50 Of The Most Fascinating Facts Shared On The “Blowing Fact” Instagram Page (New Pics)
We are huge supporters of the idea that it’s never too late to learn something new. Whether you’ve got a new skill you want to pursue or want to update your knowledge about the world, what matters the most is making an effort and having some patience.
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I've heard of him as a mime, but this is the first time I've heard of him as a hero.
Fun fact: Marcel Marceau was the only person in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie who spoke.
Now you have to explain, I can t remember that episode....pls
Load More Replies..."French mime called Marcel Marceau" --- I think you mean, "the most famous mime ever". Not that I can recall the name of the second most famous mime ever.
That's because whoever he was, he probably never said it...
Load More Replies...It is, but you also have to take that with a grain of salt. I don't mean to disparage anyone from Mexico, your country is beautiful, your culture is amazing, but it's not all sunshine & roses. If you know your history, slaves still faced racism & indentured servitude in Mexico. It's the same as when people get excited about Canada being part of the underground railround, but we also really pooped the bed when it came to racism/treatment towards people of color and our indigenous people. I'm sure I'll get downvoted because it's not a truth that is easy to swallow. We are trying to work towards betterment, but it doesn't erase that it happened.
Load More Replies...As an Australian I didn't know this. I do know something quite awful, though. When a certain Caribbean Island country freed all its slaves, France insisted on repayment. The repayment bankrupted the country and they're still paying off the debt to France for freeing the slaves to this very day.
Slavery in Mexico was/is legally non-existent, but the hacienda system was slavery by another name.
You do know that the republicans were the ones that were opposed to expanding slavery and were the ones that freed the slaves, right? The party was created by antislavery conscience whigs. It was created to go against the proslavery, Jim Crow Law creating, white, southern, democrat party. Before anyone down votes me, please do a simple Google search, as I just did.
Load More Replies...I wonder what happened to them all when America stole Texas from Mexico, 20-odd years before slavery in the US was abolished?
One reason that Texas seceded from Mexico was to keep slavery after Mexico had abolished it. Mexico gave Texans an extra couple of years to get rid of their slaves, but the slave owners in Texas used that time to prepare for a war of independence instead. When the US annexed Texas, those Texan slaves became US slaves. I doubt they noticed the difference.
Load More Replies...well, to be fair, the two countries were at odds over texas at that time...e.g., the battle of the alamo would be fought just 7 years later...so, it was likely a statement about its feelings towards the u.s. than mexico's celebration of freedom...but good on them for freeing their slaves sooner...
Did anyone else think was Steve Buscemi standing next to Macaulay Culkin?
He also did this with zero fanfare or self promotion - just a real person being a real hero.
I knew this one. Real hero and a real good actor. Almost cry when he died in the big Lebowski,hahahhahsh
There's a chapter on electric dreams serie ( ll the show it's amazing, based on books from Phillip k. D**k) that he are the main character.lokk for it bro, is available in prime vídeo
Load More Replies...In "The Death of Stalin" he looked too young, too tall, and too skinny to play Nikita Khrushchev. And of course he nailed the part completely.
It’s fair to say that the @blowingfact project, which was founded all the way back in 2015, has been a huge success on social media.
A jaw-dropping 3.8 million users follow the account on Instagram. Meanwhile, the project has 62k followers on Facebook and has garnered 12.8k fans and nearly 170k likes on TikTok.
To save someone's life is so major, but saving 160? He should be so proud of himself. (He should get at least a shiny Gold Medal and a Blue Ribbon. Or much better!!)
Don Ritchie passed away in 2012. Prior to his death, he had been awarded the high honour of Medal of the Order of Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ritchie
Load More Replies...Forget the Queen and King Chuck! Australia needs to put Don Ritchie on their $5 bill! What a legend!
I'm not crying, my eyeballs are sweaty! Everytime I read about Don Ritchie, I get choked up. 💧
I know many of you will not agree with me but, I cried to because he allowed this precious dog to suffer in his final days instead of putting him to sleep. He had to be in so much pain if the only way to alleviate the pain was to put him in the water. What about the rest of the day where he wasn't in the water?
Schoep got laser therapy to relieve the pain in his joints as well. Unger took him to the lake to further alleviate the pain. I'm sure he knew what he was doing, and as someone who follows him on FB I can guarantee you he would never let an animal suffer
Load More Replies...Not the whole story. A fund was started and made enough money for Mr Unger to get his dog specialist medical treatment that allowed him to live pain-free for a few more years
Is this an actual picture of them ? Because look at that beautiful dog. But so tired.
It is. I've seen it several times with the story. So sweet
Load More Replies...I seem to remember a pet supply saw his story on the news and gave the man a special orthopedic bed for the dog.
Lake Superior is freaking COLD. As in, your body gets numb even in mid-July!
I just came here to say this! I'm from Michigan. Even on the hottest summer days I can only put my feet in Superior!
Load More Replies...This is terrifying and does happen. It happened (for different reasons) in Manitoba care homes during covid times. Staff were told to not go into work for weeks, leaving the elderly to fend for themselves. Their family members were not alerted and not permitted to see their elderly loved ones.
See, that’s a situation where the families SHOULD be notified, so they can make other arrangements, even if the only arrangements are to bring their loved ones home temporarily. I mean, FFS! They just left them there all by themselves? Luckily, in this case, there were these two angels standing by to help them. Not the doctors, nurses, administrators, or office workers, no. Not a one of them stepped up, even though they made good money and are in professions where they’re supposed to care about people. But no, no stepping up from them. The cook and the janitor did the job..
