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As absurd as it can sound on paper, the truth is that facts are just fun, the more obscure, weird and random, the better. After all, everyone needs a handful of interesting trivia to pull out at parties or during very awkward silences.
Someone asked “What is the most unusual fact you know?” and thousands of netizens answered the call, sharing the bizarre and fascinating parts of the world that most people don’t even know about. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and if you have your own “fun facts,” be sure to share them in the comments below.
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#1
Otters carry around their favorite clam-opening rock in their armpit, and mothers will even pass on their favorite rock to their baby.
Captain Kakapo 11 months ago
Also this is river otter, the one with personal stone is a sea otter
Upstaged75 11 months ago
As a kid one of my favorite toys was a stuffed otter holding a sea shell. :)
Queeqec 11 months ago
Memory unlocked! I had one with a shell too, it was bought on a vacation to the USA (I am Austrian, so cross Atlantic) I am afraid it's in a box in my so-called-mothers house. I went NC with her years ago.
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#2
When a caterpillar enters a chrysalis and becomes a butterfly, it doesn't just sprout wings and legs. It essentially disintegrates into goo, and a new butterfly is built from that.
But that's not the weirdest part. The weirdest part is that it's possible to teach something to that caterpillar, and after it becomes goo and then re-forms as a butterfly, it still remembers what you taught it.
Agfox 11 months ago
It's amazingly easy, I taught my caterpillar how to fly
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arthbach 11 months ago
This is what we used to think was happening inside a chrysalis. It isn't totally correct. Yes, some bits turn to goo, but "lots of important parts, like the digestive system, the airway and the brain, don’t turn to goo. Instead, they’re just moved around! The caterpillar’s “mouth” is recycled into the butterfly’s proboscis – a tube which is uses to eat. There are also special blobs floating around which begin to grow into the wings, antennae and legs. Once everything is in place, this sack of goo is ready for the next step!" https://www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/what-happens-inside-chrysalis
Doofnuts 11 months ago
I taught my caterpillar to fetch me a beer from the refigerator. I miss the little guy.
nottheactualphoto 11 months ago
Nice! How did he do that without having thumbs?
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Rafael 11 months ago
This is a nice story, but is not true. @arthbach explained what we *currently* think actually happens.
michael reid 11 months ago
This is completely untrue. It does not "disintegrate into goo". The wings, legs and body of the butterfly are already beginning to form inside the caterpillar from day one and when it goes in the cocoon these just complete their formation and the outer skin falls off, revealing the adult butterfly.
#3
I noticed this when visiting museums, looking at old paintings: hands are often ‘hidden’, covered by flowers, clothing or they disappear in the shadows. I researched it later and learned it is true. Even the best painters struggled with drawing and painting hands. I look for hands in every painting now.
T'Mar of Vulcan 11 months ago
Apparently that's one reason why Da Vinci is so highly regarded - he could paint hands properly.
BeesEelsAndPups 11 months ago
As could many renaissance artists. Look at Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, or paintings by Bronzino, El Greco, Piombo, Botticeli, etc. Heck, I'd argue that Jan van Eyck was better at hands than faces. But as an artist myself, I would agree that hands and faces are particularly time consuming to get right. I find the trick is to have a small mirror that I can position to look at my hands in different positions. For me, facial hair is particularly tough too. It's why I prefer to draw or paint women than men.
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Parmeisan 11 months ago
AI was trained off of human art. So this really explains a lot.
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LizzieBoredom 11 months ago
I want realistic feet in my picture of a naked woman standing on a giant clam shell.
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Melissa Matusevich 11 months ago
Dad was a classically trained artist and he always said human hands are the most difficult thing to pain.
Doozle bug 11 months ago
Me after reading the post. Looking at abstract art. The hands, the hands, they’re coming out of the shadows! They’re coming to get me!!!! Aaarrrgh
Alex Schneider 11 months ago
I totally get that..Only thing more difficult to draw is a angry screaming face..Face muscles still scare me out
#4
Chickens have the DNA for teeth, it’s just not turned on.
MistBorn 11 months ago (edited)
It’s very common , we all have certain genes which are turned off ,like for tail and hair all over the body
Ugh, do I have to? 11 months ago
in all of our cells in fact- they all have the same DNA but they're specialized because they only activate certain parts of it.
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LizzieBoredom 11 months ago
They should turn chicken tooth DNA back on because they keep swallowing their tiny chicken dentures.
