The ‘Facts Encyclopedia’ Instagram Is Dedicated To Sharing “Unknown Facts Daily”, Here’re 40 Of The Most Fascinating Ones
With the rise of educational pages, it has become obvious that social media has so much more to offer than fakery that destroys people’s mental health and irrational obsession with looks. Accounts with random facts and trivia, cool historical photos and ‘did you know that?’ interesting stories seem to be popping up everywhere right now, because the demand is big. You see, it seems like people really want to get something useful out of their feeds.
This Instagram page titled “Factopedia” follows the trend by sharing “unknown facts daily” and “must-see stories” for their 111k followers. Their series of “Did you know?” posts is an absolute treat for anyone who’s thirsty for easily accessible knowledge.
Scroll down through the handpicked selection below, upvote your favorite facts as you go and be sure to check out more weird facts that might give you a fresh perspective and interesting facts about practically everything you might not have known.
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Except for melanistic tigers, that is. Also known as black tigers! Here is an image of a black tiger. Black-Tige...58f7ab.jpg
you know white tigers are the result of inbreeding, they have a plethora of health problems
thats because idiots kept breeding them to their close relatives to make more. the white mutation didnt result from inbreeding itself.
Load More Replies...All those inbred tigers bred for profit. Shame on the breeders and those that enable them.
White Tigers may be natural tho. They were first found in the wild.
Load More Replies...Pretty soon this will be case for a lot of species because we refused to tackle climate change for profits.
I don't disagree with your overall thought, but northern white rhinos are nearly extinct because of poachers.
Load More Replies...They have always been cruel, it is just now we have the internet to showcase it so there is awareness about issues.
Load More Replies...I feel bad also for the caretaker... imagine seeing the lovely creature you took care of like a baby die in front of you. You cannot do a thing. Also he understands the impact of this death
We should start a rumor that eating the testicles of poachers will make you recover from everything...
Load More Replies...Man destroys everything. I hope these trophy hunters, poachers, puppy mill owners, pit bull fighters, laboratory's, racing animals for profit, keeping wild animals in deplorable zoos and all abusers bust the gates of hell wide open!!!!! And if your feelings are hurt!! Great!!!!
It didn't get it's head stuck, it's a squirrel feeder hanging from a string that they purposefully put there to look funny when squirrels pop their head in.
I guess you are right. You can see the string in one photo.
Load More Replies...Maybe...maybe it wasn't stuck and the squirrel just wanted to menace the neighborhood.
It’s no secret that all facts we find on social media have to be taken carefully. You see, with so much false information and fake news spread around online, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell facts from fiction. But in order to find out how to do just that, we spoke with Daniel Markuson, the cybersecurity expert at NordVPN, a while ago. He happily shared some insights into the topic, and they may help to train your eye to make sure you get legit information from the internet.
That was nice of her. It can't be easy to go off book like that when you are queen.
it's 110% true that it's easier for the queen to attend a wedding if she wants than anyone else in the UK.
Load More Replies...‘As a joke’, nope. The couple invited her to their ceremony at Manchester Town Hall, she was in Manchester & Salford doing Diamond Jubilee visits, the Palace contacted the couple and said she could alter her schedule and be able to visit. Security checks were done, her entourage ensured it could be managed securely and she and Prince Philip were joined by dignitaries to congratulate the couple. They were well aware that the Queen was going to be there, they’d been communicating with the Palace to make it all work. It was a nice gesture by the Queen if you like that sort of thing.
Pretty sure that wedding wasn't being held at the Knights of Columbus Room in the local Holiday Inn
Hopefully she didn't bring a white elephant as a gift. (historical joke)
dammmmn that's sick i will mry one time in my life just to do that
Actually, insulin IS a protein, and other proteins are already being produced with bacteria, mostly for pharmaceutical purposes. If you mean the production of proteins for human consumption, that's actually unlikely to happen. Not because it's difficult (it'd be *much* easier than producing very specific proteins like insulin), but because protein-rich industrial by-products (from animals, plants, and yeast) are so easy to come by. In fact, if I wanted to produce something protein-rich using a single-cell organism, I'd simple grow yeast in large amounts instead of fiddling with specifically-designed bacteria.
Load More Replies...Oh, it's very affordable - it's the greed of the corporate shareholders & CEO's of big pharma that makes it unaffordable in the U.S.
Load More Replies...Depends on the country, and if pharmaceutical companies are bilking you.
Load More Replies...Only in places where pharmaceutical companies are gouging.
Load More Replies...Daniel explained that there is no foolproof method to separate truth from misinformation. However, a general rule of thumb is to check the source’s credibility. “This particularly applies to social media platforms because they are optimized to increase engagement and lack appropriate gatekeeping features that filter out misinformation.”
“It is also important to weigh the claims against other sources. If a publication makes monumental claims that are exclusive to that platform, do not take them at face value,” he added.
I feel Maik was having an existential moment, actually pondering what it would be like to be a kind benevolent person, but then the siren call of internet anonymity beckoned him to stay an a*****e and be mean.
Load More Replies...i hate to say, but, i have been relating to this since my baby boy passed
The fact that it even has eyes it just... ✨chef's kiss✨
They don't. They look like this because for some reason for this type of flower looking like this improves their ability to reproduce. So that drives this flowers population to look more and more like a bird over time.
