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Would you believe it if we told you that a chicken can live for 18 months without its head? It’s understandable to be skeptical, but it is true. It happened in 1940s America involving a chicken named Mike. Here's the full story.
We have a handful on this list if you want more of that. We’ve compiled responses to this recent Reddit question: “What’s a fact about the world that sounds totally fake but is 100% true?”
Some of these answers may blow your mind. If you enjoy nerding out on random facts about the world, this one’s for you. But either way, you will likely learn something new today.
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#1
Over 70 years ago then Naval Lieutenant James “Jimmy” Carter led a team that walked into a melting nuclear reactor core and shut it down safely. He got dosed with so much radioactivity (10,000x more than what we now consider safe) he pissed radioactive whizz for months. Yet he outlived not only his Presidential successor but his successor. He’s the nations oldest President ever, and recently celebrated his 78th wedding anniversary, also a record for a president.
Frank Hassler 1 year ago
This needs an update: his wife passed away last year. But he just celebrated his 100th birthday on Oct. 1st!
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
He's one of the most honest and amazing human beings ever born.
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Reddit.com: "Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/AskReddit". Carter himself said "about 1,000 times". This article states about 3 to 4 times the dose that was considered safe at the time. All after, not during, the incident: https://nuclearheritage.com/jimmy-carter-and-the-nrx-accident-how-legends-grow/
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I suspect that even he could not reconcile the current situation in the Middle East. Though I am sure Sadat and Begin had the same hatred towards each other that the current parties have. We'll not see the like of Mr. Carter and his efforts again....hope I'm wrong.
GalPalAl 1 year ago
As a child and not being involved in politics, I realize now that Jimmy Carter was one of the last great presidents or a generation that is gone.
Sue 1 year ago
It's sad, because after Carter that's when a lot of the Boomers decided they wanted a tough president with 50's morals. So they picked Reagan who played touch, but was basically demented, who was married to a women he left his first wife for and who ran off his kids. They fell for the act. Meanwhile, all those around him, including Bush senior, did whatever the f- they wanted. Not to mention, they went around him on hostage negotiations & made deals with the terrorists to release them AFTER Carter was gone. We won't even talk about the helicopter that couldn't handle sand.
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Pam 1 year ago
1952 in Canada. It pretty much made him immortal. He was a great guy and if we did not give the Shah of Iran asylum and Hostage Crisis things would have gone better for him. He is the one responsible for freeing them but the jerk face captors held till after the election on purpose.
dan gerene 1 year ago
They had to hold up the end of their bargain with Ronald Reagan. No holding up their end and then no under the table arms deal for Iran.
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BookFanatic 1 year ago
"pissed radioactive whizz" is not a phrase I ever expected to hear in regards to a former president. Lol
Lowrider 56 1 year ago
Hes still alive at the age of 100 years old. Maybe we all need to get massive doses of radiation!! Just kidding folks!
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#2
In Switzerland, it's illegal to own 1 guinea pig. They consider them social animals and require companionship, so you have to have at least two!
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
It should be the same with rats. Pet rats can literally go insane from loneliness.
Jaya 1 year ago (edited)
Animal wellbeing should be the main focus when it comes to pets, so we should have way more laws to prevent pets from living in bad conditions. It's ridiculous that it's still allowed to buy fishbowls for goldfish at pet shops, as experts say those are basically animal torture because they are so bad for goldfish's health.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
I've just added a third. The brown and white one is Mimi, the black and white one is called Kiki, and the new baby is Sniggy, or Snig Vicious, when she sports a full Mohawk. 1000001225...8f3d1b.jpg 
Epona 1 year ago
Hamsters are an exception (unless they are the same gender, meaning two or more females or males, but not together unless breeding)
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#3
Magnolia trees are so old that they predate bees by about 40 million years, and as a result are pollinated by beetles.
They are considered the first flowering plant on earth.
David Paterson 1 year ago
For many years they were thought to be the oldest flowering plant on Earth. Now this is known to be false as the earliest flowering plants had tiny flowers.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
Water lillies are the most famous flowering plants that are not evolved from "magnoliids," the main branch of flowering plants of which magnolias are the oldest.
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UpupaEpops 1 year ago
As an ecologist, I'm always on the lookout for interesting seeds and pods. I've just recently received a magnolia pod and I must say it looks to be from another planet. It's really cool!
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Daughter and SIL lived in Columbus Ga. when he was enlisted. Had no idea Magnolias grew that tall. Huge waxy leaves.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
The tree genus most closely related to the magnolia family is the liriodendron (tulip tree). That genus contains only two species: one in Asia and one in North America. Tulip trees, like magnolias, also pre-date bees.
dan gerene 1 year ago
thanks. I have got a Tulip tree in the front yard aprox. 50 fret tall. Always known it was also called a Yellow Polar but thought the Poplars were all related. Leaves start dropping in early September and continue on into December. Flowers are nice but it's messy otherwise.
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 1 year ago
Photo is not of a magnolia tree. They are witches in the yard - the seed pods are huge and impossible to rake, the leaves are also a pain to rake, and the flowers are so sweet smelling, they are nauseating.
Arthur W. Arre 1 year ago
Magnolias are a big, diverse family.You're thinking Southern (North America) Magnolia grandiflora.There are also deciduous species in North America Magnolia macrophylla.Pic is Saucer magnolia hybrid from Asia.
Load More Replies... Celestial Phalanx 1 year ago
Magnolias are not considered the first flowering plants on earth at all. Archaefructus, Montsechia, Nanjinganthus and Amborella, to name a few, are/were all far older than magnolias.
Dyspeptic Curmudgeon 1 year ago
Gingko trees go back about 300 Million years. Or 7 times longer.
2bwhctmvgn 1 year ago
Maybe you should have illustrated this fact about magnolias with a picture of a magnolia instead of a picture of a dogwood.
Jeremy James 1 year ago
Magnolia flowers are also delicious. You can eat them straight off the tree. They taste like ginger.
#4
Birds have been observed intentionally lining their nests with cigarette butts. While the nicotine in them is toxic to the birds, it's a low enough dose that it's not a significant risk to them in the short term (they don't live long enough for the long term effects to be a problem), and it k*lls parasites that may try to hide in the nest and infect the chicks.
Smaller bird species have been sighted stealing the anti-bird spikes that we put on buildings and lining their nests with them, like little palisade walls against other birds and predators. A small species like a songbird can navigate the spikes easily, but it makes it more difficult for a predator like a hawk or a rat to get to the nest.
Crows have also been observed stealing lit cigarettes from ashtrays and wafting the smoke through their feathers to k*ll parasites.
Silly-Rabbit 1 year ago
We know so little about the animals that inhabit our world. If we just stopped and appreciated all the creatures, it would hopefully sink in that animals are more intelligent/emotional than we give them credit for.
RabidChild 1 year ago
Absolutely! They have individual personalities and I'm convinced a lot of them have a sense of humor as well.
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Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
I'm not really surprised by crows. They are smart! Like using tools and trading smart.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
The birds in my parents' old neighbourhood kept getting into our attic and stealing chunks of the insulation. You could tell all the birds that stole from us because they all had fluffy pink nests. :/
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
The gulls that nest in our town got into the roof insulation in a builders yard near the town centre. They were all flying around with it in their beaks and fighting over it until the roads around the area were strewn with the stuff and it was all over the cars.
Load More Replies... Lowrider 56 1 year ago
Crows have been observed using different things as tools, and they also work with wolf packs hunting food. They're probably one of the smartest birds around.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
I guess most things that are bad have a least a little good....
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Thiago Gonsalves 1 year ago
k*lls... WHY? please someone explain cuz it's nonsense to me. Why they can't use the word kills?
#5
During the great depression, FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps for young men. They planted over 2 BILLION! trees in their 7 years of existence. They also built a lot of the buildings and lodges at the national parks.
