50 Random And Interesting Facts You Might Not Know About The World
Interview With ExpertWho doesn’t love a good random fact? Here’s one for you that I’ve learnt recently: A fluffy, weightless-looking cloud actually weighs around a million pounds. Since it's made out of water and air, it can accumulate quite a lot of mass—about the weight of 100 elephants. You wouldn’t think a cloud was this heavy when you’re soaring through it on a plane, would you?
More exciting facts about our world await you in the list below, courtesy of the “Factz.unheard” Instagram account. Scroll down to learn about the things you probably haven’t heard about before and make sure to upvote the ones that surprised you the most.
Sticking to the topic of clouds, we reached out to broadcast meteorologist Janice Davila, and meteorologist, atmospheric scientist, and owner of Makens Weather, Matt Makens, who kindly agreed to tell us more interesting facts about the atmosphere and weather!
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Geez, I wish we all had this. Less garage, more resources to share kindness
I don't think we want fewer garages. Maybe less 🗑 though
Load More Replies...Not anymore, The country’s Parliament passed a law requiring municipalities to round up stray dogs and put them into shelters, and permitting aggressive or ill animals to be euthanized. The law threatens mayors with prison time if they don’t enforce the law. Right now it's a free for all culling of cats and dogs in Turkey
I'm pretty sure a human has to put the bottle in, and then it dispenses the food for the dogs
Load More Replies...Ok, am I the only idiot that thought the dogs were the ones exchanging the plastic bottles for food? 🤦♀️
Locals in Istanbul tend to feed dogs and cats because it is the right thing to do.
From the looks of the machine though, humans have to put the bottles in. The holes are too far up for dogs to do it themselves. Pity getting them to clean up would be a great idea.
Wasn't that a Tony Christie song? 🎶 Is this the way to arm a dillo 🎶
Load More Replies...Lots of animals will ocasionally adopt random babies if they're nursing. They don't even have to be the same species.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100601114631.htm#:~:text=But%20the%20study%2C%20published%20in,only%20five%20cases%20of%20adoption. But the study, published in Nature Communications, also found that squirrels have their altruistic limits. They will adopt only if the orphans are related, and even then it's a rare occurrence. Over two decades, the research team has come across only five cases of adoption.
Errrrrmm....yeah, no. I mean it does happen, but it is exceedingly rare. Squirrels can be really territorial & they are more likely to ignore or kill an orphan, especially if it is not part of their extended family.
They will also eat their own children in certain conditions. If only those squirrels knew adoption is an option.r
There was a squirrel trying to hide nuts in the outdoor couch on my deck. I was not cool with that so I threw them off the deck. When said squirrel came back to find the nuts and saw they were gone, it pooped on my couch cushion. Message received you little bastard!
Well deserved...you don't throw someone's food out like that..
Load More Replies...Yes and no. It's more common for a squirrel to adopt abandoned babies they are related to, and it's much rarer for them to adopt outside their familial DNA.
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
“This means that when you or someone else opens a weather app only to see that it says it's raining, it actually means the radar is detecting the rain at 1/2 degree up rather than looking at the surface. If you're not seeing any rain, it's because it's evaporated by the time it passed the radar, reaching the surface,” she explains.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/times-fact-check/news/fact-check-man-carried-horse-on-his-back-after-it-was-bitten-by-a-snake/articleshow/67568660.cms The video is not a fake. The man did lift the horse and carried it on his back but it's not because the horse was bitten by a snake. The man seen in the video is Dmytro (Dmitriy) Khaladzhi, a Ukranian sportsman, often described as "Champion of the first championship of the Ukrainian D**g-free Powerlifting Federation (in bench press) in 2009." He is also dubbed "Strongest man in the world" and has 63 Guinness World Records in his kitty.
Here's a 2017 article about Dmytro Vasilievich Khaladzhi showing his feat of strength: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5017273/ukraine-strong-man-carries-horses-bites-metal-run-over-video/
Again I smell bs. its' from the Sun. Not the most reputable of sources
Load More Replies...All Pandas belong to the Chinese government. Any Pandas outside of China are on loan, and the loan requires that any Pandas born to the Pandas on loan also belong to the Chinese Government.
What is cuter than a Panda? A panda on a yellow *whatever this is called* 😃
Load More Replies...After all, the pandas are China's national animal! And they're also too cute to be killed.
unlike in america, where the most devilish of individuals still have their life
Load More Replies...What about the jerks who are killing BP with all these crazy ads that won't disappear?
Well they can't harvest human organs from pandas so there is that. Or slave labor, or human trafficking. But other than that China is peachie. F**k China. My name is Erik Steven Hedenskog Put me on your list m***********s.
Load More Replies...should be that way for killing elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, tigers, bears, pangolins, lemurs, sloths...
This is long-tailed tit. You can find them in Europe and Asia so they are not just Japanese birds. We have these cuties in our backyard in Finland.
I don't know why you have so many upvotes for false information.the long-tailed tit is a very cute birb, but this is a completely different species.
Load More Replies...eeee it looks so cute! I'm getting golden snitch (from Harry Potter - I've mostly distanced myself from it after J K Rowling's super transphobic comments) vibes from this.
Load More Replies...I saw this little bird once, in Hokkaido and it didn't feel real
Wait, is that the name of this particular bird, or this species of bird? Somebody call the grammar police.