Load More Replies...Very good men I have to say, but it's conceding that the state - whose job it is to prevent stuff like this doesn't matter - didn't do jack about the situation.
*happen, not matter! App doesn't allow edits, sorry
Load More Replies...Angels, these two! Shame on the home for abandoning those elderly.😡
Exactly what I thought of. The one on the left even looks like the leader.
Load More Replies...Becoming more common in the USA where hedge funds buy up nursing homes, and then slash all the services to make money. Hundreds have died in these homes. Welcome to unregulated capitalism.
It’s not difficult to see why the social media project has seen so much success over the years. For one, when you post anything online consistently, you’re going to get some attention sooner or later.
By sharing new content daily, you remind your existing followers that you exist and also increase your chances of popping up on strangers’ feeds.
THIS is what police departments should be doing! Community outreach + a return to "walking the beat" will lead to more trust and transparency with the police which in turn will lead to safer communities! But what do I know? I'm just a guy with a bachelor degree in Sociology/Criminal Justice
Could have been anyone. Nothing in the article mentioned race. The LEO there is white; any of the inspectors Asian, white, or Hispanic; any of the people who buy his 150 hotdogs white, Asian, or Hispanic? Not everything is about race
Load More Replies...The same one who fined another kid for not having the proper payment to have a lemonade stand.
Load More Replies...Sum silly biatchh had nothing better to do than reporting a child for having a stand???FFS
Only partly true. My understanding is that the 1988 Act gives the hospital the right to collect royalties in perpetuity, but that doesn't prevent people from copying so long as they pay the royalty.
Load More Replies...The hospital is Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London. They saved my life with pioneering surgery when I was born in 1966. I met the surgeon who performed that surgery 35 years later in another London hospital and had a lovely conversation with him - and obviously said thank you.
The picture is misleading. They meant the author, JM Barrie, not the Disney movie.
Load More Replies...Terry is indeed a Canadian icon and hero. He started his run in Halifax and got as far as Thunder Bay Ontario before the cancer halted him. 2828 km (1767 miles). Almost half way.
My Nanna actually sat at a cafe and has coffee with Terry Fox's father at one of their Ontario pit stops. He introduced her to his son whom he was very proud of, Terry Fox. I still love when my Nanna tells me that story.
I remember watching daily news coverage of his Marathon of Hope. He's a hero to many.
And that prick Trudeau took his picture off the Canadian passport...
Other than the fact the design has been in the works since 2013 when Harper was in charge, and it was a committee who worked on the design based on input from Canadians, and PM Trudeau isn't the one who is running the committee, and that it's a security risk to have the same images every redesign then yeah, I can see how you can assume that.
Load More Replies...Besides, when you post regularly, with a very clear schedule, you create a reputation for being trustworthy and dependable. Reputation means everything on social media. And having a strategic outlook here really helps.
If your followers know that you’re reliable, then they’re more likely to keep engaging with your content and recommending your posts to their friends.
I bet there will be at least one Karen mum complaining.
Load More Replies...I see no good reason to have separated them. Humans need to get over themselves
My mom had an African Grey named Lithop when I was growing up (as well as many other parrots) and she had an incredible vocabulary; the most memorable thing she'd say was "you shït in your water dish".
My coworker had one and he used to talk in his owner's voice when they weren't around and provoke the dog by saying "wanna go for a walk?!" He'd also snip at her sometimes and then say "Grede bird naughty." And then shy away like he knew he was wrong. He was so smart and sassy. Loved the stories of that Grey!
Load More Replies...In retrospect, a good decision. Approximately 95% of all this Marvel and DC is absolutely horrendous stupid plot only with CGI to make up for it - plus, giving the actors unrealistic body goals until they collapse (see the guy who played Wolverine and it almost killed him several times). The SpongeBob movies on the other hand are just that: Movies about SpongeBob doing stuff.
Keanu 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.. so sweet. And him don t pretend , he it's just like that. A good person.we all forgive speed bro. But your life and your career are awesome .
hey speed was good. i cant be the only fan of that movie
Load More Replies...I think Keanu is an amazing man. My favourite actor/clelebraty/human being
Wait, he’s in two SpongeBob movies? I’ve only ever seen him in Sponge on the run
With a net worth of $360M, I'm glad he stayed out of the Marvel movies.
On top of all of that, you’ve got the type of content itself to consider. For instance, @blowingfact focuses on sharing niche facts about science, history, and the world. So there’s the element of surprise and entertainment there that captures people’s attention, alongside the whole educational aspect of the posts.
Back in the early 90s Disney was not anywhere as rich and successful as were in January 2020. They had just gotten back in to animation with Little Mermaid. Pixar was still a half decade away. The theatrical films were more miss than hit. The parks had stagnated. 8 million was A LOT of money for a movie back then. If RW hadn't cut his rate they likely would have had to recast.
Load More Replies...This is sort of misleading. RW made $8 mill in his previous film so that was his going rate. Disney offered him $500k for Aladdin and he countered by saying by asking for 75k (which was the SAG minimum at that time) and no use of his voice for merchandise. Which Disney agreed to and then promptly ignored.
I don’t get the logic here. Not hating on the decision I just don’t get the connection to doing for 75k for his kids
He took the lower fee in exchange for Disney agreeing not merchandising the film. An agreement they promptly broke.