The Cute Cat 1 year ago
This is wow in many level.. Talking about smart govt spending.. and also conserving nature..
David 1 year ago
the purpose was more just to keep unemployed men off the streets, same reason why they built all those monuments and federal buildings. The idea was get people min wage jobs to keep society going.
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Some in Washington have proposed creating a similar agency today to help deal with unemployment and homelessness, but of course modern politicians can't agree on anything...
Sky Render 1 year ago
They couldn't back then either, actually. FDR effectively had to trick congress into it, mostly by throwing so many programs at them that they ultimately approved a few just to get him to stop. You should read up on how many programs he tried to introduce some time, it's wild!
Load More Replies... geezeronthehill 1 year ago
My father lied about his age to join the CCC. For a 14 year old kid, three square meals a day sure beat starving on a northern Wisconsin farm.
Francky 1 year ago
I love the national parks and the hardworking rangers who work there. God bless your hearts.
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
State and National Parks are something we can all agree on (except those who want to cut funding for these treasures ). They offer so much opportunity for recreation and education. The less well-known ones are worth a look if you happen to be in the area, or want to plan an off-the beaten-path road trip. Rangers and park volunteers are friendly, helpful, and can give great tips about how to enjoy your stay.
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Unkeptwoman 1 year ago
My Grandfather, Omer "Tarz" Rew was in the CCC. He was a stellar human being.
Pyla 1 year ago
Out here in the inland PNW you can still see many structures Heyburn park ranger station), bridges, etc., the legacy is quite alive. So much so regional public broadcasting has done several documentaries as well as national ones.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Pennsylvania, too. When I was a kid my family used to do a state park every summer. A few of the parks are preexisting houses that DCNR got later, but pretty much everything with purpose-built cabins is a CCC build.
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Minecraftemery (he/him CisHet) 1 year ago
For any non-Americans here, FDR stands for Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was the 32nd(out of 46 so far) president of the USA.
#6
The sea produces more oxygen than trees.
dan gerene 1 year ago
If there were no trees where would one tie up their sea horses?
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#7
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Well, after watching some of these goofballs on video, I understand that term.
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
Thankfully there is only one, but the label still holds.
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Saint_Zipcodus 1 year ago
I wonder if there are more languages that uses quirky names for groups of species. Apart from equivalents of flock, swarm, herd etc. of course.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Me also! We have quite a smal number of different. https://oversattarbloggen.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/bisvarmar-fiskstim-och-andra-flockdjur/
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Pistachio ice cream is about 2000 years older than Chocolate or Vanilla ice cream. Persians were making ice cream as early as 500BC, often flavored with Pistachio. Chocolate and Vanilla, on the other hand, are native to the New World and wouldn't make it there for another two thousand years.
Leebo13 1 year ago
I first tried it on my 40th birthday in late 2022, earlier this year one of supermarkets at my local shopping centre introduced a gelati range which included pistachio, I perpetually have a tub or two in my freezer.
Tempest 1 year ago
Pistachio ice cream is heavenly! Try pistachio spread (cream) too if you haven’t tried it yet! Goes well with toast or if you’re like me, a big spoon of just the spread is the way to go.
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Kangaroo 1 year ago
Something from Reddit: “So, basically, thousands of years ago, Persians noticed that ice would build up overnight in the shadows. So, they started digging square holes into the clay in areas that would be shaded and filled them with water. Overnight, the water would freeze because it gets f*****g cold at night in the desert. They'd dig the ice out of the clay and store them in special extra-insulated buildings, filled with hay for more insulation. The ice would last a long while, so even in the hottest days of the summer, they'd have ice to help stay cool.“
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
One of my favorite old-fashioned flavors. It was a rare and special treat to go to Howard Johnson's and get a bowl of pistachio ice cream with real pistachios.
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
Pistachio ice cream has become my favorite ice cream before chocolate and vanilla, etc.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 1 year ago
You can have my container of pistachio ice cream when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
#9
How old the Appalachian Mountains really are:
They are older than trees, bones (including all dinosaurs), and the splitting of Pangaea -- so part of the mountain range is in Scotland.
The layering on the mountains looks "wrong" at some points because the tops of the mountains have eroded down & "new" geological forces have caused parts that weren't the top to rise above that...so the valleys of the current mountains may actually be the top of the original Appalachian Mountains.
Michael MacKinnon 1 year ago
Younger than the mountains, growin like a breeze.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands are both parts of the ancient Caledonian Mountain range, once part of Pangaea. Makes you wonder if there was a psychic connection that drew so many Scotch-Irish to Appalachia in the 18thC.
Mayblater 1 year ago
I wonder as well. Maybe they chose to settle there because the terrain was one they were already knowledgeable about working and farming .
Load More Replies... detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Some of the mountain tops also look wrong because the mining industry decided to blast the tops off instead of actually mining.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Older than the Rockies. They're shorter because they've been wearing down for millions of years longer than the Rockies.
Skara Brae 1 year ago
These mountains are even more extensive, including Greenland, Norway and the west coast of Africa. https://vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains/
BrunoVI 1 year ago
An ancient river flowed through the land as the Appalachians grew, wearing down its course as fast as the mountains around it rose, forming a gap in the mountains. So the Delaware Water Gap is older than the Appalachian Mountains, about 500 million years old.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
Also the New River, the French Broad, and the Shenandoah. Probably others I can't remember. The name 'New River ' is odd because it's one of the oldest rivers on the continent. New to the white folks, I guess.
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 1 year ago
Areas of the Appalachian Mountains just experienced devastating flooding from Hurricane Helene - some small towns in NC, including Swannanoa, Bat Cave, and Chimney Rock, are all but gone. It's heartbreaking.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
The Swannanoa and French Broad converge in Asheville, in Buncombe County. The county has been described as a wide flat funnel. It has a narrow outlet to the northwest leading through the Appalachian mountains to Tennessee. That is just one of the river systems that flooded in this area. I'm lucky to live just high enough in the mountains to have been sheltered from the winds and 50 meters above the Laurel River.
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Cows have best friends!! you know how wee see them group all the time but they still has this their very best of friends for them. if they would sperate they'll get stressed about it. they really have this strong bond.
Lou Cam 1 year ago
And if separated they cam recognise them 10 years later. Sheep 20 years later. They actually did studies on they where they tracked breeding females (long life compared to meat animals) who had been separated and showed them two options a photo of a neutral cow/sheep or their actual previous herd mate. They showed preference for (time gazing and also choice of proximity) their former pals.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
Cows have best friends whom they love....aaaaand we most happily eat them. Sigh. Why does meat have to taste so good....
Anna Drever 1 year ago
Tell yourself that you’re eating a sentient animal and you may hopefully lose the appeal. Not trying to be an ar$ehole, honestly, but I haven’t eaten meat in about 13 or so years. Don’t miss it at all. 🙂
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Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
I worked at an animal shelter where a calf and a miniature goat became inseparable bffs.
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago (edited)
Why do we always "aww" about those facts but are still able to kïll animals in industrial scale?
Jenny Mason 1 year ago
I watch the cows on the farm near my home and often see the same cows together. It's not a huge herd; all of them seem to hang out in groups of two or three.
#11
A million seconds is about 11.5 days.
A billion seconds is over 31 **YEARS**.
Think about that when you consider the wealth of a millionaire vs a billionaire.
JoinMeZoe 1 year ago
we get to live to see around 2 207 520 000 seconds, if anyone was wondering.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I can't really say what I think about billionaires here. Instead, I think if billionaires paid their proper amount of taxes, no child would be hungry or homeless or uneducated.
leendadll 1 year ago
Though it's still years away, there are predictions of Elon becoming the world's first trillionaire.
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Sam 1 year ago
The basic reason we have billionaires is that they have created large scale businesses which have enormously suppressed worker wages. They are basically rich because they have stolen wages from large volumes of employees. Or done other unethical things. In 1978, a guy we knew graduated high school and went to work in a Ford plant in Linden, NJ. Made $17 per hour. That is $55 per hour in today's wages for a kid right out of high school. And that is an idea of the size of the incredible scam companies have done to our lives. We all could be living with wages at that level and beyond. And you can thank the billionaires for that.
