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As of January 2021, there were 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide, which makes 59.5% of the global population. Of this total, 92.6% (4.32 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices, Statista estimates. So just imagine how much information there is online. In fact, it’s probably impossible to wrap your head around it.
Part of the appeal in going online is that you get to share things with others. From what you’ve been up to, to what’s on your mind. Quite literally. Like this recent thread on Reddit, where the user Mistik06 asked everyone “What’s a cool fun fact that you know?” and got people posting the craziest facts they know. 24k upvotes and 10.7k comments later, we have an amazing collection of trivia facts you probably haven't heard of before, so enjoy!
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#1
Pufferfish contain a toxin in their spikes that kills predators. It has a slightly different effect on dolphins though, in that it gets them high. So teenage dolphins will pass around pufferfish and impale themselves off of them to get stoned.
Michelle M 3 years ago
Someone better let the pufferfish know. They could build a successful drug empire off it. Puff Cartel.
Scagsy 3 years ago
P. Diddy is their representative on land. The FBI was onto him though and that's why he changed his name from Puff Daddy. True story.
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Michael Hearing 3 years ago
How i wish i could give more than one upvote! Thank you, dave
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Pufferfish venom is used in voodoo rituals to create zombies 😉 there's a few documented tales out there about it.
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Tigerpacingthecage 3 years ago
Dolphins seem so cool. I've heard they are one of the few animals who actually have sex for fun and now they can get high too? I would not be sad if I am a dolphin in my next life.
Wistiti 3 years ago
This will probably get a lot of hate but I really don't like dolphins. They remind me a lot of humans.
juice 3 years ago
yeah, they're intelligent enough to have the capacity for evil
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glowworm2 3 years ago
This is the equivalent of a bunch of humans inhaling the helium in balloons to make their voices sound funny.
jolie laide 3 years ago
Just to add to this, in the aquarium hobbyist field there's "pea puffers"! Basically they're dwarf puffer fish that you can keep as pets and they're so small and sweet. They like having fellow puffer friends, but to keep the peace you need a bigger tank per how many you have. They like well planted tanks too and can life a long time.
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#2
Apparently, studies show that Crows, Ravens and other Corvids are self aware and are able to ponder the content of their own minds.
Tonk Terrier 3 years ago
Yes. A grey African parrot also once asked an existential question. " What colour am I"
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Darren Fusellier 3 years ago
They will also remember specific people, especially people who try to harm them, they will then attack these people and harass them for years! Extremely clever birds.
J. F. 3 years ago
Not only that, they will also warn others and spread the grudge
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Tishia partchey 3 years ago
Yup. They recognize individual humans. There's a couple of studies and the results are really cool. They bring gifts to favorite folks
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Carrie Smith 3 years ago
Crow children will also come back and help their parents with the next generation of children. They group problem solve and can observe and figure things out, i.e., they've used still burning cigarettes to help smoke out mites in their wings.
#3
Dragonflies are the predator with the highest success rate (over 90%), and are one of the few animals that are capable of plotting intercept courses rather than chasing their prey. They're basically mosquito murder drones.
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, Meganeura. :) https://entomology.unl.edu/scilit/largest-extinct-insect#:~:text=The%20largest%20insect%20ever%20know,about%20275%20million%20years%20ago.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Their larva also eat mosquito larvae... And small fish and other aquatic creatures.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Their larvae are also the model for the creatures in the Aliens movies. They have the double mouth thing just to start.
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Louise B 3 years ago
I'll never forget seeing my first dragon fly. I live in an urban area of Manchester (UK) let's just say that we don't get to see much wild life. I was sat in a park eating my lunch, then this magnificent iridescent dragon fly just buzzed past. It didn't look real! Absolutely gorgeous!
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago
https://www.homestratosphere.com/types-of-dragonflies/
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Izz R.! 3 years ago
I thought there was a program to introduce dragonflies in highly dense lakes and areas? I wonder what happened...i thought there was also a program to introduce certain fish to eat mosquito larvae, wonder what happened with that to...
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
The government was running it.. that's what happened
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jolie laide 3 years ago
If I remember right, dragonfly larvae also kind of resemble Aliens from the movie franchise. They have mouth parts that can shoot out and grab food. They can also be found further inland than you might suspect. Even a small pond or stream can support dragonflies and they're incredibly sweet to interact with. A friend of mine is an entomologist and in the spring and early summer, he watches where the dragonflies hunt/hang out to find where the mosquito larvae are so he can get samples. He told me that once, back in 2018, taking samples from the edge of a small pond, he actually had 3-4 dragonflies landing on him as he was doing his work so they could take a break and rest.
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
Considering how ancient they are, that's pretty impressive. They can't fold their wings away, that ability hadn't yet evolved when they came into being.
#4
Elephants think humans are cute in the same way we think puppies and kittens are cute.
Nitro Codes 3 years ago
I was going to say this comment is cursed, but really, that is exactly what we do to elephants.
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JinxBox 3 years ago
I'd love to have the name of the study or any other evidence this is not just a random sentence in the internet. Also read birds fall in love in quite the same way we do -oxitocin hormone messing up concentration and driving them crazy too. But I can't give you the evidence either 🤔
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elephants-think-humans-cute/
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HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Not scientifically verified but elephants can and do form loving relationships with humans. They will also kill you. Don't hate me, but I was with Ringling for a while, and a baby elephant loved me and followed me everywhere. He wasn't fond of my husband which was funny. This herd was NOT abused .
Tawnya 3 years ago
Their brains have been studied and the same part lights up and becomes active as when humans are shown cute things like puppies and kittens etc. and their brains are being studied. Pretty cool huh?
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Elephants are amazing animals. One of the trickiest things though, about taking in orphans at a sanctuary for example, is how MUCH they bond. If a baby bonds with you and you have to leave, the baby often deteriorates. They don't want to eat or drink, they're depressed, scared, etc. If you bond with a baby and are gone too long, the baby can die. It's why getting help to babies is so critical in the wild if they don't have their herd.
SomePilot 3 years ago
and then we just kill then for the horns, the animals that think were cute, we kill them just for their teeth, gruesome
Load More Replies... Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
We actually don't. This isn't a proven statement.
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Tawnya 3 years ago
Their brains have been studied and the same part lights up and becomes active as when humans are shown cute things like puppies and kittens etc. and their brains are being studied. Pretty cool huh?
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#5
Scientists speculated there are other planets orbiting distant stars, but haven't had a clear evidence of this fact up until the 1990's. And the majority of currently known exoplanets (almost 5000, as of now!) have been discovered well into 2000's, which means that humanity is at the very beginning of its discovery journey regarding other planetary systems.
