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50 Cool Facts To Satisfy Your Obsessive Need To Know Everything
Interview With Expert
We should never stop learning. No matter how old we get. If you want to beat boredom and boost your brain power at the same time, you’ve come to the right place. Did you know your brain is not a muscle? It’s an organ made up mainly of fat, water, protein, carbohydrates and salts. And while it might not be an organ, it does need exercise. When you learn new things, your brain changes, and grows - just like a muscle.
The good news is you don’t need to be in a classroom to learn something new. There’s an endless supply of lessons in daily life, and right here on the internet. Instagram page factsdailyy is like a gym for your brain. It’s a treasure trove of interesting facts, for when you need to flex your mind. Keep scrolling for some of the best and don’t miss the chat Bored Panda had with Mensa’s Charles Brown, about IQ and intelligence.
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Jossh Nine 1 year ago (edited)
Yes we do. We deserve them, and we need them in our lives. *Gave you an upvote just the same.
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Karina 1 year ago
This story is incomplete..we dont normally leave a story with the hero out in the trenches, protecting and serving. What happened next?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
Talero’s family (a husband and wife and two children) were on their way to visit the husband’s brother when their car broke down. The husband, Quirós, decided to leave the vehicle with Talero to try and find help. Unfortunately, there was a heavy snowstorm in the area, and rescuers say Quirós likely got disoriented and then lost in the snow. His wife and children were found a few days after the breakdown and were rescued alive, as they had stayed in their vehicle, but no one knew what had happened to Quirós. It wasn’t until nearly a month later that searchers (including a family member, who recognized Talero immediately) were able to recover Quirós’ body. The full story did not say, but I assume Quirós’ wife and children kept Talero. An utter tragedy, but I hope the man’s family derived some comfort in knowing their dog was a loyal hero who protected his owner even after death. Quirós was only 27 years old.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
Talero’s family (a husband and wife and two children) were on their way to visit the husband’s brother when their car broke down. The husband, Quirós, decided to leave the vehicle with Talero to try and find help. Unfortunately, there was a heavy snowstorm in the area, and rescuers say Quirós likely got disoriented and then lost in the snow. His wife and children were found a few days after the breakdown and were rescued alive, as they had stayed in their vehicle, but no one knew what had happened to Quirós. It wasn’t until nearly a month later that searchers (including a family member, who recognized Talero immediately) were able to recover Quirós’ body. The full story did not say, but I assume Quirós’ wife and children kept Talero. An utter tragedy, but I hope the man’s family derived some comfort in knowing their dog was a loyal hero who protected his owner even after death. Quirós was only 27 years old.
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Jossh Nine 1 year ago
My boy, Zeke (German Shepherd), would have done the same for me. He gave me the best 12 years of my life. He died in my arms April 25th, 2020. I'm pretty sure a heart attack took him. He was a GOOD boy!
I was today years old when I learned that a snail once “rose from the dead”. Almost four years after it was glued to a piece of paper and exhibited in a museum. The Egyptian desert snail was donated to the British History Museum in 1846. It was labeled, dated and put on display. Nothing out of the ordinary there. But what the museum didn’t realize was that the snail was actually alive.
Canadian science writer and novelist, Grant Allen penned this amusing account of the incident in Seven Year Sleepers: “Being a snail of a retiring and contented disposition, however, accustomed to long droughts and corresponding naps in his native sand-wastes, our mollusk thereupon simply curled himself up into the topmost recesses of his own whorls, and went placidly to sleep in perfect contentment for an unlimited period.”
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Kali Chaos 1 year ago
Sanitation workers are super under-valued. Some of the nicest people, whose job is literally dealing with your b******t. Y'all the real MVPs though. Watch how quickly everything collapses if they go on strike.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago (edited)
You know, the world laughs, that Germans prefer cash, but we would never pay something like mortgage (or anything higher then ~200€) in cash. We use bank transfer. Why take the risk of 1. haven that much money on yourself or in your house? But I am very pleased for her that they did that for her. Very nice people.
Foffy Skrimshaw 1 year ago
I accidentally threw away $80 once. I wonder if any sanitation worker found that.
Allen went on to write, “the desert snail might have snoozed away his inglorious existence unsuspected, but for a happy accident which attracted public attention to his remarkable case in a most extraordinary manner." On March 7 in 1850, staffers discovered the exhibit card was slightly discolored. They removed the snail, gave him some water and out peeked his tentacles. The rest, as they say, is history.
I now have something really interesting to share at the dinner table tonight. But does knowing a wealth of facts make me intelligent? Would I be able to join Mensa, the elite club made up of some of the world’s most brilliant brains? Bored Panda reached out to Charles Brown to find out. He’s the Director of Marketing and Communication for American Mensa.
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Gracie Jay 1 year ago
Good job sweet sweet Luna! I’m so glad they found her:) that makes me happy:)
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
How does someone not notice the fact that their dog fell out of a boat?!!!
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MoMcB 1 year ago
Same happening in Hurst Green, Lancashire. Case is about to go to the High Court. They have even cleared the stone the coaching inn was made from.
Mensa is known as the world’s largest, oldest and most famous members-only club for the super smart. A high IQ society made up of around 150,000 highly intelligent people. Only 2% of the global population. They have branches on every continent except for Antarctica.” One of their famous members is Hollywood actress, Geena Davis.
We asked Brown to define intelligence. “At its most basic level, being intelligent just means you can learn or understand things more easily and solve problems more quickly than others,” said Brown. “Generally, someone is born with high intelligence. That intelligence can be nurtured so that it manifests itself in ways that people commonly associate with high intelligence, but you still shouldn’t confuse intelligence with book smarts. Those two things are not mutually inclusive or exclusive."
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Max Fox 1 year ago
First- Boston College is a private college, not a public college. Second, this is common across private colleges, while public universities will either be free or half of the in-state tuition for families of employees. That usually is true for all universities in the public system, so all of the UCs, all of the Cal-States, all of the campuses of OSU, etc.
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Austin Sauce 1 year ago
How about free college for all? It’s such a blatant way to ensure the rich get richer… it’s disgusting.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
I earned my Master's degree for free by working for the University. It was one of the benefits of employment. And yes, I still got paid a full salary. I worked days and went to school at night. I never would have been able to afford it otherwise. Most universities in the US do this.
Ben Aziza 1 year ago (edited)
Wtf is 700000 dollars in tuition? How is that real? How is it possible that this is the norm? It baffles me. Slavery never left the usa i guess.
Faith Jacobs 1 year ago
That's what he saved for 5 children. That's about right.
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University of Arizona does too. My dad was a cop and I got to go free. I just had to pay the taxes.
Lady Miss Pie 1 year ago
One of my Alma maters!!! It’s quite a great school for a lot of reasons (the athletes are expected to maintain a decent GPA and not just skate by; the school supports both the arts and athletes—excellent theater department and art history department; though it’s Catholic, they allow LGBTQ and pro-choice groups).