In Japan, we use Enaga Shima to be the name and the species. Confusing?
Load More Replies...Meteorologist, atmospheric scientist and owner of Makens Weather, Matt Makens, believes that most people might not be aware of just how much moisture there is in the air. “Especially within thunderstorms that are miles high and carry large hail...the tremendous amount of upward wind to enable all of that water and ice to stay in the air is mind-blowing to us as observers when we watch those thunderstorms pass through.”
What's really amazing is the fact that it is listening for mammal heartbeats under the snow when it flies low
I once flew at a 0.5 cm height but I failed to maintain it...🩹 🤕 🪡
North America's heaviest owl (up to 6.5lbs/2.95kg), they are very capable of incredible low flying to capture their prey on silent wings. Female owls are generally larger than males.
They are known as "Snowy Owls," not "Snow Owls." The rest of the poor grammar notwithstanding, the species invades portions of the USA during winter irruptions sometimes, placing their natural range from above the Arctic Circle to well into the United States. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snowy_Owl/overview
Those crazy owls will smash into you at high speed on purpose. Photographers have to take precautions... I've seen the video: whap!!
British spelling is foetus; American spelling is fetus…
Load More Replies...And I bet some people would believe you if you told them it was a human 😔
Lots of things about China are mind blowing. Like how the government treats the citizens.
says a man who has never been to China and watches 'accurate' western media outlets
Load More Replies...China's enthusiasm for and protection of pandas has taken them off the endangered list.
Another phenomenon he finds interesting in the field of meteorology is banded snowfall. “Whether it be lake effect snow or upslope against mountains, the total amount of snow that can fall within just hours can be staggering,” Makens says.
As you can see it's all white. Putting colors on it would be, of course, useless. Instead, they need to get all the same braille signs on one side.
I would consider this to be a sub-par rubiks cube for the blind, tactile ones are much easier to navigate.
Only one way to find out if you're right, and that's to blind you. You stare at the big ball of light in the sky for about 5 minutes, and then we'll teach you braille so you can put this to the test.
Load More Replies...Of course they did. Willingly engaging in corporate espionage is a huge crime. Also, what would Pepsi care about Coke's recipe? Not like they're going to change their own due to that. Chances are, they already had it to begin with. The Coke secret recipe is more of a myth than anything else. They've changed their recipe a few times over the years and current Coke bears absolutely no resemblance to the original Coke.
Of course it's completely different. They took out the key ingredient: c0caine
Load More Replies...Joya Williams stole a sample of a secret new product and tried to sell it to Pepsi, and they alerted the FBI. It is often misreported that she stole the recipe to the original Coke.
Don't even need to look this up to know it's yet another botched anecdote. Yes, the attempted sale of commercially sensitive info happened, yes Pepsi shopped them and yes they went to jail (for longer than many rapists and killers but that's money for you). But it wasn't the secret recipe, just new product development, marketing, ads, business strategies and stuff.
Pepsi ™ has lived up to its name here, because pepsin is a digestive enzyme that breaks down proteins...🪵 🪓
Well they are the Federal Bureau of Investigation and since Coca-Cola is national/international product is probably why they were contacted.
Load More Replies...Or not lose billions in a corporate espionage case
Load More Replies...Just means he can hear you twice as well when you call for him, but ignore you all the same.
And would still get lotsa hugs, cuddles and head kisses!!! Probably extra ones!!!
Both meteorologists believe that the average person should have more knowledge about the atmosphere and weather, mostly for their safety. “I highly recommend people knowing the basics about the weather, especially hazard safety when it comes to storms,” says Davila. “Due to climate change, storms are getting more aggressive, therefore people should be more aware of how to react during nocturnal tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, and anything else that may not be typical for their region.”
Pinus Nigra - the Japanese black pine can reach a height of 100 feet, but in beach plantings, it is usually less than 20 feet tall. Its spreading, loosely swaying branches are orange-yellow in colour, and form an irregular silhouette. The blackish-gray bark is furrowed into irregular plates. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=b83ae7c870d94983&q=black+pine
Load More Replies...Awww, so cute! We have hummingbird moths in the Rockies. They're exactly like mini hummingbirds but with fuzzy antennae!!!
Yes, they are very cute, and there are a number of different species of them, and pretty wide spread.
Load More Replies...Are the flowers mimicking birds or are the birds mimicking flowers...nature is magical
Flower mimicking the bird; the result of millions of years of evolution.
Load More Replies...Wow! I kinda glanced at it before reading the text, and I thought it was a bird.. after looking at it closer, it looks remarkably like a bird..
Omg, the look on my son's face when I told him it's a flower was priceless! He's almost 8, and almost didn't believe me.
Load More Replies...Øresundsbroen is what we call it normally, somehow the tunnel is not mentioned every time. We usually call it a bridge and ignore the tunnel.
Load More Replies...I'd best be sleeping when you take me through this tunnel! I'm claustrophobic with regular tunnels. This one might kill me!
It's not that scary. You see from any point the end of the tunnel. And it's wide, very wide. Not claustrophobic at all. More interesting is the artificial island - that in the picture - it's a so called noman's land, nobody's allowed on it, nobody's allowed even to stop on the road, to give nature the possibility to conquer it. But, somehow, some rabbits appeared there.