Gareth Owen 1 year ago
A million microyears is a year. A billion microyears is ONE THOUSAND YEARS....
#12
80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.
Ace 1 year ago
To be pedantic, a 'draft' is when a random element is used to determine who gets called for duty; in WW2 most countries did not have a draft, _everybody_ eligible was called up.
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Cammy Mack 1 year ago
That's why every human has a duty to say to politicians when they think they should be allowed to send people to die: "No! Do it yourself."
Karen Mercury 1 year ago
I am surprised they still have any people at all!
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Ryan Smith 1 year ago
When I was in Russia in the '90s, World War II vets were still venerated -- many still wore their medals on their jackets, and they were allowed to cut to the front of any line in stores, museums, etc.
JimSteve 1 year ago
Isn't this the same with ex-military people in the US too? (That's how I remember it from when I visited)
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Several articles I've read state that nearly half died before the war broke out due to famine and childhood illnesses. Whereas, about 40% died during WWII.
ANN VALERYEVNA Sokolovskaya 1 year ago
And that is why Victory Day is Russias biggest celebration, one million people lost in one day at the battle of stalingrad. But it stopped the fuhrer.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
A small correction: An estimated 1,100,000 soldiers died in six months, not one day. An estimated 40,000 civilians also lost their lives.
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DudeFortitude (He/Him) 1 year ago
@DanMarco (since we can't reply to hidden comments anymore) wtf? that is literally racist! Referring to Russians as "Sub-Humans" is the definition of racism.
#13
There are bears in super rural parts of Russia that are addicted to huffing fuel meant for the power generators, and there's nothing the locals can do about it, because when the locals try and take away the fuel from the bears it doesn't go well.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Bears can also get drunk from eating rotten apples. Maybe that means they have a genetic disposition towards addiction.
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
Many herbivores and omnivores are adapted to be able to metabolise alcohol because they may eat fermented fruit, and some of them do indeed seek it out. Doesn't mean they're addicted, but it does mean they find it pleasurable. Carnivores, on the other hand, do not need this adaptation and that is why alcohol can be so toxic to dogs.
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
They also have an apetrolholics anonymous group
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Has anyone considered leaving the fuel in sturdy, ventilated buildings?
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
🤣🤣🤣 I just had a visual of you standing in the woods with a fuel can & rotten apple going "pspspsps" to a bear. Of course, I have no idea what you look like, so in my mind you are a stick figure next to a bear going "Rawr!" I'm gonna go ahead and decide that's accurate. lololol
Load More Replies... Steve Robert 1 year ago
Could it possibly be that living creatures all like to get high sometimes?
#14
The last execution by guillotine in France was the same year Star Wars hit theaters, 1977.
Nico di anglo-solace 1 year ago
French accent: Hey wanna go to the execution then go see that new movie.......uh....Star wars they call it
Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
Believe it or not, I believe the title was actually “La Guerre des Etoiles”!
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Menno 1 year ago
Bizarrely enough, the first French sentence I was taught in secondary school was about this: “Il a tué deux enfants sans savoir pourquoi” (He has killed two children without knowing why”) The fact that I still remember this exact sentence after 35 years is a good indication how flabbergasted I was to have that as my introduction to the French language..
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
If the US insists on corporal punishment via execution, then they should use this method instead of the easily botched and painful lethal injection.
#15
Chloroplasts are the organelles responsible for photosynthesis.
A sea slug called the emerald elysia, which has a transparent body, steals chloroplasts from algae and packs them into its own cells.
The chloroplasts continue to photosynthesize, providing the slug with ~80% of the total calories it will consume over its life.
Skara Brae 1 year ago
For a picture of the actual creature: https://www.sci.news/biology/science-eastern-emerald-elysia-genes-algae-plant-02466.html
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Fun fact, there’s a cute sea slug called a sea sheep and the discovery of that slug is what introduced me to Bored Panda in the first place. Four years ago.
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure sea sheep do this as well!
Load More Replies... Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Slugs are not the only animals that photosynthesize, many corals do as well.
#16
Italy didn’t have widespread use of the tomato until the 1700s and the pasta sauces we think of being a core of their cuisine didn’t exist until the 19th century.
Flurb4:
It’s amazing how many New World plants are central to what we think of as “classic” Old World ethnic or regional cuisines — tomatoes in Italy and around the Mediterranean, potatoes in Ireland, chilis all across South and East Asia.
Pernille 1 year ago
I sometimes feel the need to know what we ate before we got potatoes and tomatoes. The answer for most of western Europe is cabbage, porridge, bread, and lots of meat. Sauces were sometimes made with plums, plums was probably the fruit we used much like tomatoes are used today.
Krispiechiken (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
Where I live, people used chestnuts as a side dish before potatoes arrived
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JoinMeZoe 1 year ago
They were also once thought poisonous by people because they used to eat them on pewter plates, which are poisonous IF they put the acidic tomatoes on them.
BatPhace 1 year ago
Also tomatoes (and quite a few other "healthy" vegetables) are part of the nightshade family, there's a whole lot of people who are sensitive to these veggies and it can cause a litany of symptoms that seem unrelated. Just a tidbit of random info 🤣
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Edward Loopyderm 1 year ago
Tomatoes and potatoes are so closely related that someone grafted a tomato top to a potato plant and successfully grew both tomatoes and potatoes on a single plant.
talliloo 1 year ago
one reason tomatoes were not used was due to the fact that pewter was a large part of plates and other dishes. the acidity in the tomatoes on the pewter combined made it toxic and people became ill and/or died. so tomatoes were considered poisionous for years.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
The red variety of tomato was actually poisonous (it's part of the Belladonna family). The red color comes from a form of the Lycopene enzyme that is harder to digest, and the red variety had very high levels of atropine and tomatine. Also, it was very small and bitter. The edible red tomatoes came from cross-breeding of the red decorative plants with the yellow edible variant, that had a different enzyme and much lower levels of toxins since it had been bred for human consumption by the mesoamericans since centuries. Originally, the cross breeding was made for decorative purposes, to have larger and brighter red tomatoes.
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BS. Tomato reached Naples through the Spanish Crown in the mid-1500s. The american tomato was not red: it was actually yellow, and in Italian it's called "Pomodoro" as in "Apple of Gold" because of the color (Tomato comes from the Aztec name, "tomatl"). The red south-american variant was basically inedible, and when brought to Europe found its niche in alchemy as an aphrodisiac, it's supposed properties justified by an interpretation of the name as "pomo d'amore", i.e. "Love Apple". Tomato neither has or had no such properties, obviously. The current red variants mostly come from cross-breedings developed at the De Medici court in Florence, where red tomatoes (cultivated for decorative purpose) and mexican yellow and green tomatoes (good for eating) coexisted.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
People started mixing pasta and tomato sauce in the early 1700s -not the 1800 as claimed here-, and in 1790 the recipe for Pasta al Pomodoro is listed in the "De Re Coquinaria" recipe book of Francesco Leonardi, the chef of Catherine II of Russia. He is sometimes cited as the inventor of the pasta with tomato sauce, but he was just collecting a bunch of recipes used by the noble families cooking staffs and formalizing the "best" version of several popular dishes. The recipe is quoted by Cavalcanti in 1839 in a book about traditional Neapolitan dishes, making its way into restaurants in the North of Italy and Austria due to the fame of the book. In the meanwhile, other variations became popular, as the Ragù (sauce with tomato and meat) and the Amatriciana (a variation of the traditional jowl bacon and cheese Gricia, with added tomato). Both are well documented in the early 1800, and the tomato sauce was first used on Pizza at about the same time.
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Don't listen to me 1 year ago
So what did the Italians eat with their pasta before tomatoes arrived?