Robert T 11 months ago
We have the DNA for brains, it's just not always turned on ;-)
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Dragons Exist 11 months ago
I can't decide if a chicken with T-Rex or human teeth would be scarier
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Parmeisan 11 months ago
I assume he's named that because chickens ARE feathered dinosaurs. With or without teeth. :)
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Parmeisan 11 months ago
I upvoted you, but dear god I still hate that they changed their name to that. It's like a shortening of syphilis.
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That divider at grocery stores that separates stuff on the conveyor belt is called a spratchet.
Sand Ers 11 months ago
For certain "seeing how far buIIshit will spread" values of "called". No legitimate dictionary has ever heard of the word.
Multa Nocte 11 months ago
The Urban Dictionary has it, however: "Urban Dictionary: Spratchet. (n.) The plastic piece that separates one person's groceries on ... Would you kindly pass me the spratchet?"
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MalibuClassicMan 11 months ago
I call it a germ carrying piece of plastic, think of all the hands that touch that nasty thing!!
Jaya 11 months ago
Interesting, I've never heard that word. But I looked it up and apparently you are right. I guess where I live we're too lazy, we just say "the ehm thing..." or point towards it. But apparently it actually has a name, good to know.
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A weird fact is that honey never spoils; archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly good to eat!
LaurieAnnaT 11 months ago
Medical-grade honey is used by medical professionals for wound care. I know because honey was just used on my sister’s terrible fracture blisters. After 9 weeks they are healed. Never any infections. (Fracture blisters are pretty much like 2nd degree burns and honey is used in those cases too.)
keyboardtek 11 months ago
I had a customer who applied Manuka honey to his mom's diabetic sores and they healed in a few weeks. He was convinced he found the cure for COVID and started to experiment on himself by inhaling an aerosol form of homey. I wonder if he is still alive or drowned breathing in honey. There are many crackpots out there.
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ZuriLovesYou 11 months ago
Nice. So we can all eat Twinkies and honey when the apocalypse comes.
TruthoftheHeart 11 months ago
if you're about to travel somewhere and you're worried about allergies eat a little honey from there for a while first. It exposes your body to the local pollen at a steady rate that it can adjust to
Mental Liberals 11 months ago
It sure crystalizes in my pantry! I know it's not bad, just crystalizes...
medcrest 11 months ago
Just reheat in a pan of water covering it to about half way.
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#7
The swimming pools on the Titanic are still full of water to this day.
Beth Wheeler 11 months ago
Well no s**t Sherlock it's sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
#8
Pelicans have three stomachs and one of them is just for bones.
Tropical Tarot 11 months ago
Right!! You can always eat ice cream because as it goes in your body it melts and just sort of coats everything else and gets into all the nooks and crannies. So there's always room for ice cream
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michael reid 11 months ago
Most birds have this. First the crop, in the throat, to store food. Then the stomach for digesting and gizzard for crunchy things.
Jaya 11 months ago
I completely misinterpreted that. I thought it meant that they have 3 stomachs, and that the nutrients from one of the stomachs was used to build their bones, like that stomach would only extract calcium or something from the food. But the other explanation makes soooo much more sense, lol.
#9
The minimum number of humans required for the species survival is about two hundred. The minimum number required for *any* level of survival is fifty. Below that, the inbreeding becomes a problem in the long term.
Regina Holt 11 months ago
And speaking of Adam and Eve and inbreeding, when I told my mom about being abused by my grandfather, her response was "well the world started with only two people, so there had to have been . . . " I can't even finish the sentence, I think my hearing died when my jaw dropped to the floor.
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Helen Rohrlach 11 months ago
The New Zealand Black Robin are all descended from a single female as are cheetahs. So inbreeding isn't a good thing but nature can work around it.
Remi (He/Him) 11 months ago
Cheetah have problems with inbred genetic issues because the population was too low at one point
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Roythomass@hotmail.com 11 months ago
Tell that to the Jesus freaks and they'll start quoting biblical verses
Janissary35680 11 months ago
Omitting all the verses about where Cain, Able, Shem, Ham, and Japeth got their wives from so they could "go forth and be fruitful and multiply". Oh wait, I'm being told there aren't any verses.
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keyboardtek 11 months ago
A study of communal living was done and they concluded that 100 was the maximum number of humans that could live closely together in harmony without someone being greedy and power hungry and ruining it all. But inbreeding was never mentioned.
Parmeisan 11 months ago
Interesting. I suppose the ideal situation is small communities with continuing migration between them, then. Not sure how often exactly but 1 person or a family occasionally moving somewhere else.