Load More Replies...these are very common where I live (china) and I have NEVER seen one like that
I read that pruning hands, isn't just some random reaction to being wet. It's actually an evolutionary adaption, that allows you a better grip in said conditions.
My mother was a nurse, then one sister became a nurse, then my father became a nurse and to finish it off my other sister became a nurse. I was surrounded by health care people, our table talk was always about what was happening in the world and when covid hit our shores, even though that family was gone for me, I remembered what I had learned. I find it sad and disheartening that so many are so ignorant................
This can be achieved by dipping hand in water for about two hours. Much less time and all the wrinkles
I am a surgical nurse and my hands have never once looked like that after 10 hours in surgery, but maybe I just don’t sweat enough.
In order to determine, you may want to look for some red flags. Daniel argues that unreliable news sources impersonate well-known ones by misspelling their names in the URL. “Similarly, they might use unconventional domain extensions instead of the usual '.com' or '.org.' In general, make sure that your news comes from established, well-known sources. These types of outlets get information directly from primary sources and must uphold their reputation.”
Fun fact: nobody knows Einstein’s last words because he said it in German and the only nurse that heard him didn’t speak German
He said, "I've changed my mind; I want the surgery."
Load More Replies...I don't want to make it past like, 80. If I can't be 100% independent without hurting myself, let me go.
Don't know why this was downvoted cause you're right-
Load More Replies...This photo is misleading, because based on the size of the boat's shadow, it's not 370 feet deep here.
It is remarkably clear but it's been disproven by snopes. You can actually see all the way to the bottom on the deepest part.
Load More Replies...I was there a couple of years ago and there were quite a few people swimming! One guy even had a paddle board out in the middle of the lake!
Load More Replies...And now, thanks to this photo, every careless littering tourist will frack it up.
OHH!!!! lets go see this thing!!! but first, lets get mcdonalds and drinks......and lets toss our trash out at the thing we came to see!!!
Load More Replies...which is why they are super serious about out of state boats. The have 24/7 manned stations at the border.
They probably would if museum glass wasn’t so dang expensive
Load More Replies...You can, and should be getting an anti glare coating on your eyeglasses. It will do that same thing. and if you dont wear glasses...your SOL.
The difference between the two is the UV protection. Museum Glass has 99% UV protection, which is the same as your standard UV filtering glass. It is designed to be amazingly clear, as well as protective for your art long term. It also prevents bleaching of the materials that it is protecting.
None glare glass is available to the public. You just gotta pay.
Ooo. That's interesting. Never really thought about it but makes sense...
Woow! Look, I know us human are dumber than a pile of bricks, but the thing is we’re also so totally smart!
And still, most items in museums are so difficult to photograph because of the reflections in the glass.
If you’re still not sure, Daniel suggests looking into the author, researching them, and making sure their credibility is up to par. “It is also important to weigh our own perception and not let our biases skew our understanding of events. Seek out differing opinions and try not to associate facts with ideological dogma.”
This is a misleading statement. It broadens the scale to the entire universe, which would include Uranus and Neptune where it rains diamonds. Nevertheless, I value wood much higher than diamonds.
You mean Jupiter and Saturn? Uranus and Neptune are frozen gas giants.
Load More Replies...Inside Saturns atmosphere it is raining diamonds constantly. Due to permanent storms in the upper atmosphere helium is burned to carbonflakes which are pulled to the core of the planet. The gigantic pressure turns these flakes into diamonds then until they get absorbed in the outer core made of liquid metallic hydrogen. I f*****g love space... pls adopt me Jean-Luc
Find a collapsed star made entirely outta wood, and then we'll talk.
In the entire Universe? They don't know that. Have they been to the entire Universe? No. So how stupid to make such a statement. They can't even make that statement about the entire galaxy.
Actually, diamonds are the most common gemstone found on the planet. DeBeers just keeps the price artificially high by controlling the supply, i.e., a monopoly.
And getting much more rare every day with the way we are burning the forests and cutting them down to build houses!!! We don’t need wood for houses anymore!! We can just use reclaimed wood or use plastic that resembles wood or use plastic bricks molded from recycled bottles that are stronger and more weather resistant than regular bricks!!!
also, diamonds are not that rare or valuable, there are other Stones/ gems/ crystals that cost more and are even more rare, Diamonds are just iconic
Diamonds aren't rare. The supply and thus the price are controlled by the suppliers. There are so many more gems that are genuinely rare and precious. Try tanzanite or ruby or emerald
This is what I was going to write. You beat me to it. The zipper boat is real cool.
Load More Replies...So, this is what the Japanese do when they get bored? I'd love to see their version of a "Hey y'all, watch this" moment...
can't imagine the size of the fly that would fit. Paul Bunyan? download-1...c00068.jpg
I can't even imagine what terrifying things existed back then in Australia. Probably a spider as big as a horse with wings and laser vision.
Emus will make you run that fast and so will a cassowary, both can kick you to death. Run like the wind if you want to live. download-6...728ab8.jpg
Somehow I have no problem believing our ancestors being stronger than we are now
I do. You think some rando, with zero training, and most likely malnourished would beat a professional athlete who was been training their whole life?
Load More Replies...A flat, well-defined footprint from somebody running that fast in mud? Sounds like complete b******t to me, and I couldn't find anything that explained why it's not. What does turn up easily with a quick Google search is that stride cadence is a necessary factor, but in this case it's an unknown factor.
