Sometimes, reading some interesting information at work is just what you need to take your brain cells for a walk and get the creative juices pumping. Fortunately, that’s exactly what the /r/FunFacts subreddit provides - safe-for-work interesting facts!
If your boss catches you scrolling this post or the aforementioned subreddit, consider telling them that this is just what you needed to jog your productivity. In fact, there’s a new fact for that as well - when your brain learns new information, it forms new neuronal connections, and the more it does this, the better it gets at it. That’s called neuroplasticity.
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Fun Fact: There's A Service Called "Cleaning For A Reason" In The U.s And Canada That Cleans The Houses Of Women With Cancer For Free So They Can Focus On Their Health
It is! My family's housecleaning business donates our services to this charity :) It's really great! They DON'T just donate cleaning time to women, though - they donate to all genders of cancer patients, with any sort of cancer - and they donate to people in hospice care and recovery care too, not just people in active treatment.
Load More Replies...Seeing as women vastly outnumber men on average when it comes to being the parent/partner who takes care of the majority of household cleaning chores.... no, no it is not sexist. That aside, this "fact" is worded incorrectly - Cleaning For A Reason donates time to all genders of cancer patients, not just women with cancer. My family's housecleaning business has donated our services to this charity before, and not all of our recipients were female.
Load More Replies...In Australia, if you have a variety of medical conditions or disabilities you are probably eligible for free cleaning services through allied health services.
Is there something like this in Canada for Seniors who are sick, not rich and too weak to clean?
The black girl with pink sunglasses in the back right is the coolest person there. Prove me wrong.
Fun Fact:
I have seen this multiple times here on BP however it brings a smile to my face everytime I see it .
Just as well it wasn't in the US where she's have been thrown to the ground, stomped, and then shot first.
You've got it wrong. The US police only kill people of color. *sarcasm* *facepalm*
Load More Replies...Did she do the finger printing....and the mug shot (Turn to the left.....)....Face forward.....If always see it in movies....
In the U.S., the cops would have beat her to death to maximize the experience.
The process by which your brain actually learns these facts is an interesting and not entirely intuitive one. Let’s dig in.
Most people know that our brain consists primarily of neurons. These cells link to one another with synapses, forming a dense network of connections that send signals through the brain and onwards throughout our bodies. At a basic level, these are the cells that embody the information we learn.
Fun Fact : In Switzerland It Is Illegal To Own Just One Guinea Pig . This Is Because Guinea Pigs Are Social Animals, And They Are Considered Victims Of Abuse If They Are Alone
I have two adorable piggies that are besties <3 took one to a vet one time and the other was depressed for the entire half hour.🥲
It's also a horrible trap. Trust me. First you have two Guinea Pigs. But then one dies and you're a good person so you get another little Guinea Pig to keep the older one company one company. Then the older one dies. So you get another. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. I've been waiting for a double heart attack for seventeen years and counting. I've been watching a lot of shows with flashing lights. No heart attacks so far. I actually think they dig manga now.
This is exactly the cycle I was thinking would happen!
Load More Replies...These laws apply in the UK for any social animal including rabbits and guinea pigs. A suitable social group is considered essential for the welfare of these species.
Our kitty rescue won't let people adopt just one kitten. You have to adopt two or already havee a friendly cat at homee.
In 1850 Dmitri Mendeleev Walked Almost A Thousand Miles To Moscow So He Could Apply For The University Of Moscow. Although He Was Not Accepted, He Walked To St. Petersburg Where He Was Accepted, And With That Education, He Developed The Periodic Table Of The Elements
And people made fun of him. He - or someone else - mentioned the analogy the periodic systems carries in regard to music, where each octave, the same tones and intervalls repeat, but with twice the frequency, ... but any F# will have an A as minor-third, so given an F# as base, any and every A is the minor third and acts as such, as well as any and every C# is and acts as a fifth and so on ... Silicone can be made into the same structures as C in a molecule (it's not that truly EVERYTHING could work out with C replaced by Si, but ... some ... 4 vacancies on the outer shell, the results thereof, ... interaction with mass and bond energies cause the deviation, ...) and such, ... people are said to have barked "then, let your atoms sing a song for you!" in an attempt to make fun of what he discovered. Oh my, people suck. People really suck - at least, the benefit of not being disproven should be granted to every idea ... and, keep in mind - at the time this was disregarded by other chemists, the vast majority of even biologists were still believing in a creation myth being the origin of life, species and a never discovered soul that is said to be exclusively issued to humans. Which ... well ... well ... THAT, fun may be made of unhesitantly, because funny is the best this could ever even dare to attempt to wish to be.