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Oil, cheese and crushed black pepper, for example
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Mary Kelly 1 year ago
a lot of brits think americans stole their christmas dinner for the u.s. thanksgiving...au contraire...turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, pumpkin pie, pecan pie -- all new world foods!!...scrooge asks for a turkey in the christmas carol b/c it was, even in the 1800s, that great new world bird...andm let's face it, goose is yucky
#17
We need a steady supply of horseshoe crab blood to run our modern medical system. Their blood contains compounds that detect miniscule amounts of harmful bacteria, otherwise IV drugs wouldn't be safe.
ravn 1 year ago
Um...do NOT search this if you're at all sensitive. I'm about as sensitive as a brick and still...yucko.
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Bored Seagull 1 year ago
We don't. The test involving horseshoe crab blood can be substituted by a test involving a synthetic version of the enzyme responsible for detecting the bacterial endotoxins. This synthetic version has been commercially available since 2003, and has been cleared for use in Europe in 2016.
The Cute Cat 1 year ago
And also a pair of horseshoe crab is called mimi and mintuno in javaneese, which acknowledge them as a symbol of everlasting marriage. Pepople will says hope that your marriage lasted until you become mimi and mintuno..
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
That is an adorable fact I did not need to know, but warmed my heart!
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I stepped on one while feeling around for clams. Way to make the little kid freak out.
Load More Replies... Jrog 1 year ago
There are already alternatives on the market since a few years, and many countries -including the USA- are discussing restrictions on using the non-synthetic version.
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Zann S Massie 1 year ago
As usual something gets abused so we can improve our own situations..
WiredPig 1 year ago
Well, thats horrrifying...
Each year, half a million horseshoe crabs are captured and bled alive to create an unparalleled biomedical technology.
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#18
The Deepest part of the ocean *isn't* the abyss. It's called The Hadalpelagic Zone. It encompasses the bottoms of trenches and sea floor caverns.
And we know frighteningly little about it.
The Challenger Deep is only the deepest *known* part of the ocean. There's almost certainly points in the ocean that are much deeper.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
For those who knew the Mariana Trench as the deepest part of the ocean and are confused, like me: The Challenger Deep is a specific place within the Mariana Trench.
Myoviridae 1 year ago
There are more scientific research articles written about the moon than the hadalpelagic zone of the ocean.
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The Abyss is not frightening at all. Those aliens that live there seem very friendly.
Heiko Braun 1 year ago
We all know what lives there... ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Lisa Tetlow 1 year ago
Oh the infinite mysteries of inner and outerspace that we have yet to discouver.
#19
Every glass of water you drink is almost 100% guaranteed to have at least one water molecule that was also drank by dinosaurs.
Rusty 1 year ago
Which is still more concentrated than those hokus pokus homeopathic „medicines“ 😂
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I joked once with a friend that we could write the word 'ibuprofen' on a paper, put the paper in a glass of water and let it dissolve and it would work as ibuprofen because, after all, 'the water remembers'
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
For Kimberley and anyone else who's skeptical: Water has an atomic weight of 18, so one mole of water weighs 18 grams. A 4 ounces glass of water is about 118 grams, or 6.5 moles. Each mole has 6.022 × 10²³ molecules, so that 4 ounce glass of water has 3,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules in it. For some of those molecules to have been drunk by any living thing that consumed water in the distant past is basically the exact opposite of how lotteries work. There's such a huge number of molecules that it's wildly unlikely that a dinosaur never drank some of those same molecules.
Russell Tilling 1 year ago
Similarly a deck of cards, properly shuffled, has NEVER been duplicated. Every shuffle is UNIQUE due to the enormity of 52 factorial.
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#20
There's a type of jellyfish that's immortal. The Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the "immortal jellyfish," can transform its body into a younger state through a process called transdifferentiation, essentially making it immortal.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Or if another immortal jelly cuts of their head with a sword...
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Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Not very old, since they still die from predators, climate change, and disease. Also jellyfish don't usually live more than a few years at most, and the process of transdifferentiation hasn't been seen in the wild
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#21
Mammoths were alive during the construction of the Great Pyramid.
Also if you put it on a timeline, Cleopatra and Ceaser are closer to today than to the construction of the Great Pyramid.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
Note: the mammoths were on an Aleutian Island; they weren't widespread anymore.
Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
Oh, boo. I wanted to see Egyptians fending off mammoths as they built.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
By the time Cleopatra ruled they already had historians studiying "ancient" egypt
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Tyrannosaurus rex is also closer in time to you than it is to Stegosaurus. The dinosaurs just lasted a loooong time.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
The mammoths were used as work animals to help build the pyramids. I saw it in a movie.
Laura Gillette 1 year ago
There were archeologists in ancient Egypt that studied even ancient-er Egypt!
UKGrandad 1 year ago
I know how she felt. If I thought I could get away with it......
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#22
Gavrilo Princip tried to k*ll Archduke Franz Ferdinand during a parade through the streets of Sarajevo, but could not get close enough to the motorcade because of security. Later in the day, after the parade had been over for hours, Princip retreated sullenly to a small sandwich shop elsewhere in the city, when suddenly and completely out of the f*****g blue, Franz Ferdinand *just happened* to roll past him on his way back from a speech after taking an unscheduled detour down the same street as the sandwich shop. Princip walked right up to the car and shot the Archduke at point-blank range, k*lling him, which started World War I -- the deadliest conflict in human history up to that point.
BrunoVI 1 year ago (edited)
Horrifying fact: World War One was far, far, far, far from the deadliest conflict in human history up to that point. World War One killed about 15 million people, or 30 million people if you consider those who died from effects of World War One, including the "Spanish" Flu. (But I don't think it's reasonable to count those as "war dead," whereas I do think it's reasonable to count deliberate famines, like the Ukranian Holomodor, or even famines caused by suppression of dissent, like in Maoist China or British Ireland.) The Taiping Rebellion in China saw 30 million people killed. The Mongol invasions saw 57 million people killed. By comparison, the Crusades saw about 1 million die. The Lushan Rebellion and Three Kingdoms War, also in China, also saw way more people than World War One killed. The Black Death was caused by Germ Warfare by Muslim invaders of the Seige of Caffa, and could have killed 200 million people.
Russell Tilling 1 year ago
I disagree the Irish Potato Famine was caused by deliberate “suppression of dissent” so a reference would be useful. It was caused by a British-initiated dependence on potatoes as a food staple. Then came the potato blight, for which granted the British government did little to alleviate the suffering.
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The Cute Cat 1 year ago
It is starting WW1.. But actually if that not happen other incident will start it anyway.. Political situation is already very hostile in Europe at that time
OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
Exactly - it was really tense in those days in political terms in Europe and that trigger, literally and figuratively, was chosen to mark the beginning of the war to end all wars, but it wasn't the cause of it - just the point in time we chose as a marker
Load More Replies... Eastendbird 1 year ago
The book "Time and Time Again" by Ben Elton is based around the idea of a time traveller trying to prevent the start of WW1. Lots of interesting history in it. Worth a read.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
The Archduke's wife, Sophie, lost her life along with her husband.
Bi-Polar Express 1 year ago
My first college history professor told us this. And so many other really interesting things that make you realize how many flukes have brought us to where we are today.
Khall Khall 1 year ago (edited)
He died in prison of tuberculosis, aggravated by the horrible treatment and conditions there. Not sure if it's sad or not but nobody ever tells you what happened to him. Also...he didn't exactly cause WWI. Nobody really cared that the archduke was assassinated, at first. Then a few days later they figured out it would make a great excuse to go to war, which both France and Germany had been wanting to do for a while (and a bunch of other countries too.) WWI is something I've always been fascinated by and there's so little public attention to it or knowledge of it.
#23
When Betelgeuse goes supernova (if it hasn't already and we don't know yet) it will be visible in the day for roughly a year, and several more years we'll see it at night. That said, the prediction of 'when' by scientists is somewhere between today and 100,000 years from now. Odds are, none of us will see it.
