40 Interesting Facts About Practically Everything You Might Not Have Known, Shared By “Fact Point”

FireFox!😍

This guys drawings/paintings are stunning.

That's pretty cool.

This is that one little adorable fact we didn't know we needed

Imagine what a sicko you must be to carry out such experiments. 😔

T^T Darn onion ninjas...

There are classic T&J episodes where Jerry specifically allows Tom to "catch" him, so that he wouldn't be thrown out by the owner.

I need this law for myself lol.

Awwww..... I love a happy ending

That's so nice of him. Kudos!

In China's case it's all monoculture plantations so there's no biodiversity. Don't know about India

Honesty can be rewarding. Not always, sadly.

The feel of paper cannot be matched by an electronic device.

This explains so much about trump rallies.

MEEEEEELTIIIING here

Bet loads of Bored Pandas do that too😉. I do, especially with bread or chips. If its a chip butty then my songs become operatic.

THIS!! THIS IS THE REASON MY MOM WON'T LAUGH AT MY JOKES YESTERDAY! THIS!

I think there is a TV series loosely based on this.

Graceful in their little swimsuits :)

Well, this isn't quite fair on the mosquito. The mosquito isn't killing anyone itself, it is transmitting a disease. By that rationale, humans should carry the can for all human-to-human transmitted diseases, on top of murders, wars, car accidents etc., bringing their total into the millions.

A purring cat even adds a bonus to that

I watched the vid, not only she performed wonderfully, she had a perfect landing, as well. Bravo!

In Germany, when a holiday falls between a workday and the weekend, say Thursday or Tuesday are the holidays, then the Fryday/Monday are holidays too. "Brückentage", bridge days, is the name of this. The whole thing is called "verlängertes Wochenende", enlonged weekend. And in Scandinavia, if a holiday falls on a weekend, it is free the next Monday. This is so to give the people more free time.

I guess my farts must be very dangerous sometimes *takes notes*

Wish it was the same for humans.

I wanna have a go!

Then why does my glass on honey have a "Best before" date on it that says 2022 instead of 4022?

I thought this sounded like BS, so I googled it. Turns out there *was* a study that showed the brain is flooded with CSF during deep (non-REM) sleep, and while the researchers who discovered this think that it *might* have a flushing or cleaning effect, there still needs to be a lot more study/research to determine that for certain. Still, an interesting discovery: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-sleep-gives-your-brain-a-deep-clean1/

Extraordinary camouflage!

My whole brain stays awake on the first night in unfamiliar places and I get no sleep.

It is a pretty good song, indeed.

They are made of aluminium, and the metal is still worth more than the face value.

Wikipedia: Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background that many people report seeing in the absence of light. The term Eigenlicht dates back to the nineteenth century, but has rarely been used in recent scientific publications. Common scientific terms for the phenomenon include "visual noise" or "background adaptation". These terms arise due to the perception of an ever-changing field of tiny black and white dots seen in the phenomenon. Eigengrau is perceived as lighter than a black object in normal lighting conditions, because contrast is more important to the visual system than absolute brightness. For example, the night sky looks darker than Eigengrau because of the contrast provided by the stars.

google and try to watch - bbc david attenborough 2022 the green planet colombia

"less human activity" is the key phrase

So basically the rain started seven minutes before the first raindrop hits the ground

He’s like the fuh you doing?

i think the yakuza do that

the legend who coined the term: hMM

Never understood the love for this show, but then again, I don't fall in the demographic for it.

AMAZING!!!!!

Ive had mine in a cupboard for almost a decade, watered it last week, its still fully functional. I love those plants.

So all that sex is medicinal then.

outstanding move. this almost makes up for that twilight franchise...almost.

So my brother was right! Or was it my uncle…

Human sense of smell is quite poor compared to other animals, but it is still what triggers the primordial activity of our brain, like bonding with our mother and family right after birth. Most of its process is unconscious though.

They did this with Paul Newman in Cars 3 (Doc Hudson)

Devotion

And it's always that one embarrassing moment

I am a rare and precious jewel.

But it is not air. And it is there for several purposes.

They need to change the OED definition of "chutzpah" to this.

Well, the whole "positive thinking" thing feels pretty agressive to me. There are plenty of objective and excellent reasons to be in a bad mood and embrace it, which means try to address the problems around you (job, family, politics...) rather than working on (and lying to) yourself to cope with them and end up in complete denial. Personal development, and all the business made with it, might just be a kind of powerful propaganda to persuade individuals that their problems are only self-related and have nothing to do with the context they live in, so that society as it works can pretend to have no issues and doesn't need to change anything.

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I wonder if that was the inspiration for Monty Python's "Johann Gambolputty (five minutes of increasingly goofy names) of Ulm." They did enjoy the occasional Picasso joke.

I recently found out that animals with fur actually make their vitamin D when the oil on their fur is exposed to sunlight, and then they ingest it when they lick it off. Apparently it's a much more efficient way to obtain vitamin D, and much safer, since their skin doesn't have to be exposed to the harmful rays of the sun to do it.

And then they all work 80 hour work weeks...

And yet, that doesn't mean women have to feel compelled to give birth and continue the bloodline they potentially carry in their body. Women don't owe children to the world. Nobody does actually, and everyone is entitled to dedicate their life to something completely different than having children.

Studies of dna confirm our population hit a "bottleneck" but 2000 is actually the minimum required to sustain a species. We got close to that but evidently not quite. And it's 2000 "breeding pairs" thats the minimum required so we must have had more numbers as they wouldn't have all been the right age/ health or in the right place.

Normalize blowing out a candle on your own piece of cake. Instead of breathing on everyone’s cake.