leather" themed compositions.[5]"
crazydogmama 1 year ago
I HATE Emeraude. My dad kept giving it to my mom, even though she hated it, too. What a wuss she was for not telling him. I don't think I've smelled any of the others listed, and probably won't, knowing they have the same base as Emeraude.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
Beaver testicles contain a high concentration of acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin). A little-known fact that could be useful.
Christian Homuth 1 year ago
Joe the intern had a pretty bad fist day at the zoo after he was told to gender identify all 70 beavers
#32
The Zoroastrians leave their dead in special towers to be eaten by vultures.
Zaphod 1 year ago (edited)
Zoroastrianism was the first monotheist religion. It also came up with the concept of "Light and Dark", good and evil. In Zoroastrianism, the only true God is Ahura Mazda, the representation of goodness, light, and truth. He is in conflict with the evil spirit Angra Mainyu, the representation of evil, darkness, and deceit. Angru Mainyu's goal is to tempt humans away from Ahura Mazda. Judaism and Christianity "borrowed" heavily from these concepts. (partially stolen from google)
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
I seem to have confused my religions, I'm now a Pastafarian.
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Chocolate llama 1 year ago
seems more eco-friendly than classical burial or cremation. I wouldn't mind
Nina 1 year ago
Wasn't it also because of logistical reasons? People living on a certain altitude the bodies don't decompose if you bury them (+ needing space for the burial site)? I saw a bit about it on a documentary ages ago, so please don't shoot me if I misremember.
Dani M 1 year ago
It is because they consider any dead body unclean and need to prevent the "contamination" of soil and water from death
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Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
Sky burials. This is practiced all over the world by indigenous people as well.
KM 1 year ago
Not anymore and not for the fun reasons either: towers of silence were used in Iran (the largest Zoroastrian community) until the 70s (-ish?) and outlawed for hygienic reasons, and are still somewhat used in India but the bodies are not eaten by vultures anymore because there are no vultures. The drug Diclofenac was used to treat cattle in the 1990s which led to massive poisoning on the Asian vultures, as of today 95% of all of those amazing birds are gone.
tom 1 year ago
India’s vulture population had seen a steady decline due to habitat destruction caused by that omnibus aggressor, urbanisation. But it precipitated thanks to the livestock version of the drug Diclofenac, developed in the early 1990s. It proved toxic for the vultures feeding on bovine carcasses. The drug was banned in May 2006, but by then it had decimated 95% of these birds.---excerpt from a guardian article
#33
Even if you don't want to, if you sit in the back of the plane, you have a higher chance of surviving a plane crash.
Mark 1 year ago
What does the first part mean? if you don't want to survive a plane crash or don't want to sit in the back?
CP 1 year ago
People don't like the back of plane for deboarding reasons.
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Roxy222uk 1 year ago
Adopting the brace position also actually helps. It stops limbs flailing during impact and bones getting broken, meaning a better chance of exiting the plane. Also check if there is bar under the seat in front and pad it with your bag if you have time, as people have broken their legs on these bars. I have watched too much Air Crash Investigation.
Leslie Donsen 1 year ago
That's exactly where I sit for that very reason. My father (flight instructor) said the tail will break away. It's the fuselage that catches fire. You may wait longer to exit the plane, but that is made up for the fact that you're not standing at the baggage carousel waiting for your bags to roll out.
Yayheterogeneity (her/she) het 1 year ago
Also if you sit within 3 rows of an exit your chances are a third higher.
PenguinQueen 1 year ago
Then why in all movies does the tail end break off and become a ball of fire 😩😱
David Paterson 1 year ago
Except for the back two or three rows. The risk goes up again at the very back. of the cabin.
#34
Although never technically illegal, oral sex has officially been legal in England since 1828.
Zaphod 1 year ago (edited)
Oral counts as sodomy, too. Consentual sodomy is illegal in 14 states including: AL, FL, ID, KS, LA, MI, MO, MS, NC, OK, SC, TX, UT, VA and Puerto Rico.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Eh, what? There are places with laws prohibiting certain sexual actions between consenting adults?
Jaya 1 year ago
There are even multiple countries that give the death penalty for (certain) sexual actions between consenting adults if both happen to be men.
