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The beautiful thing about life is that we all have completely unique experiences. Sure, it may not feel that way when you open a birthday card and pretend not to see the money inside or realize you’re not the only one to end searches with “Reddit” to find the most honest results online. But when it comes to the knowledge we acquire throughout our lives, we all have some niche fun facts floating around our brains that the average person has no need to know.
Below, you’ll find some of these interesting and bizarre facts that people have been sharing on Reddit, so even more of us can be aware of this information. Have fun scrolling through and learning something new, and don’t bother wondering how people know these facts… Just enjoy the ride!
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#1
Manatees control their buoyancy by farting. Toot toot floaty sea cow.
Mark Bayliss 2 years ago
I think my dog may be a manatee in disguise who is in a constant fight to get to the bottom of the sea whilst in my house!!!
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
From this day on, l promise to dedicate every single future bubble I'll be creating in the bathtub to a manatee....
Mason Kronol 2 years ago
I have been to the Columbus zoo several times where they rehab injured manatees, how has a docent never told me this? Gonna talk to them about it next time!
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#2
Opossums are immune to rabies. Immune in the sense that their core body temperature is too low for the virus to live and multiply in their nervous system. They can be bitten and "infected" with the virus, but it won't survive in the animal long enough for it to take hold and make them rabid. They also love to eat ticks, mosquitoes(especially mosquito larvae), and even garden slugs and snails. All the general bugs that we consider pests, they happily eat. They may be ugly as sin, but having one regularly visit your yard at night keeps away the real pests. If you live in a more metropolitan area, then their mere presence at night will generally also keep raccoons away, since it would be easier for a racoon to simply walk across the street or a few houses down instead of worrying about dealing with another nocturnal scavenger. Opossums are a mutant rat looking blessing in disguise. They're also not hostile to humans at all, unlike raccoons.
Katy McMouse 2 years ago
I also think they're cute. This is Petr. It's the only pic I have with his fingerless gloves visible. Most nights, he hangs out with me on my back porch - i read while he eats unsalted peanuts. 1000000492...ab90e9.jpg 
Nixie4ever AddledNix 2 years ago
I have a yard possum, 2 raccoons, a skunk and 5 deer. They get along fine.
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
I say hey to the neighbourhood opossum every evening. Gladys takes the same route round the village every night, about 30 minutes before Bernard the skunk does his rounds. Thought I was only feeding the stray cats, but both Gladys and Bernard have been eating the dry food I leave on the porch.
Sven Grammersdorf 2 years ago
Put a bowl of cat food outside and they will come at night
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Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
They're the Irish cousins of the Possums they have in Australia, hence the first letter. The apostrophe got lost some time ago.
#3
The national animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
Do you know the backstory? Mythologically, the only creature that can defeat a Lion is a Unicorn. The national animal of England is the Lion.
WonderWoman 2 years ago
That would make sense, England has been a wee bit aggressive in accumulating other people's lands for a long time. WTG Scotland
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hitex 2 years ago
Does that unicorn have a goatee as well? I didn't know unicorns were so beardy!
Thomas Grant 2 years ago
Unicorns are to Scotland what rats are to the rest of the world, pests. They are everywhere. Ask any Scot, you are never more than 6ft froma unicorn in Scotland. Thats why the Caber Toss began, early exterminators.
Helen Davies 2 years ago
If Ireland and Scotland unite, would the flag be a wee leprechaun riding a unicorn? Asking for a friend.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
Think of Leprechauns as the dark elves of the Thor movies, and you'd be closer to the reality of the myth. They are not cute, nor do they endorse overly sugared cereals.
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troufaki13 2 years ago
For Wales it's the Dragon 🐲 and for England it's the Lion 🦁. For Greece it's the Dolphin 🐬.
#4
No person born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.
baby frog 2 years ago
you’ve got short term memory tho, do you just forget that they’re driving you nuts or am i just missing a brain cell?
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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Conversely, profoundly deaf people with the condition have reported seeing hands signing paranoid messages to them instead of hearing voices.
Min 2 years ago
The very idea of that particular hallucination really freaks me out for some reason.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
I'll check it out. It's true, from a medical research paper in 2013 "Several authors have noted that there are no reported cases of people with schizophrenia who were born blind or who developed blindness shortly after birth, suggesting that congenital or early (C/E) blindness may serve as a protective factor against schizophrenia."
megabeth 2 years ago
Or something else entirely? It what way would blindness be a productive factor? Like nature or nurture? Just curious.
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
What would happen if you were already schizophrenic and then went blind? Would it go away or be worse in that case?
tameson 2 years ago (edited)
That is so cool! One study was done in Australia in 2018. They think it has to do with the reorganization of the cortex that takes place when someone is born blind or becomes blind early in life. A real clue to the origins of psychosis! For a long time the only causal factors we knew about where a family history, being abused as a child, and the mom getting the flu while pregnant. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037097/#:~:text=Epidemiological%20studies%20indicate%20that%20maternal,of%20action%20of%20antipsychotic%20drugs.
cerinamroth 2 years ago
This is interesting, but I need a source for this information! I did recently read that blind people also get motion sickness, which I had always associated with visual input and balance sensations not tallying, as it were. I found that interesting.
ShellsBells 2 years ago
"Because motion sickness does not involve only the eyes, research has shown that people who are blind can still experience "classic" motion sicknes." -American Psychological Society. I'm guessing it's because they still feel themselves moving and it's still affecting their inner ear. I'm positive that if you put someone that is prone to motion sickness on a crazy roller-coaster with a blindfold on, they'd still get sick.
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Aboredpanda 2 years ago (edited)
Maybe its true, but psychosis (schizophrenia is only diagnosed after long term issues with psychosis) does not only involve visual hallusinations, but also auditory and sensory hallusinations. Etc. It's a bit rash to say it's never happened, just because it hasn't been documented.
Mere Cat 2 years ago (edited)
This sounded unbelievable to me too, but after googling, it seems legit. There has been some (very few) cases of psychosis in blind persons, but not even one properly reported case of schizophrenia. Which is btw very much about auditory hallucinations, except in deaf persons there are cases of floating hands signing or lips forming speech. It is thought that schizophrenia is a disorder of a person's "inner speech" not getting properly filtered in the brain so it is recognized as coming from outside the brain. There's also a connection between schizophrenia, blindness and linguistics; blind persons tend to have speaking patterns that are more focused and less rambling, less associative than people with sight, according to research. And in psychosis, associations REALLY get out of hand. It's all connected, and extremely interesting!
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B R 2 years ago
https://www.spektrum.de/magazin/wie-psychose-und-blindheit-zusammenhaengen/1791278
Jacky Newman 2 years ago
Interessanter Artikel, aber dadurch, dass er auf deutsch ist können den leider viele hier nicht verstehen.
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Some tribes of ancient people used to tie up a goat, whisper their sins to it, then allow it to "accidentally" escape so it would carry their sins away and thus resolve them of guilt.
It was, literally, their "escape goat" and that's where the term scapegoat comes from.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Uhhhhh... no. That doesn't seem consistent with the biblical usage of "scapegoat." RESEARCH: Not entirely wrong, but not accurate. The biblical sacrifice of a pair of goats directs one to be slaughtered, and the other to be sent away into the wilderness. A scapegoat was called "azazal" meaning "appeaser." In the Latin bible, "azazel" was translated as "caper emissarius," or "ambassador goat." Tyndale's bible apparently mistook the meaning of "caper" (goat) and referred to a "capegoat," later extrapolated into "(e)scapegoat." But such a name is merely the product of several translations between cultures, and would be entirely alien to the culture that actually had scapegoats.
