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Bored Panda came across a cool Instagram account called Interestingash.ck. It shares amazing facts about anything and everything. It has over 2 million followers, and hundreds of educational posts. If you’re looking to learn something new, you might have come to the right place. From animals, to history, to movie trivia, there’s something for everyone. Keep scrolling for a list of our favorite facts from the page, and don’t forget to upvote yours.
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There's no problem humans make that humans can't fix if we work together.
Apparently still clean! Just looked it up and google said it's still a great example of pollution cleanup, but I couldn't find 2024 articles
Load More Replies...This shows an astonishing naivety about poverty and the way the recycling industry works.
Load More Replies...What kind of human culture even allows that much trash to build up on a beach? I guess in this case, it is a lack of culture.
Because India uses their rivers ad dumping sites, both for liquid sludge and for solid waste. A sizeable part of the plastic pollution in the Indian ocean comes from this practice, and washes back to shore with storms and tides. Their government is doing very little to fight it, and the only consequence their timid efforts had is that now they store waste in landfills close to rivers... until the landfill collapses into the water an then they start again. This practice is especially common in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, states where there is a sizeable pilgrimage industry related to holy rivers... that double as sewers. 25% of the plastic waste produced in India ends up in the Gange
Load More Replies...Should you require them, I have pitchforks. They serve the dual purpose of holding hay for rabbits to munch on...and making an impression, whether psychological or physical.
Load More Replies...John is still homeless but doing well. Passerby was jailed. https://www.dailyedge.ie/man-jumps-into-liffey-to-save-pet-rabbit-169390-Jul2011/
That motherflucker!!!!! Wtf is wrong with people!?!? Omg this makes me homicidall as all fluckin hell 🤬
Right after I saved my rabbit, I'd throw the "passerby" off the bridge.
Somebody threw a rabbit off a bridge. Did read that correctly? I feel sick
I just don't understand how people could wilfully harm animals... They've definitely got sociopathic tendencies.
Glad to have justice for Bun-Bun and so happy for the man. I hope they live a good life together.
Is there a store called Spectacular Spectacles? If not I have a copyright to file.
Load More Replies...Actually so kids who need glasses will "see" it's cool!
Load More Replies...Dogs can smell when we’ll be back home. It’s just one of many facts from the Instagram page that caught our attention. So we sniffed a little more. Many of us already know that dogs have a keen sense of smell. But it turns out they have a sense of time too. Just not in the same way we do.
Alexandra Horowitz is a researcher with a special interest in mutts. In her book, "Being A Dog" Horowitz discusses how dogs are able to smell the “passage of time” by the intensity of a scent. Your scent is strongest when you are home. It weakens after you walk out the door and continues to fade throughout the day. Your furkid uses the level of your scent to predict your return.
Horowitz also writes that the movement of a scent can inform a dog about the past and the future. A weak scent that’s low to the ground shows that someone has passed by. A stronger scent wafting in the air signals someone could be saying hello soon.
I fell out of my wheelchair and knocked myself out. I woke up to one of my cats lying under my head like a pillow and the other pushed my phone down off my bed where I could reach it. My the time my parents had come round after I messaged them, 3 of my cats were sat by or under me keeping me warm and safe. Cats get a bad rep for being selfish AH (and they can be) but they can also be caring and look after their owners. When I am having a bad pain day, my cats barely leave my side.
we used to have a cat that would pick up the phone. Well, she would throw the horn of, but you get what I mean. When she would hear someone on the other side she would respond by meowing.
Let's be real, folks... We ain't talkin' dogs here. The cat was ordering pizza.
To be fair, dogs would also be just as likely to be ordering a pizza...
Load More Replies...Cats are brilliant, and sometimes they care about the human servant
Yes, the Amerigo Vespucci IS beautiful. The aircraft carrier looks bulky and clumsy in comparison.
To be fair, aircraft carriers are not designed for aesthetics, but for functionality.
Load More Replies...During Tall Ships tour in 2000, when they came to Halifax, that was one of the ships I toured. It is a beautiful ship
I saw it at Sail Amsterdam in 1985 and/ or 1990 from a much smaller ship. Very impressive and beautiful. Made quite an impression on 8 or 13yo me.
Load More Replies...And possibly because it's named after the same person as America is?
Or possibly because it’s actually a very beautiful ship? Just maybe? 🤭
Load More Replies...PetMD also reports that dogs can sense time. “However, they don’t know how many specific hours, days, or weeks have gone by. The theory of scent distribution and a dog’s ability to remember something based on scent is called olfactory memory,” wrote Erika Lessa on the site. “It’s plausible that a dog can track short amounts of time by the strength of an odor and use olfactory memory for long-term time tracking.”
Did he just grow the moustache for Picture Day each year or keep it all the time, I wonder.
I'm wearing the same jersey (sweater) in two school photos at two different schools... Not on purpose. I'm now at year 32. I can't imagine weather that sweater for 32 picture days!!!
It's giving Ron Swanson vibes, "Yes I wore the same outfit last year because this is my Halloween costume."
LOL! Dammit, I read this seriously until "if the bag is wetted first." UPDATE: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I SHOULD"VE been thrown by the 0.0000000013 foot pounds I kinda skipped over trying to comprehend the number because OOH! Cute scary bird!