Load More Replies...I didn't know that Denmark and Sweden were in america. Isn't that odd?
Load More Replies...Somewhat like the Chesapeake Bay Bridge – Tunnel? 28km in length with two 1.6km tunnels?
Why does the highway on the left looks like an anime highway been pasted on the tunnel.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel was built in 1964 and it's 28.3 km long. It has two tunnels, each 1.6 km long, and 19 km of bridges.
“The lower atmosphere in particular has so many different conditions based on altitude yet the general public assumes its all relatively the same behavior no matter how high into the sky,” says Makens.
“Much like a river flowing through the mountains, there's extreme turbulence, calmness, variable speeds and variable temperatures throughout that river and the atmosphere is the same way. This knowledge can better help people understand why they see certain clouds at certain levels, or how wildfire smoke is transported to their areas, or even give them some forecast sense of what weather is headed their way by what they are observing in the sky around them,” he stresses.
I got to buy it, I got to buy it! I got to buy it! Chinpokomon!
Load More Replies...To be fair, these ones with Pokemon are really not used for official purposes. Most people have plain ones. And while this practice is really cool, in real life it is impractical. I can tell you how scary it is if you lose your official one. Someone can takeover your bank account with one! Also during COVID, official documents for work and govt ground to a halt. We are talking about eliminating it where possible.
That's why my official one is usually locked up, and for most purposes I use an unofficial hanko for unimportant stuff.
Load More Replies...They are used a lot, but they are being phased out. Less and less things require a hanko. It's an excruciatingly slow phasing out, though.
I have mine! And it's in a safe draw where no one can get it!
My understanding is that the official stamps are handmade and therefore as unique as a fingerprint. I have 3 or 4 hankos. One is wooden and was expensive. Several others are plastic and machine made. I use the cheap hankos for unimportant stuff, but for official government, bank stuff, etc., I have to use the wooden one.
Load More Replies...Somehow, I don't see any 80-year-old Japanese man using a Pikachu stamp to sign a legal document.
"hanko" is the thing itself, "inkan" is the etching on it and the print it makes.
Load More Replies...We are the Bees. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own; your culture will be adapted to service us. Resistance is futile! (Because we're so cute )
I'm with you. I think it's soil. And I live in a city so also, dust. The dust getting wet.
Load More Replies...That's why my allergies are always wore when it's raining as I'm going through pine or eucalypt trees :( I used to work at a kindergarten connected to a golf club, where there were a LOT of pine trees. Supervising the kids outside when it had been raining was not fun, the rain make the oil stay in the air longer or something.
Oh, I'm sorry, that sounds so stressful! *sends internet hug* 🥺
Load More Replies...Unless you are one of those weird people, like me, who can smell that it is going to rain, I can smell if it's going to snow as well. So what this should say is "the unique smell of rain whilst it's raining "
You gotta smell it on Grenada. There they use nutmeg shells like we use gravel and when it rains the smell is awesome!
However, it’s not just the average person who might find some weather phenomena puzzling or surprising. These experts also admit being bewildered by some things that their scientific community hasn’t figured out yet.
Davila for example, is trying to find out how migraines could be connected with the rise and fall in barometric pressure. While Makens is fascinated by El Niño and La Niña, whose driving forces can’t be exactly pinpointed thus far.
What makes you think that Alan Davies is 2 miles away from a blue whale?
Load More Replies...Considering that a Blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle at 5ft/1.524m by 4ft/1.22m and weighing 400lbs/181.4kg, this fact isn't surprising.
I've been like 50 feet from a blue whale in Monterey Bay, all you could hear is tourists freaking out. It was twice as long as our ship; blew my mind.
The rabbit-proof fence stretches 3256 km (2023 miles) across Australia. It's actually three fences built at different times. Number 1 fence is 1834 km (1139 miles) long and built in 1901. Number 2 fence is 1166 km (724 miles) long, built in 1905. Number 3 is shorter still and runs east-west, instead of north-south like the other two. I'm not sure it keeps the rabbits out! The 2002 movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence" is about three indigenous girls escape from a settlement (think workhouse with the aim to assimilate indigenous children stolen from their families). The children endeavour to find their community by following the rabbit-proof fence). There's also a dingo fence. Lots of long fences criss-crossing Australia!
I haven't a problem with rabbits, and I love cats, but both of these introduced species have been wreaking havoc in Australia ever since. Humans suck.
Unfortunately Australian ecologists think that horses have the same fertility rate. Somehow they connect "has long ears, four legs, eats grass and is fast" with "gets 10 babies thrice a year" and conclude "too many horses" which equates to "put men with guns in helicopters, create a frantic stampede through a delicate ecosystem, leave dying horses, foals and premature ejected babies in that ecosystem". Apart from this insane cruelty, said system is poisoned by cadavers and trampled down, so no home for the - by this measure to be protected - native animals and plants. Plus, the descendants of the horses which made modern Australia possible, are punished for the actions of the lazy owners of the original horses, 200 years ago.
The horses in Australia are causing an ecological disaster and driving native species to extinction. How do *you* propose to control the numbers?
Load More Replies...No, and that's really interesting. When anyone tells you a population drop to 200 individuals means the end of the species, just remember the rabbits.
