Your teacher, mom, and virtually any adult with a thoughtful mind would never approve of Twitter as a learning tool. And how would they with this whole infinite source of the not-very-serious side of the internet where memes, jokes, and burns are roaming free?
But people are proving them wrong by sharing incredible facts brought to them by Twitter that should have been put in the textbooks. From realizing the symbol “&” is a ligature for the word "et" to finding out that an 18-inch pizza has more of a good thing than two 12-inch pizzas, these are some of the facts that could have been part of my wisdom bank this whole time.
So scroll down, upvote your faves, and after you’re done with this post, check out our previous list of 30 random facts that will make you feel "today years old."
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By this logic wouldn’t this make most wars nowadays “the American war”?
And WWII in other planets is called "The Monkeys are at it again, silly Monkeys".
This fact is what got me into the rabbit hole of government propaganda. After learning this, around 13 yo, I thought to myself, "what else are they lying about?". AND OHHH BOY! 😂😂😂
Me too! And led me to realize the winners get to write the history. For example, if lions were in charge, the statue of the lion and the man would have the lion on top, victorious.
Load More Replies...WWII is also referred to as the Great Patriotic War in East Europe ;)
As a European, never heard of it. You learn something new every day... In my country "patriotic war" refers to the post Yugoslavian war of the 1990s.
Load More Replies...Poor southern Vietnamese that were butchered by the Viet Cong
Load More Replies...In russia the learned about "ocupation of czechoslovakia" as a "rescuing czechoslovakia"
And still today, Natives are being harassed by police for protesting there peacefully. Nothing much has changed..
Plus the mountain was sacred to the Lakota people.
Load More Replies...There were people in maga hats yelling at the native protesters to "go back where they came from". I don't even know what to say to that.
No freaking way! That's crazy. There is a level of stupid that is impossible to work with.
Load More Replies...Can't believe the amount of Americans who don't know this and/or get aggressive when told.
I didn’t know either... but I’m not defensive or aggressive about it now that I do. It’s one of yet another of the thousands of horrible things I know about my country. I highly recommend “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn.
Load More Replies...That Mountain is scary. Megalomaniac. Poor ppl of the KKK must be really insecure
And, minor quibble, they never cleaned up the big rubble pile underneath it like they were supposed to.
This is true, but if taught, needs to be age appropriate. Many artists were terrible people who did terrible things, but that does not necessarily negate their work. People are a product of how they were brought up, as well as the time and society in which they lived.
This is true; people are products of their culture. That doesn’t mean we should ignore the people behind the art. Who someone was, and more importantly HOW they were, does matter when considering whose art we should continue to value and promote.
Load More Replies...Disgusting how the Native people of America are treated I say give it back and carve faces of the great native chiefs like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse oh how I wonder how the American police would act if they were among the protesters nothing has changed
Crazy Horse's legacy is celebrated in the Crazy Horse Memorial, an uncompleted monumental sculpture located in the Black Hills, not far from Mount Rushmore. Started in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski (who also worked on Mount Rushmore), the Crazy Horse Memorial would be the largest sculpture in the world when completed.
Load More Replies...The Crazy Horse monument down the road is way cooler...........
4% of 75 = 75% of 4. 4% of 75 = 4 x (0.75) 4% of 75 = 4 x (3/4) 4% of 75 = 3 Proofs are easier to visualize, I hope this helps!
Load More Replies...An easy way to look at this: per cent means "per hundred" or "divide by a hundred", and "of" means "multiply" when fractions are about. So 4% of 75 is (4/100)x75 and 75% of 4 is (75/100)x4, so they're both just (75x4)/100.
how can this get down votes - it is the correct explanation and proof of the hack.
Load More Replies...It used to be part of the daily life skills curriculum taught at schools. But beginning in the 1970s curriculums were commercialized and "tricks which do not explain or utilize core concepts" were sidelined. There's a solid argument there, but that's the case with many bad ideas. At the end of the day the academic "tricks" used so successfully to build the post war infrastructure and economy were discarded in the name of commerce to sell textbooks.
Load More Replies...Something a little similar. I had a friend that couldn't figure tipping. I know some of you are from outside the US, but 15-20% is considered usual. My friend and I tend to be good tippers at 20%, plus it's easier. I told her just figure 10% and multiply it by 2. 10% is much easier to figure on a bill than 20.
I did a similar trick when doing mental math in highschool. I'd move the decimal once for the 10%, then move it again for 1% and multiply by 5. People probably thought I was a witch.
Load More Replies...For those still confused: 50% of something is easy, right? 50% of 20 is 10. But trying to figure out 20% of 50, now that sounds a bit more difficult. This trick is showing you that the answer is still going to be 10. Because 50% of 20, is exactly the same thing as 20% of 50.
