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I get downvoted for saying or posting literally anything. This is a fact. I posted a drawing of Green Goblin I did in algebra and got downvoted. I posted a joke and got 5 downvotes. None were offensive in any way. Like damn. Did anyone read my bio!?
Smiles is the longest word in the English Language as their is a whole mile between the two letters S.
Random? It is perfectly OK to practice random acts of kindness.
The month of January 2023 has not even finished yet, and the US tally of mass shootings has already exceed one per day.
Australia is wider than the moon.
(Moon: 3400 km wide; Australia: 4000 km wide)
A butt is an actual unit of measurement for a cask of wine (got it off a fact generator don't judge me)
Both whales and hippos evolved from a wolf-looking ungulate called Pakicetus. I recommend looking up the evolution infographic, it's a beautiful mess.
In 2015 a woman in Germany called the police to report a stalker. So the police arrived and arrested said stalker and hauled him to the police station. The stalker was a red squirrel. They released the squirrel a few hours later.
Aboriginal Australians lived in paradise before colonisation. It took on average 4hrs/day to acquire all the food and resources you'd need. Imagine if your biggest choice was "do I hunt, fish or go to the yam beds today". After you have a big party with everyone, eat, dance and go to bed.
Furthermore Aboriginal people resisted colonisation every step of the way. It is a lie that we were dying out. It is a lie that we were happy to be subjugated. Today is Australia day, a day that celebrates colonisation. In Australia they celebrate the day my people were murdered rather than better dates such as the day Aboriginal people got the right to vote and we all were included as Australians. The date of our national holiday needs to change
Oppressors always claim the oppressed are delighted to be 'saved' and 'civilized.'
Hmm, I have a lot.
1) if the Milky Way galaxy was the size of the USA, the sun would be the size of a white blood cell.
2) comparing an atom to a coin is like comparing the coin to the moon.
3) in about 4 billion years, the Milky Way and its neighbour (the Andromeda galaxy) will collide and merge forming a new galaxy by the name “Milkdromeda” (not the official name but it’s what people prefer calling it)
4) there is a theorised type of matter known as “anti-matter”. If you touch an anti-matter version of yourself, you both would anhilate each other and give out a huge burst of energy. (The properties of anti-matter and regular matter are the same except that the charges are reversed. Electrons are positive, protons are negative and so on)
5) there is a 1 in 5.2*10^61 chance that if you slam your hand against a table, the atoms in your hand will miss the atoms in the table and go right through it.
6) if you were able to compress the history of planet Earth into a single day, humans would appear 1 second before midnight.
7) it’s impossible to cool down an atom to 0 Kelvin. If you did that then you would know how fast the atom was going ( 0 km/hr) and where it was which isn’t exactly allowed in this universe.
8) the skin on your a**s and the skin on your lips are exactly the same.
I have a lot more facts but I’m afraid I’m running out of space so maybe next time
Some about my homeland!
The longest running TV show IN THE WORLD is aired in Ireland! It Started the year TV's were introduced to Ireland (1961 I think...) and has been running ever since.
The word Boycott, comes from my home county in Ireland. Basically we didn't like the land agent Charles Boycott, so everyone agreed to refuse to serve him in all of the shops or deal with him in business.
Ireland holds the world Records for... Most cookies baked in an hour, Largest tea towel, Most cups of teat in an hour, Highest combined age, and Highest number of redheads per capita.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! HER ARE MINE:
Competitive art used to be in the Olympics.
A chef's hat has exactly 100 pleats.
"OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917.
Some cats are actually allergic to humans.
The majority of your brain is fat.
Oranges aren't naturally occurring fruits.
Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
Boanthropy is the psychological disorder in which patients believe they are a cow.
Camels have three eyelids.
There is a McDonalds in every continent except Antarctica.
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.
Scientists spent years trying to figure out what these ancient runes really high up on a cave wall meant, managed to translate them only to find that all they said was: 'This wall is very high'
If you laid out end-to-end all the fecal matter that has passed through your colon during your lifetime, questions would definitely be asked about your mental state.
Furries aren't automatically pedophiles or zoophiles. They're mostly made up of Millenials and Gen Z.
- The first life form that intentionally reached space were fruit flies, placed by NASA in the tip of a Aggregat 4 (V2) rocket in 1947.
- We always see the same side of the moon, as it's rotation around it's own axis happens with the same speed it takes to fully orbit Earth.