With James Webb telescope being extremely close to finalizing its calibrations as we speak, we will be able to not only discover hundreds, if not thousands of new planets (and stars and galaxies), but also detect whether there are traces of alien civilizations on them. We should all be very excited about this, as this is unprecedented, and a HUGE deal for science and our species as a whole.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
This is amazing. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be born 100 years from now, how advanced would we be.
Daniel Ikelman 3 years ago
At the rate we're going? You ever see the movie Idiocracy?..
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Ann Pattinson 3 years ago
We should be sorting out what we've done to Earth instead of looking for other planets we can ruin.
jolie laide 3 years ago
Actually, while I'm excited about the new telescope too, the biggest find lately has come from our modest Hubble! It might've been a fluke, but Hubble managed to find the oldest known star we've ever found. It's 12.9 billion light years away, which means it formed about 900 million years after the Big Bang. The poor star is probably long dead by now, but it's the earliest we've ever been able to see back in time. I love the universe and everything about it, including the possibility of other universes, alternate dimensions/realities, etc. It lights me up like a kid at Christmas. I DO believe in aliens, the universe is just way too vast for anything else. The trouble is, if our timelines would ever match up which lowers the odds considerably. But are others out there? Oooh yes.
Kayla Albert 3 years ago
Yea the fact people think we can be the only plant with a life form is a joke! They can't even tell us how many planets, stars or galaxies are out there why wouldn't there be other life forms!
Load More Replies... Shane S 3 years ago
Does anyone else have trouble processing that the universe is infinite? My brain can’t comprehend that space goes on forever. How’s that even possible?
Robyn Bowns 3 years ago
I have the opposite problem, I can't understand how anyone might come up with some sort of limitation. Infinity seems the only plausibility, what could stop it? 🤔
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SealOfDisapproval 3 years ago
There are some fascinating numbers relating to these finds. Out of those 5000 planets 21 might potentially be habitable. That's 0,4% of planets. Doesn't seem like much? Well, there are roughly 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way, and most of them have been found to have planets. Conservatively assuming 1 planet/star there would be about 400 million potentially habitable planets, in the Milky Way alone. Now if we take into account that in the planets found so far there is a strong bias towards giant planets, the number of potentially habitable planets is actually higher :)
Kika González 3 years ago
We need to pay attention to healing our own planet before go and bother any other galaxies
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
This photo never fails to make me feel simultaneously insignificant and fully entitled to enjoy my life. Those aren't stars; they're galaxies.
#6
Ok, this fact has connected facts:
In late 1800s girl killed herself by jumping from bridge on Sienna river and she was known as The Unknown Woman of the Seine.
When the guy who worked in morgue saw her, he thought she was beautiful and ordered a plaster cast of her face.
Fast foward to 1960s, CPR was invented and they needed a doll to train people. So they partnered with Norwegian producer of medical devices. That guy decided to use the plaster cast of Unknown Woman of the Seine and named the doll Anne(Annie) because his doughter was named Anne(Annie).
While performing CPR, people were trained to talk to a doll(person) so there is that common phrase:"Annie! Annie are you ok?"
Fast foward to when Michael Jackson decided to put that phrase in his classic "Smooth Criminal".
Mahayana 3 years ago
No, it’s nose would break off… please don’t hate me!
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howdylee 3 years ago
They say that the correct beat for CPR is in time with Stayin' Alive by the Beegee's. Anyone know if Smooth Criminal beat is similarly appropriate? Because now this is what I'll be thinking of if ever in that situation!
Tonya Wallace 3 years ago
If you hit the backbeat it does! I just did it on my grandnieces doll. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was doing Stayin' Alive and morphed it into Smooth Criminal without missing a beat. 🤷🏾♀️
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Alice Platzer 3 years ago
Plaster cast of deceased people were common back then, there are some made from famous people after they died
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Susie Elle 3 years ago
Am I the only one creeped out by how a dude in a morgue made a plaster cast of a dead woman's face just because 'she was beautiful'?
Shay 3 years ago
They never freaked me out up until today, when I found out I was blowing into the mass produced face of a literal dead girl.
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jolie laide 3 years ago
The ways people committed suicide back in the 1800's especially was... horrific. People have been doing it from the dawn of time, but it's really tragic. Lots of hangings, lots of drownings especially after getting insanely drunk first. Poison was popular off and on but incredibly painful. Laudanum OD's were common. Throwing yourself into horse drawn traffic, jumping, some picked fights with knife or gun wielders but the straight razor saw a lot of action. Used for shaving men, the blades were wickedly sharp so people would slice their own throats.
#7
When Thomas Edison was bound to a wheelchair, Henry Ford bought a wheelchair for himself so that he and Edison could race.
DE Ray 3 years ago
Please do bear in mind, Ford was also a racist and anti-Semite who even Hitler noted how extreme he was.
Dave P 3 years ago
the second part is not true, Hilter never noted that. Though Hitler did like Ford who helped spread his works in America
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My mom was pretty involved in the local abbey (where nuns live) a few years ago. Some people don't know that most nuns nowadays are quite elderly and deal with the same issues other modern elderly people deal with -- dementia, childlike interests, grappling with technology, etc. Well, at this particular abbey, the mother superior had particular trouble keeping the elderly nuns from wheelchair racing each other between prayers. There was cobblestone path between two smooth cement paths that made for particularly tempting and hazardous racing. There was also a prolonged prank battle between the nuns she was constantly dealing with. And then, there was the issue of nuns with more pronounced dementia hitting on the priests during mass.
karl briggs 3 years ago
Edison was a thief, and Ford a Nazi sympathiser. Neither should be celebrated.
Crissie Laugesen 3 years ago
He was "bound to a wheelchair"? Someone tied him to it? -- Ah, you mean "he USED a wheelchair".
#8
That cows have regional moo's.
Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago
I think it’s more like muh. In French it would be Meuh.
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Firkin Dirkin 3 years ago
Cows in the uk will chase after a hot air balloon if it goes over their field. In the rest of europe, they don't. British cows see other cows in other fields react that way and pass it on over time. The english channel has prevented the habit spreading to europe.
Dill 3 years ago
I love that fact! I grew up on a dairy farm. Always found it so funny how the cows would bellow to each other to let all the herd know when there was an escape route in a hedge!
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Israel Martinez 3 years ago
... but that doesn't answer the question of whether a bull's girlfriend is considered his significant udder ...
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
All I can think of us Family Guy and Stewie's toy saying "the cow says 'shazooooo'"
#9
Steven Seagal once told Gene LeBell that he was immune to being choked out from doing so much martial arts training, so Gene choked him out and he sh*t his pants.
shodokai 3 years ago
I work in the film industry. He's a legendary lying putz and a pure paper tiger.
Rodney Bowie 3 years ago
This is exactly how scientific peer review works...well almost exactly.
Jp@nda 3 years ago
Well he had a hypothesis, he tested it, analyzed the results, and so now it needs to be replicated
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Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Steven Segal is top-level in Aikido. Pretty much a douche at anything else, including being a human being.