Load More Replies...Rubbish. A dingo will happily eat one as will numerous birds of prey.
Load More Replies...My uncle apparently used to keep ferrets to hunt the rabbits on their farm. Supposed to be easier than shooting them. I moved from Melbourne to the country a few years ago and it still amazes me how many rabbits I see running along the sides of the roads!
Ture, hours of imagining horrors is going to be embed in the mind.
Yeah I mean imagine having that kind of fantasy 😬😬
Load More Replies...What's the difference between light and hard? I can sleep with a light on 😉
He's really afraid of bats, which I find surprising. They're like flying kittens.
I am also afraid of bats like lots of other people cause rabies you know.
Load More Replies...Ironic that Stephen king is the reason that I sleep with the lights on ah ha ha 😩
Hardcore relate! I love his books, he's a great story teller... His imagination doesn't make him "weird" or "psychotic"!!! Neither does it mean that people who like his books are "weird" etc. It's his style of writing, the way he can narrate and describe so you feel you're there... Anyway, the sleeping with the lights on? I do. Small lamps with the options of high, medium, low level. After the past few years with various things that have happened to me? You probably would too!!!.... P.S? He's actually a really nice person! People who have been lucky enough to have met him? They've nothing but nice things to say about him 🙂
This was danced around in Monkeybone. When Stu is in jail for stealing the exit pass, he's in a cell with other notable writers. Edgar Allen Poe and 'Steve' King exchange insults when 'Steve' asks about a nightlight. Stephen King (to the guard rat): How about that nightlight I asked you for? Edgar Allen Poe (to King): King You Pussy! Stephen King: Bite me Poe!
This makes me feel better. I just turned 50 and I have night lights all over my house. If I need to get up for any reason, I need dark corners illuminated to make sure no one is there. Otherwise, I can't get out of bed at all. The fear overrides everything else--even the need to pee.
According to Climate.gov, the two terms refer to warm and cool phases of a natural climate pattern across the tropical Pacific. “The pattern shifts back and forth irregularly every two to seven years, bringing predictable changes in ocean temperature and disrupting the normal wind and rainfall patterns across the tropics.," it writes. Since El Niño and La Niña don’t appear on a regular schedule, it challenges the meteorologists.
Nah, Wanda imprisons entire towns inside sitcom scenarios.
Load More Replies...They propel themselves out of the water and use their elongated fins to glide for a short distance. They don't fly any more than 'flying' squirrels, who stretch out the loose skin between the front and back legs to maximise the distance they can leap from tree-to-tree.
I'm pretty sure they can go across Sandbars and stuff like that they have to because they have the big Wing fins I don't think they mean like crawl up on land like a mudskipper but Making cross sandbars and stuff I'm going to imagine
Load More Replies...This is true to a certain extent, but they're not capable of flying like birds, flapping wings up and down. Instead they use the wings like a glider and drift on the air, they don't get very far like this either..
I wonder what the names are of all his/her/ its siblings that do the same?
Do we know if he was placed in there already dead or....erm... otherwise?
I read about this once, although it's no longer practiced. The moon would daily drink a concoction that essentially was a resin, had a resin, or something that slowly hardened their bodies and stopped their heartbeat. They were considered holy, and I'm assuming that's why he was made into a golden statute
Load More Replies...Viable isn't precisely the word I would have chosen...
Load More Replies...USA Today: The mummified remains of a monk have been revealed inside a nearly 1,000-year old Chinese statue of a Buddha. The mummy inside the gold-painted papier-mâché statue is believed to be that of Liuquan, a Buddhist master of the Chinese Meditation School who died around the year 1100, researchers said.
Loved this as Most Xtreme Elimination Challenge with Kenny Blankenship and Vic Romano
"...This is Cindy Babaganoush!" "I loved canned tuna!" ***SPLAT***
Load More Replies...I so miss watching Takashis Castle on a Sunday morning!!! I semi remember seeing one person win!
If I'm not wrong, Takashi has also developed a video game that was quite advanced for his time haha Jontron made a video about it a few years ago
Wait til you hear that Takeshi's castle isn't real. It was all filmed in a studio.
Load More Replies...Best show ever. We have it dubbed in Hindi by actor Jave Jaffrey and he has made it even more popular thanks to his fun chatter
“Today, we can accurately—more or less—predict these features out to a year or maybe two. To be able to forecast these patterns several years in advance would be of tremendous economic gain for the hundreds of industries that rely upon risk management practices protecting from changes those ocean-atmosphere patterns create,” explains Makens.
And also one of the most dangerous considering they feast on the blue solider jellyfish.
The blue dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) is a nudibranch, a type of mollusk or sea slug, that lives on the surface of temperate and tropical oceans. Nearly an inch long (3cm), it primarily eats venomous siphonophores. Like most brightly colored creatures, it is venomous and will deliver a painful sting if touched.
Specifically evolved to resemble creatures in James Cameron's Avatar movies
Still there are stupid people try to take videos with this in their hands.
They're not that rare.... I see new pictures of them every year on my instagram feed
If these are absolutely minuscule, then I’m almost sure I’ve seen them washed up before in pretty large numbers and had no issues with handling them
Wait nvm, just googled the size and it must have been something much smaller.