So 3? Is 3 4% of 75? I need to get good at math. I'm about to go to school for science! 😮
Look, I am not saying we should believe all that Twitter has to offer. But it turns out, the things we were taught at school are not so innocent either. Some facts we still believe to this day are complete myths, and they had better be laid out bare before you become "today years old" to realize they aren’t true.
You probably would place a pretty high bid on the fact that Columbus discovered America. You’re not the only one. A 2005 survey showed that 85% of Americans believed Columbus discovered the continents and only 2% correctly answered that he couldn’t have discovered America because it was already inhabited by Native Americans.
Caligula declared victory and his soldiers brought back chests full of seashells as proof.
What were they smoking? Can I have some of it? Sounds fun..
Load More Replies...Because if they didn't play along they would be killed in a most sadistic way. Caligula often said: "I can do anything to anybody. That's my right."
Hmmm, this sounds rather similar to something a current leader of country says. Something along the lines of "I can do whatever I want as President".
Load More Replies...I imagined a bunch of Roman Legions marching up to the ocean and then being told by their superiors that the water was the enemy and they needed to defeat it.
Load More Replies...I learnt this on horrible histories! *sigh* thems the days
Omg yesss. Horrible histories was everything and more
Load More Replies...Right? It just sort of rolls off the tongue but doesn't. And feels naughty but really isn't. It sounds like fancy writing plus the act of making lady bits happy plus the name of that thing that hangs down in the back of your throat.
Load More Replies...Kind of like what is happening today. Trump bad. Must destroy. [everyone scurries along]
Trump isn’t bad per say, but he is incompetent and a narcissist.
Load More Replies...The London Underground maintain several stations that trains never use. They are reserved for TV and movie locations so as not to close down functioning stations
In DC we use drab brown colors, keeps the lights dim and make every station look similar just to remind everyone they are going to work to a job they hate.
That's kind of adorable. They do that with the school buses at the preschool where I sub sometimes because the kids have an easier time remembering what animal they are than what their bus number is.
Load More Replies...They do this as well on the London Underground - even the colour of the poles in the tubes match the line colours on the maps and in the stations. Nice to see how many cities actually did think it through pretty well.
Load More Replies...In Montreal (Canada) every subway station is completely different. You can have one in red tile, the other one electric blue. Even the benches are different!
In Brussels different artists have done each. Well, I was there years ago, but it was that way then. One had the same scene painted as a huge mural, with the four seasons affecting it. Just beautiful. I didn't even mind waiting for the train.
In Stockholm every station looks different and wonderful and covered with art! It's "the worlds longest art exhibition" (google it). It's so much easier to see where you are when stations don't look the same. I'm always lost in Washington because if you can't see the sign you don't know where you are.
Same goes for Prague. Each metro line is a different letter and colour and tiles on the walls are matching accordingly
Mexico City does this also with their metro. Every line is a certain color, and every station has a symbol in the color of the line it's on. Some Mexicans are illiterate, while others don't have Spanish as a language.
Nice catch! Many of these are bound to be fake, as people spread fake facts ALL THE TIME.
Load More Replies...It's the same concept of shaking hands my grabbing each others forearms instead of hands. This was to check each other for small knives.
In Scotland you would offer your visitor a drink from a drinking vessel called a quaich. You need two hands to hold it so when you give it to your guest you can't reach for your sword or knife. Likewise when you are both drinking together. It's a sign of trust and welcome that there is no need for weapons..
My husband is scottish. He got several quaichs at our wedding. We also were given several for each of our boys when they were born. I love the history behind them.
Load More Replies...Next to being incorrect (see the Snopes link of None), the guy who tweeted this is, looking at his name, not Native American. Thus very probably of European descent.
What does native american have to do with anything?
Load More Replies...Same reason why you shook forearms and not hands, to check for daggers. That's why women were assassins as well, no one shook a woman's forearm.
Bet Wesley never does that. (If you get the reference, respect)
Another fact which turns out to be a myth is the tongue map idea, which suggests that different parts of our tongues identify different kinds of tastes. However, the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste stated that “the locations of those taste buds aren't in accordance with the 'tongue map.'” And even if taste buds are indeed receptive to certain types of tastes, the difference in reality is tiny.
You've probably heard how Einstein failed math in school and was not an A student in general. It turns out, the only exam he failed was an entrance test to the Zurich Polytechnic he had to take in French, which he didn’t speak well at the time.
*goes outside* *it's too hot* "Well THIS is NOT to my liking!! >:(" *sleeps for 3 years*
Load More Replies...I would love to just sleep one year. Hibernating through 2020 sounds heavenly.