Kusotare 3 years ago
That's like being the smartest kid on the short bus. The fastest runner at fat camp. The summer school valedictorian. Not impressed.
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Kate Jones 3 years ago
Hahaha this is by far the best thing I've ever read. He is such a douchebag.
François Carré 3 years ago
After that, Chuck Norris choked them both out and made their pants s**t them.
#10
When sea otters find a rock they like to bust open clams, they will tuck it under a fold of skin in their armpit. They also hold each other’s paws while they’re sleeping so they don’t float away from each other. Baby otters aren’t buoyant enough to stay afloat so they will sleep on their mom’s tummies until they’re older.
Scagsy 3 years ago
That's pretty cute. And they keep their favourite little rock where I keep my Cheet-Os! What are the chances? Go little Otter dudes!
Asher Tye 3 years ago
Can suddenly imagine a distraught otter frantically searching for their favorite rock after it accidentally fell out overnight.
Vexorg2 3 years ago
They actually have a little pouch in the armpit & can hold several clams in each. Check out YouTube for otter armpit pouch.
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JuniorCJ82 3 years ago
They're also sexual predators (pun definitely intended), murderers, and kidnappers.
jolie laide 3 years ago
When they can, they also like to wrap themselves up in seaweed, etc. if possible to keep from drifting. They're also really smart. I saw a video once, I forget where it was from, maybe someone will remember. But a diver was looking for mussels and some otters were watching. He used the end of a sharp rock to bang on the mussel, then he used the sharper, planed end to get it open and gave it to an otter. He gave the small rock to an otter but that's about when the video ended, I think.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
And if the puppies get wet, their moms have to blow them dry to keep them warm. Yes, otter puppies.
Axolotl King 3 years ago
ALSO THEY KEEP THEIR ROCK FOR LIKE LIFE AND EVEN PASS IT DOWN TO THEIR KIDS I THINK AT LEAST I HEARD THAT ONCE
Barbara L Bristow 3 years ago
The fact is that baby otters are extremely buoyant. They have a pup coat that the mom keeps combed & clean.
#11
The creator of the pop-up ad made a formal apology for his creation.
A B C 3 years ago (edited)
Well, the rule says what enters the internet stays in the internet, so basically it was "a bit late" right after it started with the very first ad...
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Who Panda 420 3 years ago (edited)
Indeed! And I love your name by the way. I happen to agree. I believe Oppenheimer felt bad for his invention too but alas also too late.
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#12
Dinosaurs existed for so long that there were still dinosaur fossils from previous eras while other dinosaurs from future eras were alive.
So basically, when T-Rex was still alive and well, Stegosaurs was nothing more than fossilized bones under their feet even back then.
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
Look closely at a chicken's feet, and I think their relation to dinosaurs becomes immediately apparent. Image those feet the size of humans and attached to an ancient dinosaur.
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Alicia M 3 years ago (edited)
Ken Hamm, from the Creation museum in Kentucky, has exhibits of children playing next to dinosaurs and even has a saddle on a triceratops. This is something Creationism tries to teach. Christian fascists in America are trying to get this garbage implemented into school textbooks. They want to teach a timeline of the Earth based on the Bible. Of course, you cannot do that and remain fact-based. This is why local elections are very important. Several states are trying to dumb our schools down to the point that I worry about the future of kids growing up in this country.
Patricia Manteuffel 3 years ago
I was going to comment on this very thing until I saw your post. The Creation museum and the Ark Encounter (monstrosity), are two examples of greed and ignorance on the evangelical right. Indoctrination of children in this way is a crime. Dinosaurs are displayed on the Ark cohabiting with humans should REALLY BE A CRIME.
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Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
One time I was at a museum looking at the skeleton of a bird-type dinosaur that was a little larger than a minivan. I was craning to one side and asking my friend, "So, do they have wishbones...?" because Thanksgiving had just happened and I was at the moment pretty familiar with where all the insides were supposed to go. Meanwhile, a guy in a white lab coat happened to be passing by behind us, and he yelled back, "No, they don't. That was later," before he disappeared behind an important looking door, where presumably they go to work on dinosaurs. And that was how my dream was crushed of there being giant pool-floaty-sized dinosaur wishbones.
jolie laide 3 years ago
Thinking about the asteroid hit... I can't. I just can't. With the new discoveries in Tanis, North Dakota, USA it's even worse. They've found a thescelosaurus leg. Thes was a small herbivorous dino but they only found the LEG. Granted, it's been preserved in almost miraculous detail but I can't help but start crying. Most people look at me like I'm crazy, and maybe I am, but it must have SO scary for them. They didn't know what was happening and there was no way to get away from it, though they tried. How painful that must have been for some of them... I'm sorry, I can't.
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago
So funny and annoying how christians/other creationists(?) continue to deny and ignore evolution/prehistoric evidence.
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crazy_cat_notAlady 3 years ago
Now image a t-rex wearing a lab coat, brush in hand trying to recover and study a fossil
#13
You can fit the entire population of the human race inside the Grand Canyon. Not just the 7 billion alive now - the entire lot. From the very start. And still have plenty of room for those who are yet to be born.
80 Van 3 years ago (edited)
If you piled everyone in there, the birth rate might increase a lot faster than currently expected.
howdylee 3 years ago
needs more context/info... what do you mean by "fit". standing shoulder to shoulder, or room to move around? and is it by 3d volume or just the bottom surface?
karen snyder 3 years ago
That will not impress The Almighty Tallest! Wait! What if we LIQUIFIED all the pathetic humans? Then we could we could fit them Hoover Dam!
Dave P 3 years ago
you can fit the entire worlds population in Texas and have a lower density rate than New York's five boroughs
Richard Willis 3 years ago
If the USA was as densely populated as the UK the entire population could live in Texas.
jolie laide 3 years ago
Gosh this picture is beautiful... I think I've been sitting here for.... awhile, just staring at it.
#14
If every person on earth fought 1v1 until there was only 1 winner, that person would only have to win 33 times.
Chris M 3 years ago
Take the population of the earth (about 7.7 billion), divide by 2, repeat until you reach 1. You've divided 33 times.
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Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
Because at the end of each round, the population is cut in half.
#15
The sound of an ATM drawing cash is a manufactured sound. It's just to let you know that the ATM is indeed working and that your money is coming up.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Have you ever been part of "strategic planning meeting"? A lot of random words that are called "productive"
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Shelby Jackson 3 years ago
That's not true. I used to fill them. The sound is the machines parts moving. The belts that bring the cash through from the cash boxes. There are many many small parts in there and the all make noise.
