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Not all knowledge is made equal. Some you get from books and uni days, some of it you learn from practice. The main chunk of information we digest arrives from the internet, and an equally big part of it we don’t need at all.
On the other hand, the internet is notoriously good at cherrypicking the most entertaining parts and separating them from boring things. Hence, all the lost hours we lose while procrastinating on a daily basis! And this thread is living proof of it.
“What's a 'fun fact' that nobody asked for?” asked Redditor SoggyCereal12 and received an overwhelming amount of responses. People rolled up their sleeves and took out their best cards in what turned out to be the most random amusement dressed up as real-life facts. Check out our previous features for more weird, interesting, and creepy facts.
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#1
On 8 April, 1942, a detachment of Polish soldiers, deployed to Iran by the Allies, bought a bear cub from an Iranian boy. In August the bear was given to the 22nd Artillery Supply company and named Wojtek by the soldiers.
They fed him condensed milk, honey, fruit, and beer, which ended up being his favorite drink. He also picked up smoking, and enjoyed wrestling with his human friends, and bunking in on cold nights.
When the Polish II Corps was redeployed it Italy to fight alongside the British, the Brits wouldn’t transport mere mascots on a troop ship, so Wojtek was formally enrolled in the Polish army as a private.
During the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino Private Wojtek helped keep the guns firing by hauling boxes of ammo, each containing four 25 pound shells. These crates normally took four men to haul. For his bravery and service in battle Wojtek was promoted to Corporal, and his visage became the emblem of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company.
After the war the 22nd was sent to Scotland, before being demobilized, at which point Wojtek was given to the Edinburgh Zoo, where he was often visited by Polish soldiers until his death in 1963.
That is the story of Corporal Wojtek, the Polish artillery bear.
Premislaus de Colo 3 years ago
One thing though: Polish soldiers were not "deployed to Iran by the Allies". They were marching out from Siberia in the process of evacuation from Soviet gulags. Also, the "detachment" you are writing about was about 120 000 people
Lorrie Rothstein 3 years ago (edited)
I really need to see pictures .of a smoking and drinking bear
Monday 3 years ago
He didn't actually smoke, he ate lit cigarettes. Specifically lit cigarettes, he didn't want to eat unlit ones....and no the zoo didn't let him, but his soldier buddies would give him some when they visited.
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Annnnd We’re Officially In Reverse 3 years ago
I loved this story up until the part he ended up in a zoo. He lived a happy full life with lots of mates and plenty to do..and then one day they just gave him to a zoo?? Poor guy was probably wondering what the hell happened
Sandor M 3 years ago
Four 25 pounds she'll is a 100 pounds,which is 45 kilos. I don't think you need 4 Polish men to carry 45 kilo
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#2
When Haiti was fighting the French in a civil war the French send some polish to deal with it when they saw how the slaves were treated the Polish joined the Haiti revolution
Ilsa Laszlo 3 years ago
And they settled there and started families. They blended into Haitian society.
Martin Kaine 3 years ago
The Poles were told they were putting down a major prison uprising. Once the Poles found out it was actually rebelling slaves, they told the French "Au Revoir" and joined the rebellion.
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Peeka_Mimi 3 years ago
The Irish did the same in the so called Spanish America war and Indian wars. They saw what was happening as the same Genocide they had fled Ireland to escape happening to the Indigenous.
Joseph Teopaco 3 years ago
Why is America more vilified about slavery than France and other European countries?
Aria Whitaker 3 years ago (edited)
Perhaps due to the length of it, among a few other factors. While France abolished it in 1794, America would have it firmly established into society a little under a 100 years later, and would not outlaw it until 1865. Also, it is extremely documented that chattel slavery in America was much more dehumanizing, brutal and generational than what took place in Europe. Moreover, although European slaves had a very lowly social standing, they were AT LEAST considered to be human beings. Not so in America. Black slaves were considered sub-human, more on par with the family livestock than its members. They had NO rights, zero. Their slavery was never-ending (unless a white person set them free) and generationally persistent. American Chattel slavery was a different animal than European, African and even meso-American slavery.
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William Bennett 3 years ago
This is the only slave rebellion that worked and was able to gain their complete freedom. I just read about this and bold history in my college class. They used to be the richest Caribbean island from their crops but after they forced out the British they could not decide on what type of government to have. That is why it's split into the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
#3
On 1939, February 14th a German battleship was launched and was sank with only 118 of the 2,200 crew members surviving. Among them was a black and white cat named Oscar which was found floating on a board and was picked up from the water by a British ship.
On October 27th, 1941, the ship sank to the west of Gibraltar and Oscar was found clinging to a piece of plank and was later brought to the shore establishment in Gibraltar. When British officers learned what happened they named him “Unsinkable Sam”.
After that he was adopted by the crew of the HMS Ark Royal and in 1941, November 14th, a torpedo hit the ship. Sam was AGAIN found clinging to a piece of plank and was described as “angry but unharmed”.
By this time it was enough for the por cat and remained it’a days on land hunting mice in Gibraltar and then being transferred to the UK where he lived his final days.
And this was the story of “Unsinkable Sam”
Láďa Durchánek 3 years ago
Sure, it was a torpedo that sank Ark Royal, not Sam being angry they put him on a ship again.
Monday 3 years ago
Are we sure that Sam didn't sink all three ships because he really bloody hated being on ships?
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I feel like this was supposed to be a story of how lucky Unsinkable Sam was but it just makes me suspicious.....Unsinkable Sam....more like Watch me Wreck this Ship Sam.
Robert T 3 years ago (edited)
Jonah would have been a more appropriate name!
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Julianne Hannes 3 years ago
All navy ships have cats, even today, they catch and kill all the mice
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Ozymandias73 3 years ago
You would think they'd keep Sam off of ships. Every time he was on one, it sunk. j/s
begging for ham 3 years ago
was it for the poor cat when they send them to UK or were they afraid that there would be another sinking ship?
“As humans, we are naturally curious creatures. We are always trying to understand our place in the world and how things work,” Alex Wong, the marketing expert, book author and creator of “Hijack Copywriter” told Bored Panda.
Wong believes that facts and stats help to give us a better idea of how everything fits together. “Without facts and stats, all we have are theories, which may or may not be true. That’s one thing I love about science. It’s the pursuit of gaining a deeper understanding and knowledge of the world around us. And with this scientific knowledge, we can solve complex problems and make better decisions.”
#4
Baby kittens and puppies can’t urinate and defecate on their own. Their mothers lick their genitals and anuses to prompt them to do so and then also cleans it up. Most people don’t know this if they happen to be taking care of an orphaned young kitten or puppy so this it ends up being a cause of death for a lot of them. If you ever take care of an orphaned kitten/puppy or know someone who is you must use a damp paper towel or wash rag to wipe their bottoms until they urinate or defecate. 🌈 *The More You Know* ⭐️
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Did this with a 3 week old abandoned kitten, until he could pee and poop on his own, in a litter box, at about 7 to 8 weeks old. Even when they’re about 5 to 6 weeks old and no longer need that stimulation, they’re a lot like babies who need diapers because they aren’t ready to be potty trained yet. They can pee and poop on their own, but lack the muscle control to hold it until they get to the litter box—-which most kittens take to right away (second experience with abandoned 5 to 6 week old kitten—-we live on a dead end street where f*****g waste of oxygen worthless m***********s who should be taken out and shot sometimes dump animals, including tiny kittens taken from their mothers way too soon. BTW, both kittens grew into beautiful, much loved, and very healthy cats).
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago (edited)
Oh my God, this explains so much! My brother found a tiny kitten abandoned in a garage near my old apartment. When we found it, he had a crusty bütthole and was severely malnourished. I immediately set about wiping down his butt so that the crustiness could be removed and was gently wiping, repeatedly, with a soft, damp towel. I did that for almost 24 hours until we could get him to a local rescue because we were pretty sure there were other health problems that we weren't equipped to handle. It took many hours but once I was finally able to penetrate through the blockage the poor little guy just leaked out all over the towel. No wonder!
Humanoid Panda 3 years ago
We used to have a dog that 'cleaned up' the motherless kittens after their feeding.
Lady of Lunch 3 years ago
Many small mammals are like this. It's one reason you shouldn't take the from their mothers.
Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
When my dog had her two pups I was so worried that she wouldn’t do this. I was wiping little puppy bums just in case.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
Part of the reason why cats will (even well older) come up to their humans, and stick their backsides in our faces. They think we are their moms.
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
For anymore tips: look up the Kitten Lady, aka Hannah Shaw. She's got a wealth of knowledge on kittens, but she's also fostered puppies, pigs and ducks, to name a few.
#5
Elephants can purr, like cats.
My O My 3 years ago
Quick question: how do they breathe whilst sucking their trunks?
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boone williams 3 years ago
An elephant goes to a nudist beach (they're actually fine swimmers) and chats up a random guy. The guy had, up to that point thought highly of himself until the elephant looks down and says, "that's cute, but how in heck do you drink with that thing?!"
#6
Alligators don’t age biologically, they don’t die from old age, they die from starvation or a disease. Blew my mind.
InfectedVoiceBox 3 years ago
No let's leave them alone and not try to prolong human life anymore, have you seen old people's skin?
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WordWeaver 3 years ago
Probably because old age is not the usual cause of death with such creatures.
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Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Another one is lobster. They grow bigger and bigger, but they will not die of old age problems (like cancer). Also their joins are not aging, so hundred years old lobster still runs like a month old one. On the other hand, that means that all lobsters died because something killed them...
Herkfixer 3 years ago
Jellyfish are not merely a single creature. They are a colony of organisms. They do not "age" as they are not a "thing" with a single metabolic process.
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Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
Obviously they age up to a point, otherwise they wouldn't grow from cute little squeak squeaks into giant chomp chomps.
Dee 3 years ago
Perhaps there is a difference between aging and growing though Analyn?
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Succulent 🇺🇦 3 years ago
So technically a gator can live forever under the right circumstances?
It's no secret, however, that much of the information that gets shared online is presented as facts although we can never be sure. When asked how not to fall into the traps of fake and misleading facts, Wong said that “the only way to avoid this trap is to expose yourself to as many different ideas and viewpoints as possible. This means you have to educate yourself about the topic before coming to any definitive conclusions.”