Riccardo West 2 years ago
Why is the Bible being used as historic fact? It has been proven time and time again that it isn’t factual, but a religious text (mythical lore) that has freely borrowed from other religions.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
OP made no mention of the Bible at all. I'm the only one who did, and then only because it's a historical reference to the word usage, not the practice. BTW, without getting into any specific debate, you should at least recognize that the Bible is an anthology, and ANY singular description of the literature within is absurd.
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martymcmatrix 2 years ago
There is also a nice little anecdote about the famous oil painting of the »Scapegoat«...Its painter himself was a very religious person and thought that the symbolism he depicted in the painting should be perfectly obvious to any Bible/Lutheranian-loving person. After he finished the painting he presented it in advance to a small group of people of whom he thought they knew immediately what is depicted in the painting. The chosen ones looked at the painting and commented to each other like, "Oh yes, it is a peculiar goat, you can see by the ears, they droop so." »Scapegoat« was painted between 1854 and 1856 by William Holman Hunt in Pre-Raphaelite style.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Just keep away from any T-rexes and they should be good!
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#6
A Buttload is an actual unit of measurement for about 126 gallons of wine.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Not to be confused with "crapload", which is one-fourth of a fückton.
Kayjunmoon 2 years ago
It should be just ‘a butt’ as it is liquid volume. Hence a ‘water butt’ that catches water in the garden from the roof.
Floeckchen 2 years ago
Pshht, don't tell the americans. They will use it as cargo measurement before long.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
So, a buttload is 126 gallons? Well, I'll try, but I'm not optimistic. Where's that hose and lube?
Lady Kat 2 years ago
While I personally use “a buttload” as a form of measurement weekly, I’m kinda glad it didn’t make it into the metric system!
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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
"Step no further, for already I see thy bloody purpose! Thou would'st be King, and drown Middlesex in a butt of wine! HAHAHAHAH!"
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Do you know that drop of liquid that is left in your glass or bottle after drinking that you never seem to be able to finish off? That’s called a heeltap.
#7
More Iraq veterans have died by their own hand than that of the enemy. This is America.
SparkleFarts 2 years ago
The US military has never taken care of their service members mental health, and the isn't much better. On average, 22 veterans a day commit suicide
KombatBunni 2 years ago
Yup. My father is a Vietnam Vet, and though we never really got along, seeing what the war and then how he was treated did to him makes my heart ache. I hope something is done to make some kind of reparation or apology for what happened
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Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
The same folks who wave the flag and brag about how much they support and love the military are the ones who consistently vote against support for veterans' programs. "They love the military they same way Michael Vick loved his dogs." -Bill Maher
Downunderdude 2 years ago
Same in Australia, sadly. We are currently having a Royal Commission into exactly that.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago
I'm not surprised, what with the hoops we have to jump through at the VA medical centers for routine care, and how many reservists were deployed - they don't have the same entitlements as vets from 'regular' service. I always had the deep, dark feeling this was deliberate. Many VA hospitals have had someone dive off the roof.
#8
Dragonflies are the most efficient killers on the planet with a 98% kill rate.
Giles McArdell 2 years ago
They are also the only insect that can fly backwards and can even fly upside down, they are truly fascinating.
Khavrinen 2 years ago
Not only that, but female dragonflies will "play dead" to avoid males they don't want to mate with.
Robert Millar 2 years ago
Also, the way they hunt has been adapted for finding lost people in deserts.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Meganeuropsis permiana
The largest insect ever know to inhabit prehistoric earth was a dragonfly, Meganeuropsis permiana. This insect lived during the late Permian era, about 275 million years ago. (almost 2 bananas long!) dfly-6503e...1d182.jpeg 
H Nunya 2 years ago (edited)
I think 95 is a safer number, but still puts them at the highest accuracy, for a lack of a better term. They’re amazing!
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Its 97%. 95% is the kill rate of seahorses, the second most proficient hunter on the list.
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#9
That dead ants produce a pheromone that alerts the other ants that they need to move them to the ant graveyard. If a drop of this pheromone is placed on a live ant, it will take itself to the graveyard and stay there until the pheromone dissipates.
DforDory 2 years ago
Ohh,so that's why when I put an ant killer dispenser,I observed after about a week that they started to bring out small black "balls". I followed their path and found that they were bringing their dead out from the nest in the wall and gathered them outside in one of the corners nearby. I also saw them bringing out their eggs and moving them to another hole in the wall... couldn't get rid of them yet, but it is fascinating.
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
A very effective insect killer is nicotine. I'm not asking you to start smoking, but you can make quite powerful poison easily. Grab a pack of tobacco (20-30 grams) and mix it with alcohol, about 100-150 milliliters, just to give it some space to infuse. Leave it over night, then put on some gloves and remove the tobacco, you want only the liquid part, don't forget to squeeze out as much as you can (that is why you have those gloves). Mix this liquid with sugar. I prefer white sugar for this, you want it to get beige/brown color. Leave to dry. Serve to ants. Nicotine doesn't kill them on touch, they will use it to feed the whole anthill and in two, three days you will be ant-free. (also if you mix it with water, it is very effective against wasps and the best part, bees do not drink it. At least not where I live.)
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Bookworm 2 years ago
Also, if you put some trix cereal or fruity pebbles in an ant farm, they'll start piling all the dead ants on the cereal, because the dead ant pheromone is oleic acid, which is used in sugar cereals to create the fake fruit flavor.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
My dog won't eat that cereal by smell... but if he licks it a tiny bit he will gobble it up. Makes you wonder wtf we are feeding ourselves
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When does pest control lapse into ant pranking? Just asking for a friend.
Dirk Daring 2 years ago
Live ant: "Aw, dangit, I'm dead. Better tip on over to the cemetery until I get better."
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Robert Frost wrote a poem about this called "Departmental". https://www.robertfrost.org/departmental.jsp
#10
If you have a d*ck and you take a pregnancy test and it comes out positive, you might have testicular cancer.
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
Hang on, is the bloke who owns the duck taking a pregnancy test? Or are we undertaking a pregnancy test on the duck? Although frankly, the link between an up-the-duff duck and its male owner having testicular cancer feels a little tenuous. Still, stranger things have happened. Some dogs can smell any number of ailments. So we're checking if the duck is pregnant yeah? BUT... what if the duck was actually a bloke i.e. a "drake" (rather than hen). Oh god, this is a rabbit hole I did not mean to fall down. I'm going to pretend the OP meant penis. That's easier.
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Dogfacedboy1980 2 years ago
This actually saved a dude who posted on Reddit that he peed on a pregnancy test and it came back positive. Someone told him to go to the doctor and he had the Big C
juliana 2 years ago
enough for this to happen apparently, so I'd assume more than one or they wouldn't have accurate enough data
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Lesley Shore 2 years ago
Yes! My husband had a blood draw showing pregnancy. He had testicular cancer! Luckily they caught it in time
Fool of a Took 2 years ago
SURELY the prerequisite is to have testicles, not a duck, deck, dock, or penis?
Michael Largey 2 years ago
So if you have a deck on your patio and a dock where you tie up your boat, you're doubly at risk?
Cat Crazy Lady 2 years ago
Yes. Ever bigger risk if there's a duck in that boat.
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You can duplicate your liver.
JetScreamerBaby:
A liver consists of two distinct lobes. When doctors perform a transplant from living patient, they remove half the donor’s liver and give it to the recipient. Eventually, both patients regrow their missing half of a liver.
Deborah B 2 years ago
No, because the regrown tissue is disorganised, and while it functions, it's no longer considered suitable for transplant. So you can only donate from your native liver, only donate once, and only if your liver has never undergone a significant trauma that required it to regenerate. However, after any of these events, if you sustained an additional trauma, your liver might regenerate itself again.