Yellow dot 1 year ago (edited)
Betelgeuse is a Red Supergiant star. It translates roughly to "the giants shoulder" and is the right shoulder of the Orion constellation (heard of Orions Belt? Its not just a belt, its a full body warrior constellation that stretches over much of the sky) Betelgeuse (pronounced beetlejuice, btw) is nearing the end of its life. It is approximately 10-20 times the size of our own Sun. The theory is, after Betelgeuse goes supernova, that it will become a black hole or a neutron star (it sounds like this is more likely). Betelgeuse is not projected to damage Earth when it goes supernova. The word "soon" is used often when describing its imminent event because of the planets age, about 10.01 million years, making a measly 100,000 years seem "soon".
no adhesiveness 2020 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure it's 'bettle-gees', my astronomy professor said Beetle Juice is an astronomers joke pronunciation.
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Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Wait nvm it’d probably just be a spec of light that hurts to look at
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
Seen from Earth it will still look like a star (because it's so far away) but it will appear as bright as the full moon, so much brighter even than Venus.
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There are currently more chickens than all other birds combined on this lovely planet.
Menacing Duck 1 year ago
I'll be ready. Don't think your invasion will be that easy, chicken.
Load More Replies... The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago (edited)
John Stewart made a joke once, probably 25 years ago, that if we want to keep an animal from going extinct, we should turn it into food. Disturbing but sadly probably true.
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
Because you're daft enough to pay extortionate prices.
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It's not just birds ... a result of factory farming. 33458758_1...5bd1a8.jpg 
David Jones 1 year ago
oh, did you hear? there is a new campaign now , that is promoting eggs are dangerous food now, yeah....they cause blood clots, I don't think the deep state and cabal will be happy until everything is grown at home, and is raised on farms are outlawed, rendering us completely dependent on the gov't my2¢
#25
Chimpanzees share more DNA in common with humans than they do with any other primate.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
Better be a feathered dino and share DNA with a velociraptor. It had much more style 😎
Hilary Gilbertson 1 year ago
No. Chimpanzees and Bonobos have 99.6% DNA in common. Chimpanzees and humans share 98.8%.
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Rebecca Taylor 1 year ago
pigs DNA and FRogs DNA are even closer related than Chimpanzees, if you belive DNA FACTS, Where does that leave evolutionists!
#26
1/120 humans alive today are slaves paid nothing for their work. This doesn't include low wage slaves such as US prisoners. There are more slaves today than any other point in history.
iseefractals 1 year ago
Overall message is correct, specifics are not. There are estimated to be 44 million people living in slavery today 1/186, while the entire 400 odd years of transatlantic slave trade impacted 15 million people (12-12.8 of which were africans) and only 388,000 of which ended up in the colonies/united states, with the majority of slaves today being in the middle east, india, china, north korea and spread across Africa. Everyone should be a little more concerned with the here and now, not the over and done with.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago (edited)
For what it's worth, Brazil had far more slaves in the 19th century than the United States. Of those 12 million enslaved Africans, 5.5 million were taken to Brazil, more than ten times the number taken to the United States. A very dark stain on our history. But one which made Brazil a center of the African cultural diaspora in the New World
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Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
That's down to simple fact - today's population is 8 billions, 200 years ago was what? Not even one billion. That's said, we should still be working on eradication of any form of slavery.
Heras buddy 1 year ago
And this probably doesn't count the people who are serving peonage. Working to pay off debt at a rate that they never have a real way to pay it off.
Ace 1 year ago
Comparisons like this are misleading; throughout most of history a slave was owned property that could be bought and sold, or killed on a whim, by its owner. While modern slavery is a real problem it's more akin to historic fiefdom, so a valid comparison would include nearly all of the population of much of history, where most people owed a duty to their King or Lord.
Lou Cam 1 year ago
More like indentured servant. If you were poor, on the verge of starving poor, you would sell yourself to a land or business owner for a period of time, usually 20 years and you belonged to them during this time. You worked horrible hours in awful conditions and they fed you clothed you and gave you a floor to sleep on. Also people could be sentenced to indentured servitude if they had debts they couldn't pay. Sounds medieval but in reality they were poor houses doing this right up to the early 1900's in UK (a few of my ancestors lived/died in them according to records).
Load More Replies... nuberiffic 1 year ago
Why are prisoners counted as slaves? That work is just part of their sentence.
Moxitron Jazz 1 year ago
toiling away for nothing, only to profit the Prison Industrial Complex, hardly seems like a good way to rehabilitate a person...
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Earth’s core is as hot as the Sun’s surface.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
My husband is an underground driller. He is currently working at one of the deepest mines in America. Temperatures are intense. About 145°F. They have to ventilate to cool or they can't work down there for any amount of time. I find it very scary.
BrunoVI 1 year ago (edited)
Insanely misleading. There is a strange phenomenon due to rapidly changing densities that makes the surface of the sun strangely cool, only about 7,000 degrees. The interior of the sun is 27 million degrees. The atmosphere (corona) is also millions of degrees. But it is worthy of note that the interior of the Earth is a "dirty bomb" made hot by nuclear radiation.
#28
Australia is wider across than the moon.
T5n 1 year ago
There aren’t any on the moon. But there are some on Mars, just ask Ziggy.
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Yellow dot 1 year ago
Australia: 4,000 km east to west Moon: approx 3,500 km east to west Of course, the Moon still has more surface area.
#29
About 25% of people on earth don't know their birthday because they're from countries that don't have birth certificates. That's why about 14% of immigrants to the U.S. list January 1 as their birthday - because they had to make one up.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
60 Minutes did an outstanding piece on a former slave family who now owns the plantation their ancestors were on. My wife could not understand how they(slaves) could not know their lineage. She got "woke" on this that day. And be sure to calmly explain what "woke" means using this example. Or the Tulsa "riots". Woke does not mean subservient, it means being aware of what has transpired and to be mindful to ensure there is no repeat.
Casey Garland 1 year ago
Thank you for so eloquently stating that being "woke" is not an insult but a testament to working to understand !!!!!! The irony of the current political use is lost on so many people.
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Rose the Cook 1 year ago
My Chinese mother in law doesn't have one. She is about 100 give or take a year or so.
Adam Jeff 1 year ago
The phrasing is slightly off on this one: afaik, there are very few countries which don't issue birth certificates today. However, there are many countries which didn't issue them until relatively recently (meaning older people don't have birth certificates) and many countries where many births are not registered, despite the country officially having certificates (because babies are born at home and the parents don't register them for a variety of reasons).
Tempest 1 year ago
How do those countries take census data or manage legal work (which might be influenced by knowing the exact age of a person), especially for really young kids who might not have any other form of official registration (passport, etc)? Are they issued some other form of identification documents? I always thought that those who didn’t know their birthday was because their parents didn’t tell them, didn’t celebrate, or they were displaced from the parents, losing their documents. I genuinely didn’t know that some countries don’t issue birth certificates so I’m curious.
leendadll 1 year ago
My elementary school BFF had 2 bdays because she came from a country without birth certificates. Someone registered her bday as a date that many family members didn't agree with. The 2 dates were months apart.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
My first husband was from Uganda, and was a teenager during the hight of Amin's terror campaign. His family was part of the tribe Amin hated the most, therefore, a lot of his direct family were savagely murdered and it wasn't uncommon for their poor, tortured bodies to be dumped in their compound's courtyard. In other to protect his son, his father (a doctor) somehow managed to get a false birth certificate with a birth year that made him older than he was. This was because he wouldn't be taken if he was too old for Amin's boy soldiers. He never told anyone because that birth date was the one on his passport and he was afraid that would lead to his deportation. It was strange to find he was closer to my age than I thought.
