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Ferdio is an infographic agency in Copenhagen, Denmark, and they're on a mission to inform the Internet about just how incredible our world really is.
To do so, Ferdio launched Factourism, a project dedicated to sharing facts that are 100% true and 100% fascinating. Tailoring them to fit online, Ferdo is illustrating the facts too, and the pictures are really cool.
Continue scrolling to check them out and fire up Ferdio's earlier submission to Bored Panda if you want more interesting trivia.
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#1
Guard Geese
Geese have excellent hearing, exceptional eyesight, are very territorial, aggressive, and loud. For all of these reasons, some police stations in rural parts Xinjiang Province now have geese guarding at night.
Louise B 5 years ago (edited)
You're dead right! Geese are like the Spartans of the bird world. They are hardcore. My mam grew up on a farm and still has nightmares about their beady rage filled red eyes - and they were meant to protect the farm!
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ADHORTATOR 5 years ago
Geese kept the roman capitol in ancient times and warned the guards from attacking Gauls
chaos kitten 5 years ago
i have two geese, i had others who were aggressive but these two are absolute cowards. theyre names are gus gus goose-taf goose and lucy goosey
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Geese will straight up chase you! I remember going to a duck pond as a child and a goose starting chasing me and I swear it was my size! I still have nightmares lol
Philippa Davies 5 years ago
Hahaha...this exact thing happened to me in England many years ago!
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Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
As a reverse on the usual "invented in China, popularized in Italy" tropes is this: Geese came to the forefront of Roman life in 390 BC. Sacred to the goddess Juno, a flock of geese that were kept in her temple noticed a troop of Gauls sneaking up the hill to attack the city of Rome. The alarmed honks of the geese awoke the Roman guards who attacked the invaders and successfully defended their city.
Chris Watson 5 years ago
And they taste better than dogs. I don't trust China with any animal.
"In a world where fake news, misinformation, and biased content are on the rise, it can be hard to separate truth from fiction. This shouldn’t be the case," a Ferdio spokesperson told Bored Panda. "Actually, the world is fascinating without faking it. Therefore, we created Factourism -- a place to explore all of the amazing facts of our world, combining our love for strange facts with our love for illustration."
Ferdio wants everyone to have zero doubt when it comes to their facts' legitimacy, so it provides the source for each one of them.
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#2
Mary Kenneth Keller
Born in 1913, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller professed her vows with the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the 40s, before proceeding to get a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in mathematics and physics in the 50s. Finally, she completed her PhD in computer science in the 1965, one of the first two of its sort in the US, with her thesis “Inductive inference on computer generated patterns”.
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago
Guy Macgregor: This is considered out of the ordinary, not only because she is a female pursuing degrees during those times. She studied multiple fields in the sciences while being one who has professed their eternal allegiance to a greater spiritual being. It can be conflicting and very difficult due to the contention between science and religion, which has long been recognized. She also did that later in life when many of us would be overwhelmed or prioritizing different things, making seeking higher education quite an undertaking. Oh and still being one of two people who actually got to that level in a new field.
Rock The Kitchen 5 years ago
One of the first two? So was she first or second? I guess she's second, if she was first y'all woulda said so.
Denny Cwiek 5 years ago
Impressive. I wonder how she put her education to use after getting that PhD.
James Gallegos 5 years ago
Yeah but did she do anything with that PhD? Sounds like a waste if you are not using it outside of the church.
Up All Night 5 years ago
Free computer expert and admin to the church! They have their own scientists...
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"Sure, there already are a lot of fact-based websites and SoMe accounts, but most of these simply lack quality. When it comes to design and creativity, they often use stock images and/or text in a very generic way. The main problem, however, is that these facts are either doubtful or, even worse, non-existent in the first place."
There really isn't a theme that Factourism likes the most. "Our facts can both be hilarious, mind-blowing, horrifying and surprising covering all kinds of topics like nature, culture, brands, science, climate, history or technology," the spokesperson said. "We like that you can explore all sort of things from farts, selfies, pizzas, sweat, Ikea, Nutella, sex toys, you name it."
#3
Power Of A Batman Costume
Kids aged four and six were asked to perform a repetitive task, but offered the option to take breaks playing video games instead. No need to say that they didn’t persevere much at the assignment. But across both ages, they did spend more time working in the case they were impersonating Batman.
Todorokie-dokie 5 years ago
You actually put the correct number of na nas, you legend.
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
I was just wondering how much I could get accomplished dressed as Batwoman!
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FurryManiac 5 years ago
Who had the money, time, and creativity to come up with this study and then EXECUTE IT!?
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
ALL of us work harder when we are either criticized or encouraged (even better) or put in the spotlight in any other way, and when we are allowed to mix work and play, well, that is always tops, isn't it?
Ferdio is constantly collecting and looking for new facts in order to present their followers with the most interesting stuff. "Our ... list is massive, and we actually tend to skip more facts than we use for various reasons. But basically it comes down to whether or not a particular fact is surprising and trustworthy, as well as how much visual potential does it have."
#4
Pioneers Of Agriculture
Several species of ants, attines, started farming 55 to 60 millions of years before humans did. They favourite food? Fungus. They organise themselves around cutting grass and leaves, bringing them back to their colony, watching after fungus growing on the harvested crop, and then collecting and eating the fungus. The fungus species evolves along with each ant species.
alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
Oooh, good fun fact! I didn't know that one!!
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Don Lott 5 years ago
At least in the central south/west part of Mexico where we live, the 'leafcutters' are most active at night, making long trails consisting of incredible numbers of workers between their leaf harvesting target area and their colony. Some ants will climb a targeted shrub and cut at the leaves while others wait on the ground to carry the pieces off to their underground tunnels. They also periodically clean their 'farms' of what is leftover following the fungus harvest and deposit this brown granule just outside their colony. It makes an excellent fertilizer when mixed with topsoil for potted plants etc. Also, the stripped shrubs soon sprout new leaves and appear healthy as before.
Cybele Spanjaard 5 years ago
Ants and bees , brilliant ordered and wonderfully structured societies in miniature. Beware humans if they even grow to human size..
Bettye McKee 5 years ago
I didn't know that. I did know they do a lot of things that humans should learn to do. Like store food for the winter.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
Some ants also "ranch" -- they keep and milk aphids. No word on whether there are aphid stampedes.
Everyone in Ferdio has developed a keen interest in Factourism and the whole team is involved in one way or the other. Be it researching, designing, or publishing. "We're a small team of eight people, mainly consisting of graphic designers. The concept of Factourism is established, but we like that everyone has a different take on each fact. Currently, we add 2-3 new facts every week, but we also have a business to run, so we often plan a big batch of facts for the upcoming month."
#5
Calendar Configurations
Seven configurations for each of the days that can start the year, times two for leap and non-leap years, it’s that simple.
2020 started on a Wednesday and is a leap year, as we will get a February 29 like almost every 4 years. The last leap year to start on that day was 1992, as were 1964 and 1936, so search your attic and explore your local thrift shops, see if you can excavate a calendar to recycle for the new year!
Wazz 5 years ago
I guess that's the 7 different days of the week that the 1st of January can fall, times two, one for leap years and one for non-leap years.
Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
Thanks Captain Obvious. It's right there in the paragraph just below the picture! 😂
Load More Replies... Justbenwithaone 5 years ago
When can I re-use my 2020 diary? I haven’t written anything in this one. 🤔
Douglas Campbell 5 years ago
Easter Sunday falls on any Sunday between March 22-April 25, though...
NavyDave 5 years ago
It's the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring evening.