#7
There is a forest that is 107 acres, but made up of only one tree. Thousands of aspens that share a single root system.
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
That tree is called Pando, look it up, it's fascinating. All tries to recreate a second tree like that from the DNA of the first one have failed so far
Robert T 3 years ago
But this isn't it. Which is bizarre as BP has previously featured a picture of it.
juice 3 years ago
yeah that's weird. here's the real thing: MS5qcGc.jpg 
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Earl Grey 3 years ago
You would think that BP could at least select a stock photo of Quaking Aspens instead of a conifer or whatever that is.
ƒιѕн 3 years ago
While many trees spread through flowering and sexual reproduction, quaking aspens usually reproduce asexually, by sprouting new trees from the expansive lateral root of the parent. The individual trees aren’t individuals but stems of a massive single clone, and this clone is truly massive. “Pando” is a Latin word that translates to “I spread.”
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
Considered to be the largest single organism. Also, if one of the trees is attacked by a bark beetle, it will secrete a noxious pheromone which will repel the beetle. The second any of the other trees is exposed all of the trees in that grove will secrete the same, protecting the entire grove.
Stephen Lyford 3 years ago
I love that this entry is about aspens, but the tree pictured is NOTHING like an aspen.
#8
In starship trooper, the actors agreed to do the coed shower scene only if the director got naked with them and he did.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
It may sound weird but I always liked this scene. The whole movie actually showed a real equality among men and women in the service.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Why have to get naked at all, ffs? Just film from the shoulders up, and leave the rest to the audience’s imagination. Believe me, my imagination is always way better than what the director thinks it’s necessary to show me.
François Carré 3 years ago
I'm sure Paul Verhoeven didn't mind so much, he's quite a naughty guy according to his movies.
Felipe Pereira de Sousa 3 years ago
Paul Verhoven is a crazy fella. He would get naked anyway.
#9
Your nipples are your perfect "natural lipstick shade". Do not recommend colour matching in stores though.
The Deez 3 years ago
No, but not because I didn't want to check! I'm at work and thought it might shock the people around me!
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
This one got me looking at my nips and I don't even wear lipstick. Lol
Donkey boi 3 years ago
I'm a pale Irishman, but my nips are really dark. Not sure we should trust this.
Francis 3 years ago
i'm super pale, but my nips are brighter than my natuarl lips :D i would look like a ghost if my lips where as pale as my nips.. so i don't trust this either
Load More Replies... Lady of Lunch 3 years ago
Says who? I've seen far too many people that look amazing in a bright red lip, green lip, blue lip...and I'm doubting they're rocking technicolor nips.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
"Natural lipstick shade", it says. Not, "only lipstick shade acceptable". 😉
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Mama Penguin 3 years ago
I don't think I should trust this. The shade won't look natural at all.
Panda Kicki 3 years ago
My nips and lips are already same colour! No need to buy lipstick then
My O My 3 years ago
How do you know? Did you hold your nips to your lips?
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Wong urges people to be open to different points of view and look for weaknesses from your side. “Read as many types of resources as you can and never assume you know everything,” he added.
Another great tip is, when reading a news story or post, to check the source and see where it is coming from. You may want to ask yourself these questions, Wong argues: “Are they credible? Who wrote it? Is there a bias? Are they leaving out specific facts? A news story from BuzzFeed is going to be presented very differently from Fox News.”
#10
The world's largest tire producer by total number of tires made is Lego.
Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
Well, if you must step barefoot on something made by Lego, I suggest the tires.
Velocity Raptor 3 years ago
As a mother of 5, I can confirm. I have about 1,287,389 around my home.
Jon Steensen 3 years ago
In fact they almost got ruined by tires. Everytime someone would design a new car, they would also design a new kind of wheel for them, resulting in lego having to produces, store and maintain several new types of brick, which is a costly affair. Standardisation and reducing the number of wheels to choose from to a well thought through selection solved the issue.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
The most manufactured Volkswagen part at the Wolfsburg plant is number "199 398 500 A." They make about 20,000 per day. It has been made since 1973 but will fit in any model they've ever made. Here's a picture: DEU_VW-Cur...0ec5da.jpg 
The Scout 3 years ago
"Currywurst" is taken very seriously in Germany. This "VW-Currywurst" originally was produced for the cafeterias of their plants, but soon became a bestseller. It is sold in supermarkets by now, and lots of pubs and bistros sell it under license.
Load More Replies... Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
And the book with most prints is now IKEA catalogue. Bible is second.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Lego tires are probably superior quality and last a lot longer, based on comparable distance driven, as well.
#11
Ground cinnamon is technically sawdust
Sam Cook 3 years ago
Love cinnamon. I have cinnamon mints, toothpaste, floss, mouthwash, I love Cinnamon Toast Crunch, the creamer of the same flavor, Cinnabon anything and their creamer, Chai tea, and candles, and I just tried and loved Cinnabon's cinnamon bun-flavored Frosted Shredded Wheat. I love everything cinnamon.
WishIWasAFlapperGirl 3 years ago
The only kind of sawdust I hate!!!! Pew, not a fan of cinnamon!!! Really don't get the obsession with it in the US!!
#12
When a rooster crows it partially pinches shut its ear canals so it won't deafen itself...
Angela B 3 years ago
There is a Rooster that lives nearby us. Some mornings, I wake really early.... before the Rooster wakes me. On those mornings I honestly feel like walking up up there, into the yard and yelling outside the coop "ARE YOU AWAKE YET YOU MUTHAFREAKIN ROOSTER! HUH ARE YA ARE YA!" And then going home back to bed. Hate him.
Fish Fingers 3 years ago
The word rooster came into use because America was too prudish to call them c***s.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
TONY STARK, YOU SELF-AWARE A-HOLE!!! (Please note: Tony Stark is the name of our rooster. I am not insulting Robert Downey Jr.)
somed ay 3 years ago
What I learned from cartoons as a child, is that roosters crow at sunrise, sort of like an animal alarm clock. It's partly true - they START crowing at first light. But they don't shut up all day.
Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
That is so very true as I can second that from growing up on the family farm when we had chickens. I remember our neighbor saying he knew when to get up when he heard our roosters crowing at the top of their lungs. When the roosters first start crowing, it sounds like "RR-RRR-ACK" so I would go "RR-RRR-RR" back. Man, did those roosters pump up the volume!
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They also crow in order of status, the "alpha" crows first, then the next highest and so on
According to a study by three MIT researchers, false news travels faster on social media sites, such as on Twitter, than real news. Wong noted this quote from their study:“...false news stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories are. It also takes true stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for false stories to reach the same number of people.”
“If this is true, this is frightening!” he added. Although, Wong is not surprised at all. “False news stories are generally crafted in a way to maximize views and clicks. This helps with advertising. In contrast, a real news story may be less exciting and glamorous,” the marketing expert explained.
#13
If you ever see someone using an iPhone in a movie, they are not one of the bad guys. Apple requires as a condition of licensing their products for use in film/TV, that only protagonists are allowed to operate them on camera. So, if a character is using an iPad in a horror movie, they will not end up secretly being the killer.
Toby Flenderson 3 years ago (edited)
Dexter (the serial killer in the eponymous tv show) used a Mac laptop.
Moonwatcher the NightWing 3 years ago
Can someone pls explain why I got a downvote. I don't understand and I would like to correct it so that I don't do it again in the future. Thank You
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#14
Between 1913 and 1914, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Emperor Franz Joseph, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Leon Trotsky lived in Vienna within 4km of each other. Talk about sitcom idea!
Torbjorn 3 years ago
They did actually make a sitco about Hitler called "heil honey I'm home" Cancelled after one episode
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
Most popped into Café Central on the regular, too. It's still there. So it really IS just like Friends or BBT, except for, you know, when it's not.
Jane Alexander 3 years ago
Love it! Yes please! Reminiscent of Steve allen s 'A Meeting of the Minds'
#15
Lucille Ball helped bankroll the first script and episode of Star Trek
cogadh 3 years ago
Her production company actually owned Trek outright until she sold the entire company to Gulf+Western, which is now known as Paramount.
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Octavia Hansen 3 years ago
She also pulled rank on everyone to produce Mission: Impossible TV series
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
Nobody else thought it would take off. She gave it a chance. Trekkies owe her thanks.
Carman Davis 3 years ago
This I knew. She was the only studio to take a chance with Roddenberry.
Moreover, social media constantly bombards us with news snippets that conform to our points of view. “And once we see a news story that confirms our existing beliefs, we want to share with it our group, who go on to spread it to their friends, and so forth,” Wong concluded.
#16
The "little piggie" that went to market...
Wasn't shopping.
$cagsy 3 years ago (edited)
For those of you that might be worried, it's not what you think. She was off to market for a pedicure. She returned to her shoddily constructed little home with snazzy trotters and was the talk of the town. At least, she was until a wolf came by, looking for woefully inadequate dwellings. And he wasn't there to repair them. But that's another story.
Lady of Lunch 3 years ago
Nursery rhymes are dark. Ring-around-the-roses is about the plague. Jack and Jill is political.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
So many children's texts are super dark, with layers and politics and social commentary we've since forgotten. Plus a lot of what we now think of as children's texts didn't start off that way, or were intended for both child- and adult audiences. If anyone today is screaming about not wanting the books in their kids' classrooms to be "political," they're just admitting they haven't been paying attention.
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unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
I remember asking my grandma about that. She was like" he went to....oh wait...do you want to watch cartoons" 🤣
glowworm2 3 years ago
The books that often feature this rhyme, show an anthropomorphic pig cheerily carrying a shopping basket with them, that’s why!
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#17
Alexander the great, Mussolini, Napoleon, Julius Caesar and Hitler allegedly suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
That other Panda 3 years ago
They obviously thought cats would take over - and they will, one day…. So relatable.