Floortje Zeebregts 3 years ago
Nope, this is not true. It is indeed counting the money and moving it through the machine
M. William Bell 3 years ago
I’ve been an ATM technician for close to 25 years and I have never heard of this before. Machines with moving parts make noise. That’s just the way it works, nothing inside an ATM is designed to make additional noise (quite the opposite actually).
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
It is not. For example NCR (the most common ATM manufacturer in the US) uses vacuum suction cups to pick each bill from the cassette they are stored in. Vacuum is used to ensure that only one bill is picked. So the sound isn''t manufacutered, it is the sound of bills being taken from the storage cassette and verify that it only has the types and number of bills it is supposed to.
Anthony Czuczman 3 years ago
Not true - the sounds are the rollers picking up bills from the cash trays in the ATM's vault.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
So the money exits magically from the slot instead of using something similar to a money counting machine, with gears and rollers? Surely they are not completely silent.
David Brown 3 years ago
I may be misinterpreting what's being said here but I can tell you for a fact that the sound an ATM makes that sounds like it's counting money is exactly that. It's the sound of bills being pulled and counted.
#16
That if sound could be transmitted through space, the sun would be so loud on earth it would be the equivalent of standing next to a jet engine, even though it's 94 million miles away.
Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago
Sound in space travels along gravitational waves and can also be picked up via vibrations. Space agencies have been listening to the sun and planets for years (Jupiter and Saturn sound particularly scary).
NotMe 3 years ago
I had no idea, thanks! Just went and listened to them on youtube. Phobos scared the s**t out of me.
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David Beaulieu 3 years ago
Yeah, but if we still evolved on this planet would we hear it, or would our brains tune it out the way we do other things in our environment?
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
Would our atmosphere protect us as well? Seems like the sound would dissipate before it reached the ground, similar to how jets in the air aren't perceived to be loud from the ground.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
I think if the sun could be heard 93 million miles away, that last few kilometers of atmosphere wouldn't make much of a difference
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The sound of the sun, and the rest of the planets. I swear you can hear voices in some of them. Far away, whispering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQL53eQ0cNA
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago
Here... https://www.google.com/search?q=actual+sounds+of+planets+an+sun+recordings&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS962US962&oq=actual+sounds+of+planets+an+sun+recordings&aqs=chrome..69i57.19570j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Robyn Bowns 3 years ago
It's probably out of our hearing range anyway. As soon as I read this I imagined what Hollywood says the horn of Jericho sounds like- deep penatrating bass
#17
Your nose is impacting your vision 100% of the time.
However, since your "picture" you see is just an interpretation by your brain, your brain erases your nose as useless information. You'll only see it, if you really concentrate on it, if you close one eye, or if you put your finger on the very tip of your nose.
It seems like a harmless fact until this thought enters your head...
"Your nose is real. Your brain removes it from your vision as useless, but it is very much there, and very much real. What other things is your brain removing from your vision?"
It's wild to think that your entire life experience is just your brain doing it's best to interpret your senses. And that it's definitely not a "perfect" system. It could be interpreting everything incorrectly, and we collectively wouldn't have any idea.
JinxBox 3 years ago
Now it will take me all morning to unsee my nose and eyeglasses again, thank you for this...
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
The best optometrist I ever had taught me about how so much of vision has to do with your brain and not your eyes. I was in a car crash in my early 20s and lost some of my peripheral vision -- which used to be ridiculously good. Now, it's just normal. The change in my vision freaked me out. Specislists ran all the tests and found nothing physically wrong. The doctor explained that sometimes your brain can edit out some of your senses to protect you. The accident was my fault. I didn't see the stop sign to my right, though I clearly remember seeing the tree and sidewalk even farther to my right. After the accident, apparently, my brain decided less peripheral vision would be safer for me. The doctor agrees that I see less peripherally than I did before the accident. He says there are ways to train your brain to recover that lost sight, but he's also said (and I agree with him) that my brain is probably right, and it is probably safer for it to edit out what I don't need.
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago
Well, I really hope you're doing much better now and will stay safe.
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Robert T 3 years ago (edited)
Your brain is amazing. I had a small brain tumour and consequently lost a portion of the vision in both eyes. I don't see a blank or black area. I see pretty normally. However, the bit that can't see if filled in by my brain, using information that was there the last time my eyes moved to cover that bit. Provided that I keep moving my eyes, this is fine, but when I am tired I move my eyes less and that part of the image gets "stale". Doesn't affect me too much apart from a slight tendancy to walk into doorframes at night! LOL
RandomHumanBean 3 years ago
Another thing your brain removes: blood vessels. you would be able to see the blood vessels in your eyes as a web-like pattern, but your brain fills in the gaps. if you shine a light at an angle into the corner of your eye ( im not exactly sure what angle/direction), you can actually see them.
NsG 3 years ago
You also have two blindspots (one for each eye) which is where the back of the eye has the nerve endings sending the signal to the brain (which means there are no receptors). Give yourself a thumbs up at arm's length and look at your thumb. Without moving your eye, move your arm slowly to the side while keeping your thumb in focus (don't look at your thumb, be aware of it - your periferal vision). At some point your thumb will disappear! That's the blind spot - literally.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Does this mean that everything I see can be fake? Does this also mean that our science is wrong because we can’t see everything?
Monday 3 years ago
Not necessarily wrong, but perhaps incomplete. There might be a whole new branch of science waiting to be discovered because we can't perceive the information it uses yet.
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Leesquee 3 years ago (edited)
When I was 20yo, I was diagnosed with macular degeneration - which means I have blind 'spots' in my vision. At the time, I had always had better than 20/20 vision and could easily pass driving tests...so my doctors never banned me from driving (which was a necessary part of my job). One day, while taking a walk, I turned onto a street that dead-ended at the front door of a house. For one reason or another, I glanced to the left and - suddenly - saw an entire car parked in front of the house. When I looked directly at the house again, the car was gone. It was only after several attempts to focus that I realized I had to make myself 'see' the blind spot (a literal black spot in the direct center of my vision) and that my brain had edited the scene - the road, the lawn, even the front door of the house - but left out the car because it wasn't a 'predictable' part of the picture. I stopped driving that same day and fought for YEARS to have a doctor scknowledge this well-known phenomena (because heaven-forbid I be considered disabled just because I couldn't see). I can't believe they let me drive.
Ruth Hempsey 3 years ago
I was diagnosed with AMD some years ago. I don't yet have a blind spot. But, I do get migraine auras without getting the pain. It always starts with a centre vision blind spot then develops into what I call the sparkly zig zags. Can't read or do much until it passes, luckily doesn't last more than 30 minutes. I assume that's how the AMD will manifest eventually. Scary. I hope you are doing well.
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Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
There is so much our brain decides is unnecessary info. The classic example is the video where you count how many passes of a basketball are done... in the end, they ask if you saw the gorilla...