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Sandra Lappan 1 year ago
When my mother was trying to get a visa for her sister to come to the US my mother was informed that since the birth records were in the church and the church burned down there was no proof of my mother and her siblings being related. My aunt celebrates her birthday in April and June as no one can remember the day and moth she was born.
#30
The most common cause of death in pregnant women is homicide by their male partners.
Li’l E. 1 year ago
It was an editorial in the BMJ, not a study, and it stated that homicide is A leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US, not THE leading cause of death. It’s in the top 5, which is definitely not where it should be.
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Onan Hag All 1 year ago
The most common cause of death in pregnant women, is pregnancy complications. However, in the USA...
Bi-Polar Express 1 year ago (edited)
Males known to women are the most dangerous things we will ever encounter. Worldwide. Pregnant or not.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
Not in Sweden Less then 6 maternal death on 130000 births per year and most medical, suicide and few murders.
David Jones 1 year ago
no that's a lie~!!!!!! it is the covid vaccine.....look it up and stop saying stupid stuff
#31
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away. Now that's some serious love!
Ace 1 year ago
Detectable, and only with the right detectors. It's at a frequency not audible to the human ear.
dan gerene 1 year ago
You can also hear them three miles away if they had beans and cabbage for lunch.
#32
We don't know how much coastline there is on Earth.
It's called "The Coastline Paradox". Coastlines are fractal. Sure, we can look at a broad scale map, but miss all the tiny variations, sometimes mere ft or centimeters. These add up to huge numbers. Measuring the length of a coastline is tricky because the result depends on how detailed your measurement is. Imagine walking along the shore with a ruler: if you use a big ruler, you'll skip over small curves and bumps, giving you a shorter measurement. But if you use a smaller ruler, you can measure all the little details, and the coastline will seem much longer. Plus, it's always changing. Erosion, cliff collapse, water levels rising, volcanic events adding or removing it.
Rastilabo 1 year ago
Coastlines are not fractal. As per definition they cannot have details smaller than a water molecule.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
True but consider a math professor's demonstration of the phrase "For all practical purposes" to a freshman class. "Suppose I lined all the men here on one side of the room and all the women on the other and the told you that at a given signal, both lines will move forward exactly 1/4 of the distance remaining between them. No matter how many time this is repeated, the two lines will never *mathematically* meet but after only a few moves they'll be close enough together for all practical purposes."
Load More Replies... nuberiffic 1 year ago
It's not that we don't know; this is just the nature of measurement. This is like saying we don't know how tall Michael Jordan is, because you can always measure with more and more precise rulers.
Thiago Gonsalves 1 year ago
There are pointless information. Nothing will change it we get the exact answer
Annita Stephanou 1 year ago
Use a measuring tape then, it's long and flexible and will measure for everything
Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
Not to mention agreeing on a definition. Is the coast the cliffs or the beach? High or low tide?
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
Anyone else really irked by the use of the phrase "sometimes mere ft or centimeters"??? Pick a system of measurement for goodness sakes (and pick metric; imperial is inane)! Choose whether to write in full or abbreviate (and why abbreviate four characters to two, but leave the eleven-character word entire?)! The inconsistency is maddening!
#33
Saudi Arabia imports sand.
Bonus fact: they also import camels.
JB 1 year ago (edited)
Context: construction sand, as desert sand is terrible for concrete production.
Leebo13 1 year ago
It's not very nice as a last course of a meal, either.
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Karen B 1 year ago (edited)
In Denmark we have a phrase "He/she could sell sand in Sahara" about very persuasive persons. This is now much less impressive.
Russell Tilling 1 year ago
…and they butcher journalists who criticise them. Literally. Alive.
Sam 1 year ago
comedian Russell Peters did a show in Saudia Arabia and some leader over there, put him on the phone with a close relative of Osama Bin Laden. Proving, that comedians rule the world.
Pyla 1 year ago
Read The Looming Towers. The guy had over 60 cousins. You can’t swing a cat without finding a relative
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Ilan Elron 1 year ago
Saudi Arabia also disqualifies camels in camel beauty contests, for having had cosmetic surgery
#34
Screech owls will sometimes bring live sankes into their nests with their chicks nesting inside. Probably because the tiny snakes will eat parasites, although the chicks do sometimes eat the snakes.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I know that Sankey is a type of beer keg fitting. Not the same thing, it seems.
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Jen Schurman 1 year ago
Can confirm. Have had Barred Owls fly over my backyard carrying snakes to their nest. Owls flying over your head with snakes are very disconcerting.
#35
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
Leebo13 1 year ago
Another weird fact about Venus is that it has a hotter climate than Mercury because of its atmosphere.
Shark bait hoo haha 1 year ago
That's where hot flashes come from in menopausal women
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Because it takes Venus longer to rotate on its axis than it does to orbit the sun.
Panda Pandemic 1 year ago
How is a day longer than a year on Venus? When our measurement of time shows that a year is longer. How does it change on Venus? If we went there would that fact still not be the same and how long we stayed? I don't understand, someone please teach me or explain so I can understand.
David Jones 1 year ago
truth is, because of its cloud cover, most of what is taught about Venus, is speculation, and even fiction....not as many probes have visited it as one might think.....I suspect there are great discoveries down there....and I predict an entire ecosystem is Indigenous up in the clouds
#36
We ground up most of the ancient Egyptian mummies into powder to paint with or…eat.
SuperHyperFunTime:
The Victorians were a fucking savage bunch.
Dave Baxter 1 year ago
The guys loading them into the fireboxes used to exclaim "That was a royal mummy." when one burned especially hot, as a lot more resins & oils than usual were used to embalm royalty.
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MushroomHead22 1 year ago
whats this? a really old person? hmm their "skin" seems a little powdery and dark. I CAN USE THIS TO PAINT MY HOUSE!!!
David Paterson 1 year ago
Egyptian mummies were covered in oil and resin, which made them good firelighters for warming the freezing cold Victorian mansions.
Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
Old victorians had their own old scented candles I guess….
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The Victorians were a f*****g savage bunch, which probably is the reason they had to dress it up with foolish etiquette.
Mere Cat 1 year ago (edited)
I think it's the other way round; the foolish etiquette made them savage/unempathetic/crazy.
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There is also a shark (greenland shark, i think) that lives like 500 years; so there are sharks alive today that were alive before America became a country.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
I love that people put "before America became a country" as if they think that's a long time ago. We have houses in the village I live in that were built in the 1600s. America isn't old enough to even be considered interestingly old!
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
My mom buys pasta from a company older than the US.
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we should be studying them vigorously~!! they have sectrets of longevity
#38
Honey never spoils; researchers discovered edible honey in the pyramids.
ITalkToChickens 1 year ago
Not necessarily. It can last forever, in just the right conditions.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Exactly, it can absolutely spoil if introduced to moisture.
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Vanessa MacKenzie 1 year ago
honey in its natural form, I assume? Store brought honey granulates and becomes gross to look at, let alone eat with the additives. Anyone able to clarify?
ITalkToChickens 1 year ago
Most store bought honey in the us is only about 40% honey and the rest is high fructose corn syrup slush. The only way you know you are getting real honey is the buy from a beekeeper you know or buy the super expensive "premium" honey.
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Caterpillars essentially liquify themselves, before turning into butterflies, in a process called larval ecdysis.
Pandemonium 1 year ago
They (you know, They) did a study where they trained caterpillars to be scared of some stimulus like a stink or a light pattern, and then tested the resulting butterflies after metamorphosis and saw the fear remained, so concluded that somewhere in that goo the memory persisted.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Similar to how trauma is passed down generationally in humans.
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
I like to imagine them making those little grinding noises from the Transformers cartoon when they emerge from their cocoon.
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Rafael 1 year ago
I read (or saw) somewhere that this is not the case, the structures that become the butterfly are already present on the caterpillar, but dormant. The butterfly tissues grow inside the goo, and the goo is actually from when the caterpillar was packing calories for the metamorphosis. tl;dr - not EVERY cell becomes goo, just the cells storing energy, and the cells comprising structures that they don't need anymore.