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BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
IIRC president Clinton justified himself declaring that for his religion having oral sex with another woman is not considered cheating your wife
Richard Willis 1 year ago
In the UK you can legally bu99er any consenting adult except your wife!
alison ponce 1 year ago (edited)
There is still a federal law on the books that allows women in the USA to be thrown in concentration camps. They used it during WW1 and WW2. And even a bit during the 50s. It's to protect the military from women. They used to think only women carried STDs.
MichelleDonut 1 year ago
United States of America. AL = Alabama, FL = Florida, ID = Idaho, KS = Kansas, LA = Louisiana, MI = Michigan, MO = Missouri, MS = Mississippi, NC = North Carolina, OK = Oklahoma, SC = South Carolina, TX = Texas, UT = Utah, VA = Virginia. Puerto Rico is a territory, not a state.
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#35
Earthworms, specifically nightcrawlers are way crunchier than you think.
Ian Webling 1 year ago
It's the sand in their guts. Don't eat too many or you'll damage your teeth.
Crybabyartist 1 year ago
Came to the comments to see if anyone got this. Right on Bro!
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Reminds me of a popular book when I was a kid called How to Eat Fried Worms! I wonder how they compare to witchety grubs?
#36
Beginning in 1911 in anticipation of the outbreak of WW1 in 1914, two statesmen, one from England and one from France, began visiting locations in France that they believed would be the settings for a number of major battles that would occur during the great war. Long bike rides through these future battle zones in the countryside and weeks spent building a foundation for a French-Anglo codebook that would later prove important in helping win the war.
Lee 1 year ago
What an incredibly bleak and heartbreaking chapter of human history. Then not long after, an even darker and tragic chapter began. We as the apparent 'custodians' of this crazy spinning rock that we call home should really keep in mind that we're not the sole inhabitants of it. If only animals could speak...the stuff they would tell us about what we are doing to their home would be sobering for many.
#37
If you eat a bunch of McDonald’s and then down about half a liter of vodka, then throw it all up, tastes just like funnel cake from a county fair.
Brett Layton 1 year ago
Im going to guess they simply forgot about eating 4 funnel cakes after their half liter of vodka.
#38
Turmeric can be used as clothes dye. It is capable of permanently dyeing cotton cloth even after it has passed through the digestive tract of an adult male.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
It can also be used as an effective flea treatment, but it will dye your cat or dog yellow.
Christof Irran 1 year ago
If you bathe your cat in Turmeric in order to lessen the effects of dermatitis from flea bites, it will dye the white portions of her fur yellow.
My O My 1 year ago
I have a perfectly white cat. I'm off doing some experiments if anybody is looking for me *heeeere kitty kitty kitty*
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Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
I read that as the cotton cloth passing through and was mightily confused for a hot minute.
#39
Your muscles can keep twitching for several hours after you die.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Particularly if there's a dwarf sitting on the body, handling the axe he embedded in the nervous system.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Known as a cadaveric spasm. "The body may appear to move or twitch as the muscles and joints begin to tighten during such a spasm, before rigor mortis."
Hellcaste's Wife 1 year ago
Which is why cadavers are known to sit up in ambulances and morgues.
#40
You can tell a frog's gender by the size of its ears.
Mark 1 year ago
They're holes like in snakes and lizards. Now I'm picturing a frog with human ears...
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The Other Guest 1 year ago
First off, thank you for making me google "how to sex a frog." Second, from what I found the male of some species (not all) have larger ears than the females do.
Load More Replies... Jon Steensen 1 year ago
well I think there is a more obvious bodypart to look at when it comes to gendering frogs.
#41
Both HPV & Epstein Barr seem to cause a measurable increase in breast cancer.
Illicit 1 year ago
Both are Herpes Viridae. Along with mono, simplex, chicken pox, shingles, and the cause of MS. The Herpes family of viruses are actually responsible for a wide variety of illnesses.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Does this include lung cancer? I read through a book on the different types lung cancers, and whereas hundreds of occupations and chemical potential causes have been examined, nobody had thought of looking for a viral or bacterial cause for any of the lung cancers.