#18
Moose are really good swimmer's and even swim from island to island to feed on the underwater vegetation
But orcas will occasionally stumble across then and hunt them down and moose haven't evolved far enough for them to know that orcas are predators
Nitro Codes 3 years ago
You know what else got dark? My house when I turned off all the lights at night.
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Not to mention that orcas are smart as hell. They can plan and cooperate with attack plans. A swimming "horse" has no chance.
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
Also Moose aren't exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer---if you catch my drift.
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Poultry Geist 3 years ago
I didn’t even know orcas and moose were anywhere close to each other !
Nicole Weymann 3 years ago
https://www.boredpanda.com/underwater-moose-aquatic-vegetation-pet-foolery/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
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Karen B 3 years ago
Sometimes they swim from Sweden over Oresund to Denmark. Here they trot around until they swim back or get hit by a train.
Jasam Nitko 3 years ago
That's grim, and I still laughed. Swimming for a foreign vacation, only to stumble in front of a train.
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I've snorkeled with Orcas in the channel just off the coast of Southern California. Talk about intense! They do not consider human food, thankfully.
Jasam Nitko 3 years ago
Not yet... Give them time and opportunity, and they'll develop a taste for long pork.
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Don't Look 3 years ago
The first time I saw this I think it was on BP and the visual they had was about as disturbing as it gets.
Inga Rinehart 3 years ago
I just watched Obama narrating a show on Netflix that features hippos swimming in the ocean. I bet orcas would luv them sum hippo!
#19
Cracking your knuckles WILL NOT lead to arthritis.
René Studer 3 years ago
Brace yourself, You also don’t need to wait two hours after a meal to go for a swim.
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Chich 3 years ago
Once worked with a guy who did this constantly. The urge to beat him to death with a 2x4 was overwhelming.
Monday 3 years ago
I've found a kindred spirit! The sound drives me mad too.
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Dinah Brand 3 years ago
Did everyone else immediately crack their knuckles after reading this?
Naesil 🇫🇮 3 years ago
I got the feeling but sadly I already did just before reading it and now I feel empty :(
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
It mere burst the air bubble, which then reforms. Sounds horrible though.
Darren Fusellier 3 years ago
I think it's a build up of nitrogen in the knuckle joints which as you say 'pops' I've done it for 30+ years without any issues yet! (I feel ive just jinxed this now 😂)
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Kimberley McMillan 3 years ago
It sounds disgusting. I wish people would stop doing it in public. :-|
#20
"Twelve Plus One" is an anagram of "Eleven Plus Two"
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
The inventor of English must have planned it and now that explains why it's not "oneteen" and "twoteen"
winterknights 3 years ago
Made me curious, doesn't work for german...but only 3 letters different :-)
#21
The difference between Million and Billion is more than we think. To put it in perspective, 1 million seconds is about 12 days while 1 billion seconds is equivalent to 31.7 years.
80 Van 3 years ago (edited)
And the difference between a billion and a trillion seconds is 31.7 years and 31,700 years.
A B C 3 years ago
This, as well as the initial post, is only true on the "short scale", where a billion means a thousand millions. On the "long scale", a billion is a million millions. As to why these both exist and why we couldn't get rid of one of them up to now is beyond me. But well, there are still countries calculating 64ths of someone's feet instead of using actual units, so... *shrug*
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DC 3 years ago
Yeah, and people still are thirsty, suffer from preventable diseases all around the world, and in order to, under these premises, have someone to care for them when they're old, pop out kids like a rabbit. Education, usually, cures that - a higher survival rate implies having 2...4 children and be fine, instead of 10 of which only half make it into puberty, and only 2...4 end up as functioning adults...
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Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Then there's the ever-popular British-v-American million/billion. As I understand it, an American Billion is a Thousand Million in Britain, while a British Billion is an American MIllion Million. Another reason to use metric designators for numbers, instead of "plain English"...
Anne McKinney 3 years ago
And a Billionaire is someone who has entirely too much money for their own good and we should start calling them what they really are...Greedy Oligarchs.
#22
Birds are classified as extant dinosaurs, not just descended from them. They are actual living, breathing dinosaurs.
Cordelia 3 years ago
Ah yes I love feeding the screeching dinosaurs in my yard every morning. It brings such tranquility.
WeWillJustSeeAboutThat 3 years ago
I heard all birds are just Drones and recharge by sitting on power lines. :D
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
Sorry, I find it hard to think of penguins as dinosaurs. Ostriches, emus, even chickens yeah, but not penguins 🐧
lazy panda 3 years ago
You may enjoy this! I can honestly say that I never realized there were prehistoric penguins! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/kids-discover-fossil-of-new-giant-penguin-species-180978707/
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Charles Barrow 3 years ago
While technically correct from one cladistic view point, in that same viewpoint humans are synapsid or going further fish, so while cool sounding not very useful. And a side effect of taxonomy being invented for living species and once you start bring extinct species into it it gets weird.
BigFish Artwire 3 years ago
So, are they dinosaurs or not? I'm very confused with this hahaha
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Vexorg2 3 years ago
Except that dodos apparently tasted horrible. What got them were pigs & rat's.
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Manatees regulate buoyancy by farting. They eat a ton of plants and accumulate a lot of methane. They then release gas when they want to sink and hold it in when they want to go to the surface or are being polite.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we lost over 2000 in the last year due to starvation thanks to DeathSantis allowing millions of gallons of polluted water to be emptied into Tampa Bay. Florida Wildlife has been feeding them romaine and Sea World is doing what they can to help. It's horrible. Florida's governor doesn't care about people dying from covid, so why should he care about manatees?
Lene 3 years ago
My bf and I still laugh about the time we saw one of the manatees in the local zoo fart underneath one of the other manatees and the fart bubbles went around the manatee's head. The look on the "victim"'s face.... a whole lot of "*sigh*... look where you're farting, Marvin! You just hit me... AGAIN!"And I like to think that Marvin still does it to this day but we haven't seen it since.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
If only human men could learn this " hold it in to be polite" thing you speak of....
#24
A single gram of DNA contains about 700 terabytes of information.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
I can tell you that removing DNA from computers will make you sick.
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
scientists: I know, let's store data in DNA! ...two years later... The CDC recommends wearing masks and getting vaccines against the DataVirus. You can get it from your DNA drive. Please destroy any DNA drives in your home.
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)
DAMNIT...I JUST bought this!!! *SIGH*
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David A Paterson 3 years ago
That can't be right. A DNA base pair contains 2 bits of information is 0.25 bytes and weighs 650 daltons is 10^-21 grams. 0.25/10^-21 = 2.5*20^20 bytes per gram. So a single gram of DNA can contain 250,000,000 terabytes of information. 250 exabytes.
#25
When they first measured the height of Mt. Everest it was exactly 29.000 feet, but as that sounds like a made-up number they declared it to be 29.002 feet.
