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It’s clear that one simply can’t know everything there is to know about, but that never stopped a curious mind from learning. Luckily, in the age of the internet, it has never been easier; with just a few clicks you can reach information about anything and everything that interests you.
You can also start a discussion with fellow netizens in a matter of a couple of clicks, too, and that’s exactly what the redditor u/Jdavies44 did. They were curious to learn about interesting facts few people knew about so they asked fellow redditors to share them, and they discussed some rather fascinating things. If you’re curious to read about them, too, wait no longer and scroll down to find their answers on the list below.
Below you will also find our interview with a behavioral expert, author of Cracking the Curiosity Code, Dr. Diane Hamilton, who was kind enough to answer a few of Bored Panda’s questions about how fun facts, curiosity, and learning intertwine.
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#1
You can actually use the turn signal on your car to warn other drivers that you're turning or changing lanes.
°CORLEONE° 1 year ago
I agree, and not many people know that turning the signal does not give you the right of way to be in front of someone if they do not let you.
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Turn signals are subscription options on Audi and BMW.
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
Not just other drivers! Also show pedestrians and cyclists what your intentions are!
Wang Zhuang 1 year ago
Uh...if you're driving and you don't know this, you shouldn't be driving.
Papa 1 year ago
It's sarcasm. People do know that, but too many of them still don't use their turn signals.
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#2
In mid-2000s Kagoshima, Japan, an alarming rise in power blackouts was traced back to crows who were building their nests on top of electric poles. The power company formed a “Crow Patrol” in order to seek and destroy the crows’ nests. The crows responsed by building thousands of dummy nests as decoys.
The war is ongoing.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 1 year ago
Well, I guess we all know who is going to win this war, don't mess with crows
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Us aussies tried launching a millitary campaign against emu's around the time of WW1 and lost. We were the first army in the pacific to halt the advance of the japenease empire in WW2 and yet just a few decades earlier we were defeated by birds. DO NOT underestimate the birds...
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Mark 1 year ago
As an Australian, we are required to give the Japanese some advice Screenshot...da-png.jpg 
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Came back to this post to say that this is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. I was laughing to myself half the morning about this. Why this isn’t part of the modern history curriculum in Australia I will never understand
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Australia has a poor record when it comes to bird wars.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Don't even ask China how the war on sparrows ended for them... (Several million people died due to a famine as result)
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Sue User 1 year ago (edited)
Solution: build dummy power poles. Spike the top of the real power poles.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
There!s an even simpler answer: Put a small platform above the top of the pole, so that the birds can build a nest without coming into contact with the wires.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
If a group of crows band together against you, there's a murder in your future.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
If history taught us one thing then it is that you can't win a war against birds
Lee Stone 1 year ago
They use tools, reward behavior in other creatures, can easily solve puzzles that require cooperation, and can even count out loud. Crows are brilliant.
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Not mind-blowing but worth sharing: There are more libraries in the US than there are Starbucks.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
There are. Looked it up. 15,873 Starbucks v 9,057 public libraries.
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
It seems like more people could do with going to the library than going to Starbucks there, though. Support your local library!
Hans Georg 1 year ago
My city has a library, but no Starbucks. Something I can be proud of.
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Jennik 1 year ago
Probably a fairly universal statistic. NZ has 332 public libraries and 37 Starbucks.
Bec 1 year ago
It doesn't specify public, so I wonder if we are counting all of the University libraries too?
Load More Replies... David Brown 1 year ago
Too bad it seems people aren't utilizing them. Starbucks probably gets more visitors.
Seeking to delve deeper into how curiosity correlates with learning, Bored Panda got in touch with Dr. Diane Hamilton, who pointed out that such a link is found not only in humans.
“Curiosity, a fundamental aspect of learning and knowledge, is not exclusive to humans,” she said in a recent interview. “The Max Planck Institute introduced the term ‘curiosity gene’ based on researching a songbird. Imagine a bird that lacks curiosity. It may fly around a bush, searching for berries, but if it doesn't venture to explore other bushes, it will perish once the berries are depleted. Curiosity not only facilitates learning and knowledge, but also triggers a sense of reward in our brains, thanks to the release of dopamine.”
#4
The weirdest animal in the world is the jellyfish called the Portuguese Man ‘o War (also called a bluebottle in Australia).
It gives birth via a process called “budding”, where a new animal just sort of pops off a random place on the jelly. But it doesn’t give birth to whole other jellyfish. It gives birth to many different types of animal-like creatures called “zooids”. They live on the bottom of the jelly, live independently from each other, but can’t survive without the others.
For instance, there’s a zooid that can digest fish, but can’t catch them. There’s a tentacle zooid that can catch fish, but can’t digest them. There are also several other zooids like that. Scientists have been scratching their heads about how to classify this creature, and are calling it a colony rather than an animal.
And that leads to an interesting question. What is the organism? Is it the zooid, because it moves around independently, but can’t really survive very long on its own? Or is it the whole jellyfish, in which case the zooids are a bit like organs, except for the fact that they might go for a walk occasionally?
And if you say that the whole jellyfish is the organism, maybe bees aren’t an organism either, but a beehive is?
That’s the problem with classification systems. As soon as you make one, along comes some weird example that makes you have to start again.
Jennik 1 year ago
This probably doesn't count as an incredible fact that people don't know, but is a whole more relevant if you are at the beach: DON'T TOUCH THEM! We had this drilled into us as kids. The sting isn't usually deadly but it is extremely painful and can make you very unwell.
RabidChild 1 year ago
Even dead on the beach their tentacles(?) can leave a nasty sting, no touch! Also when you see them floating on the surface get away! I was snorkeling and looked up to see a small one (looks like a bag floating in the water) and it's body hit the side of my hand and it's tentacles got me across my stomach. It HURTS!
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Wang Zhuang 1 year ago (edited)
It's actually not a jellyfish, though. It's called a Siphonophore
#5
Otters have pouches in their sides they keep their favourite rocks in for smashing open clams. It's not just simians that use tools.
Uncanny 1 year ago
Even otters have pockets. Not us women, tho! Where are we supposed to keep our clam smashing rocks? In our bra? 😉
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Well, they used to be known as over the shoulder boulder holders, so yes, I guess.
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Becky Samuel 1 year ago (edited)
Not all otters. This is speifically about sea otters. That picture (at time of posting) is definitely not a sea otter.
james stevenson 1 year ago
"No, not that one.. That's the wrench... Hold on it's in here somewhere..."
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Crows, ravens and other birds are known to use rocks as tools too. The thing that makes humans special is we actually shape and craft our tools instead of using whatever is at hand. Homo Erectus was making hand axes and Homo Habilis was using actual bows a million years ago.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
Crows can seemingly make tools out of multiple components: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-10-24-new-caledonian-crows-can-create-tools-multiple-parts#:~:text=The%20New%20Caledonian%20crows%20(Corvus,by%20bending%20a%20pliable%20material.
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The author of Cracking the Curiosity Code noted that we’re not equally curious throughout our entire lives. “We are born with high levels of curiosity that peak around five and then diminish dramatically as we grow older,” she told Bored Panda.
“That same peak and drop happens to creativity as well. In his incredible TED talk about whether schools kill creativity, Sir Ken Robinson acknowledged that we have created an educational system that educates people out of their competencies. To fulfill 19th-century industrial job requirements, we created a hierarchy in education where math and science were at the top, and creative thinking was at the bottom. As education rewarded top-tiered skills like math and science more often, the system became about creating more academics, which in turn undervalued undergraduate degrees. This then caused more and more top-tiered skilled degrees to be made. Not surprisingly, such a system has harmed curiosity and creativity, which are fundamental for innovation.”