You may be able to postulate that they were running, but I can think of no way to estimate the speed at which they were moving.
Humans were much more trained in those times cause they needed it to survive. And they started "training" immediatly. Of course they were in better shape than nowadays Athleten. A bunch of experimentell anthropologists on a survival Trip anounced every 7 year old stone age kid would have done better than themselves.
Fake news has become so widespread due to factors that concern both the content of the messages and the technological foundation of platforms on which the news is proliferated, Daniel told us previously. He explained: “Fake news is usually related to current affairs and makes remarkable, emotion-inducing claims. This, combined with the fact that social media platforms collect data on what kind of posts users spend the most time on and feed them content with similar characteristics, provides the perfect conditions for the spread of misinformation.”
It's even more horrifying if you look up the posdibilites of deep fakes.
Load More Replies...omg do you know how many young men probably had their hearts sink knowing they fapped to this dude
I don't know if I should be disturbed or impressed. I think I'm dispressed.
The problem would be with maintenance. Could probably do the same in Australian deserts but because they are so uninhabitable and far from everywhere, it's just not feasible.
The other problem would be getting the electricity to other places. The further it has to travel the more electricity is lost, making it extremely expensive and ineffective.
Load More Replies...The Sahara shifts too much. If you've ever seen a time lapse of the Sahara, the sand dunes ebb and flow like water. That much shifting paired with high winds that blow sand, a very destructive force, and you'd probably be better off putting those solar panels up in the Great Salt Flats or in White Sands.
The big ol' money makers wont allow that. Thry will ruin the project to get more cash by destroying as muvh natural rrsources as possible.
I wouldn't say everyone! LOL Just a select few that get their stories shared online.
Load More Replies...He's from the UK so university fees aren't hugely extortionate
Load More Replies...I know usually when you find something like this it belongs to the state and you have to surrender it. The most you'll get is a mention in the local newspaper or something. I'd probably be low-key pissed at no financial reward.
This article says by being declared treasure, the finder & the landowner where it was found can split the proceeds of the sale. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-11776113
Load More Replies...Let me rephrase...HOLY LONELY PONY EATING MACARONI
Load More Replies...So, what if he just didn't try to sell it or anything, and just kept it? The government would never know.
here’s some unsee juice just in case 12A95BC5-C...a-jpeg.jpg
Yes! Now we need to decide which sounds better... Hebby or Dobwig :)
Load More Replies...Go back to the sitting picture: it wasn't cross-legged, the bottoms of its feet were facing each other
Load More Replies...Hopefully they bundled them up right after the picture.
Load More Replies...Yep! And sooner or later we will cease to exist and the universe won't even blink.
Load More Replies...An uncomfortable fact: no matter how hard we try to recycle, compost, reuse, and generally be environmentally conscious…every one of us has an eco footprint just for basic existence. Even if we did everything “right” (which we don’t at all), we’d still destroy the planet.
We won't 'destroy' the planet at all ..it'll just be uninhabitable for us,we'll become extinct and the earth will flush away all trances of our existence over the next couple of hundred thousand years,which in the lifecycle of the planet is barely worth noticing...
Load More Replies...The rainforest has been here less than a month and has been wiped out 3 times previously
Industrial Revolution isn't responsible for the destruction of the rainforests, the switch from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to agrarian practices and the corporatization of those practices, which focus on results versus methods is responsible. Industrial Revolution just allowed us to be aware of the destruction far sooner and with more clarity than in times past. Also, the Industrial Revolution, and the scientific advances we have made in it, have made it clear how valuable the biodiversity in the rainforests actually are.
They left out an important metric - scale down 4.6B yrs to 24 hours.
I want to like his films, they are a funny and poignant and more, but then you have the other side of him and his desire for young teen girls.
thats why i like to seperate the art from the artist...unless the artist incorporates their desires into their work
Load More Replies...Such a travesty Buster Keaton wasn't awarded one as well.
Buster Keaton was long dead by the time Chaplin received this Oscar though. But yes, he would certainly deserve an award. The difference being that he didn't make it through the advent of talking movies like Chaplin (with some difficulties) did.
Load More Replies...you can tell by his face that by that point he was done with it but they just kept clapping.
This was just the Academy patting themselves on the back and covering their shame. They gave him an honorary Oscar in 1972 and it caused an outrage because it pointed out what they had done to him for 30 years. Out of guilt, they gave him the Oscar for Best Original Score the next year for a film called "Limelight". "Limelight" actually came out in 1952 but the movie could not get a rating or be released in the US because the MPAA wouldn''t allow it because an aid of McCarthy named Richard Nixon accused him of being a communist. Chaplin was also banned from the US for the rest of his life. LImelight was released in 1 LA theater (first film approved in 30 years by them) to make it eligible but neither he or his co-star, Buster Keaton, were nominated for major awards because Godfather came out. President Nixon allowed a 1 time visit for the honorary Oscar but didn't approve the 2nd one.
How many would clap had they known about the young girls… probably half the audience, I’m guessing.
In 1972? Probably way more than that. Men would have been more envious than outraged back then, and at least half of the women there would have feared for their careers if they made their true feelings known.
Load More Replies...This really isn't that hard (well, except for the well made drawing). Every color has it's opposite on the spectrum, and you just switch the color to that opposite when drawing. If you have photoshop, you can even check for the opposites of exact nuances of color.