Shelli Aderman 1 year ago
Many universities do this, actually. And some have policies where if they go to a different school, the faculty/staff gets some form of remuneration. It’s a general benefit for many schools.
Francesca Caldora 1 year ago
Exactly why I am exploring my international options for my doctorate!
Adam Spore 1 year ago
That was the same with my alma mater Austin College. Mom worked there so my sister and I both got free tuition.
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BlackCatWithWhiteSocks 1 year ago
Our Bobby in Edinburgh. I passed by him every day when I was going to university
Carman Davis 1 year ago
If you are good to them (you better be or else) they will love you wholeheartedly!!!
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Judes 1 year ago
Except in the 2004 Athens Olympics when they entered last because the host nation always enters last. Another interesting thing about the Parade of Nations for the Athens Olympics is that the Nations entered in alphabetical order according to the Greek alphabet.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
They actually entered first and last. Their flag entered first, then the team entered last.
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WubiDubi 1 year ago
Greece is a bit dubious of adding break to the Olympics though. You can modernise it but it's got a little out of hand. Squash yes, flag football no, lacrosse yes. Dressage is a bit military, so maybe.
Ellinor 1 year ago
Well, I think that if the Olympics were exactly how they used to be, few to no people would wanna watch or even participate.
Load More Replies...The Oxford dictionary defines “book smart” as “having a lot of academic knowledge learned from books and studying, but not necessarily knowing much about people and living in the real world.” So, learning a bunch of interesting facts from this list or the factsdailyy Instagram page might make us book smart but not necessarily street smart. Or intelligent.
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Teachzebra 1 year ago
Basically a beautiful case of loophole abuse. Despite being born and raised in America she had Hungarian descent, and since there were no other half pipe skiers from Hungary they accepted her on their team. as stated she simply went to events where she would be guaranteed to qualify. Then she met the most basic standard, just don’t fall. Nice way to get a free trip to the Olympics 💁♂️
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Thanks for the explanation, because I figured there was zero chance that "an American skier qualified without actually being very good.
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MellonCollie 1 year ago
I think that's hilarious and very smart as well. I can definitely see the humour in this lady's little trick.
B.M. 1 year ago
So what? Eddie the Eagle did even least to qualify. And Eric the Eel just had a wildcard for the olympics. Both we're celebrated. So we should celebrated this woman even more: sehe had a plan, Not simply luck of the birthplace!
Ryan Smith 1 year ago
No, she was just very wealthy and managed to buy her way into the Olympics by self-financing her "career" at skiing events around the world .... keep this in mind the next time BP runs its usual posts about entitled rich people.
Load More Replies... JB 1 year ago
If you saw her run in 2018, you'd remember just how godawful it was. Can you believe they still haven't changed the rules and someone else could do the same?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
They apparently did the same thing this year, with a breakdancer from Australia who “studies the cultural effects of breakdancing” but was apparently NOT a pro breakdancer herself. I watched a portion of her routine and I can honestly say I actually got the horrors because she just sort of laid on the ground and flopped/twitched, and it reminded me of my dad having a seizure. I try to be uncritical of people, but her performance was honestly a travesty. IIRC the judges gave her a score of literally zero.
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similarly 1 year ago
Seems like they would need to, I don't know, participate in national tournaments, be selected by the Olympic team?
JB 1 year ago
That's just it, though. By not falling down in any of the tournaments Elizabeth Swamey selected, plus injuries, meant she got an Olympic run. From Wikipedia: "while the United States had six women ranked within the top 20 in the world in halfpipe skiing, only four were allowed to compete in the Olympics based on the quota system. Between the quota system and injuries, Swaney's ranking of 34 granted her qualification for the Olympics.["
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 1 year ago
This reminds me of the lady who entered her horse in only one show with only 4 entries in the class. Her horse won 4th place. When she went to sell the horse, she advertised it as having placed in every show it had been entered in.
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J J 1 year ago
Had to quit cola. Kept getting ice cubes stuck in my nose.
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Heir of Durin 1 year ago
I thought the same thing. It looks like it would be around $350 in todays’s money. That’s a lot per share at a time like that.
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Karri Berkowitz 1 year ago
I can assure you that is not the case now. They must have all moved away cuz the only coke money there now is what they r selling on the corners. It's a poop hole
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
But how much of that is the towns fault versus the fact that it's Florida
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timhood 1 year ago
Explain how a struggling family could afford $19/share for stock. That would be $360 today. But, if someone bought $400 of Coca-Cola in. 1920, the cheapest price of the stock in its history, by 1967, (47 years later) it would have been worth a million. However, 1932 was the year of the lowest depression era price for Coca-Cola. Purchasing one share at $75 (more than $1200 today) would have made one a millionaire by 1996.
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Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
In much of the rest of the USA and the world, it actually is, because horses are vehicles. However, Louisiana state law does not classify them this way, which is why he got off the hook.
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François Carré 1 year ago (edited)
Horses are the most reliable self-driving vehicles. When I was younger we used to go for long rides once in a while with my mom, my brother and his then girlfriend. There was this time we had miscalculated the length of the ride and ended up coming back home at night. It was pretty dark, there were still some 5 km of narrow trails to go and even a river to cross. My horse Sabato, a brave, enduring and nervous small-scale Camargue, took the lead. He knew the way home and flawlessly followed the right path. His white a*s was glowing like a beacon in the dark, allowing the rest of the group to follow safely.
Mrs Irish Mom 1 year ago
His horse was able to get him home allll the other times, well trained horse
Karen Mercury 1 year ago
What about drunk walking? You can get cited for that at least in California.
Mensa only accepts super smart people, so we wanted to know how we could get in. “Candidates must first qualify for membership before they can join,” Brown told Bored Panda. “In American Mensa, they do this in one of two ways. The first is by submitting proof that they have taken a qualifying exam in the past and scored in the top 2% of the general population. The second is by sitting for our exam and scoring in the top 2%."
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B Hobbs 1 year ago
"I purr for my own reasons. You soft can openers can interpret it anyway you want ... and you'll be wrong."
The Dusty Rhino 1 year ago
I interpret it as love. While she is snoring away, contentedly, in my arms, I am not wrong.
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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
My cat purred away my migraine once. 10/10 would use this contractor again.
BoredPamda 1 year ago
I've heard it's akin to smiling -- we're not always happy when we smile. Some people do it when they feel awkward or uncomfortable, or when you feel like it's expected of you.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
They do it because it amuses them to watch us scratch our heads on why and how they do it.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago (edited)
Might be compulsive. Like an OCD kind of thing. Might want to mention to the vet next time you go, though, maybe get a blood panel done just to make sure there's not something causing chronic pain, but it's most likely nothing to worry about.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We do not expire! We do not have a "best if used by" on us, unless we were killing the stamper. Also, I'd just like to point out that we have nine lives, so we actually live longer than soft can-openers!