#6
Lake Superior. on that lake is an island called Isle Royale. on that island is a lake. on that lake is an island. on that island is a pond, and on that pond is boulder. that boulder is the largest island on the largest pond on the largest island on the largest lake on the largest island on the largest lake in the world (by surface area).
Jennik 1 year ago
Sounds like the story: "In the dark, dark, wood, there's a dark, dark house. And in the dark, dark house...."
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead. When the skies of November turn gloomy.
Bad Alchemy 1 year ago (edited)
🎶🎵🎵🎵🎶 There's a hole in the bottom of the sea. There's a hole in the bottom of the sea. There's a hole. There's a hole. There's a hole in the bottom of the sea. 🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵 Sing along with me! https://youtu.be/UK6UNRnbfnw
Speak easy buttercup 1 year ago
Pretty much the exact same comment as the last one! 😎 Thank u last smoke of the day followed by mind blowing facts!
#7
Switzerland, the country of neutrality, has unintentionally invaded its neighbor Liechtenstein 3-5 times…1968-2007.
3/4 times Liechtenstein didn’t know of it until Switzerland apologized.
The 1/4 was that one time Switzerland fired a missile and caused a forest fire, reparations were paid.
After one incident, the Liechtensteiners reportedly offered drinks to the Swiss soldiers.
A Liechtenstein spokesman said, "It's not like they invaded with attack helicopters".
BoredPossum 1 year ago
"Invaded". Liechtenstein is really small. You can walk through it is an hour. The invasion was a soldier accidentally walking there or something.
Mark 1 year ago
those 3/4 times were just Swiss soldiers on an exercise that just wandered through the forest into Liechtenstein.
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Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Better yet, the canadian/dutch wiskey war over some tiny frozen island; they literally just moved each others flags every so often and left a bottle of wiskey each time for the "enemy"
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John O'Donnell 1 year ago
Liechtenstein sent about a hundred soldiers off to the Napoleonic War. They came back with one more soldier than they set out with.
Hmmm hmmmm 1 year ago
The last time Liechtenstein went to war , with Austria, they sent 80 soldiers out and came back with an extra. Apparently an Austrian friend decided to come and join them
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
We accidentally invaded Spain once (UK). It happens lol. https://www.forces.net/news/time-uk-accidentally-invaded-spain
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
The Liechtenstein spokesman doesn't even care at this point.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Oh, like how british marines accidentally invaded Spain while trying to land at Gibraltar in 2002. To quote the mayor of La Linea (the town at the beach) "They landed on our coast to confront a supposed enemy with typical Commando tactics. But we managed to hold them on the beach."
Major Harris 1 year ago
liechtenstein- the country that was the inspiration for the great late peter sellers' movie, "the mouse that roared". fun cold war comedy!
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
The inspiration was actually the novel "The Mouse That Roared". There are 4 other novels about the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, one prequel, 3 sequels.
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The Amazon River is over 4,000 miles long and doesn't have any bridges that cross it.
Jack Burton 1 year ago (edited)
So 6500 km... That's the distance between Paris and New Delhi. Quite amazing.
Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
Length is one thing, but check how wide it is! 4-5 kilometers during "dry" times, up to 50 km (yes, 50 is not a typo) during rainy times. How do you want to build a bridge over this? Bridge that can cover 5 to 50 kilometers... Some pontoons? The drag would be crazy.
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DC 1 year ago
But, there is means to cross it. Ferries of various kinds. This depends on a whole set of factors ... a bridge is more expensive, in construction as in maintainance, the longer it is. Building and keeping operationable costs the same for every meter, not for every bridge. Therefore, a long bridge will only make more sense than a ferry service, if it is, for long enough time, by enough verhicles, pedestrians and so forth, crossed. Now, the second factor that majorly impacts this, at least in parts of the river, that its actual location isn't constant, but constantly changing, shifting, drying up, being washed out, ... any structure spanning over the river must either vastly exceed it, cover the whole bed, or won't last long there. Ferries are more feasible here, or just not going there, often, would be preferable.
Biana Weatherford 1 year ago
During the dry season, the width of the Amazon River can be 4 km to 5 km in places – and in the wet season, this can increase to 50 km....with a difference like that, it's easy to imagine bridge engineers throwing up their hands with a giant resounding NOPE.
Cindy Brick 1 year ago
Probably because there isn't much need to get to the other side, in most cases. (Yes, I've been on the Amazon.)
DogsAreLife 1 year ago
There are so many amazing facts about the Amazon River! When I went there I felt like I was on a new planet. It's unreal.
“To better understand this impact, look at its effect on children,” Dr. Hamilton continued. “As part of his work with NASA, Professor George Land created an assessment to test for creativity and studied children to view how their levels changed. He found that 98% of children were creative geniuses at age five. By age ten, that number fell to 30%. By age 15, that figure dropped to 12%; by age 31, only 2% were creative geniuses.
“Curiosity is important throughout all stages of our existence. Unfortunately, when our levels drop in adulthood, that can limit us and lead us into jobs we don't love or choices that feel safe rather than rewarding.”
#9
Squirrels can’t find 80% of the nuts they hide.
Mike F 1 year ago
Among other things. They have very sweetly planted a couple of bearded irises and a few tiger lillys at the end of my driveway.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
I have to disagree. Seen a PBS program about squirels. They proved that squirrels actually 90 to 95 percent of the time know where they hide there nuts.
#10
The earliest known public museum dates to circa 530 BCE and it had archeological Mesopotamian artifacts on display.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
I can only imagine what kind of fossil and artifact museums we would have nowadays if we had truly realized their worth back then. So many things destroyed in history..
Excited Panda 1 year ago
Especially due to looting and wars. Museums should be off limits.
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They actually had archeologists in 530 BC. Western history starts at 1AD but there's a ton of history that happened earlier. Enough that BCE archeologist was a legit occupation.
Pedantic Panda 1 year ago
Western history starts at 1AD? What do you mean by this? Lots of Western countries have history stretching back far beyond this.
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#11
In Turkey (the country) turkey meat is called "Hindi" (India).
The danish woman 1 year ago
And in Denmark we call "danish" (the pastry) for "wienerbrød" (bread fom Vienna 😉
Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
And in Berlin, a "Berliner" (effectively a hole-less Donut filled with jam), is not called that, but "Pfannkuchen" (pancake), while in other regions it's called "Krapfen", "Kräppel" or "Puffel". So JFK did not call himself "a donut" when he visited Berlin and said to its people "Ich bin ein Berliner", who excitedly cheered instead of laughing at him, as is sometimes falsely claimed.
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Bexxxx 1 year ago (edited)
Oh my god, as a Canadian who learned French all throughout school….I never made that connection, how interesting! Edit: just googled more, Turkey is North American but called “from India” etc because of the same reasons that the colonizers of the new world called Native Americans “Indians” - makes sense!
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Tolga Küçük 1 year ago
Not "India" actually, it means "Indian" as we thought it was originated from there. Love from Turkey (the country) 😊
“Reading about interesting things is great for our curiosity,” the expert said, discussing how browsing random fascinating facts like the ones on this list can affect one’s curiosity. “Sometimes, we don't know what we don't know, and reading a fun fact can spark the desire to dig deeper. It makes us want to learn more.”
#12
Shirley Temple led an extremely successful life as a diplomat after her childhood acting career. She was present in Czechoslovakia when the Soviet's cracked down on them (as in, she seen people killed). Later after the fall of the USSR, she was the head of establishing diplomatic relations between the US and Czechoslovakia.