Impressive AF! I barely have a handle on using colors the "normal" way, to do something like this is really cool.
Not everyone who is nominated for an Oscar is an A list actor. Some are camera operators, clothing designers, film editors. And some are indi directors. None of such folks makes a steady living, or even that much money when they are working on a film.
Load More Replies...This is really misleading. The people who are nominated and lose for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, and best director, as well as the host receive a gift bag whose contents are valued at over $100,000. Here's an article on what was in it in 2015: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/02/22/didnt-win-the-oscar-its-ok-heres-your-168000-oscars-swag-bag/
So I googled and this isn't true. There is no cash prize. Oscars dont even give out a gift bag anymore, though other companies to giveaways. Since this isn't true, I have my doubts about the rest of the list. :(
I guess when you make millions, $50,000 is a consolation prize. Literally about a year and a half salary for me.
I think its because its not really important at the moment. I think the people that did this hope that in the future if there is a chance to extract someones dna and get a living human or do some good with it I think they hope that they will be able to "resurrect his brain¨
Load More Replies...Wikipedia says: "The Immortality Drive is a large memory device which was taken to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft on October 12, 2008. The Immortality Drive contains fully digitized DNA sequences of a select group of humans, such as physicist Stephen Hawking, comedian and talk show host Stephen Colbert, Playboy model Jo Garcia, game designer Richard Garriott, fantasy authors Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman, pro wrestler Matt Morgan, and athlete Lance Armstrong.[1][2] The microchip also contains a copy of George's Secret Key to the Universe, a 2007 children's book authored by Stephen Hawking and his daughter, Lucy. The intent of the Immortality Drive is to preserve human DNA in a time capsule, in case some global cataclysm should occur on Earth. The Immortality Drive was featured in History Channel's Life After People, first-season episode "The Bodies Left Behind"."
Not to be a downer, but they estimate if humanity goes extinct, ISS will come back down within 3 years. Its pretty big and without someone redirecting misaligned solar panels and an influx of propellant to correct orbital decay, it won't stay there.
Load More Replies...or until the high energy particles the vehicle is exposed to tear all that DNA apart. I assume they shielded the DNA container but nobody tells us if so, or how well.
Load More Replies...So if aliens found it, humanity consists only white guys and a Spanish woman immortalized for being sexy. Great job.
A Mrs Haverstock, of 15 Church Drive, Kidderminster.
Load More Replies...At some places and times it was illegal for anyone but royalty to wear purple on pain of death.
This was also the case in Rome, when the senate used purple on their togas
I’m curious about this because you can use things like purple cabbage and red onions and who knows what else to naturally dye fabrics purple… 🤔
I hope he got the money, and it wasn't just taken to a museum or something.
Load More Replies...According to an article on NPR, pearl is displayed in the city hall. It is still his property however, so if he wanted to sell it, or take it off display, he could. Here's the article: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/24/491191461/filipino-fisherman-reveals-75-pound-pearl-he-kept-hidden-for-a-decade
I think they should use it for jewelry and make it into a ring. Or maybe a necklace? LOL
I don't think a pearl can be cut in pieces like a diamond or gem. Pretty sure it's all or nothing, but if I'm wrong I'll gladly stand corrected
Load More Replies...Right, because calling them "Strawberry Popsicles" could lead to some horrible confusion by folks seeking a lick for themselves.
And the lions that can read the packets wouldn’t eat them, everyone knows that lions prefer raspberry 😜
Load More Replies...The Author Larry Niven came up with a term for people in cryogenic suspension - "Corpsicles" :)
'Nother fact about them...thier tongues are so rough that they can lick your skin off :3
Another misleading "fact", and the post office never intended to allow people (of any age or size) to be mailed. The original rules for shipping parcels were vague, so people tried mailing all sort of things. Some kids were mailed by giving them to the postman (the correct term at the time) to deliver elsewhere in his route. I think it's a safe bet that nobody tried to drop their kid off at a post office to be delivered several days later at a distant location.
Well you need to make sure they have a cracker-just one, for their journey also. Then you are good to go.
Load More Replies...I don’t even send cash in the mail. Wow. But I’m 1980’s you could also play outside all day with so many near death experiences with no supervision or concerned adult as long as you made it home for dinner - on time…
Oohhh and that ass whoopin was comin if we were late!! Not worried something happened... just talking about how they were gunna "beat that ass" ha! Soon as those street lights came on we knew what time it was!!
Load More Replies...Don't quote me on this coz I have never tried it but I have heard there isn't a huge taste to saffron and is mostly used for colour. So isn't it a bit of a waste of time, energy and money?
You probably had fake saffron. The genuine stuff has been distinct taste and can be quite strong as well. We use it regularly in Indian food.
Load More Replies...Saffron is very intensive in taste as well as color. It also is freakingly expensive. Unfortuantely, more than 90% of the saffron sold worldwide are fake - yes, safron-faking is a thing. Those variants mostly are some inexpensive plant filaments colored with spices like cucuma. So lots of people who "do not like saffron" have never really tasted it.
Where I live as an ex-pat, in Azerbaijan, saffron can be found everywhere! Here it's cheap, and we bring some back to our friends when we go back home to the states. Saffron rice is amazing!
And to be honest it's really an acquired taste. The last dish I had with saffron was a creamy polenta the saffron was way too powerful and I didn't like it at all.