You will never convince me that this is not actually a Pokemon.
They are only found in Hokkaido. There is a whole range of merch, like plushies and key chains, dedicated to them.
They would have been noticed, except I imagine one of the rowers shouted "Duck!" and they all put their heads down out of sight.
Load More Replies...I once tried to save a baby duck from getting run over by an RV. When I got to the duck all that was left were a couple yellow feathers gently floating to the ground like you would see in her cartoon.
We were also interested to learn more about John Thompson. He’s the guy who lost both arms in a freak farming accident. But still managed to dial emergency services by using a pencil between his lips. AgWeek tracked Thompson down two decades after the accident to find out how he’s doing. “On Saturday morning, Jan. 11, 1992, Thompson was unloading pig feed with a grain auger and playing with the dog when he somehow got too close to the power takeoff shaft (PTO), which didn’t have a safety shield on it,” reported the agriculture magazine.
And then Rian Johnson thought it would be funny to unceremoniously kill the character off so that the idiot purple haired lady could be in charge. There has never been a bigger moron in charge of a Star Wars project.
I freaking love Admiral Ackbar! The only Star Wars T-Shirt I have is of him saying his famous line.
He's considered quite the ladies man among his kind. Who are we to judge?
we all love Admiral Ackbar! (and check out the Bobiverse books- Ackbar lives on!)
Boy that does NOT look like an animal that when threatened, may expel their young from their pouch to distract predators. But. Alas. Tis.
And here's the world's cutest animal, the ili pika. ili-pikas-...532814.jpg
If you visit Rottnest Island, these guys are everywhere but you will get into major trouble if you touch them or get too close
Australian animal so of course its natural tendency is to go for the jugular a la Rabbit of Caerbannog
It also shits bricks -- cubes -- and throws its children at predators when frightened.
Load More Replies...Yeah, but to flip it around, quokkas will happily throw their young to a chasing predator if need be.
Um, not exactly... https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-03-12/quokka-babies-daddy-long-legs-australian-animal-myths/13188740
Load More Replies...If you think that could be the soulless smile of a psychopath, know that the quokka will fling it's own baby at a preditor in order to escape.
It's there to sell you health insurance (only Aussies will get this)
Lucky woman. There is a bar in Manhattan that has a lamp from WW1 that has a bunch of wishbones hanging over it. The bar gave serving men a turkey dinner before deployment and they all hung their wishbones on the lamp bc their only wish was to come home. There are about 20 very dusty wishbones up there still.
Thompson told them during the interview that his shirt wasn't tucked in, and it's suspected it got twisted in the PTO shaft. The last thing he remembers was spinning on the shaft. He woke later to his dog licking his face and both arms gone. Thompson walked 100 yards to the house. And used his mouth to turn the doorknob, and a pencil to dial the phone to get help. “Then he sat in the bathtub to prevent blood from getting on his mom’s new carpet,” reports the magazine.
And what did we do to thank them? Abandoned them in cities and treat them like vermin. Poor pigeons.
I respect pigeons; just because we don't use them as messengers anymore doesn't mean they're worthless.
Cher Ami? You're not fooling anyone. That's the delicious, plump-breasted Speckled Jim.
Ah, but they needed someone to act a girl's part in a play....
Load More Replies...Bruddah IZ! His funeral stopped traffic for a large portion of the island. Rightly so.
I can't listen to this any more. It was played at the funeral of a wee boy who was a family friend as his little coffin was taken out of the church. My heart aches for them every single day.
Yup, I hear this song and I immediately think of Dr. Carter reading the letter and Dr. Greene on the bed in Hawaii. Even after all these years.
Load More Replies...I think he died soon after recording, and he knew he didn't have much longer to live.
And sadly passed not long after. It's his only recording and I recommend you listen to him if you haven't but have some tissues handy. https://youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I?si=QTmbgmadwiKJUDmh
The bank executives did reward this man for his honesty.
Load More Replies...He's better off being honest. How would a sewer worker sell off a bunch of stamped gold bars without being extremely suspicious and getting caught immediately? Admit it. The average person has no idea how to sell a gold bar. You're better off turning it in for a reward.
This was my question when Bob Menendez got caught with those gold bars in his jacket pockets. Why would you accept a bribe in gold bars? What did he think he was going to do with his illegal gold bars, walk into the bank with them?
Load More Replies...In 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a Sherlock Holmes story remarkably like this - "The Red-Headed League".
Some people wouldn't have shown up. Then this guy, and people like 'em, would have needed to either f*****g wait or go chase them down to inform them of their walk in gold vault.
Why would the directors of a bank agree to meet a sewer worker in their gold vault?
Because he wrote and asked them to. They were probably too curious not to.
Load More Replies...This became pretty much the plot of an episode of 'Thunderbirds'. Featuring Lady Penelope and Parker, of course!
oops... we missed something! Terry Pratchett would send in the gold golems.
Moral question.... would you have went in and got any gold of you were in this position?
