“How Things Work”: 50 Facts And Curiosities More People Should Know About

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This man is my hero.

Bring back the snoot! We want healthy dogs.

Ok, that's awesome, for real

It's working for me, and I'm neurotypical

Cashing in on discrimination = priceless

Now THAT'S IMPRESSIVE!

I can feel this picture in my bones.

Priorities

Tragedy yet true friendship. Amazing

I don't care how often I see this

Very cute!

Where is it?

Weird, I always thought it was more red.

Awwww.

Could you imagine not only living to 140, but being fertile (pregnant)!? Incredible.

Accidentally producing the best portrait

Take an umbrella

I am going to say this, and I’m not going to apologize. FÙCK “traditional” Chinese “medicine”.

very pretty leather vests, but put on some damn sleeves !!!

Great for kitesurfing,

Oh, this must be the guy from the Netflix documentary!

How that one had the energy to hold up his hand for the photo…….

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.

They got lil feets!!!

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

Relationship goals!

This is something I'd love to do but I know I'd be too terrified (and I can't scuba anyway)

And I guess human lives as well. Car vs boar, both are doomed. And car vs moose....

What a cutie!

I had no idea. That is so cool.

Clever.

Oh, Jesus!

I am never walking out in the open again

I can confirm this.

The patient on the table outlived the doctor who did the procedure. Their team did a great job.

Looks like the one in the movie The never ending story!

I'll take the great-grandchildren.

I'd like to see a close up of this. Are there any physical barriers that are deterring the wolves, or is it purely, "Nope, not going in there. That's where those weird Moon Moon Wolves live."

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!

Holy ship!

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.

Cool.

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)

Always wear proper gear.

We aren't being told "How Things Work" like the title of this post states!

This picture makes me so sad.

They are called 'crinkle crankle walls' or 'serpentine walls'. In Suffolk (about a third of the way up England, on the right hand side) there are around 100 such walls, and about 50 in the rest of the country.

This is sooo freaking scary the first or second time you approached it. But damn it's also so fricn awesome

I -knew- my yellow tshirts were my favorite for a reason! The grey one performs surprisingly poorly compared to the white one.

Good luck...

Three times the muscle density of humans, if what I've read previously is true.

Fascinating. It took me a long time to find them, but now they seem super obvious. (A tip: look at the vertical lines)

Spice!

£ and fashion. But mostly £.

I'm glad I don't have to floss them

Thats so cool!

It’s depressing that the best way to identify them is by their scars.

The better ones are remote controlled so emergency service can speed over them anyway.

None of those are my favourite drinks.

At least they had the foresight to stagger them :D