My SIL bought a pound in Syria for $15. It's often done by women and children because it's the stamens of the flowers that are used and they are, of course, definitely not fairly compensated for their labor in most instances. We have some in the cabinet but hardly ever find uses for it 🤷🏻♀️
Bravery is not the absence of fear but acting despite it.
Load More Replies...Which is probably the reason many heros in comics crack so many jokes. Pretty sure Tony Stark is/was a walking coil of terror half of the time
Load More Replies...Yet Deadpool wears a mask so his enemies won't vomit. download-3...d45fe1.jpg
Actually if you think about it that'd be an advantage to him bc they'd be distracted. Deadpool slander will not be tolerated
Load More Replies...Interesting idea, but there are also lots of after-the-fact explaining that the old comic book creators did. Like, it was easier for Stan Lee to remember the alliterative names (Peter Parker, Matt Murdock, etc). So I can imagine designing a costume/character, then, when asked about something they didn't consider, making up an answer on the spot. I have no problem with this, however. Why Spider-Man wears a mask is because he's a work of fiction and the mask looks cool.
Hold up Doesn’t his mask literally move to match his expression? (In the comics)
It's not hard to believe seeing as it's scientifically proven that lack of sleep can severely impact your health.
Ask anyone who has insomnia, such as myself, if it f***s with your health. I even take Ambien CR and most nights I am lucky if I get an hour of crappy sleep. Lack of sleep is like torture. Which is why it is actually used as a form of torture. It not only physically messes with your health it mentally and emotionally messes with you even more. I've gone days with maybe 3-4 hour's of sleep and it is a nightmare. Fortunately I am so used to it I can get by and function pretty decent but I also feel like I am losing my mind.
I'm so sorry to hear! Glad I found medication that helps me sleep. Not good sleep but sleep. I hope you can find sth that helps you!
Load More Replies...you can die from lack of sleep. It serves to clear byproducts from your brain's metabolism. super important.
uhh...what? Ram Sethu is a natural rock formation. it was never built.
Additional fact... they're mainly referring to a Egyptian pyramids, the oldest going back to about 2600 BCE. But there are far older pyramids elsewhere and there was another one built in Peru about the same time as that same oldest Egyptian one. One of the really old ones is in Indonesia and was started 8000(ish) BCE (hard to get too much more specific at that age) and improved on over the next couple thousand years. Though they started with a hill rather from scratch but had columns, rooms, etc..
If you google the comments on ram setu it's quite hiliarious, apparently people believe that deities have nothing better to do with their time than build one (1) small bridge. And apparently denying this "fact" is blasphemy.
As an Indian, I think he is referring to the legend of the Ramayana, where Lord Rama, and his army of monkeys, built a bridge of floating rocks inscribed with "Sri Rama", in order to cross the strait that separates India and Sri Lanka, so that he could rescue his wife, Goddess Sita demon king Ravan. It may be a legend but that natural rock formation is real and their was a land bridge that joined the two countries centuries ago but it was destroyed by a hurricane.
Load More Replies...Yes there was deers bigger than dwarfelephants. But the Megalocerus was NOT bigger than a normal african or indian elephant. It takes literally less than a minute to find this out
For those wondering WTF, Ram Sethu is a recently (AD 1500) submerged land bridge that connected Sri Lanka and India.
Consuming a tiny bit of turmeric and cinnamon in a warm beverage or in something like applesauce can also reduce nasal inflammation.
you don't need to use ice...That would most likely give you a brain freeze, you can get rid of a stuffed nose if you press on the roof of your mouth with your tongue, the pressure pushes at the sinuses and helps them open up {this works, but if you have a cold or something, it's just going to come back, this is just temp relief, I use this when I'm about to sleep, cause i sleep on my side and it clogs my nose cause i have a cyst/tumor inside my sinuses, but this clear them so i can sleep, no boogers or snot drools, just opens the nasal passage}
He can't have astatine (atomic number 85) -- so radioactive that a physical sample has never been created -- it exists only as a decay product of other radioactive elements, and then instantly decays itself
Considering the half-life of the heaviest elements i don't see this 100% sure
"able" to do it probably isnt the right wordage. Whoever did this coulda taught anyone, plus its hard to imagine with all other peoples across the globe that India has the only examples. Beyond amazing carving though
Like many of the other "facts" on this page, not true. There are at least two marble chains at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul.
A lot of ancient Indians teaching beginning stone carving tutorials on youtube apparently, cuz this is pretty basic stuff in the trade. As an archaeologist (yes, really) this phraseology is particularly annoying. It's referred to as the "noble savage" mentality. Saying that "only" these particular people were special enough to do this thing. They weren't. They were just people doing people things. They were special for all sorts of good reasons, no need to ham it up with this click bait nonsense.
BS, there are at least two marble chains in the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul
There's a temple in India where there's a perfect spherical stone inside a dragon's mouth that you can move around, but not take it out. There are atleast 2 temples which contain pillars of music, where you can play the 7 notes by hitting those pillars.
Load More Replies...So instead of sewing we should teach bees to fly back and forth through fabric?
I think it's a medical needle, so we should probably fill bees up with vaccine and medication and jab them into people
Load More Replies...I love her! I wonder how that became a thing. How did this prehistoric tree one day though "it would be epic and terrifying if they cut me and it was like blood." Maybe not exactly like that, but I like to think the tree was a dramatic prankster.