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Claire Armstrong 5 years ago
Is this another way of working it out - I noticed that there is 28 years between all those years 1936 - 1964 - 1992 - 2020 but I don't know if all the years would work out like that or if it's just the leap years, and I don't mind admitting I don't have the patience or the brain power or even the inclination to try and work it out lol
#6
Ambidexterity
Prolific in sketches and notes-taking, Leonardo da Vinci was ambidextrous. He was able to draw and write (in his infamous backwards script) with both his left and right hands.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Try this: If you are right-handed, try writing backwards with your left hand (mirrored) or vice versa. You'll be surprised at how well you can do it. It is because we can mirror shapes with our hands without having to think about it.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
President James Garfield was ambidextrous and could simultaneously write in Latin and Greek, one hand for each.
Cheryl Fontaine 5 years ago
The miracle here is not that he could do different things simultaneously with each hand, but that his brain could concentrate on two different things at the same time. A feat impossible for most mortals.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
It is around one percent of the population. Musicians would be better at this than most of the rest of us as they have to use both hands when playing an instrument and doing different things with each hand. "One possible explanation the researchers offer for the musicians’ elevated use of both brain hemispheres is that many musicians must be able to use both hands independently to play their instruments." http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2008/10/09/musicians-have-ambidextrous-brains/
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Chewie Baron 5 years ago
He could also wrote Latin in the left hand and Greek in the right hand at the same time. Plus he wrote in a style that to read, you had to hold the page against a mirror just to read it. Of course he could read it without a mirror.
#7
Pop-Up Ads
In the nineties, Ethan Zuckerman was working for a website named Tripod. The website was displaying advertising, but the ads were getting in the way of the content and announcers were not always happy with the pages their banners ended up appearing on. When a big car manufacturer was not that keen of having their ad displaying on a page about sodomy the website was hosting, Ethan came up with a solution: a simple piece of code that would open the ad in a separate window. The invention took on, and spread far more than anyone would have wanted, becoming one of the most hated form of online advertisement, and leading browser vendors to implement pop-up blocking features. Ethan finally went public with an apology: “I’m sorry. Our intentions were good”. He believes that “advertising is the original sin of the web” and is now the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
That’s why I am grateful to the person who invented ad blocker.
Pamela24 5 years ago
I get why people use them but I just feel like stealing when I do...I get that the websites I visit need to get their money somewhere and this is the way. I know that nothing is ever free. On the other hand - pop up ads are still terrible, scam, annoying and should not be supported.
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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago (edited)
Bored Panda had the most horrendous pop up ads a few weeks ago. The ads disappeared within a day or so. What a relief.
Patrick Wells 5 years ago
He shouldn't feel so bad really. It one of those things that would have inevitably happened anyway. If he didn't invent them somebody else eventually would have.
Angela Campbell 5 years ago (edited)
the irony when I reach this post board panda google ads took over my whole viewing space and wouldn't let me close even after interacting with their precious ad leaving a giant white wall that scrolls up and down with you blocking your sight with no end so guess what happened a few more times even after refreshing the page? get a giant white wall of blank for the effort again and again. ad blocker became a friend real fast.
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
I had that happen to me too yesterday multiple times. I even complained to BoredPanda and suggest you do the same, in order for them to know how serious and annoying it is. I sympathize with pop-up ads within reason. But don't you dare cover what I'm reading. I have cats for that with their precious wet buttholes.
Load More Replies... Logan Slaughter 5 years ago
It always starts with good intentions. Dynamite, zeppelins, nuclear physics, machine guns (yes really), pop-up ads...
#8
Tiny Dinosaurs
It’s no secret that today’s birds are descendants to what used to be dinosaurs. To study the locomotion of dinosaurs, researchers from the faculty of science of the university of Santiago realised that by moving backwards the centre of gravity of common birds, chickens, from their hatching to their adulthood, they could get the birds to walk more or less like dinosaurs used to. How? By having the chickens wearing artificial tails.
Dat Bored Pugtato =0= 5 years ago
Oh yeah! Pretty sure the chicken is related to the t-Rex. I read that somewhere?
Dynein 5 years ago
"Reptiles" has been abandoned as a group defining an evolutionary branch, because... it does not define an evolutionary relationship. If you want it as a group of related species that includes both crocodiles an snakes, you HAVE to include birds. And birds are the closest surviving relatives of e.g. T-Rex. This quora question has some good pictures of the bird-reptile-mammal relationship, as well as some scientific explanation: https://www.quora.com/If-birds-are-technically-reptiles-wouldn%E2%80%99t-mammals-be-too
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Lana Jig-maker 5 years ago
Ah science, always answering the though questions. Next, on to that Alzheimer's cure.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Hehe! Put a big raptor tail on that big, loudmouth African guard goose and have some fun watching the intruders try to get the h... outta there
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
The exhibit presently at the American Museum of Natural History presents a life-sized T-rex with feathers.
Country Nana 5 years ago
Chickens are vicious and blood thirsty. The phrase "pecking order" is derived from chicken behavior. If one of them is injured, especially if it is bleeding, the other chickens will peck it to death. So I have no problem with the idea that chickens are relayed to T Rex.
#9
Apple Varieties
We know more than 7,500 cultivars of apples. Some are good for eating, others are better for cider, jelly, or ornamentation, certain are quite old and not fit for mass production.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Then why do they sell only the utterly tasteless ones in stores these days?
Cheryl Fontaine 5 years ago
This might help: Apples are the most heavily pesticided produce on earth.
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
But what kind of red? Delicious, MacIntosh, Winesap, Northern Spy, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Pippin, Baldwin, Braeburn, etc? And don't leave out all the golds.
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mermaidgirl960 5 years ago
I thought it was impossible. Like, over 100 years? Maybe I'm wrong lol. But if you ate more than one type a day! Then again, how to get your hand on them...
#10
First On The List
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
Not true, he said repeatedly that it meant nothing. That he only choose it because he thought it sounded like a good word. https://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/how-did-apple-computer-get-its-brand-name/#.Xr1Iw2uSmUk
Mark Ramsay 5 years ago
Clever, but terribly brittle and over priced c**p. The amount of times I have saved students money by recommending a cheap laptop and a free OS like unbunto or Linux has saved them literal thousands, being easier to repair and easier to maintain. Never owned apple shite, never will but I hated talking about them in an old job.
#11
Rabbit Abilities
Not only rabbit can recognise the smell of faeces of known predatory species, but it has been found that they are also able to distinguish the ones that has specifically been eating other rabbits. If an area houses an animal a little too fond of eating rabbits in the near past, then it is probably best to avoid this place for a while.
kurisutofu 5 years ago
When the rabbit looked at the poop and said "dad, is that you?"
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Susan Bostrom 5 years ago
This means the predator should not defecate in their own back yard if they would like to eat again tomorrow....but I do feel bad for the bunnies!
#12
Microwaved Grapes
When grapes are put in a microwave oven, especially when cut in two, their shape and material refract the waves in a way that eventually ionise the sodium and potassium content of the fruit and create plasma that ignites and takes fire. A popular science-fair/YouTube trick, Canadian scientists have since studied the phenomenon and reproduced it using artificial water beads. They note that the science behind it could serve as a base to develop wireless antennas and superresolution imaging. All thanks to someone who once wanted to eat warm grapes.
Wazz 5 years ago
If you cut a grape in 2 and put the 2 pieces touching each other in the microwave you can create a plasma
Lola 5 years ago
I wonder how many people are actually going to try this now that they see it here.
The Alchemist 5 years ago
Ive microwaved them without cutting them and they deflate a bit and turn gooey inside
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Tracey Hirt 5 years ago
Onions will also catch fire in the microwave they are too dry. Ask me how I know.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Absolutely - if you start the fire in the microwave... ;-)
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*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
burn the vile, disgusting creature that wanted to eat warm grapes.