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The Dusty Rhino 1 year ago
I love Zak. He is the best of the racing community. He genuinely loves racing.
XenoMurph 1 year ago
I know nothing about this, but I bet this wasn't his only seed money. I bet his parents were also rich and/or involved in the industry in some way, because that's how the world tends to work. Now going to do research and find out... stay tuned
XenoMurph 1 year ago
Nope, looks like, apart from taking him to races, his parents didn't do this for him. My assumption he was a nepo child was wrong. He sold his prizes, took the money and became a self made racing driver and businessman. Good on him.
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
Guy planted different trees to have the color change when season changed.
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
That’s some dedication. It’d be a while before he would get to see the result, if he did live to see it
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
They are larch trees in a mixed coniferous forest of mostly Douglas firs, western hemlock, and western red cedars.
Gwynne Greene 1 year ago
This is AUTUMNLY (ultimately) the best idea I have ever come across from this guy, naturally lol 😆 (sorry for doing this message 3 times similarly , but auto correct was being a b****)
Eric Williams 1 year ago
I drive by it occasionally and sadly, it's not done so well the past few years.
Phoenix 1 year ago
Oh, bummer. I haven't been by it for several years so I didn't know that.
Load More Replies... Gwynne Greene 1 year ago
This is AUTUMN-lying (ultimately) the best idea to come to from this person who created this, naturally lol 😆
When Brown talks about testing, he’s referring to an Intelligence Quotient, or IQ test. The BBC's Science Focus puts it like this: “Scores are gathered by participants completing standardized tests that measure abilities in puzzle-solving, memory, and more. Based on a median score of what’s typically around 100, your given IQ score is relative to that of the general intelligence of the population. Below 85 is seen as a poor score, 130 and above is smart (in the top 2% of the population).”
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Pandemonium 1 year ago
I did exactly that in my physics text book before selling it back (at a deeeep discount) to the bookstore, hoping to give a laugh to a student a year behind me.
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Ryan Smith 1 year ago
Keep in mind, England used the death penalty for forgery and counterfeiting until the 1800s.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
As a comfort: they also enjoy getting their shells petted and gently scrubbed! You can find many videos online of clearly blissed-out turtles and tortoises getting their shells scrubbed with toothbrushes.
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Kira Okah 1 year ago
Can testify that turtles LOVE pettings, and shell scritches!
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Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
This makes me so sad when I think of the turtles we saw in Egypt that people had carved their names onto
Unpickled Pickle 1 year ago
But why? Why would nature do this to them, thats like armor that still doesnt defend you.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Because evolution works with what it has. Turtle shells are highly modified ribs.
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Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
My popeye prefers his head rubbed but he also likes it when I rub his shell..silly reptile
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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
I was hoping I wasn't the only one who noticed! Easily the douchiest drivers on the road these days.
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John Mosley 1 year ago
UC Berkeley could have saved some time and money and just asked somebody. We all knew.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Bro and I (in a 1995 Toyota) were cut off by a person in a BM. Bro yells out the window, "Just because you drive a BMW doesn't make you good in bed, you b@stard!!"
“Scientifically, IQ is the difference between someone’s chronological age and their mental age,” said Brown, before getting a bit more technical. “Traditionally, this was established by administering a test and comparing the results with previous test takers to see what age the average person would be when they achieved the same results. The formula is basically MA/CA * 100.”
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TheNewJenBrady 1 year ago
I've sat at that exact table there on the left. Also, Sedona was named after a woman, who with her husband opened the first post office in the area. It was her husband who suggested naming the town 'Sedona' after the first name they chose was rejected by the government postal whatever for being too long. Sedona (the person) was born in Missouri and her name was made up by her mother. And yes, I'm very badly paraphrasing an article I read so I'm not claiming 100% accuracy of the details
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Somehow "The Blue Arches" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
My town has sign rules like that as well. We don't have a McDonald's though.
Manana Man 1 year ago
In fact, Sedona blends in so well that people drive right through and never see it.
Frank Hassler 1 year ago
They are said to be the world’s only real arches. 30+ years ago all of Sedona may have had regulations about signage. Now it’s just the shopping center that McDonalds is in that has the teal signs.
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Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
It’s not like there weren’t other writers at the time that we know of. If a word does not appear in other contemporary works, but appears in Shakespeare, it’s a reasonable guess to think he invented it.
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Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
Eyeball was first written down by William Patten, when Shakespeare was about 10, so no. Radiance was first used in a translation by Christopher Marlowe around the 1590s, which is prior to its use by Shakespeare in 1608. Marlowe is believed to be a major inspiration to Shakespeare.
The Other Ben 1 year ago
Also many words in English (technically all, but that's not the point here), derive from earlier Latin, French, or other earlier languages. Radiance is from Medieval Latin, radiantia - "brightness" - which is itself a form of the verb radiare - "to shine". Not hard to anglicize that to radiance.
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
He also invented a lot of idioms like "hoisted by your own petard", "green eyed-monster", "our flesh and blood", "good riddance", "break the ice" and "dead as a doornail"
Soy 1 year ago
Although some of the quotes were really a revival of long-forgotten ancient quotes.
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BM Khalid Hasan 1 year ago
*Before Shakespeare* : Where will you sleep? : I will sleep in the storeroom of pillows and bedsheets.
Carrie de Luka 1 year ago
Tell her you're a modern day Shakespeare and words are made up all the time! 😃
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Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
Love the fact they didn't use the swear words he invented which are used a lot more often
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Jess Smith 1 year ago
Billionaires protect their friends. The owners probably have been on each others' yachts.
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Annik Perrot 1 year ago
When I was about 12, my dad affirmed to me that Pepsi and Coca-Cola were the same thing. I said no, that you could taste the difference. He went so far as to set me à blind test, which I brilliantly passed. Pepsi always tasted à bit more "pharmaceutical" to me.
Aleksandras Tvardauskas 1 year ago
I had a co-worker who has been drinking coke on a daily basis. She also claimed that she can tell coke from pepsi. We didn't believe her and arranged a blind taste with 5 cups of each mixed. She could tell every single one of them. As someone who doesn't drink coke or pepsi, I find the ability to tell them apart fascinating.
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MrLiesegang 1 year ago
They already knew. But why should they make the exact same soda? To be called a knockoff?
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Stupid move on that employee’s part. Plus, only $1.5 mil? Talk about selling yourself cheap. That’s probably why Pepsi reported him to Coke. I mean come the f**k on, dude! $1.5 Billion maybe, but $1.5 million? That’s peanuts. In your Coke. (If you’re a southerner, you know exactly what I mean.) TBH, my preference has always been for RC Cola anyway.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Because being caught in industry espionage would have costed them a lot extra on top of that
Brown added that test results could differ from day to day, “It is important to note that this number is a snapshot of a person at one moment in time. Modern tests use what is called a confidence interval to say that we can be 90% sure that this person’s IQ will fall between X and Y on any given day. That is usually the IQ score the test yielded +/- 5 points.”