I was just thinking this yesterday when I saw nail polish! It is ridiculously expensive compared to other enamel paint. Yet we happily pay for it. The same thing is true for CocaCola. It's four times more expensive than gasoline, yet people will drive across town to get gas 2 cents cheaper.
Imagine like someone in the future explaining our society like "Foods like steak, caviar, and movie theater popcorn displayed wealth."
Yeah, but when I took a steak into the theater people complained about the sm
I am cheap person who sometimes bring (smuggle) my own snack to movie theater
You’re not cheap. You’ve been forced into it by insane prices of concessions.
Load More Replies...Let's just ignore the human rights abuses suffered by the Nepali minority group...
You can recognize one fact about a place without "just ignoring" another fact.
Load More Replies...This is actually much more sensible than any other measure. What's the point of having 'the largest economy in the world' if you oppress your people? (China) or the second largest and don't have healthcare, do have widespread racism and police brutality and are a force for evil in the world (guess who)
Its also said that if you walk around in Bhutan, they are no commercials& ads visible in the streets. ... sounds heavenly
GNH is Bhutan propaganda to distract from human rights abuse and poverty
And they changed away from that? Why does your comment make this sound like a bad thing?
Load More Replies...Far out east was an Oz series that the main character was writing a book called "gross national happiness"!
Made of stardust..." BTW, I love your username :-)
Load More Replies...A mind blowing extra fact is that those 100 000 years bouncing around in the sun and finally leaving for 8 minutes to reach the flower is only a really long journey from the perspective of us. Because of special relativity, the closer you get to the speed of light, the shorter distance in both space and time you travel. So at the speed of light the distance to any other point in the entire universe is 0. In other words, light itself does not experience neither time or distance. So the moment a photon is formed, from its perspective, is also the same moment it hits your eye. Even if it is a star millions of light years away.
Except the thermonuclear energy. So if you grow a flower in artificial light powered by a nuclear plant, you are all set.
Load More Replies...Well, not really the end of their journey though. It's not like your eye uses them up.
Not really yeah but also kinda, your eyes convert them to a chemical process.
Load More Replies...And the quarantine did NOTHING because it was spread by fleas. (Not saying current quarantine does nothing - just saying)
Load More Replies...Well, Shakespeare was also a bloody genius and didn't have the Internet or Netflix to distract him.
Shakespeare might not have actually written any plays. There's still an ongoing debate about that.
Load More Replies...There was also an exodus of theatre troupes from London during that plague. Those roving actors introduced theater, and Shakespeare, to the general public with low budget productions of big city plays traded for food and other necessary items (and money when they could get it).
ight now imma go write a few plays that people in the 25th century can fawn over
As a history fan I can say 100 percent accurate
Load More Replies...I can think hundreds of reasons not to do that
Load More Replies...Actually, this is not really a baby skull. Adult teeth start as "buds" or "seeds" and don't get as big as that picture untill you're 6-9 years old... This is a child's skull with pieces of bone removed so you can see the teeth sitting there but not a baby skull!
As our life expectancy is increasing, I hope evolution will create a third layer. Not that I'll be around for that, except maybe reincarnation, but that's a totally different subject.
First time I saw this picture, I yelled. Then my cute 3 years old came up to me and I yelled again.
I still have one milk tooth and I smile every time at the dentists' reactions. You'd think they got used to it, that they'd seen it all, and yet.... Makes me feel unique. ♡
I also used to have one because I miss the correspondent adult tooth. It's normal since baby teeth fall because the adult ones "eat" their roots.
Load More Replies...and I thought they were creepy with skin and flesh all over their faces!
For some reason, I just find this tremendously creepy. Not the idea of "'housing teeth" but the way it looks like this. But I also can't stop looking at it.
I do too. The first time I saw my oldest sons X-ray I nearly threw up. I'm serious. I had no idea that happened. Well I'm sure I learned it and forgot at some point. Anyway I have been grossed out since.
Load More Replies...I am looking at my toothless baby and she's smiling up at me and I said to her I am on to you,you little toothless raptor ha ha ha )0(
The terrible thing about this picture is that it's the preserved skull of a child. A child who has died before their time and not been granted the very least we can do - a decent burial..
I agree. That's what makes it so unsettling I think.
Load More Replies...A small group of wooly mammoth existed on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 2000 B.C.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007081750.htm#:~:text=The%20last%20woolly%20mammoths%20lived,within%20a%20very%20short%20time.&text=The%20results%20showed%20that%20Wrangel,up%20some%2010%2C000%20years%20ago.
Load More Replies...And Cleo is closer to us on the timeline than to the pyramide builders. That´s crazy, huh?