Gremlan jonnson 3 years ago
Always knew you can't trust people that don't like cats, this just proves to me I'm right
juice 3 years ago
i've heard that it has something to do with control. you can train dogs to be obedient, but cats do whatever they want. so some people who don't like cats don't like the fact that they can't be controlled
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Katie Fink 3 years ago
Egyptian guardians of the underworld or something like that? Help me out pandas
Local foodie 3 years ago
They believed cats were good luck. Maybe also guardians of the underworld as well
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
THAT’S the secret weapon we should’ve used to invade them!
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
SO....if the armies that fought against them all had a cat per soldier, things could've turned out way differently!
WordWeaver 3 years ago
One invader of Ancient Egypt did use cats in this way.
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Katrina Wysocki 3 years ago
Sooooo if someone had kept a bunch of cats around a whole lot of tragic history could have been prevented. ✔️
#18
The story of "Beauty and the Beast" was probably based on the tragic life of Petrus Gonsalvus. According to Refinery 29, in 1537 there was a young boy named Petrus Gonsalvus who was regularly called a beast. Reportedly, this was most likely because he had a case of hypertrichosis, a condition that causes a person to grow hair all over their body, often referred to as "werewolf syndrome." Gonsalvus was just 10 years old when he was taken from his native country, Spain, and sent to the King of France to operate as a type of court jester. "King Henry decided to take on Gonsalvus as his little pet project," Refinery 29 wrote, "the king groomed Gonsalvus to be a nobleman." Eventually, King Henry's wife, Catherine de'Medici (who took over after the king died), found Gonsalvus a wife — coincidentally another woman named Catherine. Though it took some getting used to, the beauty fell in love with "the beast." They were married for 40 years and had seven kids together, four of which also had hypertrichosis.
D. Pitbull 3 years ago
Sooo... a solid 40 year marriage with seven kids... with each other... Unless it was a rather unhappy marriage - how is this... 'tragic'? I dunno... 40 years seems like a goodly chunk of "life" to me...
Fenchurch 3 years ago
I do think you might have missed the child kidnapping part of the story
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Lady of Lunch 3 years ago
Very few women had a choice. Even less if they were nobles.
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Russell Tilling 3 years ago
I've always thought of it as a sweet maiden (the beauty) saving a lonely, sad but wealthy alcoholic (the beast) from his curse (alcoholism). Fairy tales are parables or fantastical mirrors of real stories made magical.
Bored Batgirl 3 years ago
I've always thought of it as romanticized Stockholm syndrome lol
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Britches are for everyone 3 years ago
Consider how implausible it is that the people who wrote down and expanded this fairy tale in the 18th century would have know the obscure story of the court jester from over two hundred years ago. The details of the beauty and the beast folktale were developed over centuries, as most fairy tales are. This is eisegesis.
eMpTy 3 years ago
Up-vote for adding two new words to my vocabulary - eisegesis and exegesis, the latter found on looking up the former. (I will file them away next to connote & denote)
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Robert Trebor 3 years ago
One of the early Counts of Barcelona was Wilfred or Wifred, called the Hairy (in Spanish: Wifredo el Velloso) (in Catalan: Guifré el Pilós), (died 11 August 897) was Count of Urgell (from 870), Cerdanya (from 870), Barcelona (from 878), Girona (from 878, as Wilfred II), Besalú (from 878) and Ausona (from 886). Gesta comitum barcinonensium reported that "...he was hairy in places not normally so in men..." [Wikipedia]
Ms. Human Being 3 years ago
In my books a child kidnapped from his family and forced to marry sounds pretty tragic
Load More Replies... Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Seriously? It's a freaking morality story, not "based on a true story". Gah, the critical thinking abilities of some people are non-existent.
Ms. Human Being 3 years ago
Well considering how much the two stories have in common, I would think they are related
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Your immune system doesn’t know your eyes exist. They have their own immune system. If your body’s immune system ever learned about your eyes it would view them as a foreign invader, and your white blood cells would melt them straight out of your sockets.
Earl Grey 3 years ago (edited)
A few years back I read about a doctor who was treating Ebola patients in the DRC when he contracted the disease. He was brought back to the US for intensive treatment and survived. Later, when his eye color changed, it was discovered that the virus was still harbored alive in his eyes. Now this explanation makes perfect sense. With help, his body fought off the virus, but his optical immune system did not or could not.
blahd zhahd 3 years ago
This is not true and it needs to stop getting reposted every other day on here. Your eyes and your brain for that matter, have what's called "immune privilege". Basically one of the ways your immune defends your body is by heating up the affected area, causing inflammation. Well, as you can guess, this is bad for your eyes (and brain). So, your eyes (and brain) have what's called immune privilege, meaning that it limits what the immune system can do. So, your immune system if fully aware of your eyes, and will not melt your eyes or other such nonsense. Your eyes (and brain) have other ways of handling bacteria and other infectious things that go way beyond debunking this crazy myth.
Petra Moon 3 years ago
Thank you…nightmare averted. I was actually terrified until I read this.
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Ruth van Hoogstraten 3 years ago
It’s why if one eye is penetrated by a sharp object that breaches a blood vessel, that eye has to be removed as quickly as possible to prevent blindness in the other eye as well
Katrina Wysocki 3 years ago
Well that’s just terrifying. Just pictured the end of Raiders and yea,…….whole lotta nope
#20
There was a Finnish soldier named Aimo Koivunen who got separated from his unit. He had no food or weapons, and to avoid dying, took enough methamphetamine for 30 men. During his insane drug binge, he skied about 250 miles, passed over a landmine and survived, and caught and ate a bird raw. That's just a few details, I recommend actually reading about this absolute legend yourself.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
Meth is a hell of a drug! Ben there done that. Never again. Will be clean 17 years come October.
RoanTheMad 3 years ago
When you consider badasses like this guy and Simo Häyhä , (and imho, my wife Anna lmao) Finns are just on another level, tbh.
Curly potato 3 years ago
And for those wondering, "Sisu is a Finnish concept described as stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience, and hardiness and is held by Finns themselves to express their national character. It is generally considered not to have a literal equivalent in English. "
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Katelynn Breukelman 3 years ago
He had no food or weapons but enough meth for 30 men.... Priorities???
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
I guess it was a bit of a packing-issue. You'd probably fit a lot of tablets into a pocket but not so much bread. (unless Llembas, but I'm not sure the Finns have that ;-) )
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Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago
If he took that much meth how did he not die? And how the hell was he hungry, let alone hungry enough to eat a raw bird?
#21
I really like the Christmas Truce of 1914 where almost every German and British soldier decided to just stop the war for that special day. I think there are some stories of them playing some good old football (soccer if you will), exchanging hats, Christmas presents they got from their families. It is one of my favorite wholesome facts about WWI
Zwiebel Suppe 3 years ago
To be fair, there are probably not too many "wholesome" facts about a World War.
Charly 3 years ago
I think there are. Just small stories of enemies helping each other, or the involvement of little animals that needed care. The stories are there, just not visible or reachable ;)
Load More Replies... $cagsy 3 years ago
To me, this brings home one of the most horrifying aspects of war. Those declaring it on behalf of a nation are so far removed from it that they forget about the human beings who will die on the battlefield, crying for their mothers. What that truce shows beautifully is that the lads putting their lives on the line for both sides didn't hate other. They were just teenagers and twentysomethings shooting at each other because the politicians had failed to reach an agreement. I think all wars should be decided by a duel. The parties involved should agree on a sport and whichever team wins is the victor. Same principle as war but without dead people.
WatermelonTheDutchie 3 years ago
or like an olympics of sorts where both sides pick maybe 3? different kinds of sports and the armies compete in them?
Load More Replies... Donnie Mc00 3 years ago
not almost every german and british soldier im afraid. Not every German unit wanted a Truce, and not every British unit agreed to participate. British soldiers had witnessed many examples of the Germans implementing ‘ruse de guerre’ (tricks of war) during the campaign from Mons to Ypres, and as such they did not trust the motives for the Truce. Some units were proud of their martial reputation and did not want to be seen to fraternise, and even in sectors where there was a Truce, some soldiers did not take part: having lost mates or family members in the war, as well as the diet of anti-German propaganda that had started on the outbreak of war, they perhaps had little inclination for it.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
They also sang "Silent Night/Stille Nacht" together. The same melody with words of the same meaning in both German & English. (It was originally Austrian). Sadly, when the generals on both sides found out they forbade any repeat of it.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Look for song "christmas in the trenches". Originally from John McCutcheon, but Seamus Kennedy sang it maybe even better.
Wilf 3 years ago
It was nowhere near as widespread as has now become mythologised. The primary purpose of ceasefire was to recover bodies and swap prisoners (which was common enough in previous wars). Besides, many areas of the western front had been quiet ever since the opposing armies became entrenched, so throughout later 1914 many (particularly the British/Germans) left each other relatively un-harassed. Throughout this period informal exchange of souvenirs or news was relatively common. The idea that whole armies suddenly jumped out of the trenches to play football on Christmas day, before immediately returning to killing each other the next day is a modern myth.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
*and then went back to killing the c**p out of each other the next day
#22
Dragonflies suck water up their butts and shoot it out like jets when they get tired.
Nik 3 years ago
thank you you made my morning and I am having a really hard time right now :)
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Casey Burns 3 years ago
They also have the highest catch rate of any hunters of all species of anything. And can even fly backwards.
Earl Grey 3 years ago
That refers to the aquatic nymph stage, not the flying adults. Sheesh. 🙄
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
Female dragonslies will often play dead to avoid having s3x with the male . When I learned this i thought, "Oh..*that's* where I learned that from...."
WordWeaver 3 years ago
Your totem animal! As a message from the universe they remind us to look below the surface.
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Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
Same.....been getting some target practice in the back garden since it's been nice weather
#23
Dr. Seuss invented the word nerd.
Donkey boi 3 years ago (edited)
'First to write it' does not equal 'Invented'. Slang changes and develops and 'nerd' was already quite widely used in the Eastern US at the time of his writing it. It came from the word 'Nert', which in turn came from the English 'Nut'.
Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
Not quite, it was a slang word beforehand, he didn't invent it. But, boy howdy, did he get the visuals right, lol! I can relate to this guy. Dr-Suess-I...f8-png.jpg 
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I live in Springfield Massachusetts where the original Dr Seuss house was on mulberry Street. The museum nearby also has a humongous Seuss garden and section dedicated to him.