Thompson was put into a coma for four weeks and almost died after contracting an infection. He miraculously made it through more surgery and months of rehabilitation. Thompson gave up farming for real estate once he’d recovered. But couldn’t receive a regular paycheck because of his disability insurance. He revealed that he’s suffered from depression for decades.
At the time of the interview, Thompson had written a book called “Home in One Piece", and was working on turning it into a screenplay. He was also doing weightlifting but said his big passion is singing. "It's just something that always brought me joy,” he said. “I mean, even growing up on the farm, I always looked forward to when the grain bins were empty and go inside the grain bin and sing because the acoustics were just unbelievable.”
Here's me, reading it as George was given his library card.
Here's me wondering in what Universe George is short for General Electric.
Load More Replies...And missing his physical examination card. Well that won't do! Here we go: q13w9t2poc...fd6a76.jpg
The body diagram with ears and a tail makes it look like the cats in that other BP post of all the weird renaissance painting animals.
They even noted his white feet on the card and documented his lovely tail!
They left out the actual health form, which is effing hilarious. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/17ca10g/this_health_report_for_a_kitten_that_the_us_navy/
She did indeed only served less than six years of her sentence and lived on to old age.
It IS a liberty card, right? He needs a liberty card to go on and off the ship for liberty breaks, right?
Al Capone’s also the one that campaigned for expiry dates to be put on milk
Old Scarface was a crook but he was at his heart a decent human being. I'm reminded of the scene at the end of the Rocketeer when the gangster looks over at the FBI agent and says "I may be a crook but at least I'm an AMERICAN!"
Load More Replies...Mafia always operated partly as the mutual help society. If they do good to the community, why would anyone tell the cops
If you are a criminal mobster, social instability and extreme poverty are the last thing you want on your turf, as it makes your work more dangerous. Especially when the gouvernment fails to provide necessary services, it is often the criminals who step in, creating a good standing in the community. In the beginning of the pandemic, some drvg cartels of Bogota started to run free clinics in the local slums and provided free masks and hand sanitizer after the Columbian state clearly did not make those people a priority.
I know this happened in Mexico. I am not aware of cartels in Bogotá operating clinics. And I can't find any evidence of that. But the Colombian cartels are not what they once were. Cities like Medellín, which were once crime hubs, are now tourist destinations. Colombia has come a long way since the 1990s.
Load More Replies...After. A lot of criminal organizations and their bosses engage in charitable work, particularly in their own communities. Sometimes for altruistic reasons, and sometimes to engender public support and to craft an air of legitimacy. Cartels do the same to this day by building churches, hospitals, schools etc. in communities that the government doesn't adequately serve. By comparison, after the Fukushima Daichi disaster, the Yakuza were instrumental in cleanup efforts. Even in the city I live in, when the garbage strike happened in Toronto, Canada in 2009, it was pretty widely understood that the mob was helping the city clean up trash while the workers were on the picket lines.
Load More Replies...He did do some good..including booze when was illegal.. even if it was prohibition..no one who wanted a drink cared he was a villain..
Just like modern day cartels, mobs back then won the people over with stuff like this, while also being absolutely brutual. Capone, his cronies, Druggan and O'Banion, Moran, the current Outfit were/are violent monsters, buying out police and politicians to ignore their illegal conduct. Just like today's cartels. Complacence in exchange for safety.
If you’re a Breaking Bad fan, you might recognise Giancarlo Esposito in the list of interesting facts. The Danish-born American actor and director plays the role of Gus Fring in the series. Celebrity Networth reports that he has a net worth of around $4 million. But he’s had to work hard to get to this point. As the Insta post states, Esposito declared bankruptcy after his divorce. And even considered arranging his death so his children could get the policy payout.
The actor made an appearance on SiriusXM’s Jim & Sam show earlier this year. He was open and honest about his financial struggles. “If I got somebody to knock me off, death through misadventure, they would get the insurance,” he said. “I had four kids. I wanted them to have a life. It was a hard moment in time.”
In Rockport, Texas, there is a stretch of coastal road with all the trees growing this way due to the constant wind off the water. An amazing sight.
Another famous example is the trees along the coastal areas of Cape Town, South Africa
It looks like the game crashed on this tree and it never loaded in :(
I remember when this story came out. After placing the call, he went and waited for help sitting in the bathtub so he wouldn’t get blood on the carpet.
The things you do when your body is in trauma. When I got set on fire i remember being overly sorry when I could talk in the ER cos I didn’t wanna bleed and get goo on the hospital beds 😂
Load More Replies...Social media is censoring all POSSIBLY violent words now (and good luck in your name is Richard but you prefer to use D*ck.) If you don't censor- the comment will be zapped by the powers that be. So if you want to order ch*pped salad... forget it. 🤬
Load More Replies...It was a tractor, not a pit full of ice picks 🤔
Load More Replies...It would have happened so quickly. The shock and adrenaline would have allowed him to take action quickly. The human body is wild.
Fortunately for his family and fans, Esposito didn’t follow through. “I started to think, that’s not viable because the pain I would cause them would be lifelong, and lifelong trauma that would just extend the generational trauma with which I’m trying to move away from,” he said on the show. “The light at the end of the tunnel was Breaking Bad. I had a few little things before to start to recover, but Breaking Bad was the light.”