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Amy Chirman 2 years ago
Some people need a full liver transplant and receive one from someone who has died.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
We had a discussion at work one time about creating a liver farm where we remove large portions of livers, sell them on the black market, and then continually do it again until we're all rich. Except I had this discussion in a hospital with a bunch of nurses. Fun times.
Thomas Grant 2 years ago (edited)
Urgh. Wish i had read past JetScreamerBaby... Anyone know how to put your liver back in. The whole thing would be preferable at this stage, but i will take anything above 50%. Its not urgent, just if there is a surgeon? maybe a vet? Someone who has watched a lot of House or Scrubs?
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
Anatomically the liver has four lobes: right, left, caudate, and quadrate. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK500014/
#12
When you get a tattoo laser removal, you pee out the ink particles.
Brittania Kelli 2 years ago
I peed radioactive dye for a week and wasn't allowed to use public toilets after a cardiac test to check what damage chemo was doing to my heart. Fun being injected with something it a metal biohazard container by a tech in a hazmat suit. Fun times.
Jrog 2 years ago
When you do contrast RX you are also given a sludge to drink that makes your digestive tract opaque to radiography. Then when you pass the sludge your s**t is too heavy to be flushed by the toilet and just stays there for multiple attempts. Fun times.
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Hayley Futter 2 years ago
I thought you pooped it out? Cause the laser breaks down the ink into smaller pieces that would be carried by blood cells, cleaned by the liver, then as all blood waste goes, through the digestive system?
JB 2 years ago
There's also a medicine that makes you pee bright orange and it stains the toilet so bad most people have to get a new one when their prescription is up.
Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
Some chemo makes you pee dark orange/red - which the nurses warn you about before you go to the toilet, so you don't have a heart attack from the fright when you see it!
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#13
The island of Java has more people than the entirety of Russia. Despite being 170 times smaller in size.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Java population 151.6 million people. Russia population 143.4 million people. Amazing but true.
Mark (it/urgh) 2 years ago (edited)
A little bit less in Russia now tbh, a good few of them are pushing up daisies in Ukraine.
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Yes, please note that overpopulation is a function of economics and not actually space. Java could even be self-sufficient as far as food and water. Yet at the population density of Java, Russia alone would hold three times the entire population of Earth. With proper economic growth, we could set aside three fourths of the world's land for nature without relocating even 1% of the population.
Bruce Horton 2 years ago
Um no since vast swaths of Russia are totally unsuitable for agriculture and cannot support dense population
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UselessKnowledgeFont 2 years ago
Lately I've been questioning all such data about Russia. From population size to (honestly not mocking) military prowess and innovation
#14
Australia is wider than the moon.
Oktogal 2 years ago
Dunno, have you ever seen a giant spider on the moon?
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Alex Boyd 2 years ago
I came to this comment section specifically to see if anyone made this joke.
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JoNo 2 years ago
I'm lol-ing at some of the place names included on this map, like Wee Waa is a large inland town in NSW.
Jill Rhodry 2 years ago
A lot of places hold their traditional names from over 250 Indigenous languages and can give you pause before trying to pronounce them - but the Brits weren't much better, like Governors K**b, Iron K**b, Blue K**b, Spanker K**b, and Yorkeys K**b plus we don't just have one, but two, Chinaman K**b and Mt Buggery and Mt Little D**k - what were they thinking!
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I'd like to visit the moon, on a rocketship high in the air, yes I'd like to visit the moon, but I don't think I'd like to live there
#15
Elephant penises are prehensile and can move on their own like trunks (I.e. to scratch their belly or as an extra support leg on uneven terrain).
Becky Samuel 2 years ago (edited)
Tapirs' are proportionally even longer. They can scratch their sides and part of their backs with theirs.
eMpTy 2 years ago
Same Qi episode mentioned about Horny Toad (above) cited the tapir having that appendage as approximately 60% of its body length. That's one long blue-veined-junket-pumper (try censoring that BP!)
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Son of Philosoraptor 2 years ago
So elephants are the animals with the best sex on the planet? Asking for a friend.
#16
That drain hole at the inside top of a sink is called a porcelator. Won $1000 on a radio show back in the day for knowing that.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
Those exist in bathtubs and bathroom sinks, but I've never seen one in a kitchen sink. Until today, I never wondered why, and now I do.
Robert T 2 years ago
My current kitchen sink has one, as did its predecessor.
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Anonymouse 2 years ago
https://www.answers.com/english-language-arts/What_is_a_porcelator or overflow pipe https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Porcelator
#17
By the time the Aztec empire was founded, Oxford University was as old as the United States is today.
Kirsten Kerkhof 2 years ago
Sure! Founding of Aztec Empire: 1325 (date the city of Tenochtitlan was founded), Founding of Oxford University: 1096.
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#18
Horny toads can squirt blood from their eyes up to 30 feet.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Just a quick clarification, the photo is correct and the "horny toad" is a lizard not a toad.
Anna Meeker 2 years ago
My brother and I use to catch them when we were kids. He once asked my grandmother to hold something (it was a horny toad) that he had bought in his lunchbox from Texas to NC when we visited. She screamed and threw the poor thing across the room. We never saw it again.
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I grew up playing with these little guys in SE New Mexico. I was very gentle with them and never kept them for more than a few hours, I was fascinated by them. I was rounding up a pasture years ago, it was shipping time for all the steers and yearling cows we were selling. I hopped off my horse to pee and as I squatted by a bush I saw, sitting on the sand, a Horny Toad skull. It was bleached white by the sun, it was just the top skull but it is perfect, not a chip out of it anywhere, every little horn is perfectly sharp, not a single broken or chipped horn. I tucked it inside my bra and got a pleasant surprise when I made it back to the corrals with it still in perfect shape! It's one of my prized possessions.
Julie Zugz 2 years ago
Horned Toad or Horned Frog, even though it is technically a lizard - this is the mascot of my university, TCU, in Fort Worth, TX
Sadie Adler 2 years ago
No. Horny toad sounds better. Change the mascot name. /s
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And it gives them war paint on the face, too. Interesting fellas. Phrynosoma...b4b006.jpg 
#19
Spiders purr.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I can picture Charlotte purring, can't you? That trait has to be added to the next version of Charlotte's Web.
Cassie 2 years ago
We had a juvenile wolf spider living in our bathroom. Wolf spiders are not aggressive and eat the things I don't want in my house like roaches and earwigs, so I let them hang around. One day, I'm brushing my teeth and this little dude walks down the wall, onto the counter in front of the sink, and starts throwing its front legs up. This was confusing since wolf spiders aren't generally aggressive but that's generally an aggressive stance for spiders. After throwing its arms up for a few moments, it walked back to the wall, back up, and I never saw it again. So, either it was angry ranting at me and moved out (it did have a web connected to one of the faucet nobs, so my activity in the bathroom was disruptive), or, as my husband asserts, it was waving goodbye to let me know it was leaving. Either way, I found it to be an interesting experience.
#20
Cockroaches will be able to smell when another cockroach dies. If you ever see one in your home, 1) obviously there’s more, but 2) they will come out in droves to look for the dead roach. They don’t “starve out” like mice or weevils, they cannibalize.
We had a roach problem for a bit, we couldn’t afford pest control so I had to handle this s**t myself LMAO certified roach annihilator here.
Downunderdude 2 years ago
'Cockroach died in my kitchen' 'So - that's a good thing!' 'Yeah, except for the 500,000 who came for the wake'.