David 1 year ago
When she left acting in her 20s, she got involved in politics, and ran for congress as a Republican but lost. However she got involved with Nixon's in 1968 campaign as a result, and in 1969 Kissenger tapped her as a delegate to the 24th United Nations General Assembly. In 1974 President Ford made her ambassador to Ghana for 2 years before Ford recalled her to the US to be appointed as Chief of Protocol of the United States (The official State Department Advisor to the President, Liasson for foreign leaders who visit the US, a Deputy Secretary of State and Ambassador). IN 1989 GW Bush made her ambassador to Czechoslovakia (US had relations with them before her, she replaced Julian Niemczyk, she did the post-communism relations), and she was there during the fall of communism and became a friend of Václav Havel, and used it to build post Cold-War relations with the US. From her retirement in 1993 until her death in 2014, she was active in the GOP, and attended every GOP convention
Son of Philosoraptor 1 year ago
She used to come to the aaa where I worked... she was a gracious and lovely person to us there.
Erica Ventura 1 year ago
I second that! She came into the department store I worked at in the Bay area quite a few times and she was kind to everyone.
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Invisible Potato 1 year ago
i am czech. and i didint know, i only known shirley temple drink....
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Diplomatic rumor was that the first country Nixon tried to appoint her ambassador to refused to accept her, basically saying "Shirley Temple? Are you serious, guy?"
David 1 year ago
For sure a false rumor. He first ambassador post was Ghana under President Ford. Under Nixon she served on the US Delegation to the UN (with a personal recommendation from Kissenger) , and later headed a trade delegation to Europe. She was known as a North West Africa expert during her stint at the UN, which is why Ghana welcomed her in 1974 when Ford promoted her.
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okpkpkp 1 year ago
I was a window cleaner in my youth and I washed the windows in her house/mansion. She lived near Marion Davies—the Woodside area of the San Francisco Peninsula.
#13
Trees communicate.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Trees communicate in at least two ways. One is by releasing chemicals (terpenes) into the air that other trees can smell. A second way is by touching roots, and sending chemical signals through the root contact point. There may be a third way, direct contact between branches.
Robert T 1 year ago
They can also communicate through networks of fungi that surround their roots.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
They also have sex and my sinuses hate it. Tree pollen season is horrible for me.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
The root connections are seriously cool. Fungi attatch themselves to the roots of trees forming mycorrhizal connections and provide the tree with water and nutrients in exchange for gluecose. The fungi can supposedly relay chemical and electrical messages between trees and even allow them to exchange nutrients and feed each other.
Ash 1 year ago
I learned this in the documentary The Hidden Life of Trees. The whole documentary is MIND-BLOWING. Highly recommend.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
100% agree. I knew what to expect and was still left in awe.
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Crops do, too. However, the original form, up to the 1960s or so. They communicated by chemicals when being gnawed on by insects or mice, which triggered the other plants to produce and incorporate bitter (or unappealing) tasting stuff, so the majority of a field was spared. Modern plants are silent, they have lost this natural reaction.
xolitaire 1 year ago
The nice "smell" of fresh cut grass is actually a chemical warning to other plants.
#14
You have a holey face. Your sinuses are big empty cavities in your skull. The maxillary sinus is the biggest. It’s just under your eye (under the cheek bones) and I swear you could fit 3 grapes in each one.
Except for when they are full of snot.
kelsischloe1986 1 year ago
Please excuse me while I go see if I can shove 3 grapes up my maxillary sinus hole. Worst case scenario, I fail the objective. Best case scenario, I get to eat grapes, the ones I didn't stick up my nose hole of course. :-) Lol!
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
My sinus above my right eye is the one that hurts when I get an infection. But I only knew about the cheek one after my doctor went, "What about this one?" and poked me so hard I saw stars. Liz, I adore you woman, but maybe don't poke people so hard.
TheElderNom 1 year ago (edited)
Ugh, every time I get a cold I can feel those stupid holes, as well as the connections between my nose and my eyes.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
This fact must be widely known, judging by the number of people who have informed me that I have a hole in my head.
MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Then why does it feel like a watermelon up my nose during a sinus headache
Donkey boi 1 year ago
On behalf of all healthcare workers; I know what you're thinking, so please don't! Although I do enjoy watching a sinus flushing (waaaaaay to much).
According to Dr. Hamilton, curiosity is the spark to all that organizations want to achieve regarding innovation, engagement, and everything that makes people productive. “When we learn, we find out where we are the best fit in our jobs, and that aligns us with better careers.
“The real trick is determining what inhibits our curiosity,” she said, suggesting that the Curiosity Code Index assessment is a great way to do that. “Like DiSC or other personality tests, it only takes around 10 minutes to find out the things that have held us back from learning and exploring. More importantly, it offers insights into overcoming those factors that have stopped us from developing our curiosity.”
#15
Modern postural yoga-- the type and style predominantly practiced in Western countries-- is about 100 years old. It was invented in India by Indians and is derived mostly from British calisthenics and Swedish gymnastics. It was *specifically marketed to affluent westerners by Indians* as a superior form of spiritual and physical exercise. It's working as designed for its target market.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Asanas, the physical postures or “exercise” part of yoga, have been around for a very long time. Specific sequences and the naming of these postures is more recent, but still based on a practice that prexists tue western version.
Ace 1 year ago
Yes, it's terrible. The trouble is that most of it comes from French SE Asia, as was, i.e. the Vietnam area. Chinese food in other countries also reflects some regions more than others, for example in the UK it was large derived from Hong Kong and Cantonese influences, in Western US and Canada much more from Shanghai and Peking.
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Skid Marks 1 year ago
I don't know if this is true or not but I just read somewhere that many injuries result from yoga. Is this legit?
rullyman 1 year ago
If people are getting injured doing yoga, it's because they are not working with their body and are instead pushing too hard in an effort to get more flexible than they are. Or they fall over during the balancing bits!
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#16
Chicago "The Windy City" is known for political wind not regular wind.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
And that's where the DNC is having it's convention this year. That's going to be interesting since the last time The Democratic Convention in 1968 was a total riot.
Michael None 1 year ago
Better than having it in the city of Milwaukee. You know the place that the Republican nominee for president called "horrible" when he forgot the RNC will be held there.
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axle f 1 year ago (edited)
...and the wind off lake michigan. which falls under the category of regular wind, I suspect. when the wind blows out at Wrigley Field, it's a tremendous home run hitters park. when it blows in, it's a real good pitcher's park. The wind is real, not just metaphorical...
Elspeth_Marple 1 year ago
I went to college in Crown point and was in Chicago every weekend, and I can tell you the wind up there is way worse than anywhere else. Not saying the political thing is incorrect, just, the real wind is underrated. I was blown away more times than not on any given weekend.
#17
Sharks predate trees.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
And they appeared on Earth at the same time the rings around Saturn formed (Coincidence?)
Ash 1 year ago
You're right, and the sharks are younger than the mountains, but not blowin like the breeze.
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#18
The brain is the only organ that named itself.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Less impressive when you realize it also named all the other organs too.
Patricia Smith 1 year ago
After all these years and my brain has never said a thing to me. Rude, just rude. I feel slighted. (sigh)
Orang lord 1 year ago (edited)
Your brain think of what to call things, so it thoughy of the name for itself. Edit: because English is hard
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#19
When you put a bumper sticker or decal on, spray a couple sprays of diluted soapy water or simple green on the surface of the car first, then put the sticker down…. And you can slide it around until it’s even and centered. Use a credit card to squeegee the moisture out from underneath, pat dry, and leave it alone. It’ll adhere as it dries.
No more crooked stickers.
Wills mom 1 year ago
This is called the "wet method." I use it all them time when applying vinyl to some projects.