#13
Emotional Cows
A researcher from the University of Sydney who studied a herd of cows for five months established that each cow was expressing themselves individually, voicing their emotions: excitement, arousal, engagement, or distress. In the context of farming, the research concluded that by understanding the different moos, farmers can give their attention to the individual cows who need it.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
More that we are only recently realizing that other animals communicate with their own kind and in ways that we're just beginning to comprehend.
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Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
I took a little calf that wasn't going to live, with love and food he grew into a huge bull everyone feared until I told them to call him Baby Calf. Gentle as a baby.
K O 5 years ago
I find people who believe animals don't communicate with each other so strange...like, do you not notice the world around you, how do you experience life in a way that you can't pick up that other animals can communicate. Feels like I'm looking at a Homo Erectus type being, or a mind at the 'dawn of man' who is still trying to work out how to use a stick to reach in small holes lmao
Emerald Joanna 5 years ago
My husband used to run a dairy farm and he told me all about how cows communicate - especially grief when their calves are taken away. I find it so beautiful & sad.
Amy Pontious 5 years ago
All animals communicate in some way or form they also have feelings at least thats what I think!
#14
Giant Mushrooms
Michelle Line 5 years ago
Journey to the Center of the Earth? (the 1959 movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052948/
Podunkus 5 years ago
The source link says that the Prototaxites were giant lichens, not “mushrooms.” 61DB639F-F...19f32b.png 
Ang.stl 5 years ago
Why do you gotta ruin my dreams of mushrooms in everything? Fried mushrooms, sliced mushrooms in salads, mushrooms in rice, mushrooms in noodles, mushrooms in EVERYTHING!!! (I kinda like mushrooms, a little ya know.)
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James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
If they were the "magic type" no wonder the dynasours were so "high".
Daria B 5 years ago
There's a planet like this in Astra Lost in Space. Turns out mushrooms were at the top of the food chain.
Emperor Kitten 5 years ago
Theyre at the top here too. We just don't think of them that way.
Load More Replies... BlueCustardAngel 5 years ago
If you eat enough of the funny ones, they still look that big......
#15
Cheese Addiction
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Hang on, first let me do this line of Parmesan and I'll get back to you.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Cheese contains opiates. It is the opiates in milk that soothe babies and cheese concentrates them.
Country Nana 5 years ago
I know milk contains seratonin, but opiates? Prove that. As a mother I know that suckling does create endorphins in the brain, but a child can suckle on a finger or pacifier and still be comforted by endorphins.
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Dat Bored Pugtato =0= 5 years ago
I always get this weird numb feeling between my eyes and above my nose when I eat cheese. It’s weird. I like cheese though.
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
You might be having a mild reaction to the cheese - be careful in case it worsens with repeated exposure to allergens.
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mermaidgirl960 5 years ago
Yeah, I figured this out when I ate all the cheese in my Food Science class kitchen... :)
James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
Man,and to think of all that money I've been spending shooting the wrong s**t !
#16
The Dangers Of Cleaning
Cleaning exposes your lungs to chemical sprays and other cleaning agents, which causes damage to respiratory health in the long term. It is especially true for people doing cleaning as their job. A study found out that over time, the impairment caused by cleaning is similar to smoking cigarettes: “This study suggests that […] long-term respiratory health is impaired 10–20 years after cleaning activities. […] The effect size was comparable to the effect size related to 10–20 pack-years of tobacco smoking.” (A pack-year being the number of packs smoked in a day multiplied by the number of years spent smoking)
Ben Smith 5 years ago
I suppose it’s the exposure to chemicals...but then you’re left with a clean house....which is of course healthier than a dirty house. So I doubt the validity of this one.
BobbyMcD 5 years ago
Wow, so much to unpack in your comment. First, I think you're really underestimating the effect chemicals from common cleaning products have on your health.There are some good non-toxic ones, but if you're using Tide, Windex, 409, Mr. Clean, etc. you're inhaling some really nasty stuff. Also, there is some evidence that overly clean houses are part of why we have seen a dramatic increase in allergies and asthma in the developed world. Homes are simply too clean and it leads to children growing up in a house that affects their immune system in ways that are a problem later in life. Finally, you trusting your hunch over an actual study is one of the biggest problems we face. If you can find other research that contradicts it that would be interesting.
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Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
There are many nontoxic cleaning products available now that are safe for the environment and people's health. You can even make your own -- a solution of half water and half white vinegar is the best glass cleaner.
Felicia Dale 5 years ago
No one needs dangerous chemicals to do basic house cleaning. A friend of mine specializes in this because so many people are now allergic to "fragrances" or other strong smells.
Esca Sav 5 years ago (edited)
My mom was a cleaning lady and she possibly (hint word because none of us are 100% sure) developed arthritis from using cleaning chemicals/products without gloves. She had no idea of the long term effects until her doctor noticed her occupation and put two and two together. She stated that the chemicals she uses could be the link to her rheumatoid arthritis. To this day her hands hurt, but it hasn't been worsening drastically like it did before. She did start using gloves to clean, but also changed her occupation so... not sure
BobbyMcD 5 years ago
The chemicals in these kinds of cleaners can lead to immune system dysfunctions like chronic inflammation. Sadly, I'm not surprised that arthritis could come from it. Hope your mom finds some relief.
Load More Replies... Yeah, you heard 5 years ago (edited)
Looks like some commenters just looked at the cartoon drawing on bored panda and didn't read the source article. If you think you can produce a superior study and get it published in a peer-reviewed journal, go for it!
BobbyMcD 5 years ago
It's the biggest problem our planet faces: a lack of scientific and media literacy, which has been replaced with people trusting their gut or what others in their social circle think.
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US Flag
The US flag, stripes and stars, has been having a similar design since the 18th century. But with the number of states changing all the time, the number of stars had to change too. And who says a different number of stars says a different arrangement, so that they all fit satisfyingly in the blue rectangle. With the addition of Alaska and Hawaii in early second half of the 20th century, there was a need for a 50-stars design. The designer of the winning arrangement, 9 lines of alternating 5 and 6 stars, is called Robert Heft and came up with it as part of a school project. He spent a weekend cutting and sewing his flag proposal, which was accepted as an official flag by congressman Walter Moeller and finally adopted in 1960.
Rob Seymour 5 years ago
He was the only person legally allowed to write on the flag. My parents met him years ago and got me an autographed flag. Pretty stinkin cool when you think about it.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Don't let DONALD know about that or he'll offer "signed" flags with the bibles he autographs.
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Andrea Careless 5 years ago
I'm old enough to remember when Canada finally got our own flag (without the Union Jack on it). There were different proposed designs and Canadians were very caught up in which one should represent our country. I think we chose the best one, although at the time I wanted the outside stripes to be blue (sea to sea). :-D
Sergio Serg 5 years ago
Which proves teacher's art grades are more of their "opinion" and not the actually value of the work
Rachel Borowyckyj 5 years ago
I am an art teacher an thats not true in many way. We teach are based on the student perspective not our opinion. Student are free to do what they please with the project they are given, it all comes down to how much time and creativity they put into there work.
Load More Replies... Bettye McKee 5 years ago
I wonder who she gave an A if she thought this one was only worth a B.
Lana Jig-maker 5 years ago
Keep it at a B. Great moral to the story...just because your work didn't get the highest grade, doesn't mean it isn't useful.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
It's like the business plan for what became FedEx, it also got a low mark because such homework in a business degree "has to be at least feasible".
#18
Diamonds Inside Diamonds
Or rather, a diamond can grow around another diamond, although there is only one instance of the rare phenomenon known to us. In 2019, miners in Yakutia, Russia made a curious discovery: a diamond with an internal cavity, holding another diamond. It might be over 800 millions years old and geologists have been coming up with hypotheses concerning how it was formed.
mermaidgirl960 5 years ago
*Starts mining* Wait... Why don't I just make one? Ha, I make things so hard for myself!