Hphizzle 2 years ago
Had a problem with roaches in the dorms in grad school. Exterminator said to flush it down the toilet after you kill it.
Diana Wilcox 2 years ago
Keeper of giant hissing cockroaches. Can confirm; when the elderly ones pass, they are usually munched on when I find them. Waste not. Also, they're great for reducing food waste. My living garbage disposal gang...
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 2 years ago
Surprised I don't see headless roach here. Anyone seen them recently?
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
My brothers live in NYC and have to constantly deal with roaches. And strangely enough, neither of them has ever seen any other type of insect in their years living there. Just roaches.
Timbob 2 years ago
So, to get rid of them all, you just need to have a few take some poison, and Just wait ?
Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
Basically, that's how cockroach traps work - the cockroach eats the poison and dies, others come and feed off it and transport poison back to the nest, where the eggs die too.
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Jaaawn 2 years ago
I've never seen a cockroach in real life. Can you hear their feet scurrying about?
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
I have seen this. If I kill one and leave it, it will disappear after a while. I assumed it was being eaten by other roaches, but never knew for sure until now.
#21
The name of the shape of Pringles crisp/chip is “hyperbolic Paraboloid”
Downunderdude 2 years ago
Good name for a heavy metal band. (Hyperbolic Paraboloid, not Pringles. That would be a boy band)
#22
The sun is actually white not yellow/orange. It’s earth atmosphere that shifts the color of the light rays. It’s the same reason a sunset is so much more colorful than mid day. The angle at sunset means the light rays have to travel through more atmosphere before reaching your eye.
Cricketgeeklol 2 years ago
And a beautiful red when viewed thru the dust of the Saharan desert (look it up)
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Giles McArdell 2 years ago
Yellow light is made up of green and red light, the blue from the white light is scattered by the atmosphere which is why the sky is blue.
Cosmologist wannabe (he/him) 2 years ago
*but the color of light that the sun emits the most is green. If you look at a Planck function, the peak would be at about 430-something.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
Either my school is lying to me, or I heard it wrong, which is probably the case, but I thought that green was the only color that wasn’t projected by the sun
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Stephanie Barr 2 years ago
I've used this in a book, giving the atmosphere different colors (sun[s]) based on the size and makeup of the atmosphere. Blue/yellow sun doesn't have to be the default.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
If you stare at you, you will see in bright splotches of rainbow for 90 minutes
#23
It is physically possible to be so constipated that your stool will back all the way up your digestive tract and you can vomit feces. Witnessed it first-hand when I was an EMT- it's quite a sight to behold...
Katie Everswick 2 years ago (edited)
Aww, that happened to my grandma years ago. It's a funny story, actually. She had an oncologist who was the biggest a**hole in the world. So my grandpa called and told him that my grandma had not pooped in like 3 weeks, and first he asked him which patient he was talking about, because he didn't know his patients' names, just their id numbers. He had been seeing her for YEARS. Then he said he was LEAVING ON VACATION the next day and to just give her a laxative. Well, my grandpa took her to the hospital anyway and the minute the doctor saunters over, she vomited sh*t all over his expensive shoes. My mom said it was priceless! She died not much longer after that. Stupid doctors who think they're god. Don't become a doctor if you won't even bother to think of your patients as human! Funny but not funny, he died just a few years later from a heart attack.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
For some reason talking about constipation and then describing someone as the biggest a*****e, was very funny.
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Nancy T 2 years ago
I had an AIDs patient die of this at the beginning of the crisis. We didn't understand the disease and how it spread. I 'm a nurse now but was working as a nursing assistant at that time. The patient was an HIV+ IV drug abuser. Skin and bones. Kept in a filthy room by herself....no one would go in for fear of contracting the disease. We gave her food on paper plates with plastic utensils on paper trays. We double bagged all her garbage and linen and considered it a biohazard. The patient was on isolation and treated like an outcast...like a leper. She spoke only Spanish....and no one I worked with knew the language. She had ulcers all over her body, sores in her mouth and constant diarrhea despite being fully constipated. When I had time I would gown, glove and mask up and spend time in the room cleaning it and her. There was feces and food and spots of blood everywhere. I would was her up the best I could with wash clothes and warm water and give her clean linen. Her big brown eyes
Nancy T 2 years ago
Her big brown eyes always looked so frightened and her bones creaked when she stood. I remember her gagging and throwing up feces. It was horrible. She eventually succumbed to pneumonia and died. I could only hope I provided her just a little bit of comfort and a touch of humanity in her last days. No one should ever have to die alone like that. I'll always remember her.
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Shark Lady 2 years ago
It's happened to me several times but not due to constipation. When my bowel twists there's only one way out for everything above the twist. It's really not pleasant.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Seen that many times in my nursing career. Very disturbing and upsetting. I feel so badly for the patient. Can you even imagine? Many times they came from nursing homes that didn’t keep track of their folks having constipation.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
I got impacted once and it was excruciating- I have a chronic pain condition and being impacted was worse than that. I cannot imagine being THAT backed up.
Mental Liberals 2 years ago
Funny: when I was a kid, my older brother and I used to swallow air so we could make fake burbs. My mom used to tell us if we kept doing that, we'd start pooping out our mouths! :)
#24
Without mucus, your stomach would digest itself.
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
My old college roommate was so severely bulimic in high school that her stomach basically stopped producing mucus. They had to do a load of different medical procedures to make sure it didn't eat itself. I hope she's doing ok.
Unpickled Pickle 2 years ago
Yeah, your stomach secretes a special mucus( Not the mucus in your NOSE, mucus can be used to describe any slimy liquids) that covers it to avoid digesting itself. Stomach acid is so powerful, it can theoretically dissolve some metals.
MontanaMariner 2 years ago
Our eyes have their own immune system to keep the body from attacking them.
MagicJacket 2 years ago
So why do people still call me a booger-eating moron? Obviously, I am a genius. A booger-eating genius.
#25
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Mason Kronol 2 years ago
"With god as my witness I thought turkeys could fly."
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago
The chicken was thrown by Tom Brady at a thanksgiving event. It was not alive anymore. Nor was it deflated. Turkeys have flown for much longer, depending on how high the helicopter is flying.
Phobrek 2 years ago
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” - Arthur Carlson
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#26
The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Ah, the English language, where all you have to do is make up a word, convince people it's a word, and BLAMMO! it's a word. See "thagomizer" or "anatidaephobia."
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 2 years ago
The person who came up with this know what they did.
#27
There's no maximum length to a train, you just add another engine.
DeShotz 2 years ago
There always will be a maximum. It comes when you either run out of cars or railroad.
Janner Wingfeather 2 years ago
There’s a folktale about a train called the Wabash Cannonball that was so long it would sometimes arrive at its destination before the end of the train had left it’s starting point.
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 2 years ago
sure you can, but it will have difficulties to move :-D
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TheElderNom 2 years ago
In theory maybe but in reality definitely there is definitely a maximum length. I'm willing to bet that most countries even have laws in regard to how long a train may be.
#28
The brain named itself.
Ólafur Unnar Jóhannsson 2 years ago
The brain is the most inportant and vital organ of the body. According to the brain...
#29
The fastest man made object was essentially a large steel manhole cover. During nuclear testing decades ago in 1957 they capped a shaft for an underground nuclear test with it. By replaying the video frames and seeing its initial takeoff, it was calculated to have been going 125,000 miles per hour with the nuclear blast force behind it. They don’t know if it made it to space.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I'm having fun looking these up: You'd need to launch something 25,000 miles per hour to reach the moon, but I'm not sure if this means a continual thrust, as opposed to a single, initial speed. The escape velocity to leave the entire solar system is 97,000 miles per hour. So it's quite likely that manhole cover is the first macroscopic material thing to depart the solar system, if it didn't burn up in the atmosphere.