Heather Pobicki 3 years ago
Well they put a decimal point in there, not a comma, to throw us off
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Lynn Morello 3 years ago
If This comes down to Above ocean level. But Ocean Level fluctuates, so the Hight of Mt Everest can increase and de-crease. Am I right or wrong???
#26
Sharks like and get attracted to Heavy Metal music played underwater.
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago
"Sleep with one eye open..." ("Enter Sandman")
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#27
If you made $10,000 per day, every day since the pyramids were built around 4,500 years ago, you'd have 6% of Elon Musk's wealth.
Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago (edited)
Tax billionaire’s more and make them pay fair wages. Of course they might not be billionaires anymore (I mean nobody got to billionaire status by paying other people good wages and contributing fair taxes) but they would still be a lot richer than everyone else.
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Andy Acceber 3 years ago
Billionaires should not exist. No one should hoard that much wealth. (And yes, I know most billionaires' assets are liquid, but the amount of power that comes with that kind of fortune is itself exploitative and perverse.)
DC 3 years ago
Yeah, and a punchable hairline. Man, would I be that rich, instead of fixing the hair, I'd get my skull fixed so it has a shape that matches every stage of boldery ... combover, no - side-part, right, in the Geheimratsecke (secret council edge), slightly backward. Fits my skull best so far, and after 20 years of having the same haircut, I never need to comb them to look orderly enough for me ... but, yeah, punchable face, right below. Fück Mr. Musk? No, I do that to people I kind of like at least.
Load More Replies... DC 3 years ago
Would he truly want to make this world a better place, he'd not have that much money on hand in the first place.
kasei10 3 years ago
Devils advocate here, but he doesn't have that much on hand, it's mostly Tesla/SpaceX stocks.
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Tigerpacingthecage 3 years ago
It should not be possible that one individual owns that much while others starve and get exploited. Yes, life is unfair. Yes, your life choices matter. But it's still unreasonable that a few people can have endless amounts of assets and others not any at all. Why not put a max limit of how much wealth one person can have? Or just tax those individuals more.
Kira Okah 3 years ago
Instead investing it in a 1% interest account would result in you having several quintillion and it would have been used many times for the benefit of millions.
Mike Price 1 year ago
We hear a lot of talk thatt there should be a minimum wage; shouldn't there also be a MAXIMUM wage? Just a thought . . . .
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Anne-Sophie Dumetz 3 years ago
Would be nice if he could channel his inner Robin Hood and spread the wealth
#28
You don't use shock paddles on a stopped heart. Shock paddles simply put a heart back in to a natural rhythm, they will not restart a heart if it has stopped. That's what chest compressions are for.
Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago
And you actually have a very high mortality rate if you need chest compressions or a heart shock. The 5 year survival rate for both is very low.
BorPand8 3 years ago
Does that mean that being "brought back to life" by CPR makes you more likely to die within the next 5 years? Or that your chances of being "brought back to life" are very low?
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Roadkill The Brave 3 years ago
When someone is performing CPR they're working on a corpse for all intents and purposes. There is a bunch of stuff that is used to 'Restart' the heart. Defibrillation does work if the heart is still in A-Fib, which means it's jerking like a muscle twitch instead of working like normal. They knock it back into it's normal rhythm. CPR increases chances of survival however it will not bring someone back to life. The entire point of CPR isn't to bring someone back to life - Its to keep blood which carries Oxygen moving through the system. Oxygen is the vital thing in the equation. Without oxygen the chances of survival are cut, so CPR with rescue breaths is vital for the chain of survival. AED, EMS, emergency care, and follow up care are the rest of the links in that chain - without one your chances drop drastically. Even using all of them you're chances of survival are decreased the longer it takes for EMS to get to you. CPR gives you a chance.
Camilo's Bestie 3 years ago
Chest compressions! Chest compressions! Chest compressions!
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NsG 3 years ago
Defibrillators actually *stop* the heart. That's the whole point. The heart has gone into ventricular fibrillation - it's wobbling like a jelly and not beating effectively enough to pump blood. A shock to the heart (hopefully) stops or interrupts the wobble encouraging normal function to return.
bob bruce 3 years ago
That's absolutely not how it works. The paddles are part of a device that's called a defibrillator because it stops fibrillation. That means its *stops* an abnormal rhythm, which means it stops a (poorly) beating heart. If you're lucky the heart will then regain a normal rhythm.
jolie laide 3 years ago
I remember when my Mom went into the hospital. Her heart was still beating, but there was this.. bright red, irritated patch on her chest after the ambulance came and took her, then that hospital stabilized her and transferred her via ambulance to a better one. It was after all of that that I saw it and... my brain couldn't make sense of it at the time. I was numb, in shock, just... I didn't know what I was looking at but it was repeated attempts from medical personal to get a pain response from my Mom. Rubbing their knuckles, HARD, on her breastbone to see if she'd respond. So if anyone sees that on a loved one.. a line of super pink/red/inflamed skin... that's what they were doing.
#29
Grass evolved 66 million years ago. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. The vast majority of dinosaurs never existed at the same time as grass.
pink_panda 3 years ago
So grass shows up and then a million years later, dinosaurs go extinct. COINCIDENCE?
END WAR!!!! -(the quiet Kid) 3 years ago
I never knew that, thanks for sharing!
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Eliza Osenbaugh-Stewart 3 years ago
This is interesting but I feel like the last sentence is odd. I feel like the big reveal here is that there were in fact some dinosaurs around when grass evolved. I would have guessed that grass evolved millions of years after dinosaurs were gone.
Panda-riffic 3 years ago
Awww, so they couldn't take their shoes off and feel the grass under their dinosaur toes?
#30
Cuttlefish can accurately match the color and texture of their environment despite the fact that they’re colorblind.
80 Van 3 years ago
That implies that other species that have camouflage capabilities do so by looking at the environment and determining their color and texture. Color blindness is irrelevant to that ability for all creatures that have that ability.
C.Douglas 3 years ago
80 is right, this isn't unique. All cephalopods are colorblind and most of them have a form of active camoflouge
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Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
They have better colour vision with their skin that they do with their eyes. Although I don't think it's correct to say they are 'colour blind', implying that they can only see in black and white.
Rannveig Ess 3 years ago
Those white, chalky, flat, layered things you buy for your parakeet and hang in their cage to nibble and are dried cuttlefish. They are full of needed minerals and help trim their beaks.
#31
Koalas are literally smooth-brained, so much so that if you put a plate of eucalyptus leaves in front of them that have been taken off the branch, they won’t recognize them as food.
Sasquatch The Almighty 3 years ago
Couple it with something old-timey sounding, for more fun. "You, sir, are a smooth-brained strumpet-humper, with all the charm of a soiled undergarment!"