When your neuronal connections fire in certain patterns, those connections are strengthened and reinforced, and those reinforced pathways become the basis of all of our knowledge.
This is, of course, a gross oversimplification. Our brains contain lobes and segments that are specialized towards different parts of our thinking processes, but at a basic level, we have neural pathways criss-crossing those regions of the brain that form the basis for what we know.
A Deck Of Poker Cards Has A Metaphysical Meaning: 52 Cards - 52 Weeks A Year, 4 Suits - Seasons, 13 Cards Of The Same Suit - 13 Phases Of The Lunar Cycle. If You Add Up All The Values of The Cards In The Game Deck, You Get 365 Days (Including The Joker). The Second Joker Is A Leap Year
This sounds like what a kid would invent to put in a homework they forgot that was due to the next day. Extremely cool anyway
Yeah, I got the same impression. It is a remarkable coincidence, but the narrative sounds like bs to me. People love to look for connections and often find them where none exist.
Load More Replies...The modern deck of playing cards is based on Tarot cards - hence the symbolism.
You should hear about the deep meaning behind the Bicycle deck design. We're talking Illuminati level stuff!
Ooooh. Wow. Guess that's a bit too coincidental to be an accidental thing...
Because there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are grains of sand on a beach, or so I believe.
Load More Replies...The 52-card playing deck is based on the original 78-card Tarot deck. Fun fact: since there are 78! (78 factorial, about 1.132428e+115) combinations of cards in a Tarot deck, that means it's vanishingly unlikely that any two people will ever have exactly the same fate. You are truly unique!
Fact:
It's also very freakin' light and then somehow suddenly very freakin' dark. I'm not sure endlessly vacillating between two hellish realities is worth what I'd save in calamine lotion. ETA. I just got back from Winnipeg, MB. I take it all back, I'm now Bella-Cose Jacobsdaughter.
Load More Replies...Let me be the party pooper: yes, there are no mosquitos there BUT A TON OF MIDGES. These relentless bloodthirsty little shîts will suck you dry in certain regions like Myvatn (literally Midges Lake) and their bites itch as hell. Only good thing about midges, I haven't heard so far that they spread diseases... but Iceland is absolutely beautiful in a very unique way.
Damn....I was just about to pack my suitcase!
Load More Replies...Antartica is a Continent, not a country
Load More Replies...Fun Fact: A Black Robin Named Old Blue Became The Mother Of Her Entire Species When She Was The Last Fertile Female In A Group Of 5 Robins. There Are Now Over 250 Black Robins On The Chatham Islands, And Have Raised Their Status From Critically Endangered To Endangered
"All of the surviving black robins are descended from 'Old Blue', giving little genetic variation among the population and creating the most extreme population bottleneck possible. However, this does not seem to have caused inbreeding problems, leading to speculation that the species has passed through several such population reductions in its evolutionary past, and has lost any alleles that could cause deleterious inbreeding effects."
Load More Replies...Well we have all heard of mother of dragons....Here I introduce you to the mother of Robins!
Neuroplasticity, then, is our brain’s ability to learn new information and revise things we’ve learned before. The greater your neuroplasticity, presumably, the more likely you will be to remember more of the cool facts on this list!
In reality, that’s not the only thing that determines your capacity to learn. Learning can be reinforced by many other factors, a couple of significant ones being repetition and emotion. This one sounds like common sense when you think about it - you’re more likely to remember the facts that shocked you, made you smile, or interested you the most.