- The James Webb telescope project had 344 "single points of failure", meaning if one thing went wrong the whole thing would have been useless. Luckily none of them happened, since we wouldn't be able to repair it anyways due to it's location
I think I saw somewhere that we can see like 60% of the surface of the moon from earth because of how it rotates about its axis and the earth
The Eiffel Tower can grow taller in the summer due to thermal expansion
Earth has the most snakes of any planet we know of :0
Well, if no one could tell, I was trying to make a joke :| ik I'm not that funny, but still, don't give me downvotes
Green eyes are the rarest color. Only 2% of the world population has green eyes. Proud to be one of them lol! Thus far it is my only claim to fame!
An Axolotl and regenerate it's brain if need be and they are almost gone in the wild. Only about 1,000 left in wild but millions in homes
Cockroaches are thigmotropic.
Thigmotropism is a directional growth, which occurs as response to a touch stimulus. Sounds familiar, you dirty dirty minds? Yours truly, HR.
Dogs didn't evolve from wolves, wolves and dogs evolved from the same species
THANK YOU! I hate when people say things like that. Just like we didn't evolve from monkeys. Monkeys and humans share a common ancestors so both species evolved from the same animals. But it was not what we think of when we think of "monkeys".
Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable.
A neutron star bullet is as heavy is the Empire State Building
Oxford university is older than the Aztec Empire
Uh... animal fact? Ok... ya know the pictures tou see to anglerfish? Bigger mouth, huge teeth, little light on top? All those are female. The males are born tiny, hungry, and weak jawed. The find a female anglerfish and bite her. The female then releases and enzyme that fuses the male to her body, and slowly absorbs him until all that is left are his testicles. Scientists have found female fish with hundreds of rows of tiny testicles on their bodies. The female, after absorbing the male, can reproduce whenever she wants.
Fun fact: I knew this also interesting facts about Christmas. ... 'Jingle Bells' was the first song played in space. ... It was Princess Charlotte who popularised Christmas trees in England. ... Coca-Cola is not actually responsible for how we perceive Santa Claus. ... Legend has it, candy canes were created to make choirboys quiet. and Quick Christmas Facts for kids Christmas trees take up to 15 years to grow. Celebrating Christmas used to be illegal, but it became a federal holiday on June 26th, 1870. The most recorded Christmas song in history is Silent Night, with over 700 renditions of the song existing today. ALSO Christmas Tree Facts By The Year The first decorated Christmas was in Riga, Latvia in 1510. The first printed reference to Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531. Christmas trees have been sold commercially in the United States since about 1850. Until fairly recently, all Christmas trees came from the forest. THATS ALL FOLKS
The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer, due to thermal expansion meaning the iron heats up, the particles gain kinetic energy and take up more space!
I think somebody else said this, but they didn’t give an explanation.
Miss Piggy and Yoda are voiced by the same person
Look up Frank Whelker if you really wanna be impressed. Not only has he been the only voice of (adult) Fred for the entire history of the Scooby-Doo franchise, he's also voiced Scooby since 2002, as well as 3 Transformers (including Megatron), Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, Nibbler from Futurama, Darkseid, and an unholy crapton of other cartoons, a lot of them animals.
The word apartheid is a Dutch word. Not something to be proud of.
well as a fan of random trivia and a huge nerd, here's the first 10 random facts I thought of:
1) dolphin semen causes orgasms so extreme they stop your heart and kill you. also the thing about dolphins saving people in the ocean? yea no they're much more likely to rape you.
2) the official animal of scotland is the unicorn.
3) if your immune system found out about your eyes, it would think your eyes are a foreign object and destroy them.
4) the only food that never goes bad is honey.
5) pools shouldn't smell. everybody thinks that chlorine has a smell, but it doesn't. what you actually smell at a pool is chloride; which is a chemical reaction that occurs when you mix chlorine and urine, sweat, and/or makeup.
6) there is nothing every single human agrees on. literally nothing. not even the majority of humans can agree on something. and i bet someone who is reading this disagrees with me.
7) the name for fear of palindromes (words/phrases that are spelled the same forwards and backwards. for example dad; racecar; hannah; go hang a salami, i'm a lasagna hog) is aibohphobia. yea english is fun.
8) "anyways" is not a word. the word is "anyway." "irregardless" is not a word. the word is "regardless". "i could care less" makes no sense. you mean "i couldn't care less." signed, every grammar nerd ever.
9) 31 out of the world's 32 developed countries have free healthcare. guess which one is the odd one out. GO 'MURICA!
10) period cramps can produce the same amount of pain as a heart attack. no im not joking. having a uterus fcking sucks.
I could care less works if say i didnt care about something and i was musing "You know what i could care even less, i feel i have cared to much" lol signed loophole nerd
A theory for why cats are said to have "nine lives" comes from folklore that a witch could only turn into a cat nine times. After the ninth transformation into a cat, the witch could no longer return to human form and would remain a cat forever.
