32 Random Facts That Seem Too Weird To Be True, Yet They Are, According To Folks Online

This is not obvious to people who speak English as a second language.

Maybe with simplified English, but in its unadulterated version we put the emphasis in "address" on the second syllable whether verb or noun. There are plenty of other words where we put the emphasis in one place and the Americans do it wrong.

But Aussies, Brits and Americans often stress different parts of the same words...

That's really interesting! I had to say all the examples lol

This is cool to know

This one I actually knew.

It is safe, but not recommended for the health of the frog. Unless it is absolutely necessary it is better not to handle amphibians at all, and to use wet hands if at all possible.

Not exactly the same, but related. Flamingos are born white. The crustaceans they eat turn their feathers pink.

This is true of a lot of poisonous animals.

Today I Learned :)

Now they're in MY territory. The "upper case/lower case" wasn't in "the printing press". They were called job cases, and a font of type was a package of letters, spaces and ligatures that were distributed to the compartments in the job case. The printer (or composer) would plot out the form in a composing stick that was set to the width of the form. Every letter, number and space was individually fished out of the case and set into the composing stick. Minding one's p's and q's came from the similarity between the letters as everything was composed upside down and backwards so it became right reading when the impression was made. I wish I had a nickel for every letter I hand set then distributed when the job was finished. I ruined a lot of shirts with printer's ink over 25-30 years. Look up "California Job Case" for a great illustration.

Love arcane facts! Librarian.

Printer's cases hold the type. Printing presses are where the set up pieces of type are inked and pressed onto paper.

I knew that one. Don’t know why, but I do.

oooh, cool! <3

I like to say we are aquatic animals that have constructed an elaborate aquarium to explore the dry land. (This actually goes very deep; our brain is surrounded, washed, protected (and much more) by cerebro-spinal fluid, csf. And csf is very similar to amniotic fluid, actually the first csf of a developing embryo is formed by amniotic fluid trapped inside the closing neural tube. So we start our lives wholly floating in liquid, and the brain keeps on floating through our lives. AND these fluids are very similar to the ancient seas from which we first crawled on land! We never left the devonian sea! (I am so fully geeking over this!))

Existential crisis...

We are a complex organic organism and like anything that makes something move or perform basic to complex function beyond simple physics we need something that transmits instructions something had to be the one to rule them all lol.

There is more and more research showing that 'we' are more than just our brain - our subconscious mind is strongly affected by the autonomic nervous system which in turn is affected by chemical and mechanical changes throughout our body and even in the bacteria in our gut.

This is called rebracketing. We do it all the time, e.g. alcoholic is made up of alcohol and ic, but we've rebracketed it to alco and holic, and then made workaholic, shopaholic etc. Same again with Hamburger, rebracketed from Hamburg and er, into ham and burger to then get beef burger, chicken burger etc.

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In some languages, e.g. French, that is reflected in the common word, Helico vs. Chopper or just Heli.

And here are the Greeks going "duh!"

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And why the boss of all the other admirals in the Royal Navy is called the First Sea Lord.

Flies?

Manor?

Now try black taxi driver ;-) Black taxi-driver (Black person driving a taxi); Black-taxi driver (Person of unspecified ethnic origin driving a black cab)

Non- is used usually to avoid confusion or before a Proper noun mostly. How you word your sentences will determine if Non- is something you may use. Non doesn’t absolutely need a hyphenate either. It’s the writers intent. Same with commas. You use a comma on dependent clauses or if you want it where you want it for a pause. English teachers have lied to you about concrete rules on the use of commas lol.

I'm going to try this

The key parts it keeps are the actual structures of the butterfly frame - if you cut open a caterpillar, you will see the structures waiting to be used. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caterpillar-butterfly-metamorphosis-explainer/

This is why I like the parallel of turning into a butterfly after a significantly challenging period. For me, it's very accurate in the difference between me when I was drinking and me after 2 years of therapy and 11 years in recovery. I don't even know that girl who drank anymore.

And the photo is making me itchy... :D