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“How Things Work”: 50 Facts And Curiosities More People Should Know About
While possessing the ultimate knowledge might be impossible due to many physical limits (unless you have a genie lamp stashed away somewhere), this doesn’t stop human curiosity from discovering, learning, and sharing as much as we can about the things that surround us.
One proof of this is the How Things Work Instagram account, which contains various tidbits of information about anything and everything. Aiming to educate and empower its 1.9 million followers daily, it provides explanations and facts about our world that we don’t usually go out of our way to find. Scroll down to discover them, and don’t forget to upvote and share your favorites with fellow curious people!
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Donald Holder 2 years ago
Could you imagine not only living to 140, but being fertile (pregnant)!? Incredible.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 years ago
This is more a mammal thing than a cat thing. My dogs do this, my horse does this, my hamster does this, and, to an extent I do it.
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Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
for me, brutalism everywhere is the death of the cities, the loss of attachment to one’s environment which also causes a decrease in mood
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Auntriarch 2 years ago
This is something I'd love to do but I know I'd be too terrified (and I can't scuba anyway)
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Annik Perrot 2 years ago (edited)
And I guess human lives as well. Car vs boar, both are doomed. And car vs moose....
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Frunkadunk 2 years ago
The patient on the table outlived the doctor who did the procedure. Their team did a great job.
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LB 2 years ago (edited)
This is a UV microscope if I'm not mistaken. Source: used to study biology way back when and we were one of the first to have these for students because our professor was rad. I used to sneak them out for "regular" assignments also. But years have passed so please correct me if I'm wrong!
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LB 2 years ago
Yes, sunflowers are fake flowers, like how strawberries aren't berries. Wiki explains in more detail: what appear to be "petals" of an individual flower, are actually each individual complete ray flowers, and at the center is a dense pack of individual tiny disc flowers. Because the collection has the overall appearance of a single flower, the collection of flowers in the head of this sunflower is called a pseudanthium or a composite.
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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
I've got one like this in our toilet as there's not enough space for a separate sink. You can easily lean across. (UK)
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Donald Holder 2 years ago
This is sooo freaking scary the first or second time you approached it. But damn it's also so fricn awesome
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 years ago
Three times the muscle density of humans, if what I've read previously is true.
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quentariel 2 years ago
Fascinating. It took me a long time to find them, but now they seem super obvious. (A tip: look at the vertical lines)
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Raymond Core 2 years ago
R.J. Mitchell supposedly was inspired by watching terns to design the Spitfire fighter plane.
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Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
As a panda has mentioned previously, the hole on the lid wasn't added until 1991.
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 2 years ago
It’s only slightly red for me when I don’t look directly at it. Look at the text to get the same effect if you’re struggling to ‘see’ the red!
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Donald Holder 2 years ago
Well, I guess being one of the longest time period richest man in the world. You can can buy just a plethora of cool things. I wonder if he ever allows chemistry students to tour?
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Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
it’s been a long time since we see this, gen X was the last to see it :D
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General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
"16 miles (24 kilometers) high which makes it about three times higher than Mt. Everest. In addition to being very tall, it is also very wide (340 miles or 550 kilometers) and covers an area larger than the entire chain of Hawaiian islands. Olympus Mons is a very flat mountain which slopes by only 2 to 5 degrees. It is a shield volcano built up by eruptions of lava." - https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/199-Where-is-the-highest-mountain-in-our-Solar-System
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 years ago
My mum told me YEARS ago that the best way to make money from land was to build a multi-storey car park.
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Raymond Core 2 years ago
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzie wasn't fuzzy, wuz he?
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Tom Hardeveld 2 years ago (edited)
eh... no they didn't. reversing a before and after photo is not reversing age. A nice case of BPBS
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Was this before or after the judge decided on the amount of monthly alimony?
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Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
Okay I'm lucky, now what is it. Edit: ah thanks chaps, I must have missed these machines, cos I'm not lucky then
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quentariel 2 years ago
Sounds as useful as the Invisible book of Invisibility in Harry Potter.
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