#40
The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bombs.
Syscrush:
Related: nuclear bombs were invented before the compound bow.
Pandemonium 1 year ago
I remain impressed that every time humanity invented a more deadly weapon, its use spread and spread. But so far, not after August 9th, 1945.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Though tests performed as late as September 3, 2017 😑
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SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Given these facts, I'm just surprised that I haven't found a Nuclear Arbalest or Nuclear Claymore in any of my RPG games yet -_-" XP
M O'Connell 1 year ago
Have a read about the "Davy Crockett" which was essentially a nuclear RPG with a blast yield of 20t of TNT. The W54 nuclear warhead only weighed 23kg, and could theoretically be delivered by trebuchet, ballista, springald, kite, or any other historical ordinance delivery system.
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Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
Donald 1 year ago
That's the messed up thing about lightning, it touches you.
Load More Replies... Shark bait hoo haha 1 year ago
So then essentially Thor could live on the Sun with no real issues of discomfort...
Yellow dot 1 year ago
Lightning: 53,500°F (30,000°C) Suns surface: 10,000°F (5,600°C) However!!! The temperature of the Suns core is estimated to be 27,000,000°F (15,000,000°C)
michael Chock 1 year ago
I know people that have survived a lightning strike. It seems they would have no problem living on the surface of the sun
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
I knew someone who survived two, innseparate incidents I believe. But I certainly wouldn't describe the impact that had on her as 'no problem.'
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The earth is a spheroid, not a sphere. Because of the effects of rotating around the axis, earth's diameter is actually about 45km wider around the equator then it is going from pole to pole.
smugdruggler 1 year ago
Technically, an oblate spheroid. As well as a bulge around the equator, it's slightly flattened at the poles.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
True with most planets, but we will continue to refer to them as spheres, if you don't mind.
#43
There's a supervolcano under yellowstone that if it erupted would wipe out a good chunk of the human population.
Pandemonium 1 year ago
I had a geology prof point out that it has erupted about every 600,000 yrs, and that the last time it erupted was about 600,000 years ago. "So I don't go up there anymore."
Shark bait hoo haha 1 year ago
Lately I have been reading various articles that scientists are worried that it may erupt sooner than they theorized it would. So either the Big One hits California or the Yellowstone Caldera (what it's called) is going to take California and other states out! Nifty!
Janissary35680 1 year ago (edited)
I don't know about humanity but it would certainly tank property values west of the Mississippi
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Fingers crossed. Way too many humans on this planet. The species has tipped the scale and becoming vermin.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
God: *checks watch* "Come on, man... you're 200 years late. Also, my heart rate is a little higher than normal."
Lowrider 56 1 year ago
That's kinda scary. It kinda freaks me out knowing that there are multiple ways that the Earth could be wiped out and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
That is why there are geysers in Yelloestone national. It releases pressure. Otherwise it probably would have erupted hundreds if not thousands of years ago. Maybe even millions of years ago.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
I know there’s one u dear the Indian Ocean, but I’m not sure about one being underneath the Mediterranean.
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#44
There are only like 25 blimps left. Additionally, not many of them are even in use anymore, I think they estimate like 10-15 of them. So if you see a blimp nowadays, it's a much rarer sighting than it used to be!
Edit: someone pointed out that I meant "airship" not blimp. There are even fewer ones which are classified as "blimp", which is a nonrigid airship.
David Paterson 1 year ago
The difference between an "airship" and a "blimp" is that an airship has an internal steel frame, like the Hindenburg. A blimp has no internal frame and has a shape generated by gas pressure alone.
Scrappychick 1 year ago
I live near a place called Cardington where the RAF used to build airships in 2 huge hangers (the first was built as a private venture), one of them is still used to build airships but the other is now a movie sound stage where a couple of Star Wars films, a Batman movie, Inception and Fantastic Beasts , among others have been filmed
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
I read there was a company (or multiple?) trying to bring back airships for various uses. I gather it's not going well.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Just as well. Can you imagine the potential for collisions with all the flying cars?
#45
If Back to the Future were remade today and set in 2024, Marty would time-travel back to 1994.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
And instead of being called a chicken, Biff would have called him a derogatory slur for homosexual, but Marty would have had the last laugh by investing in Google, Apple, and Microsoft, and would have been the first person to complete Diddy Kong Racing without launching his N64 into the stratosphere.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
So there would be a scene where Marvin Vedder calls his cousin Eddie (probably on a brick phone) to tell him about a new style of music Marty is playing at the dance.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
Funny. Yeah I know it's a joke, but Pearl Jam was already huge back in like '91 with the release of Ten.
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WindySwede 1 year ago
https://clickhole.com/so-cool-this-chart-visualizes-every-timeline-in-back-1825122210/
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Tyrannosaurus (approx 70 million years ago) lived closer in time to humans than to stegosaurus (150 million years ago).
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
I'm always disgruntled by dinosaur books and stories where T-Rex and Stegosaurus happily coexist. Would be more accurate to put a T-Rex in London, riding the tube with a little on hat on her huge head
Pandemonium 1 year ago
I'm gruntled to imagine T-Rex on the tube with a hat
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Mike Barrette 1 year ago
I think its time to "retire" this fact. I feel like I read it on a new list every week.
#47
Nearly 70% of smokers will die from smoke related illnesses.
This is the fact that got me to quit.
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
Which means 30% of smokers, even heavy smokers will die from other reasons, that's why we have in our families an 'uncle Joe' who smoked like a diesel locomotive and never got ill. That's not a good reason to smoke, because one could much probably be sensitive to smoking and die from it, but I still hear that 'uncle Joe smoked a lot and didn't die of it '.
TheElderNom 1 year ago
Let's not forget that smoking kills other people as well. My great uncle smoked like chimney and was fine, his non-smoking wife on the other hand died of lung cancer because of second hand smoke.
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Tayler 1 year ago
Secondhand smoke causes more than 41,000 deaths per year. (American Lung Association) Between 1964 and 2014, 2.5 million people died from exposure to secondhand smoke, according to the 2014 report from the U.S. Surgeon General. The report also concluded that secondhand smoke is a definitive cause of stroke.
Shark bait hoo haha 1 year ago
December 14, 2024 will be the 10th anniversary of me quitting smoking! After smoking for 31 years, it was the best thing I could have ever done! I don't get bronchitis anymore. I do not get colds hardly at all. I don't smell nasty anymore well unless the perfume lady gets me in the store. I feel so much more healthier!
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
My mother, who was a registered nurse, always hated the warning labels that said "Smoking CAUSES lung cancer." She always thought it should be "Smoking greatly increases your risk of lung cancer." When my grandmother, a pack-a-day smoker for 50 years, died, she had cancer in every part of her body EXCEPT her lungs. Granted, this was more than 40 years ago so there is a lot more research today, but I still don't trust government warnings that deal in absolutes.
Carla Phillips 1 year ago
Every member of my family that quit smoking, died from lung cancer. I want my husband to quit, but I'm terrified he'll get cancer.
#48
The Ottoman Empire lasted so long, both Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533) and Betty White (born 1922) were alive during its existence.
Man landed spacecraft and humans on the moon, 200K miles from earth, 16 years earlier than the Titanic was discovered right here on earth.
The Southern Cross was actually visible in the northern hemisphere up until 400 AD. It was described and written about by ancient Greek and Roman astronomers, but the gradual precession of the Earth's equinoxes over the centuries caused the constellation to vanish from northern hemisphere view. It can still technically be seen from the northern hemisphere, but only if you are in the tropics (around Cancun, Mexico) or close to the equator in the late winter/early spring.
Mustafa Kiziroğlu 1 year ago
Ottoman Principality founded in 1299 and counted as empire by historians after 1481.
#49
Japan is simultaneously farther east, west, north, and south of Korea.