Bananas are berrys
Alligators and crocodiles can gallop 20+ mph.
You shed roughly 40 lbs of skin throughout your life
Dolphins use pufferfish to get high and gang rape other creatures and dolphins
Geese hold grudges
Tarantulas can swim
Your welcome
Killer Whales are actually the biggest dolphins in the world and their name comes from sailors who saw them hunt whales called them "Whale Killers" and eventually became "Killer Whales"
I believe this is one of those things that was mistranslated. It came from the Spanish, and was translated the wrong way around
i have a couple.
The brain not only named itself, but it also recognized that it named itself and was surprised when it realized that.
There is no physical evidence to say that today is Thursday, we all just have to trust that someone has kept count since the first one ever.
The average person walks past 36 murderers in their lifetime.
If you fell into a black hole, you could see the start and the end of the universe, Big Bang and all.
Of course you’d be dead, but still.
Heartbreak can trigger a massive flood of emotions that can cause fatal heart attacks.
that's it have fun
Whether you could see the start of the universe as you fell into a black hole isn't entirely obvious and the "end" of the universe is a bit unclear, but you would certainly see a long way into the future. If you chose a supermassive black hole, you might even survive the tidal forces long enough to see the universe begin to expand at a noticeably faster rate. As for trusting that people have kept track of what day it is, there was a schism between Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the middle ages and it's the reason Greek Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas later than Catholics and Protestants.
Cleave is the only English word I know that has two completely opposite meanings. There are plenty of words that have different, unrelated meanings, but I can't think of any others offhand that are actually opposites. Cleave can either mean to split one thing in two, or for two things to join into one. (I look forward to the comments. I expect to have a lot of others brought to my attention!)
They are called contronyms, and there are a bunch: https://www.rd.com/list/contronyms-words-opposites/
There are more cells in your body that don't have your DNA than ones that do. You are an assembly; you are an environment.
There are nearly 11,000 "Main Street's" in the U.S.
I believe "2nd Street" is the most common street name due to "Main Street" having names changed often
Domino's Pizza restaurants in Scotland have kilts as official uniform items and has its own registered tartan integrating the red and blue company brand colors.
People who play trumpet are genetically shown to be cooler than everyone else
Woah what the f**k why am I being downvoted for making a joke about being cool cause I play trumpet
The animal with the highest BP is the giraffe.
Must be most obscure in this post - Tellurium is added to molten steel so that when Boron is added to strengthen the steel it does not form Boron nitrides.
Well there you go! I have never though about this in my life. You are correct it is the most obscure post, well done
There is a chord known as "The Devils Chord", which just so happens to be a half step different from a chord commonly played in churches.
Source: Middle school band class. There was a resulting "sacrifice" of the bass player.
Now, I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Random fact? This website won't let me comment on anything despite the fact that I literally did the verification. Been lurking for ~2 years and I finally make an account and seriously regret it because of how infuriating this site can be sometimes. :sigh:.
For each kernel of corn on a cob, there is a silk. The silks helps to pollinate each kernel so if there are undeveloped kernels, the silk was probably disturbed or damaged in the growth process.
It’s technically illegal kiss for more than 5 minutes at a time in Iowa and to sing in a bathing suit in public in Florida, but 20 countries, including some states in the U. S., have acquitted rapists of their crimes because they married their victim. These facts are not connected, I just found all of them interesting, and the last one disturbed me.
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband. Also, cars may not be sold on Sunday.
A polar bear’s skin is not white but black!!!
People are complicated
The space between puzzle pieces is known as a kerf, which is defined as a cut made with a saw.
In normal usage, "kerf" refers to the thickness of material removed by a toothed blade. Normal off-the-shelf puzzles are made of a pressed paper, like a stiff cardboard, are cut with a die - which works more like a razor blade pressing through the material. No material is removed, so technically there's no kerf. A fancy puzzle that's maybe made of a thin wooden board might be cut with a jigsaw, a blade that has teeth and thus removes material. This leaves a kerf of a measurable thickness.
Hmm, oh I know. All cruise ships have to have morges in case of a reenactment of titanic
Oyster mushrooms are carnivores. Their myceliums ("roots", basically) grow these little balloons full of neurotoxins that pop and paralyze nematodes (roundworms) on contact, and then the myceliums grow into and digest the worms.
More info for those interested: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-carnivorous-mushroom-poisons-its-prey/
More of an . . . Interesting fact
But sea pickles have spikes up their a**s so that way smaller animals don't take shelter where the sun don't shine.
Hippos can run 30 mph.
frogs can breathe through their skin
and they cant swallow without closing their eyes. yay frogs!