Candi Cabaniss 3 years ago
This is great. I am a science teacher bell work on tuesdays is science fiction words. Must use this.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
And yet Random House decided to pull If I Ran a Zoo, the book in which Nerd was created, as well as "Scrambled Eggs Super!", The Cat’s Quizzer, And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, On Beyond Zebra!, and McElligot’s Pool. Now they are banned books. Because a very few people just get so offended at nothing so the rest of humanity have to suffer
#24
German submarine U-215. Sank during WW2. Didn’t decompress though. It’s still sealed on the bottom of the ocean with 49 people inside. I’ve always wondered what went down in there…
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Once it was confirmed they couldn’t be rescued, it probably wasn’t long before it was all over. Had a friend who was a submariner in the US Navy. He told me there’s one person on each sub who is entrusted with an ominous task. Should the sub sink, or otherwise be stuck on the bottom of the ocean and all hope of rescue is gone, that person is instructed to make sure every crew member dies a quick and painless death, including their commanding officers (so they can be a regular crew member or an officer), before killing themself. It can be a variety of methods, poison in the food or a gun to the head or something, but they must make sure everyone is dead, so no one suffers a psychotic episode, or dies from suffocation, or crushing pressure, or whatever else could kill them as their food, air, and power supplies run out. They’re carefully interviewed, psychologically tested, and otherwise rigorously vetted before being chosen. No one else, including the commander, knows which crew member it is, so noone can be targeted for it. It’s a hard task—-it would be impossible for me—-but I can see the point of it, and can also see how it’s a lot more humane to die quickly and (relatively) painlessly than dying slowly and definitely painfully, with absolutely no hope of ever being rescued. Now, this is secondhand information, so if anyone reading this is a retired or ex-Navy Submariner, please correct me if I’m wrong.
Dill 3 years ago
Definitely not an expert here... just someone who finds the thought of submarines absolutely horrifying. Makes sense to me that they'd need someone to do the humane thing.
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Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago (edited)
Would the people be skeletons or perfectly preserved mummies? Did they resort to cannibalism hoping for rescue? So many questions...
Jake B 3 years ago
They would have suffocated. Lack of air would probably cause mummification as oxygen would cause decomposition. Open to correction if someone has more information
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
It would be a relatively painless death. The build-up of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide would make the crew pass out before they suffocated. btw- U-215 was sunk in the summer of 1942 by British warship HMS Le Tiger while on a mission to lay mines in Boston Harbor after attacking and sinking the U.S. liberty ship Alexander Macomb, part of an allied convoy. The wreck was not discovered until 2004. She now lies 270 feet (82 m) beneath the surface of the Atlantic, 150 nautical miles (280 km; 170 mi) off the coast of New England and south of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territorial waters. Four of her five vertical tubes are still sealed, her hatches are still sealed with the remains of 49 German sailors entombed within.
WordWeaver 3 years ago
Such wrecks are considered war graves and must NOT be dived on.
Load More Replies... Angela B 3 years ago
I have sooooo many questions. Why leave those Souls where they are? How did the vessel not decompress? If at a depth that the vessel should have/would have ordinarily decompressed, wby didn't it? If the reason for the vessel sinking was internal as opposed to external, was a cause established? If not, why not? May those Souls rest in peace.
Monday 3 years ago (edited)
They didn't know where it went down. It sank in 1942 but was not discovered until 2004. Edit to add: it was sunk by a British warship, so they knew the sub was "lost" and probably didn't spend very many resources looking for it.
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Bored Panda 3 years ago
The crew scuttled the ship, they did not go down with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-125_(1940)
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
The post is about u-215, are those the same ones?
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A baby could swim in a blue whale's veins. That's how huge it is.
#26
Humans share 99.9% of their DNA with any other human on the planet. Humans share 99% of their DNA with their closest relative, the chimpanzee. Humans also share 60% of their DNA with bananas.
Monday 3 years ago
How did two chimpanzees raise a badger? Were there any inter-species conflicts?
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Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
If I remember correctly from Bill Bryson's book there isn't one single gene that is common to *all* humans. So there isn't a 'being human' gene.
import pandas as pd 3 years ago
Yeah, every time I play Knowledge is Power, the winner gets this *cool information* at the end and 90% of the time it's about the bananas sharing 60% of our DNA 🍌🍌
Jon Steensen 3 years ago
and a man will share more genes with a male chimpanzee than he will share with a woman.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
It only takes a few minutes for our DNA to link up with that of a chimpanzee's.
#27
I used to work as a checkpoint manager in airport security. I would get called over for strange or unusual items, to make a determination if said item was a "threat to aviation safety". It was quite common to be called by screening officers to verify that the oddly shaped organic mass, was in fact, a b**tplug. Everyone knows what a dildo or vibrator looks like, but f****n' kids these days, they wouldn't know a b**tplug if it jumped up, started dancing and sang Hello My Ragtime Gal.
Angela B 3 years ago
*Drives to airport in hope of seeing/hearing singing and dancing b******g*
Kookamunga 3 years ago (edited)
Hello my baby, hello my a n u s, hello my sweet butt plug!
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Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
TBF, I would be thrown off my game if it started singing and dancing
Hiram's Friend 3 years ago
"Hello, Ma Baby" was written in 1898 Broadway composers and producing team Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I stand corrected I thought it was done for the Warner Brothers frog. That definitely gives it a greater provenance.
Load More Replies... Who Panda 420 3 years ago (edited)
done by Warner Bros Michigan j frog but I agree Spaceballs did it better.
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Rick Hoppenbrouwer 3 years ago
If it looks like a dildo it is probably Ted Cruz heading to Mexico.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
No, dildos provide WAY more sexual pleasure than Ted Cruz.
Load More Replies... D. Pitbull 3 years ago
Organic...? So I guess the 'trophies' in Everything Everywhere All at Once would NOT be flagged by airport security...
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Could have been a model of the famous "Christmas Tree" sculpture by Paul McCarthy --> 78354578_0...b1fee2.jpg 
#28
There is a thing known as the Half-life of Facts, where there is an amount of time that will pass before 50% of the facts you know in a subject will be either proven false or superseded with more detailed knowledge. This duration differs based on the field of knowledge. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge) This means it's almost certain that a large percent of the fun facts in this thread will be wrong or outdated, which is likely a leading cause of arguments online.
Jon Steensen 3 years ago
... and apearantly there is also a halflife of teaspoons. By a bunch of them, and after certain period, only half of them will still be there, while the rest has disapeared into thin air.
WordWeaver 3 years ago
And there are those who depend heavily on texts thousands of years old - translations of translations of translations, wilfully edited and rearranged over that time - declaring them entirely factual and informed with immutable Truth.
Lemaire 3 years ago
The references in the Wikipedia article are sparse and specific to engineering and psychology, The concept is pure speculation. There is a great deal of difference between the validity of a foundational physics equation (e.g. f=ma) eventually becoming false (not going to happen in Newtonian physics,) and a psychological treatise being demonstrated invalid by contemporary research. Yes, knowledge evolves, but claiming all "facts" have a half-life strikes me as a feeble stab at science and academia. It's the sort of claim that lends credence to the conspiracies of flat earthers and climate change deniers. "Who can say the earth isn't flat? My facts are just as valid as your facts if all facts lose validity over time."
#29
The potato was once so undesirable that even the poor of Europe wanted nothing to do with it. They believed it caused leprosy, sterilization, and an over active sex drive.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Sterilization AND over active sex drive? So you want it but produce nothing?
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
Omg, really? We have potato as a side for majority of our meals.
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago (edited)
And they eat rice in China. No need to wonder why huge Australia has so few people and huge China so many. Gotta love scientific research..
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Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
It was considered only fit for livestock. Sweet potatoes, on the other hand, were enjoyed. Henry VIII loved them. They were grown as a crop, although I don't know how widely.
InfectedVoiceBox 3 years ago
Over-active sex drive? When I've stuffed myself full of potatoes the last thing I want is a bunk up, I want sleep in a chair.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
Potatoes are one of the only foods we could survive on indefinitely. How did we ever survive ourselves? https://www.popsci.com/nutrition-single-food-survival/#:~:text=Technically%2C%20the%20traditional%20white%20potato,into%20vitamin%20and%20mineral%20deficiencies.
#30
Lake Superior does not give up her dead. The waters of Lake Superior are so cold that the bodies and the majority of stuff from shipwrecks is preserved. The Great Lakes (all of them) are basically just giant ship graveyards.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Not just "basically" but by definition, for those on the Canadian side of Lake Superior. Canada law has designated sunken ships (on the Canadian side) as Graveyards, and they are therefore off limits to any and all divers.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Makes me think of The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. They made it into a song by Gordon Lightfoot.
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Another fun fact: Lake Superior contains 50% of the water in the Great Lakes and 2% of the fish. Lake Erie contains 2% of the water and 50% of the fish. Since Lake Erie is also the shallowest of the lakes and the fish are mostly concentrated in the Western basin, which is the shallowest basin, runoff pollution and the resultant toxic algal growth there is a very big deal, indeed.
Jennifer Brown 3 years ago
I read that first line and immediately thought..when the gales of November come early.
Octavia Hansen 3 years ago
This goes for most of the oceans. Underwater archeology has so much to offer . . .
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
And now my stupid Australian brain which can barely recall any relevant Australian geography will, for some reason, retain that largely-irrelevant-to-me mnemonic forever.
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2% of people can hear their eyes move and blink. Edit: I hate to be that person but, MOM IM FAMOUS.
Shayne Randlett 3 years ago
I guess I'm part of the 2%. I didn't know it wasn't common until I read this.
Dill 3 years ago
I can as well - I assumed it was partly to do with my ears being a tad blocked so I can hear too much of what is internal but less on the outside!! What???
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Casey Burns 3 years ago
If you would like to experience this just put in some ear plugs. Then you can hear all kinds of things in your body.
Theo Blackwood 3 years ago
Heyyyyy I’m finally one of these weird statistics. Side note, anyone else who can hear their eyes blink - are you by chance autistic?
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
Is it more of a mental sound or like an actual sound? Cause sometimes I imagine hearing like the cartoon blink sound but is it real or fake?