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VeryDarkMatter 11 months ago
Great! So we destroy our planet and have not to change a thing. As long as 200 people survive when planet earth finally goes down the dumpster, everything will be good
Parmeisan 11 months ago
Not to be a downer, but if only 200 people survive then I assume a great many things will change. The wi-fi will be sh*t, for starters.
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For me it is that the lighter was invented before matches.
sdorph 11 months ago
Makes sense, why would anyone invent a can opener before the tin can was invented
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Philly Bob 11 months ago
The more I light my lighter… The lighter my lighter gets until it’s too light to light.
Just Cosmo 11 months ago
(rock+flint=friction. Friction+rock with metal in it=fire. Sorta like a match)
Sand Ers 11 months ago
Not at all like a match, and not at all how flints are used to start a fire.
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If you eat polar bear liver it will kill a human and if a polar bear eats your liver it will too.
Petra Peitsch 11 months ago
Yeaps, vitamin A overdose can kill humans. It's not like, you take 1 bite of polar bears' liver, and you are dead. It's like you consume it normally.
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RamiRudolph 11 months ago
Silence of the Lambs would have been very different it Lecter craved polar bear liver.
DowntownStevieB 11 months ago
HAHA! Humans will die if we eat it's liver AND humans will die if they eat our liver!
Giulia Fortunati 11 months ago
So, if I eat polar bear liver, it will kill a random human?! Weird!
XenoMurph 11 months ago
Can I target a specific human.... asking for a friend. Well, not really a friend...
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Philly Bob 11 months ago
15% of car thieves are left handed. All polar bears are left handed. So there's a 15% chance that a polar bear stole your car.
Uncle Schmickle 11 months ago
You didn't mention why. It's a massive dose of Vitamin A in polar bear livers.
#12
Great white sharks have never been seen mating. Ever. By anyone. Zero record made by a human. Strange considering what a mighty presence they have on humans.
El hefe 11 months ago
Not positive but pretty sure they've never been seen giving birth either. Their entire reproductive process is still a secret.
Bookworm 11 months ago
Some people have seen possible newborns, and one of last year's Shark Discovery shows may have found a pupping ground where births happen, but the actual birth has never been seen.
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Maudelin 11 months ago
There could be people who saw it but didn't run to social media with it.
Melissa Matusevich 11 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/04/rolling-and-rolling-and-rolling-the-first-detailed-account-of-great-white-shark-sex
Uren Bugwandeen 11 months ago
if a human recorded it, they would have definitely posted on social media or created an onlyfans acc
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 11 months ago (edited)
Or created an OnlyFins account
Load More Replies... Pyla 11 months ago (edited)
Considering you are less likely to encounter one in your lifetime than be hit by lightening. I know science has found breeding grounds, witnessing mating on an animal equipped with a camera might work. ….the biggest shark predator on the sea is humans.
Janissary35680 11 months ago
Help wanted ad: We are looking for newly graduated marine biologists to equip great white sharks with IP cameras. Strong swimmers preferred. Generous insurance benefits for next-of-kin.
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#13
Spiders curl up when they die because the thing that keeps their legs out is blood pressure, which releases when they die.
BrunoVI 11 months ago
How's this one: Most birds are from the same one of dozens of orders: Perissiformes (sp?). These birds are so wildly successful because they can't fall out of trees. Their weight pushing down on their legs causes their feet to tighten. It's actually easier to let go of the branch only once they're flapping their wings hard enough to take flight. Non-perissiformes orders of birds include fowl, waterfowl, hawks, ratites (ostriches, etc.), bustards, cuckooes, pigeons, sandgrouses, flamingoes, shorebirds, loons, penguins, storkes, owls, woodpeckers, parrots and more, but there are more just about as many perissiformes as all other birds combined.
Anička 11 months ago
Passeriformes, aka 'passerines.' It's great that you cared enough to write a whole paragraph, but I'm not sure it had the intended effect, when the subject of your paragraph is misspelled.
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TTorrest Author 11 months ago
Seriously. I totally jump-scared and now I feel nauseous. Arachnophobia is only the #1 phobia EVER. How about a trigger warning, BP??
Load More Replies... MalibuClassicMan 11 months ago
I thought that happened when I wipe them off the bottom of my shoe!!
#14
All cheetahs are genetically cousins. They almost went extinct thousands of years ago, down to like 100 individuals.