It honestly reminds me of some old Eastern European folktales where the wife of a sorcerer king or dragon turns herself into an apple tree as revenge in the hopes that the protagonist and his brothers or companions will eat from her and die. Instead the protagonist knowing exactly who the tree really is, plunges his sword into her, causing blood to pour out.
Load More Replies...To expand, when you drop I to such a hole at the centre you will be at the fastest speed as all the potential energy had been turned to kinetic energy and if not for air friction and other loses once you reach the other side you would return to the exact same height you dropped from and that's when you would have zero speed. Like a pendulum. Now with energy loses you would return to a position close to the centre and if you leave it long enough you would stop at the centre.
Load More Replies...Ummm... no. The diameter of the Earth is over 12,000 km across. To cover that distance in 42 minutes, you'd have to be falling at about 10 times the speed of sound.
That time seems to be based on constant acceleration of gravity at the surface, and ignoring wind resistance. Under those conditions the distance an object falls (in feet) is 16t^2. Falling an even 4000 miles would take 19.15 minutes. That's almost 1149 seconds of acceleration, resulting in a maximum speed of about 25,000 mph and an average of 12,500. Assuming an identical deceleration on the up side results in a total transit time of 38 minutes 18 seconds. The problem with the time suggested is that gravity won't be uniform, so the acceleration will vary. It will increase for a while, then decrease to zero at the center, then increase and decrease to normal on the up side.
Load More Replies...If you are relying on gravity you wont get through at all. Once you pass the half way mark gravity will move the other way
Ever hear of momentum? The time is based on no air resistance, in which case you'd theoretically oscillate forever.
Load More Replies...The math is extremely easy if you ignore air and assume gravity remains constant (it doesn't). Distance of fall in a vacuum is 16t^2, so work backwards from 4000 miles and multiply by 2.
Load More Replies...They wouldn't have been a popular cheap gadget if they where patented, she invented it in 1997 but it didn't became popular until 2017 (20 years later), six years after the patent was expired (the date in the image is wrong)
Thought it was first patented in 1993 and expired in 2005?! Anyway I never understood the glamour about this thing.
Load More Replies...I never saw the attraction. My kids (ADD/ASD/ADHD) all lost interest in it within a day or two. It's just a ball bearing joint with some plastic on it.
Yeah. I have ADHD it it's actually really annoying, fidget cubes are so much better for me
Load More Replies...So many people bought thousands of these trying to get rich selling them online
The patent expired on Hettinger’s original product in 2005, meaning companies can sell the product independently from her. despite being marketed to help ease anxiety and ADHD, one expert says there's no research to support that claim
The story is apocryphal. Patents are not renewable in the United States.
The inventor of Tickle Me Elmo was the main suspect for the Uni-bomber
That was until the Turks, Uzbeks(Mughals), Portugese, Spanish, Dutch, French, Danish, few other European countries & British looted it. India was the richest country for about 2 millennia.
We used to be called “सोने की चिडीया” (soney ki chidiya) which means “golden bird”
Load More Replies...we should change it back we had to change our whole country's name because of the british empire when they came to india and took over which I think is really unfair for me and other indians
Load More Replies...Um, not really. 天竺 is just a transliteration for Sindh. They also transliterated it as 身毒, Body Poison.
It's the same with all elements. Listen to Carl Sagan's speech "we are star stuff", if you want the short hand... all elements were created from hydrogen and helium within supernovae, colliding neutron stars, etc....
Load More Replies...Wrong. Water molecules are constantly being split and reformed by various natural processes.
this is the real shot of a honeybee, and that is a longhorn beetle in the original post longhornbe...e8ae2b.jpg
Surely that should be an offer made to the parent? Not automatic? Not everybody wants to be a US citizen.
I guess it should read 'is entitled to US citizenship'.
Load More Replies...Doubtful to happen since many women are restricted from flying in the last month of pregnancy to avoid going into labor in the air.
Actually it happens more often than you think. There is even a thing called "birth tourism" where women from other countries come yo the US specifically to hive birth for this reason (dual citizenship for their child.
Load More Replies...I want to say it has to do with which flag the plane is flying. As a baby born over the ocean would be stateless and not be able to enter any country.
Nope, we will beat it with our global warming and make earth covered with one single ocean.
Only if the graphics designer would have spend even a little time with the facts in the science the map would have been drawn right...
But, the ocean won't split Africa in two, right? The land will separate due to plate tectonics, and the ocean water will slowly come in. Right?
Not sure this planet has that long. Mother Nature might want to pick up the pace.
The planet will have that long, we probably just won't. The earth isn't going to literally die or explode after all, most living things will simply die.
Load More Replies...yes, the people you kill in the games are all NPCs lol they're certainly not other players.
Load More Replies...I think they mean main characters you are given missions to kill, imagine if they had to make this work for every guard and civilian who gets in the way! LOL :D
There is a theory that we, as a species, came close to evolving into semi-aquatic animals. It explains this occasional webbing, also wrinkling of the skin on hand and feet when wet (thought to improve grip) and also may be the reason why we are less hairy than our ancestors/closest relatives.
That seems cool to me, that would be super useful for swimming.
On your toes sure, but webbed fingers will make life quite challenging if it's severe.
