“Did You Know?”: 50 Random Facts About Our World To Let You Learn Something New Today

Awwwww, that's so sweet!

I read a book about her once, crazy

Logical. Dogs are nice.

More evidence to support Dog worship.

It’s like a puppy library

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He was so lovely.

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Hehehe...

Okay, I'm signing up!

Meanwhile, in the good ol' US of A.....

Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!

He was probably right!

Sounds about right

Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?

I know this one from an episode the food that built America

Especially that one with the beak.

Damn

The second and third oldest hotels are also in Japan, founded in 717 and 718. They're also the second through fourth oldest companies in the world, only surpassed by a Japanese construction company. I spent a night in the Hoshi Ryokan (718) last year because it's not far from where I live and it was quite beautiful, though I doubt any of the current buildings date back to the 700s. It's more of just an impressive fact that it remained in the same family all these centuries. I recommend searching "world's oldest companies", it's interesting how many of the oldest are in Japan.

"Mommy, I want to be an astronaut!" Mom: "That's cute..."

So, basically its mainly ghosts running this hotel.

It reminds me of Spirited Away.

I am happy to see CE (Current Era) and BCE (Before Current Era) being used more and more.

hopefully its been updated!🤔

Wow!

Lot of pressure on their kids. Suck to be the one to run your 52 generation family hotel into the ground.

If you’re an only child, good luck not inheriting the family business

Oh wow

The Japanese are amazing when it comes to longevity. I read about a guy who made bad speculative investments, and had to sell his family's business, which was the renovation of old Buddhist temples. They had owned it for 1,500 years. How'd you like to be that guy!

Kikkoman castle haha

Good girl.

I must be a genius then!

This is why I reread books. To visit the people.

This is a pretty cool factoid (micro was one of my favorite subjects in college) but it's not exclusive to influenza; viruses in general have a coating called a capsid that protects the material inside while allowing it to attach to the host cell and replicate/infect.

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Think there's an HOA?

I want it, how much is it, I’ll report back with my findings

I'm such a big day dreamer

That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.

Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish

I may have tricked you but I tricked you into thinking that you tricked me(repeat seven times with progressively louder tones)

That’s pretty cool actually

Millennials are killing the drugsindustry!

Today is a good day to test this theory

I'm fortunate enough to be in this category. Love her like crazy.

Guilty as charged. But there has been so many deaths in my life this year.

Can we adopt this here?

I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol

That’s so weird to think about

Ravens are considered to be among the most intelligent of birds (along with other members of the corvid family, e.g., crows, jays, magpies, etc.). They make and use tools and can solve simple problems.

Makes sense. Character relations often leak into relations amongst actors. Same reason actors playing love interests often fall in love for real.

A $50 bet, per Snopes. For the curious, here is a list of the 50 words that appear in Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

10 verses of there’s a hole at the bottom of the sea plays in the background

Oop-

All seeing avocado

Smart though

Aside from the hypothesis being 80 years old, little dogs living half this, and chickens also being an outlier - us having longer lifespans than 35 years is nothing to do with modern stuff. People historically lived to 60/80/90, General Cao Cao was 65 when he died in the 3rd century of a brain tumour. Lif expectancy was lower in the past but that was because of the high infant mortality rate bringing the number down, not people dropping dead in their 30s.

But, we all knew it was the genie. He's even obviously voiced by Robin Williams, the voice of the genie.

You are not using your frown muscles.