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Same, I do this at work when I have fancy window or vehicle decals to apply
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General Stukov 1 year ago
Fun fact, bumper stickers make you a target no matter if it's a good message or bad. Criminals can gain knowledge of your family if you have those stick people family bumper stickers. Even stickers that day you sort the police or gay pride makes you a target. Just don't mess up your car with opinions or things you do. A car salesman buddy also said the dealership will actually knock down trade in value on a car that is plastered with stickers. Your car is not a posterboard you want actively displaying anything.
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Amen on the car salesman thing - I work for an auto group and we ruined one of our vehicles by putting cheap crappy stickers on it for a month-long sale. 🙃 you can see the outline of the stickers in the paint and we can’t fix it, Oopsies.
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shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago
I appreciate this tip!! I have some dated stickers (maybe a year old) I'm worried won't come off the backing properly. I have a couple of those Cricut stickers, if you're familiar. I finally decided where to put them. Plus, I got another car....well, almost a year ago, but I am little slow on getting stuff done. Thanks again--whoever you are, even though I know you won't see this.
#20
Solar eclipses are a completely random quirk of arbitrary factors.
The sun is roughly 400x bigger than the moon. The sun is also roughly 400x further away from earth than the moon.
Nothing created or enforces that ratio. It’s just a random happenstance that from our view, on the surface of this planet, the sun and moon seem roughly the same size, and can perfectly overlap.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
And in about 50,000 years we will only get annular eclipses because the moon is slowly moving away from us. It's a quirk of more arbitrary factors than OP thinks.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The existence of the human race is a completely random quirk of arbitrary factors.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
This is the only time in the Earth's history that has annular eclipses. Before it just blotted out the whole sun during an eclipse because the moon was too close. The percentage of the suns disc occulted by the moon will shrink going forward as the moon is moving away from us at about an inch and a half per year. So yeah, very arbitrary.
Wouter Zuidland 1 year ago
Its not a completely random quirk, if the moon was any size bigger we would have ecliptions too
#21
The chainsaw was invented as a tool to aid in childbirth. Rotating blades to get through the pelvic bone…..
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Look up Symphysiotomy on Wikipedia and the feel free to be horrified that people actually did that.
Deborah B 1 year ago
Realise that it was done with no anesthetic or pain relief, and the alternative was usually death. The result was probrably usually death too, given that there were also no antibiotics, and sterile procedure was usually limited to making sure that hands and equipment were not visibly dirty.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
And of course invented by a man. Another clear example of why men should not be in control of anything related to women's reproduction!!
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Thousands of lives were saved. Bah, humbug! Horrid, horrid men saving lives like that.
Load More Replies... MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
If I were a woman in those days I'd use it to cut something off the man so I'd not have to worry about them using it on me
kelsischloe1986 1 year ago
Why the hell would they be cutting bone during childbirth? I thought the only thing they had to cut through was the skin the muscle and fat on the lower stomach. Then the sale that the baby is in. There isnt even bones in that area of the tummy to cut through. Am I missing something here?
cerinamroth 1 year ago
It's still used in some parts of the world if C-section isn't an option. The cartilage of the pubic bone is cut to allow the pelvis to widen further if the baby is stuck.
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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
PELVIC BONE? I don't think that is the normal method of birthing! Pelvic bone? WTF?
#22
A compressed spring weighs more than when the same spring is at rest. The stored potential energy of the compressed spring makes it heavier.
Really puts e = mc^2 into perspective.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago (edited)
So if a weeping angel touched a spring they could live off it and not need to send humans into the past? Where's the Doctor? We should inform him forthwith!
Debra Robinson 1 year ago (edited)
I remember Thirteen became a WA herself.
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ginshun 1 year ago
This is complete and utter BS. Compressing a spring does not increase it's mass or weight. and the potential energy of a spring as virtually zero to do with E=mc^2. E = 1/2kx^2 is the actual formula for a spring's potential energy. Where k is the spring constant, and x is the displacement, i.e. how much the spring is compressed or tensioned.
Mother of Cats 1 year ago
Not specifically true. The coils contain the potential energy to be converted into kinetic energy but that doesn't make the spring any "heavier."
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Yeah, that's what I thought too. Is the op wrong or are we missing something?
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Don't try weighing it on a scale though. E=mC^2 means M=E/(C^2). So the amount of energy divided by the speed of light squared. If you could store a nuclear bomb worth of energy in a spring, that spring might weige an extra gram with all that stored energy.
#23
Each (human) cell in your body has over 2m (6ft) of DNA in it.
ShellsBells 1 year ago
Yes. Histones (chromosomal proteins) wrap/roll up the DNA small enough to fit into a cell. We did an experiment in Microbiology with strawberries and Beano. In the end, the strawberry had all this white "goop" coming out of it, making it visible to see DNA.
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Nicola Thrope 1 year ago
Somehow I get the feeling some people's DNA may be quite a few feet shorter than that.
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
Each cell in your body is more complex than a jumbo jet and can reproduce itself.
MurderMittens 1 year ago
If you took all of your DNA in your body and stretched it out straight... you'd be dead.
Pedantic Panda 1 year ago
I have never shared any of my DNA with a banana!
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#24
The emotion you feel when realizing, that the people around you are complex human beings like yourself with emotions, memories and "someone inside there", is called Sonder.
Kari Panda 1 year ago
What is it called when you realise that some people are just shallow beings with no human emotions other than greed? (Thinking of the Nestlé heads for example.)
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Is it called the same thing when you realize the people around you are total idiots?
Bexxxx 1 year ago
But “sonder” is much more specific than just a feeling of empathy - it’s that moment of realization, and the feeling of wonder that goes along with it. Empathy and Sonder go hand in hand but they’re “more like sisters than twins,” they’re actually not two interchangeable words that mean the same thing :)
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#25
People aren’t persuaded to change their views with facts and this his been studied and proven.
ETA there’s a YouTube video on the BrainCraft channel about this. It was put up in the last day or so if anyone is curious..
cerinamroth 1 year ago
It has been shown that the best way to try and change someone's mind is to empathise with their reason for feeling the way they do. So, for example, with a couple I know who turned out to be antivaxxers (I had no idea before the pandemic!), I sympathised with their underlying fears (loss of control, excessive fear for their child's health - understandable since they had nearly lost him at birth) and then changed the subject. When I brought up my own stance on vaccines later, they were able to listen. Only by doing that and giving time for the information to sink in where they are not under scrutiny were they able to come around to vaccinating their kid against other childhood illnesses (admittedly not Covid).
Data1001 1 year ago
Yep. Facts won't change minds of those who have dug in deep. Only an emotional appeal will.
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Jeremy James 1 year ago
The only thing we know that works for certain is to be visited in the night by three spirits.
kelsischloe1986 1 year ago
Not sure that they think facts don't matter. More so they indulge in alternative facts and made up facts and outright lie about the facts sometimes.
Load More Replies... Patricia Smith 1 year ago
A part of changing someone's ideas may have to do with affirmation. Someone alluded to that before. We all want to be listened to and be really heard. Our feelings, thoughts and strong beliefs go to the heart of who we are. Our very heart. Affirmation does this. You don't have to agree with who you're talking with but you have to actively repeat what they say to you in ways that make them know you understand where they're coming from. It works for both their understanding and yours. Then when you later express your ideas, your spouse or friends or colleagues are more inclined to listen. Maybe even be persuaded. It takes effort but people who feel valued are more likely to change ideas and actions.
Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
The amount of control our amygdala has over us is amazing. We THINK we are thinking but we are feeling with words.