Jeremy Morkus 2 years ago
Probably true for 1957, but in 2023 the fastest man-made object would be the NASA Parker Solar Probe spacecraft which reached a speed of 535,000 kilometers per hour.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
They aren't sure if it made it to space because they argue whether the heat from the air friction vaporized it before it reached space or the shape allowed it to slow down before it reached there.
Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
There is suspicion it may have hit a flying chicken.
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MagicJacket 2 years ago
Earth escape velocity is 25,000 MPH, so it probably did, as it took off at 5 times that speed. Just think, somewhere out in space, there is a manhole cover.
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
I doubt it. Anything clipping along at 35 miles a second in atmosphere is going to disintegrate
Load More Replies... Teutonic Disaster 2 years ago
Fastest man made object in earth. The Parker Solar Probe has just recently been clocked at 395,000 mph (and is expected to go as fast as 430k). https://www.theautopian.com/theres-a-new-record-for-the-fastest-human-made-object-394736-mph/
#30
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day (February 12th, 1809).
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of the day Galileo died (January 8) and died on Einstein's birthday (March 14) which is also π Day (3/14)
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
Nobody except North America writes it mm/dd/yy. Einstein was German. Hawking was English. It was 14/03. π day exists only for Americans.
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McDonald’s holds a specific contract to get their Coca Cola syrup in a metal vat vs plastic bags which makes McDonald’s taste better.
hitex 2 years ago
And yet the cheap cups causes ice to melt too quickly & it becomes as quickly awful
Patricia Steward 2 years ago
Ask for it without ice. Better yet, don't eat at McDonald's.
Load More Replies... Sven Grammersdorf 2 years ago
This is false. It comes as a bag-in-box, just like at every other restaurant.
Trent Anderson 2 years ago
That's why it tastes so much better than competitors. Still can't beat a glass bottle though.
Richard Michael 2 years ago
Well, that and they add more syrup to compensate for the ice melting. No other competitor does that.
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Sea cucumber (They/them) 2 years ago
And yet the ones in the glass bottles still taste the best.
Deborah B 2 years ago
I firmly believe that diet coke tastes better out of a can than a bottle, and I won't even drink soda fountain drinks.
Beck 2 years ago
I always get a fountain drinks at stores. Dr. Pepper on ice is best, mountain dew gets watery too quickly. Mountain dew in a can is best.
Load More Replies... Trophy Husband 2 years ago
I don't like it as much, but I appreciate the fact that it has less microplastics. The larger straws are also dissipate the carbonation, further making it taste less good.
#32
There are more Hydrogen atoms in a spoon of water than there are spoons of water on earth.
Robert T 2 years ago
Only if it is a tablespoon. Avogadro's constant is the number of molecules in 1 mol(e). 1 mol(e) of water is 18ml, which is about the volume of a tablespoon. :D
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Trophy Husband 2 years ago
Well technically there are probably not very many spoons filled with water at any given time... yes, I know what they meant, I'm pedantic...
Timbob 2 years ago
Are you saying that those other spoons of water don’t have any Hydrogen atoms ? I think not !
arthbach 2 years ago
No, of course they are not saying that! They are saying that if there were 100 hydrogen atoms in a spoonful of water, then there would be less than 99 spoonfuls of water on the earth.
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For every human being there are about 2.5 million ants in the world, so if the ants one day spontaneously decide to attack us humans about 90% or more of the world's population would die.
There are about 20 quadrillion ants in the world.
Cosmologist wannabe (he/him) 2 years ago
No fire is our enemy. Fire ants are very invasive. And, ants can literally stay in their nests. And some ants need to stay alive. Stop thinking of ants as pests. Think of them as a superorgasm. They are extremely intelligent and have evolved to work as one.
Load More Replies... Cosmologist wannabe (he/him) 2 years ago
Most of those ants are very important to ecological and sometimes, agricultural needs. Don’t get rid of native ant species. Native ants have evolved for the land that they live in. Invasive species thrive because they are less threatened, or because they are more aggressive and ambitious. Some native ants do need to be removed, but only if they are stealing food/causing property damage or pose a serious risk to inhabitants of the home.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
2.5 million ants would weigh only about 5 or 6 pounds. (I found that there are an average of 450,000 ants to a pound, although from my experience, I'd bet some ants weight 100 times what other ants weigh.)
MagicJacket 2 years ago
Given the number of people, and ants, and animals, and other insects...I can't understand how the entire planet is not covered in urine.
Downunderdude 2 years ago
So you're saying 10% of the world's population could fight off 2.5 million ants each? Yeah, me and a BIIIG can of bug spray. Bring it on you formicidae f*****s.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Even if you count it as biomass, the global biomass of ants is slightly more than the global biomass of humans.
#34
Frederick Bauer (the guy who invented Pringles) had his ashes buried in a Pringles can.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Extra crispy original. (his son insisted on finding an original style container) Screen-Sho...f0-png.jpg 
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Not sure if I'm angry or relieved that I can't buy Emmental-flavored Pringles in the US. Those look dangerous.
#35
Crabs have a muscle that enables them to release their claw if they have to.
#36
Some military helicopters on aircraft carriers are made of magnesium and should they catch fire it's literally impossible to put them out as the magnesium will take the oxygen from the water and use that to keep burning. So the only thing that can be done is to push them overboard and even as they sink they will continue to burn until the magnesium is completely burned up.
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
I think it is on purpose for two reasons. One, it is lighter, so it needs less fuel. Second, if it gets shot down, the enemy will get nothing useful. And codebooks will be destroyed by the fire.
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago (edited)
There are only some helicopter parts that contain magnesium and they are related to the engine/gearbox/transmission as they are lightweight, dampen vibration well, and lubricant friendly. It takes a lot of heat to get one to light one up as its an alloy, not pure magnesium. If you have a heat source on an aircraft carrier that can burn an engine, you have a bigger problem. This type of engine block is not uncommon. For instance, the BMW N52 is a magnesium engine. It was the 3 series and 9 series engine for almost 10 years (switched in 2014).
Andrew Read 2 years ago
Yes, and electric car batteries are made out of Lithium…much more volatile than magnesium…
ColdSteelRonin 2 years ago
As Two rolling black eyes noted it's only components and not restricted to helicopters, the jets have magnesium parts as well. Standard procedure for a magnesium fire on a US naval vessel is to jettison it
Mark (it/urgh) 2 years ago (edited)
I remember playing with magnesium ribbon at school, whoever decided that building helicopters out of it was a good idea deserves to crash land one of them.
ShellsBells 2 years ago
FYI- Anything that is on fire on an aircraft carrier that cannot be extinguished will be jettisoned off the ship.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
There are grades of magnesium alloy that are completely non-flammable. I don't know which magnesium alloy these helicopters are made from.
Definitely a Human 2 years ago
Aluminium, which is very common in vehicle construction, is also very flammable and difficult to extinguish
#37
Raspberries are not berries but watermelons are. This was a life altering useless fact to me. Mind blown....
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Supposedly, these fruits fit the more technical definition: bananas, avocados, citrus like oranges or lemons, cucumbers, kiwifruit, all squash including pumpkins, eggplants, coffee beans, and melons. I don't understand this claim, because part of the botanists' definition of "berry" is that it has a thin exocarp (peel or rind), and all of these have a tough or inedibly thick exocarp. (Yes, I'm including cucumber, you restaurant chefs! Get off your lazy asses and peel the damned cucumber!) However, cherries are drupes like apples and not berries. And raspberries and strawberries are composite fruits, which mean they're sort of like lots of tiny fruits which have grown together.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Yes. It has to do where the pips are. Raspberries and Strawberries have the pips on the outside; they are aggregate and/or compound fruits.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
Wait, so are watermelons part of both the berry and gourd family?