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ohnasouga... 1 year ago
It's more a sort of a salary rather than a prize with all the pages we are supposed to read
Mark Alexander 1 year ago
QED: #TOS agreements are as legally solid as what I wrote in henna on your steamy office building which, by opening a door the next day you agree that this is no way to negotiate a contract.
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
I may be slow thinking, but I did not understand the meaning of your post.
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Cathleen Cummings 1 year ago
Which means that everyone has African ancestry! But how to convince all the racist a-holes?
Manana Man 1 year ago
It has long been believed, with very substantial supporting archeological evidence, that humans originated in Africa.
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Kira Okah 1 year ago
There is also a Y-Chromosomal Adam. It's based on genealogical history and what is known in genetics as pedigree collapse, so Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam did not live at the same time or originate in the same place. They lived between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, and were some of the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens.
Leah Woodard 1 year ago
Actually, there are 7 places in evolutionary history where a single woman introduced a new genetic type - from dark skin to light, from brown eyes to blue, from curly hair to straight, etc. There are 7 Eves in our evolutionary history.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Mitochondrial Eve is the oldest common ancestor to the entire Homo sapiens chronospecies. Yes there are multiple different Eves for multiple different things, but they still came from the Mitochondrial Eve. There are more than 7 Eves.
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Gozer LeGozerian 1 year ago
Probably because of the tyranni of early risers and their endless insisting on creating a society only fitting for them
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Argie Smith 1 year ago
Yeah, then you can dangle your foot when you sleep without fear
Load More Replies... BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
So we'll die sooner but be smarter along the way. I would accept this.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
At least I will have lived the life I wanted. Early risers are just weird
Kaa 1 year ago
As an early riser, I find it weird to waste half of a beautiful morning in bed
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Barbara Burns 1 year ago
Oh give me a break. Source, please. How big was the study group? What ages were the participants? Boy, I really hate garbage peddled as fact.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
I stay up late and wake up early. Do they cancel each other out?
Doozle bug 1 year ago
But apparently are more likely to stop living earlier. Swings and roundabouts
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I read about all these studies. How come I have never met anyone who participated in a study?
If you think you fall in the top 2% of the population when it comes to brains, you can take a trial test here. Then find your national Mensa branch to apply. If you don’t make it the first time, there might still be hope. “Redoing the test varies from Mensa to Mensa. We allow a candidate to sit for our exam a second time after an 8-week waiting period,” said Brown.
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Unpickled Pickle 1 year ago
Reminds me of the Twilight zone episode where the guy surgically cuts the nerves to his vocal cords so he can't talk to win a bet.
Magenta Blu 1 year ago
I don't have sense of humor... Or any reason to smile.. maybe i should go to participate on this sort of events
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
On the other hand, four years in a predator-free environment may mean it lived far longer than it would have done had it not been there.
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I really want to know what the snail ate during that time. As living creatures, they DO need to eat. Also, don't snails require a moist environment?
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Snails have an aestivation state - a dormant state where their metabolism slows to survive long dry periods. This is also why their foot wouldn't dry out, aestivation can also prevent dessication.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
They can go in to a state of hibernation where they don't need to eat.
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Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Why did Constantinople get the works? It’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Kombatbunni 1 year ago
Why they changed it I can't say. People just liked it better that way
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Awkward Momma Panda 1 year ago
Okay, I give in…what are numbers one and two? For me it would be Birdhouse in your Soul (1) and Don’t Let’s Start (2), but I am only just a casual fan and listener.
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michael reid 1 year ago
That is a massive cannon, even today it's absolutely huge. Imagine how terrifying it would have been back then.
Magenta Blu 1 year ago
Imagine carrying it around without any more aid than men strength and ropes.. and some horses
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Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
It still exists and I assume this is a photo of it. It was used in 1450 in the siege of Constantinople and not again until WW1. The gunners were s**t scared it would explode but it didn't.
We asked Brown if he has any tips for people who want to boost their intelligence. “Eat healthy, get lots of sleep, hydrate, and exercise,” he advised. “Your brain is an organ and requires energy to function at its peak.” Research shows that reading also helps. And that’s where we come in. Bored Panda is more than happy to be your brain gym for life. All you have to do is keep browsing.
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BrunoVI 1 year ago
There are actually a lot of roads like this, including until recently one at Mt St Michel, France, the conical city that inspired Lord of the Ring's Gondor.
Onan Hag All 1 year ago
St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, and Burgh Island in Devon also have tidal causeway.
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Hmmm hmmmm 1 year ago
Lindasfarme in northumberland is similar ,you can walk across it at certain times of day inly
Robert T 1 year ago
The Lindisfarne causeway does at least provide a couple of refuge towers for the plonkers that get themselves cut off.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
I remember the time I dropped my Nokia phone from a second floor window. There was the tiniest of cracks. To this day, every time I visit my parents' house my father still reminds me of that crack. It has been over twenty years and it drives me nuts. I tell him that if it bothers him so much, he can change the tiles of the floor whenever he wants.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 1 year ago
i see what you did there. well done, luis. well done... *hat tip*
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Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
I have a 14 yo Nokia I still use. The tiny screen is cracked from dropping it a gazillion times. I dropped it again a few days ago, and this time I thought it was the end as it wouldn't switch on again after I assembled the thing again. But lo and behold, about 15 minutes later I tried again and I could login. As long as this Nokia still works I refuse to buy a new one. It would feel sacrilegious.
Libstak 1 year ago
So in 1000 years when archaeologists dig through the remnants of 21st century civilisation they will conclude that it was the Nokia era...suck on that Apple and Samsung.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
People in the Stone Age mostly used wood, stone is just what survived. Similarly we have quite a lot from ancient Sumeria, which used clay (if you set the library on fire it's ok) vs ancient Egypt, which used papyrus. A lot of the past is shaped by what survived, especially when there are fewer records. Even later, in, say, the Middle Ages, that works: for a while, there was exactly one copy of Beowulf in existence (that we knew/know of) and that was almost destroyed in a fire in 1731, meaning if not for a fluke we would have no idea Beowulf existed. As it is I'm not sure if we know if it was high-brow upper-class stuff or the equivalent of pulp fiction.
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Thomas Olsen 1 year ago
It actually started with the 3210 from 1999, which sold 160 million units,
Piwakawaka 1 year ago
Can confirm. Mine was still working after 14 years, stuck together with tape.
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KAM 1 year ago
Shrek was his name. He was shorn on an ice berg. He was massive. It was a strange time in NZ
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
I heard about this dude!!! So... yeah.. apparently -- the story goes that he wasn't 'found' he.. like... was soooo overgrown that he was rather.. unhappy/uncomfortable - so wandered back to an area where he knew the hairdressers (Fleece-dressers?) lived, and Ahhhhhh he was much more comfortable.