DadManBlues 11 months ago
According to an August 2023 study, humans may have come close to extinction some 900k to 800k years ago. Our ancestors lost 98.7% of their population. They had an average of 1280 breeding individuals for over 100k years. Since then, we have all been close relatives, so we should behave accordingly. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487
Janissary35680 11 months ago
We do behave accordingly, with the results that we see. (References: "The Borgias", "Dallas", "The Tudors", "Dynasty", "Succession", "The Sopranos", "Game of Thrones", "Oedipus Rex", the Orestia trilogy, "Medea", my family etc etc etc)
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LASER is an acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) but in most cases should be LOSER because the light is oscillated, not amplified.
Rhonda Espinosa 11 months ago
"Now playing My Chemical Romance loser ligh show!" Business owners; "Omg! I'm doing another Scrooge McDuuuuuuck dive over here!"
SheamusFanFrom1987 11 months ago
Now I'm imagining Jessie J's Laserlight in a whole different way...
#16
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood so fascinating!
TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago (edited)
And nine brains - each for every arm and a central dominant one. Going further, one arm serves the purpose as reproduction organ which means that male octopusses really are able to think with their d**k
Kelly Scott 11 months ago
Putting them head and shoulders above mortal man.
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April Pickett 11 months ago
They are also smart. One octopus I read about in a lab tank didn't like the light hanging over it. He would climb onto his tank and squirt water at the light until it went out.
PeepPeep the duck 11 months ago
Only if they had the capability to teach their offspring, which fortunately they do not. Same to the Humboldt squid, when they started overpopulating places in America around 05-10. These were theories that kept coming up online, they were fun to read
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#17
Off the top of my head, maybe that fact that the great cats roar, but do not purr; lesser cats purr but do not roar.
B Jones 11 months ago
Yeah, I definitely seen house cats roar, or at least yell.
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Lyn Arnold 11 months ago
That's incorrect. Their hyoid bone is not conducive to purring. Lions, tigers, jaguars and leopards are unable to purr.
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Jocelyn Webster 11 months ago
Their "purr" is called a chuff. And domesticated felines can chuff as well. Example, see maincoon
#18
Your eyes have their own immune system. If your "normal" immune system discovers this it will attack your eyes and you'll go blind.
Verfin22 11 months ago
And that's why US insurance doesn't cover them. Considered "apart" from human anatomy.
Bremusa4u 11 months ago
So what's their excuse for excluding dental care? I wonder.
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Powerful Katrinka 11 months ago
Yes, your immune system can attack your eyes: Uveitis Inflammation of the eye that can occur when your immune system attacks healthy tissue in your eyes or fights an eye infection. Symptoms include pain, redness, and vision loss. Autoimmune diseases When your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells in your body, including your eyes. Symptoms include redness, pain, sensitivity to light, dry eyes, and blurry vision. Susac syndrome An autoimmune condition that causes your immune system to attack small blood vessels in your eyes, brain, and inner ear. Symptoms include hearing and vision loss. Sjögren's disease A chronic autoimmune disorder that causes your immune system to attack the glands that produce moisture in your eyes, mouth, and other parts of your body.
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John Tyler, the 10th US president, was born in 1790 - that is during the first US president George Washington’s first term.
His grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, is still alive - that is the current US president Joe Biden's term.
Think about it - just three generations (father,son and grandson) to cover the entire US presidential history.
Sand Ers 11 months ago
He's 96, so this one isn't going to remain true for too much longer. John Tyler was 63 when Harrison's father was born, and his father was 75 when Harrison was born. While technically correct, this factoid stretches the concept of "generation" pretty tightly. Each of them barely knew their fathers, and were decades away from having been able to meet their grandfathers.
El Cucuy 11 months ago
Whether they knew their dads or grandparents or not, it doesn't change the generational structure.
Load More Replies... XenoMurph 11 months ago
US is a young country. Sad that because the people who lived there for tens of thousands of years chose to build in wood or skin, and chose not to have their writings preserved in stone, we view their culture as lesser than Greece or Egypt. But they were just as sophisticated. Just as learned and thoughtful. And more in tune with the planet. Such a shame nomadic and verbal societies get such little respect in comparison to building and writing societies. They lived more sustainable lives.
Elladine DesIsles 11 months ago
We are still in Biden's presidential term, and he is still president, until president-elect Trump's inauguration in January. And Harrison Ruffin Tyler is still living, having celebrated his 96th birthday last month. This could have been written nearly four years ago, any time after Biden's inauguration, but it could also have been written today.
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Killer whales are a natural predator of moose.
CD King 11 months ago
At this point I think the Orca is the predator of everything and everyone
Barbara Burns 11 months ago
True story. Moose spend a fair amount of time in the water, occasionally swimming between islands.