Load More Replies...There is a recent article from a guy named Saul Justin Newman that found that a lot of longevity claims in places like Okinawa are caused by fraud or sloppy record keeping, and that there may not be any place where there is a strikingly unusual number of supercentenarians.
Yes, there reportedly have been instances of not reporting deaths so that the family can keep collecting the government cheques the elderly person was entitled to.
Load More Replies...I think smaller people live longer because of less effort needed from the heart. Just a thought.
Do you really want to live to be 100? Does really depend on your health and mobility.
Whilst this is a generalisation, they have healthier lives and are more active. They have wonderful gentle exercise in the parks which would be fabulous in many other countries. Socialisation at that too helps reduce isolation which in turn reduces depression. In UK if we saw that we'd be insulting and derogatory despite how helpful it would be for so many.
Load More Replies...Dunno. Saw this on The Grand Tour, and they advised not to use Jesus' back entrance.
Load More Replies..."I am the wifi, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Router except through me"
Well, your relationship is working, right? So your statement has a prove
Load More Replies...Nope. Was married to an average looking man. Now with a more attractive, taller, nice to his parents, etc man, and am MUCH happier. You can't magically foolproof against creeps - never forget, some people are unattractive AND horrible.
Probably because less attractive men are less likely to be self-absorbed dumb@sses.
Which is hilarious because the TV couple in the pic dated in real life and it was rumored they split up because he thought he was too smart for her!
Load More Replies...If you want to be happy for the rest of your life never make a pretty woman your wife, and from my personal point of view get an ugly woman to marry you.
I recommend marrying someone with whom you share at least some interests and world views. It makes you want to do more together, which is usually very positive for a relationship.
Load More Replies...Sure keep telling yourselves that. Why not actually try to make her happy, besides using your less than attractive looks.
For me? If you've an ugly personality? I won't even entertain getting to know you fully... I'm talking about how they treat others. You may be good looking, eye candy but if you talk down to anyone serving us with food on a date? Don't tip or thank them? Cheers for the food but bye bye. (Btw? I've had that happen and slipped the waitress a fiver with an apology)
I'm pretty sure this study was done by a bunch of ugly dudes. As an ugly guy myself, I would bet that if women truly wanted to be happy in their life, they'd stay single
Load More Replies...attractiveness is very subjective! Why use Johnny Galecki for this? I think he's cute
This is the 1946 Spacelander Classic bicycle (British), designed by Benjamin Bowden. It was manufactured into the 1960s.
Not quite to that extent, but they did make bikes with similar cowling in the 50's and 60's, so the weren't entirely wrong.
Woah Now I feel like having a beautiful glass of ancient water....
And almost 100% of it was once dinosaur pee. About 121,000 cubic miles of water go around the Earth every year through precipitation. During the Mesozoic era, dinosaurs reigned for around 186 million years, giving them much "time to drink a lot of water." It should also be noted that while most water molecules in an eight-ounce glass were never been consumed by another person, "almost every single molecule has been drunk by a dinosaur." Like humans, dinosaurs also released all water that they drunk, then they drink anew. This means humans who have only existed for 200,000 years ago are consuming most of these giant creatures' urine.
Earth's water, possibly billions of years older than our Sun, most likely formed in the interstellar medium between stars where water ice can exist. The theory is comets and asteroids colliding with the forming Earth brought the water molecules.
I always like to imagine if I've ever drunk the same water more than once
Load More Replies...Yeah, I’m aware; I have vivid dreams with like five different plots going on that somehow(?) interconnect? I woke up exhausted after being part of some sort of resistance group in a wizard’s tower/kid’s climbing attraction combo, sat on a very small fake moon with a man, a woman and a little girl that was somehow sewing for her life (I think she was infected??), some monsters trying to end us all, all of which occasionally switched to another ‘channel’ where a Minnie Mouse animatronic burst out of a weird staff door in a local shopping mall’s bathrooms to hunt people in said local shopping mall.
Resetting all the neurotransmitter levels, copying the memories of the day into the memories of your lifetime … get a good night’s sleep everyone!
that explains a lot. left to my own devices I become practically nocturnal
"This so-called fontana di vino is located in the Dora Sarchese vineyard in the small town of Caldari di Ortona, which sits on the Italian pilgrimage route of Cammino di San Tommaso."
Load More Replies...Snail - "Yeah, but you can't see with your nails." Zephyr - "True, but you can't scratch your butt with your eyes."
Load More Replies...Oh, I wish I could regenerate my eyes. I've incurred so many TBIs that I'm losing my eyesight.
The Ice Hotel (French: Hôtel de Glace) in Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec, Canada is the oldest ice hotel in North America. Quebec's ice hotel is recreated each year from scratch. Construction begins once the temperatures dip below freezing for one full week and there's at least a metre of packed snow on the ground. It takes six to seven weeks to build the 45,000 square-foot Hôtel de Glace each year.
I should have stayed there during my hot flashes. They should give special menopause rates.
There's many of them rebuilt every year, all around Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, etc. As a Tour guide, theme changes every year
And, as per local building & fire codes has numerous fire extinguishers distributed throughout. DSC05449Ic...2b7bb3.jpg
Even though Pizza Margherita might seem like the plain kind, it was originally made with mozarella made from buffalo milk. So very upscale quality.