Pom Pom crabs are the only animals known to help another animal reproduce asexually
You can upvote yourself on BP
i do it so i have at least one upvote on all my posts
The term "skyscraper" existed well before we were building tall buildings with elevators and steel frame construction. The term was used for the tall ships. In port in many cases their masts were the tallest thing in town, except for the church steeple of a large enough church in a large enough town.
Facts to give you an existential crisis:
- You're not actually solid. You're mostly empty space. You're made of atoms, and they're just a tiny nucleus and some tinier electrons with a ton of space between them.
- The Big Bang had a bunch of really short, exotic eras a fraction of a second long. That seems short to us. The era of stars and life seems like the point of the universe that the short seconds of the Big Bang were a precursor to. But this isn't the universe's final form. After the stars go out, the era of black holes will last so much longer than the era of stars that the era of stars is on the same scale as the split-second-long eras at the beginning of the Big Bang. We are still living in the Big Bang.
- There are 2 trillion galaxies.
There are *more than* two trillion galaxies, assuming the universe has not fallen into vacuum decay that just has not yet reached us. Even then, it would have to be finite to have fewer galaxies, and we don't know and probably can't know if the universe is indeed finite. As far as being solid... first, we are mostly liquid (from just a phase perspective) so even in the simplest of terms, we aren't solid. But when you get down into the "empty space" of atoms, standard ideas of "empty" and "full" don't really work out. Electrons aren't in a single place, they are in clouds with a certain energy that means they are more or less likely to be observed at a given place, but not for sure... but they can still absorb and release photons according to their valence rules, wherever they "are". The nucleus also doesn't "exist" in a comfortable way. Protons and neutrons are made of quarks which are particles in their own right but mostly have mass because of their interactions with the quantum foam and not because they are some sort of individually "touchable" thing. Of course they do have strong force color and electric charge, so they are touchable the same way anything else is, by repulsive force between like charged particles creating a very high energy barrier at close range, as an increasingly intense flurry of photons tries to knock one side or the other back.
Dave Grohl has been part of two losses (Each of them were flipped)
Nirvana: Drummer loses singer
FF: Singer loses drummer
A sea anemone appears to have one large eyeball. It's really a mouth/a**s.
Here's a bit of useless trivia for you.
On the original Star Trek television series, there was a character they called Scottie. His last name was Scott, his first name was Montgomery.
And it's "Scotty, beam us up." or "Scotty, beam me up." Not "Beam up up, Scotty."
Antechinus or the marsupial mouse mates itself to death. Every breeding season all the males go into a mating frenzy for about 1 week. Come (tehehe) the end of it all the males die off from exhaustion. The females have young and the males of that brood replace the last. What a way to go!
20% of people don't realise that 82% of statistics are made up
bees not only dance to tell other bees where flowers and stuff are, but they also adapt their dance to the sun's pattern
Only recently, scientists studying the Pacific Ocean identified a lost continent, since named Zealandia. The main bits still sticking up above water are New Zealand and New Caledonia. It was shown that even the parts still submerged had once been above the ocean, long enough to weather. So, that makes 8 continents if I added correctly.
Also, the Pacific Ocean is expanding as the continents drift back into another huge land mass (still many millions of years in the future!) A recent BP photo of the Ocean showed only once significant landmass - New Zealand. This is a nice change as NZ is often missed off "whole world" maps! Kia ora to all my fellow Kiwis! Arohanui.
The change in ocean levels from the last few ice ages to the last few thousand years is truly startling. It's unsurprising that great flood stories are part of many cultures worldwide. Those who preceded us saw changes that dwarf even our modern impacts on the earth (not to downplay our role in what's yet to come).
My undergrad degree is in Japanese, and I learned this tidbit in a history class:
After the atom bomb, people saw what they called "pink horses." It wasn't a hallucination. The horses' fur and skin melted off, and their nerve endings went with it. The horses couldn't feel pain as they became dehydrated and died from the burns.
Have a good day!
wow.....now that is something random and a fact that I just learned today. Good day my friend.
The spongy elastic triangle of tissue in a horse's hoof is called the frog.
pluto has five moons, the biggest being charon. also, it has a heart shaped area on it of newer ice. charon's ratio in size compared to pluto makes it the biggest moon compared to the planet in the solar system. in second place, we find earth and earth's moon.
There are only two planets in our system that don't have moons - Mercury and Venus. A theory is that Mercury once was the moon of Venus
Some fish have teeth especially the Sheepshead fish that boast weirdly human-like teeth.
Alright, here we go!