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DC 3 years ago
Brains serve as a means to survive. More capacity, if not translated into abilities helping there, is just a waste of material and energy, and, therefore, not to be met anywhere.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
Perhaps, but with koalas, it is amazing that they are even are alive as a species. Their only food source is also poisonous and they can't understand that leaves and leaves on a branch are the same thing. And there is so much more.
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Time2Roll86🇺🇦 3 years ago
Another cool fact- in Australia only people with a special license are allowed to hold koalas. I learned that went I visited there.
Tunk 3 years ago (edited)
Another cool fact is how Aussies will act so loud and proud crowing about our exceptional wildlife to visitors, but the sad reality is the majority of Australians do not give a care or give a second thought when it comes destroying their habitat with relish. Roads and houses and money is all a lot of Australians care about. We get good press but we are as backwards as they come and hypocrites to boot.
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SCamp 3 years ago
Well they do sleep 23 out of 24 hours so you’ve probably just caught them at a bad minute
DC 3 years ago
... and how many of their 60 wake minutes are not bad ...? first 20 ... waking up, pooping, maybe ... uh, what ... next 20, starving, therefore eating ... getting tired about it and then spending 20 minutes to find a spot to sleep ... what was ... were you ... ? What??? Tomorrow! Promised!
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#32
The Nazis planned to assassinate Winston Churchill with an explosive chocolate bar.
80 Van 3 years ago
They had some Oompa Loompas on standby to sing a song about it once the assassination was complete.
Alex K 3 years ago
now i gotta take the image of oompa loompas dressed as nazis out of my head
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I read that the British had plans to assassinate Hitler but figured he was doing so much damage to the Nazi war effort that they couldn't risk having him replaced with someone competent so called it off.
Stephen Steve Stephenson III 3 years ago
Poison champagne or scotch would likely have been more successful
Beta 3 years ago
I remember seeing somewhere that this picture was taken just after someone had rudely removed winstons cigar from his mouth and that why he looks angry. Might be a different pic
kcanded 3 years ago
Nope, that is indeed the correct pic. I forget who took it though....
Load More Replies... A B C 3 years ago
Explosive Ingenuity was wild in WW2. There were dogs equipped with explosives and trained to run up to enemy tanks, bat bombs that did catastrophic on Japanese roof structures, rat bombs that were supposed to be thrown into boilers, cat spies (not exactly explosive, but still wild) and a lot more. It's impressive how inventive humans grow when it comes to killing each other.
Steve Fischer 3 years ago
Churchill did eat that candy bar. Fortunately only his waistline exploded
Juan Alcorta 3 years ago
I'd fall into that trap. even if I survived, I'm sure I'll do it again.
#33
16⁰C and 28⁰C reversed are equal to their Fahrenheit value. So - 16 is 61f and 28 is 82f
Avichai Cohen 3 years ago (edited)
In the case of 28C it is not accurate (82.4F) and in the case of 16 it is 60.8 The fun fact should be that -40C = -40F
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
Or we could just tell the Americans to stop using that ridiculous system.
jolie laide 3 years ago
I tend to go by feel. "I can deal with this" or "I need a jacket" or "I need a coat" or "I could cut glass with my nipples". I just experience, and then make decisions to deal with it.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
Note: Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, died in 1744, aged 43. His rival Fahrenheit, however, was convinced that he was 109.
#34
Marlon Brando popularised wearing a T-shirt casually.
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
Brando was older, maybe he started it and James Dean continued it? :)
Load More Replies... debrina blackmoon 3 years ago
When all T-shirts were white(a]ka undershirts)??? Ok, idk-guessing.
#35
There are more plastic flamingo lawn ornaments in the US than there are wild flamingoes on the entire planet.
AppleBanana 3 years ago
There are more plastic dinosaurs than there are wild dinosaurs on the entire planet
Richard Willis 3 years ago
Probably more Stars and Stripes than all other national flags on earth!
#36
There is a plant called the California Corn Lilly that contains a drug called Cyclopamine. When animals eat it while pregnant, it can cause cyclopia (one eye). It inhibits a signaling pathway called the Sonic Hedgehog Pathway (yes, this pathway was actually named after the video game).
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
The sonic gene is a gene which determines how many digits/fingers a being has
Scagsy 3 years ago
I should think that the gene that determines how many ears you have is pretty annoyed at being overlooked in the naming stages there.
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It's call the sonic the hedgehog pathway because the controlling gene is a gene in the hedgehog family of genes because a mutant version makes fly embryo develop spikes and the sonic is a variant that easily dyes blue.
kasei10 3 years ago
Thank you, you saved me an explanation on drosophila genetics.
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The only artist to ever have five albums in the US Top 20 at the same time is Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
bob bruce 3 years ago
Popular in the 60s and early 70s. Easy to find on Youtube.
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Some great stuff too! (Especially "Whipped Cream And Other Delights!)
KombatBunni 3 years ago (edited)
Small side fact: in old Aussie rhyming slang, to be given the tijuana, or tijuana brass from your job was another way of saying someone was out on their a r s e, or no longer employed.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
The only artist to every have five top 20 albums at once is someone I've never heard of? I used to be a radio DJ and I have literally over 300,000 songs in my Media monkey collection! And... Oh, wait... I looked it up and he plays jazz... Ok, I like jazz a lot, it's great background when I'm working or at a party, etc. But I've never played enough attention to know the artists names. Most of it blurs together in my memory as being one long song. Classical does the same except for a few big hits.
memyselfandI 3 years ago
Anyone know a few of their songs to see if I’ve heard of them? I could Google but I know people like to share their interests 😊
bob bruce 3 years ago
Long before the Daniel Craig version "Casino Royale" was a 1967 parody of James Bond with Peter Sellers, David Niven and Woody Allen. The theme song is by HA&TB. Most of his stuff was instrumentals, and probably qualify as easy listening to light jazz. His more popular songs include Spanish Flea, The Lonely Bull, Tijuana Taxi. Biggest hit was probably "This Guy's In Love with You"
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Apparently turtles breathe from their booty.
Saara-Elina Kaukiainen 3 years ago
Turtes do not breathe through their booty. They do however use cloacal respiration or cutaneous respiration as do many other reptiles and amphibians.
Kendra Miller 3 years ago
Humans can too to an extent. There was a study last year sometime where they ventilated people from their butts and they found it worked well enough to be useful.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
Literally went snorkeling with green sea turtles yesterday. They bring their faces above water to take in a breath of air. This "fact" isn't true.
#39
Nuclear reactors are very fancy kettles.
Kira Okah 3 years ago
All methods of electricity generation that doesn't use direct application of driver to turbine is a kettle for a steam turbine.