A Picture Of Dr. Religa Monitoring His Patient's Vitals After Completing A 23-Hour-Long Heart Transplant. At The Bottom Is A Picture Of The Same Patient, 30 Years Later. He Managed To Outlive His Doctor
You can also see his exhausted assistant passed-out/asleep in the corner of the room
The above photo is a famous one. I've seen it numerous time around the internet.
It’s shocking to me that we are capable of replacing a human heart and having it be successful to lead out the rest of a normal aged life. It’s mind blowing. Get one wrong cut from a knife on a regular day and you can bleed out and die but this, this is possible, to replace your heart. We are so fragile but then this! Mind blown!
If the doctor made a habit of this, it's no wonder the patient outlived him.
Armadillos Can Hold Their Breath For Up To Six Minutes And Are Known To Walk Underwater To Cross Streams!
they're cool little animals and DO NOT get the respect they deserve - not unlike opossums
The Eggplant Is Called The Eggplant Because When It Is Young It Looks Like An Egg
I think that comes from french, but I don't know where the french word comes from, so...💀
Load More Replies..."The French and the British (copying the French), call eggplants aubergine, which is derived from the Sanskrit word vatinganah (literally, “anti-wind vegetable”)"
Load More Replies...Nope. The eggplant is one variety of aubergine that looks like an egg. The americans just got ridd of the word "aubergine" to call everything eggplant
I assume the reason "eggplant" was chosen as a name is still because of the variety that looks like an egg.
Load More Replies...So why does Europe insist on calling them Aubergines then when Eggplant actually has a logical reason to be a label?
Fun Fact:
The phrase is " kill you" Getting really tired of this unalive bullsh it.
I've been there! It's actually a really cool place, and there are lots of safety measures to make sure nothing happens!
Because, apparently, the state of being dead, if not as a result of natural causes is too shocking for our sensitivities.
Load More Replies...I remember reading an article about this. It mentioned a plant called White Baneberry, or the Doll's Eye Plant, it got it's name due tp berries that resemble eyes. I eventually got to see one in the wild, whcih was very cool.
There's a garden in England dedicated entirely to plants that are deadly and can fückin' MÚRDER you.
BP won’t allow the word dy I don’t think. So they say unalive. I’ve seen this often on here on posts [unalive] like that. At least that’s the conclusion I came to.
Load More Replies...Fun Fact: Don't Get Bitten By A Chinese Water Deer
When not sucking the blood of innocents, what evolutionary purpose do/did those fangs serve?
The males (the females don't have much to speak of) use them to fight other males and to scent-mark their territory by using them to hold on to thin trees and rub their preorbital glands against them. The teeth are movable and can be pulled inward to eat and outward for aggressive encounters. Water deer - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_deer
Load More Replies...i have never been scaried of a deer before but there is a first time for everything
As we mentioned earlier, learning new facts is one way to maintain your neuroplasticity! In addition to that, this great article on Healthline has a few other fun ways to improve your neuroplasticity (which, you guessed it - tends to degrade as we get older):
- Video games
- Learning a new language
- Creating music
- Traveling
- Exercise
- Creating art
Fun Fact: A Rural Japanese Town Under Siege By Monkeys Is Defended By Three Elderly Women Armed With Airguns Who Call Themselves The “Monkey Busters”
They can defend the village without having to kill anything. Airguns still hurt, not as much as a real gun though.
Load More Replies...Fun Fact:
Yes. Many insects use pheromones and chemicals to communicate amongst themselves. Haven't you ever picked up a caterpillar or a ladybug as a kid and had it barf out nasty-smelling "defense chemicals" on your fingers? XD
Load More Replies...The Meaning Of The Greek Word "Cerberus" Is "Spotted" So Technically Hades' Dog's Name Is "Spot"
... as 2 in 3 dachshunds don't bite, you've got quite a chance to get away with it, or get bitten twice. Or, the boring outcome happens.
Load More Replies...1 the title is amazing 2 omg I want a multipoo cerberus
In Greek mythology, Cerberus (Κέρβερος) is a very ugly big dog with three heads that guards the gates of Hades (Άδης) to prevent the dead from leaving. Hades is the Underworld, the world of the dead.
I've seen him represented as a Rottweiler. More threatening than that Dachshund.