Load More Replies...The Giza pyramids also had an outer layer, now mostly worn off, that was so smooth and shiny that sun gleamed off of them.
That limestone covering is all over Cairo. It was used as building material in the city.
Load More Replies...I'm pretty sure this comment is just a joke, but they would've died in the weather.
Load More Replies...right up until Humans killed of the last of them -- our experience with extinction goes back a long way - we haven't learned a freaking thing either except how to do it faster
Fun fact: the time between the extinction of stegasaurus and the birth of T-rex is greater than the time between the extinction of T-rex and the birth of humans.
Hope you dont mean the "bosnia pyramid"...also... Did you know, that pyramids in south america is more likely ziggurats?
Load More Replies...Nope... They riding there on friesians horses, which was bred to look like they looks now (Black with long mane and tail) somewhere abou 16. century
Load More Replies...People cannot push and pull correctly when it is written on the doors, it is too much to expect to remember difference between push n pull when in panic.
I am 100% sure that when I am being attacked by an alligator, I will remember this random tweet.
Also, they have immensely powerful jaws for chomping but NOT for opening, so, you can quite literally hold their mouths shut
Yeah, that will be the first thing on my mind. Fact: horses will push into pain instinctively, just as above they evolved to push into predators to hurt or dislodge them.
I knew this for a reason, which is a very useless thing to know living in Canada 🤷🏻♀️
But what if you are on land and there is no water for it to drown in? Hold on there, Sir Alligator, while I go and get a cup of water to drown you with.
Oh yeah?, what about now... Dammit. Now!... NOW!!! Well, I really don't think I can process it.
There is a Isaac Asimov story about a Chronoscope, a device to watch the past. The government had one and didn't want to lend it or give the secret to build one. They were afraid people would start to focus on the near past, the 1/100000000 sec that separated from the present and start to watch what basically is the present, and all secrets and privacy would be gone forever.
Even if you're brain was fast enough, the light bouncing off of an object then into your eyes is still in the past. But these scales are so small it's almost pointless to even mention. I love science, but this is stretching a fact to scales that are so small, we don't really perceive them.
I read this book called "the girl in the spider's web," (if you're reading this skip bc spoilers) and one of the main characters was an autistic boy and he was what you'd call a savant, which is basically when someone autistic or disabled has special abilities (in math and art and such) and anyway it made it seem like he was experiencing things in present form the way it put it it was kinda deep tbh
I'm going to add this to my reading list. Thanks for the recommendation!
Load More Replies...My brain just folded in half a couple thousand times.
Except time is just a human construct and we could say that the "present" is when we perceive it.
I'll say it right now I redid time BAM what r u gonna do about it.
Load More Replies...If you take any number you can always add one to it. If you think about it, isn't it harder to imagine the highest number possible if we can always add one to it. Infinity should be easier a concept for us to imagine as every number we imagine can instantly change by adding one. It's head melting!
Load More Replies...Because we're both heterotrophs - we have to digest other organisms to survive.
That explains why when I was a kid growing up in the 70's I was literally scared crazy when this Japanese movie was shown on weekends or during our Creature Feature movie night! 'Attack of the Mushroom People' faa7581dee...266e85.jpg
Fungi can survive in space and entry into earths atmosphere so there's a good chance all life on earth evolved from alien fungi.
OI YA GITZ, WHYS YA YAPPING INSTADA KRUMPIN' HUMMIES?
Load More Replies...mushrooms were referred as gods' flesh by the aztecs (teonanácatl)
We've seen what the insects that live in strawberries, so what lives in mushrooms?
She’s also small and behind a ton of protection. She’s beyond amazing.
Likely because it was only a portrait for a close friend, so it didn't need to be that large. And it wasn't even famous until it got stolen.
Load More Replies...Since so many people call her "Mona" for so long, by now we can say it's "Nostra Lisa".
I like that! ("Nostra Lisa" translates "our Lisa" for those who didn't know)
Load More Replies...It's "Monna" not "Mona" . Monna means Lady, Mona in venetian, meas dumb and sounds pretty tough. The paint it's called "la Gioconda", because Leonardo da Vinci was florentine and italian speaker. Not french.
Was highly unimpressed when I saw this in person. In the end, this painting only became famous after being stolen & recovered decades ago. I expected it to be some huge masterpiece, and it's tiny and really not that impressive, sorry to say. :(
I've never understood the fascination or value. If it was only worth $5 it's not something I'd hang on the wall.
Whats interesting about her is the background, not the woman. Leonardo used a technique called sfumato, to beautifully blend the background landscape. So she just a plain woman, whilst the background is what makes the portrait interesting for art historians.