Load More Replies...Hasn't his daughter got her directorial debut coming out imminently?
I wonder how this case went down at court, given the outcome that he saved his son.
Charged with two counts of aggravated assault and jailed after the incident, but the charges were dropped. While he was in jail, a no-contact order was issued, which he violated after his release when he and the son that was in a coma went to get baptized together. It's also important to note that George Pickering II (the gunman) was a known unstable drunk, and went to the hospital with the intention of killing himself if his son was to die. He did not have any decision-making power when it came to his son's care for this reason, and that's why the no-contact order was put in place.
Load More Replies...I'd say the dad would fare better in a criminal trial than the hospital would in a malpractice one.
What's crazy to me is that the parent didn't want to take him off life support but the hospital was gonna do it anyway? What? That's messed up.
The mother, who had dm rights, was having him taken off.
Load More Replies...Moving forward, please keep in mind that brain dead people will still contract their palms, which comes off the family members as them squeezing their hands. After a dedicated clinical brain death exam, you are LEGALLY DEAD. This clearly didn't happen in this situation if the patient woke up. Once your brain stem reflexes are gone, YOU ARE GONE
Anyine would have their doubts about a place called Tomb all .
That is because in certain communities, the locals can accept/deny citizenship to someone who moved there. It's usually in smaller communities tho. Since it's regular people making the decision and not officials, they can absolutely deny someone because they dislike this person for being a nuisance to the town. However, that usually either comes down to "person did criminal activities", "person tried to push their culture on the locals and upset them", or "locals are racist and don't want any more foreigners there". The latter is concerning to me, as a local myself.
Gotta love the far-right conservatives, right? 😑🙄
Load More Replies...Actually it wouldn't, it would just be filled with people who are exactly the same. The Stepford Country.
Load More Replies...If you enforce a "no alcohol" law in Hawaii then it will happen.
Load More Replies...It's a little odd, perhaps, but when you apply for Swiss citizenship you're actually becoming a citizen of the Commune/Gemeinde (village or town council area) and Canton in which you live, who will then be responsible for you and your descendents, e.g.in old age if needed. So you need local approval and they can deny it for any reason they feel fit. Only later in the process is the federal approval needed, and that is much more formulaic.
Sounds like a policy the USA should adopt! Those people who try to cram their beliefs down others throats is a good group to begin with...
Whoever decides to base their social media accounts entirely on sharing interesting and mind-blowing facts has a far bigger responsibility than you might think. There’s a lot of work that goes into making even a simple post.
For one, you have to do proper research and ensure that the information you share is valid. The very worst thing you can do is post pseudo-facts and fake news that then end up being reshared by your followers.
we have this at our lion park in joburg. BUT believe it or not, some moron STILL got out the vehicle. and got eaten.
I assume the animals are still separated from each other, somehow, so the lions don't eat the zebras and stuff...
There are only lions at the park. The cage also contains live goats and chickens that are thrown out to the lions. It is truly a dreadful place and would recommend you never go there.
Load More Replies...Isn't this something we could start in America, only with unlocked cages, so we could thin the herd of stupid people when they jump out for upvotes?
I have no idea why VioletHunter got so many downvotes for simply saying the truth. Poor dogs.
Load More Replies...Only deserves doggos few ones, bro ......when I see the news and see what human can do at sport doggo or cat or any animal .......but there are good ppl too that take correctly cate on a pet.hugs bro
Load More Replies...And now they can't even hire little people to play little people in a movie
Hahahahahhahaahhaahhahhhaahah that would always be remembered by the people there.
On a similar note, you then have to condense all the information that you learned into a teeny-tiny post. You’re tasked with finding the right balance between being informative by providing enough context and keeping everything condensed enough for modern audiences to enjoy.
The fact of the matter is that bite-sized information has a better chance of being noticed and absorbed than massive walls of text. Unfortunately, that’s why TikToks and Instagram shorts are so much more popular than in-depth analyses in the news.
I am suprised that the dogstayed still for that long! the cameras took a long time (up to 45 min i think) to capture a clear photo!
Dance is a great way to unite people, even strangers . I work in a small grocery store and when I see someone singing along to our music, I will start dancing. People will generally laugh first, then about 75% of the time the person will start dancing, too. One day there were six of us dancing and laughing at the same time. It's only for a few minutes but it brightens my day, and I hope it makes a difference to them.
Their tails. I also find it fascinating that it’s male seahorses that give birth.
Load More Replies...Hugs don't always have to include arms. How about people who can't use their arms or are even born without?
Load More Replies...Was wondering if anyone else noticed that, lol!
Load More Replies...When the men carry the babies, the relationship is more stable! Go seahorse daddy mommy!
There was an episode of, I think it was Get Smart where every single person in a drug cartel was an undercover cop informing on the others.
Well, that's vague. I know this has happened more than once, so which particular incident is this factoid referring to?
probably this one https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/undercover-cops-arrest/
Load More Replies...In this day and age, our attention spans have shrunk so much, it’s actually scary. CNN reported on the research conducted by Dr. Gloria Mark from the University of California, Irvine.
“In 2004, we measured the average attention on a screen to be 2½ minutes. Some years later, we found attention spans to be about 75 seconds. Now we find people can only pay attention to one screen for an average of 47 seconds,” Mark, the author of ‘Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity,’ said.
You mean NIMH. It stands for National Institute for Mental Health. That film scared me silly as a kid!
Load More Replies...No, they don’t get a choice but at least they’re being recognized.