That is why Spot was such a popular dog name back in the day. The old learning to read books. See Spot run.
Fun Fact: LEGO’s The Largest Tire Manufacturer In The World
Whatevs. All I know for sure is that when I step on them with my bare feet, it hurts like h*ll.
This is defiantly not correct, Lego do not make large tyres. So how can they possible make the largest tyre in the world?
Fun Fact: Ethan Zuckerman, The Man Who Invented Pop-Up Ads, Apologized To The World For Unintentionally Creating One Of The Internet’s Most Hated Forms Of Advertising
He doesn't look remotely sorry... just needs a fluffy white cat on his lap
You got that right! Along with popups when you run your mouse over an area. Hate them. Hate them!
He looks more like the kinda guy who would create way more suspect content on the internet...
In 1985, After An 8.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hit Mexico City, Nearly All Newborn Babies Survived A Collapsed Hospital. They Are Known As "Miracle Babies" For Surviving 7 Days Without Nourishment, Water, Warmth Or Human Contact
I wonder if that will have long-term effect on their development - even though they won't remember it. Those are a very crucial seven days to go without any contact.
They fell into a hibernation-like sleep, so it's also possible that there was no psychological damage.
Load More Replies...It was find out that newborn babies can go in an hibernation of sorts if left alone and cold, to save energy. That must have been a great survival skill in the stone age, for example if the mother died during the birth and no other nursing mother was available.
One of those babies grew up and eventually was my history teacher, she was really cool
Poor Guy
Poor blob fish isn't blob. It's names after its dead body :(
Imagine aliens giving us a nickname for how we look after being dragged out to space
Load More Replies...Now I feel bad for making fun of him the first time I saw the second image
I hope fish actually don't feel pain, but there is no f*****g way this isn't uncomfortable at least for the poor guys.
Why do they naturally look like Giant versions of Stonefish? Is it relation or Convergence.
Fun Fact: Research Shows That Some Fish Eggs Remain Alive Even After Being Swallowed By Mallards, A Breed Of Ducks. These Eggs Then Come Out As The Ducks’ Poop And Hatch When They Find Water Again. This Explains How Some Fishes Emerge In Ponds And Pools Without A Hint
Which fish eggs? Don't just say some fish eggs. Tell us which fish, please.
We found tiny bass, under 2 inches, in the ditches behind the barn. There was no other way for them to have gotten there but from birds pooping eggs.
that explains a LOT! makes sense tho - seeds do that too - keeps genetic diversity ongoing. Nature is truly amazing
Found On Insta
She had to sit down for a bit in the middle of the shoot, as she was pregnant at the time and got quite tired.
what's even more amazing is Columbia pictures has been using this logo since 1936
They’ve revamped it several times over the years
Load More Replies...No, i think the camera had a different angle than the one used to shoot the photo.
Load More Replies...Fun Fact:
Yes, it's real. Here's some information from the University of Nebraska. https://entomology.unl.edu/scilit/medicinal#:~:text=In%20some%20cultures%2C%20ants%20were,mouth%20pinching%20the%20skin%20together.
Load More Replies...The problem with this idea, or anything used to close a wound, is that without antibiotics it is usually better to leave the wound open and have it cleaned frequently to avoid infection rather than closing it and creating an ideal environment for microbes.
Wouldn't that depend on how big the wound was?
Load More Replies...IIRC there was a physician in India who pioneered using ant pincers as sutures... 2000 years ago.
Thanks but I rather keep my wound very open and disgusting :)
You can see this even happen in the movie Apocalypto. Great movie directed by Mel Gibson! Pay attention the scene when the mom and toddler son are inside the well and the son got a bad abrasion that needed stitches.
Saw this in the movie apocalypto.. always wondered if it was legit.. seemed really cool
“Fun Fact “ Koalas Have Fingerprints That Are Almost Indistinguishable From Human Fingerprints
That's gotta make outdoor Australian crime scenes (near a population of koalas) frustrating to process.