-The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m)
-Diet Coke was only invented in 1982
-When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
-Stop signs used to be yellow
-A jiffy is an actual unit of time
-A jiffy is an actual unit of time
-McDonald's once created bubblegum-flavored broccoli
Sorry this was so long lol have a good day
Unicorns were real. They looked like humongous shaggy rhino/pony/flying bison (AtLA) hybrids. And they were glorious and if we bring back any extinct species it should be them and I will live out my childhood misunderstood horse-girl fantasies and befriend one and ride it everywhere. Fact.
Arthur Morgan is the greatest video game protagonist of all time.
Crosses between bison and cattle are "beefalo" or "cattalo". They have cattle fathers and bison mothers; the resulting offspring is too broad shouldered for a cow to deliver safely. B
Approximately 400 people per year die from an allergy to sperm.
Here are some random facts:
-If you die, your body is left unattended and you have a cat, your pet will eat you.
-The crew of the RMS Titanic were fired once the ship hit the iceberg. And the family of the band director was charged for the loss of his uniform.
-A cat was shot as a spy during WW1. French and German soldiers were using the cat to send messages.
-After a year, about 1/3 of the weight of your pillow is dust mittes.
-The black cigarrete in a pack of Lucky Strikes is a grim reminder of WW1. Sharpshooters used to killed the third person in a row that lit it.
I think the last one is a mix up on the old superstition about lighting 3 cigarettes on one match. Snipers watched for the glow from a foxhole in the dark. First one lit, sniper spots your location. 2nd one lit, sniper aims, 3rd one and sniper shoots, so "3 on a match" was said to be bad luck. The black Lucky Strike story was an urban legend claiming a black cigarette in the pack meant there was marijuana in it.
Serif fonts date back to the days of chiseling type into stone. Serifs were added to the top and bottom to tidy up the letters!
Serifs are the little extra lines or curves at each end of a typeset letter, like the printing above. If the font uses plain, straight letters without embellishment (like the font printed here), then the letters are sans (without) sarif.
about 33% of public bathroom cold water handles have fecal matter on them.
My current favorite word is defenestration. It means to throw someone out of a window.
Haha! I love this word! I use it with my other favorite word--exsanguinate--as a good-natured threat to my friends. "I'm gonna exsanguinate you and defenestrate your body!"
Common sense is ridiculously rare.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
The toilet plunger was invented in 1874 by a new york confectioner.
my fact is that people bully others solely because they don't feel good about themselves or they're jealous so they take their anger out on others and if you are a victim of bullying i can help just look into my account and i have a post on bullying and how to help just post how you are bullied and i can give you encouragement and help to stand up for yourself so don't be afraid just ignore them, they are wrong you just need to worry about what you think about yourself and i suggest putting a rose quartz under your mirror because that produces self love.
yours, Maddisyn Reeves
ignoring bullies cause a bigger problem, it is shown by research that many bullies bully for attention, ignoring them makes them try to get attention by doing something worse, therefore making the situation worse. There have been many studies including my own, a 12 year old's studies supporting this.
If you kick your wall a huge hole will most likely appear!
Did you know that only the male Foxes have white on their tale? It’s true. Only found that out like some weeks ago ._. So for every artist out there: When you draw a female Fox, don’t put white on the tail…
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined, and Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter) and Titan (a moon of Saturn) are larger than Mercury and almost as large as Mars. Earth's moon is larger than Pluto.
Frustrated by inaction, an early Seattle resident began digging the canal between Lake Union and the Salish Sea with just a shovel.
Portland Oregon has boulders of granite from Missoula Montana weighing several tons, brought by the floods that helped to shape the Columbia Gorge.
The Rocky Mountains are not volcanic. They are a result of the content of North America being squeezed by oceanic plates.
Much of the Oregon coast has an uplift of about two meters since the last major earthquake there in the year 1700 (as recorded by a rogue wave marked in Japanese records). Scientists estimate these earthquakes happen about every 300 years.
If the meteor that hit the Siberian wilderness in 1908 had hit a city, it likely would have leveled it. The meteor that hit off the coast near what is now Cancun and ended the age of large dinosaurs makes the combined power of every nuclear arsenal in the world look fairly feeble.
Both fusion and fission convert a small portion of the mass of an atom directly to energy. Iron is the "break even" element, and all heavier elements require energy to be converted to mass to form. Elements fusing or decaying toward iron release energy by a factor of E=mc², where m is the change in mass between the starting atoms and the ending ones. Since matter-antimatter annihilation converts most or all of the total mass into pure energy, it is substantially more energy dense than anything else on earth. It's also not available naturally and is very inefficient to create.