Italy was decades ahead of the US in pizza delivery, which didn't happen until after WWII.
Pity you have pics of honey bees rather than bumblebees. Did they fly too high for you to snap a shot?
UC Berkeley researchers found that Alpine bumblebees could fly at elevations above 30,000ft (914.4m) by increasing the amplitude of their wing beats.
Bumblebee in the skyyy...I can fly twice as higggghhh....."The f*ck you can, b!tch!"
Albino are not endangered. It's a genetic trait you don't want, increased risk of skin cancer and eye issues.
Blind elephants with crazy sunburn to make them angry
Load More Replies...Are left? That makes it sound as though they are an unique sub species. That's not accurate, they are mutations.
In the wild, they would roll in the mud to prevent this
Load More Replies...If you look at the skeleton of a whale fin, you'll see it looks a lot like a human hand.
If their surroundings are unpleasant for them they just transform into energy saving " tons" and waiting for better times..Just like me on winter
I'm so enthralled with tardigrades. Their ability to withstand extreme heat 304°F (151°C) and cold (just above absolute zero), ultraviolet radiation, and outer space makes them far more impressive than cockroaches/lol. The have the ability to dry-out (called tuns) by nearly stopping their metabolism, and reviving with improved conditions.
I wish I had just the smallest bit of tardigrade power! I can't tolerate the heat, nor the cold, nor difficult conditions, and don't see a way to tuck myself in and wait it out in an unaware hibernation such as tuns. Such lucky little guys! Although I guess it wouldn't be easy for them to off themselves if the wanted to - not when they can survive most anything!
Load More Replies...There are some on the moon. https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/
Not indefinitely. Experiments showed that tardigrades can survive exposure to the space vacuum, but the addition of factors such as ultraviolet solar radiation, ionizing solar radiation and galactic cosmic radiation significantly reduced their survival rate.
Also, they have to be in their own version of hibernation to survive - can't just walk around w***y-nilly 😉
Load More Replies...Not only that they can't see other people, but other people wouldn't want to be seen with your spouse, because you look ridiculous
Load More Replies...In my school, we used to sit in alternating columns with people taking a different exam. That way, the person next to you wouldn’t have the same paper. That seems a more elegant, and dignified, solution.
We did that at my college and for some of the biggest classes had to use the music hall. Having students come back to take an exam on random evenings sitting in a theater chair with a board perched on their laps doesn't really seem like the peak testing environment, but that's how they've always done it.
Load More Replies...The ones that university students in the Philippines make and wear are _much_ cooler. Screen-Sho...4e-png.jpg
That sounds sexist. They should also have uncle-cheating helmets too..
In Algeria the internet is blocked during the time university does testing. This is to prevent cheating.
Half their brain sleeps at a time, which is more interesting than the eye thing.
Birds are the same. They alternate the resting side as they sleep to ensure both are adequately rested. I've a cockatiel who sleeps with one eye open. Apparently it's about maintaining awareness for survival purposes.
Load More Replies...As Metallica would say, “Sleep with one eye open. Gripping your pillow tight.”
They shut down half their brain while sleeping because if they went into full sleep mode they would drown.
Well yes, it says gold. Anything other than 24 carat is not gold, just a gold-containing alloy.
Load More Replies...Could be as small as a thoroughbred. The deep chest cavity is largely lungs.
Load More Replies...Imagine having to replace them all when they are on maternity leave, a logistical HR nightmare!
HR better make good use of the given preparation time
Load More Replies...They also have a shape that can make some people happy - or land them in hospital with a story about falling onto the fruit bowl while naked.
Million to one shot, doc. Million to one. -Frank Costanza.
Load More Replies...Its a chemical called L-tryptophane that is the base to the body needs to make hormones to make you feel good.
I'm thinking that they believe anyone who fits in the 100% discount needs to eat more and so they'll feed them for free
I read about it elsewhere and I think it’s a buffet so it’s related to their anticipated consumption.
Load More Replies...The thinnest people I know eat a bloody tonne of food! Metabolism, genetics, meds and age play a major part too.
This makes little sense, skinny people often have higher metabolism or gut issues and need to eat more, very large people often can eat like birds, and gain weight, due to cycles of weight-loss reducing their metabolism.
No religion? Uh... no. "[T]o live in Auroville, one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness." Oh, and there is no paper currency, but everyone is required to get a special debit card.
Are you telling me the quality informational publication Instagram glossed over the facts? Well I never!
Load More Replies...It was founded by the Sri Aurobindo Society. It is a stretch to say that there is no religion there.
Some former member says it is a scam.. You have to surrender your wealth or pay a hefty sum to join..
And "Imagine" by John Lennon plays continuously on loudspeakers.
Not quite true from what I can tell... There's certainly money, not sure about religion. And it seems to be mainly funded by money coming from outside sources and tourists.
Yes. Because we don't live in a world where someone will deck someone else just for looking at them "funny".
Load More Replies...I don’t know how well the “no religion” part applies. It’s more like a nice, peaceful residence full of eco friendliness and meditation and other good things like that. What I do know is that the “no money” part is definitely not true. Also, btw, I was there last year and the big golden dome in the picture was quite off-limits, other than for important people.
As a sign of mourning. Why the eyebrows? No idea. Why do we wear black to funerals? Traditions don't always make sense to other cultures, times, or places.