#32
Queen Victoria gave the rights of her will to her physician who she trusted more than her family. The royal family is still trying and failing to get the will from the doctor’s family.
Donkey boi 3 years ago
Just to be clear, this is the rights of ownership of the piece of paper that the will is written on, NOT the contents of the will. The family donated it to Windsor castle with the condition that they be responsible for it preservation and that if they ever wanted sell, move or destroy it, it MUST got back to the oldest living heir of the family.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
IIRC, this is the document that outlined some of her more controversial wishes, including being buried with pictures of both her husband, Prince Albert, and her "good friend," John Brown, lending credence to the rumors that they were a lot more than friends.
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Technically, it’s on loan. The family still owns it.
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Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Sounds like the current day Tory party, although none of them trust any of the others, including several Doctors .....
#33
Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian or African
Lance LaRocque 3 years ago
She was half Macedonian Greek. Her mother is unknown but could have been a local Egyptian.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
By virtue of having been born in Africa, she would have been African, just of Greek descent. (In the same way that I am African of European descent.)
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I had a friend who accused me of racism because I told him Cleopatra was Greek. She may have been darker skin but he accused me of taking away one of the great black beauties. She also wasn't known to be that beautiful. Coins of her from the time do not show her as being overly attractive. She was attractive because Egypt had so many grain shipments and because she was so smart and educated.
WhAt?? 3 years ago
I heard that too on some documentary. They said she wasn't as beautiful as people now adays portray her to be.
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Gata Nick 3 years ago
A big part of Macedonia, the territory, is in Greece.
Load More Replies... Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
Actually, it was Alexander the Great's General Ptolemy who was Cleopatra's ancestor.
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Malwin Wellham 3 years ago (edited)
Racially Egyptians were not black but Middle Eastern as they are today. Cleopatra was not an Egyptian but a Greek Macedonian ruler of Egypt.
#34
"Louie Louie" was a #2 hit in 1963 for The Kingsmen. The vocals were so garbled and slurred, rumors spread that the lyrics were dirty. The FBI investigated the song on suspicion of violating obscenity laws. After two years, they decided the lyrics were "unintelligible at any speed."
Somehow, they missed the drummer yelling "F**k!" at 0:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt75jUuKJY
James016 3 years ago
IIRC that's because the drummer made an error and it was picked up as they were recording live off the floor
Cat Palmer 3 years ago
The reason the lyrics are so garbled, iirc, is that the vocalist had just had dental surgery so could neither speak nor sing properly.
cogadh 3 years ago
And they used a crappy recording set up that hung the microphone too high up so he had to tilt his head back, stand on his tip toes and essentially yell up into the microphone, all while coming off of novacaine and having some gauze still packed in his mouth.
Load More Replies... Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I've noticed on radio stations that the Who's who are you they sometimes miss the "who the fück are you"
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Fine little girl she waits for me - me catch the ship for cross the sea - I sail the ship all alone - I never think me make it home.....Louie, Louie, oh, me gotta go
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
That summer I attended a day camp. I have distinct memories of a bunch of us hiding on a screened porch huddled around a phonograph playing that song over and over trying to make out what the dirty parts were. It was early practice for when we read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” later on in school.🤣
#35
There's a surgery called a rotationoplasty where they remove the middle of your leg, then re-attach the foot (backwards) to your thigh so that your ankle can be your new knee for a prosthetic leg.
Seems gross but it really improves the quality of life over the other option, which is no knee at all.
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
But if the leg hasn't been blown off/the foot is still there, why does it need to be removed in the first place?
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
I looked it up. It is used usually with children that somehow got bone marrow cancer in legs. Yup, it is as pleasant as it sounds...
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Lara Verne 3 years ago
I once saw phoho of young girl who had rotationplasty, it took me a moment to figure out how it works. It looks weird, but helps these people with their mobility.
Joe Weaver 3 years ago
Reminds me of Cotton Hill from King of the Hill. Got my shins blown off in WWII!
sarah downer 3 years ago
I came to the comment section to see if anybody else thought of Cotton!
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Monique Reed 3 years ago
The point is that if the knee cannot be saved (crushed or cancerous, etc.) but the nerves running down the leg are intact, leaving the neural connection to the foot allows for an organic, operational joint at the knee. It takes patients a bit for their brain to learn that "move the ankle" now means" move the knee", but it's often better than an above-the-knee amputation.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
Kid who are dancers or gymnasts often opt for this surgery if they are faced with having to lose a leg. It lets them keep participating in their activity as naturally as possible.
ZenChickChristine 3 years ago
Not necessarily bothered by the procedure itself, but that illustration is messing with me.
SeaLouse_Comics 3 years ago
How about I just keep my leg and knee the way it is? (Yeah I know...)
#36
Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one. Bonus fun fact: He was also a licensed bartender.
Synsepalum 3 years ago
“I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.”
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
For those who don't know, this is a quote by Honest Abe during his time wrestling 🙃
Load More Replies... Okokok! 3 years ago
Now it makes even more sense that he's Tyler Durden's pick of "celebrities / historical person I would like to fight with"
Cashme Outside 3 years ago
Another fun fact- he has been inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Philina Birindelli 3 years ago
And a Vampire Hunter. And a Lawyer.And a Shopkeeper.And a Pisces...
#37
The largest cell in the human body is the female egg. The smallest is the male sperm. ​ The largest and smallest cells create life.
Dynein 3 years ago (edited)
This makes sense biologically though. Creating new cells take energy so it would be better to make fewer cells for reproduction - but on the other hand, *fertilization* is a matter of chance, so you want to produce many to increase you chance of creating offspring! So many organisms developed a labor division: Female regenerative cells are large but only come in small numbers and are stationary, while male regenerative cells are basically shrink-wrapped DNA with a tail for locomotion but come in vast numbers. That way, both sexes get to save on the cellular material for reproduction: males save in cell size, females in number. It's a very successful system.
Helena Houzarová 3 years ago
Doesn't the egg also contain the yolk with enough nutrients to last the zygote/embryo/fetus several weeks, until the placenta is formed and starts supplying the fetus?
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#38
the word deja vu gets its name from what its thought to be. Deja vu happens when your brain identifies something that is normally unfamiliar as familiar. However, it has a little known counterpart. Jamais vu is the opposite, when something familiar suddenly seems unfamiliar for some reason. Jamais vu is actually much easier to activate than deja vu because you can do this by simply saying a word 100 times in a row. By the end of it, the word no longer sounds like the word anymore and just sounds like strange noises. Jamais vu! Edit: it was bothering me so I fixed the spelling
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
That happens with teachers too: if enough children spell an incorrect word the same way, it starts to look right, and the correct spelling starts to look wrong. I've literally gone and looked words up in the dictionary because of this phenomenon.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
And then in comes the "would/should/could OF" crowd, saying "but that's how language evolves, mimimi" - although there's plenty examples of people controlling the linguistic development by correcting stupid mistakes, starting (to my knowledge) in ancient Rome and continuing to this day.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 3 years ago
Deja Vu is believed to be caused by your brain accidently storing what is happening into your long term memory instead of your short term memory, therefore making you feel like it is an older memory.
Eff the haters 3 years ago
Try it with a word that has different possible spellings like aluminum (but say it aluminium)
Load More Replies... Sam Cook 3 years ago
Deja vu gives me pain in my stomach whenever I actually experience something I've dreamed before…which isn't uncommon.
Elizabeth Serna 1 year ago
That might be a sign of epilepsy. I went years having deja vu followed by stomach upset before it was found i was having seizures in my sleep. I hope not, but just to be on the safe side get that checked.
Load More Replies... Kristie French 3 years ago
Kind of like wordnesia writing out a word and even when it’s spelled correctly, but still looks wrong?
Frank Hassler 3 years ago
I guess I did Jamais Vu with my name once. Glad to hear I’m not crazy.
#39
The day that Michael Jackson's hair famously caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial was on January 27, 1984, the 9,282nd day of his life. Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, and died on June 25, 2009, living to be 18,563 days old. The day of his accident was the exact median day of his life. He had a literal mid-life crisis!
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
To anyone downvoting, chill out, guys - it's a South Park quote from an episode that had MJ in disguise pretending to be someone named "Michael Jefferson". Besides, 10 downvotes gets an automatic ban. Please reserve them for actually offensive comments!
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 3 years ago
Wow whoever worked this out has way too much free time
Amy Taylor 3 years ago (edited)
My brother and his best friend were there when it happened! My best friend and I were supposed to go to the filming as well but her parents wouldn't let her go. Many years later, her sister ended up testifying at his trial. She was a flight attendant on his private jet. Her name is Cindy Bell.
Mary Kelly 3 years ago
think of all the children who would have been saved if the fire wasn't put out...
#40
A trapper caught a mama bear in Winnipeg, Canada, and the baby was there. He got the baby and sold it to a Canadian soldier. The soldier took it to his base, and everyone loved the bear. They trained the bear, and was great for morale. But they had to go to World War 1, so they gave the bear to the London zoo. The zoo saw that the bear was good with everyone, including kids. Kids could play with, and even ride the bear. The kids made many memories with the increasingly popular bear. One of those kids Christopher Robin. His father saw Christopher Robin playing with his bear, named after the bear at the zoo. Since the soldier found the bear in Winnipeg, he shortened the name to "Winnie". That's right. You know this bear as the classic children's story, "Winnie the pooh." Christopher Robin was Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A A Milne, who wrote the "Winnie the Pooh" books. Edit 2: where did pooh come from? When Christopher Robin would get goose down feathers on him, he would excitedly blow them away with a "pooh! Pooh!" His father thought it was adorable, and so added "the Pooh" after Winnie. Edit: correction: The bear cub was from White River Ontario, not Winnipeg. Harry Colbourn purchased the bear cub for $20 and named it “Winnipeg”, (“Winnie” for short) after his hometown in Canada (Colbourn was originally from Birmingham England). On Dec 9 1914, Colbourn donated Winnie to the London Zoo. thanks u/Loverboy_Talis
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
Pretty sure that I read, in a foreword of an AA Milne book, that the Pooh was from something else. In the UK to pooh-pooh something is to rubbish it or deny it, and to say 'pooh' as a response, especially back then, was like saying 'pah', sort of like 'I don't care' or 'I don't believe it'. So putting Pooh on was so that Christopher Robin could call the bear, but if it didn't respond he could pretend he was just saying 'pah' and didn't care if the bear came or not (that was explained by CR to AA Milne). In the UK pooh as in faeces is spelt 'poo', so they do look different written down.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
He used "pooh" for those multiple meanings. There's a not-so-subtle thread of post-war British nationalism in the books, but also gave his son, the future, the primary voice re: defining things. It's a fascinating mix.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
I am relatively certain that the mother died when she was "caught" by a trapper
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Another fun fact! Brian Jones died at AA Milne's house. He purchased Cotchford Farm, complete with Poohsticks Bridge and 100 Acre Wood, in the 1960s, and drowned in the pool from a drug overdose at age 27 (of course) in 1969.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Christopher Robin had a stuffed bear who was, at first, called "Edward Bear". He renamed it "Winnie-the-Pooh" in honor of the bear in the Zoo.