Sorry he was that desperate, but glad he got the life-saving role. The first of many times he appreciably enhanced productions with his presence.
He was in a few things before that too, amazing actor. Glad his life was turned around..
Load More Replies...Giancarlo is an amazing man. If you watch an interview with him, answering fan questions, he is humble, informative and delightfully humorous
so true! i saw a street interview with him in nyc and he was awesome! that's where i learned it's pronounced "EsPOSito" and not "EspoSIto." #The More You Know
Load More Replies...I think he was my favourite character in Breaking Bad (which is saying something given the quality of the acting overall). His presence was absolutely electric, even when he didn't say a thing.
Yes! It's one if my favorite shows and the acting is phenomenal. But the things this guy can do with a facial expression. He was my favorite too.
Load More Replies...I'm surprised to hear this. He's a great actor who did other work outside of Breaking Bad. I didn't know he was in that position
Why haven't I ever heard of sea wolves? This was never taught to us in school in MB.
Yes, in the future someone will say, "They werewolves, but look at them now!"
Load More Replies...The ancestors of orcas and dolphins is believed to have been a coastal predator called a Mesonyx. Looked like this: 401ebf_a1b...39fb62.jpg
Now we just need one pack that flies and we'd have the perfect name for them (IYKYK) XP
Later, they could have had an "Animal Most Dangerous to Its Own Species" display and used the same mirror.
I think something like this should be displayed in all Zoo's, so profound,
I've seen that "exhibit" many times, but not for many years now. That display was next to the cage of a chimp that liked to fling feces thru the bars at the idiots taunting him.
When I went to the zoo as a child, there was a door in the monkey house, with a notice reading, "Open to see a picture of the primate that does the most damage to the earth." And inside there was a mirror.
We certainly learned a few new things from the interestingash.ck page today. And we’ll definitely be sharing our newfound knowledge around the dinner table tonight. Which of the interesting facts on this list did you already know? And which of them surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments. And don’t forget to upvote your favorites.
Once again, I have to know, is Sean still running the bar? I'm also guessing he's made Employee of the Month a good 167 times already XP
Same time everyday my boy will be waiting at the front door waiting for his dad.
Pfft! When I was 11-12, my cat, Benji, walked me to the end of my street on my way to school in the morning. When I walked back home he’d meet me at the end of the street and we’d finish walking home together. You could say it was a unique experience but it wasn’t. 20 years later, I had Misty (another cat), she walked with me to the bus stop to go to university and would be waiting there for me when I got back eightish hours later. How do I know it was about a sense of time? A few times I got back to the stop earlier than normal and she wasn’t there but she knew the sound of my footsteps so 100% guaranteed she came running up to me as I walked home. Before you get mad she was outside, it was in the UK 25+ years ago; we didn’t (prolly still don’t) have the same attitude towards cats being outside. Now I live in Canada, I still have cats but they don’t go out except in my cat-proof backyard.
You are an excellent feline friend 👍..... today we can't let them roam. My cats were inside cats and when my most recent one got out because someone didn't close the gate I was frantic. Calling and shaking dry food in a box to get him to come out of hiding to no avail. I kept checking during the night...and then at 6am a blur whizzed past me into the house. I think he got locked in someone's garage and when they went to work he got out. 😻
Load More Replies...My spouse gets home before I do and I'm told from the time they get home until the time I get home our dog just sit on the couch watching the door for me. I do not deserve my sweet pup!
Sometimes when I walk in a room my dog will be wagging his tail, even if I haven't said anything to him yet
"Oh who's a smelly boy? You are a smelly boy! Oh dear God you stink! You farted!!" All in that silly high voice that my dog loves
What about cats. Because sometimes my void looks at me like I'm stupid or something when i talk to him with a funny voice. Maybe I am stupid, but still, it hurts. :D
I think cats always look at us like we're stupid. I've certainly never seen them look any other way!
Load More Replies...i think we use it partly because they give us positive attention when we do, which reinforces the behavior
My dog loves me because I'm just silly! (And I'm the bearer of treats!)
And understand what we say to them, I have three dogs, and elder, almost elder, and puppy, the younger two love playing and the older just walkes, eats, sleeps, once we let all of them out and the elder came back in, I told the others to hurry up and as soon as I said that they bolted to the door
This is what happens when interdimensional travel glitches. Like right now i KNOW I'm supposed to be rich and famous
Keep the famous, I just know I'm supposed to be rich. And beautiful.
Load More Replies...Identical? I know identical doesn't mean "identical," but those guys couldn't even get cast as each other in an indy film.
Identical twins often start to look different as they grow older, lifestyle factors play a huge role such as diet, amount of exercise, career, if they drink or smoke, where they live etc. The fact that they were raised separately meant that their lifestyles would likely have been different in a lot of ways and they might have been raised in very different climates which could have a huge affect.
Load More Replies...Actually reminds me, me and my sister look like twins despite being born a year apart and not living in the same house, siblings are magic I swear
I knew 2 brothers who grew up together, not twins but always mistaken for being them.
Load More Replies...I've read this story. I find it terribly troubling for the chimp and child both. It shouldn't have been allowed.