That human fingerprint is genuinely nearly identical to mine idk if I'm stupid and all fingerprints look like this or this is like uncanny
This Is A Piranha. Contrary To Popular Belief, They Almost Never Attack Humans (Unless Crazy Starved). I Work At An Aquarium And Clean Their Tank While They Are In There (About 12 Of Them). Quite The Scaredy-Cats, Actually. Won't Go Anywhere Near Something Living As Large As A Human
It takes a special type of idiot to go into a piranha enclosure while injured and bleeding
Load More Replies...Piranhas were a legit fear when I was a child in the late 70’s. My friends and I were scared of them. We lived in upstate New York, by the way. And only swam in pools. But any natural body of water could have piranhas or quick sand. I have no idea where these fears came from.
I seem to remember a ton of movies back then where people were constantly falling into quicksand and being eaten by piranhas. It was a dangerous time for kids! We were sure that those terrifying fish would swim upstream from South America to Lake Ontario and decimate New York State!
Load More Replies...My stepdad almost lost a finger to one. He was blind and one day, walking across our gravel driveway, stepped on what I thought was a large boulder. Not wanting it to damage a car, he bent down to pick it up to toss it off the driveway. Then *snap* 🐢. He came in the house with it still dangling off his fing "um... need a little help here"
Load More Replies..."Number 2, cancel the piranhas and get me some of those Chinese water deer but with lasers on their head" -90s movie villain
Also, piranhas also have been known to eat drowned bodies, which has also led to the rumours of them attacking people.
My idiot brother got bitten in the thumb when he reached in a bucket with piranha. He only had some bite Marks:-(
There are different breeds of piranhas so this statement isn't quite true. There are some breeds that are very into eating meat like humans and if they smell blood, it makes them go crazy just like what you see in the movies. Whoever posted this so-called fun fact, needs to know their facts first before trying to tell the world and someone gets badly hurt.
Makes me think of the scene in an Ice Age movie. Sid the sloth was bathing three baby dinosaurs in a river that had piranha in it. One looked underwater, saw the piranha (that in turn saw it), opened their jaws, and then the dinosaur opened IT'S jaws, and the fish all panicked and ran! Hahahaha
There Once Lived A Viking Called Harald Bluetooth. He Was Called That Because He Loved Blueberries. The Bluetooth Technology We Know Nowadays, Has Been Named After Him. And The Symbol Are The Runic H And B Put Together
Bluetooth was not a viking, he was a christian king. While one theory about his name claims he had a love for blueberries, which I find very wholesome, another more crass theory is that he just had bad teeth and bruised gums.
Viking was a job, not a religion or ethnicity. You could be viking and christian at the same time. Or believe in norse religion. Or both. You could be norse, saami, or even mongolian (there were mongolian vikings!). Most people didn't actually viking for a living, they were farmers. Simple, boring farmers. Just went on viking when money was running low.
Load More Replies...Why not? But for real: "The Bluetooth company name was taken from the nickname of a Viking king who ruled during the 10th century and is credited with originally uniting Scandinavia." Bluetooth makes wireless connections possible, so why not name a company after a king that united people? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bluetooth-etymology/ and https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/
Load More Replies...He had a dead tloth that was blue that os why je was called blie tooth. Not because he liked Blueberries 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
The name was more likely 'black thane' rather than 'bluetooth'. Blue and Black was the same word in old norse. Thane being the kings representative managing his lands.
Sounds odd because blueberries should make your teeth read, not blue, because they are blue only on the outside.
Ever notice that the Bluetooth logo, if rotated 90° to the right, looks like a pair of teeth with antennas?
Narwhals Tusks Are Actually Teeth, Can Grow Up To 10 Ft, And Can Bend Up To A Foot To One Side Without Breaking. Their Purpose Is Still Not Well Understood. Some Narwhals Do Not Have Tusks. Their Skin Is Very Rich In Vitamin C, The Same As An Orange By Weight. There Are None In Captivity
Don't even joke about that please. Some ridiculous "influencer" will try it and post it on tik tok!
Load More Replies...Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. The reason there are none in captivity is because they die.
Causing a commotion, Because they are so awesome!!