Load More Replies...I thought it was a mystery who it really was and some people thought it was the artist?
also did you know that there are complete other paintings underneath the paint creating this work of art?
In odia, "Mo" means my and "Na" Means name which roughly translates to My name is Lisa.
...which is perfectly logical if you have French or Latin as your first language
Unless time-travelling, nobody has Latin as their first language...
Load More Replies...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand#Etymology --- "and per se and", meaning "the character (&), by itself, is the word 'and'." --- The word 'et' means 'and' in Latin.
Load More Replies..."Ampersand" is the running together of the word "and per se and," meaning that the symbol "&" is the word "and." It was considered a letter of the alphabet and school kids used to say it when they said their ABCs.
Always thought that ampersand was the elongated form of the word "and".
The dinosaurs were around for millions of years. I really do not think that humanity has that kind of lineage to look forward to.
This s similar to the fact that Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
check out Cosmos - either Carl or Neil - they have the linear calendar on that - puts it into serious perspective....we have managed a MASSIVE amount of damage in a very, very, very short period of time
Read a funny story about him. He used to pay meals with checks. People didn't cash them cause Dali's signature was more worthy than the pay, so he got many free meals doing so. Not sure if its true, but like this story.
I've Heard the exact same story but it was Picasso...
Load More Replies...I honestly never knew that. Other random fact: the name "Chupa Chup" comes from the Spanish verb "chupar" meaning "to suck".
He designed it on a small table napkin, in about 10 seconds, out of sheer frustration. He had rejected their request repeatedly, until someone from the company interrupted him while at a cafe, asking him again if he'd do it. So he grabbed a napkin, scrawled the design on it, then chucked the napkin at the employee and said something to the effect of "here, now leave me alone!!!". At least that's the story in his home town. :)
Grr, those wrappers are a pain in the f*****g a**e to get off. Surely there was an easier way.
Yes there is. The Nimm 2 Lollies are way easier to open
Load More Replies...Did you know you can get free extra pizza slices if you cut your pizza into 8 pieces instead of 6? ;)
Googol Plex (it's a number) is so large that if u wrote each of its zeros on separate atoms in the universe, there won't be enough space to finish writing all the zeros.
There are estimated to be something like 10^81 basic particles in the universe (I'm assuming this the visible universe). A googolplex has 10^100 digits.
Load More Replies...Another way to look at it is that you could give a person $90,000.00 a day and it would take 31 years for them to reach 1 billion dollars.
my friend uses this fact to demonstrate how hard it is for the brain to grasp the concept of a billion.
Which puts in perspective how much money billionaires have (and tells me they need to pay more taxes).
So how long will it take Congress to recover all the billions of $$ they are using to help the economy?
My identical twin cousin just told me that, although wearing exactly the same clothes and has quite similar voice, their toddlers can still tell them apart.
I had to think for a while, how you have an identical twin that's your cousin. I not the sharpest tool in shed..🤦🏻♂️
Load More Replies...When I was a child, I remember my mother having a distinct soothing smell on her hands, it smelled like my mother. Once she died [cancer] I found out the smell was nicotine from smoking cigarettes.
I don't see why not, you just need to spend some time cuddling bub to your bare chest
Load More Replies...I'm not sure if I have had amniotic fluid and every time I breastfeed I get some really nasty comments.
I love this.and again if there is toxicity in mother's system they refuse the breast.
But how would we know? It's not like, 'Oh hey Bob, it's you - high five!' or anything. They're surly little guys.
And according to National Geographic, they prefer attractive people: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/animals-chickens-evolution-eggs-food/
Load More Replies...i can only recognize 5, every one else looks the same to me.
Not surprised on this one. Mine know I'm the steady food source and come running as soon as they see me. Won't go near anyone else, even if they bring treats
So can any animal I guess. I know that sheep can recognise each other's face.
I wonder how many chickens have ever seen 30 people in their whole life.
i wonder if we would instantly die at this point or if it would take a few min
Load More Replies...But its voice runs slower than the light. We'd hear it after seen it. Oh, you meant the sun calledus with a smartphone.
Load More Replies...I was in a full eclipse a few years ago. When the sun was blocked, it immediately got cool enough to feel like I needed to put on a coat.
Well if it did explode, we would only have to wait a day for the next one to come up.
Only if we knew at the exact moment, we would have saved the earth in 8 minutes 20 seconds.
If the sun were to explode we might not live long enough to understand what has happened.
Until you said that I never would've thought of that, but they do look very similar.
Load More Replies...The painter's sister Nan who modeled as the woman in the painting, perhaps embarrassed about being depicted as the wife of a man twice her age (modeled by a dentist), started telling people that Wood had envisioned the couple as father and daughter, not husband and wife. The painter Grant Wood himself remained vague on this point.