Kathy 1 year ago
This especially applies to people who believe what they are told to believe by figures of "authority" because challenging authorities on anything that has been presented as "fact" is politically incorrect. Science is all about continually questioning science, but many people would rather hold onto what has been presented as scientific dogma no matter what. Banning scientific discussion on sensitive topics in the name of "science" is ironic because challenging science is how you do science.,
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
It depends on who is doing the challenging: scientists challenging each other is how you do science. As Isaac Asimov said: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Tamra 1 year ago
That explains Trump Republicans, really. They call themselves the party of "law and order", but are supporting a convicted felon. 😂
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HolyDiver 1 year ago
Too many people confuse 'Facts' with Statistics or opinions. Statistics can be manipulated along with polling and surveys. Opinions... well, we all know about those. Also, what someone may deem factual today, may actually change after gaining more information/technology.
Ashley Lynne 1 year ago
100% but only people that understand that will change their minds and that is few
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Infinitely more planes in the ocean than locomotives in the sky.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
It is difficult to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys.
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Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
This is the dumbest fact ever. Infinitely more trees on land than plants in the sky. WTF does this even mean. Of course locomotives aren't in the sky. What is the point of this??
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
And even more boats in the desert. Specifically in Uzbekistan.
Mark 1 year ago
Let's calculate this. There are 12 commonly known boats in the Aral Sea Graveyards, and boats don't tend to run aground in the middle of the desert. There is a crashed Catalina flying boat in Saudi Arabia as well. In the WW2 Pacific Theatre alone, over 34,000 planes were lost in action. Most of those planes went down in the sea.
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#27
Nike has warranties on their shoes. If yours remains in the tread life and within the warranty date, you just make a claim and they’ll give you a voucher for new shoes and paid postage to send the old ones back.
Target will also take any Cat and Jack clothes back for an exchange as your kids grow.
Brake pads only need to be bought once for the life of a car. They are then warranty exchanged as you wear them out.
Clearly, I’m a dad.
Ace 1 year ago
At least one of these - the brake pads, is completely untrue. Anyone getting "free" replacements has signed up for a lifetime servicing contract or similar. They're treated as 'consumables', just like wiper blades and tyres, and indeed many other components including some engine parts that have a defined life span.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
...and the ones they use to replace them are not the highest quality. I do my own brakes and use EBC pads. Pricey, but excellent.
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Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
"Brake pads only need to be bought once" sounds like "cheap climbing equipment is great, it is not expansive and lasts for your whole life".
rullyman 1 year ago
Well, it might last you for the rest of your life (life may be drastically shortened due to cheap carabiner. We take no responsibility for this)
Load More Replies... MinervaLavender2371 1 year ago
"I can get a good look at a T-Bone by sticking my head up a bull's a$$, but I'd rather take a butcher's word for it."
ShellsBells 1 year ago
So I've done this at a Nike store near me several times. I typically wear Air Max or Vapor Max, which can cost over $200 (I used to stand on my feet upwards to 12 hrs/day and I'm going to make sure my feet are comfortable). A few times the air has leaked out the pockets, making them squishy. They take the shoes, look inside at the serial codes inside (they even have QR codes), and it tells them how much the shoe is worth. They then deduct that from a new purchase. It works out pretty well. I've been able to get a new pair for free every time.
ZombieMommy 1 year ago
Cat and jack is not supposed to be returned because your kid out grows them. They have a generous return policy but it's not meant to be used to change your kid's wardrobe every season. This is why we can't have nice things, too many people abuse the system and it gets changed.
DogsAreLife 1 year ago
Yeah, I would think Target might be willing to exchange a couple of items if they were unworn and still had the tag on them (ones you just didn't get to during that size period). But that would definitely be abusing the system to do it all the time. I just try to thrift shop to save money, including on Mercari and other websites and stores. And I can make a little money taking clothes to Kid-to-Kid. There are way better ways to get a deal on kids clothes rather than taking advantage of a store's return policy over and over (in my opinion).
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Westy 1 year ago
It's a classic case of playing the odds. "Free brake pads" is rooted in data that suggests a large percentage of people pay no attention to their brakes until they think something is wrong with them, and by that time it's usually more than just the pads that need to be fixed/replaced.
#28
Most of the time, the closest planet to Earth is Mercury. Actually, most of the time Mercury is the closest planet to all of the other planets, too. Even Pluto.
If you don't believe it, try a quick experiment. Take four cookies (or other small objects) and line them up on a table in front of you, perpendicular to your body. The closest cookie represents Earth. The next cookie is Venus, then Mercury, then the farthest cookie is the Sun. Obviously, Venus is closest to Earth in this configuration.
Now move Venus and Mercury in their "orbits" 90 degrees to the right (or left, it doesn't matter) of the Sun. Measure the distance from Earth to Mercury and Venus. Mercury is now closest to Earth.
Move Venus and Mercury another 90 degrees and Mercury is obviously closer, even without measuring, but measure it if you want to.
Move Venus and Mercury another 90 degrees and you'll have the mirror image of the first 90 degrees configuration. Measure it if you want to. Mercury is still closest to Earth.
You have to move Venus and Mercury closer to the Earth before you get to a point where they are the same distance from Earth. It works like this for all the planets.
Venus and Mercury and don't revolve together like this in real life. They revolve at different speeds. But over thousands or millions of years, it all averages out.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Give me four cookies, and I'll take your word at just about anything.
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David Paterson 1 year ago
Did you know that the orbit of Mercury is an eccentric ellipse, even more eccentric than the orbit of Pluto.
#29
You only need 39 digits of pi to calculate the radius of the universe to the width of a single atom.
It sounds BS but it's true. For the average engineer or scientist you'll never need more than 3.141.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I can't even remember how many times I have sat around pondering the radius of the universe.
Jon Stuart 1 year ago
You need at least 5 when doing 3D projections for a computer game or it looks wrong.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Currently Pi has been calculated to approximately 105 TRILLION with a "T" digits.
Toothless Feline 1 year ago
I have that exact model of calculator. It got me through algebra and calculus more than 30 years ago. Still have it, still works. I finally had to upgrade when I took linear algebra because it couldn’t do matrices.
#30
Studies show that taking steroids and not exercising builds more muscle than exercising without taking steroids. The percentage of obese people who get to and maintain a healthy weight is statistically lower than the percentage of people who survive a gunshot to the head.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
This sounds like "facts" from a questionionable nutritional supplement site.
setsuriseikou 1 year ago
It does, but: "Analysis of primary care EHRs for a large population based sample of men and women over a 9-year period revealed that the probability of obese patients attaining normal weight was very low. The annual probability of patients with simple obesity attaining a normal body weight was only 1 in 131 for women and 1 in 225 for men. " (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK362452/) "Civilians with gunshot wounds to the head or other penetrating brain injuries have a 42% chance of surviving, according to a study of more than 400 patients at two major trauma centers" (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/gunshot-wound-to-the-head-not-a-death-sentence-1/)
Load More Replies... Ash 1 year ago
That second fact should really be wider known. A lot of people assume that obese people are just lazy and gluttonous, but there is honestly almost no way to get the weight off and keep it off. Laziness has nothing to do with it.
Lee Stone 1 year ago
Also, all the crazy interesting observations coming out of the relatively new fecal transplant treatment. Clinics are beginning to report observations that some 20% of their donors produce stool that radically (ive seen it occasionally described as "miraculous") improves the life of the recipient. We're talking body shape changes to match the donors', chronic illness going into remission, etc. I've also seen numerous reports of the opposite where people take on new, undesirable donor characteristics. People who never struggled with weight suddenly gaining tremendous amounts of weight, developing acne, weird habits, even one recent (not yet substantiated) report of a man who reported symptoms consistent with the perimenopausal symptoms of the donor! Very intriguing early research, but I suspect it will lead to some of the most remarkable medical discoveries of this generation.
Load More Replies... Steve Hall 1 year ago
The percentage of obese people who shoot steroid users has never been studied.