Load More Replies... PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago (edited)
I don't believe this. My partner's a**l cancer doctor said HPV is only linked to a**l, penile, throat, and some associated mucous membranes. EDIT the one i was trying to remember is the most common - cervical! Duh
07000 1 year ago
You forgot cervical cancer - the most important one! Testing for HPV (the strains most commonly associated with cervical cancer) is part of cervical cancer screening in a lot of countries.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
The Epstein-Barr virus was first discovered in Africa, as a result of studies of the incidence of jaw cancer. Burkitt's lymphoma. Initially thought to be rare, because it tended to occur a long way from well equipped hospitals, it was found to be the cause of the most prevalent jaw cancer in Africa. As for commonness, I'll just look it up. "Most people get infected with EBV at some point in their lives. EBV spreads most commonly through bodily fluids, primarily saliva." Ugh, the dangers of kissing.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I seem to recall breast cancer being mentioned in the reading material before we got the HPV vaccine when I was in high school, but it's over 15 years ago so I could be wrong.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I have wondered why there is an HPV vaccine for males though, since they are usually carriers
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The most commonly overlooked item for residual blood in a room where a m**der took place is the frame of a standing mirror. You're technically supposed to remove the frame and clean it, or continuously apply a peroxide based cleaner to the edges until it stops bubbling, but in most cases insurance adjusters will allow you to throw it out and replace it if you tell them a standing mirror was affected
Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
I'm really starting to worry about BP's holiday plans. Either that or they really just want us to all know how to get away with murder.... you know just in caae😉😂
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BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
Someone, possibly a beloved family member, has been m**dered in my house and I try to figure how the insurance would replace my standing mirror?
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
I'd rethink the "beloved" part, considering the outcome. And caring about the standing mirror might be a watershed between suspect or innocent.
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
This happens enough it's included in the standard insurance adjustor's handbook? 😲
#43
The US had the ability to view any American’s backyard via spy satellites about 15 years earlier than you would think could be scientifically possible.
Thomas Klobucnik 1 year ago
What blows my mind is the fact that the earliest spy satellites actually dropped film from orbit that was recovered mid air and developed.
Jon Steensen 1 year ago
yeah, one of the amazing things was they could use spy satelites before the had digital cameras (at least ones with a heigh enough resolution for that purpose). Instead the sattelite had a small canister for the film that was ejected once it was spend that returned to the earth. Once it was low enough, it would deploy a parachute and be caught in the air by a plane flying by. It is an idea that sounds so crazy that it belongs in a cartoon, and the success rate wasn't that high, but the pictures was of so high a value that it was still worth giving it a go.
Jon Steensen 1 year ago
That is some BS, there are a phisical limit on how good a resulution you can get, and you'd need an extremely large camera to be able to do that, not to mention how you have to look through at least a hundred kilometers of air that moves around in a caotich manor and blurs your image.
Load More Replies... Barbara Turner 1 year ago
I hope this tech is used to catch human traffickers and animal poachers.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Early Soviet spy satellites had an astronaut up there looking through a telescope, and a machine gunner in the tail to counter any American attempt to hijack them. I kid you not.
#44
Most traffic cameras have live feeds online, free. Never needed to do this for any reason myself, but pair that knowledge with an AM radio and knowing what frequency the local authorities are on, and you could become practically invisible.
Nae Nae BB 1 year ago
It's for after you clean up the crime scene, dispose of the body properly as instructed throughout and build a bomb. BP has some crazy holiday plans this year
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
The earliest traffic cameras in my country didn't. They recorded the images and someone would have to climb up to them to swap the film over.
Jill Jones 1 year ago
In Georgia USA there are now flock cameras everywhere. The live feed traffic cameras can be viewed from 511ga.org for free.
#45
There is an acceptable amount of rat droppings allowed in candy bars and some other foods.
BigCityLady 1 year ago
That included peanut butter and other forms of mass produced foods as well! You would actually look at peanut butter in an entirely different light when you consider the amount of insects that are found “acceptable” in your peanut butter. 😳😳
The Other Guest 1 year ago
There's a certain amount of contamination allowed in pretty much all processed foods (and probably fresh as well, eg finding a worm in an apple).