Ogre Juan Canolli 3 years ago
I Heard Christopher Robin HATED Pooh Because It Took Milnes' Affection Away From The Boy
Dill 3 years ago
Milne most likely had PTSD from his experiences during WWI. That's probably behind his difficulties with showing affection rather than writing these four books. The characters are said to be trying to explain his inner turmoil - Eeyore's depression for example. He had a lot of mental health issues. Then Christopher Robin was bullied for his fame - it's little wonder he had issues with it in the end. Sad for so many reasons as the stories themselves are charming things.
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Böb Schüster 3 years ago
Hmmm. I was told as a kid that Winnie the Pooh was named after Winston Churchill. In the same vein as a Teddy Bear was named after Theodore Roosevelt.
#41
A man named Louie le prince is technically the first person to invent a motion picture camera ( movies) however he went missing during a train ride and was not able to show his invention before Edison.
YetAnotherSarah 3 years ago
"Went missing" psh. Should check on the rest of Edison's competition.
#42
Netflix has trouble recommending you titles after viewing Napoleon Dynamite
Donkey boi 3 years ago
The algorithm either thinks that that is the pinnacle of video entertainment or that it no longer wants anything to do with you.
Samantha 3 years ago
Respectfully disagree with other commenters. I found it nearly unwatchable, but I have a physical reaction to awkward situations, and the whole movie is a reel of awkwardness.
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Mistiekim 3 years ago
Hmm….they like comedies, but also historic figures and blowing things up. I’m out!
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
It took a long time to love that movie but it's just so frickin weird it grows on you. The scene when Napolean throws the orange at Uncle Rico's van while he's driving, and he screams like a girl, then falls off the top of the fence....cracks me up into tears every time :)
ComfyPanda 3 years ago
I love it when uncle Rico throws the steak at Napoleon while Napoleon is riding his bike ROFL
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Walter Brameld 3 years ago (edited)
In the same sense that dogs have trouble speaking English after they go for a walk....
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Hahahaha! My husband got a Netflix recommendation today for some move about a vampire hunter in LA who has to take on some shady jobs to pay for his kids braces (or some such c**p). Yeah - that TOTALLY sounds like the kind of movies we watch. (Sarcasm).
#43
Chainsaws were originally made for assisting in difficult childbirth (breech, etc).
JoyfulZebra 3 years ago
"Two doctors invented the chainsaw in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time-consuming during childbirth. It was powered by a hand crank and looked like a modern-day kitchen knife with little teeth on a chain that wound in an oval." Quote from this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/chainsaws-were-originally-invented-for-helping-childbirth-not-cutting-wood-2018-6#:~:text=Two%20doctors%20invented%20the%20chainsaw%20in%201780%20to%20make%20the,that%20wound%20in%20an%20oval.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Invented by a man, I bet. Right around the time make doctors were trying to take over childbirth and push female midwives out of business. Because the guys “knew better”, even though they were still diagnosing “humours”, and weren’t allowed to dissect corpses to even know WHERE babies were located in their mothers’ bodies. But sure, the guys knew better than midwives who had given birth to children of their own. FFS.
Chase Urso 3 years ago
They weren't the huge motorized one we have to tho they were little hand cranked ones to cut the pelvis
#44
Michael Jackson owned the original pair of scissorhands from the movie Edward Scissorhands .
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Here's some ladies with their Edward hairdos for one of the film's posters behind-the...1b25cf.jpg 
#45
You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters it out.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
You can sometimes. It's called "bad breath" You can smell smoker's smoke, a lot of medicines people take if you know the smell of them; certain diseases have a "smell" when the person exhales: pnumonia smells putrid; yellow fever is said to smell like a butcher's shop. Typhoid fever can smell like baked bread. This is how some dogs who can sniff out illnesses are thought to do this.
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lolliegag69 3 years ago
Is that what we smell when we have face masks on because it's terrible
#46
Octopus detaches and throws a modified arm penis covered with sperm at their mate.
Angela B 3 years ago
And I can't even find a guy to buy me a bunch of flowers or cook me a meal.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
What? Does he just say: "Here. Go f@ck yourself; I am busy" and moves on...?
Jade Gleeson 3 years ago
If my husband could, he would constantly throw his penis at me and it would always be when you were least expecting it, you know, like walking into a room, getting out of the car, getting out of the shower....sigh, that thing would forever be haunting me:)
Pieter Scheepers 3 years ago
More like a "go f**k yourself" than a f**k off...
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Audra Sisler 3 years ago
Yeah that's what i like......... Said no one EVER!! What the fuh bruh??! 😆
#47
A majority of near-death experiences(being clinically dead but brought back) are positive. Do with that as you will.
Vera1 3 years ago (edited)
I’ve read an interview with a director of a hospice once. She said( and I’m paraphrasing): humans are amazingly clever. If death truly is an awful thing, the dead would have found their way back by now. That stuck with me ever since.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
I have heard that while you are dying the brain floods itself with DMT. I personally hope it's not all a hallucination..or that it is..
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Donkey boi 3 years ago
I've been clinically dead twice (a stabbing and drowned). One I don't recall anything happening while I was "gone" but the bit just before was scary AF then peaceful. The other was not a pleasant experience at all, and endless pain and a lot of voices talking and shouting over each other. Either way 1 star, Would not recommend.
pink_panda 3 years ago
Which one was the peaceful and which the traumatic? I'm glad you made it through both.
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Berry-Nice 3 years ago
I had a seizure and died. Twice. Both times the only way I can describe it was like it felt like they said in buffy the vampire slayer where she does and when she comes back she says death is like a black peace, like, warm, no worries, it was wonderful. And that's stuck with me ever since.
Rebecca O’Donnell 3 years ago
When my mother had a heart attack, she was “dead” for quite a bit of time. When the doctors revived her she said she was no longer afraid of death. I hope knowing this helps others as much as this has helped me deal with the death of those I’ve loved.
Rachel Reynolds 3 years ago
I was hit by a car and was dead for eight minutes. I remember walking though rolling green hills down to a stone circle. Before I could enter the circle my mom's voice (she had die two years prior) said "College first", which was something she said frequently while alive. I woke up after that. In my mind, all that took place in about twenty minutes. In reality it was three days later. I'm not sure when the dream/vision took place in that time span.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Most, but not all. There are accounts of near death experiences that were horrific, as if they were going to whatever/however their belief system described Hell. Definitely good motivation to come back and only do good things, because you may not be lucky enough to get a chance for a do-over a second time.
Evan Martin 3 years ago
There is a book called "After" by a guy named Bruce (something with an H haymond maybe) anyway he's a renowned psychiatrist who has studied near death experiences (NDE's) his entire career. It's beyond fascinating if you are looking for a good read or listen!
Jaybird3939 3 years ago
I'm not scared of death. I'm terrified about the way I'm going to die.
WordWeaver 3 years ago
I have had 3 NDE's, starting with one at birth. That's why I don't fear death - it's just a transition from the physical to the soul level of existence. Physical life is temporary, a chance at learning and making spiritual progress. Only love really matters, not the trappings like fame and fortune.
#48
In toddlers, their adult teeth are right underneath their eyes.
Donkey boi 3 years ago
To be more accurate, they are above the deciduous teeth, Some (Usually the upper front 6 teeth) are in the sinus area. Just google 'toddler panoramic x-ray' for a decent example. For a horror movie style nightmare just google 'toddler skull' and select images.
Sarah 3 years ago
If you want proper nightmare fuel, google "MRI baby", go to images and you will see why.
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Jon Steensen 3 years ago
you should see an xray of it, they are truely scary, and look a bit out of this world.
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I've actually seen a pic of child skull and all the teeth and it actually really freaked me the freak out!!!!!😳😳😳😳😳😳
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
I still have one of my baby teeth. Right above it is the adult tooth, which just couldn't get the oomph to kick the kid out. So, when I had to have a root canal to clean up an abcess, the dentist had to go sideways around the adult tooth. Dens in dente, tooth within a tooth.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Maybe that's why I act so silly sometimes, even though I'm nearly 73. 😁
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#49
The speed at which an insect can run is limited by its leg length.
Cockroaches have hind legs which are longer than the front four legs.
In some cockroach species, when running at full speed over flat ground, the front four legs leave the ground. The cockroach’s body acts like an aeroplane wing, flying just above the ground, kicking along with its back legs.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
I have fallen over furniture just running out of my house cause a roach started flying at me !
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Bon Jour 3 years ago
In Florida they are called Palmetto Bugs...... A quaint term for giant flying cockroach sometimes as big as your hand. They often crawl out of your sink drain and take two huge wacks from a size 12 shoe to kill them. I still get chills when thinking of them. So glad I moved back up north.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I remember those things they're huge. You can't even leave your pet food on the ground or you'll come out in the middle of the night turn on the light and a bunch of palmetto bugs will run from it. Just a tip I found that Windex with ammonia will kill them right away. And you don't have to hear that nasty crunch when you smash them.
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Debra Robinson 3 years ago
I swear the damn(usually bigass)things chase me!
