Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers)

In the northern hemisphere, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky during "the dogs days of summer," July 3 to August 11, typically a stretch of uncomfortably sultry weather.

Very common knowledge. Keanu's band was named Dog Star after Sirius.

That one I did know...

Yay new fact unlocked!! I learned something new today :)

Well. I didn't know that. Always thought it was "the dark days of sunmer" haha!!!

Right. If the construction had stopped she would have been alone.

Umm…your last sentence pretty much sums up the world we live in!

But the house has a big, beautiful Tiffany stained glass window that was put facing south. It has never been able to catch direct sunlight. Now what kind of crazy person would allow this!?!?!

I made out in my car across the street from this place with a coworker. I think we both regretted the next day at work...

And you know this how???

To think of other animals as if they are "in their stone age" is a misconception though. It implies evolution is a single path and humans are the most advanced on it while other species are only starting to follow. This is not how evolution works. We are not "on top" of it. There is not only one path, there are actually as many ways of living and evolving as there have been living species on Earth. The human way is only one - very specific, powerful and problematic - among many others. Besides, apes and other animals that use tools were probably doing it long before humanity even existed. Maybe we even started doing it by imitating others, since this is actually what we are very good at - observe and mimic.

Facts are never useless.

Crows are among the animals currently in a Stone Age.

All that time and sharks haven't done a freaking thing with themselves. Where are their houses? Where are their televisions, sports, or tools? What a stupid worthless fish

I hate to be the one to correct, but there is a species of tree called Archaeopteris, it appeared in the devonian, around similar timelines as the shark. But, Long before trees overtook the land, earth was covered by giant mushrooms 24-feet tall and three feet wide.

That is remarkable. However, saying that "humankind was stuck on the ground" before Kittyhawk isn't quite right. The first manned hot air balloon ascent was on November 21, 1783, more than 100 years earlier.

My generation heard our parents' and grandparents' music on 78s or even drums. Then we witnessed regular LPs and 45s. That was the rage that was the norm. Restaurants still show this trend with jukeboxes and 45s on the wall. Then our tapes went from reel to reel that wasn't for daily amateur use, to compact little cassettes. Don't forget AM radio was where you heard the new music. Your parents probably had 8 track in the car. CDs came along, MP3, and streaming. The first 33 lp (vinyl) was released in 1950ish. That's a tremendous evolution. In my lifetime.

My grandmother told me about being born before the toaster was invented and she became adept at using a computer

AND military flight fight which was also a first...unfortunately

I call that guy Poppa and he worked for NASA.

THis sounds like the way to go about it.

While I would never, ever fat shame anyone, the trend that obesity can be healthy is quite dangerous. There's a reason the medical term is 'morbidly obese'. In everyday English, 'morbidly' means 'in a way that is regarded as disturbing or unhealthy', but in medical parlance, it means 'in a way that is indicative of disease'. (Note: Shaming is not likely to lead to a change in behavior on the part of the person shamed, but to anxiety and depression.)

This happened in 1965-1966 so medically they didn't know what we know now about diets and healthy ways to lose weight

And when he felt like he was going to faint, did he eat a cube of cheese?

I wonder if he kept it off after going back to normal eating, or did he learn to eat intuitively.

That's not photosynthesis. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.

Very cute

I love spotted salamanders (in German, they're called "fire salamanders"). Saw one once as a kid on the way home from school in the middle of a dirt road and was fascinated by it.

uglier in person. Even the cat was like ewww

Don't tell the Chinese about them