#19
Voting Rights
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and previously the Mir station, are not exempt of voting duty. They get their ballot as an encrypted PDF in their e-mail inbox, can cast their vote from one of the onboard computers, and send it back to their voting clerk. It initially required some adaptation in the law down back Earth to accommodate for this derogation, but now people in space can voice their political preference almost like anyone else.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
As they are intelligent and skilled people, they wouldn't vote Republican...
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Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
Voting isn't a requirement ("duty") anywhere, as far as I know. It's a very serious right and responsibility, however. It's shameful that such a small percentage of eligible voters in the US actually vote, whereas in some other countries people literally risk their health and lives to vote.
Philippa Davies 5 years ago
It is a requirement in Australia. There are fines if they find out you didn't vote. I agree though that those of us in countries where citizens vote should consider ourselves lucky that we are able to have a say without risking our lives.
Load More Replies... BlueCustardAngel 5 years ago
Too bad they have a hard time doing it on earth. PLEASE DONT RE-ELECT HIM PEOPLE!!! PUH-LEASSSSSSSEEEE!
Bettye McKee 5 years ago
I really hate that commenters always have to get political, no matter what topic. Can't you guys leave it out of Bored Panda?
Cheryl Fontaine 5 years ago
Hmmm, and now we have a so-called president who wants to stop vote by mail... because he can't hack it.
#20
Face Touching
A small study, performed in 2008 in California on ten persons being recorded performing everyday office tasks, showed that they were on average touching their face 15.7 times an hour. If we consider a sleeping time of 8 hours, that’s about 250 times a day during waking hours.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
I never realised how much I touched my face until i was told not to because of corona virus.
Claire Armstrong 5 years ago
I swear, see since this coronavirus has hit every time I go out wearing a mask or covering I'm desperate to touch my face. It gets extremely itchy every time I leave the house because it knows I'm not supposed to touch it
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Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
I've been making an effort to realize when I am about to touch my face. Yes! It's a ridiculous amount of times - even if it's to just scratch my nose. I wear glasses and my eyes tend to tear up from time to time. I just scratched my chin as I was typing this - we just don't realize it. WASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN!
Lisa 5 years ago
If you go to their site and click on the source link on the bottom left of each brightly colored factism, it will bring you to their source of their sources.
Load More Replies... mermaidgirl960 5 years ago
Me: Touching face XD But seriously, I always hold up my chin with my hand, I feel like everyone does that, right? Either way, I'm typing with a hand that has fallen asleep...
#21
World's Wealthiest
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, entrepreneur behind Amazon and richest person in the world, is worth $110 billion. He earns $2,489 a second. In 15 minutes, he earn as much as what an American with a bachelor’s degree earns in their lifetime. In the meantime, many are the Amazon workers who are edging the threshold of poverty. Bezos is notably using some of his money to launch manned space programmes.
Kaisu 5 years ago
So he could easily spend that money on people who are struggling to survive, without it negatively affecting his finances at all. He just chooses not to.
Random Panda 5 years ago (edited)
It boggles the mind that there are those who defend billionaires like Bezos. He and people like him have more money than they can spend in several lifetimes and it's money made by exploiting employees and other shady business practices (essentially it's stealing). No one needs that much money.
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CbusResident 5 years ago
Chris, respectfully, what I'm referring to with 'tax tricks' are maneuvers that are legal, I'm not talking about anyone who's actually breaking tax laws. I'm talking about the majority of rich people, who both try to minimize their tax bill and are paying what they are legally required to pay.
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CatWoman312 5 years ago
This makes me sad. He’s only rich because of us, the consumer. Time to share OUR money
Sean Harrison 5 years ago
Meaning that stingy bastard could easily afford to pay his warehouse staff more, but being the a*****e he is he chooses not to.
chickiethehen 5 years ago
When you're old, what are you gonna do with all that money? At least when you stay young, spend it to help people. Their are people less richer that you that spend their whole lifetimes to help people.
Turnip and a Frog 5 years ago
To those who claim Bezos is so ridiculously rich because of his unique management skills and vision - read this article. It talks about companies from Fortune 500 lists that paid 0 ( and I mean it) federal taxes in 2018. Guess who’s on the list. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/these-91-fortune-500-companies-didnt-pay-federal-taxes-in-2018.html
Ozzy Mopsbourne 5 years ago
He himself is not "worth" money. His companies, including all assets, are worth 110 billion.
RD Flo 5 years ago
He's only that rich because so many continue to buy stuff from him. It boils down to responsibility, you can't change Jeff, you can't force him to be a good leader to his workers. But you can stop giving him your money and allowing him to continue on his merry way. But that requires thought and choice making. As you spend more with decent companies, they will hire more people, allowing the Amazon-poor to find better work. It all starts with us-the consumers.
#22
Human Skin Bindings
Anthropodermic bibliopegy. That is the proper name for binding books with human leather rather than another animal’s. A morbid practice that was occasionally done in the 19th century and earlier. Some of the resulting books are now conserved in the Harvard Library at Harvard University.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
It happened. I don't know how many books were originally bound that way, but I know it happened more than people thought. There was minimal difference to using human v.s. animal hide. The human skinned books creep me out less than what happened during the holocaust. Some of the Jews who had tattoo's were killed and their skin was used for lamp shades. Their hair was used to stuff pillows, and trust me when I say that you do not want to look to much further into that. It got pretty disturbing, especially Ilse Koch. Man, google at you're own risk, but there are more Human remains used for things than a lot of people know. Not like Ed Gein, but still, you'd be surprised.
Karen Johnston 5 years ago
Of course, I had to look her up. But if I read correctly, she and her husband were actually arrested by the Nazis at one point. How awful of a human being do you have to be to have the truly awful people think you're awful? I can't even think.
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Mark 5 years ago
Yeah but for how many copies get sold they would run out ;)
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GeneralZod 5 years ago
Intentionally killing a human for their skin for binding is horrific. However, if someone dies and we repurpose their skin it seems like a pretty cool recycling / organ donation process. I personally would love to have a part of me live forever bound as my favorite book when I die.
Virgil Blue 5 years ago
The resting place of the necronomnicon confirmed? Klaata verata *mumbles in hand*
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
This drawing isn't partcullary funny. And even if.. I think that humor is a perfect weapon against disturbing things.
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BlueCustardAngel 5 years ago
Ummmmmm why? "It's puts the lotion on it's skin! I need to bind a book again!"
Carolina Marshall 5 years ago
http://www.humanleather.com/ they used to buy human skin, without scars, I don't remember the price, but it was high. They do wallets, belts and book covers.
#23
Strip Club Church
From outside, “the Manor” in Guelph, Ontario could look like any other strip club. But it isn’t: it offers social housing to people who are recovering from addiction, live in poverty, or are just out of prison; its owner has taken the endeavour to help the poor; and a Christian pastor has been hosting a weekly service there for the past six years.
Mike Crow 5 years ago
why do North Americans think nudity is bad? You see guns and violence (including death) on shows and movies are deemed acceptable for children but as soon as nudity is involved everyone freaks out.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Because they equate nudity with sex. As if naked automatically means you'll do the horizontal tango.
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Chris Watson 5 years ago
Strip clubs are not a great idea. What happens after horney men leave the premises? I hated when my boss went to a strip club at lunch. It was difficult going into his office after these excursions. Did he see me as a valued team member? Or a piece of a*s? It was wrong.
#24
Gate Tower Building
Osaka is home of the Gate Tower Building (Gēto Tawā Biru), a 16-storeys tower opened in 1992 and designed by architects Azusa Sekkei and Yamamoto-Nishihara Kenchiku Sekkei Jimushō. Three of it floors are crossed by a motorway, going through a large hole in the building. The road does not touch the building and is held by a bridge, while the elevator go straight from level 4 to level 8.