Load More Replies... DrLivingstonipresume 3 years ago
I turned down full funding at a graduate program at FSU (Tallahassee) because of the roaches. In my hotel one flew into my head as I was falling a asleep and several skittered away when I turned on the bathroom light EXCEPT for one little b@stard that fell out of my brush as I combed my hair. It was a nice hotel, too!! I took an offer at a school in the Pacific Northwest...
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Like swimming furiously in the air on the surface of the floor.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
Cockroaches also have a special sensor on them that feels any slight shift of air. It's almost an instinctual reaction and they are off and running before they even know anything has happened for them to run from. They just take off. If you notice (and I hope you never do) you can often see roaches if you are merely walking into a room but if you had to open a door to get there, they are already on their way because the air pressure changed. They are evil and all need to die.
#50
Queen Elizabeth made the first transatlantic phone call as a teenager to her parents while traveling abroad.
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago (edited)
Sometimes 'facts' are not so factual, and just don't feel right. A short search tells me the first transatlantic phone call was in 1927 between AT&T in the US and the British General Post Office in London. The first long distance phone call unassisted by a telephone operator (called a trunk call) in England was indeed by Liz, from Bristol to Edinburgh in 1958. https://www.britishtelephones.com/histuk.htm
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
Queen Elizabeth is the only person in the entire world ever to have eaten a bar of chocolate made with cocoa grown in the UK.
#51
Rubbing a dog's ears releases endorphins that induce a feeling of calm and mellowness. It can even be used to reduce pain!
Ines Olabarria-Smith 3 years ago
Can you explain that to my five months old puppy? Sometimes she behaves a bites like a hellhound.
#52
The creation of a character in Star Trek Voyager to appeal to horny nerds directly lead to the election of President Barack Obama. The year is 1997. The third season of Star Trek: Voyager has come to an end, and the fourth season is about to begin. Ratings are beginning to flag, and the writers believe they know why. One of the greatest strengths of Star Trek is the inclusion of characters who aren’t human, but want to be, or are at least interested in studying the human condition. Spock in TOS, Data in TNG, Odo in DS9. Voyager had yet to really introduce such a character, so in the first episode of the fourth season, they introduce Seven of Nine, a former member of the Borg collective whose journey back to humanity formed the core of the emotional serialization of the remaining seasons of Voyager. This was a fantastic decision; Seven of Nine is a brilliantly-written character, and her blatant, shameless sex appeal drew a lot of eyes to the show. The back half is by far the best part of the series, and it’s due primarily to Jeri Ryan absolutely *nailing* the role. Jeri Ryan was, at that point, a relatively unknown actress, appearing in bit parts in TV shows here and there, most notably an 8-episode run of *Dark Skies*, in seventh billing. Voyager catapulted her to a household name (as long as the household had nerds in it), and to nominations and wins at the Satellite and Saturn Awards. At the time, she was married to a man named Jack Ryan, a partner at Goldman Sachs. She divorced him in 1999, a few years after joining the cast of Voyager. In 2004, Jack Ryan decided to run for the United States Senate. He did well, and won his state’s Republican primary. In the course of this run, Jack and Jeri’s divorce records became publicized, and the salaciousness of the contents were driven in no small part by Jeri’s fame and reputation as a sex symbol on Voyager. The records are public, and I invite you to peruse them, but long story short, they involved Jeri being put into sexual situations with which she was very uncomfortable, in public. The public-facing nature of both of their careers made this virtually impossible to bury. In the middle of the Illinois general election, Jack Ryan resigned the race. Ryan’s replacement in the race had no time to run any kind of campaign. As a result, his Democratic opponent, a young State Senator from Illinois’s 13th District, fresh off of a legendary speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, blew him out of the water, catapulting him to national renown. And the rest is history.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
I remember as an 18 year old watching the '04 DNC speech and telling my aunt and mom that I just watched our next('08)President. They laughed me out of the kitchen...
boone williams 3 years ago
The governor of AZ, and a friend of my dad's, came back from a governor's conference in '90 or so, saying he met the next POTUS, the then-governor of AR, one William Clinton
#53
Pineapple is the only food that eats you back! It is the only natural sourve of the enzyme Bromelain, which digests Protein. This is why your tongue tingles if you eat a lot of pineapple, or chew it slowly. Once swallowed, the enzyme is destroyed in the stomach.
smugdruggler 3 years ago
It's also why people that work processing pineapple have no fingerprints.
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
That explains why my skin burns if I handle fresh pineapple. I thought I had an allergy
#54
The girl who played Ducky in a land before time has "yep yep yep" on her tombstone
Minath 3 years ago
I'm glad they put that on her gravestone. I haven't been able to watch the film since I heard about what happened to her.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
God the story of what happened to Judith Barsi is awful. And her mother was killed as well. :(
Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
For others who do not know, she was killed—along with her mother—by her own father. He killed himself after shooting them.
#55
Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln's presidency than his own.
martin734 3 years ago
Because Abraham Lincoln was president 77 years before Joe Biden was born. Joe Biden didn't become president until 78 years after he was born.
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#56
There are more fake, plastic flamingos for sale, than there are living flamingos on the planet
Lara Verne 3 years ago
Well, I would like to have living flamingos in my garden, but they would fly away....My fake flamingos are made from metal, though
#57
The man who killed John Wilkes Booth cut off his own testicles with scissors
Tmartin105 3 years ago
Boston Corbett. He was a little bit of a mad hatter (literally) and devoutly christian. He castrated himself to free himself of sexual urges that may undermine his religious beliefs.
Unnamed Hooman 3 years ago
Oh gosh the amount of pain and blood… Imagine what the doctors would think…
InfectedVoiceBox 3 years ago
So did a guy in Wales when they beat England in the rugby in 2005.
#58
Goldish don't have 2 seconds memories, some can remember a face for years
Grudge-holding Treefrog 3 years ago
Mine would come up to the surface of his tank for belly rubs. I miss him
#59
Everyone starts off their life as an a*****e: humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb the b******e forms before any other opening.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
Because we'll never be grown-ups in a world full of advertisers and lawyers.
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🎵 We're you born an a*****e, or did you work at it your whole life? 🎶
#60
The skin that makes up your lips is the same type of skin as that on your b****hole.
D. Pitbull 3 years ago
This... would very much explain some people I know... Not only did they not mature past the "starting life as a b***thole" stage... but ALSO retained that same skin for their mouths. Huh.
Hiram's Friend 3 years ago
When you tongue kiss, you are sticking your tongue in the open end of a twenty foot tube, the other end of which is full of guess what.
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The tissue of the inside of your mouth is the same as the intestines. I was told this when I was being taught how to properly look after my stoma.
Monday 3 years ago
Tissue inside our mouths is similar to the tissue inside of vaginas too.
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#61
To keep with the bear theme, I work at a zoo. We have 4 different bears. Bear 1 is Hope. She is a European Brown Bear and is I believe in her 20s (I’m fuzzy on the ages). She may seem gentle but she’s absolutely the meanest of our bears. She is also very picky about her food. All the bears get fed mostly fruit with some dry food (similar to dog food) mixed in. She hates melons. She won’t eat food if it has even touched a melon. Bear 2 is Louie. Louie is a black bear and lives next to hope. I’m not quite sure about his age but the fun fact about Louie is that he has a crush on hope. Some bears make a humming noise to try to attract mates and Louie can be heard doing that for hope. He also puts his paws through the fence to try to hold her paw. Often hope will swat him away or ignore him but sometimes she allows him some affection. Louie also hibernates the longest of the bears. Bears 3 and 4 are Ringo and Frankie. Ringo and Frankie are the sons of Hope. They’re currently about 8 years old and live together separate from Hope. We suspect their dad is a grizzly bear because they are much larger than Hope. During the summer they have a pool (all the bears have pools but hope and Louie don’t use theirs often). During hot days you can see the two bears in their pool play fighting. They also like putting rocks in the pool.
#62
Fire smells different depending on how far from the flame your face is.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
For example, if you get only few centimeters from the flame, it smells like burned hair.
Elliot Fowler 3 years ago
If is doesn't smell like anything it means your face is too close to the fire and your nose has already melted.
#63
Chimpanzees have been discovered hunting gorillas with spears.
phil blanque 3 years ago
It is well documented that chimpanzees use tools and have hunting tools they carry with them: rocks for opening nuts and sticks. But the sticks are for capturing ants and termites....NOT 800 pound gorillas!!!!
K- THULU 3 years ago
I'd probably like some evidence if this ....cause it sounds like absolute c**p...
Ray Heap 3 years ago
Nope, use your google-fu. There is a picture of a orangutan hunting fish with a spear.
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Gatorade was developed for the Florida Gators football team, hence the name.
David Martin 3 years ago
And from what I understand, nobody thought to chill it originally, and so gave it to the players luke warm. All in all, it's a miracle it ever took off
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The playstation ToS include a phrase that prohibits them from being used as a control system for missiles. Sound stupid, but that actually happened. Some countries military (USA maybe?) realized that the playstation (I think it was the PS2) was a powerhouse in terms of computing power, way above anything even several price classes higher. So they connected a couple dozen of them, and ran their missile control system with that.
Jon Steensen 3 years ago
... and they are readily available, which makes sourcing them in case of an emergency that much easier than some specialised chip specially develloped for a very specific purpose.
Debra Robinson 3 years ago (edited)
Computer voice: "Do you want to play a game?" Some or many might know this line from a certain 80s movie.
#66
Greater stick-nest rats, an Australian native rodent, glue its nests together using urine, which dries like cement.
#67
The average human head will pop off with three full turns.
Vinchenski 3 years ago
I don't think the direction of motion matters in this instance...
Load More Replies... Ozymandias73 3 years ago
3 full turns. So I'd imagine the starting point would be face forward then twist 3x and pop goes the weasel.
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Barnacles have penises 7x larger than the rest of their body.
#69
Penguin eggs turn transparent when hard boiled.
Tarcandor 3 years ago
Once upon a time, we used penguins as firewood, so boiling one of their eggs isn't that far fetched......
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Jon Steensen 3 years ago
A sailor who were lost at sea, but ended up stranded on an Iland with pretty much nothing but penguins, perhaps?
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Fun Fact - Ancient Egyptians used Crocodile and Alligator s**t as a contraceptive.