Anne Roberts 1 year ago
I read they sheared 70 lbs of wool. I'll bet he felt better after that,!
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tameson 1 year ago
Göran Kropp. The full story is even more impressive. All the teams planning to summit and decided to let him go first. He didn't summit, climbed back down, and missed being a victim of the 1996 disaster. He climbed back up to help find the victims and bring supplies. Then, after a rest, he climbed again and go to the summit. Then he rode his bike part way back to Sweden.
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
Why is my brain so focused on wanting to know where he stored his bike while he went up the mountain? Cos it would have totally sucked if, when he got back down, some bastard had stolen it.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Did he preface his journey with "smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast"?
WindySwede 1 year ago
Better this, than risking the locals lives for your climbing experience?
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 1 year ago
That old saying: Mount Everest is littered with the bodies of highly motivated men.
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Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
Underwood Ranches https://underwoodranches.com/ is the producer of the hot peppers. Since the falling out, they've been producing their own sriracha which is the old Huy Fong taste! We've bought directly from them. Their bibimbap sauce is spectacular as well but no longer in production.
NatalieC 1 year ago
There was recently a shortage (or supply chain issue) and it was unavailable in my town for several m,onths. It's back now but doesn't taste the same. It's not as hot.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Not sure of the year, but Fred Meijer and the owner of Liberty Dairy(Dean Foods) began their partnership this way. Dean Foods supplied every Meijer store in the Great Lakes area for many years. The son of Mr. Meijer, within the last decade, bought a defunct bottler and now process their own milk.
Miki 1 year ago
It probably depends on country but in mine, verbal agreement is still binding by law.
Vidas Zlioba 1 year ago
A contract of this size, scope, and duration is required to be in writing in most if not all cases (USA).
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Shark Lady 1 year ago
I kind of hope it stays that way. There must be many undiscovered species that exist quite happily without the destructive influence of humans.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
They won't exist happily for much longer, with the amount of cr*p humans dump into the oceans, the projects of deep-sea mining, and global warming changing the sea currents. Odds are high that many species will diisappear before we even know about them.
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Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago (edited)
pretty sure there are billionnaires wondering how they could destroy this too while making mooooneeyyyyyyy
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
But our rubbish rains down on that 90% so that we find pop cans in the bottom of the Marianas trench, not to mention the litter on Mt. Everest!
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I can tell you that it doesn’t occur for at LEAST 42 years…. XD
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Anna Boes 1 year ago
And did anyone sort the data between kids HAVING to do chores because their parents work too much to do it and kids who GOT to do chores because their parents didn't want their kids to be spoiled? Because I know data that doesn't agree with a successful outcome for parentalized kids....
athornedrose 1 year ago
i was just about to say that. that's for parents who were "teaching a lesson" not for kids who were made back up parents/house managers because of bad financial situations. we're miserable
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Beeps 1 year ago
Professional success: tick Happiness: not sure But I tell you what else I have: an innate hatred and resentment of all household chores. I’m so resentful of all the hours of housework I had to do when I should have focused on school or simply being a child that I now struggle to complete even the smallest task without getting angry.
Joanne Hudson 1 year ago
My mom would ask me to help then criticise how I did it and do it herself. Now I rarely do chores and no one notices. It has little to do with my happiness tho.
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Karina 1 year ago
Being alone and single mindedly focused on one thing for 422 is not the way I would woe my lover 😅 he did proved he had follow through, but also that he could possibly leave for long bouts of time to do things like this.
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
I hope she said no. He'd just proved himself a first-class flight risk! Why would she think he wouldn't run out on her one day?
kupid79130127 1 year ago
If he ran across America five times, wouldn't that be more than 15,000 miles? Cuz it's like more than 3,000 miles from here to Florida I'm in Washington State...
#34
Ellie Vanille 1 year ago
But what if... and just hear me out: a mosquito stung these dinosaurs. The mosquito then landed on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the sap. After a long time the tree sap would become fossilised preserving the mosquito in amber... ?
Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
Is this dinosaur wearing a birthday hat? Well congratulations to you then! 🥂
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
I heard on the news this week a new fossil field has been found in Australia...so maybe not
#35
Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
While true, a lot of that is still Western rubbish, after being shipped there for processing. And it would be facetious to pretend they didn't know it wouldn't be dealt with properly.
Unpickled Pickle 1 year ago
Exactly, the missing detail is that its not their own rubbish(garbage) but other country's.
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Kobe (she) 1 year ago
Because we did not either - we (western countries) got it there, for them to deal with...
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jamesmcwhirty 1 year ago
and what percentage of the world's population do those 5 nations represent?
Leading_Gold 1 year ago
I thought the bag on the bottom left was a black pig. Or a pig covered in oil
Squirrel Chaser 1 year ago (edited)
You're an idiot. (I say this since most of your posts border on the idiotic)
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#36
Pandemonium 1 year ago
My ex- was born from a frozen embryo but the thawing never rreached her heart
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I imagine that one does not consider a frozen embryo to actually "age" until after it is implanted, gestated, and birthed as an actual baby, much like we calculate age for anyone conceived normally. But it would be funny: if I'd been born as the result of a frozen embryo - I'd ABSOLUTELY tell everyone "I was BORN in 1982 but I was CONCEIVED in 1952..."
Load More Replies... Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago (edited)
The embryo was donated to different parents who were only about 5 years older than the embryo.
Load More Replies... viimatar 1 year ago
Could be either, as a fertilized egg could be frozen either in the single-cell phase or after dividing a few times, the first division happening at about 15 hrs. You likely could find out by searching for the original articles on the matter.
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
He rented it to the creators of Nintendo who got way behind on their rental payments. He generously scratched the debt. As a tribute to his generosity they named Mario after him.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
Plot twist: Mario Segale found this to be offensive and legally changed his name to Jumpman.
#38
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Erm, Blendo competed. And won several times. Was destroyed by an arena trap.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
It looks like a metal bowl turned upside down. I assume there are things under there though?
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Major Harris 1 year ago
and adam savage is briefly in the billy joel video, "you're only human". he is the person who was drowning at the beach and is saved by the protaganist of the video.
MrLiesegang 1 year ago
Well, it still was part of the competition in 1995 and 3 seasons of Battlebots
#39
highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
I wonder a) will we have the technology, or indeed existing copies in 100 years? And b) slightly pessimistically, will humanity still exist in any meaningful form that will value watching John Malkovich movies?
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago (edited)
Probably. We have movies that old, and some actors from then are still household names, so it's likely going to be fine. I mean, imagine if it were announced that a never-before-seen Buster Keaton movie had just been found and was being restored and released. I guarantee you it would draw a few crowds.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
I can't decide whether this is a brilliant trolling to the movie industry or pretentious cr*p...