Load More Replies...That's a really cute sentiment, but completely unrealistic in reality. A huge number of medical advances are only possible because of animal research. Even if we left human medicine out of the equation, without animal testing there would be *zero* advancement in veterinary medicine.
Load More Replies..."that have sacrificed their lives" implies they had a choice in the matter
It's located in Akademgorodok (the educational and scientific centre of Siberia), which is a part of Novosibirsk, the third-most populous city in Russia after Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
So Beijing traffic jams are just an elaborate business scheme?
Gosh, if only something was invented that could replace one person in a vehicle. Something that could put many people in just one vehicle, instead! 🤦🏽♀️
I like how this implies that humans have wings, as a side note "arm men" doesn't have quite the same ring to it
Load More Replies...Dolphins have sex for only satisfaction( ok , you now are listening the entire great song, you welcome) not only whit females , with males too. And also if you are a diver, beware they may be try to hump you . Enjoy
tell them "chippa chip awk awk chipa cheep" (rape is never ok).
Load More Replies...By "help each other hook up", do you mean kidnap a female to aggressively r*** her for weeks on end, and literally smack her around, sometimes drowning her while they r*** her? If she tries to get away they chase her down, and if she has a baby they just kill it so they can be "bros". Call it what it is. I can guarantee the female doesn't find this cute/funny.
Keeping that in mind, it makes sense to make your content more approachable by reducing the amount of text and choosing an image that captures people’s attention. That way, the information you share is more likely to be read. On the flip side, ignoring visual aids altogether and writing paragraph upon paragraph of educational content, even if accurate, might get sidelined on social media.
Really? They remind of of kids that get caught being weird together, lol. Remember when you'd be acting crazy with your friends and then someone's mom would open the door and everyone would just * freeze * . 😁
Load More Replies...And I thought Randy the guinea pig looked tired.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear shells and definitely don't wear condoms
He brought his species back from the brink of extinction. I'm not sure being put in pens with the opposite of your species qualifies as sex addicted.
Just goes to show what makes you a monster in one situation can make you a hero in another.
That's going to end with lots of incest within that turtle species.
However, it’s not like we can’t increase our attention spans again. According to Dr. Mark, it’s essential to be mindful of how you use technology. Considering that the average American spends a whopping 10 hours a day on screens, it’s absolutely vital to block distractions so you can focus on your work and other projects.
More info.They originally thought he had run away. But they finally counted the females and saw they had one extra. He slept for two days after being found.
Nope. He didn't even write, afterwards.
Load More Replies...As well as sexual offences, let's not forget Tupac fatally shot a 6 year old child. I like his music, but we shouldn't put people on pedestals.
Load More Replies...He was put in prison on sexual abuse charges. Strange how some men still condone this behavior without a second thought. - He was released on $1.4 million bail from a record label - now that he had street cred jail time he was even more well known and they wanted to capitalise on the fame his behavior gave him. So yeah, this is really sweet and heartwarming... for a r****t, perhaps.
It did not fight a cow. This one has been written-off in the past.
I saw this on BP before and everyone ganged up on Waddles lol
lmao I remember calling someone a snitch because they threatened to tell Mable about it
Load More Replies...Dr. Mark suggests creating artificial barriers if you’re constantly distracted by social media sites. “Take the icons off your desktop and bury the apps on your phone inside folders, where it takes an extra effort to find them. Leave your phone in another room or put it in a drawer and lock it,” she told CNN. Meanwhile, if you’re exhausted, take a break, go for a walk, and give your mind some rest.
We weren’t built to spend so much time looking at glowing screens... even if social media's full of so many interesting new facts to learn. It's important to control your screen time.
For some more mind-blowing facts, feel free to take a look at Bored Panda's previous feature about the @blowingfact account.
It's 'kalsarikännot' if it's someone else's underwear.
Load More Replies...Same, buddy, same... And Im not even from finland... ':)
Load More Replies...more like a crust punk band to me (although it's automatically black metal-ish when it's finnish)
Load More Replies...And that's about all you need to know about living in Finland.
In Icelandic, the word "kojufyllerí" mean "getting drunk in your bed on a boat or a ship".
Therefore, we now blend half of it out into white with the headline so nobody can properly see it
The best part is at the top anyway, and if you really want to see it without graphics, you could probably just google "Christ the Redeemer Moon" or something.
Load More Replies...Like stand around for 3 years or came back a few times in those 3, years
I love the fact that because Brazil is below the Equator, the moon appears upside down to many of us. I love pics like this!
The difference must be that male foxes know how to take care of themselves.
Load More Replies...Given that vixens are only fertile for 3 days per year it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint
That might explain the awful screeching noise they make when they are finally in heat 😖
Load More Replies...Honestly, I'm still stuck on how adorable the photo is. They are so cute together ❤️.
It's called evolution. Need to have more offsprings to save the specie. Not bitches, just being their DNA have they to be
It's a common pattern of behaviour but it's not guaranteed. (and trying to compare this behaviour with humans is nonsense and unnecessary)
For the amount of dinos, and the amount of million years, absolutely 100%?
Well, yeah, duh. Dinosaurs lived on earth approximately 165 million years before going extinct. That's a lot of drinking and peeing.
Watch someone start a company for “alpha males” about “t-Rex water” or something haha
Load More Replies...In 65+ million years, it has passed through several generations of evolution, been frozen in various forms and locations, etc.