Load More Replies...That person has some awfully long eyebrows by the looks of the shavings...
My cat thinks cats should still be worshipped. I’m still going to shove her off the chair if her a*s is pointed towards my cup of tea.
It's obviously translated from another language. Not everyone speaks English.
Load More Replies...I always thought pineapples few on palm trees similar to coconuts or bananas. Wasn't until I visited Hawaii that I learned they actually grow on bushes.
Was curious enough to google. Coconuts are tree stone fruit, bananas are tree berries, and pineapples are multiple fruit because multiple flowers on the bush produce one fruit. Each scale of the pineapple was actually a flower. Neat
Load More Replies...What kind of pineapples are you guys all growing??? I’m sure we’ve had the same plant produce more then once
Load More Replies...B******t. At least if they’re talking about the plants fruit. We have them growing at my house
This is the first really impressive one I’ve read. Go little red blood cells!
He had an artificial heart installed after his own heart failed. Technically the artificial heart was two pumps, so no beat like a flesh heart has. Sadly, he died five weeks after having the artificial heart installed.
How does one check if he was dead or alive, without a pulse?
Load More Replies...He WAS. He lived for 6 weeks with an artificial heart (and I suppose it made the blood flow entirely smoothly so there was no pulse?)
I'm confused why he wouldn't have had a pulse. The blood still needed to travel around his body. Was it one continuous journey, rather than stop start beating?
An LVAD, Left Ventricular Assist Device, continually pumps blood through the body. No pulse.
Load More Replies...Neurons are the longest living cells in the body and are nearly never replaced
Load More Replies...It's a regular Fuji apple that is left on the tree in rain and frost until the water permeates the cells. They are actually one step short of rotting and taste like candy. But thanks to capitalism, they call them artisanal and sell them for $20 each
Only $20 each? In Japan I thought this would go for 200 - 2 000USD each!
Load More Replies...Not as exciting/expensive as you'd think ...the honey apple (aka Sekai-Ichi apple) are about $20 each.
Wrong apple. Sekai-Ichi isn't one of the 'honey' apples, it's a large but otherwise ordinary apple that is a hybrid of Red- and Golden Delicious cultivars.
Load More Replies...By not being true. There's literally no honey in "honey apple".
Load More Replies...Female lions sleep less wich makes sence cause they are the hunters and do most of the work.
Of course they do! That 'Y' chromosome thing goes for all cats!! Big cats, little cats...
Load More Replies...In the jungle, the mighty jungle The lion sleeps tonight In the jungle the quiet jungle The lion sleeps tonight Wee heeheehee weeoh aweem away Wee heeheehee weeoh aweem away Near the village, the peaceful village The lion sleeps tonight Near the village, the quiet village The lion sleeps tonight Wee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away Rrr, la la la weeoh aweem away Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling, The lion sleeps tonight Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling, The lion sleeps tonight
In the french version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight the lion is dead.
Load More Replies...No, it's just someone excelling at their craft and standing out from a nation of over a billion people. Few of us manage that.
Load More Replies...Crystalized honey had been found in Egyptian tombs. All you have to do is heat it up until it melts and it is perfectly safe to eat. (As long as you don't believe in Mummys' curses.)
My mummy doesn't curse. My nana however could curse the sky black
Load More Replies...If it gets hard, chunky, just put it in a pan of warm water and let it heat a bit and should be just fine. It is great for wounds also! Natural antibacterial properties!!
Honey is a natural miracle! We need more bees and insects. My next door neighbour is horrified by my backyard because I don’t do anything at all with it. I told him I can forgive him making the front yard look “nice” because that reflects on property values but don’t talk to me about my backyard. It’s fricken weird. He and my other neighbour mow my front lawn in turns. Neither of them listen to me saying I WANT it to grow free and natural. Their perfectly manicured gardens are against nature.
On average. It depends on the size of the specific body, and women are on average smaller than men.
As Robin Williams observed, "Men have enough blood for their brain or their penîs, but not both at the same time."
Maybe they should remeasure this with a man and woman of equal height and weight.
I'm guessing (prob wrongly) that blokes need extra for certain biological differences?
I'm not sure about moving to Switzerland, but their flag is a plus.
One of the campuses of the college I went to was next to an airport, and its cafeteria was catered by one of the companies that also handled an airline. The food was pretty bland at an altitude of 23 feet above sea level. ...but also I've read that studies have shown that the noise of a jet decreases our perception of taste. I think they just serve bland food because they might as well.
Airline food: if it's brown, it's meat; if it's white, it's sweet; if it's grey, don't eat.
It was supposed to be a yellow card, but the ref showed him a sim card by mistake
And if it had been water polo, he would have gotten a swim card..
Load More Replies...Yeah I know it's unrelated but I just had a thought. If a white South African moves to the US is he African American?
Yeah, when was this? I just paid $3.5 for 5GB. In South Africa
Not sure if it was the same thing, but one morning driving to work just before the sun came up I saw what I can only describe as a "gray scale rainbow". It was so odd. I was driving west with the sun below the horizon. I saw a rainbow in front of me, but there was no colors, just different shades of gray.
There has to be moonlight to cause it, it's not totally dark.