MrLiesegang 1 year ago
It’s pretentious cr*p, I just looked it up and it’s basically a commercial for 100 year cognac…
Load More Replies... ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
The way we're going, I'm pretty sure we won't have a planet in 100 years.
Melody 1 year ago
In 2115, if I'm still alive, I'll be 118 years old... Well, it's not impossible for me to actually get to see it.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
I'm sure by then the Cleveland Browns will have won a Super Bowl.
Load More Replies... MrLiesegang 1 year ago
Anyone else wondering why you never heard of it before? It’s a cognac Commercial.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
"100 Years: The Movie You Will Never See" is also the subtitle of "The English Patient."
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Guess the English Patient will need to burn unit.
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Bored Birgit 1 year ago
He has got an invitation card that he can give away to his (grand)children.
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#40
Kira Okah 1 year ago
His name was Barry Kidston. He was trying to synthesise MPPP as a 'legal recreational d.rug', and injected the result. MPTP can be accidentally synthesised as an impurity in the process and contaminate the MPPP. MPTP is not neurotoxic in itself, but it can cross the blood-brain barrier, where it is metabolised into MPP+, which causes rapid Parkinsonism.
WindySwede 1 year ago
After reading the comments below: that's why you should not try to make your own party d***s.. 👍
Load More Replies... Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
The kid was trying to synthesize MPPP, an opioid d**g, and injected the result. It’s not like he accidentally synthesized it and inhaled it by accident.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 1 year ago
do you have a link to this, perchance? i'd like to read more about this story.
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[>.<]/ 1 year ago
The toxic effects of MPTP were discovered accidentally by a Massachusetts chemistry student, Barry Kidston, who wanted to synthesize the d**g MPPP in the 1970s. This initially worked well, until one time he accelerated the production process. He did not notice that the d**g was contaminated with the by-product MPTP. Three days later, this student, as well as other addicts in the city to whom he had sold the d***s, began to suffer from slowness of movement and other early Parkinson's symptoms.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
During 2020, many people had MPTP holders thanks to a shortage. Thanks, I'll let myself out.
Ryan Smith 1 year ago
This sounds like it could be a Stephen King story... actually, it kind of is -- read his short story, "The End of the Whole Mess."
#41
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Yeah, especially since the money I have is a negative amount. LOL
Load More Replies... Melody 1 year ago
Well, if I moved to one of those countries where I'm "rich", I would end up having to take a job that would pay a lot less, so I wouldn't be "rich" for long.
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
Remote work for a first world country - then receiving ' rich' wages in a 'poor' country
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Colleen Glim 1 year ago
I have $4.21. Does that make me richer than 5% of the population? Asking for a friend
#42
Brian Hawley 1 year ago
It’s not a problem if it costs more to manufacture currency than its face value. Currency is used more than once. Over the years a single currency item can clock up transactions totalling hugely more than its face value.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
It is also illegal to smelt them to get the actual metal. And the act to make pennies dissappear have been held up in the US Congress by a handful of companies of the zinc industry which makes them.
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
Same here in Australia - we've not had 1c or 2c pieces since the early '90s
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PattyK 1 year ago
And every time we try to get rid of pennies, people throw a fit. They aren’t willing to round up to the nearest nickel and lose a few cents on a transaction.
Doozle bug 1 year ago
This is sensible economics. Now we shouldn’t malign this most clever of countries
Downunderdude 1 year ago
Australia stopped making 1C and 2C coins about 10 years go for this reason. Our lowest denomination is 5C
Alex Kennedy 1 year ago
“Lost” is a weird word here. When the US prints $100 bills, does it “make” money on the transaction?
#43
Lady of Shalott 1 year ago
I looked up how the FDA classifies IRN-BRU, but I couldn't find anything. I wonder how those 32 flavours would be classified.
FreeTheUnicorn 1 year ago
Surely it's just carbonated sugar with artificial flavouring like the others. Why would the FDA categorize by taste?
Slarty Bartfast 1 year ago
I used to really like the taste of DP, but then they started using synthetic sweeteners, and completely ruined it (just like almost every other fuzzy drink on the market today!)
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
What do they mean? It tastes like carbonated prune juice. In my book, that qualifies as a fruit-flavored soft drink.
#44
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
I think it would be worse if it happened 9,950 miles into his trip.
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
Dribbling in football pretty much means a person being able to keep the football moving between their feet in a controlled manner as they head in a specific direction.
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Mahiera Etsuhae 1 year ago (edited)
Richard Swanson (42) died on Hwy 101, in Lincoln City, Oregon, on his way to see the World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Not for charity; just because he wanted to walk the journey. https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/us/oregon-soccer-trekker-killed/index.html
#45
Joshua David 1 year ago
Same within the cosmetics and hair industries as well.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
And? There are only 8 companies that owe the whole food industry on the planet
BrunoVI 1 year ago
I find it kinda funny the way Europeans hate on American billionaires when you consider where the European billionaires made the their billions: mostly fashion.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
And one company owns most of the glasses manufacturers in the world. Some online glasses companies are challenging that monopoly.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
One useless company owns all the useless brands, who would have thought that.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
I believe the big cheese is the richest man on the planet. Yep, Barnard Arnault is now $33bn richer than Elon. https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
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Fabian Bernard 1 year ago
LVMH, owned by French billionaire Bernard Arnault. Sponsoring the Olympics, while paying only 6% of their benefits taxes in France and screwing fiscal services with optimisation. Paid a big agreement to avoid a tax fly scandal. Of course Vuitton is stylish and smart, French élégance etc ...but it bothers me that we offer its company so much visibility at a public event he avoided to finance with taxes at all price. Sponsoring gives you a 50% tax cut in France ( calculated on the amount you give for the sponsoring ( source : my father is an accountant and sponsors his local soccer team)) while its public money paying the Olympics
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
ouais bernard arnault le seul milliardaire français si je ne me trompe pas
#46
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
That actually explains the state of our world a lot....
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Gozer LeGozerian 1 year ago
Gee it's almost like constant social jetlag because of having to adhere to an early riser society will do that to people
#47
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Sad, but also WTF? Rapunzel did not eat her hair in either the Disney or Grimm versions.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
And Rapunzel Syndrome isn't the name of the compulsions to eat your own hair, the caption is wrong here. It's the name for an intestinal blockage caused by a hairball. The Sonic Hedgehog protein doesn't make you run super fast either, and the hedgehog gene was first discovered in fruit flies; the loss of function mutation of the hedgehog gene gives animal embryos a spiky appearance, like a hedgehog. Scientists name things in strange ways.
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jennifer brinkman 1 year ago
I had a friend whose sister did this. Ended up dying of an overdose and dumped on a driveway. Messed up family.
#48
Kira Okah 1 year ago
They left it. It's still there, with no plans to remove it.