Dinos don t exist...Noah fon t putted a pair ..... wait......dinos lived before humans.....? ( Just kidding)
Please don't downvote Xitxarel•Io Panda just because they misspelled some words. English is not likely to be their first language, and even if it was down votes don't exactly encourage a person to keep trying.
Load More Replies...The probability of me drinking water is directly proportional to the amount of beer left in the house.
The M1911 (also known as Colt 1911 or Colt Government) pistol. The U.S. military procured around 2.7 million M1911 and M1911A1 pistols during its service life. The pistol served as the standard-issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces from 1911 to 1985. Sweetheart grips were made possible by acrylic (AKA Plexiglass or Lucite), which was invented between World War I and World War II. Aircraft and vehicles used acrylic. The material replaced windows and basically anything else previously made of glass. Servicemen salvaged it from crashes and then shaped it to replace the grip on their handguns. Typically the picture would be a girlfriend or wife, which is where the term “sweetheart grip” comes from. However, children, parents, siblings, or other family members also made appearances. Some soldiers would even use a picture of a favorite pin-up girl.
a random Instagram account about "mind blowing facts" that doesn't cite its sources
Load More Replies...Well yeah, but once it was paid and he was released he then sent an army/navy to track down and destroy the pirates. Which they did.
He didn't send them, he led them. It was his personal mission and it was mostly paid by his family money, because "nobody will mess with Julius family"
Load More Replies...He also told them he would capture them and kill them all. And then did so.
Years after these pirates met a pair of Gauls, a little blonde one and a big Red haired one...
when they got the ransom and released him he had them all hunted down and crucified
He went on doing a deep sea fishing show. It would be interesting if he went around the world searching for undiscovered fish species. I know River Monsters was kind of like that, but I'm wondering if there are other places with water creature legends to explore.
I think his latest project is 'Dark Waters,' which is about legends like disappearing ships and historical accounts of strange animals... so, kind of!
Load More Replies...Every time my husband watches this show I laugh because Wade is so dramatic. I'm always like......"it's just a fish Jeremy....no need for all the drama" lol
Yeah, just fish with razor sharp teeth, or with electricity, and saws for a snout.
Load More Replies...I loved this show! Ive watched his new shows too but it's just not river monsters. Wish there were more big fish he could go find lol
would have been better to discover them and make sure they lived to continue their work..
This one was also packed with hams and more food than today's refrigerators.
Probably lasted longer too. My grandparents had the same refrigerator for at least 25 years. I'm on my 3rd refrigerator in the same time frame.
We have a fridge/freezer in our garage that my parents purchased 40 years ago. It's survived 4 moves and is 100% reliable. I will be esp sad when it craps out bc it'll be the one of the last "old appliance" i've inherited to go and there's simply no modern day equivalents.
Load More Replies...I enjoyed that video more than I should have probably. Thanks for sharing
Load More Replies...I doubt it. I've read the article it is based on but I'll bet you in 20 years we still won't see this on the market. It's just not possible. Id love to see it, I'm not hating or being negative. But...I think what they're doing is taking mental signals and mapping them to output. 'blue room' is this fuzzy line and fish is this three bumps in the line but ..how big of a room? What kind of fish? I don't see how you would get all the details from the little we can detect now. Maybe someday but...this would be a giant giant leap and they can't even consistently tell what you're thinking when you're conscious yet.
I can't even list the number of things that used to be classified as 'science fiction'...!
Load More Replies...Not the actual dreams but a AI visual representation of the brain activity
Oh, thanks! I was just wondering, how exactly?
Load More Replies...Yeah no need to repeat the dream where you go to school I you underwear and for some reason your grandma is there too.
This isn't exactly new. I had first heard of this about 10 years ago but the images were very staticy and black and white. I would love to see how far they have come now. I'm also one of those people who swears they dream in color. Maybe not full spectrum but I've seen red, orange, and blue a lot.
i dream in full colour and my last nightmare was pretty much before i can remember , this string of comments has me questioning my normality :)
Load More Replies...I have very strange dreams so I’m not sure how to feel about this
So I guess he didn't say "Found him" two seconds after being appointed to the role
Agreed I'll get to the bottom of. It he is definitely the image of some actor
Load More Replies...not accurate...the agency (eventually) realized they had a mole....he was in the group where the mole was likely position...when questioned about how he would go about identifying a mole in his work group, unlike his coworker, he said he had no idea about how to find a mole...that and his above paygrade suits and car made him the main suspect...
And guess what all the noises are birds do on a spring morning
And when you hear a screaming cat it's because when the male pulls his 'barbed' penis out it HURTS LIKE HELL and the femal screams, but is is what releases her egg to get fertilized. So again, noisy sex. Now I don't feel so bad. hehe
The same businesses that offer scammy EMS also offer cryotherapy for exactly that reason...
Load More Replies...So last night when I was shivering non stop in a field in the middle of nowhere in a tent I was exercising??
If you need anything, I'll be in the walk-in fridge for the next fifteen minutes...
Cold has always burned more calories than heat. Science over fad. Drinking a glass of ice water in the morning jump-starts your metabolism to produce more heat/burn more calories.
Sounds like a story with a very deep meaning: your success is the result of the failure of hundreds before you
The shepherd couldn't save them as he fell asleep was he was counting them.
Load More Replies...That answers the age-old question (for sheep) that all mothers ask their kids about jumping off a cliff.