Load More Replies...My aunt beleived the TV ads about Dentine gum cleaning teeth. So she never brushed her teeth and chewed Dentine gum all the time. Those teeth all rotted by the time she was 50.
But a quantum computer is a supercomputer. supercomputer: “a powerful computer that can process large amounts of data very quickly” Collins Dictionary, 2024.
It's faster at certain things and significantly slower at most. It's an unreasonable comparison.
But there are no useful programs yet for a quantum computer and most have less the 20 bytes of memory.
Waiter: Sir, how old do you want your wine to be? Fancy Gentleman: "Roman era please kind sir."
I question the glass bottle. Just how long ago was glass used to make bottles? Romen era seems a bit far fetched.
And in the movies you see people handling gold bars as if they weight very little.
At Gold Reef City (south of Johannesburg - it's a theme park and casino with a gold museum attached) they used to say that if you could lift a gold bar with one hand you could keep it. Now they use metal to show gold smelting but they make sure to tell the audience that it's not pure gold. (No prizes for guessing why.)
People who work in the Mint vaults have to wear iron shoes because of how heavy the gold bars are
Imagine getting hit on the head by a tennis ball that magically fell from the sky
Is there a practical reason or is it more like "look at ME!!! I'm a rich man in Dubai"?!?
Well that's a bit unfair as “look at me” is the raison d'etre for most of the stuff in Dubai. 😄
Load More Replies...You have to wear a parachute while playing.
Load More Replies...He should have been named Ed. Ed Less. (Sorry, old joke--I'll see myself out now.)
OF COURSE Mike the Headless Chicken has his own wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Wow. That is the most sickening and disgusting story. I almost cannot comprehend that someone would do this. But of course - humans. I am so sorry for Mike. Seriously, that is f... up.
As I understand it, he was going to be killed for meat. But they slightly missed, ant there were some functions left. He only dies because of that they forgot some things to keep him alive.. (as far as I remember). So it was not done on purpose, but feels questionable how he was kept alive?
Load More Replies...They used an eye dropper to give him liquids and he died because he choked
Load More Replies...He choked to death when a piece of food got stuck in his throat and his owner couldn't get it out
Because where the head was chopped, was higher than the position of it's brain.
Found 1 while overseeing utility works at a cemetery many years ago. The coffin had collapsed and it was my job to secure any remains for reburial.
Load More Replies...It's not exactly true. If a 9 months pregnant woman dies, the buildup of gases in her body will expel the fetus. But the fetus by this point is always dead. Coffin birth doesn't involve a living baby being born.
Load More Replies...Not a secret. A lot of wrestlers do this, hers was just a bit extreme. It's pooping, peeing, and spitting. It's the power of laxatives and hard candy.
Load More Replies...I looked this up and yes, it's true: not only does one species create milk for its offspring, it really is highly nutritious. You can see the paper on the NIH here: doi.org/10.17179/excli2018-1437
And who drank that? The last guy to touch his nose and say, "NOT IT!" Said the smart women in that laboratory!
Oh the inappropriate comments I could make....but I won't. Sometimes its best to keep quiet.
Hehe, I call her "Breitmaulfrosch" (wide mouth frog) in Germany.
Load More Replies...Wait...is this like when you suggested that putting a rolled up ball of aluminium foil in the microwave would create a ball bearing? I still don't have a kitchen!
You can make a data connection using two Pringles cans. Good for a few dozen yards/meters.
I have been told since we first got wifi that the best thing to do is put a wok over it to extend range, but I never tried it.
Oh, we can laugh now, but wait til one of the Kardashian's or the Bieber wife carries one and suddenly everyone has to have it.
Load More Replies...Louis Vuitton always looks so cheap to me lmao, so many cheap brands try to imitate the logo pattern and it just looks so tacky and lame
Which, ironically, appears to be too large to be used as a carry-on.
I can never remember, was Louis Vuitton one of the fashion houses that were Nazis or just collaborated with the Nazis?
One of my favorites is years ago, McDonald's used too spend millions determining where to open new locations. They had large departments dedicated to finding them. Burger King simply waited to see where McDonald's would build, and then buy a property within a block or two. This, I think, is up there with the US spending millions on the pen that wrote upside down while the Russians simply used a pencil.
Also debunked numerous times. Just one, "NASA did not spend billions on space pens while Russia used pencils" - https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/nasa-did-not-spend-billions-on-space-pens-while-russia-used-pencils-idUSL1N2MQ1RR/
Load More Replies...I took one look at the weird coloured text (which always hurts my brain) and scrolled straight to the comments.
Please make a listicle of stuff from snopes.com instead please and thank you
One of my favorites is years ago, McDonald's used too spend millions determining where to open new locations. They had large departments dedicated to finding them. Burger King simply waited to see where McDonald's would build, and then buy a property within a block or two. This, I think, is up there with the US spending millions on the pen that wrote upside down while the Russians simply used a pencil.
Also debunked numerous times. Just one, "NASA did not spend billions on space pens while Russia used pencils" - https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/nasa-did-not-spend-billions-on-space-pens-while-russia-used-pencils-idUSL1N2MQ1RR/
Load More Replies...I took one look at the weird coloured text (which always hurts my brain) and scrolled straight to the comments.
Please make a listicle of stuff from snopes.com instead please and thank you