"Deutero" + "Stoma" = 2nd hole. Insects develop the reverse, and are called "Protostomes". "Proto" + "Stoma" = 1st hole. Their butts are where our mouths are, and our mouths are where their butts are. Also, their spinal cords are in their bellies. So insects are both upside-down, and backward from us.
Load More Replies...Not true. At around four weeks an embryo has a primitive spinal cord, and the heart is forming. The a**s doesn't form until around 8 weeks.
I heard one do so at Upper Canada Village years ago -- in their carp pond.
Well, it's not to clear their lungs so I can only assume it's to clear their throat..
Fish don't have lungs. Well, except lungfish-it's a thing.
Load More Replies...Have patience. He’s getting there... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-20/jeff-bezos-adds-record-13-billion-in-single-day-to-his-fortune
Load More Replies...While on his way to Mecca for a pilgrimage he literally destroyed the economy of a country he passed through just by tipping everyone with gold and he did it so much that gold crashed and tanked the economy.
Power move, that’s so awesome. Sucks for that one rich guy who’s like “I’ll just have rooms filled with gold coins” Rumpelstiltskin has it rough.
Load More Replies...Kinda seems a bit unfair that some individuals can have this amount of wealth while countless millions have nothing.
It is. And then you’ll have cultish laissez-faire capitalists tell you “life isn’t fair”, and spewing survivorship bias “arguments” about how all you have to do is “work for it”, all in support of maintaining the status quo. Usually they’re the type of people who expect to become a millionaire any time now... So it’s all about self-interest and riding the coat tails of the current plutocracy.
Load More Replies...I've read about the tulip bulb bubble during USA's housing bubble. How odd.
Load More Replies...What a horrible society for the average person. We cannot even imagine the inequality.
Except that when he spread his gold around on the way to Mecca, it destroyed the price of it. So his gold was really not that valuable.
The majority of lakes where flamingos live have extremely high salt concentrations. The only source of fresh water for some of these birds comes from boiling geysers.
Load More Replies...or at high altitudes where water boils at a much lower temperature.
Load More Replies...How do they find this out? Are scientists using government grants to pour boiling water down water fowl throats? "Nope, penguins didn't live... Try a flamingo next"
5th cousins is a really large gap as far as genetics is concerned.
But fifth cousins is really not "related" in any problematic sense. People have lots of fifth cousins on their home turf they even don't know about.
I just really would like to know how Eleanor Roosevelt comes to hyppos....
Yeahh I learned about the Roosevelt thing in 5th grade...Amazing lady, but it was a little bit disturbing when I was reading about her early life and I realized they were related
1st cousin marriage is banned in some countries, 2nd cousin marriage is frowned upon in some places. 5th cousins rarely even know each other or know that they are related in any form. At that point even people sharing the same lastname often believe it's just coincidence and that they can't possibly be related.
Load More Replies...For anyone else wondering, I looked it up and from what I understand, they have three tubes which are all connected into one main canal at the bottom, so there's only one hole on the outside of the animal. The three tubes are two vaginas and one birth canal since the tasks of receiving the sperm and birthing the baby are separated. There's two side vagina tubes and the birth canal going down the center. Hopefully I explained that well, but if it didn't make sense I recommend looking up a picture.
Load More Replies...I don't want to know why everyone in this thread seems to have an extended knowledge about that.
for some reason, knowing this made me so insanely happy
Most marsupials have multiple vaginas and uteri so they can be pregnant with embryos in different stages of development at the same time. but the multiple organs are why they have a pouch. There isn't enough room to gestate a joey to full term there. So the Joey is born as a rather undeveloped "pinkie" and then develops the rest of the way in the pouch
Load More Replies...Then it would be Slaghoepel (which means nothing, I think)
Load More Replies...Yeah, it's mentioned several times in the show. How is that an interesting fact?
I've never heard that! But then, maybe the Dutch television did not buy ALL the shows.
Load More Replies...That's a lie. Everyone knows the symbol shows what a reverse "Pong" would look like.
13 years old, i learned about a little over half a year ago, im 14 now
I think that "Chomolungma" (The Goddess Mother of Mountains) is a much more appropriate name.
Load More Replies...This is such a Eurocentric and colonialist view! The mountain mas certainly known by the locals for many, many thousands of years before G. Everest served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.