Chimps are terrifying. I never want to be in the same room as one.
Load More Replies...I trouble making my kids stop behaving like chimps without any actual chimps around
Remember that your human child should come first. I see some families raising a monkey or some other similar creature in unison with their child and if you don't think that'll make them feel a certain type of way you'd be lying. They are not and should not be on equal standing. One is going to be a little citizen, the other is a wild animal.
wrong on so many levels. We need to spend time teaching the chimps to do sign language and speak TO US vs and saving them from becoming bush meat. RESPECT not ABUSE
‘Medical errors are the third leading cause of death’ and other statistics you should question. . . . . . . https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/07/medical-errors-are-the-third-leading-cause-of-death-and-other-statistics-you-should-question/
Load More Replies...Medical science still doesn't completely understand "brain death". I have two friends who were involved in a head on car crash, both ended up on life support. Both sets of parents and their spouses were harrassed by "organ transplant teams" for days to allow them to take them off life support... They refused. Both girls woke up after a week, with no long lasting after-effects other than a broken leg, a concussion, and a broken nose. They are both perfectly OK today. My Living Will very specifically says I am, in the even of this necessity, to stay on life support for at least two weeks before withdrawing. You never know!
Let me guess. The father recovered from the 17 gunshots SWAT inflicted and is eligible for parole in 2027?
The doctors did not make the decision to take the son off life support, the rest of the family did. The father had no say because he had no medical power of attorney. He actually had a restraining order against him. He was binded out but arrested becsuse he violated the restraining order. The family made the best decision given the facts. Son recovering ( still disputed how much if a recovery he actually made ) was against the odds. Dad got out after 11 months for " time served", mostly due to the skewed press.
Load More Replies...These were most likely the voice actors and not the regular employees. The employees probably use their own transportation or cheaper public transportation to get to their jobs.
Load More Replies...EVNautilus' video where this picture was taken from. Beautiful firework jelly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA
Do NOT give some malarkey about this being a jellyfish or weather balloon. I know a space alien when I see one, dammit!
So #6 has 'chopped' censored to 'ch*pped' but #7's 'Interestingasfuck' is absolutely fine?
Don’t try and make it make sense. Your head will explode. It just is
Load More Replies...Not as important as you've been led to believe...oh, you mean the jellyfish? Up to around 10cm/4" in diameter with tentacles 2-3 times that in length.
Load More Replies...It's like painting over an older paint layer, but on a much larger scale.
Mother: ""Jacob, where are you?" "Down in Byzantine, why?" "It's past your bedtime, get up into Republic, right this minute!"
It may be that it was "just another Tuesday" but the point was that it wasn't "just another Tuesday" for DiCaprio (thankfully). When I studied interpreting at uni, we had to do some interpreting practice using some of Hitler's speeches. (He had an unusual oratory style.) As a Jewish person, I also found that I had to stop occasionally. We had an in-depth discussion of interpreting ethics after the session, which was helpful in processing it.
Oh. I would also have personal problems with that assignment as another Jewish person. Taking time out to process is very important.
Load More Replies...Samuel L. Jackson is a mushroom cloud laying motherfսcker, motherfսcker.
Load More Replies...DiCaprio should have won an Oscar for this because the acting was SO good and SO believable. But of course, praising a ‘movie character’ like this would cause outrage…
You praise the actor, not the character, in any performance. Every story has a villain and there's a reason people like villains, even having a favourite, and that is because of the how the villain is portrayed by the actor.
Load More Replies...he meant "acting", not the racist thing is just another tuesday
Load More Replies...As opposed to being beaten with sticks, jailed, and assaulted there.
Load More Replies...To get a taste of what the future of America would be like if Christian Nationalists gain power with Trump, look at Iran.
He was already president for four years. Remember when everything cost 20% less, Federal border law was enforced, crime rates were lower, gas was $2, mortgage rates were 3% and we weren’t up to our neck in proxy wars? Yeah, that was Trump, but I’m guessing you live outside the US and are clueless.
Load More Replies...Yes, it should. Reminders of the freedoms that have been stolen from women should be as visible as possible, but for some reason people care more about not insulting religion (as if it's possible to offend an abstract concept) than they care about how much religion insults people.
Load More Replies...They traded a bad dictatorship for something much worse. Not the first time a revolution did that. What is more, the Islamists got the Communists and Socialists to help them get into power with the promise that their initial Islamicization rules would be temporary to appease their base and would be rolled back after year 1. After year one, all opposition was arrested and sent to prisons or executed.
They've reduced the female status to that of cattle. Asylum should be made openly easy and available to the women and let nature take its course
and men, as usual, s c r e w e d over the entire female population.. and the Taliban jumped right in on that one. Some parts of Islam should be just cut out of that Qoran
More a case of lack of government funding, dismissal of animated films and focus on drama than comedy in film than national debate.
When we adopted our daughter from China 27 years ago we noticed a total lack of humor and lightness with all of the bureaucrats we had to meet for the paperwork. They had a very depressed demeanor. Plus most of the government buildings were very run down and third worldish.
Load More Replies...I used to think the pandas doing rolling to move, and a bunch of stuff in the movie was just fun exaggerations... until I saw panda videos, and they really do roll around to move, and climb and fall and all kinds of crazy stuff.