Sheep do stupid things en masse. The first large shipment of sheep to Melbourne had to be droved overland from Westernport. The sheep escaped one night, and almost all of them died by drinking salt water from the bay.
How were they misled into doing this? Did someone pull the wool over their eyes?
We used to say that about the customers. Give them something free just once and they'll expect it forever. And they'll turn hostile if they don't get it free.
Same with raccoons, bears, foxes, and probably most other wild animals. It's almost like they don't understand...
It's a Greenland shark. They live to be between 250-500 yrs old. This one is believed to be 400 yrs old
Load More Replies...The eyes of Greenland sharks are rather unique because of their small size. Moreover, most Greenland sharks are (partly) blind because of the Copepod (Ommatokoita elongata) parasite. These parasites attach themselves to the cornea of the eyes of the sharks. -- Sharkguardian.org
Load More Replies...Tbh, most places in the world are older than America. America is the snotty teenager in the global landscape. Not saying it negatively or with prejudice. Just facts.
My dining room set (bought in Germany) is older than the YS
Load More Replies...Way older, I think its a female Greenland shark that's 400 or 800 years old lol.
It's a type of parasite, but since they don't teally rely on their eyesight, it doesn't affect the shark too much.
Load More Replies...Given that as a young man Gates considered showering and deodorant highly optional, he certainly did.
Load More Replies...literally every teenage guy ever would do that
Load More Replies...And yet he still ended up being buddybuddy with a certain billionaire who owned a couple shady islands in the Caribbean 🤨
If any teenage guy had the brains to do that, they'd do the same. Just a normal teen guy thing but on a brainier level!
every guy in my high school would do that, you've definitely forgotten what it's like being a teenager lmao
Load More Replies...That's very telling of why he is a failure with women. Not even his wife wants him anymore.
I'm not sure a 27 year marriage to an extremely intelligent and accomplished woman counts as being a failure with women.
Load More Replies...I can think of quite a few men that wished they had the brains to do that!
Well when Emperor Xinne the Pooh is watching, it's better to get a little poke in the neck than a rope around it later for poor posture...
Load More Replies...Princess Victoria had holly tied under her chin to improve her posture
I've always wondered what those pins you get in a new dress shirt were for!
*starts dozing off* "Ow!" *Sandman calls again* "F*****g b***h!" *drops off completely* "That's it! I'm defecting to Japan!"
I sent a list of 10 Dad Jokes to all my friends to see if any of them made my friends laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
Source? I've never heard this before and have literally read 100s of histories of the Mongols.
Not the Mongols. The Roman word that became "decimation" was originally the killing of every tenth man. In Jewish history there was an event where every third person was killed. But not eaten.
Load More Replies...No no... He would reply, "A friend in need is a friend Indeed!! Go eat him..."
Load More Replies...Then there was mass confusion: "You were 10th, no, you, not me! I'm eighth!"
How many hid and swapped places before the news reached the soldiers in line?
I had no idea they had cameras back then. That photo is really clear, too.
I got rid of the down vote because some people don't get sarcasm or re-enactments.
Load More Replies...Referred to by Shakespeare in the Taming of the Shrew, IIRC. But used as a punishment rather than torture, and first recorded in the 16th century, so not really mediaeval (however you choose to spell it).
Good old religion! Enforcing and protecting the global Patriarchy for millenia!
Could I suggest a few politicians for the Bridle. Maybe some televangelists or informalists?
I'm sure that there are some MAGA Republicans who would love to bring this back.
I'm more of moderate liberal and I can think of a good two dozen MAGA Republicans both male and female who would benefit by using such a device. I can also think of a good two dozen democrats. Is it possible to order 546 sets of these. That should cover Congress, the President, Vice President, and the Supreme Court. Bonus if we could order another 7 to quiet down some former residents of the Oval Office and their VPs.
Load More Replies...Sounds like an awful relationship. Plus, this solved absolutely no relationship problems because nobody knows what's wrong
Otou Katayama and wife Yumi. They live in Nara, Japan and have three kids. He finally admitted that he was jealous of the attention Yumi was giving their children, so he made them grow up in a household where their father wouldn't speak to their mother and would only communicate with her in nods and grunts. It became news because one of the kids, at 18 years old, sought help from a TV program that sent the two parents out on a date with the expectation they talk to each other. It's possible that it's not true and was all made up for the show, but, if it is true, what a crappy way to treat your family.
"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her." - Rodney Dangerfield
Humans are very fatty and oily because of the skin, the roach hates that
Uh. So like every religion ever? Do you know how many white Jesus pictures I've seen? Also...if you know anything about Buddhism...this literally doesn't matter. It's the thought that counts? Half the Buddhas you see aren't even 'the Buddha'. This is a non-story.
ViRaL This is a source they used for facts. This is supposed to be a fact. Okay here “one day a lesbian called a banana a shlong” . That’s a fact. Do you believe me?
It's kind of horrible to think that gravity makes our bodies compress so much that it makes us shorter. I've heard we go back to normal length during night time. Anyone know if that's true or not?
It is. That is why it is best to have a doctor's appointment 1st thing in the morning so they can measure out your correct height. If it is in the middle of the day, arrive 20-30 minutes early and lay down in your car so your spine can decompress and you will be the right height again.
Load More Replies...In height, he grew 2 inches in height. Whew! I thought for a second I figured out why all these billionaires were building rockets to space.