I prefer The Goddess Mother Of The World! "the historic, local Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma, also spelled Qomolangma, meaning "Goddess Mother of the World." Chomolungma is pronounced "CHOH-moh-LUHNG-m?." The Nepali name for Mount Everest is Sagarmatha, meaning "Godess of the Sky."" http://www.montana.edu/everest/facts/naming.html
Load More Replies...What's so interesting about that? I always pronounced it like this
I will remember that should I ever have the occasion to pronounce it.
i'm lobbing for rename it to "Mount of Jara Cimrman"... only czech people understand :D
And Fuchsia were named after Leonhart Fuchs, the ch would be pronounced k
Penguins also release air trapped beneath their feathers to boost their speed while jumping out of water. It is a very cool thing to see in person.
SCUBA diving, I get nitrogen narcosis at 90 feet. Oh well. Freediving, I can easily reach 120 feet, grab an abalone, and surface without shallow-water blackout. Shallow-water underwater swimming (60' lap pool), I can travel 360 feet (six laps) on my own power without fins or mask (after hyperventilating just air until my dizziness passed). Of course, this was when I was 23 years old.
He had multiple affairs throughout his life. He stood up for what was right....but he was as flawed as anyone in his personal life
Load More Replies...Unfortunately, Izola was found to be so mentally ill that she was deemed "unfit to stand trial" and was committed to a mental facility, where she lived until she became infirmed, and then died at 98. Tragic all around.
The attacker had paranoid schizophrenia and an IQ of 70, and was declared insane!
There were numerous news outlets snapping pics from all directions, the press pool constantly followed MLK around...they all happened to be looking into different cameras....
Load More Replies...Not the other side of the galaxy, but opposite side of where earth is now. The whole galaxy turns, therefore could have not been on the other side of galaxy. All stars have rotated. If a cat sits on a roomba and that makes a half turn, the cat still sits on the same spot on a roomba, but in a different location in the room, not on the other side of the roomba.
Our sun revolves around the centre of the milky way about once in 200 million years, and 200 million years ago dinosaurs already existed, so some of them lived when the earth was close to its current position.
It really, many of these people are there for science.
Load More Replies...This is part of a process termed "wet cremation" which is really exciting for a lot of people in the funeral industry. Burial is expensive and in many areas increasingly impractical as land resources are limited. Cremation takes a huge amount of energy. This process would drop the cost of dealing with bodily remains by nearly 90% - but laws in many jurisdictions will only allow burial or cremation.
haha, but where would you get 75lbs of lye :D ... seriously though, where could I get that?
Does anyone know the timing of this is the body is frozen? A friend has been talking about cleaning out her deep freeze and I want to be helpful.
Heating lye alone, could get you killed. And I believe it's a drain cleaner which they warn to use goggles and protective equipment or it will burn
Any they generally only poop on a tri-weekly basis as they risk their lives every time they come down from the tree canopy.
I have a funny story about the little pocket. One day we were at a family BBQ, my younger brother who was around six went up to my mum and asked what the small pocket was for. She said go ask Poppa, big mistake. My Poppa said it is to put condoms in, in which my brother asked what a condom is for and my Poppa replied that it is to put your w***y in. My brother walked away looking puzzled until about 10 mins late he asks “But how do you get your w***y in there”. He thought he had to put his w***y in the actual pocket.
There's no way a whole a*s pocket watch is fitting in there now. I've heard this fact before, and I assumed it was for coin change because pocket watch wouldn't fit....right?
Some people use that tiny pocket to hold illegal items. Not that I would know that. My friend told me.
I used it to put my bus ticket - ok, that was in the 1980s when the tickets were made of thick cardboard
There are people who didn't know this? Where do you think it comes from?
Not everyone has common sense. But It's still surprising that someone didn't or doesn't know this.
Load More Replies...When "we" snap? In half? What? Does she mean clicking our fingers? If so, mine touches my thumb. It couldn't reach my palm.
Snapping your fingers. Your middle finger and thumb. If your middle finger doesn't touch your palm after a snap, then, it's not making a noise.
Load More Replies...Neither did mine--the sound came from the finger tips "striking."
Load More Replies...This tweet assumes that people don't know the two meanings of "just deserts" Ex: a guilty person that goes to jail, got their just deserts
Load More Replies...Let's eat, children! _____. Let's eat children! _____. Commas save lives.
So do we now pronounce just deserts as we would Sahara mountains of sand? That's gonna be a hard sell.
Not only a child's dream. Some 15 years ago on the last day of a long business trip I went to the restaurant where I usually took lunch and ate every item of the dessert menu. The sugar rush was amazing.
My dog must be an outlier. She sometimes faces the mountains, which are to the west of where I live and sometimes faces the valley, which is to the east.
Mine pooped at random. I think this "fact" is simply not true
Load More Replies...So.... is it ok to carry around dog turd instead of a compass?