John Dilligaf 11 months ago
well thank God -- imagine if the Killer Whales could come on land to hunt down the moose.
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StarCrossedFriday 11 months ago
Fun fact: ‘killer whale’ always seemed odd to me since they’re technically dolphins, but it turns out the phrase was just weirdly translated from Spanish - "asesino de ballenas" (which literally means “whale killer").
#21
Australia is wider than the moon.
General Anaesthesia 11 months ago
So are North America, South America, Asia, Africa, to name a few more.
Ashlie Benson 11 months ago
I read this to the tune of "...the dark side of the moon" song from 'Mulan'.
Katie Allen 11 months ago
if Pluto isn't considered a planet anymore because it's too little and Australia is bigger than Pluto, is Australia a planet?
#22
The only animal other than a human that can perform a headstand is an elephant.
michael reid 11 months ago
Pretty sure monkeys would be able to if you could convince them to try.
Michael Largey 11 months ago
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to." - Mark Twain
#23
The spinal cord has the consistency of a ripe banana.
I’ve Seen Things 11 months ago
I have recently recovered after crushing mine. Paralysis, wheelchair, learning to walk again, all with more pain than anyone could ever imagine. But I pushed through and I am walking unaided again. 💪
Just Cosmo 11 months ago
So technically because bananas are mushy and our spinal cords are technically sort of part of our brain, our brains our mushy like bananas.
RamiRudolph 11 months ago
I heard our brain has the consistency of butter.
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ShortAttnSpanTheatre 11 months ago
Well.... the stringy parts, maybe, but not the mush. Think of it like a bundle of long fibers that divide and branch.
#24
The first public game of basketball was played the same week and less than 100 miles away from the last American vampire hunt.
On March 11, 1892, James Naismith debuted his new game in front of a crowd of 200 spectators at the Armory Hill YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, on March 17, 1892, in Exeter, Rhode Island, a crowd of concerned villagers dug up the grave of 19 year old Mercy Brown. She had died two months earlier and locals had become convinced that her vampire was feeding on her sickly brother. In an effort to stop the undead Mercy, the crowd exhumed her corpse, burned her heart and liver, and gave the ashes to her brother in a tonic.
Doug the Special one 11 months ago
I think I'd prefer to have the second one done to me instead of watching a game of basketball.
Agfox 11 months ago
On a scale of 'mildly' to 'tonic-needed', how annoying is your sister?
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Rose Stewart 11 months ago
Also, there was no hole in the basket during the first basketball game. They needed a ladder to get the ball down
Seán Baron 11 months ago
What’s best about the invention of Basketball, is that it was around 30 years after the first game, did someone think about cutting a hole in the basket for the ball to go through!
#25
I grew up on a dairy farm1960's. US milk production today is twice what it was then and there are half as many cows. Each cow produces four times as much.
Mike Crow 11 months ago
Worst thing is the American dairy industry dumps a lot of their product because they produce more than demand.
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Mental Liberals 11 months ago
D***s! D***s! And more d***s! Big pharma has it's corrupt hands in everything! D***s to make them fatter for food. D***s to make them produce more milk. Dugged and gmo food they shouldn'tbe eating. Then d***s to combat the diseases they all the d***s give them! Sad...
Rachel Pelz 11 months ago
Their life span has been reduced considerably though. After some years of exploitation, the almost constantly pregnant cows get killed because their bodies are just too ruined to produce more milk.
MalibuClassicMan 11 months ago
anyone notice the dead cow in background?? result of over milking maybe?
#26
The Grand Canyon is so large that you could fit EVERYONE who ever lived inside it and still not fill it.
Giles McArdell 11 months ago
and you could fit every human on earth, shoulder to shoulder, on the Isle of Wight
Rachel Pelz 11 months ago
Evidence? Btw, what are the dimensions of the Isle of Wight in bananas?
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 11 months ago
People are small. The canyon is big. "Let’s put the numbers into cubic feet. (For convenience, let’s say that it is one mile deep and only 4 miles across) (277 x 5280) x (4 x 5280) x 5280 = 861,143,346,708,480,000 cu. ft. People are 6 x 2 x 1 = 12 cu. ft. 12 x 6,000,000,000 = 72,000,000,000 cu. ft. of people. That means you could fit all the people on earth into the Grand Canyon more than 12,128,779 times over. And since it is much wider in spots, that severely underestimates the case."