Miliukov Oleksandr 1 year ago
for a peace of mind remember - allowed does not mean necessary present
#46
A nurse went missing in Saskatoon, SK, Canada in the spring of 1962. She went to mail a letter and go for a walk. Her body was found in a shallow grave by the river a few blocks away. At the time her next door neighbour, across the alley, was the 48 year old postman. In 1929 that postman was the unwilling accomplice of his serial ki**er uncle, leading the police to numerous shallow graves on his uncle’s farm. His story was told in the 2008 movie Changeling.
SoozeeQ 1 year ago
So ... did postman become a serial killer too? Wish this was more specific.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
I think this is about Alexandra Wiwcharuk, a student nurse and beauty queen.
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BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
Are the letter she mailed and the postman related somehow? I'd like to know
What do you think ?
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Is one of the Bored Panda staff quietly putting tips together so they can murder someone and get away with it later?
the quickening 1 year ago
it certainly is starting to feel that way lmaao
Load More Replies... Ace 1 year ago
Why are so many of these supposedly random facts all about covering up murders?
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
The Green Lynx Spider is capable of spitting its venom and said venom is extremely bitter. -1000/10 never tasting again omg
Hlon 1 year ago
Another fun fact: when people panic while scuba diving, their initial reaction is to rip out their breathing regulator and take off their mask. I never understood why anyone would do that until it happened to me. Your brain wants things back to normal so you involuntarily remove everything that isn’t “normal”.
Julia Ford 1 year ago
And like my husband, try to swim to the surface. Luckily I was able to stop him.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
Another don't ask how I know. It takes a lot more poison to kill a person than you think, when taken orally. So long as you have a healthy self-preservation instinct, there are really only three chemical poisons that can kill you when ingested in small doses : these three are ricin, botox and radioactive isotopes. Ricin only in its purified form. And even then almost all of the deadliest poisons can be cured completely or partially by taking a different poison with the opposite effect. Much of this is because the majority of the deadliest poisons act on the operation of the acetylcholine neurotransmitter pathway, and the effects of some are opposite others.
PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
What about cyanide? I have read that this kills instantly in relatively small doses as well.
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Sky Render 1 year ago
If it were possible to override the prostatic utricle and urinate immediately after sex, the resulting stream of urine would be prone to being released in short, intense bursts. If kept sustained, the stream could easily exceed 6 feet in length.
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
I need to alter my genes so that I can release an extremely pressurized beam of supperheated urine at attackers like Shin Godzilla's Atomic Breath.
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Is one of the Bored Panda staff quietly putting tips together so they can murder someone and get away with it later?
the quickening 1 year ago
it certainly is starting to feel that way lmaao
Load More Replies... Ace 1 year ago
Why are so many of these supposedly random facts all about covering up murders?
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
The Green Lynx Spider is capable of spitting its venom and said venom is extremely bitter. -1000/10 never tasting again omg
Hlon 1 year ago
Another fun fact: when people panic while scuba diving, their initial reaction is to rip out their breathing regulator and take off their mask. I never understood why anyone would do that until it happened to me. Your brain wants things back to normal so you involuntarily remove everything that isn’t “normal”.
Julia Ford 1 year ago
And like my husband, try to swim to the surface. Luckily I was able to stop him.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
Another don't ask how I know. It takes a lot more poison to kill a person than you think, when taken orally. So long as you have a healthy self-preservation instinct, there are really only three chemical poisons that can kill you when ingested in small doses : these three are ricin, botox and radioactive isotopes. Ricin only in its purified form. And even then almost all of the deadliest poisons can be cured completely or partially by taking a different poison with the opposite effect. Much of this is because the majority of the deadliest poisons act on the operation of the acetylcholine neurotransmitter pathway, and the effects of some are opposite others.
PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
What about cyanide? I have read that this kills instantly in relatively small doses as well.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 1 year ago
If it were possible to override the prostatic utricle and urinate immediately after sex, the resulting stream of urine would be prone to being released in short, intense bursts. If kept sustained, the stream could easily exceed 6 feet in length.
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
I need to alter my genes so that I can release an extremely pressurized beam of supperheated urine at attackers like Shin Godzilla's Atomic Breath.
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