This isn't quite true. Dog's PREFER to do it this way. Preference doesn't mean always
You know I was taught a bunch of stuff in school, but I kinda wish that I was taught life skills; how to deal with loss, a broken heart, finances, rudimentary DIY, etc. You know everything that actually happens to you after you leave school.
We have some schools now that do (Netherlands) including growing food, but yeah, those are important survival skills
Load More Replies...fun fact, if you would put all the bloodveins in your body in one straight line... you would die
I always felt there should be a Life101 course in high school to teach people lots of survival skills like: how marketing works on you, the banking system, credit card lures and traps, living within your means, how to shop and cook, negotiation skills, etc. etc.
In Middle School (US, grades 6-8), we had Home Economics (cooking, sewing, nutrition) and Industrial Education (basic tool use, fun industrial projects). In 10th grade we had General Business (letter writing, banking, budgeting, basic laws, comparison shopping).
Load More Replies...So as a Canadian I wonder why we weren't taught that a Canadian invented peanut butter, we were taught about insulin and basketball being Canadian (among other things), but not peanut butter (I find that weird)
Americans are taught that it was George Washington Carver, one of the first and most prominent black American Scientist, who invented peanut butter.
Load More Replies...These are all interesting facts - I love lists like this. But on another note...poor teachers. They barely make a living, they're constantly disrespected and defunded, they are now looking at going back to school at the height of this pandemic. There's also lists everywhere of things you should've been taught in school. Are we incapable of learning ANYTHING ourselves? What makes this a list of things I should've learned in school? They are supposed to teach us this ever-evolving list of 'life skills' everything from cars and appliance repair to cooking, planting a garden, etc. Forget that necessary life skills are relative to who/where/what you do/want to do. The history of every civilization where everyone used to live, everyone's different points of views about history, every important historical figure (good or bad) AND all the different diseases/conditions/disabilities a person has. Where does it end? WHY the things on this list - please someone give me some insight.
There are several here that I wouldn't expect to learn in school, like the cost of movie theater popcorn vs filet mignon, who designed chupa chups, and how many faces a chicken can recognize.
I swear it's in vogue right now to lament all the things you weren't taught in school. As if once you graduate that's it, you're done. You can't learn anything at all now - just have to go through the rest of your life confused.
Load More Replies...oops. accidentally pressed enter. meant to say that some of these are cool but aren't really necessary to learn in school.
Load More Replies...You know I was taught a bunch of stuff in school, but I kinda wish that I was taught life skills; how to deal with loss, a broken heart, finances, rudimentary DIY, etc. You know everything that actually happens to you after you leave school.
We have some schools now that do (Netherlands) including growing food, but yeah, those are important survival skills
Load More Replies...fun fact, if you would put all the bloodveins in your body in one straight line... you would die
I always felt there should be a Life101 course in high school to teach people lots of survival skills like: how marketing works on you, the banking system, credit card lures and traps, living within your means, how to shop and cook, negotiation skills, etc. etc.
In Middle School (US, grades 6-8), we had Home Economics (cooking, sewing, nutrition) and Industrial Education (basic tool use, fun industrial projects). In 10th grade we had General Business (letter writing, banking, budgeting, basic laws, comparison shopping).
Load More Replies...So as a Canadian I wonder why we weren't taught that a Canadian invented peanut butter, we were taught about insulin and basketball being Canadian (among other things), but not peanut butter (I find that weird)
Americans are taught that it was George Washington Carver, one of the first and most prominent black American Scientist, who invented peanut butter.
Load More Replies...These are all interesting facts - I love lists like this. But on another note...poor teachers. They barely make a living, they're constantly disrespected and defunded, they are now looking at going back to school at the height of this pandemic. There's also lists everywhere of things you should've been taught in school. Are we incapable of learning ANYTHING ourselves? What makes this a list of things I should've learned in school? They are supposed to teach us this ever-evolving list of 'life skills' everything from cars and appliance repair to cooking, planting a garden, etc. Forget that necessary life skills are relative to who/where/what you do/want to do. The history of every civilization where everyone used to live, everyone's different points of views about history, every important historical figure (good or bad) AND all the different diseases/conditions/disabilities a person has. Where does it end? WHY the things on this list - please someone give me some insight.
There are several here that I wouldn't expect to learn in school, like the cost of movie theater popcorn vs filet mignon, who designed chupa chups, and how many faces a chicken can recognize.
I swear it's in vogue right now to lament all the things you weren't taught in school. As if once you graduate that's it, you're done. You can't learn anything at all now - just have to go through the rest of your life confused.
Load More Replies...oops. accidentally pressed enter. meant to say that some of these are cool but aren't really necessary to learn in school.
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