Helium is very abundant in the universe but on Earth all helium is the byproduct of a particular type of radioactive decay and is a limited resource. Helium released into the air is rapidly pushed to space. Because of it's very low liquefaction point, it it critical to superconducting magnets and other science and because of it's inertness and small size it is critical for testing human made objects being sent to space. For more than a decade, the USA sold its stockpile for below market rate and no new helium was recovered in most of the world, so beyond already being a limited resource we squandered the supply we had. If we don't conserve helium internationally, and make a serious effort to capture it during natural gas extraction and recapture it by keeping it in closed systems, we may loose the ability to do diagnostic imaging like MRI's, to run many types of quantum computers, and much of low temperature science will become much harder to access.
Some of Charles Dickens’s books were published one chapter at a time. At the end of one of the chapters, a character was hanging on a cliff, leading to the word “cliffhanger.”
Consistently being a good rental tenant should be grounds to get a mortgage regardless of income
I wish I could upvote this more, then fire it off to every Fcking bank in the World !!!
"THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER." - Nathan of The Paperclips.
The only thing that's impossible is to have two hills with no valley....
It is okay to cut people out. I know a lot of people say it but we all really need to hear it.
Although Merino wool socks are warmer and thus made thinner, ragg wool socks have more cushioning.
The more birthdays you have increases your life span by one year.😏
And on your birthday (let's say 30, for example), you are actually starting your 31st year. When you turned one, you had lived one year, so starting on year two on your birthday.
France longest frontier is with Brasil (730 km). Followed by Spain (623 km), and Belgium (620 km)
Antitidaephobia is the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
Fructophobia is the fear of fruit, and bananaphobia is specifically for bananas.
Xanthophobia:fear of yellow, Keanuphobia:what it sounds like, Luposlipophobia: look it up
Octopi, at least the males, from what I heard, remove their "member" and throw it at their female counterparts when trying to evade them. If this is incorrect, I apologize. This is something I heard in school a long time ago and I guess it just stuck.
True. They can detach an arm to escape a situation. Those detached arms have their own neural controls... can move about for an hour or two. If an octopus happens upon a detached arm, it can tell if it is their own or from another octopus. Each of the suckers also work independently.
1. Green light alleviates pain. New studies show that full-field green light frequency at 10 lux eases pain in animals. Great news for addiction treatment!
2. Beatrix Potter wrote her 1881-1897 journal in code that wasn't broken until 1958.
3. In 1985, Aretha Franklin's voice was declared a "natural resource" of the state of Michigan.
4. In 1916, Adeline and Augusta Van Buren became the first women to travel across the country on two solo motorcycles. They made it despite frequently being arrested for wearing pants.
The Boris Karloff, the actor who portrayed the original Frankenstein's monster, also voiced the original Grinch.
As a kid, Karloff movies were my favorite. Vincent Price a close second, even though his movie "The Tingler" dang near ruined me.
Circa 1959: 'The Tingler' was a horror flick with several firsts:
1. Depiction of LSD use. It was legal at the time.
2. Audience immersion in events.
a) Some theater seats had aircraft wing de-icers, basically military issue vibrators. They simulated shock from the film's monster.
b) Fake screamers and fainters in audience. Fake nurses and ambulance drivers in lobby.
3. Actors spoke directly to audience.
First, to tell the audience to remain seated as real woman in audience stands up, screams, and faints. Then film appears to break as shadowy figure of monster moves across projection beam. Suddenly, Vincent Price tells the audience not to panic but monster loose in that theater. He says 'Scream! Scream for your lives!' That's when those cussed vibrating devices activated and scared the dickens out of every kid in the theater. Me included. It wasn't a shock so much as violent jittering that felt like shock. Static electricity and imagination played a part, too.
4. Filmed in Black & White but had color sequence spliced in... bloody hand rising from drain. Actor and set painted in monochrome to match rest of film, add shock value to bloody hand.
5. Movie-in-a-Movie effect. Clip of old movie fight scene played at climatic point.
Director was William Castle. Creative genius. Check out his autobiography, "Step Right Up! I'm Gonna Scare The Pants Off America"
Ok, I have quite a few, but I'll just stick to a.simple one for today.
A Puffinus Puffinus is not actually a puffin, it's a Manx Shearwater, for those of you how have never bothered to Google it.
That's all folks!
Ah, the old 'Gorilla, Gorilla' vs 'Gorilla, Gorilla, Gorilla' gambit !! Also, a baby Puffin is called a Puffling.
Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can now email tools to astronauts.
I got spinal fusion surgery a few weeks ago and it wasn't fun, it still isn't.
My left shoelace is untied
*edit* Sorry, that's not a fact! It's my right shoelace that's untied!
mules are sterile.