Load More Replies...Whoot!! None in captivity and idiots aren't hunting them for 'unicorn horns' anymore (right? Oh please tell me ...) - and to that salesperson who tried to scoff at me that Narwhals aren't real and thought I was an idiot... Well, who's laughin' now?
Well, among other things, the tusks are used for breaking up sea ice when the narwhals get stuck far from an open channel. Presumably polar bears, which have the opposite problem, would hate narwhals if they could grok what was happening.
🎶 Narwhals, Narwhals, swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion! 🎶
Fun Fact: There’s A Species Of Sheep That Has Two Pairs Of Horns Called Jacob Sheep. They Are One Of Very Few Species Of Sheep To Have Multiple Pairs Of Horns. Here’s A Picture Of Its Skull:
My parents kept Jacobs. They can have 2, 4, or 6 horns. They're normally pretty small on the females. This is likely a fairly old ram.
greetings, tim the enchanter!
Load More Replies...They can have up to 6 horns. Their wool is really cool because instead of being the same color all over they're a mix of brown, white, grey, and black.
And, when young, they can get all these horns stuck through fences in a wide variety of angles!!
Fun Fact. Did You Know?
And surely its a smaller % difference
Load More Replies...I'm going need to the data on this experiment -- I think it is "fake news". This would be a good MythBusters segment if they were still making TV episodes.
It’s a fake fact from YouTuber jacksfilms. He did a series called “fake facts” and made up s**t to trick people.
Load More Replies...Actually depends on the coin. With practice, you can also learn the right amount of flick required to get the side you want.
Now I know what to say whenever someone flips a coin, I like saying tails tho bc of Sonic
This is a fake fact from one of jacksfilms’ videos on YouTube. He made fake facts to trick people. You’ve been bamboozled!
wouldn't this depend on the specific coin/currency? They're not all the same, after all.
Actually, if you know the weight of the coin, how high to toss it, and how many spins it will make on the way down, you can foretell 100% of the time if the coin will land heads or tails. There are magicians who can do this, so never enter into a coin tossing contest with a magician. Or anyone else who knows physics.
There's A Town In Texas Named "Earth" On Earth!
New conspiracy theory: unlocked- earth was made in 1924
Is this a long-term version of Last Thursdayism? Last Centuryism?
Load More Replies...I have heard that Texans tend to be a little arrogant. This makes it seem true.
If You Hold The Head Of A Chicken Still And Draw A Straight Line While Chicken Is Looking At It, It Will Be Hypnotized
The real question is how did someone figure that out? Im gonna pin this chickens head to the floor and draw a line and see what happens...
And you don't even have to actually draw a line, just running your finger away from its beak will cause that to happen.
I love that someone in the 1800's found this so interesting they decided to have it drawn
Henry can you hear me?.. You are now a T- rex.. Now go terrorize our neighbour's dog.
Fun Fact: Spiders Don't Have Muscles In Their Legs. They Extend Them Using A System Of Hydraulics Powered By Their Blood Pressure. When They Die, Spiders' Legs Curl Up Because The Blood Pressure Is Gone
I see spider, I upvote! Let's get beyond all the houseburning and such ... they just wanna live their life ... hang around on the web, use it for predatory activities, hide beneath it, watch their victims from outside, and only go in if there's something valuable they can get a hold on. Sound not that nonhumane, does it?
Another fun fact about spiders: Spiders are the only web developers that enjoy bugs :)
Mickey Mouse Has An Older Sister. She Only Appeared On The Comic Books Thought
He’s apparently one of the only few members of the “Sensational Six” to have a sibling
Uncle(!) Donald has a sister (Della Duck, mother of Huey, Dewey and Louie), even so in some comic books, she is just his cousine. But Don Rosa's family tree shows them as siblings.
Load More Replies...Fun Fact: The Former Prime Minister Of Bulgaria From 2001 To 2005 Was Also The Last Tsar (King) Of Bulgaria After His Fathers Death In 1943,he Became Tsar At Just 6 Years Old. He Was Tsar Until The Communist Took Over And Sent Him Into Exile
Ruling the country at 6! Imagine what he would demand if it were in modern times!