Lauren Ringel 5 years ago
Several in Atlanta, GA have interstates (since 3 share the same road at one point) passing under them. I would be so distracted if I worked in one of them with a window.
Id row 5 years ago
With how many earthquakes they have, I'm surprised they take so many architectural risks.
#25
Visiting Stonehenge
The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge in South West England was built around 5000 to 4000 years ago and believed to have been a burial ground and to have been used for spiritual purposes. It has since become one of the most well-known landmarks, and has been forever attracting visitors. It’s very recently that the site has been protected: the land has had many owners before finally becoming public, buildings – now removed – has been built near to it, people would chisel off bits of rocks to take home as souvenirs, and until 1977 indeed, it was allowed to climb on the rocks.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Its no coincidence that the majority of the damage to the stones happened in the late 19th and mid 20th century, when they became famous but had no protection.
Chewie Baron 5 years ago
The had plenty of protection as until around the 1920s they were privately owned.
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Mel Mann Wa 5 years ago
Doesnt it bother anyone to think that these stone structures have lasted 4 or 5 thousand years without being vandalized - potentially viewed as a hands off for posterity treasure to be protected and valued. Then we come along being terrorists to precious antiquities - Is it that we have no concept of something being so special that we treat it with respect? Do we not know what respect for things or people means anymore? When did parents stop teaching respect and decent behavior? I've noticed so many illegal or illicit or simply plain wrong actions and over steps these days and trying to figure out when and how it started. Respect for our history is lax in fact most schools don't include the real histories and have been replaced with a softer or totally false version. Stonehenge history included - as someone in this site actually said " what is stonehenge?"
Carolann Bennett 5 years ago
I graduated in 1971 and toured Europe. I was thrilled to be able to walk among the monoliths and touch them.
Amy Grant 5 years ago
you can still do that during summer solstice (well, at least hug the stones )
Carol Taylor 5 years ago
the first time my parents went to Stone Henge, they were able to walk right up to them..When l visited for the first time in 06 they were fenced off, but before leaving the field there was one stone left that you COULD touch/have photo's against..the next time l visited they'ed moved the visitor centre, still had the rope going around (interesting fact: they use the rope with removable poles so they can move the path around the stones..this way the grass doesn't get completely worn down to mud in one place) and the single stone you can no longer get up close to..
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People became stupid and spray painted graffiti on the stones. They are all blocked off now for years. Can't get near them.
mermaidgirl960 5 years ago
Time to take the time machine so I can break the law! :D Although, it's not TECHNICALLY breaking the law... 😏
Rebecca McManus 5 years ago
I have a photo of me in the 70s climbing on one of the stones at Stonehenge, i can confirm that this is correct
#26
Timeline
We often think of dinosaurs as all living in a period far in the past. But the Mesozoic Era, as it is called, lasted from 250 million to 66 million years ago. In other words, it lasted almost three times longer than the time that separate us from it now. An early dinosaur like Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago. A later specimen like Tyrannosaurus lived around 67 million years ago. As for humans, the earliest australopiths appeared 4 millions years ago.
Dat1grl 5 years ago
I’ve heard t-Rex and triceratops didn’t exist at the same time, but not sure about the validity 😊
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
And Cleopatra was closer to us now than she was to the time when the pyramids were built.
#27
Mount Everest Casualties
More than 300 people have died on the Everest since it was first climbed about a hundred years ago. Since removing the bodies is a dangerous enterprise in itself, and a very expensive one, most are kept on the mountain, frozen on location. In recent years, climbing the mountain has become more popular and a record number of permits has been issued, leading the paths to be overcrowded and the risks of accidents higher – meaning even more fatal ascents.
Mark 5 years ago
Yeee, knew this one, sadly it is also a mess of discarded equipment as well, mostly used oxygen cylinders.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Nothing says, "I'm on top of the world!" like pollution.
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chi-wei shen 5 years ago (edited)
Turn around when you reach the corpse with a green jackett. It's a dead end...
Tracey Hirt 5 years ago
Mount Everest is now overcrowded and even more dangerous. Climbers wait in line at the summit to take selfies, using up precious oxygen and risking running out on the descent before reaching breathable air. Last year was the deadliest climbing season in history. merlin_155...15c84f.jpg 
Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
the top is covered in trash and the trail is covered in trash and human waste. Stop desecrating mountains to serve your egos, humans.
Claire Armstrong 5 years ago
Just why, why do people want to do things like this! My mind boggles! I'd never do it because I know I'd bloody die doing it!
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
And a ton of garbage, from what I understand. Generally left by the rich & entitled who can afford to climb there. Be respectful. You want a movie about Everest, watch "Vertical Limit", it embodies everything I just said.
#28
The Origins Of Hello
“Ahoy”. The nautical greeting could have been the first thing you say on the phone if the preferences of Alexander Graham Bell were followed. Rather, it is “Hello”, preferred by Thomas Edison and printed in the How-To guides of many early telephone books, that was adopted by the first telephone users. Its use then escaped the telephone lines to become the word we know today. Until then however, “Hello” wasn’t used as a greeting. It could express surprise of call for attention, but was not meant to mean “Hi”.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
That was a common farewell I heard in the 90’s.
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Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
Before this people would say, "I bid you salutations appropriate to the time of this fine day"
Logan Slaughter 5 years ago
Bell wanted it to be "Ahoy." You can see this in the Simpsons episode where Homer runs a telemarketing scheme, and Mr. Burns answers the phone that way. Makes sense, given his age.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Mr burns always answers with ahoy-hoy, now I know why ^-^ lol probably a point to how old he is, having used telephones since their invention
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Mexicans answer the phone with "bueno," which means "good"; Israelis answer the phone saying "ken," which means "yes".
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Our household greeting has always been much like it was on the old farms - when a rider would yell out "Hello the House!" so as not to get shot as he rode up. Most of the men in my family were seafarers, so to hear "Ahoy, Ahoy!" meant they were home again safe.
Denny Cwiek 5 years ago
Think I'll start using "Ahoy" as a greeting now that I can explain it's history!
James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
Most countries all over the world use the greeting "hello" when answering the phone then any word of their own language
TheHerplover 5 years ago
Yeah, Einstein actually invented it. It has the sound waves that travel best and clearest through the phone lines
#29
Dirty Phones
Most people don’t clean their phone and most people touch about 3,000 times a day. That's a lot less cleaning and a lot more touching than what happens to a toilet seat or flush. A study found a higher amount of bacteria, yeast and mould on phones than on toilets. Keyboards, mice and trackpads are also concerned.
T Simmons 5 years ago
I hate this type of “fact”. Yes, more bacteria than a toilet seat but the bacteria in the toilet seat will make you seriously ill while the bacteria on your phone is common all over your hands and lips and will not cause you harm
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Yeah but you'd be horrified at how often fecal matter is found in places that are not bathrooms including one out of six smartphones.
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AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
I am sure the study found "mold", not "mould" on the phones. And, as far as "dirtiness" is concerned, in the sense of of potential for a pathological organism to cause an illness, the type of microorganism is likely more important than the quantity.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Just clean it once per week with one of those computer screen wipes.
Kaisu 5 years ago
You touch things outside that other people have touched and then you transfer those germs to your phone when you touch it. Unless you wash your hands every single time prior to using your phone
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Nobel Peace Prize
No Nazi party forcing their way into it: it was a joke. Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt, an antifascist member of the Swedish parliament, nominated Adolf Hitler as a satirical comment on the nomination of Neville Chamberlain, UK prime minister who had just declared war on Germany. Brandt didn’t mean for his nomination to be taken seriously, and as soon as it was, he sent a letter to withdraw the application.