Mules almost always sterile because: odd number of chromosomes. Horses have 64 chromosomes, donkeys have 62. Mating could produce a mule with 63 chromosomes, a donkey with 62 chromosomes, or a chimera... an animal that has genetic markers from different species. So it's possible for a mule to birth a foal but it would be exceedingly rare. About 50 cases in past two hundred years. Helpful source: Missouri mule named Molly. She loves carrots and jumping fences.
If you were to complete the main story of Batman Arkham Knight 100%, get all season of infamey quests done, 100% complete New Game +, you get a batsuit with a golden Bat in the middle.
My cousin defeated North Korea... in professional football! he scored a brace against them in the 2019 Asia Cup!
President Barack Obama voiced an animal documentary about National Parks around the World than he's visited. (I need more of these)
Get naked, squat on your heels, cross your arms across your knees and rest your forehead on your arms.
All your body hair now points straight down.
When we were hair covered this was how we waited out rain without becoming saturated.
Try it yourself.
Random enough?
Well, that's pretty cool. It explains why I naturally went to that position in walkabout when I couldn't find shelter.
fact #1: water is wet. Fact #2: chocolotte milk does not come from brown cows. fact #3: the earth is round.
Another animal fact! (This one is weird. Like, really weird.) A cockroaches brain is not housed inside its head. It's actually inside the body, so a cockroach can survive decapitation. It will continue doing its business until it eventually dies of starvation.
WE NEED HEADLESS ROACH OVER HERE TO CONFIRM THIS
Here are some insults from the Wings of Fire series:
1. Smoke breather
2. Squid brain
3. frog-faced blob of camel spit
4. camel-chewing, sleep-a-minute son of a toad
As you can see, VERY creative. My personal favorite is number 4. Also, someone on the internet made a crucifix of Uno reverse cards.
Here are a few from a great book by Marcus Chown.
There is a liquid that can run uphill. (liquid helium)
A cup of coffee weighs more when it is hot than when it is cold.
You age faster at the top of a building than at the bottom.
The entire human race would fit in the volume of a sugar cube
Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics.
An atom can be in many different places at once.
I don't understand the volume of a sugar cube one, but the rest make sense to me. I find it funny that people that have been paying premium amounts for penthouses have been paying more for plastic surgery than they would have if they didn't insist on living the literal high life.
my cat is at my feet.
The cheeseburger was trademarked in Denver, Colorado.
The "Turritopsis dohrnii", a jellyfish species, is the only animal known to be able to live forever.
Imagine if humans could reach s3xual maturity then REVERT to a time before puberty. Pretty curious ability... amazing jellyfish.
Pufferfish are toxic to humans. (Unless cooked correctly) Dolphins are immune to this toxin, but it does make them "high". Dolphins have been known to purposefully inflate pufferfish and bounce them around for fun.
If the British had won the Revolutionary War there would not have been an american civil war
There would have been another ... as long as corrupt politicians exist, we will have war. Sigh...
The dog in the movie Cujo was mostly played by a stunt man named Gary Morgan in a fur suit
Elephants eat salt they find in caves
The girl from The Ring went on to voice Lilo
Cinnabar is not a cinnamon flavored snack. It is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury (II) sulfide (HgS).
King Constantine II of the Hellenes won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1960.
2 facts from twitter I found today
The english voice actor for the Persona 3 protagonist is the same english va for Ñoño from the animated version of "El Chavo del Ocho"
The 90's anime style where it has like the most nostalgic lighting is actually the light being shun through the cel piece.
for those wondering about the cel lighting bit i am referring to this Screenshot...be-png.jpg 
My fav random fact is that around 50 people go missing in IKEA every year
A study in 1977 discovered that 14% of female seagulls living on an island off the coast of California were gay.
I remember this study... people lost their minds, refusing to believe it.
Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime and it was to his brother.
1. You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark
2. More people are killed because of vending machines than they are by a shark.
Yet an estimated 100 million sharks are killed per year throughout the world, mostly for shark-fin soup and bogus aphrodisiacs. This is greater than the recovery rate.
“Gaying instrument” and Corned beef torpedo” were both victorian slang words for penis
The first made-for-TV drama was broadcast in 1928. “The Queen's Messenger” was broadcast on experimental Television station "WGY Television" (W2XAD), Schenectady, New York on September 11, 1928 at 1:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. There were about 6 televisions, all with a three-inch octagonal screens, that received the broadcast.
A common source of microplastics is rubber shed from vehicle tyres and washed into drains
Any cat wanting to be fed will stand on your bladder and will weigh the equivalent atomic weight of the sun!
Your liver will grow back after part of it is removed. It seems to “know” just how big it should get. This makes me think we have some salamander DNA somewhere in our human genes.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Time flies like a bullet. Fruit flies like a banana.
Giraffes have 7 vertebrae in their necks.... just like humans.