Japan Fixed This Road In 1 Week. How Long Would Your Country Take?
Depends on where in my country you ask. If the state is not West Bengal, a month or 2 tops. If it is West Bengal,( checks notes, clears throat ), 20 years.
Same here in the U.S. In California it would take a couple of months, but in Louisiana, it would take at least five years, and it would be very shoddy work.
Load More Replies...Northamptonshire County Council? Given the current situation in a remote rural village with one road blocked by Anglian Water for a week now to replace a sewer pipe, I would say never. The diversion is so long we are using farm and field tracks. If our vehicle has enough clearance.....
I live just outside of London in Kent and a road near Ebbsfleet International station just down the road from me collapsed 2 or 3 weeks ago. From what I can gather it's going to be closed for moths to come
Load More Replies...About 5 years in Berlin and the result would be worse than driving through the hole.
well in my city to build a park bathroom (3 urinals and 3 stalls mens side, 5 stalls womens side, and some sinks) it took 1.5 years of committee meetings and approvals, and 1.5 years to build, and cost $3 million. And people wonder why NYC roads are bads. My local library took the government 7 years and $9 million (when it was supposed to be 3 years and $7 million) for a bland building that already is having issues (less than 8 years old now) that could have been built in 2 year and $1 million dollars if it wasnt a government project.
In the US. Cleveland has been working on the same section of W. 117th since 1996, at least. They were still working on that same section (about a city block) when I visited in 2020. Mississippi repaved the entirety of US 90, going from Waveland all the way to Pascagoula in about 3 months. That's about 70 miles, going through 9 cities (Waveland, Bay St Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Gautier, Pascagoula).
If you're near Boston, approximately 25 years and counting.
Fun Fact, We Often Overlook The Length Of Time That Dinosaurs Existed
Dinosaurs are still alive today. They are emus, cassowaries, humming birds, chickens....
Yet, despite being 75 Million Years Older, it is much more common to find a Stegosaurus skeleton than a T. Rex skeleton. (I'm guessing part of the reason is because herbivores are 10x more common than than carnivores).
Fun Fact: This Is Null Island; The Exact Center Of The World. At Exactly This Point, Is 0 Latitude And 0 Longitude, It Is A Little Of The Western Coast Of Africa
Hmm, funny, I thought the centre of the world would be inside earth's core
The Earth is flat, that’s why it’s not in the center. /s
Load More Replies...Fun Fact: There Is A Service Called Jam Bustling In Chinese Cities Where Drivers Stuck In Jams And Need To Get Somewhere Urgently Can Book A Service To Get Picked Up Immediately
I wonder how much easier it'd be if everyone there drove a motorbike. Maybe there'd just be a different type of jam though.
Look at photos from the 60's and 70's; everyone in China rode a bicycle.
Load More Replies...I always thought Uber should do something like that for drunk people, that way the person can get themselves and their car home without driving while intoxicated.
We have service exactly like that here! It’s not uber, but it works basically how you described - two drivers in one car, one takes you home, other one takes your car home.
Load More Replies...Fun Fact, Geese Have Cartalige Spikes On Their Tounges
the goose is coming for you YOU CANT ESCAPE THE GOOSE
Load More Replies...I've seen this picture so many times and idk why but it's hilarious the longer i look at it.
Nightmare fuel, someone should make it into a creepy game
I was bitten by a goose last Wednesday! I've been strangely feathery recently
Fun Fact: "Witch Windows", Or Diagonal Windows, Exists Almost Exclusively In Vermont. The Name Comes From The Superstition That Witches Cannot Fly Their Broomsticks Through Slanted Windows
Well, brooms are so inconvenient anyway. Teleportation or at least maybe modified hoverboards are preferable.
Fun Fact: The Most Valuable Artifact From The Titanic Is A Violin
Is this because of the story about the band playing as the ship went down?