Nicky 3 years ago
And it works - would you mate with anyone covered in croc or alligator dung?
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
The presence of the crocodile or alligator would be enough to end that session of intimacy
Load More Replies... Seedy Vine 3 years ago
"Hey, look what's coming out of that animal... maybe I'll put it up inside of me." Seriously, how have we survived ourselves?
Ian Webling 3 years ago
Fun fact - An ancient Egyptian would have had to travel all the way to China to see an alligator.
#71
Walt Disney and Walter Knott, the founder of Knott's Berry Farm, were actually friends. Disney got a lot of his inspiration for Frontierland from Knott's ghost town. In the movie A Bug's Life, in the scene towards the end where the ants are fighting back and Heimlich pops his head out from his body, he says "mmmmm boysenberry." This is the berry that Knott's is most famous for and is a possible reference to the park. Source: I worked there. Knott's Berry Farm started with the ghost town and was created because the lines for his wife's famous fried chicken were excruciatingly long. As you can imagine, hungry people plus long waits for food tend to make people upset, so Knott's came up with the idea of a working ghost town to keep people entertained. Everything there is fully functioning, from the livery to the blacksmith. Knott's Scary Farm is considered the first haunt event and has been going on since 1973. However, when it started, it was a two or three day event and later became a month long affair due to its popularity. (I did a year there) The rollercoaster Montezuma's Revenge has recently been made a landmark.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
Man I might seem old but I miss Knotts Camp Snoopy at old MOA. When I was a kid my 8 year old associate posed for a pic with Snoopy, punched him in the gut/gnads, and Snoopy keeled over. I felt bad for the costume person but it's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
#72
I was born with an undescended testicle. Usually you will have a surgery to repair it at 12 months. My parents did f**k all until my preschool wouldn't accept me without a two year check up. Where my pediatrician discovered I never had the surgery. So now I had it very late at 3 years old, and it caused them to do some damage to my right testicle getting it through the pass without breaking anything. It caused it to not grow as expected, and as thus is about 1/4th the size of my left testicle. If I suck in my gut, my testicle goes right back up into my public bone area and you can see it clearly. Unethical life pro tip: Since this has happened, I've used it to show my management a picture of a "hernia" and taking all my PTO before quitting without questions. Edit: To clarify, I did not HAVE to show a picture of my "hernia". Policy for more than three days of consecutive absences requires a doctor's note to return to work. Basically a "clearance" to return. I obviously wasn't having surgery, so I'd just show them and nobody ever questioned why I needed time off after that.
#73
1 field mouse has the caloric equivalent of 2 pizza rolls .
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
Bet pizza rolls taste better. Edit: stupid autocorrect changed bet to but. Sorry for the confusion. Have changed it now.
Corey Smith 3 years ago
You shouldn't have changed it. It was better that way:)
Load More Replies... Zedrapazia 3 years ago
Then how can my cat catch so many mice per day, eat them and the food I provide her, and still have a better figure than the other cat who's too derpy to catch a mouse?
#74
The occupied space of atoms is very small. The vast majority of EVERYTHING is the empty space between protons and electrons. The occupied space in an atom is roughly 0.0000000000004 %
#75
Ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises, as do some other animals.
User# 6 3 years ago
So, the next time you have a riverside picknick and want to open a bottle of wine, you know what to do.
Donnie Mc00 3 years ago
very handy when you need to open a bottle of wine near the lake. first you have to excite the duck though.
TKA 3 years ago
And if drakes (male ducks) mate with chickens they can kill them slowly after some time because chickens don’t have penetrative sex, but ducks do. Ducks will mate with chickens if they don’t have enough female ducks and if they do, they still might mate with chickens. Their penises also fall off in the fall like deer antlers do. You’re welcome!
#76
In 1985 a Serbian farmer stuck a beer bottle up his a*s, wide end first. This sparked a chain of events that eventually led to the collapse of Yugoslavia. [Further reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87_incident?wprov=sfti1)
#77
You could thread fishing wire through your tear duct and out your bumhole. They’re connected, and fishing wire is thin enough.
Jill Rhodry 3 years ago
I suppose this makes sense - your tear duct drains to your nose and the back of your nose drains down your throat which obviously goes to your digestive system.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Careful how you hold back a fart or you could give someone the stink eye.
#78
Almost all mammals take around the same time to urinate
#79
You will never be stung by a male hornet. They are very docile, and don't even have stingers, since that really is an ovipositor.
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
For everyone who's not that versed with insects: an ovipositor is something like the "egg laying channel" of the insect (all bees, wasps, bumbles and hornets have that). However, only the worker females have it genetically modified to carry a toxin and sting. Males don't have a sting at all (since they can't lay eggs either), and neither can queens (at least in most species) which makes it harmless to pick them up and carry them around.
#80
Maya Rudolph's mom is singer Minnie Riperton.
#81
Capybara spend so much time in the water the Catholic Church allows their consumption during Lent classifying them as aquatic like fish.
Minath 3 years ago
The Catholic Church are very good at changing the rules to suit themselves.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Catholic church allows consumption of beaver tail. Not whole beaver, that is meat, but the tail is fish.
#82
Leonardo Da Vinci was the first person to correctly conclude that a human erection is caused by blood. Before him, everybody thought that it was air, and that a strong breeze could cause an erection. [Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721040/) Edit* I guess I should have phrased that differently lol. People used to think that erections were ‘powered’ by air, rather than blood. ***Here is some more info for those who don’t believe how little we knew about the human body up until quite recently. For example, the first World Congress on Impotence was held in Paris in 1984. Here is a little excerpt from *Physiology of Penile Erection-A Brief History of the Scientific Understanding up till the Eighties of the 20th Century* ``Introduction: Understanding the physiology of penile erection is important for all who work in the field of sexual medicine. Aim: The aim of this study was to highlight and analyze historical aspects of the scientific understanding of penile erection. Methods: (i) Review of the chapters on the physiology of erection out of the author's collection of books dealing with male sexual functioning published in the German, French, Dutch, and English language in between 1780 and 1940. (ii) Review of the topic “physiology of penile erection” of relevant chapters of Classical writings on erectile dysfunction. An annotated collection of original texts from three millennia, including the study of all relevant references mentioned in these books. Main Outcome Measure: The main outcome measure used for the study was the scientific understanding of the physiology of penile erection. Results: In Antiquity, Galen considered penile erection as the result the accumulation of air. His ideas so dominated medieval medicine that nearly everyone then alive was a Galenist. The beginning of the Renaissance shows meaningful examples of experimental scientific work on the penis. Da Vinci correctly concluded that erections were caused by blood, and in the 18th century, Von Haller from Switzerland was the first who explained that erections were under the control of the nervous system. In the 19th century, a mindset that emphasized on experimentation determined a new direction, namely experimental physiology. Animal studies clarified that stimulation of the nervi erigentes‐induced small muscle relaxation in the corpora cavernosa. Nearly all were published in the German language. That may be one of the reasons that the existence of the concept of smooth muscle relaxation remained controversial until the first World Congress on Impotence in 1984 in Paris. Conclusions: As the Renaissance's innovative research defined neural and vascular physiologic phenomena responsible for penile erection. The concepts from animal experimentations in Europe in the 19th century significantly contributed to the current understanding of penile erection. van Driel MF. Physiology of penile erection—a brief history of the scientific understanding up till the eighties of the 20th century. Sex Med 2015;3:343–351.`` [That Source](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283960026_Physiology_of_Penile_Erection-A_Brief_History_of_the_Scientific_Understanding_up_till_the_Eighties_of_the_20th_Century)
Donkey boi 3 years ago
You say it's blood not air/wind, and yet... if you blow it, it will get hard...
Minath 3 years ago
I never understood why it was called a blow job when there was little to no blowing involved.
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#83
There was an experiment once to see how hope affects animals with higher intelligences, and they tested this by drowning mice. Mice that were put in a bucket of water drowned in something like 2 minutes. However, mice that were taken out after about a minute and a half, were given a chance to rest, and then were put back in the bucket? Lasted close to 50 hours.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
Please can someone explain to me WHY we need to know how hope affects animals? Pretty cruel to drown mice unnecessarily.
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago (edited)
I can answer this! Firstly, the mice weren't being drowned, they were just treading water (which they can do for a very long time), and the researchers were looking at HOW the mice stayed afloat - did they tread water while looking for an escape route or did they do it just to float and survive until they were rescued? It shows coping strategy in the face of inescapable adversity, which is selectively modulated by drugs with antidepressant properties. So anyway, normal mice will be very active for the first 5-15 minutes in water, then will slow down and begin to just float and wait to be rescued. However, when the mice were rescued after 2 minutes (while they were still actively seeking escape), they learned that the bucket was escapable. So when they went back in they were much more persistent than normal mice about trying to escape. This is meaningful to humans because it's hard to keep trying to say, escape poverty through hard work, or leave an abusive and controlling partner...
Load More Replies... Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
They're not being *drowned*; they are treading water. Mice can tread water for up to 3 days and rats for 24 hours.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
In an ironic twist, these mice torturers have taken my last shred of hope away!
Ivan Praba 3 years ago
my MIL got big aquarium, mouse fell down in it accidentally, the mf swam in it for 2 days until i came to visit and got rid of it, my mil lives with my sil and they both terrified of mouse and just ignore it haha
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Dodo 2 years ago
I simultaneously want and absolutely do not want more information on the 'chainsaws were created for childbirth' fact...
Tacet 3 years ago
Microwaves first use to deliberately heat something, the grandfather to your microwave oven, was by Professor James Lovelock an independent scientist, who used them to evenly reheat recently frozen solid guinea pigs and revive them. He also came up the the environmental Gaia theory and died yesterday 26/07/22 at 103.
Dodo 2 years ago
I simultaneously want and absolutely do not want more information on the 'chainsaws were created for childbirth' fact...
Tacet 3 years ago
Microwaves first use to deliberately heat something, the grandfather to your microwave oven, was by Professor James Lovelock an independent scientist, who used them to evenly reheat recently frozen solid guinea pigs and revive them. He also came up the the environmental Gaia theory and died yesterday 26/07/22 at 103.
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