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#27
The mantle plume hotspot that is half the cause of Iceland's intense volcanism (the other half being the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) is believed to have been the cause of the largest mass extinction event in the planet's history, back when it sat under what is now Siberia.
My O My 11 months ago
I prefer a mass extinction performed by nature over one performed by guys with "issues"
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Yellowstone National Park, covering a large part of the U.S., is an active and ancient caldera (AKA a giant and flat magma table) that is overdue for eruption.
A_UserHere 11 months ago
its not even due for another 50000 years, dont spread misinformation.
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The career that has the most s****des per year is dentist and then serving
Second most is veterinarians.
Trillian 11 months ago
They get bitten and are afraid of turning into zombies
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9vpcx68fqw 11 months ago
If you’re ever out, at a party, or whatever, and you get speaking to a veterinarian and they’re all depressed, saying things like “oh I’m so useless, my life is futile, nobody loves me, I think I’m gonna end it all” - remember to put your arm round them and say: “Oh come on now, don’t put yourself down”…
Mimi M 11 months ago (edited)
According to National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH): 1. Medical Doctors 2. Dentists 3. Police Officers 4. Veterinarians 5. Financial Services 6. Real Estate Agents 7. Electricians 8. Lawyers 9. Farmers 10. Pharmacists. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): industry groups with the highest suicide rates included Mining; Construction; Other Services; Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation; and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting. Major occupation groups with higher suicide rates included Construction and Extraction; Farming, Fishing, and Forestry; Personal Care and Service; Installation, Maintenance, and Repair; and Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media.
BeesEelsAndPups 11 months ago
I cannot find any evidence of this "fact". All the data I could find on suicide rates comes from four sources: CDC, AMA, ADA, and NEJM, which are all American sources though. According to the CDC and the ADA there is no evidence to support that Dentists have a higher than average suicide rate, and according to the ADA, dentist suicide rates are lower than other medical professionals. The CDC states that Physicians have the highest suicide rates among medical professionals followed by Veterinarians. But among ALL professionals Miners and Military personnel have the highest rates overall. This is followed by construction workers, farming, forestry, hunting and fishing, agriculture (general), arts and entertainment, transportation, warehousing, administrative support jobs, and so on. Medical professionals are actually pretty far down the list. Perhaps they are the highest rate among white-collar professionals making over $200K/year. Which means among the people the media cares about.
LNB87 11 months ago
I think in this sense, the military would be the umbrella employer, the MOS is the actual career. I was 15Q - Air traffic control operator which, at the time, had the highest suicide rate.
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An average storm cloud weighs about 47,627,199 kilograms.
Just Cosmo 11 months ago
... must not... make ... a ...your......MOM jOke...
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Manana Man 11 months ago
Probably talking about mass rather than weight because otherwise it just doesn't make sense.
#30
Most polar bears are left handed.
Joshua Russell 11 months ago
So is that the paw they do the murderin' with, or the paw they sign their name with?
#31
To forcefully remove a human ear requires the same force as opening a new jar of peanut butter.
Deeelite 11 months ago
Using the force equivalent to biting through a carrot
Load More Replies... Giles McArdell 11 months ago
and in the same way, if it won't come off, try sticking a knife underneath it.
Lila Allen 11 months ago
I'm pretty sure the jar is harder to open. Source: saw an 8 year old student tear off his aide's ear. Doubt he could open a peanut butter jar.
#32
After WW II Belgium had a lot of stray cats. They decided to put these cats to use. They outfitted them and trained them to deliver the post. This experiment was as successful as you may imagine. .
Sand Ers 11 months ago
Garden variety urban legend. Never happened, in any of the multiple time frames that are claimed.
BeesEelsAndPups 11 months ago
Most of the "facts" posted on Bored Panda are not vetted by anyone. This one though is almost sort of partially true, if you really stretch your definitions of true and partial. A city in Belgium in the 1870s did an experiment with 37 house cats where they removed the cats from their homes, and tied a pouch to their nexts with a message to be delivered to the house from which they were removed. The idea was that the cat would naturally find its way back home to deliver the message. The experiment sort of worked, except not in any timely fashion, and no plan to put the cats to work was done, and it was long before the second world war. The London post office though did hire 3 cats to catch mice, and they were paid a weekly wage to their owners.
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#33
Platypuses lay eggs and give milk so they’re basically a portable source of omelette.
RamiRudolph 11 months ago
Also bacon, if you prepare them right. So all you need for a nice breakfast is a platypus.