Linus Nilsson 5 years ago
I never understood why this is such an interesting fact. The nomination for the peace prize is open to anyone. That does not mean that the commitee has to consider it. If I'm not wrong I think Putin has been nominated each year the last six years
Saulius Stulga 5 years ago
B. Hussein Obama got Nobel peace prize after he droped bombs on the Afganistan in the 2009
Country Nana 5 years ago
Yassir Arafat also won the Nobel Peace Prize. No surprises about Hitler then.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
On Jan. 2, 1939, Hitler was named Man of the Year by Time magazine.
#31
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Chonky Lilo 5 years ago
If you notice the stages of a bruise resolving you can get all these colors; first red, then blue, followed by green then yellow (look up stages of bruise healing)
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And purple, and white! And in humans, it is EXTREMELY rare, but a defect in our blood can cause us to have "gold" blood!
Chonky Lilo 5 years ago
Found this on the web https://animalhow.com/animals-blue-green-white-yellow-blood-color/
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chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Someone complaint about the delivery of the wrong grade of copper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
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chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Because some poeple have parties where they use the phrase "hold my beer" which often ends in the nearest hospital.
Julia Daxenbichler 5 years ago
Does that...Does that include your actual birthday, as in the day your mother gave birth to you?
Iva Kazalova 5 years ago
It’s about the partying. I’d never broken anything in my life and three years ago, after going out for my birthday, although it wasn’t on the actual day, i woke up with a broken clavicle, no idea how
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J Rob 5 years ago
The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. 1707–c.1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
My vagina hurts just thinking of that. I hope she had lots of nanny’s!
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Probably only 20 made it to adulthood. Kids died easily back then.
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xiaomiao 5 years ago
So she has 69 kids, sorry, but that's a great number, and she still isn't important enough to be known by her own name, just as the wife of.....
Jon S. 5 years ago
Her name was never recorded. Her existence is only known because after her death her husband remarried and (allegedly) had a similar, incredible number of children with his second wife (who also went un-named). As far as I know the claim was never verified and was essentially a 'friend of a friend story' from an English merchant reporting on characters in Russia.
Load More Replies... LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
Geez... I'd like to think all these children were a product of a loving relationship between a husband and wife, but the more likely scenario is that the guy couldn't keep it in his pants
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A study on the sleeping habits of 3,000 British citizens figured out, along that many have sleep troubles, that 3:44 in the middle of the night was the most common time to wake up.
TheHerplover 5 years ago
They don't. They just rig air horns in everyone's house to go off at 3:43.59
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Karen Johnston 5 years ago
I sleep terribly. And after reading this, yeah, this is about the time I always wake up.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Oh my gosh. I have never made that connection. You lugg luggage!
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57 billion disposable pairs of chopsticks are used yearly in China. The national forestry office reports that 3.8 million trees are needed to make them. About 45% are made of cotton wood, birch, and spruce, and the rest is made from bamboo.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
At least they’re biodegradable. Still think they should use reusable ones though
Pearl_TheRapperLOL 5 years ago
Guys on the Boredpanda FAQ you can choose to report a post. I hope that goe for comments you post because I filled one out for that stupid jerk 100 times at least
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This is the number per person. About the same amount of plastic particles are breathed during a year. And the actual numbers are likely far higher. Researchers find microscopic plastic particles about anywhere: air, soil and water; food and beverages. Drinking bottled water for instance lead to more than three times the intake of plastic than drinking tap water.
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Fish Boden 5 years ago
My god, the assonance in that sentence is so satisfying! The alliteration is also nice. Is this a real saying?
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
And yet women can't get functional pockets in their trousers.
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Kaisu 5 years ago
What good does the warning do, can the trees do anything to protect themselves?
Jon S. 5 years ago
They can release chemicals, produce new growth or shed easily affected parts. They can also produce more seeds/clones to increase the chance of their genes surviving should the parent die.
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Arrow and Ace 5 years ago
Fun fact: Some researchers let a caterpillar eat the same plant every day for awhile, and then played the sound of the caterpillar eating the leaves without them actually being eaten. The plant produced toxins when it heard the caterpillar (whether or not it was there), and produced more toxins. My source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-014-2995-6
Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/
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Claire Armstrong 5 years ago
Quick, lock him up, that's terrible, unbelievable! Lock him up for that! Lol
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Jack Nimble 5 years ago
It's still a home for filthy animals if you ask me *elbows your ribs*
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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Hm, why? Would it be better if we fed them cows or sheep? Meat is meat.
Load More Replies... Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
No. No sorry, this is horrible. I hate mistreated animals and this has too many.
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Esca Sav 5 years ago
Dead a**, I saw a woman throw a fish at her husband once in Walmart.... It has a special effect on communities....
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Łukasz Markuszewski 5 years ago
It may be connected to the fact, that crime is more common in poor areas, and as Walmart is unexpensive store, poor people shopping there more often, and Walmart is being placed more often in the poor areas.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Normal Walmart shoppinglist: 2 rolls of ducttape, 50 square feet of tarp, 3 knives and 1 axe
Toni Carroll 5 years ago
turn it around. The larger the city, the more Walmarts. The larger the city, the more crime.
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Mark 5 years ago
I would love to know what the SSID is and what is the password.
Load More Replies... Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
I like the idea that the Ark was like, a radio or receiver. This is just keeping with the faith ;)
Terd Fergison 5 years ago
Churches generally don't like wifi. They don't like competing with an invisible source that actually works.
Turnip and a Frog 5 years ago
“That ALSO serves as a wif-fi antenna”, aside its main purpose, which is, you know, nothing.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
In 5G the G stands for God. And that's more proof that 5G spreads Corona. /S
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chris maya 5 years ago (edited)
Not really because of peto’s paradox.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1AElONvi9WQ
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Mark 5 years ago
Quite easily, the inside of the lunar lander is pressurised, they aren't wearing a full space suit all the time while in there, poop in a bag, chuck it outside, don't want to be carrying un-necessary weight.
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They did, how else did you think it got on the moon, do you think he dropped his trousers and did it on the surface :)
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Hans 5 years ago
This is a stupid fact. Anything with high amounts of carbon can theoretically be turned into diamonds.
Makayla Rhodes 5 years ago
I actually did not know you turn things with high carbon could be turned into diamonds
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Lilly Rose Poppy 5 years ago
PEANUT BUTTER IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS EVER CREATED
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Those legs in those boots!! Reminds me of the muddy puppy legs from a while back.
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Valerie G. 5 years ago
Isn't that the same place that banned chewing gum? If you were caught you could face severe punishment.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
In most countries it's considered illegal as an either an act of computercrime or violation of domestic privacy. In the Netherlands it's a computercrime and punished with 1 yeat in prison. If you have also copied some files it's called datatheft and you'll get 4 years.
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Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
My white dog couldn't... always made us laugh when she tried to jump on a sofa and would go 'splat' against it instead. She never hurt herself!!
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Not me. I hate the heat. I love wintertime. So I get up and move more when I am happy.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Nope, Any temperature beneath 20C (68F) forces me in hibernation mode. Must be because none of my ancestors were polar bears.
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Mark 5 years ago (edited)
Who gets the job of recording tortoises while they are making out, wheres that new guy?
earringnut 5 years ago
Fun fact, recordings of tortoises mating, aka tortoise porn, can be used to attract other tortoises.
Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
Haha, was at a water park in Orlando, and they had a pretty cool tortoise exhibit up front with lots of space and two tortoises. One day, you could hear their barking across the park.
#58
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Clove Kentwell 5 years ago
Oh my goodness, I am going to be a terrible drivers, based off of my parents driving.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
The people in my family could have told you this in a heartbeat, as the we've had a pattern for the past 2 generations (as far as we know), which started off with the youngest getting our "bad driver gene", and then the oldest of the next generation.