XenoMurph 2 years ago
NO NO NO. We know what fruits are, we know what berries are, we know what nuts are. But then the BOTANISTS decided to use these common words to decribe subcategories of those things. A fruit is still a fruit even though a stupid botanist decided to apply that word to some weird subcategory of the thing and no tthe thing itself. Stop letting botanists steal our words!
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Bless you, XenoMorph! You get it! Bad textbook authors don't get to rewrite the English language to fit their whim!
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#38
Cowbird females lay their eggs in other species nests. But she keeps watch. If her egg is removed or damaged she may attack the nest and destroy the other eggs that are not hers. But she'll never help feed or nurture her baby. When the young cowbird is able to fledge (fly), the mother will take the young bird and introduce them into the cowbird flock so it can live it's best cowbird life. Nature is weird and wonderful.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
"Has fledged, is able to fly." No, has fledged means has its flight feathers and can start flight training. Hence the term fully fledged. Fledge is from old english flecgan or flicgan meaning to fly, pronounced flidge-an. A similar bird-related word is Callow. It means naked. The term callow youth means an inexperienced youth. This is because baby birds are born naked. The word Callow has cognates in other germanic langages eg Kaal in Afrikaans means naked.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Related to the fletches/feathers on an arrow and the name for an arrow maker: Fletcher
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Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Same with the Cuckoo. Though the newly hatched cuckoo will push the other eggs out as they manage to hatch first.
#39
A certain fish called koi tend to swim in groups of four. Ichthyologists usually label them A, B, C, and D. If a threat is detected, the A, B, and C kois will scatter, leaving behind the D koi.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
nice, but I wonder if the D-coy knows he's tanking for them. Get it ? Fish tank, tanking?
WoodChuckCouldChuck 2 years ago
So this is a list of bad jokes and poorly researched information.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
And the predator angrily discovers that it was only a D koi? (Say it out loud if you need to.)
#40
When Phillips designed the cd, the hole in the middle was designed to fit a dutch 10-cent piece. It is still used in dvd's, blurays etc.
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago (edited)
...why ? edit : I laughed a lot but I still don't have a (real) answer :D
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
See? Stupid units of measure are not an American thing! Well, not exclusively American...
Nina 2 years ago
No I'm looking at a cd-hole hoing, was a dubbeltje (dutch guilders 10 cent) that big?
Roland Nijveld 2 years ago
It's small. Still one of the smallest coin I ever had in my hands
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But it had to turn, so you needed a way to keep it in place, like placing the hole over af peg.
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At one point in time PepsiCo had the 6th largest military in the world.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
From the web "How Pepsi came to own a Soviet naval fleet". "In a bizarre agreement, Russia sold Pepsi 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser, and a destroyer in 1989".
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
The Soviet Union. And yeah, they were desperate for money then.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
As the Soviet Union was going bankrupt but guzzling cola like mad, the Soviet Union paid for Pepsi by giving Pepsi the sixth largest NAVY in the world. Pepsi largely sold it as scrap metal.
#42
In 1999, hackers uncovered a flaw in Hotmail's security. Access to any Hotmail email account was granted by simply entering "eh" as the password.
Emerald Joanna 2 years ago
I had a Hotmail email address in 1999 but I'm sure no hacker was interested in my 15 year old emails talking about how much I loved Hanson.
Mark (it/urgh) 2 years ago
Ooh does this still work? I forgot the password to my Hotmail account about 15 years ago, would be nice to regain all of my old gaming profiles and my original Facebook account.
#43
The Cesar salad was invented in Tijuana Mexico. The Hawaiian pizza was invented in Toronto.
Eithne Griffiths 2 years ago
Actually the Hawaiian pizza was invented in Chatham, Ontario, Canada .
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Yes, but the person who invented the Caesar Salad was an Italian chef. It doesn't really matter where he was at the time.
The Dusty Rhino 2 years ago
Pineapple on pizza was first offered in Chatham, Ontario, not Toronto. It was on the menu at The Satellite Restaurant. Owned and operated by Sam Panopoulos. 🇨🇦
Elchinero 2 years ago
Caesar salad was invented in the early 1920s by Caesar Cardini, an Italian chef who owned a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico. He moved to Tijuana from California to avoid Prohibition, and it was here, on July 4th, 1924, where Caesar is believed to have invented the Caesar Salad.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Restaurante Caesar's on Revolucion Avenue in Tijuana, to be exact. Been there many times
#44
Apparently deaths (unaliving themselves) in teens rose 13% after 13 Reasons came out on Netflix. Never watched the show, but my kids did.
starshollow 2 years ago
That show also caused rising cases of self harming, especially amongst girls in the UK.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Soo many psychologists spoke out about that show before and after it aired!
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
To whoever downvoted me: Suicides actually declined for the first couple of years after the premiere of 13 Reasons, (see https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db464.htm ) but soared in 2021. (see https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2023/youth-suicide-rates-increased-during-the-covid-19-pandemic )
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
First, teen suicide did rise drastically for a decade and it was happening before 13 Reasons showed up. Teen suicide rates grew almost linearly at that rate for 10 years at that slope. Blaming the show for increased suicide is like blaming Dungeons and Dragons for increased gang violence in the 80s. Its someone making a scapegoat.
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
The increased suicide rates in people under the age of 18 is astounding, especially considering the pervasiveness of social media influence, toxic behavior that goes uncorrected from their peers, lack of decent parentage, and the ever-growing sensitivity of everyone to be offended by so many things.
Brittania Kelli 2 years ago
It actually rose by 28.9% in ages 10-17 in the US according to CNN.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
"Apparently, süicides in teens rose 13%..." FIFY because euphemisms that everyone understands are useless and you might as well just use the correct word, and because avoiding speaking frankly about things like süicide is counterproductive.
#45
Diddy, the music artist, doesn’t like the way towels feel on his skin. So instead of drying off like a normal person after a shower, he walks around his house to air dry instead. Why do I know this? Because for some reason, this was a fact given during an old show on VH1 called “Pop up videos” where they would play a music video with random facts being shown throughout. I have zero idea why of all vital things I should have stored in my memory, this was one that stuck after all these years.
Cora Han 2 years ago
Me too, but you'd have to actually air music videos to be able to bring this back. Wish there was a channel that could play music videos on tv...hm...
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Pop up videos were the best. So much fun trying to read all the info before it went away
DC 2 years ago
... this was so great! In the video of Rod Stewart's version of Tom Waits' "Downtown Train", all trains you get to see are uptown trains. Hm... Wouldn't have known otherwise. Also, up to that time, Tom Waits made more money on Rod Stewart singing one of his songs than he made on anything else (no more true, "Bad As Me" sold pretty good a few years later and surpassed the income generated by Rod).
#46
Using proper typing technique, the longest word that can be typed with just the right hand is ‘lollipop’ and the longest word that can be typed with just the left hand is ‘stewardesses’.
Surenu 2 years ago
So... the person who designed the keyboard to allow typing of the word stewardesses with just the left hand... did they do this for, y'know, a specific purpose?
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
But only on a QWERTY keyboard. There are alternatives. (Dvorak rules!)
Ian Webling 2 years ago
And the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of keys is 'typewriter'.
Mark (it/urgh) 2 years ago
You can write the word typewriter using only the top row of letters.