LNB87 11 months ago
I just learned that not everyone puts milk in their eggs when they make scrambled eggs or an omelet... I love this!! What about french toast -- do you guys put milk in your egg for that?
Janissary35680 11 months ago
Yes. I've also used cream or something like half & half.
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#34
If you have tattoos your body is constantly trying to remove them.
Verfin22 11 months ago
Scientifically you shed skin cells daily, and sun exposure pales color over time. Hence a lot people redo faded tattoos.
Upstaged75 11 months ago
Yeah I have one I need to have redone eventually. It still looks good, it's just faded since it's black line.
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Schmebulock 11 months ago
Also, it is very little known that tattoos don't make you cool. If you were uncool before the tattoo you are still uncool.
Tropical Tarot 11 months ago
It's my body, so it's my choice despite what the US government is trying to do.
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The closest state in the USA to Africa is Maine.
BeesEelsAndPups 11 months ago
It's also the farthest state from Africa. And anyone who has been to Maine will understand what I mean.
#36
Sharks are older than Saturn's rings.
Seán Baron 11 months ago
Saturn will lose its rings in around 5 million years time. Around then, Mars will have rings.
#37
Web-casting spiders have such incredible night vision that the sun's UV rays *melt their eyeballs* every morning because they don't have an iris. They rejuvenate at dusk.
#38
The average persons forearm is the length of their foot.
Tucker Cahooter 11 months ago
Sounds plausible but I couldn't verify it. I kept falling over when I tried to raise my foot up to my arm for comparison
Sand Ers 11 months ago
Can't be bothered. I know human bodies are too variable for this to be even remotely true.
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Paul Rabit 11 months ago
I learned this from the movie 'Pretty Woman'. Little bit of trivia...
CD King 11 months ago (edited)
If you spread out your arms and measure from finger tip to finger tip it’s the same as your height
Sand Ers 11 months ago
Approximately. Human bodies aren't that regimented or unvarying.
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 11 months ago
Measured from what? Wrist to elbow? Because if so, I have a very long forearm or a very short foot.
#39
The chainsaw was invented as an aid to childbirth. Yes. It is as Gothic and horrible as you are imagining.
Sand Ers 11 months ago
This stupid meme has to die. A hand held chain with saw teeth was invented to cut a baby stuck in the birth canal out of the body of a dead mother. It is -less- Gothic and horrible than you imagined, because it opened a possibility for the baby to survive instead of both dying.
Alex Schneider 11 months ago
well it was a chainsaw..but not like many pics may suggest it. The novum was that it cut weak parts but no hard tissue/ bones- through the back movement, so it was less damage.
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"Oy little bugger is stuck in there! .. let's see about THAT! VRRRRRRRRRRBRRRRRRRR"
Becky Samuel 11 months ago
Symphesiotomy (cutting through the join between the two halves of the pelvis with a medical chainsaw) was a medical breakthrough that saved countless lives until just a few short decades ago. It is a low-tech solution that could be performed where more complex interventions were impossible. Many women are still alive because of this procedure. In modern times it has a very low rate of death for the mother. It does have a high risk of long-term complications, but the alternative is so grim that overall it was a positive.
#40
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Pin worms I sometimes get my butt worms mixed up.
Tape worms lay their eggs on the outside of your a**s while you’re asleep, then wiggle their tail just enough so you’ll feel a tickle and unknowingly scratch your bum hole.
When you wake up in the morning you’re going to find a way to put your hand to your mouth and the cycle continues and life goes on.
They tickle.
sofacushionfort 11 months ago
You can rid yourself of them with a cookie, a hammer, and a friend with steady nerves. Lie down pantless, put the cookie just next to your butt, and when the tapeworm sticks its head out to bite the cookie, your friend bashes it.
Janissary35680 11 months ago
The version of this joke I first heard (in middle school) involved the insertion of hard-boiled eggs.
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detective miller's hat 11 months ago
My entire family got pinworms when we visited Hershey Park in Pennsylvania and I had to be sedated for like a week (at age 9) because I had a extreme phobia of worms and internal parasites in general. :)
#41
If the sun were to disappear we would still orbit it for approximately 8 minutes even though there's literally nothing there.
We'd see it too, feel it's warmth and everything.
TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago (edited)
Not correct, we would see it in the sky for 8 more minutes but the gravity would be gone in an instant and Jupiter would create chaos in the solar system. Edit: I stand corrected as Gravity appearently has a velocity
Just Cosmo 11 months ago
Gravity cannot travel faster than the speed of light. So no, we will still feel it's gravitational pull until we know it's not there
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Light is still pretty damn slow. It's only 299792458.6 m/s. It takes 2 million year for light to go to the largest galaxy in our own cluster, which is 2 million light-years away.