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Danish Susanne 1 year ago
He wrote because he was unsure whether it was still there because nobody had noticed it.
Load More Replies... Mary Peace 1 year ago
I've been to Lincoln Cathedral, didn't know about this and now I'm intrigued.
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THE COOL ZACH 1 year ago
That’s actually kind of cruel. Bees population are rapidly decreasing so 15 stings a day is 15 dead a day.
WindySwede 1 year ago (edited)
Not according to Cornell. "Honey bees are all right". Though cruel in the cense that the individual be[e] worker dies because of its stinger beeing pulled from its but, then yes. _ But if we talk about most any other species of bees (solitary, bumblebee etc) then they are declining. We don't need more beehives, we need more wild bees, in form of solitary bees, bumblebees, etc. 👍 https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/06/cornell-keynotes-podcast-why-are-bee-populations-declining-around-world
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WindySwede 1 year ago
It's more like this? https://youtu.be/lh7TPZ-yB4M?si=FIcZd0R9ypt33Qrq (regarding that the bee stings are venomous)
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Wren 1 year ago
But bees die when they sting people! The poor babies, they must've been terrified
Ren Karlej 1 year ago
Only about 8 species of bee die when they sting people. The rest of the nearly 21,000 species are fine.
Load More Replies... JammaCoast2Coast 1 year ago
Someone should introduce her to a needle that she can stab herself with and leave the bees alone.
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HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 1 year ago
This nearly happened to my friend... she's anaphylactic to eggs, and she's been badly bullied for years... guess what one idiot did one day?
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
It should be treated as attempted murder, not brushed off a nothing.
Load More Replies... Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
You may be able to fascinate a woman with cheese, but don't try it on a man
Crystal 1 year ago
Sadly discovered the truth of this when it turned out I was not longer lactose intolerant but actually allergic to all dairy now. ☹️ It sucks!
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Orwell 1 year ago
It was actually a medical error that compounded his illness and caused his death. Not the cheese itself. Don't blame the cheese.
Insomniac 1 year ago
Anaphalactic shock with food allergies as the underlying cause. There is no evidence that a more up-to-date epipen would have saved his life. He was already too far gone by the time the paramedics got there. Just because there's a medical error doesn't mean it's the cause of death.
Load More Replies... MyName'sLisaMontoyaYouKiltMyPa 1 year ago
RIP Karanbir Cheema. Now, I need to make sure my Epipens are up to date.
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The Other Ben 1 year ago
First, I'm all for mocking the modern astrology determines your personality BS. In times past the zodiac was more important because the position of the sun in relation to the stars helped farmers, herders, and the like determine times for planting, moving to different pastures, etc.
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
*comforting voice*. You're not a fake lefty libra, .... just a real something else.
Load More Replies... Melody 1 year ago (edited)
I guess that explains why I don't relate to the description of Taurus. /s Edit: I looked it up. Apparently my REAL zodiac sign is Aeries, and it sounds even less like me than Taurus, lol.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Meaningless without the reading of your tea leaves.
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UKGrandad 1 year ago (edited)
Who is so offended by the idea of 13 constellations that they're downvoting the comment? Jeez, get some perspective, people.
Load More Replies... Manana Man 1 year ago
This is just plain wrong. Tilt (obliquity) changes on a 41000 year cycle. And even at that it only changes from 22.1 to 24.5 degrees. Probably not even noticeable to a casual observer.
#52
JB 1 year ago
And they're both dead. So remember kids: don't try to follow your dreams, you'll just die like everyone else.
Uncanny 1 year ago
Or, you could become a woman admired worldwide for her strength, commitment to duty and longevity or a talented woman, taken advantage of by men and dying much too soon. , but leaving a lasting legacy and being forever remembered. Either way, young females…follow your dreams and don’t listen to cynical 💩 posted on social media.
Load More Replies... Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
wait, what ? queen elizabeth s**ked kennedys d**k ? oh hell, i'm already drunk again
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SM 1 year ago
A better statement would be nonnative grass and plants are overrated. Most of the water would be saved if native plants were used that are used to the conditions. At the same time, they can be quite beautiful, beneficial, and still serve the purpose of ground cover that isn't just mud or rocks. The idea that we need to "have gardens like the British royalty" is the problem.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
On the opposite spectrum, Mao Zedong banned grass and flowers in China and ordered every piece of land available (including flower pots) to grow food instead. This led to an increase in pests and a shortage of bees, contributing to the Great Famine. In short, don't mess with nature.
Ellie Vanille 1 year ago
He also ordered that sparrows get killed since they might eat grain. Problem is, birds also eat locusts. Less birds meant more locusts, which caused/contributed to the famine. In short, don't let one human being decide how an entire country should function... Human brains are not made to know and process ALL data and knowledge and make sensible decision. Whether a country leans left or right, democracy and having a bunch of people working together is always the best solution.
Load More Replies... UKGrandad 1 year ago
US golf courses use a combined total of 2.08 billion gallons per day. I would wager that if you divide the amount of water used on lawns by the number of people who live in houses with lawns, then do the same calculation for the water used on golf courses divided by the number of people who use the courses, the amount of water used per person will be hundreds of times greater for golfers.
Load More Replies... Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Reasons why the perfect lawn should be a thing of the past. Wildflowers encourage bug life. And also small animals that eat the bugs
Terry Fergusson 1 year ago
You do realize that the water doesn't disappear right? Eventually it evaporates and just becomes water again in the form of rain somewhere downwind. When people talk about wasting water they are only referring to the expense. No water is ever truly wasted and disappears.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
And in the West there is planned obsolence... Nicely done, humanity.
BM Khalid Hasan 1 year ago
In my country, my uncle would drive my grandfather's 40 years old bike!
Kira Okah 1 year ago
The claim is to prevent old vehicles polluting the road. Really, it is to help the domestic industry by artificially creating consistent demand. Most of the bikes are not worth repairing when they get damaged either, because no one is going to spend decent money on something that has an enforced restricted lifespan, s they are buying cheapo bikes.
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WindySwede 1 year ago
Hearing about the behaviour of certain dolphins makes me sad.. 🙀
Load More Replies... Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
It's only a matter of time before we have the first dolphin with a grill. A grill for krill.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
But what if whales are just toothless dolphins? Did you ever think of that, Mr. Smarty-pants Zoologist?
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
But some whales have teeth! They have different ancestors to the toothless ones.
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Shark Lady 1 year ago
Agreed! I can think of more reasons not to go to Dubai than reasons to visit.
Load More Replies... Barbara Wilcock 1 year ago
Why would anyone go there. Not just human rights issues, but the utter boredom of nothingness
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
The more I discover of Dubai the more I’m convinced it’s a dystopian nightmare
quentariel 1 year ago
You arent allowed to even drink from your water botte? That quite harsh when it's hot.