#47
* Dolphins are just a type of (toothed) whale. * Fireflies are beetles. * In spite of lacking notable elytra, the staphylinids are also true beetles. * Only the hemipterans can be called true bugs. A cicada or assassin bug would be decent examples of them. * Speaking of cicadas, most periodical cicadas live within the USA, with a couple exceptions. There's the so-called "World Cup" four-year cicada in India, and then there's another species in Fiji that's actually displayed on the local currency.
Karen Weiss 2 years ago
FYI, there are 7 species of cicada in the USA. There are 300 species of cicada in Australia with the possibility of up to 1000.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Most other nations don't have cicadas? Seems like a massive empty niche; when they come out and you realize that they've been there underground for sixteen years, it's easy to imagine that most of animal life on the world consists of cicadas. They struck during coronavirus, and the entire world seemed to be a science-fiction movie, because they make a noise that is so ubiquitous it's like having severe tinnitus, and yet the sound is more like a death ray from a 1960s movie.
eMpTy 2 years ago
I have severe tinnitus. Pretending that I am always hearing cicadas stops me from going insane (and having hearing aids with a setting that generates low-level white noise does work in reducing the volume of tinnitis).
Load More Replies... David A Paterson 2 years ago
I can confirm four of those five. I don't know what an elytra is.
Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
Wings basically, I learnt this from Minecraft lol
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Jacky Newman 2 years ago
The Firefly part is funny because in german they are called Glühwürmchen, which would be gloomingworm😅
two-sided llama 2 years ago
WAIT HOLD UP ELYTRA IS AN ACTUAL THING I THOUGHT IT WAS A NAME FOR A HING IN MINECRAFT. i'm an idiot aren't i
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
If you know what an elytra or stahylinid is, you probably are already quite well aware that fireflies are beetles.
#48
1g of uranium contains a billion calories. And if you eat 44000 bananas in 5 minutes the radiation will kill you.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
If you eat 44,000 bananas in 5 minutes then it's not the radiation that will kill you. I've always wondered, the radioactivity of the potassium in bananas must depend on the soil in which it is grown. So are there bananas that are non-radioactive?
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Everything we eat is radioactive. That's what carbon-14 is. A radioactive isotope.
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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
But you'd win the banana- eating contest, so it's worth the risk 🤪
#49
If you feed bread to ducks they’ll swell up and get bloated because bread to ducks is like junk food so instead we feed them corn and peas.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Well if you have anatidaeophobia that's one way to kill the bastards.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Totally false. The lesson to learn is "don't overfeed the ducks". Birds aren't stupid. They know how much they can safely eat. Pick up all the food that the ducks haven't eaten before you leave.
pfeils wife 2 years ago
Won't all the other little birds come feed off the leftover bread that the ducks don't eat? Serious question, not being a smartass here, promise!
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PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
Corn and peas are so mmmmmmm and banana and mandarines and pretty much all fruits and veg are yum for ducks
Dixie Girl 2 years ago
I hear this every year. Have you ever thrown bread into a lake? It melts within minutes. How that can kill a duck is beyond me.
Андрей Кубанцев 2 years ago
And how corn and peas are not junk food for ducks. They're mainly carnivores for god's sake..
#50
Anatidaephobia is the fear of being watched by a duck.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
It is a joke condition invented by Gary Larson in a Far Side cartoon. DSM-IV does include phobias of a type of animal related to trauma there isn't a specific one related to just ducks. Dogs are the only one who get their own listing. The fear of being watched is scopophobia and it is usually generalized - you know something/somewhere is watching.
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
So, it's really just fear of ducks/fowl........not of being watched by them.
#51
Omphalophobia is the Irrational fear and or disgust of someone else's or your own Belly Button.
Mark (it/urgh) 2 years ago
Delphi was known as the omphalos of the world.
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#52
If your dead body is left outside in the right atmospheric conditions you can become completely skeletonized dry remains in as little as two weeks.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Two weeks seems awfully short. It depends on the local species of beetles, which find the body and start the decomposition process within one week.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Hm. Flies start within hours. Minutes, sometimes.
Load More Replies... KittyMommy 2 years ago
Very moist, very hot, lot of scavengers in the area. Not necessarily the big guys, but bugs, birds, things like that
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Squid's brain is ring-shaped.
Admiral Graf Spee he/him 2 years ago
because thier stomach goes through it
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#54
Colonial America officially declared independence from Britain on July 2, but the final wording of the declaration wasn’t completed until July 4.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
When becoming a citizen of the U.S.A. they tested me whether I speak English and whether I know U.S. history (they give you ample material to prepare for that). One question was "When was the first Independence Day celebration?" Answer (according to the material): "July 5th, 1776."
#55
Pregnant woman are recommended to sleep on their left side, ive told many girls this and they can never understand why I know this, they google it and confirm it in front of me. I have no idea why I have this knowledge.
cerinamroth 2 years ago
I think most pregnant women know that. Not everyone does, but I got dizzy if I slept on my right (because the blood flow through your vena cava is restricted).
XenoMurph 2 years ago
If you are pregnant, the blood flow through my vena cava is not restricted.
Load More Replies... Lene 2 years ago
Actually, during my latest pregnancy I read that the Danish Health Department says that it is best to sleep on the side but it doesn't really matter much as long as you are comfortable. So I slept most nights on my right. And if you your sleeping position is bad/makes you feel any kind of discomfort your body will either wake you up so you can change position or you will just change position in your sleep. So... yes, it's best to sleep on the left side when pregnant but it is OK to sleep in any way that you are comfortable with. (My latest was born in 2021, btw).
#56
A gram of activated carbon has the same surface area as an aircraft carrier.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Activated carbon is literally the best material to use as a water filter.
Liam Farranree 2 years ago
The studio was contractually obliged to offer the role to Sinatra because he had played the Bruce Willis character in a movie called "The Dectecive" in 1968.
Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 2 years ago
I loved when Bruce Willis played Activated Carbon. It was his best role.
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#57
King of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
I *think* they're based off real monarchs so that's why? Not sure though
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WonderWoman 2 years ago
Asked google, and according to it, they all had moustaches, but King of Hearts' moustache was "lost in the reproduction of the original design"
Oleksandr Miliukov 2 years ago
well... if you had only seen single deck of cards 528px-King...b06359.png 
#58
The U.S. is the third most populous country in the world. If it added 1,000,000,000 immigrants it would still be the third most populous country.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world by both area and population.
#59
The amount of time it takes all mammals to pee is roughly the same. The amount of pee is different, and the intensity of the pee stream is different, but the amount of time is roughly the same.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
I've also seen this, but my own anecdotal observations seem to contradict it. I read, I think, that it was about 21 seconds regardless of species, but I own a hamster, dogs, horse and penís and they don't seem to take the same amount of time to drain.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
Also human males over the age of 50 are still mammals, but it takes a LOT longer than in our 20s. Thanks prostate.
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
The time I take varies by time of day and what I've had. I know the amount of time my two dogs take is vastly different.
Cosmologist wannabe (he/him) 2 years ago
11 seconds. Unless u were frozen for 10 years, or so. (Austin power shag vibes)
#60
Mongolia is basically an entire country of nothing with a single city in the middle where a majority of the population lives.
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
Vast, undisturbed natural beauty is not "nothing". A large portion ( 1/3 ) of the population still lives in the rural areas. They love the beauty of the steppes.
Nasren Jak 2 years ago
It's 12 times bigger than Java but Java's population 43 times bigger than Mongolia btw
Alex Martin 2 years ago
Please don't upset the Mongolians. You won't like it when they're angry.
