50 Unique And Random Facts You Can Use In Conversations When You Run Out Of Things To Say

This is Saint Boniface. Actually, they let the unhoused sleep there during the day, not overnight. The church helps in many other ways too.

Weighs about 30 tons. Like, 5 elephants and 37 VW beetles...

Something tells me he probably donated his prize money too.

There is a really good 2014 99% Invisible podcast about this. …. It happened in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle

I so want to take this guy's classes!

Would love to see this in England.

Bucket list item for sure, but maybe more towards the end.

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Is not so much for liberating the country (US and Polish troops also played a big part in that) but for keeping the royal family safe during their exile. And temporarily changing part of a hospital Dutch soil so that the princesses were born in the Netherlands.

I do the same with my labrador :-)

Cool! Yet another reason why not to keep them as pets?

And my screen name means anticlockwise 🤓

...fill it in?

Imagine what my life would have been like if BP had censored the word 'd**g' effectively in the above image. I could have been someone.. I could have made positive change in the world.. I could have lived with purpose. Sadly, my young mind was corrupted in an instant and I am now spiralling into darkness. My once promising mind is corrupted and I shall only know torment until my blackened heart rests at the end of what will surely be a cursed life. Why, BP? WHY? Tell your children what has happened here today, lest they sink into the same deep, dark cavern of woe.

Svalbard, Norway. And it's threatened by climate change, so...

As my anthropology prof said, we are all out of Africa

my ancestors are not even from this planet oops i should not of said that

Humans then mixed with Neanderthals, Denisovans etc. This means that only people who's ancestry is only from sub-Saharan Africa are 100% human. Europeans, for example, have perhaps a 4% Neanderthal. This doesn't matter at all, of course. Although it may be upsetting for white supremacists to hear - lol!

"The Cradle of Humankind is a paleoanthropological site that is located about 50 km northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Gauteng province. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999, the site is home to the largest known concentration of human ancestral remains anywhere in the world."

Why would I not like it?

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And I let the MAGHATs hang themselves on this - EVERYONE'S ALL DESCENDED FROM BLACK ANCESTORS. Deal with it.

So I am African American in one sense. Though I personally am mostly English but all my English ancestors are also African.

So you're saying the US is not actually run by rich old white men? /J

So... why did so many countries exploit Africa so badly?

I like it.

Works for me.

There are much older migrations that are missing from this map. MUCH older.

Sadly that doesn't stop certain elements castigating their paler cousins for seemingly "having it all".

Even the so-called Native Americans.

Not only that, I bless the rains down in Africa.

How could you not like it?? ....To think my ancestors travelled across the globe to unknown lands in my case settling in Ireland and Scotland so I could pop up in England! Fascinating!

I wonder what does the racists say when they hear this fact

They made it to Australia pretty fast, considering.

Cool!

So my parents were telling the truth.

this is pretty common knowledge

The racists of the world don't know this.

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We all come from Eve.

This is not necessarily true— it is one among competing theories of origin location. It is a good theory, but there are others possible.

I have A neg. I signed up to donate blood some years ago and I've been donating regularly. It seems to be a rare type (at least in my area), because I am sometimes contacted by someone from the donation center and asked if I could come on day X for an urgent blood request. It's cool to know you're really helping someone. Someday you might be the one in need of blood.

This is incorrect. So much so, that a reddit post this was also listed on was deleted. Rabbits very much can "walk," it's just not the norm because of their body structure. Their bodies are more conducive to hoping so it is more efficient for them to do so. Just like we can hop, but we are built for walking/running. Hopping is inefficient for humans. If you've ever seen newborn/baby bunnies, they do a cute little "walk" before they learn to hop. Also, many rabbits that sustain foot injuries/illness will walk until they are healed. I hate TikTok but here is a link to video of what a rabbit looks like walking: https://www.tiktok.com/@grahamandsmores/video/7238260936979664171 Sorry if it doesn't work, I don't actually have a TikTok & just copied the link.

And no/very little free freshwater available?

They're an offshoot of the Chinese Red Delicious; like the majority of apples are cultivated to be this way, not natural. The growing conditions are very specific so incredibly hard to duplicate hence why you don't see others trying to grow them. You can, however, get the Arkansas Black Apple, which is very similar in appearance though tart rather than sweet. Also cultivated of course.

Calling it a diamond mine is a bit like calling a mountain stream a gold mine just because panning for gold can actually produce a modest amount of gold. The place is Crater of Diamonds State Park, and park statistics say that about 1 of every 200 visitors finds a diamond. A few very valuable diamonds have been found, but the park says that most aren't even appraised. I'm sure it can be fun, but it would be a mistake t think there's a good financial reason for a visit.