The Chronic Insomniac 1 year ago
I'm one of them. I was 214 lbs at 5' 1" tall in 2021 and riddled with health issues. I am now 146lbs, reversed all of my obesity related diagnoses (pre-diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension, high cholesterol). I also walk approximately 9 miles per day between my job and training my dog, have eliminated sodium (as much as can be done) from my diet, cut my sugar intake by easily 90% and have a resting heart rate of 52 beats per minute. I should also add that I quit smoking cigarettes after 40 years over 2 years ago.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
This is comparing like 6 different things. Steroids will help you put on muscle, it's also how to gain WEIGHT. muscle weighs more than fat. And if you look at how they calculate BMI many power lifters fall into "obese" when they have no fat on them. ? Oh well, moving on.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Friend of mine in college got thrown out of the Marines for being obese. He was 4'10" with wide shoulders, basically a slightly tall dwarf. His body fat was 0.5%, but the BMI charts said he was obese so out he went.
Load More Replies... Nicola Thrope 1 year ago
I'm actually astonished about the obesity thing, although I can easily imagine that would be true.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Also the more you lose weight, the easier it is to regain it. In other words, yoyo dieting guarantees weight gain, greater than the original body weight. So if you have a health issues, gain weight, lose weight back to close of original weight when better, the next time you have an issue your ability to lose weight is much less, and your set final weight will be higher.
#31
A long a*s time time ago a dude in Egypt paid a guy to walk 8,000 kilometers to a tower to measure the length of it’s shadow & that’s how we found out the earth was round.
Edit: 800km I stand corrected. Still, quite the trip. I hope he paid well.
New Everywhere 1 year ago
I would walk 800km and I would walk 800 more just be the man...called guy
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Edgar Rops 1 year ago
A guy was called Eratosthenes, he didn't walk, he rode a camel, counting the steps and it wasn't a tower, but a deep well. Dude was called king Ptolemy and sure he paid well. And we learned not that the Earth was round, but how big it was.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Eratosthenes. They knew the earth was round in 300BC and he was the first one to measure it. Now in the 21st century we have more flerfs than ever. Why are so many humans deliberately dumb?
james stevenson 1 year ago
Greek mathematicians estimated the circumference of the earth more accurately than mathematicians in Columbus's day
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I'm guessing the "dude" that the knowledgeable OP is referring to is Eratosthenes
Emma S 1 year ago
I can't believe that there are people alive today that still insist that the Earth is flat. People who lived thousands of years ago knew the Earth was round, but in the year 2024 some people still refuse to believe it despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary from history's best scientists and mathematicians.
#32
Johnny Appleseed is a legendary character and we know of him because he spread alcohol through the frontier. He was planting apples for alcohol and was welcomed by so many in their homes because he brought a jug of cider to every home he visited.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
The real story is much more complex because apple trees don't breed true from seeds. All of the apple trees we get apples from are clones. If you are interested, read Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
John Chapman's trees were all grown from seed though - he was very much against producing trees from cuttings and grafting, thought it was against the natural order of God.
Load More Replies... Ash 1 year ago
Johnny Appleseed is a famous character in US-American folk mythology. The best-known version of the legend (taught to children) is that he went all over the newly-settled (by white folks) parts of the country, planting apple trees everywhere he went, which is seen as very wholesome. But the fact is that the apples wouldn't have been any good for eating raw and were meant to be for making hard cider, which seems a little less child-friendly. Johnny Appleseed was a real person, and the actual historical stories about him are FASCINATING.
Load More Replies... Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
I think I read once that he planted apple trees everywhere as a way of claiming land...? "I planted trees here, that's my property."
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Nope. He purchased the land, planted nurseries, protectd them, left them in the care of neighbours who sold the trees on shares, and would return every one or two years to tend the nurseries himself.
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#33
There are more plastic pink flamingos than real pink flamingos.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Looks out of the window into my back garden, yes that's absolutely correct
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Is this still true if you factor out Florida? (And you always should.)
#34
In water, sound can project downwards, bend back up, hit the surface from below, reflect, go down again, and bend back towards the surface. Multiple times.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
it’s the same thing in the air, isn’t it? if the sound encounters an obstacle, it is also deflected
ShellsBells 1 year ago
I scuba dive a lot. It's crazy being down there and hearing a boat overhead. You know it's on the surface (duh!), but the way the sound travels makes you look left, right, up, and even down, trying to determine where it's actually coming from. It's cool to experience, but only after you know you're safe.
#35
There are craters on the poles of mercury that are SO DEEP that rays of light from the sun have never directly struck their bottoms, and scientists have found evidence of water ice at the bottom of these craters.
#36
All of the gold discovered thus far would fit in a cube that is 23 meters wide on every side.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
And a hecking lot of it comes from one place on Earth: the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Nicola Mawson 1 year ago
More likely the Reef, which runs from at least Benoni to Krugersdorp
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SynthaCybe 1 year ago
The density of gold... 19300kg/m³ So... 23 x 23 x 23 = 12,167m³ 12,167 x 19,300 = 234,823,100kg, or 234,823.1 Tonnes
Load More Replies... Porribix 1 year ago
This i find hard to believe, how are we calculating this. The gold currently in use? what about all the gold in burials, lost and in the sea? if we are including all that then how??
kelsischloe1986 1 year ago
Thus far" kind of gives the answer you're looking for. Thus far, meaning whatever has been found so far. With that information alone, you know it is not referring to gold that has yet to be found. So I'm perplexed at you saying if we include gold lost at sea and buried gold. It's not talking about unfound gold. It's surely possible to do with the gold that has been found thus/so far.
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#37
People with aphakia can see ultraviolet light.
David Paterson 1 year ago
"Aphakia is a condition in which you're missing the lens of one or both of your eyes.” When associated with cataract surgery in adults, this is known as Pseudophakia.
Zaach 1 year ago
People with aphantasia can not create images in their mind so it is very difficult for them to make visual comparisons (for some this extends to other senses so they are not able to compare tastes or sounds)
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I have Aphantasia. For the longest time I thought this was the norm.
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Bexxxx 1 year ago (edited)
Both. Light is light. UV light is UV light :) doesn’t matter the source. You can still see around your house when the sun goes down at night and you turn on the artificial lightbulbs, right?
Load More Replies... Bexxxx 1 year ago (edited)
Some people with certain conditions can see UV light. Humans with normal vision can’t. Google “what does UV light look like” and check out the images for some interesting simulations :)
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#38
Felix Baumgartner doesn't have the record for the highest altitude free jump. He did jump from 128k feet (39 km) in 2012, and very publicly. But then Alan Eustace with almost no fanfare jumped from 135k feet (41.4 km) in 2014.
David Paterson 1 year ago
TIL. Eustace did the jump at 57 years old. Former Senior Vice President of Google.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
Just watched the video on Youtube. Just speechless at seeing how freaking high he got.
#39
In 1944, 9 American airmen were shot down over the island Chichijima. 8 were captured by Japanese troops and executed, at least 4 were cannibalized by Japanese officers. Reports vary if it was for reasons of starvation or ritual. One airman evaded capture and was eventually rescued. 44 years later he was elected President of the United States. Google "The Chichijima incident" for more info.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Wikipedia: Japanese personnel, were tried in August 1946 in relation to the execution of U.S. Navy airmen, and the cannibalism of at least one of them, during August 1944. Because military and international law did not specifically deal with cannibalism, they were tried for murder and "prevention of honorable burial".
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Ash 1 year ago
Future president in question: George H.W. Bush (ie the first President Bush, not the second one)
#40
It takes only 7 pounds of force to rip off a human ear.