ArcanaPanda 1 year ago
If I wanted to go some place ridiculously hot and in the desert, I'd go to Vegas. At least there I can catch some shows, go on a few rides, absorb a little bit of local culture, do some casual shopping, and get in some swimming at the hotel pool after eating basically whatever I wanted to.
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Science Nerd 1 year ago
Let’s put more radioactive stuff in the ocean. One Godzilla is not enough.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Do they come with giant mechs that have names of strip artists though?
Load More Replies... ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago (edited)
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
G A 1 year ago
Maybe they meant the Marinara Trench, where the sauce is mined...
Load More Replies... DE Ray 1 year ago (edited)
What really annoys me is nuclear waste is 96% recyclable - but the major reason it isn't recycled is because people freak out about how dangerous it is rather than thinking rationally about it. Coal waste is far more likely to negatively impact your health, and has way less regulation.
#58
Sand Ers 1 year ago
It’s called the loneliest road because of the distance between towns. But there’s enough regular traffic that you’re not at serious risk of getting stranded. For sheer absence of humanity, nothing topped US6 from Ely to Tonopah. 170 miles, and I saw 2 other vehicles. 1 going the other way, and a Cadillac sedan that passed me doing over 100mph.
Tim Douglass 1 year ago
The remark was made 'that's the car for me' but by then the taillights were all you could see.
Load More Replies... UKGrandad 1 year ago
If you're ever on that road and a traffic cop pulls you over, don't worry. He'll just be lonely and want someone to talk to for a few minutes 😂
Ren Karlej 1 year ago
I'd probably be speeding like a nutter anyway - that kind of empty road scares the 💩 out of me!
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Manana Man 1 year ago
Each time you come down out of one of these basin and range mountain passes you look across a valley to the next range. And it's a lot further than you think.
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
They stole that idea from Mythbusters, who actually stole in from a Scrooge McDuck comic.
Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago
It is a suggestion dating way back before ww2.
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
There is a book by Arthur C. Clark called The Ghost of the Great Banks were they try to refloat the Titanic using the same principle, but with glass marbles full of air. Really nice read.
Søren Schilthauer 1 year ago
This was done with an ancient ship by Danish engineer Karl Krøyer in 1964 - the balls were polystyrene, and not actual ping pong balls, though. I think he may have been inspired by a Donald Duck story
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ThatOneFish She/Her 1 year ago
Fact check: Maybe. Study is from 2018. Source: Stanford CEPA https://cepa.stanford.edu/
WindySwede 1 year ago
This is why not to trust any claim without sources. Thanks for update.
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Kat Treasure 1 year ago
Yeah, I don't think it's genetic. Seems like people tend to lean towards people they have certain similarities too, almost as if you choose you're friends based on mutual interests and ongoing comradery.
Kat Treasure 1 year ago
I'm mortified that my typo has the wrong 'to' ; and it doesn't seem like I can edit my comment. Oh no... 😟
Load More Replies... BM Khalid Hasan 1 year ago (edited)
Possible. That's why their thinking, habits, and preferences are similar and they became friends.
Magenta Blu 1 year ago
Oh shoot now i know why I don t have friends.. since I have no blood family left.
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
"Despite 95% of the theft stemming from organized crime..." WE HAVE A MILK CRATE MAFIA???
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
When I get milk deliveries at work, the crates always have the warning "theft of this crate is punishable by law". But a lot of the crates belong to a different company than the one delivering my milk. ???
Arkham Wohlfert 1 year ago
But as far as I know there is no better option for moving and storing records. And as vinyl continues to increase in popularity the feds need to provide a new option that looks as rad and is as low cost as finding milk crates near a convenience store dumpster, JS. For the record, I don't have any and only discourage others away from this illegal andcontemptible behavior.
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
the head ! no, milk crates ! and then we put the records in the milk crates ! brilliant ! what were we saying ? ....
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Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Hopefully no one was still waiting for him at the finish line the whole time.
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Bookworm 1 year ago
Not surprised. Tesla is punishing people who sell their Cybertruck too soon.
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iseefractals 1 year ago
I started smoking on my 14th birthday, in 1997....when cigarettes cost $1.24(with tax) per pack. When i quit, on my 30th birthday, they were already up to $7.93 per pack. My dad smoked for 60 years, when he started a pack cost a NICKEL. Rainier died in 2005 (at 81 no less) smoking had yet to become unaffordable.
Load More Replies... Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Three packs a day? Yeah, that was when I was working customer service for a shady bank and we were allowed to smoke at our desks (this was 1991)...
Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
king zog of albania too if i remember well (60 or something like that) .... By the way, Grace Kelly was delighted i guess
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Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Tom cruise can fall of the edge of the world and I won’t be upset. Dude is just weird
digitalin 1 year ago
It would be a risky business, but he could fall off the edge of tomorrow, into oblivion, which wouldn't be a mission impossible.
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Katherine Bridgerton 1 year ago
That is because the little alien that lives inside of him did the negotiating ...duh
UKGrandad 1 year ago
Only because you get to see Cruise die multiple times 😂
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ohnasouga... 1 year ago
I was hoping for more hopeful and positive facts.. or at least emotionally neutral. This did not go well...
WindySwede 1 year ago
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Load More Replies... Paulina 1 year ago
What a lazy piece of work :( No names, dates, sources... Just sentences designed to sound interesting and sometimes surprising. Sadly, some of those are misrepresented, not facts just statements, and even pure bulls*it. Not to mention crappy AI generated images where actual footage is easily available and would contribute greatly to the "factuallness" of the entries. Booo, BP!
Jess Smith 1 year ago
Dear BP - "I was today years old" (in body text as of right now)? Did someone forget to edit out the AI generated content?
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Vape falls under the classification of medical device products. To legally produce vape (the machine), the manufacturers have to have ISO 13485 (Quality Management System for Medical Devices) certification.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Looks like some people misses the irony of my initial statement above. In no way I'm endorsing vaping.
Load More Replies... ohnasouga... 1 year ago
I was hoping for more hopeful and positive facts.. or at least emotionally neutral. This did not go well...
WindySwede 1 year ago
Yes, they named it cool facts. But far from all are cool facst..!
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Load More Replies... Paulina 1 year ago
What a lazy piece of work :( No names, dates, sources... Just sentences designed to sound interesting and sometimes surprising. Sadly, some of those are misrepresented, not facts just statements, and even pure bulls*it. Not to mention crappy AI generated images where actual footage is easily available and would contribute greatly to the "factuallness" of the entries. Booo, BP!
Jess Smith 1 year ago
Dear BP - "I was today years old" (in body text as of right now)? Did someone forget to edit out the AI generated content?
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Vape falls under the classification of medical device products. To legally produce vape (the machine), the manufacturers have to have ISO 13485 (Quality Management System for Medical Devices) certification.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Looks like some people misses the irony of my initial statement above. In no way I'm endorsing vaping.
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