#61
Die Hard's John McClane role was originally offered to 70-year-old Frank Sinatra.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 2 years ago
It was a formality at that point. Sinatra was in a 1966 movie called The Detective, and Die Hard was technically a sequel. Sinatra’s contract gave him first right of refusal to any sequels, so he had to be asked first.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Who else immediately imagined McClane SINGING "Yippee kai-yay, mother ----ers"? (And why do I have such a specific tune in my head to that? I can't place it as a Sinatra song...)
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Actually, Sinatra wanted to do it as "Doobee doobee do, mother---ers", and that's when negotiations broke down.
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Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
I can’t imagine they would have made four sequels with him. He would have been 81 by the third Die Hard film.
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Because of a song that used to constantly play on the radio I have it pretty well memorized that there are 86,400 seconds in the average day.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
You sure about that? Because a song on the radio used to claim that she's a maneater, and that she's got Bette Davis eyes, and neither of those are true. Heck, are you even so vain that you think this song is about you?
Beck 2 years ago (edited)
Someone said all my friends drive a low rider, but I've never seen them.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
In the average Earth day, you mean. The way we measure time is only useful if you're on Earth, since it describes the relationship between Earth, Luna, and Sol. If you're on Venus, a day is longer than a year.
#63
A mile is 5,280 feet. And easy way to remember is this “Five Tomatoes.” FIVE TWO m-EIGHT Os
troufaki13 2 years ago
Or... hear me out... you can use the metric system and you don't have to remember any of this. 1 KILOmeter = 1,000 meters, 1 meter = 100 CENTImeters. How neat is that??
Noname 2 years ago
But then we'd have no idea how many feet are in a mile.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Or just use metric, where a kilometer is 1000 metres and 1 metre is 100 centimeters and 1cm is 10 millimeters, meaning a 1000th of a meter.
Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Metric has one major disadvantage: it's easy to miss out a zero or two. Try working out the number of cubic centimetres in one cubic kilometres. Now assuming this is some product that cost 110 cents per cc and work out the total value of one cubic km.
Load More Replies... Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
And to remember kilometers to meter just remember that "kilo" means thousand. So, 1 kilometer is 1000 meters, 1 kilogram is 1000 grams, 1 kilowatt is 1000 watts...
KDS 2 years ago
The reason the U.S. isn’t on the metric system is because of Pirates attacking the ships that would have brought it over weird but true.
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
A mile was a man’s 1000 paces. Since a pace equals the body’s height, we know the average Roman man was five feet two inches tall.
#64
Horse has 15 horsepower.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
The original horsepower was based on the work done by pit ponies, which are considerably less powerful than a horse.
#65
You can overdose on coffee.
Scotira 2 years ago
Also the other way around: you can overdose on soysauce.
Load More Replies... Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
I don’t think I could eat enough sherbet or candy floss to overdose and I love them. I think I would “eat enough” at some point.
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#66
Most North American Freshwater mussels have a parasitic stage in their life cycle. Common hosts are fish and sometimes salamanders.
#67
Pee into bleach and u WILL chloroform gas yourself.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Chloroform gas is normally made from bleach plus alcohol. Urine plus bleach (or ammonia plus bleach) makes Chloramine gas, which is not quite the same.
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
I saw a video the other day from a girl in a hospital bed. She had heard that if you pee into bleach you will find out if you’re pregnant. Apparently there are lots of videos on TikTok of people accidentally creating mustard gas.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
Chlorine in water has no odor. You will not smell chlorine until it starts to kill bacteria. That is why they recommend showering before going into a pool. It is to wash the dead skin cells and external bacteria off the skin. Pools that stress pre-showering rarely smell like chlorine. Also pools with few kids peeing in the pool have a low chlorine odor.
dandylilah 2 years ago
yea, idk about all this, maybe someone should have fact checked this list first.
Bookworm 2 years ago
No, this one's real. It's why you should never, ever mix or use the same cleaning cloths for glass cleaner and bleach. Ammonia + bleach makes mustard gas, and urine has a lot of ammonia in it. Which is also why you never use bleach to clean a pet's litter box.
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Once, it was raining whale, because the corpse of one was blown up by dynamite. One guy died because a chunk of whale fat landed on him.
Jon Hughes 2 years ago
Nobody was injured by the exploding whale (Florence, Oregon, USA, 1970), but one car was flattened by the falling blubber.
Caroline Nagel 2 years ago
In that news footage it is fascinating to see the amount of dynamite they used. No wonder it rained whale...
New Everywhere 2 years ago
I've read that they can explode on their own from methane build-up in the stomach
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
But what happened to Ford Prefect and Marvin the paranoid android?
#69
The first person to own a video-phone in the UK was Jeremy Beadle.
cerinamroth 2 years ago
This is a case of "You really had to be there". Everyone my age from the UK would know who he was.
Load More Replies... Robert Millar 2 years ago
So he had to wait a while to use it. I'm sure the next buyer wouldn't call Jeremy!
#70
The dashed lines on highways etc in the US are typically 10ft long. Blew my mind.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
for those who have no idea what 10ft means, it means about 3m. Which is arbitrary and uninteresting.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
More interesting if measured in bananas since the lines are often yellow - like a banana.
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10! (factorial) seconds is the same amount of time as six weeks. 10 * 9 * 8 * … * 1 = 6 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 …it’s less weird if you think about it logically, l didn’t for quite long xD Also, the Fibonacci sequence is a good approximation when converting miles to kilometers. 3mi ≈ 5km, 5mi ≈ 8km, 8mi ≈ 13 km and so on. I omitted the first three digits of the sequence (1,1,2) for obvious reasons.
H Nunya 2 years ago
Could anybody explain the first one to me? I don’t understand the 6,7,24,60,60.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
10! = 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 3,628,800. And 60 seconds per minute x 60 minutes per hour x 24 hours per day x 7 days per week x 6 weeks = 3,628,800 seconds in six weeks.
Load More Replies... Mark (it/urgh) 2 years ago
"I omitted the first three numbers because it only works when I cherry pick the answers."
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Let's check. The ratio of km to mi is 1.609 to 1. The golden ratio is 1.618 to 1. So yes, a good approximation.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
There are three miles to five kilometers. It's an easy conversion from there.
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TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
here's one: the definition of "north" is from planetary rotation. If you are in space and looking straight at a pole, if it's rotating counter-clockwise ("anti" for you Europeans) it's north. There is no up and down in space.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
The deadliest gunfighters (fictional or real) were Matt Dillon (138 men and seven women) and Lucas McCain (120). John Wesley Hardin (25-40), Tom Horn (17-20), Jim Miller (12-15), Wild Bill Hickok, (8-10) [Also Chuck Connors was the first person in the NBA to break a backboard while dunking a basketball. During warm-ups while playing for Boston]
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WoodChuckCouldChuck 2 years ago
So a few inaccurate posts and a couple of jokes. Pretty typical for this site.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
here's one: the definition of "north" is from planetary rotation. If you are in space and looking straight at a pole, if it's rotating counter-clockwise ("anti" for you Europeans) it's north. There is no up and down in space.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
The deadliest gunfighters (fictional or real) were Matt Dillon (138 men and seven women) and Lucas McCain (120). John Wesley Hardin (25-40), Tom Horn (17-20), Jim Miller (12-15), Wild Bill Hickok, (8-10) [Also Chuck Connors was the first person in the NBA to break a backboard while dunking a basketball. During warm-ups while playing for Boston]
Janine Randall 2 years ago
Moose antlers can grow up to an inch a day. My personal useless fact.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Thanks for these...learn something new every day ..or 30 new things Thanks to BP
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So a few inaccurate posts and a couple of jokes. Pretty typical for this site.
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