Ash 1 year ago
In related news, the human head weighs about eight pounds. (A fact that is often repeated in swing dancing lessons while they're explaining to you that if you throw your head back during a dip, your partner might drop you and fall on top of you from the unexpected weight change lol)
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Total sidebar but has anyone else cracked their ears. You basically just pull on your ear up and back, I think it feels amazing.
#41
Everything you see around you is literally created by the interaction of electrons and photons (except radiation and gravity.)
Three basic actions create it all:
1) A photon goes from place to place.
2) An electron goes from place to place.
3) An electron emits or absorbs a photon.
Literally that's it.
Bexxxx 1 year ago (edited)
I think it’s just not well understood. Walk around on the streets of any country and I guarantee you 99% of the people you ask will have no idea what you’re talking about. Some people think science is boring because it’s never been presented to them in a way they can understand :( Some people just don’t have access to education. I’m a big science nerd myself but I still struggle to wrap my head around this one.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Photons are a form of radiation. Beta rays, a form of radiation, are literally free electrons. I don't know why OP chose to include that bit.
#42
People used to use hollowed human skulls for cups and bowls in ancient England.
Admiral Graf Spee he/him 1 year ago
I won't crack or steal the cup I promise
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Kira Okah 1 year ago
Under the cheekbones, as the three grape person said.
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Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
Bc it was a TBC medicine and antidotum (there were other help, may be frogs eye etc.).
#43
About 90% of humans live on the northern hemisphere.
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Still interesting though, the % of land and the % of humans living on that land are not equal
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#44
If you spell out every whole number starting at 0 and ending at 999,999,999, you will not use the letter “B.”.
#45
The softest wood in the world, is considered a hardwood.
Ash 1 year ago
I googled it. The wood in question is called quipo (https://www.wood-database.com/top-ten-softest-woods/), and it has the same hardness as balsa wood.
Charlie the Cat 1 year ago
Softwood trees have open seeds (pine cones). Hardwood trees have enclosed seeds.
#46
All of the planets in our solar system, if laid side by side, would fit between the earth and the moon.
Bexxxx 1 year ago
I feel like it would just be one enormous tidal wave going around the entire earth as it turns lmao
Load More Replies... SynthaCybe 1 year ago
Wrong. Distance between earth and moon = 384,400 km Combined distance of gas giants diameters (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus) = 407,042 km
Kira Okah 1 year ago
That is the average distance between the earth and moon - it varies! Also, gas giants are wider at their equator, when this measurement uses mean radius, not equatorial radius. This does work by mean measurements, only at the period of greatest distance between the earth and moon.
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In Uranus it rains giant diamonds.
Jeff Hunt 1 year ago
I asked my mother in law if she had “diamonds in Uranus”. She was so uptight that her turds formed diamonds.
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Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Same thing on Jupiter and Saturn and a lot of gas giants. They have such intense storms and the pressure exerted by their atmospheres is so intense that it creates the perfect conditions to create diamonds
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Well it's an ice giant so it doesn't have a surface so to speak.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
And the wind on the planet can reach speeds up to 700 km/h - wouldn't recommend trying to collect them
kelsischloe1986 1 year ago
How do we know this? Like whats the process to finding this out? Did someone visit uranus? Did someone use a telescope and see diamonds raining down on uranus? I need answers please!!!
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
A combo of physics and chemistry. Uranus has a lot of organic gases in its atmosphere. When there’s a lightning storm then the lightning breaks off the carbon atoms and due to the intense pressure in the atmosphere they become diamond
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The Magnetic Poles are moving and accelerating.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Even more interesting is the wobble in the Earth's rotation axis, the Chandler wobble, which reversed phase in the year 2005. https://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.3732
#49
WD40 removes road tar from your car.
Ash 1 year ago
If it won't stick and you need it to, use duct tape. If it sticks and you don't want it to, use WD40. All you need in life.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I keep rolls of duct tape in my classroom. I always say, "Duct tape solves everything." Back of chair comes loose? Duct tape it. Plastic seat of chair pinching you? Duct tape. Poster falling off wall? Duct tape. Class too hot due to sun reflecting off other class? Black cardboard and duct tape. Now to get some WD40. :D
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TheNewJenBrady 1 year ago (edited)
Bug spray with DEET will clear off the outside dirt and film from headlights pretty good. Spray, let sit for a few seconds and then wipe off really well with paper towels or a cloth
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
WD40 also keep spiders away. There is a low odour version, spray it around door frames, gargarge door handles plant pot rims...no spiders will go near it
#50
Most homicides in the world are not solved.
#51
The Earth's rotation is speeding up and that means our days are getting slightly shorter. In a decade they will have to make clocks a second shorter.
David Paterson 1 year ago
It has to be the other way around, doesn't it? The Earth's rotation is slowing down due to the transfer of tidal energy from the Earth to the Moon. We've recently stopped with the leap seconds because they are not needed any more.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
This also sounded wrong to me because things slow down...not speed up over time. But apparently it's sped up. But they don't think it's going to continue. "To solve all this international timekeepers may need to add a negative leap second— a “drop second.” Though Earth may already be spinning as quickly as it ever will, with a slowdown inevitable." https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/07/28/earth-is-suddenly-spinning-faster-why-our-planet-just-recorded-its-shortest-day-since-records-began/
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
No it isn't. The long term trend is the Earth is slowing down because of gravitational interaction with the moon. 65MYA when dinosaurs walked the Earth, the day was only 23:30 long. I have no idea where OP got that 1s in 10 years BS but it's wrong. There is a short term acceleration occurring in the core but it's adding MILLISECONDS in ten years not a whole second.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
This seems false. Things like tidal forces and cooling of earth’s core should be causing our rotation to slow down
Bexxxx 1 year ago (edited)
Did you look anything up before saying it seems false? I’m curious now, a lot of people seem to be claiming false but when I look it up, it’s confirmed that we seem to be spinning faster.
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The average human being is asian in appearance.
Ash 1 year ago
Asians have a lot of different appearances. Would the average human look Chinese? Indian?
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I've seen this statistic before, so I can answer that. It refers to Eastern Asian people such as the Chinese, not the Indians
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Phoenix 1 year ago
Soo.. am I above average or below average? Because based on this fact, I am definitely not average.
Ash 1 year ago
Neither. You're diagonal from average. Catty-corner, even.
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That if you enter on a freeway the Wrong Way at night, all the reflectors you see on the freeway will reflect as Red. Hopefully the driver can figure out something is wrong and at least pull over.
Ash 1 year ago
A woman was watching the news on TV one night and saw a live report that someone was driving the wrong direction on the freeway. She knew her husband was driving through that area that night, so she became alarmed and called him. She said, "Some idiot is driving the wrong way on the freeway!" He answered, "THEY ALL ARE!!!"
Stacy Jones 1 year ago
A friend of mine did this as we were leaving Rocky Horror late one Saturday night. I'm amazed that I stayed as calm as I was. "Um, Megan? There's this whole median thing going on, you might wanna figure out..."
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
How funny, I was driving back from Rocky once with my friends and we suddenly saw lights coming right at us- it was two cars on the interstate, going the wrong way on our side. They were drag racing. Ironically at a later time my friend was killed by a drunk driver this way.
Load More Replies... General Stukov 1 year ago
I've seen enough dash cam videos to realize that 90% of the US can't drive and don't deserve licenses.
#54
When dinosaurs were walking around, our planet was on the opposite side of the galaxy.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
And that changed when they stopped walking around and invented the skateboard?
Lene 1 year ago
Your mention of dinos and skateboards reminded me of Denver the last dinosaur. He's my friend and a whole lot more. 😁🦕🛹🦖
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 1 year ago
So if I’m somehow able to block out the disk of the galaxy and peer across then I’d be able to see the dinosaurs on earth with a super powerful telescope?