CbusResident 5 years ago
Don't tell the people here, but genes also have important causative relationships to IQ. Gasp! No wait! You can't say that just because that's what most scientists think! If you say that fact you're a Nazi-Eugenicist who wants to forcibly sterilize people!
Jon S. 5 years ago
They do have an effect, but crucially a much smaller one than education and IQ test training
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Katherine Boag 5 years ago
There is more conflict in lego now. The police sets now have criminals to catch, all the superhero/villain sets, ninjas etc
Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
They have two faces on so many, though! One side is usually happy, the other is their battle face. Remember Good Cop?
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
Everything else too. Just look at dolls, figurines, My Little Ponies and even cars! I can't be the only one who thinks cars have faces. Older cars look so much friendlier.
J Rob 5 years ago
"In a study of 3,655 figures produced between 1975 and 2010, Dr Christoph Bartneck, a robot expert at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, said the manufacturer appeared to be moving towards more conflict-based themes in its toys. Bartneck's study considered the range of facial expressions across various Lego sets – now often in themes such as Star Wars, pirates or Harry Potter."
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kitty_player 03 5 years ago
Unless you use one of those goddamn pencil-eater sharpeners that leave you with a useless nub
BORED AT HOME 5 years ago
But when you sharpen, you take some of the lead off, so you actually do less.
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Saint Thomas 5 years ago
In Laos as well. Happy shake, happy ice cream, happy pizza, you name it. Been there, Don Det.
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Marcin Bulus-Trando 5 years ago
...but some things only once. (yes, I am that old)
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kitty_player 03 5 years ago
You can buy gold dusted whatever these days, but the gold dust acts like cheeto dust: IT GETS EVERYWHERE
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
It doesn't react with anything in your digestive system, so it simply goes through.
Emperor Kitten 5 years ago
Not entirely true. You need a very small amount. But you get all you need from trace minerals in water.
Load More Replies... Tim Douglass 5 years ago
Should probably be read as "gold is non-toxic". Your body can't metabolize it in any way, so it just passes through. There are a lot of things on that list but it hardly makes them "edible".
Tenzin Moore 5 years ago
but not a solid gold bar gold leaf is edible because it is so this one inch of gold can be beaten into 10 square feet of gold
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NavyDave 5 years ago
When you post a meaningless comment just to stop people from seeing spam/racist comments.
Pho3nixGir1 5 years ago
hello beautiful people please dont read the below comments i hope you have a lovely day instead :)
CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
And much of what is 'Made in the USA' can, under US trade regulations, make that statement even though it's actually manufactured in places that are US territories like the Marianas Islands. Even though these places are American territories, the American federal wage, labor and environmental standards don't apply. Sad. But, let's face it, most of us will often grab the cheap-yet-useful product at Walmart or Target or wherever if we can. Maybe what the world needs are global labor, wage and environmental standards.
Dat Bored Pugtato =0= 5 years ago
Ah. But the t-shirt says USA not US (this is a joke don’t take it seriously)
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DKS 001 5 years ago
and yet, men love that deeper voice in women. So ......
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NavyDave 5 years ago
When you have to post yet another meaningless comment to black out racist/spam comments.
Ivy Colburn 5 years ago
Actually,the Prophet Mohammed popularised the use of the first toothbrush in around the 7th Century, using a twig from the Miswak tree. The twig not only cleaned his teeth but freshened his breath, and was naturally anti-bacterial. It is still in use today, with many muslims choosing to utilise it instead of the usual toothbrush-toothpaste combo, due to its strong connection with religion and hygeine :)
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago
Dat Bored Pugtato =0=: loving the way you're spraying down that pesk
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Mark 5 years ago
Well the Ottoman empire existed till about 1920 and Nintendos first products were playing cards so......
Dat1grl 5 years ago
Google: “ On September 23 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai, a small Japanese business based in Kyoto, Japan, which produced and marketed a playing card game called Hanafuda. The name Nintendo translates to "leave luck to heaven." “
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Mark 5 years ago
And in ancient Greece they used to refer to the sky as bronze, they had no word for blue at the time.
Jon S. 5 years ago
That is a myth, they had lots of words for blue. What they also had was a system of describing things by the lustre as well as colour. So 'the sky was a lustrous as bronze' is more accurate.
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In German it was dark yellow or yellow-red, depending on the shade of orange.
earringnut 5 years ago
In English it was just"red" as in redheads, robin red breast, etc.
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Dat Bored Pugtato =0= 5 years ago
I SAW THIS WHEN I WAS WORKING AT CONCESSION STAND. why do they do that?
Jon S. 5 years ago
The standard coke contains dissolved sugar and so the liquid is denser than water. The amount of sweetener in diet coke is minuscule in comparison (artificial sweeteners are much sweeter by weight), so the presence of an air gap makes it lighter than water.
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Charlotte Sandoval 5 years ago
Heels were originally invented FOR men, by a very short French king who wanted to be taller. It took a long time, if I remember right, for them to be seen as acceptable for women to wear
Emperor Kitten 5 years ago
They were invented independently at least 3 times. The short king, for horse riders to keep they're feet in stirrups, and by butchers to keep they're feet out of blood.
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Roy Loayza 5 years ago
I get amused the first time i heard this fact. Was common to wear pantyhouse, some type of underware even makeup, if i remember well, before women start to use them.
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Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
ambergris. a lot of perfumes use synthetic versions, herding whales to get the vomit is illegal
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YoyoSthlm 5 years ago
What is that classified as? I mean, what do they call it in the ingredients list? I don't want to buy that.
Daenarys 5 years ago
It's called pearl essence or pearlescence. It's the silvery stuff found in fish scales that's used in some lipsticks, nail polishes, ceramic glazes, etc., to make them shimmery. Most shimmery lipsticks use this.
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Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
January is a very popular month to seek divorce - have family who are divorce lawyers.
Bonnie Jarrett 5 years ago
Makes sense considering that's when the ex-husband asked for a divorce...
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Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
Personally, I just want one that fits into my minuscule hand for a change...
elia 84631 5 years ago
Wow, those phones are better than mainstream Huawei and other chinese phones
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
This was extremely common in Roman times. Many people had no cooking place in their homes.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Which made sense in cities, since they lived in multi-level buildings on narrow streets. Just imagine all the open flames if everyone was cooking at home!
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
I used to work for a guy that refused to hire left-handed people. He said that any time he was ever cheated in business or stolen from or had a deal go bad, it was a left-handed person that did it.
Panda Kicki 5 years ago
This one is a long lived myth. Based on faulty assumotions. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23988352
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NavyDave 5 years ago
The vatican state is about half a square kilometer big, and it has one pope. Sooo...
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
It happened as late as 1931 in some parts of the US. Source, my grandmother and her brother were mailed to their relatives after being abandoned shortly after arriving to this country.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
In the case of my grandmother, once her relatives were located, she and her brother were taken to the post office in New York City with an addressed letter, some food, and rope that was wound between their coat sleeves to keep them together. The postage was paid for the letter and the children were told to stay with the letter. It got them all the way to Kentucky, riding on the mail trains and trucks. It took them 5 days and they slept in train stations and post offices along the way. She was 6 so she doesn't know the cost, but she knows that one postal worker took her and her brother home with him so they could have a proper meal and a bath.
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Jon S. 5 years ago
To quote terry Pratchett. "No mushroom is inedible, but some are only edible once."
Load More Replies... Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
I see plenty of people drinking black coffee which is basically just flavoured boiling water.
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Jon S. 5 years ago
I have to switch the radio off if I am driving in an unfamiliar place. Apparently my ears and eyes don't work at the same time.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
That's actually accurate. A lot of people will do it without thinking about it if they're trying to enhance one focus, basically by reducing or removing the sound input your brain and switch more functions to the optical inputs and sort through it faster. Same how people close their eyes to smell something or listen to something.