Someone's a little brat, then. Yes you are. What a naughty cute brat you are. Yes. (I would never talk like that to Bouche and Audi. Not me, nope)
I encourage all of you to see the BBC video about Stoffel the honey badger. Absolutely fantastic badger.
Venomous snakes, if they ate poisonous snakes they would most likely die.
They can survive the poison. There are numerous videos of honeybadgers being bitten by their prey. They will usally faint, sleep it off, then eat the snake. Oh and they are not afraid to start a fight with a bear over food. The bear will usally leave, because badgers be crazy!!.
Load More Replies...The full story, if anyone’s interested: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-727-that-vanished-2371187/
I guess we can only assume it crashed deep into the sea somewhere...?
And I would scale a razor wire fence and I would scale one more just to be the man…
... who scaled two razor wire fences to show up at your door...
Load More Replies...The only time of year this would have been possible in Arizona...the walking 10 miles part would be deadly in the summer
He did not crawl past razor wire if he climbed two fences as razor wire is on top of the fence.
Oh, after being held in prison, he just happened to choose a bar as his destination.
It's always sounded funny to me that there are laws during a war. I guess it's good they have to draw the line somewhere. It's just that I always think of war as a complete melee no holds barred free for all anything goes type of event.
You know the tale of the germans & brits (I think, CIIW) who in WW1 put their guns down on christmas, played a football match in no-man's-land amd then went back to shooting each other the next day? For a moment, I always wonder why they not just went "f*ck this sh*t", went back home and shot their tinyd*cked heads-of-state instead. Then I remember that desertion is/was a punishable-by-death offense... 🙄
Load More Replies..."We're not doing 'Get help!'" "Yeah, we can't, it's illegal." "Oh. Well ok then." 😆
Okay here we go. The informally known 'Gay Bomb' was a 1994 proposal from Wright Factory in Ohio (where else) that aimed to spray sex pheromones over the enemy. The absolute beasts of Swedish scientists experimented in the 70s and found that homosexual men respond the same way to male pheromones such as body odour and halitosis as heterosexual women, and vice versa. THEREFORE, the US Army received a proposal saying 'let's spray female pheromones on men and cause homosexual behaviour.' The only real issue is that currently no artificial aphrodisiacs exist that would be viable for such a bomb, plus the conveniently ignored fact that WIND exists. The concept of the Gay Bomb won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize. Truly, make love not war.
I think people would be able to resist sexual urges during wars. Gay or not gay. 🤷 (Edit: I ment that people have more important things to do during wars then think about having sex, so how would this idea even suppose to work?)
Don’t know why you were downvoted. The WWII British nurses had more homosexual members than straight
Load More Replies...As if soldiers weren't already banging each other anyway. Imagine, you have these men being alone for months to years, just with each other spending all day and night together, what do you think they are gonna do? Lol 🤣
Yes, but they wouldn't be able to procreate like he did.
Load More Replies...As I recall, the ancient Spartans were a rather effective fighting force.
I wish all that intelligence & science could be used to just end war & conflict.
SHE. Our own Iron Lady, predating Thatcher by à century. ;-))
Load More Replies...Rest assured, sex is not a limitation. The clitoris can get an erection too.
Load More Replies...if erection persists for more than four hours, call more ladies.
Along with extreme pain, increased blood pressure, heavier breathing, and occasionally death.
Any spider bite can cause an erection if you're kinky enough.
"Look how much money I have to burn. Now look how I use that money to help someone in need."
That dude had feathers sewn and a horn drilled on a pony so his daughter had a unicorn....what else would you expect
Load More Replies......while he was on the run from the law and had her with him. In the wilderness. Where he was hiding. Don't make him sound like a good person. He was selfish and a monster. He spent $2500 a week or month just on rubber bands to hold his vast stacks of cash. He wrote off 10% of it bc rats ate it. He was worth so much that money meant nothing to him...
It looks like an oil tanker on a freight trian, except instead of oil, it's transporting humans...
Load More Replies...I have trouble understanding this. The steel covering of the tanker would block X-rays far more than any humans within.
A tank of that design might easily have been made of blow molded plastic...
Load More Replies...Pretty sure that's an X-ray of a truck. I'm no expert x-rayologist or anything but...something tells me this is the case.
Is the one on the very right for kids? Given it's thinner than an adult human would be anyway, and also has a lower discount than the one next to it
I've been there. They also speak English there because of how multicultural it is. The official language is Malay, but English is the second official language. There are Chinese Malaysians and such and many east Asians. Because of this almost everything has English signs and almost everyone speaks some English. Also I believe their laws are all in English due to past colonization by the English.
Load More Replies...Is this actually true though? I have my grandfathers weddinband and he was born 1908.
It wasn't WW2, but WW1 that it started, and only after the Korean war that it really took hold.
Explains why my dad didn't have one. (My parents married in 1948 and he couldn't even afford an engagement ring for my mom. I had my mom's wedding ring made into a claddagh ring after she died and wear it - correctly - in remembrance of her.)
WWII was a turning point not only for engagement rings, but also wedding bands. "The modern engagement ring tradition became widespread during World War II, when servicemen proposed to their sweethearts as a promise to come back and marry after the war was over," says Corsini (marketing manager of Lang Antique & Estate Jewelry and Antique Jewelry University in San Francisco, California). According to AJU, many engagement rings featured less expensive gemstones and fewer precious metals, as materials became harder to source during wartime. World War II was also responsible for establishing the tradition of men’s wedding bands—something that wasn’t common practice throughout earlier history. Married soldiers began wearing wedding bands during deployment as reminders of their wives back home, according to Gemological Institute of America. The tradition eventually caught on among the civilian population, and men’s wedding bands are still widely worn today.