You can write Shell Oil and other things on a calculator including Billie Eilish.
There is no scientific name for the back of the knee.
Your car keys have traveled further than your car…
"The Fund for Park Avenue" - the entity that plants tulips along Park Avenue in NYC each year - is the largest private purchaser of Dutch bulbs in the world.
Cockroaches are cannibals
Cockroaches like alcohol
They're older than dinosaurs
And also they can live without their heads
"This too shall pass" is my mantra when I'm stressing or panicking about something. And it works
Whichever side the USA deceids to be in in the war between Russia and UK will win 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% chance
Navy vet here: Thing is... neither country has the monopoly on power anymore. Britain shed its colonies and American politicians destroyed its industries. Although it's still a 'superpower' it's not the only one. Young people are not running to enlist, except for education opportunities. Wars are money making schemes for politicians and their cronies: Vietnam, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm... those countries were no threat to us. Now we've got Ukraine, where it seems a dam was built to stop flow of river to Crimea, destroying agriculture that fed much of Russia. Who wins will be determined later... but there is a non-zero chance we're all going to lose. Politicians suck.
It's amazing to me just how many people on here leave comments on posts where they ask the OP questions or attempt to. Even though MOST articles are stuff that Bored Panda took from OTHER sites. Most of them Reddit. So, people of Bored Panda, if you want to ask a question to some from a post, don't ask in the comments here since they won't see it, go to the original place where they posted it. The link is always below the picture.
It was the right person who came forward to discuss people who are unreasonable or who think superficially. And you're the person who today, in January 2023, claims to be proven to be a monster who harasses everyone around him, abusing them. And you still dare write Justice for Amber!, which is hilarious. Lady Turd already admitted that she invented the whole story.
The earth has a counterpart looking exactly like it in a reality after the milkyway. Also, there is another solar storm coming to our earth in a few year's time which will wipe out the internet for a long period of time.
When Jeffrey Dahmer killed his first victim, he loaded the body in garbage bags and threw it in the trunk of his car. He's been drinking and, as he was driving, he was pulled over by police. He was given a sobriety test and barely passed. The officer gave him the benefit of the doubt and let him go. Had he been arrested for DUI, chances are his car would have been searched and the body discovered...ending his killing spree right there and then.
If you fart a fair bit, your gut is in good health, also, holding it in is not good for you.
*Water is wet.
*When you go outside and it's cold, that means it's cold.
This is my dad's random fact. If you swallow bubble gum, your guts will stick together!
HAHA good one... I always tell my kids if you swallow bubble gum when you fart the bubble will come out. This leads to them not chewing the bubble gum.
When I was in 3rd grade and studied a world map for the first time, I noticed that the continents looked like a puzzle and I could see how they would fit together. Everyone told me that was a dumb idea because continents could not move.
The Verrazzano Bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn hangs from two massive towers just like the Golden Gate Bridge. If you pass a centerline through each of its two towers, these centerlines are farther apart from each other at their tops than at their bottoms. This was the first engineered structure ever that had to take into account the curvature of the earth in its design & construction. Chew on THAT, flat-earthers.
EDIT: I just checked this "fact" against the Golden Gate Bridge. An architect at a high profile firm told me about the Verrazzano bridge, but I'm finding the Golden Gate bridge is 30 years older and its towers are also farther apart at the top than at the bottom. Surely they saw it coming and planned for it, so I'll have to question this so-called fact.
Beethoven,the famous musician,is deaf and even though people told him he could never be a musician he went for it.Also he went out of his way to make sure there were exactly 60 coffee beans in his coffee.3 cheers for him!
Ludwig Beethoven was not born deaf, he started to become deaf early in adulthood, and did become completely deaf until in his forties. His story is still one of perseverance and strength in a life of many obstacles because of losing his hearing in the 1800's and still composing and performing in public while trying to hide the fact as long as possible.
When pigs cough or sneeze, their intestines will shoot out of their a**s. the farmers have to like, stuff it back in...
There is more then 2 genders
birds are reptiles :)
Wtf bro. They are whole different classes. Aves and Reptilia are two whole different class under the sub Phylum Vertebrata which international is in Phylum Chordata. Even though they are related in evolution, birds aren't reptiles.
Mice are disgusting little creatures.
They can fit through any small pinhole size.
They run fast
They hate mint
One there is one and you hear one you think theres more coming....
I can make people scared
The roots of sequoia trees are very close to the surface. Given their size they should all have fallen over by now. But the roots of each tree reach out to one another and intertwine. They are literally holding each other up.
The roots of sequoia trees are very close to the surface. Given their size they should all have fallen over by now. But the roots of each tree reach out to one another and intertwine. They are literally holding each other up.