A Chinese academic came up with a theory that bc the CCP's division that handled domestic film production didn't allow protagonists in childrens movies to be flawed, but had to be perfect role models. Po didn't fit that, the division that handled foreign films didn't care. It therefore gave a more realistic character. He also noted that Chinese film school put a bigger emphasis on propaganda for the govt than creativity which stunted writing. Lastly, Disney hired dozens of top China culture experts from China, Taiwain, and the US to work on the film.
Because American film makers made it without thinking that they needed to add unnecessary propaganda and nationalism into it.
Shhh shh shh.. Take the win culturally. Anime vs. Animation doesn't need to happen. Also, Turning Red was also a masterpiece on it's own
We need a movie about him... And about that Scottish guy who fought in the WWII with a bow and played the pipe
I'd love to have seen that battle report. "Herr Lieutenant, a medieval knight is attacking our tanks" ...... "What have I told you about nipping at the schnapps Hans?"
The picture makes me think he was one of the knights that say "Knee high".
I am pretty sure he severely hindered the German forces. I mean, how effectively can you fight while ROFL?
Vertical scale greatly exaggerated to make the globe's point. They say that if the Earth were shrunk to the size of a billiards ball it would be smoother than the ball
Alternatively, if a billiard ball was scaled up to Earth size it would have mountains tens of times taller than Mt. Everest that would immediately collapse under their own weight.
Load More Replies...These are the best globes to touch. Just trace some mountains for a bit. Super relaxing.
This will need continually readjustment..as earth continually readjusts..
Great globe, but remember it is exaggerated for clarity. By 10 or more times. Where can I buy this?
Great, now I have to worry about space spiders and their complex webs!
They also gave spiders various d***s - the results of that experiment were what inspired someone to suggest the microgravity experiment.
Yes I loved that showing the different webs that went with the different substances.
Load More Replies...This is a great idea. I vote we send all the spiders to space so they don't make a web on my car every morning.
As I understand it they volunteered bc they were running from a NY mobster who called them rats and shot their father in the foot. I heard tings...I heard tings...
From what I can find, "finer" must mean thinner. "More complex has me completely puzzled. Untitled-6...3a868c.jpg
I had a horrible witch of a manager named Anita, that I wish would've been sent to space. Or anywhere other than where I worked, really.
Odd strategy. Didn't that cause a shortage, making the value of poached ivory go up, and giving poachers more incentive?
Moreover, burning it actually prevents thieves/corrupt officials from smuggling and then selling it.
Load More Replies...Poor elephants... Imagine how many elephants were slaughtered to harvest such a vast number of ivory tusks!
Anything will burn if you pour enough gas on it!
Load More Replies...such a sad situation that humans manage to decimate other intelligent species for nothing but greed. as a species - we suk
She should have just told them she was from Old Zealand. (I'll see myself out )
New Zealand, like Australia, doesn't exist. Anyone claiming to be a Kiwi is a paid actor. You didn't seriously think that accent was real, did you?
A lesson to all Kiwis to always travel with a map to be proffered to all customs agents when questioned
I had some beef at a border crossing in Honduras because he asked where I was from and I said Inglaterra, before handing him a passport that said United Kingdom. I explained that England was in the UK but he wasn't sure and had to go get a manager. I suspect he was new.
You could've said you were from la Reina Unida instead and saved yourself from that massive headache
Load More Replies...No. Dammit this bs again. The rear lion is his CUB! Seriously, it obvious, she's blatantly a juvenile, evn if I didn't have the page debunking this, which is here: https://www.iflscience.com/that-nsfw-story-of-a-lion-getting-bitten-on-the-balls-isnt-quite-right-but-the-truth-is-just-as-hilarious-56823
And this is why we never should trust BP's post without citation! 👍 thanks!
Load More Replies...That is his cub! There is zero sex relalated anything here.
Load More Replies...In this case, more SIERRA, HOTEL, INDIA, ECHO, LIMA, DELTA than one faction I know.
This picture and title is WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!!!!!
Load More Replies...This one is a myth. Hamill explains it at about 3:30 in this video: https://youtu.be/FudtNNEeCkQ?si=EOAFA8p4OngGTk8g
Kolled? Kulled? Kelled? Kylled? Just what is this mystery word I keep seeing on BP?
A famous actor in Hollywood's golden age - George Raft - often played gangsters. In fact, he really was a gangster. https://ronbase.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/black-snake-the-forgotten-life-of-george-raft/
But it was only his way of preparing for his future roles. The ultimate Method Actor. Might have also given him an advantage on convincing others to finance the productions.
Pete Townsend was busted for kiddy porn... after going to the constable and notifying them that he was doing research for an upcoming project. For those of you who are skeptic, a LOT of Townsend's work has involved child abuse. Remember even the rock opera Tommy features two songs sung by two different characters as they each sexually abuse Tommy. (One of which, incredibly disturbingly, became a career-defining hit for Tina Turner.)
Load More Replies..."Just be yourself, and let your costume do the acting." - Jack Nicholson
I didn't actually break their record flying from Chicago to New Zealand in a middle seat, but it certainly felt like it.