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J 3lack 5 years ago (edited)
I found music necessary when learning but later in life I've found it to be distracting. I think it can be good for calming anxieties which can make you hyper vigilante and over compensatory behind the wheel but if your calm it just serves as another sensory input that will draw your attention away from the task at hand.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
This makes sense. While listening to a favorite metal tune I have a tendency to speed.
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Claire 5 years ago (edited)
Wire wheels are really bad for small animals. Please don't use one as they can injure and kill hamsters, mice, and other small animals. Their paws or tail can get caught among other things. Hamster balls are also bad for some of the same reasons: their toes can get caught in the cracks, their tail can be injured along with them not being able to 'see' with their whiskers (rodents rely much more on their whiskers and noise to sense the world than sight). Using these are common mistakes but please don't let your animals run in a wire wheel or a ball.
Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
Hamster balls are awful things. I'm always amazed when I hear some numpty claim their hamster 'loves it'. Hamsters’ sight is very poor, the senses of touch, smell and hearing are vital means of exploring their environment. Being enclosed in an exercise ball could restrict the hamster’s use of these senses and could compromise their ability to gain information about the environment, which is likely to be very stressful for the hamster.
Load More Replies... plush n puppet shenanigans 5 years ago
i cant even run 5.5 miles in i 24 hours, let alone in one night
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
After some practicing we found that that indeed was the best way to use them.
Load More Replies... Chonky Lilo 5 years ago
Yeah, the picture is misleading. Should be with the top part of the skull being used similar to a bowl.
Kel Gal 5 years ago
Skills have several holes in them. I wonder how they kept the liquids from falling out even when turned upside down.
Jon S. 5 years ago
I've seen the pictures of the 'cups' and I also wonder this. Perhaps they used a resin or liner to block the sutures. Also possible they were for food rather than drink.
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CbusResident 5 years ago
Exactly, take these 'facts' with a grain of salt.
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Julia Daxenbichler 5 years ago
It's kind of sad that those wild animals are "owned" by somebody.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Yeah, and that is one of the reasons why our zoo entry is so f*****g expensive ($38 for an adult). We had 2 Pandas on loan for 10 years and have just renewed for another 10 years. W**g w**g and Funi.
Valerie G. 5 years ago
meanwhile the zoo in Calgary, Alberta can't get the bamboo they need and are sending their pandas back. Due to the pandemic, the shipments are not getting through from China.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
so maybe them RENTING OUT THEIR PANDAS TO PEOPLE is one of the reasons they're going extinct?
Jon S. 5 years ago
In the last 10 years panda breeding programs have been doing really well. It just took us a long time to figure out how to replicate natural courtship. Stick a male and a female in the same cage expecting sex and they will just fight. Renting the pandas out helps prevent inbreeding.
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Mark 5 years ago
Unlikely, he probably clogged up the press and no one else knew how to fix it ;)
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Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
With uber eats and grubhub this has gotten even easier and happens more often. Most of the time, the restaurants drivers won't.
Dat Bored Pugtato =0= 5 years ago
I doubt it. That’s a health and food violation in companies and can most likely be sued.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
If only you knew the truth. Why do you think Uber and the other new delivery companies have the restaurants put tamper stickers on the bags? They do that so you can personally tell if the product has been tampered with in some way.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
That' s cheap. “Orange, Red, Yellow” by Mark Rothko did $87 million. And it's a painting of.....
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Lorraine R 5 years ago
That's why it's a good idea to pick out a cut of meat at the store and have them grind it for you.
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A2Bros 5 years ago
And the one would be starving ;))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Load More Replies... GARRETT O'BANION 5 years ago
I burn 100 calories every minute i play video games. Its called stress
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Patrick McKemie 5 years ago
I have a friend who farts a lot. I think he might be dead on the inside.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
And if a pregnant woman is buried the gases can push the baby out.
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Hans 5 years ago
Stupid fact...there are many gravity deviations earth, making you some grams heavier here and there. There are many reasons for that, beginning with earth not being a perfect sphere.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
I live in area where there's very high gravity. If affects my scales very bad.
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Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
10 metres below sea level then? Are there no postboxes at the Dead Sea in Israel? (430.5 metres below sea level)
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
None, if you keep up with your mouse-click regimen.
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*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
If Jerry had 600 bars of chocolate and he ate half of those in 1 sitting, what does he have now? Diabetes, Karen. Jerry has diabetes now.
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Mark 5 years ago
Although you would need to learn to walk again but I suppose having a thumb is more useful.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
It is extremely useful. I dislocated mine once and had it in splint for a month, therefore, being unable to use it. It's a nightmare. Opening doors or jars and all kinds of mundane things become really difficult.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
It's because they feel the cold hand of mortality brushing the back of their neck.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
For women it doesn't matter at what number their age ends.... https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-are-millennial-women-cheating-more-than-men
Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
That's equality for you. Though what they define as cheating is wider as they include emotional cheating and not just physical.
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Isabel Care 5 years ago
Depends on how thickly it's spread as to how many football fields are covered
Hurrem Haseki 5 years ago
What is with americans and football fields!?! And why, oh why, don't you use the metric system as the rest of the world?!?
Corey Smith 5 years ago
The creators are not from the US, and a soccer (football) field is shown.
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Saint Thomas 5 years ago
Well, first you float, then you sink, then after a few days you float back up again.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
They love it so much that they drown in it. Most humane and eco friendly way to get rid of them.
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Maria Ivanilova 5 years ago
They worn footwraps. It is a rectangular piece of cloth that is worn wrapped around the feet to avoid chafing, absorb sweat and improve the foothold. And they work a lot better than socks because you wrap then to your liking and can add extra buffer in places you usually chaff in boots, so many soldiers complain about new sock policy.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Yeah, like most us. I don't wear them in the shower or in bed for example.
Cip IESAN 5 years ago
For nine month (sept. 1986 - june 1987) I served in the Romanian Army (Air Force) and I can tell you there were no footwraps. Even in the '70!
ADHORTATOR 5 years ago
did the Air Force use these kind of old school boots?
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Lea S. 5 years ago
Yes - the one equivocating cleaning to smoking two packs a day is disgusting.
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Thomas 5 years ago
The Jeff Bezos one is a common misconception: people that become super rich through their company have their wealth tied to their company's stock. They don't have that money available to spend. If they were selling their stock to get all as cash, the price would crash before they could do it. Essentially they can claim that amount of money as long as they don't try to spend it.
GirlFriday 5 years ago (edited)
This is 100% true. Someone's worth and their actual wealth are two completely different things. I often see this about Jeff Bezos and the c**p he takes for having so much money and how he should give it all away, and think, but he doesn't HAVE that much money. If he cashed in his WORTH, the economy would collapse and Amazon and other companies would go under.
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Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I noticed Ching Chong Xhin always had something positive to say. If I ever meet him in real life, I’ll be sorely tempted to arrange a meeting with God for him. Racist little a*****e
Lea S. 5 years ago
Yes - the one equivocating cleaning to smoking two packs a day is disgusting.
Load More Replies... Thomas 5 years ago
The Jeff Bezos one is a common misconception: people that become super rich through their company have their wealth tied to their company's stock. They don't have that money available to spend. If they were selling their stock to get all as cash, the price would crash before they could do it. Essentially they can claim that amount of money as long as they don't try to spend it.
GirlFriday 5 years ago (edited)
This is 100% true. Someone's worth and their actual wealth are two completely different things. I often see this about Jeff Bezos and the c**p he takes for having so much money and how he should give it all away, and think, but he doesn't HAVE that much money. If he cashed in his WORTH, the economy would collapse and Amazon and other companies would go under.
Load More Replies... Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I noticed Ching Chong Xhin always had something positive to say. If I ever meet him in real life, I’ll be sorely tempted to arrange a meeting with God for him. Racist little a*****e
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