Yes. It belonged to the band leader Wallace Hartley. He drowned in the disaster but his body was found and the violin returned to his wife. It was kept in her family's attic until it was sold at auction a few years ago for over £1million
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I was positive, for a brief moment, that this was impossible, because NO WAY did the original Lion King movie come out before Hercules did. Then I remembered The Lion King was released in 1994. I was 12. I feel so old XD Hercules was released in 1997, when I was 15 and way ~too cool~ to watch Disney cartoon movies, so I never saw it XD
Hang on. You're in your 40s?? I've came across your comments quite a few times and I honestly didn't think you were over 25. This is a way more interesting fact that anything in this article.
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Never moving to Africa. One day, i'll just eat a frog, and BOOM, completely spiked! 0/10, would not eat
Well, Africa is darn big. South Africa has the best food, which does not include frogs. But you can get crocodile and snake at some specialty places.
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Fun Fact: Highest Temperature Ever Recorded By A Particle Accelerator
Fun Fact: Hafþór 'The Mountain' Júlíus Björnsson Weighs More Than Black Pink
Unrelated: A Samoan airline has become the world's first carrier to charge passengers according to their weight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . https://www.reuters.com/article/oukoe-uk-airlines-weight-samoa/samoan-airline-says-pay-by-weight-plan-fairest-way-to-fly-idUKBRE93204620130403#
I think they may have cancelled that due to massive backlash. However, Air New Zealand is now weighing people, completely anonymously and voluntarily, before they get onto flights. They're doing a survey to update their data on average passenger weight, so they can calculate the total weight of their planes correctly. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1178838387/air-new-zealand-weighs-passengers
Load More Replies...like many Kpop Idols, Blackpink are unhealthily underweight for the amount of work they do. To the point they are collapsing on stage from exhaustion. :(
Fun Fact: In The 1980s, Fredric Baur, The Founder Of Pringles, Requested To Be Buried In A Pringles Can. His Children Honored The Request And Had A Portion Of His Ashes Buried In The Signature Pop-Top Can
hopefully it was labeled....because imagine a snack attack...and really it's grandpa
Unfun fact. Pringles cans are a nightmare for recycling facilites because they have so many component parts made from different substances.
I wish I loved any one particular snack food enough to be buried in a package of it. :( Perhaps Twinkies? They do last forever, after all..
Carrie Fisher’s ashes were interred in a Prozac pill.
Load More Replies...Fun Fact 145 Years Ago The Twins Chang And Eng Bunker Died On Jan. 17th. They Were Conjoined Twins. Born In Siam They Were The Name Giver For The Siamese Twins
An avid learner of English, I've been giving it my best for a little over 30 years, but it seems I still can't fully understand the meaning of the word "fun"
I think, in this case, it comes from the version of "funny" that means weird or peculiar rather than joyous.
Load More Replies...They have an absolutely fascinating story. A little bit of North Carolina trivia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_and_Eng_Bunker
The Woman Seen In Many Stereotypical Karen Memes Is Name Kate Gosselin, A Reality Star With 8 Kids, A Set Of Sextuplets And Twins
Fun Fact: There Is A Mcdonald’s That Can Be Found In Sadona, Arizona That Has Blue Arches Interesting Of The Usual Yellow Arches. The Reason For This Change Was To Fit The City's Decor As The Yellow Arches Wouldn’t
This may be the most poorly written sentence I've ever encountered here. And that says a lot!
Fun Fact: The Guinness World Record For "Longest Kiss" Is 58hrs,35min, 58secs
did they immediately break up afterwards? cause that sounds miserable
Guinness has regulations for toilet and drinking breaks for this kind of endurance records.
Load More Replies...I don't understand records like these. They didn't drink water, or pee, or eat, or pee ??
Fun Fact: On April 6, 1893 Andy Bowen & Jack Burke Were Involved In The Longest Boxing Fight In History. The Fight Lasted 111 Rounds (3 Mins Rounds Each), It Took 7 Hrs & 19 Mins Until Referee John Duffy Called “No Contest” After Both Men Were Too Dazed & Tired To Come Out Of Their Corners
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The inspiration for this bottle has to be drawing and sculpture by Modigliani who died in poverty--just to add another layer of gross to this "fun fact"
Why the long face? ‘I just wasted 60k on water I could have got out the tap for free!
To make the next poop look fancy? (Gold is actually edible)
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