#55
The average life expectancy figure accounts for deaths at all ages. The longer you live, the higher your overall probability of exceeding that number. Also, the probability of someone dying in their first year of life is similar to a person dying at any given age in their 60s.
Ash 1 year ago
This is why life expectancy numbers in earlier centuries are so startlingly low: the number is skewed by the high rate of infant/child mortality. People who reached adulthood would very likely have lived longer than the "average life expectancy" age.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Yep. Tis why I have gotten so much surprise from people when I state that General Cao Cao was in his mid 60s when he died. "But he was born around 155AD!" Yep, and only died when he did because he refused surgery for his brain tumour because it would cut his hair.
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Mycelium, the organism that bears mushrooms, is neither flora (plants) nor fauna (animal), but rather fungi. So, they are neither animal nor plant.
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
It should be. However if you were at school in the 70s and haven't been paying attention since, you might still believe that fungi are plants, designated saprophytes
Load More Replies... ShellsBells 1 year ago (edited)
I knew a fungi, but he was named Captain Erdossy, not Obvious. (Erdossy was the CO of my ship and was awesome!). Edit: spelling.
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah? I think everyone knew this? On a sidebar, I've tried a few times growing shrooms. I did well with the edible ones, oyster and reishi, but every time I tried magic shrooms I just got mold. (Don't worry, totally legal in Colorado.) Pretty sure the old spores I was using were contaminated because I bought new spores a few weeks ago and I have almost completely innoculated my grain, I've got mycelium! Pretty soon I can mix it with substrate and start fruiting my mushrooms! So excited. Mushrooms and mycelium are really really cool. There's so much we don't even know about mycelium networks.
Zaach 1 year ago
Look for Liberty Caps in lawns that are fertilized with manure - darned nice high and have a unique look (we used to go to certain lawns in the fall to get high)
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 1 year ago (edited)
*Gasp* Does this also mean that amoebae aren’t animals and plants? Does this mean they’re from monera? Shocking!
Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
Better would be that the mycelium is the "important" part of the organism. Mushroom is just "fungi blooming".
imsouravmitra 1 year ago
Imagine my situation, I'm a Botanist with a Master's degree in Mycology (fungi)... So I'm a plant biologist with a degree on something that isn't even a plant. 🥹🥴
Wintermute 1 year ago
Perhaps more surprising would be that fungi are more closely genetically related to animals than plants.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
No. I'm vegan. I don't eat animals. Therefore I eat plants and fungus
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If everyone on earth was standing shoulder to shoulder, front to back, they'd all fit comfortably within the tiny state of Rhode Island.
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
XKCD (Randell Munroe) used Rhode Island for this. It does not end well.... https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Did anyone do the math on this one? Okay, I did. Surprised by result. So 8.1 million people divided into 1214 square miles = 0.239 people per ft2. Or an area of 4.18ft2 per person. Or 0.389 m2 per person.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Dude, I can't even stand close to my hot neighbour without my wife making it uncomfortable.
Doozle bug 1 year ago
If all the humans stood side by side to circumnavigate the planet, many would drown. Fact
#58
If your intestines are in the way during abdominal surgery, standard procedure is to scoop them out and dump them in a bowl for the duration, then basically pour them back in when you're done. As long as you don't pull enough to create an actual knot, the guts will wiggle themselves back into exactly the same shape and configuration they had before being disturbed.
Greymom 1 year ago
The intestines are moved out of the way and held in place with surgical retractors. They are NOT “scooped out and dumped in a bowl for the duration!” 😅. Source: circulator (surgical nurse) for over a decade
Drusilla 1 year ago
I can second that (also surgical nurse for a long time)
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Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago
As for the 'they will wiggle themselves back into place', that is not a quick and painless stage. I had a piece of my large intestine removed so they pulled it out, cut the offending part out, sewed it back together and stuffed it back. It took 5 days of obnoxious air pockets and cramps before the bowel was finally in place again.
kelsischloe1986 1 year ago
I has a hysterectomy a few years ago. I had the same symptoms that you are describing. Plus a very painful air pocket in my right upper shoulder, more towards my neck. It took about 3 days for the air to settle in my tummy area. Then alomost 7 days for the air pocket in my neck to subside. It was a very unpleasant experience.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Explains why Alison Botha recovered so well after being eviscerated and having her throat cut. (They cut her throat so badly she couldn't hold her head up - she lifted it with one hand, held her intestines with the one, staggered onto a highway and collapsed. And recovered. And yes, they caught the guys who did it.)
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Yep and i'ts quite an easy procedure. They are so lenghty that you can manage to put them on another table at distance from the body.
#59
The carbon dioxide laser is the most popular industrial laser in the world. You can hold whatever opinion you want on climate change, but carbon dioxide is so good at making heat it’s used to generate laser beams.
Ash 1 year ago
This reads like someone thinks that people who believe in climate change just really have it in for carbon dioxide...
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Sounds the opposite to me, they're saying that carbon dioxide is so increadably good at insulating heat that it's used for industrial stregnth lazers, and therefore is very good at making the earth hot
Load More Replies... ShellsBells 1 year ago
So...if we are having so many issues with carbon dioxide causing climate change, shouldn't we be planting more plants and trees to offset this increase, instead of tearing them up/down to install a concrete jungle?
#60
Cleopatra exists closer to us in time than she does to building of the Great Pyramid.
Wang Zhuang 1 year ago (edited)
It seems this fact is presented in every single "facts people don't know" post on BP
Sue User 1 year ago (edited)
Yep, any BP regular ( or any other list site ) knows this by now.
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Mother of Cats 1 year ago
This would be a great article if so many of these "facts" weren't bunkum.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
"What are incredible facts that Bored Pandas do know about?" (1) Most of the facts in the BP list like this are false (2) Most of the facts are repeated over and over (3) Most of the facts are not incredible, they are just lame.
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I've read many " facts " posts and doubt the veracity of most of them. If BP allows folks to write and present something as a " fact ", they should also have to provide evidence, eg. article in a peer reviewed journal, quote from Wikipedia, etc.
carol bland 1 year ago
If squirrels forgot where they put 80% of their winter food they would starve to death! They actually have incredibly good memories and spatial awareness.
SuperNovaToiletClog 1 year ago (edited)
The minimum amount of people you'd need for two of them to have the same birthdate is 23.
Orogogus 1 year ago
That's the probable minimum number of people, but obviously the literal minimum is 2.
Load More Replies... General Stukov 1 year ago
I'll be honest, if you just have a general education anywhere (or 20years ago in the US) this isn't news to you. This is a clickbait title.
Mother of Cats 1 year ago
This would be a great article if so many of these "facts" weren't bunkum.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
"What are incredible facts that Bored Pandas do know about?" (1) Most of the facts in the BP list like this are false (2) Most of the facts are repeated over and over (3) Most of the facts are not incredible, they are just lame.
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I've read many " facts " posts and doubt the veracity of most of them. If BP allows folks to write and present something as a " fact ", they should also have to provide evidence, eg. article in a peer reviewed journal, quote from Wikipedia, etc.
carol bland 1 year ago
If squirrels forgot where they put 80% of their winter food they would starve to death! They actually have incredibly good memories and spatial awareness.
SuperNovaToiletClog 1 year ago (edited)
The minimum amount of people you'd need for two of them to have the same birthdate is 23.
Orogogus 1 year ago
That's the probable minimum number of people, but obviously the literal minimum is 2.
Load More Replies... General Stukov 1 year ago
I'll be honest, if you just have a general education anywhere (or 20years ago in the US) this isn't news to you. This is a clickbait title.
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