I doubt the plane was big enough for a bathroom. Probably not even space for a bidet.
Load More Replies...The same way that fuel leaves your car's tank from the bottom but is delivered into the engine from the top - a pump.
Load More Replies...That was very brave ... most aircraft engines of that era were good for 1800 hours before a total rebuild was deemed necessary
Most of the wear in an engine happens in the first few seconds after it’s started cold. When running continuously at a moderate power setting they can go on for a very long time. I’d be much more concerned about oil consumption. Those old air cooled aircraft engines aren’t the most oil-tight. I wonder if they had rigged a way to add oil in flight.
Load More Replies...Not the actual picture this is from the fake news story from 2020. This is the real one. https://wordpress-as...SmileyMoon1.jpg.
Here's how it works, for those who haven't thought about it before. Untitled-6...a1498e.jpg
This is why 'Straya is better than 'Murica. (one of the reasons anyway)
Load More Replies...My father in law used to crack walnuts between his shoulder blades. This guy could lose them
You should Google him. He looks like a guy who would snowboard down Everest.
So apparently this was his second attempt and his first was successful.
Yikes... The Far Side is funny because it's strictly fictitious. REAL pictures of doomed people right before they did stupid things that killed them are not.
i thought maybe this was an urban legend, so i looked it up. it's true! http://www.storagetwo.com/blog/2018/12/dr-liston-and-the-surgery-that-killed-three-people One time he amputated a guy's leg so fast he accidentally castrated him.
“ No primary sources confirm that this surgery ever took place.”
Load More Replies...Sometimes tradition is just...strange. Why would anyone treat this area any less respectfully than any other place of resting?
They're not guarding it because they're afraid someone's gonna be a d**k. In this case, guarding it is a sign of respect. It's the same reason servicepeople attend funerals in uniform. It's like, by continuing to guard the tomb 24/7, the dead are continually in someone's thoughts.
Load More Replies...First was to stop people from desecrating it, then it became more a symbolic thing because it represent all missing and unknown service members who served and died. It’s the least we can do for them.
Load More Replies...Cloud seeding is a regular occurance today. Usually succesful provided that the clouds overhead contain enough moisture. Planes fly into the cloulds and spray chemicals that act as seeds for the moisture to clump together to form raindrops. Infact the recent flooding in Dubai was because of cloud seeding.
your comment that the Dubai flooding was caused by cloud seeding is disputed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68839043.amp
Load More Replies...This one was too hard to believe. Had to look it up. It's true, but these two photos are actually of brothers, both who are still missing persons, since 1964. https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Alan_Westerfield https://charleyproject.org/case/terry-lee-westerfield Alan and Terry Westerfield - not even named Bobby Dunbar Google Bobby Dunbar case. It's nuts.
The mum knew it wasn't her son. She tried everything to get people to believe her and they all said she was crazy
That was the Walter Collins case. They found a runaway, he lied, thry forced mom to take the kid. She cane back 4 months kater with dental records, they had her committed. Kid finally confessed he lied. he wanted to come to LA hoping to see Tom Mix , movie star. Mom sued , won, but never collected. The son may or may not have been killed by a serial killer.
Load More Replies...This American Life had a show about this. It is a really, really weird story.
Here's a link to that episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/352/the-ghost-of-bobby-dunbar
Load More Replies...So the kid that wasn't Dunbar just accepted that these complete strangers were his family now? I don't get it.
He was 4 and they would have thought he was brainwashed.
Load More Replies...It was actually hilarious, for them and all Alaskans. We still view it as the best prank ever created.
Load More Replies...He lived in the South Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh. I know people who knew him. They said he was a very nice man. As a child he was climbing a railroad bridge and was accidently electrocuted. He was blinded in the accident. He lived on disability.
Many states had laws against ugy people in public (disfigured, down syndrome, overweight, underweight, missing limbs, wheelchair bound, really old etc.), which is why the disability act gave them freedom to be in public.
I would say maybe it doesn't work, if he is still having to wear it all these years later
Load More Replies...I guess he could still light a cigarette and inhale the smoke (second hand smoker's style).
To distract from the fact that he had no idea what the answer to the question was.
If you read some of his biographies, not the nicest person to be around. His ego controled his decisions.
And he was never charged with anything? Even in America, it's illegal to point a gun at someone, let alone fire a blank at someone.
Illegal to point a gun at someone? No, it's not even illegal to shoot them sometimes (like tresspassing). Though, someone can press charges for a gun being pointed at them (attempted assult?), but it's not automatically illegal.
Load More Replies...Well, makes sense when you know that everything was stolen from George braque...
Not at all true. This is a photo from a visit to Picasso’s studio by American actor Gary Cooper.
How he did not wake up?? I am not buying this easily. Need more proof.
How could someone sleep through getting shot in the head? Must have been drugged too.
I did too. Now he has some weird beliefs and opinions.
Load More Replies...My husband’s favourite film when he was a teenager was the Mask - he honestly remember it as the best film ever. I couldn’t stand it, he insisted it was amazing so we watched it again recently. Now he hates it too - never go back 😅
Apparently I'm the only person on the planet that despised these and loved The Cable Guy.