Sand Ers 11 months ago
That's so nonsensical as to essentially be gibberish. If our understanding of physics is so distorted that such a thing could happen and we don't know it, it's also so distorted that we have no idea what the result would be if it did. "Hey, if this utterly impossible thing happened, this would be the result."
Gandalf the Pink 11 months ago
No it's true! It takes at least 8 minutes for anything to reach us from the Sun's distance. 8 minutes is the shortest time the fastest travel speed possible gets you between the Sun and the Earth. So if the Sun suddenly disappeared, there would be an 8 minute delay for that information to reach us.
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The bodies of more than 28 people were found in the basement of the house Benjamin Franklin lived in when he was in England. They were dated to the same time Franklin was living there.
Barbara Burns 11 months ago
The remains were actually the result of an illegal anatomy school run by Franklin's friend and protege, William Hewson. It is apparently a good bet that Franklin knew of this activity.
A. Br. 11 months ago
Anatomy School or Frankenstein Laboratory??? Franklin was into electricity. Lol
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Mini skirts are not actually called that because of their length, they’re named after the car! British fashion designer Mary Quant said the skirts were “exuberant, optimistic, young, and flirty… the perfect compliement to a Mini Cooper.”.
Seán Baron 11 months ago (edited)
No, she really did name them after the car. She’s mentioned it in many interviews.
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#44
Blue blood exist. Also yellow blood and green blood.
Tobias Reaper 11 months ago
Vulcans have green blood Xenomorphs have yellow Andorians have blue blood
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There are 6 state capitals west of Los Angeles, CA.
Tucker Cahooter 11 months ago
Yep. Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart (Darwin and Canberra don't count as NT and ACT are not technically states)
Sand Ers 11 months ago
I was able to figure out 5 fairly easily, and smacked myself on the head for needing to consult a map to figure out the 6th.
Bored Seb 11 months ago
I'm definitely missing the 6th, but don't want to look a map... so, Ca, Or, Wa, Ak, Ha...
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#46
Pi is off the top of my head - 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
Silly, useless to know that much. And hilariously, it was because in grade school I helped a friend prepare for a contest to see who could memorize the most. I didn't even take part. Somehow that much is still stuck in my head.
Wintermute 11 months ago
Here's a funner fact. To calculate the circumference of the observable universe with an accuracy down to the size of a hydrogen atom, you would only need around 39 digits of pi.
Ariom Dahl 11 months ago
Can I have a large chocolate to gobble quick ... 3.14159265. And that's as far as I can go. :)
Louis Blaine 11 months ago
It has been calculated to 33 trillion decimal places, and there are still middle school kids trying to memorize it.
WindySwede 11 months ago
"As of July 2024, π has been calculated to 202,112,290,000,000 (approximately 202 trillion) decimal digits."
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Sand Ers 11 months ago
Poll question option 1, addendum answer: especially if more of them are actually factual.
Trillian 11 months ago
They should be required to include a credible source
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Casey Payne 11 months ago
More artist collections. More artwork. More exploration of the world around us as chaos wins over order. More creepy. More weird. Fewer articles about generational anxiety. Fewer articles wallowing in nostalgia. Lose the Amazon Shopping Network BS. Quit reprinting Reddit articles. They're interesting, but they belong on Reddit. Fewer bad relationship woes. They can't possibly be shocking when there is 5 or more in a row. Throw some cat pictures in to break up the monotony. Am I missing anything? Oh yeah, your advertising animations are causing your website to freeze up and collapse. I do enjoy BP, but y'all can do better. I've seen you do it.
Sand Ers 11 months ago
Poll question option 1, addendum answer: especially if more of them are actually factual.
Trillian 11 months ago
They should be required to include a credible source
Load More Replies... Casey Payne 11 months ago
More artist collections. More artwork. More exploration of the world around us as chaos wins over order. More creepy. More weird. Fewer articles about generational anxiety. Fewer articles wallowing in nostalgia. Lose the Amazon Shopping Network BS. Quit reprinting Reddit articles. They're interesting, but they belong on Reddit. Fewer bad relationship woes. They can't possibly be shocking when there is 5 or more in a row. Throw some cat pictures in to break up the monotony. Am I missing anything? Oh yeah, your advertising animations are causing your website to freeze up and collapse. I do enjoy BP, but y'all can do better. I've seen you do it.
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