Load More Replies...It doesn't hurt but it's annoying. At least in my case. It very suddenly appeared one day and just as suddenly it disappeared a year later!
Load More Replies...I get this, especially when my bp is taken. The cuff leaves bruises. Even wrinkles in bedsheets can cause welts.
Nope! Only for a little bit. It's like your skin has an allergic reaction to anything scratching your skin.
Load More Replies...India hates pakistan and pakistan hates India. I wish it would stop. I guess the hate is mostly because India and Pakistan claim a region called “Kashmir”.
Load More Replies...Same for North and South Korea. It's impressive the difference between the two countries, at night and from space. North hardly has any light pollution, then you're anole to see the DMZ and South has so much light pollution.
I guess thats the only benefit of communism... no light pollution lol
Load More Replies...All the better to catch those sneaky Indians trying to sneak into Pakistan. For what, I don’t know?
I think the traffic is the other way around. I’d like you to give me one searchable example if an Indian sneaking into Pakistan. You see, we’re not in the habit of sneaking into other peoples home at night and blowing s**t up. We’re too busy being more educated, economically ahead, progressive and just all around awesome to bother with what our neighbours are up to.
Load More Replies...It happened in one of the Final Destination movies!!!
Load More Replies...You'd think they'd do a better job with the leaves floating on the surface then.
Correct. I was right to be terrified of drains when I was a kid.
Load More Replies...I swam in many, many pools when I was a kid, I would have noticed if a pool drain had any sort of strong suction. But there are news stories about this happening. So I'm guessing there are a small number of pools which have unsafe pool drains. Like what kind of idiot would design and build something like that? They should be in prison for negligent homicide.
Oh no! Why did you mention it?! You unlocked a memory I had forgotten. 😣
Load More Replies...And that is so special? Before we got the Euro and Eurocents we had Schilling and Groschen in Austria. The 10 Groschen coin was also light enough to float. In fact it was used in schools to teach about surface tension.
No one said this was a list of "special" facts. Reread the title.
Load More Replies...Only if it's natural fiber like cotton or wool. The fibers will "rehydrate" and return to size. Acrylic fibers, being basically plastic, don't generally shrink. It is not advised to get silk wet.
Load More Replies...Would this work if my T shirt shrunk in size due to me eating lots and lots of chocolate ?
And now you know what skin looks like under an EXTREMELY high resolution microscope! You would not like to see anything else, like face spiders (we all have them, sorry), pores, etc...
Load More Replies...Im currently studying pathology collection and even I didn't need to see this.
Thanks for worsening my hate for needles just as it was getting better
The music gives me goosebumps no matter how many times I hear it!
Load More Replies...Widow should've lived to lift the hammer to close out her arc from Ultron, not cap.
Traditionally Cap has been the only other person worthy of wielding Mjolnir properly beyond Thor. We got a taste of that when he managed to wiggle it in Age of Ultron.
Load More Replies...The scene was severely off-putting to me because it's so militarily ridiculous. Like an actual trained modern army would have been better suited to a fight like that, and used much, much better tactics. But you know, Hollywood, so long as it looks good they don't care if it makes any sense at all.
dude, its a SUPERHERO movie. to quote epic rap battles of history: "Newflash! the genre's called fantasy! its meant to be unrealistic you myopic manatee!"
Load More Replies...I would have kept it and slapped a "My other car is the Popemobile" bumper sticker on it.
That would have been fitting to a pope who was a former nightclub bouncer in Buenos Aires once and whose hobbies, as stated by himself, include football and tango-dancing...
Load More Replies...While I agree with this, he's not really vain enough to keep something like this for himself. And if he had, he would probably have been attacked as being too materialistic, driving people out of the church.
Load More Replies...It takes time. Even a gamer can't pick a new game and create high score from their very first go. They need to get the game's tricks and nuances.
Load More Replies...That's $68k at today's exchange rate and it's only for a 3 minute advertisement.
Wonder what it’d cost to do the same during the Super Bowl.
Load More Replies...Why does friends need advertising? Why does this make me so mad ?
Load More Replies...This is not the clearest picture taken... this is the clearest picture taken by that specific astrophotographer named Astronophilos. Someone took the "my" out of his reddit post that states "This is my clearest picture of a third quarter Moon that required 42,000 images and 74GB of data"
So the Klein bottle exists but to make it not touch yes, you'd need it to exist in 4D. This is an area of mathematics called topology. Look up "mobius strip" if you want to see something cool that you can actually make (a ribbon with one side).
Mmm yes yes, sure. Now could you explain it for those who didn't get it? Not me. I got it.
Scania AB is a major Swedish manufacturer it is a subsidiary of Traton which is part of VAG. MAN SE was majority owned by Traton, the commercial vehicle subsidiary of VAG untill Aug 21, when Traton bought out all remaining shareholders and merged MAN SE into Traton SE and MAN SE ceased to exist as a indipendant comapny.
Yeah..and? Jimmy Savile ran marathons for charity...what's your point?
I cannot believe how much people still revere this man after his death, truly sad.
it is weird to me someone thought one celebrity doing on partial charity event was enough of an "amazing fact" for this article.
stops the cool Michael Jackson music he was a goddamn rapist and pedophile
if you don’t believe that, go ask the little boys he raped <3
Load More Replies...Drop a heart for him? Using a dead celebrity's charity work to pander for upvotes. So cool.