I'm wearing my great-grandfather's wedding ring. He would have gotten married in about 1914. He never wore it. It's a good way to lose a finger if you're a farmer or tradesman. My grandfather didn't wear one, my father didn't wear one. I take mine off if I'm manual labor. No one wants to deglove a finger.
I thought men never wore one. I never saw a man wearing a wedding ring before the early 1980s.
My dad had one but never wore it. For a lot of working men it is a good way to lose a finger if it gets caught on a piece of machinery
Load More Replies...Meanwhile in Australia - “pick out what smiggle brand backpack you want for school this year’. - massive contrast
Don't worry, you can't make clear kevlar. Or armored plate. It'll never happen. So there's that to be grateful for...(edit: I guess armored glass would work but still can't do kevlar.)
There's a lot of complicated reasons. The simplest to explain is, you draw away or change the ground water flow. 100s of feet of mud dry up into 10s of feet of dirt. Or even sand. So a gap opens up. Then small earthquakes, frakking, or just traffic vibrations cause the top to collapse since it's not supported by anything any more. And...sinkhole. It can also happen naturally but most of them now are us if we're being 100% honest. Especially in poor areas. Rich people/companies need that water and can pay for it, etc.
Load More Replies...So by that logic, should I be put on a no fly list for being relaxed while watching some episodes of Air Crash Investigation?
I'm relaxed because I know what's coming. You only get stressed if you don't know the out come
Load More Replies....... Forensic Files is what I watch when I want to take a nap ... it's super interesting but the narrator's voice is so relaxing
It is the same with the german narrator. So relaxing and there was a time i searched for the show on tv to fall asleep easier.
Load More Replies...And I always thought me taking notes was a flag... Who woulda thought?
hmmm I used to watch it when I wanted to sleep.The german voice of Medical Detectives is so soothing.
I do it for the story, for the narrators calm tones, for the insight into psychology and for the non-fakeness of the drama. Also for the resolutions which are usually justice. I don't necessarily agree. It's like a traumatic experience you can control. Be in control of. I don't like the yucky or horrible or psycho hero worship parts. Most of them are sad broken robots operating on bad code. They're the least important part of the story.
unfortunately, I used to as well, until I had my first home invasion (I've had 2, different houses) and now I can't watch them.
Load More Replies...Lot of folks confusing "feeling relaxed" with "not being completely freaked out and hiding behind the couch or having nightmares." True crime shows *exist* because they create emotional tension, which increases our interest; that's why they succeed as entertainment. If you feel no emotional tension watching something deliberately crafted to make you feel emotional tension relating to violence against people, it may - not do, not will, not probably, but MAY - reflect other psychological-emotional issues, some of which may be serious.
Some shows are like ASMR. The narrators don't get worked up when something happens.
Why the downvote? Here, take my upvote, 'cause that is hella weird
Load More Replies...As someone who'd really like to visit Japan someday, the more I learn about it, the more I wish I didn't 😅
They are warned beforehand, and wearing a mask and. goggles. Its not everyone who does it. On a side note if you are not married when you turn 30. You get a giant peppermill. Its normally made of old oildrums, and if your friends are evil, they will fill the whole thing with concrete
Load More Replies...Knowing the internet, there were probably more than enough volunteers
Load More Replies...Hey look, it's a chance you'll take, a horrible mistake you'll make, and you'll sure as hell get messy
Load More Replies...Well, you have to explore all options, with how bad the housing situation is
Load More Replies...I can't imagine wanting to walk through a whale's uterus.
Colin Mochrie: A man who was swallowed by a whale escaped by running up and down until he was pooped out.
Don't make a "Yo's mama joke" ! Don't make a "Yo's mama joke" ! Don't make....
She didn't live very long IIRC. She burned to death during the 4th orbit.
Load More Replies...There were many dogs. All street ferals. All were renamed Laika. Many died. One survived.
Poor baby! Why launch her into space with no way for her to come down?
What is it with russians and dogs? Their plan to use suicide-bombing dogs in WW2 is another example (they blew themselves up with that though)
I'm surprised it didn't start with "florida man.."
Load More Replies...This was based on a Facebook post that was deleted shortly afterwards. There doesn't seem to be any other information available than this. Not sure how true it is.
Snopes ranks it "unproven." They could not find anything that supports this story. I call bs.
He had a brain haemmorhage, went through multiple surgeries, had several strokes and seizures, with that portion of the skull being removed after his brain swelled (causing the above incidents).
I found this,with a little explanation, just for anyone who is interested =) A man in California has reportedly lost part of his skull — thanks to excessive consumption of energy drinks. In a post (now deleted) shared on the Facebook page for Endres Photography, located in Sacramento, California, a woman who chooses to be known only as Brianna explained how excessive energy drink consumption led to her husband’s nearly fatal brain hemorrhage. Brianna wrote that her husband, Austin, began to consume energy drinks “when he started working longer hours and commuting.” And, eventually, this proved life-threateninghemorrhage and that he was in a coma. After conducting a toxicology screening and ruling out drugs, doctors suggested, Brianna writes, that excessive energy drink consumption was the source of the problems. https://allthatsinteresting.com/energy-drink-brain-hemorrhage-skull
I've never heard anything good about Carrey before.
I've never heard anything good about Carrey before.