Pandemonium 1 year ago
No, the opposite is not true. Korea's furthest north point is not as far north as Japan's furthest north point, Korea's furthest south point is not as far south as Japan's furthest south point, etc.
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Bananas are berries, while strawberries are not, due to the botanical definitions of these fruits.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
And if certain members of our current US congress had their way, Mayonnaise would be a musical instrument!
#51
There are WAY more trees on earth than stars in the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Oh, give it time. At the rate we're running out of habitable space, those trees don't stand a chance.
#52
There are more Hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
Where do you get the second 2 from? One water molecule is made of three atoms, so it’s just H2O. Maybe you were thinking of hydrogen bonds?
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Dinosaur fossils were already a thing when dinosaurs were still alive.
For example; Stegosaurus had been extinct for ~85 million years before T-Rex showed up. So while Rex was enjoying some Triceratops steak, Stegosaurs were already dead and gone for millions of years.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
Hmmmm triceratops steak... Now the closest thing I'll get to this is probably Cassowary steak
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
I saw this documentary called "The Flintstones" once where the main subject liked to eat Brontosaurus Burgers...
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#54
There is a species of frog that can freeze in the winter and come back. There is another species of frog that traps itself in a snot bubble for six months durring dry season.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
More than 1 species of frog can freeze and come back to life,every frog species found in countries that have a freezing winter
Ace 1 year ago
The trick is that they don't actually freeze. Yes, their bodies may be below freezing point, but chemical changes stop the water in their cells from forming into ice crystals.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Researchers believe this may be the key to successful human cryogenics, but they haven't been able to figure it out yet.
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There a frog in Australia that will buty itself for 7 years in the desert. When it rains, they come out and party all night long, have as many matings as possible, and then go back underground till the next 'big wet'
#55
Nearly half of all humans to have ever existed are believed to have been killed by mosquitoes.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Technically parasites and diseases spread by mosquitoes, not actually mosquitoes
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Thanks a lot! I was imagining mosquitoes with little daggers killing people, but no, you had to ruin it with facts.
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What other ecological purpose do they serve, other than keeping our population in check?
Yellow dot 1 year ago
Read the book "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" written by Timothy C Winegard. He estimates that mosquitos have killed more humans than any other cause.
KitKat 1 year ago
Malaria caused by the plasmodium parasite and spread by bites of infected mosquitoes.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Yellow fever was also a huge killer and is also carried by mosquitoes. I'd take that "half" with a grain of salt, though, if I was you. Because before bathing, humans used to deliberately cover themselves with a layer of mud to keep the mosquitoes away.
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If you take every steel wire used in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge’s cables and line them up end-to-end, they’d wrap around the equator over 2 times.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Sounds a pretty irresponsible thing to do, let's hope nobody tries it
#57
Nuclear Reactors can be natural and there's been one on earth for over a billion years.
#58
If everyone on Earth competed in a 1v1 tournament. The winner would be decided in just 33 rounds.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
So if I fight the 33 weakest people on Earth and beat them all, does that make me the strongest person alive?
#59
Lighter were invented before matches.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Aboriginal Australians used lighters that were basically tinder boxes, when closed they held embers and could be carried around, when opened they parked up and could light fires. Probably similar lighters in other native cultures around the world.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
The more I light my lighter… The lighter my lighter gets until it’s too light to light…
#60
7% of the entire human population since humans began, are alive today.
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
...but you and i are probably in the lower 99% of that 7%
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Yellow dot 1 year ago
I feel like this would be difficult to math out, considering unwritten human history?
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
Eh? Are there 200,000 year-old humans still alive or is that sentence put badly?
iseefractals 1 year ago
7% of all the humans who have ever existed are alive right now. Which puts the total number of humans who ever existed around 117 billion or so
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There are more ways to shuffle a standard deck of cards than there are atoms on earth.
QijianSanek 1 year ago
is that how many combinations, which would be 52x52 or is it how many combinations of the combinations too the other combinations, which I think would be 52x52x52...?
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
It's factorial 52 or 52! Which means 52x51x50x49x... ... x3x2x1 which is huge.
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If you are in a room with 22 other people there is a 50% chance that two people share the same birthday.
Doozle bug 1 year ago
If I’m in a room with 22 people it’s time to go home before they start singing that tune!
Belynda Young 1 year ago
Unless: It's your birthday, we gon' party like it's your birthday....
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Panda McPandaface 1 year ago
If I'm in a room with 22 people, I've taken a disastrous wrong turn out of my comfort zone.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
I share a birthday with someone at my work, first time in 33 years of employment
#63
All the other planets, if lined up end to end, can fit between the earth and moon (at least, when the moon is at its farthest orbital distance).
Shark bait hoo haha 1 year ago
My 12 year old inner child just laughed so hard that chocolate milk came out my nose!
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Chewie Baron 1 year ago
It’s a lot bigger than that, about 73 times bigger. But it is true that all the other planets would fit. It would be a tight squeeze, but they would fit.
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Tim Fawcett 1 year ago
Is that why Pluto isn't a planet anymore - it won't fit in the space left by the others. Or is it that it wouldn't join in with the silly games and was thrown off the planet squad
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Because of the rules of the IAU. Partially glad Pluto was demoted as otherwise it’d make classification of objects a nightmare. Imagine teaching children about 100+ planets simply because people wanted Pluto to remain a planet. And Pluto is doing way better than all the other planets with its 5 moons, Tombaugh regio and its high chances of being able to host life underneath its surface
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#64
Whales descended from tiny deer-like animals which is why they are mammals.
LaMuchedumbre:
Whales’ ancestors weren’t really close to deer at all, they were more while thylacines or wolves. Look up the pakicetus.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Whales are most closely related to hippos. Which makes sense. It's best to think of the ancestor of whales as like a hippo.
Max Fox 1 year ago (edited)
LaMuchedumbre is writing out of their butt. The ancestors of whales were ungulates, related to hippos (as David Paterson wrote). Wolves are Carnivora and not closely related to them at all, and thylacines were frickin' marsupials, and only distantly related to both wolves and hippos, so clumping them with wolves demonstrates even more abysmal ignorance than claiming that the ancestors of whales were closely related to wolves. Much Dumber indeed.
Bored Seagull 1 year ago
It's not about the descent, it's about the morphology. The ancestors of the cetaceans likely looked a lot more like wolves and thylacines than deer.
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
While I generally enjoy articles such as this, almost every single one of these factoids has been on BP during the past month.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Here are a few relatively new facts; at least on BP. (1) There is a species of bird that you can catch by 'air fishing'. You dangle a bait in the air and birds swoop in and get caught. Just like regular fishing. (2) Probosic monkeys of Borneo has nine stomachs (even cows only have 7) to process hard to digest foods. Consequently, they can't eat bananas. Too sugary. (3) Eagles are actually flying 'blind' forward. Their eyes are super sensitive to light; which can easily get damaged by the bright sun. They have 'sunshades' on top of their eyes for protection. During flight, they focus down towards earth scanning for potential preys. The sunshades block their forward view. That's why they often hit tall wind turbines.
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
If the population of the world held hands and circled the world at the equator, most of them would drown.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
While I generally enjoy articles such as this, almost every single one of these factoids has been on BP during the past month.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Here are a few relatively new facts; at least on BP. (1) There is a species of bird that you can catch by 'air fishing'. You dangle a bait in the air and birds swoop in and get caught. Just like regular fishing. (2) Probosic monkeys of Borneo has nine stomachs (even cows only have 7) to process hard to digest foods. Consequently, they can't eat bananas. Too sugary. (3) Eagles are actually flying 'blind' forward. Their eyes are super sensitive to light; which can easily get damaged by the bright sun. They have 'sunshades' on top of their eyes for protection. During flight, they focus down towards earth scanning for potential preys. The sunshades block their forward view. That's why they often hit tall wind turbines.
Load More Replies... Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
If the population of the world held hands and circled the world at the equator, most of them would drown.
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