Hugs. I do not like his humor, but he is good at his craft.
Load More Replies...Yup. It's a great story, but the executioners were busy and weren't going to help him with the experiment.
Load More Replies..." a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution" I didn't know they executed anyone for the chemical revolution!. Sadly, One of the most important scientists in history, he was executed by the French Revolutionaries.... but this story was invented in the 1990s.
What makes one think that science needs to know the answer to this question and decide to use one self?
Should have taken a job in the UK for a bit to even out the other side.
A guy I know was a bus driver for 40+ years and it shows heavily on his face...🚌 🧑🏽💼 ☀️
They were on one side of the truck, the sunlight only really came through one window.
Load More Replies...Somebody would go through this to eat raw pork? That stuff must be delicious.
We germans call it "Mett", it's very popular on breadrolls with raw onion - though we have very tight controls and no cases of any infections caused by commercially sold meat
Load More Replies...Because it tastes good, we germans call it "Mett" (Save to consume here)
Load More Replies...For the life of me, I cannot figure out what body part(s) I am looking at. Any kind soul out there, would you mind?
Was it *raw* pork, or just really undercooked pork? There's a big difference.
Raw. Germans eat it all the time minced with onion. It looks rank and smells worse. Yet they still tease me about British food!
Load More Replies...Now we can use anti parasetics but in a case this severe, probably not completely get rid of it.
Load More Replies...Recently shot my shot with a guy who reminds me of him a lot. Didn't even get a reaction. And 'my' guy is confirmed to still be among us.
I still believe he aged his heart by doing all that insane exercise, which led to his eventual death.
This boy suffered like no one ever should, let alone a child. He was murdered in the name of racism, and he was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.
i guess this is the kind of story some people in america dont want to be taught in schools, since its disgrace of a behaviour.
Load More Replies...And he didn't even f*****g do anything. Well, other than be persistently and aggravatingly black. The nerve.
If you absolutely must bìtch about BP censorship, at least learn to recognize it. They didn’t do this one.
Load More Replies...May the look in those challenge each and every one of us to look inwards and root out our prejudices.
I would prefer to be attacked by that Japanese Snow Fairy bird, if it's all the same to you
As long as you don't get wet you should survive.
Load More Replies...I'm pretty sure this one is a myth. It was mentioned in one of the sagas but there is no evidence it was ever done to a real person. I may be wrong but I remember reading about it some time ago.
I would rather this be a myth but I know humans can be evil so not amazed if it's true
Load More Replies...And this is a fun and interesting fact to share at the dinner table? I think not!
From wikipedia: While taking no view on the historical authenticity of the ritual, the authors of a 2022 study concluded that the ritual as described was not inconsistent either with physiology or the tools available within the sociocultural context of the Viking era. They further concluded that, were it performed in the most extreme versions depicted in the sagas and the subject of the torture still lived at that point, death would have followed the severing of the ribs from the spine within seconds, due either to exsanguination or asphyxiation.
How did humans even make it this far without totally annihilating each other?
I'll second that. And add: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO no no no no no no no no no no no no nO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!
Load More Replies...Of all the various methods (apart from torture) where one could die, this way invokes the highest level of fear in me. I've read about this case numerous times, and every single time I get anxiety. It's beyond frightening.
It completely eludes me why anyone would want to crawl into a cave like that.
They never got him out. They poured concrete down the opening to close it permanently.
Load More Replies...There's a movie about it. I would advise not watching if you don't want to cry.
Why was he told that she was dying by the doctors and she WASN'T? I'm not saying I don't understand at all the desire to protect a loved one from suffering, but damn. She was a human being. She might have wanted to make arrangements for her comfort, cross something off her bucket list, call someone from her past to say goodbye. Those choices were taken away because her husband was informed while she was kept in the dark, and her husband decided it was his right to choose for her.
Please note: this is utter b******t. Linda knew she was dying. They didn't tell the public until after the fact.
Load More Replies...Writing in British newspaper The Sunday Times, McCartney explains: "At the time she knew she was ill, but she'd had chemo and her hair was growing back. "I'm not actually sure she ever knew she was dying. You have a decision to make as a family as to whether you tell someone and the doctors leave it to you, the immediate family. "I talked it over with the doctor and he said: `I don't think she would want to know. She is such a strong, forward-thinking lady and such a positive girl that I don't think it would do any good.'"
She was battling breast cancer for years. Sounds like she didn’t want to know, because all it takes is one peek at your record or asking the doctor for a prognosis.
How can one not realize they are near death? My brother died from cancer and it was a slow death that took a number of months of agony.
Bored Panda Staff: "Let's repost this list every week. It's easier than finding new content."
A lot of these were new for me. Don't assume you speak for everyone.
Load More Replies...I seen quite a few of these before. Sometimes I don't mind and other times if I see the same ones I get the attitude yup I seen this one before, let's by pass this one.
Bored Panda Staff: "Let's repost this list every week. It's easier than finding new content."
A lot of these were new for me. Don't assume you speak for everyone.
Load More Replies...I seen quite a few of these before. Sometimes I don't mind and other times if I see the same ones I get the attitude yup I seen this one before, let's by pass this one.