Korea probably needs to develop an equivalent to the "555" number system U.S. entertainment adopted. I understand the system was implemented here after the song 867-5309 (Jenny) resulted in a few people getting millions of phone calls
The image is photoshopped but the condition is real, the technical name is "polycoria" (not "pupula duplex").
Why call them a victim for a genetic condition? That doesn't make sense.
This picture is fake but the condition is not I knew a person that had this and we were pen pals but we never met up however I did get to see it when I got a phone and it is very creepy
Load More Replies...From what I know it doesn't affect it negatively, but positively plus it looks awesome
Load More Replies...I knew someone who had this, except one pupil was smaller than the other. It was hard to get used to.
Except that if you dont immediately remove the lid (because you commute with your coffee and don't remove the lid until you arrive at a desk), condensation from the hot drink collects on the inside/underside, thus rendering its use as a coaster a bit pointless.
Use a napkin to wipe it.. Omg so inconvenient
Load More Replies...Just because it kind of works that way doesn't mean it was intended that way. The lid is the lid.
It's not Nikola Tesla, this pic is a known hoax https://factly.in/image-of-a-man-who-resembles-nikola-tesla-is-passed-off-as-rare-photo-of-nikola-tesla-with-a-woman/
Right. I really doubt Tesla was ever a swimming instructor.
Load More Replies...Aside from this not being him, she looks more like a grown woman than a girl to me.
It really doesn't look anything like Colorado Springs, Colorado. Also, I don't remember Nikola Tesla being a swimming instructor.
Why is this even in this list? Ludicrous click bait belongs in another article completely
I'm dubious. Honey is great for wound care, but that's specifically because it draws moisture out of the cells. It also creates a small amount of peroxide when mixed with moisture. Neither of these things sound good for regular skin care.
Nope, that's not true... Arabic numerals have evolved in shape over the centuries, and are themselves derivated from even older Indian numerals. And it's pretty clear the picture here distorts them just to fit the 'theory' behind their shapes. Look at that 8... nobody does an 8 with two triangles..Or the line at the bottom of the 7....
Yeah, sure, if you make the numbers a certain shape just to prove your point. Who writes 9 like that?
Ohhhh. B******t. Never seen a nine like that. If you are using outside angles like in the number 8, then then it has 12 angles
This is crap, and only works if you add inconsistent serifs and weird little curls.
That’s how I learned to remember numbers as a kid. The numbers were more curvy but that’s how I counted them
All the misspellings and grammatical errors should make you wonder how many of these facts are fake
Did you know you probably can't remember the first Fact by now without scrolling back up?
Thank goodness for all of you here calling BS on this whole post. I thought I was going to be the only one. So many of these are misrepresentations at best, and just catagoricaly wrong at worst. Stay in school kids.
Examples: tiger pic missing, at least, melanistic color variation. The squirrel in a mask was an intentional gaff, the vid went around for years, no one was "terrorized:" you can even see the darn string in the pic. Flathead lake is that deep, but that pic is of about 10 ft of water. Oscar winners and nominees receive NO CASH, but they get a swag bag worth 150-200 thousand. This is well known. Yup, Project Immortality, (created by a video game bro-gramer,) sent Stephen Hawking's DNA into space; also playboy model Jo Garcia, so yeah, hell of an honor. Sending kids in the mail was never a practice, it was a stunt. The kid was sent one mile, and it was done to make a point about the lack of regulation in the brand new postal service. Ancient stone chain has been found in China and Egypt. Finally, if you have a stuffy nose from virus or allergies, ice will just make you miserable as your capillaries shrink on the congestion.
Load More Replies...#32 Bill Gates Periodic chart. Some elements are incredibly unstable and only exist for a fleeting moment. Others are so radioactive only tiny snouts could prove fatal and would present a massive security / health risk. So I don’t think he has a sample of EVERY element.
A lot of mistakes. Chinese never called India "heaven," they just transliterated Sindh.
All the misspellings and grammatical errors should make you wonder how many of these facts are fake
Did you know you probably can't remember the first Fact by now without scrolling back up?
Thank goodness for all of you here calling BS on this whole post. I thought I was going to be the only one. So many of these are misrepresentations at best, and just catagoricaly wrong at worst. Stay in school kids.
Examples: tiger pic missing, at least, melanistic color variation. The squirrel in a mask was an intentional gaff, the vid went around for years, no one was "terrorized:" you can even see the darn string in the pic. Flathead lake is that deep, but that pic is of about 10 ft of water. Oscar winners and nominees receive NO CASH, but they get a swag bag worth 150-200 thousand. This is well known. Yup, Project Immortality, (created by a video game bro-gramer,) sent Stephen Hawking's DNA into space; also playboy model Jo Garcia, so yeah, hell of an honor. Sending kids in the mail was never a practice, it was a stunt. The kid was sent one mile, and it was done to make a point about the lack of regulation in the brand new postal service. Ancient stone chain has been found in China and Egypt. Finally, if you have a stuffy nose from virus or allergies, ice will just make you miserable as your capillaries shrink on the congestion.
Load More Replies...#32 Bill Gates Periodic chart. Some elements are incredibly unstable and only exist for a fleeting moment. Others are so radioactive only tiny snouts could prove fatal and would present a massive security / health risk. So I don’t think he has a sample of EVERY element.
A lot of mistakes. Chinese never called India "heaven," they just transliterated Sindh.