Zoltán Végh 3 years ago
Except photovoltaic and wind... and hydropwer plant with dams... or the hydropower ones with the big wheels at the riversides... and the kinetic energy recover things.. like the dynamos on the older bikes. So yeah.. JUST a few. :D
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B Lorax 3 years ago
You mean "nuclear power plants include...", the nuclear reactor is the heat source which heats the "fancy kettle" part.
bob bruce 3 years ago
Considering the importance of keeping the fuel rods in water the reactor is a pretty basic kettle. The rest of the plant is a fancy spout.
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Craig Reynolds 3 years ago
It's pretty crazy that the most powerful energy source we can harness is basically used to boil water and we are trying to develop nuclear fusion for the same purpose.
#40
If you fold a regular piece of paper in half 104 (from memory) times, the paper will be as thick as the entire observable universe.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
And if you fold a piece of paper more than 300 times you end up with a book that has more pages than atoms in the observable universe
Dinah Brand 3 years ago
"It's commonly accepted that you cannot fold a single sheet of paper in half more than 7 times, no matter what paper finish, size, or basis weight you're using, for two main reasons: Every time you fold your sheet, you reduce your total surface area by half, so eventually you simply run out of surface area to fold."
Chris M 3 years ago
Say a piece of paper is 1/1000 inches thick. Each time you fold it it doubles in thickness. So we have (1/1000) x 2^104 = 2 x 10^28 inches. Converting to light-years, this is about 2*10^10 light years. The observable universe is about 4.6*10^10 light years from end to end. So the paper would be a little smaller. If the paper is thicker than 1/1000 inches, it will be bigger.
bob bruce 3 years ago
That's how far away the observable boundary is, so the width is 9.3*10^10 light years. Since paper is closer to 4/1000" it would be about twice the width of the universe, so folding it 103 times would be roughly the size of the observable universe.
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memyselfandI 3 years ago
And it’s impossible to fold a piece of standard printer paper in half more than 12 times, because eventually the distance required to cover the side of the stack is greater than the area on top, if that makes any sense.
random user 3 years ago
I'm sorry but I don't think anyone can make a piece of paper the size of the entire universe. Hasn't even been done before
JanuarySounds 3 years ago
Uhh... It says 'if you fold a regular sized piece of paper' not that one would need to start with a piece of paper that is the size of the universe. It also mentiones 'if you could' not 'if you do'. That's a difference.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Unfortunately, if you’re folding paper in halves, you can only do about 8 such folds before it becomes unfoldable. Origami is another subject entirely.
Shyla Clay 3 years ago
One cannot fold a paper more than seven times. I saw it on myth busters.
#41
When working for the Australian shooting team heading for Tokyo. Found out that alcohol is a banned substance not because guns and alcohol are bad (as my feeble brain suspected ) but because it's a performance enhancing drug due to slowing the heart rate.....they get breath tested before comp
#42
KFC's Twitter profile follows exactly 11 accounts: 6 random people named Herb and the 5 members of the British pop band Spice Girls.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
A guy on twitter pointed it out and got a custom painting from KFC which depicted him riding the colonel’s back
Kay blue 3 years ago
Who knows how it's split, they just say 11 herbs and spices. Maybe it was too difficult to decide which members of The Spice Girls to follow so they followed them all.
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We developed eyebrows with arches as a way to keep sweat from running into our eyes, instead they catch the sweat from the forehead and let them cascade to the side of our faces. Those little things like that purely for convenience just amaze me when it comes to our bodies and the natural world of evolution.
Anonymous 3 years ago
Acne helps rid the body of toxins. While going through kidney failure I developed terrible acne because my kidneys were not flushing the toxins out of my body like they were supposed to. The toxins were then forced out through my pores, turning into pimples and expelled from my body. After my transplant and having a functional kidney again the acne went away.
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Davo gifman 3 years ago
An yet according to #73 when evolution was working on the eyes optics nerve...it done goofed.
#44
The word “set” has got 430 different meanings, making it the word with the most definitions in the English language.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Just to make it more difficult for the kids trying to look up sex in the dictionary! (It must be on the next page)
KitFrey 3 years ago
The first time finding that page in school, ah memories
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Scagsy 3 years ago
So, if 'upset' means sad, why doesn't 'downset' mean happy? This bothers me more than you would imagine.
Jenný Samúelsdóttir Herlufsen 3 years ago
Upset is more like your mood is worked up, you're not just sad if you are upset, you can be angry, pissed, frustrated, like your feelings are in an upwards state. Downset would then be the opposite, like your feelings being numbed.
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It only takes 70 people to be in a room together for there to be a 99.99% chance that two people share the same birthday.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
I was in a classroom with 19 people and I shared a birthday with someone I never met before.
Catherine Graffham 3 years ago
In my class in primary school, out of 25 kids, 5 had the same birthday. There was me and my twin, my friend and his twin, and my best friend (who felt a little jealous that she didn’t have a twin of her own)
Atchaco-Leigh 3 years ago
As long as my twin is in the same room as me, there is 100% possibility
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I started a new job in September. My boss started a month before I did. Turns out we have the same birthday. I wonder what kind of odds that is? :)
Lynn Morello 3 years ago
Considering there are only 366 days in a Leap year, 365 days in other years. There would be about 1 billion people sharing your birthday. On my Birthday, we had 7 babies born, and ours is a relatively large hospital.
RandomFrog 3 years ago
I had a friend who sat infront of me in biology. Didint know her super well but sat together at lunch sometimes and said hello in the hallways. Anyways we shared a bday. And we were born in a Friday the thirteenth. Crazy
Fluffy Griffin 3 years ago
I went to the bank last week, and the guy that was helping me had a birth date one day after mine, even the same year!
#46
Hippos though appearing cute, fat and cuddly can reach speeds of 48km/h and kill at least 500 people a year.
80 Van 3 years ago
Is that 500 people per year per hippo, or is the 500 per year a collective kill?
Davo gifman 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure that's collectively, or hippos would be killing something like 60 million people a year.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
They are Africa's most dangerous mammal. (The mosquito is the most dangerous overall.)
#47
Humans are slightly bioluminescent and have stripes that can be seen under UV light!
#48
Humans are slowly losing a muscle in our hands/forearms called the palmaris longus that doesn't [significantly] contribute functionally to grip strength or motion. If you push your pinky and thumb together (like showing the number 3) then flex your wrist in, the tendon will pop out in the middle of your wrist if you have it. About 10% of the general population doesn't. It's basically a spare part for hand surgeons now. If you sever a tendon, they'll harvest the palmaris longus for grafting.
Blurryface 3 years ago
Yes, but us women need it to hold things, because of extreme pocket deficiency.
Scagsy 3 years ago
Hmmmn. Scientific study has revealed, rather oddly, that I seem to possess this tendon on my right wrist but not on my left. Does this mean that the left side of my body is evolving faster than my right? OMG this is terrifying! I NEED TO KNOW!
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Hmm, mine is only in my left wrist. I'm hiding behind the sofa in case I get taken to a laboratory for experiments
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Lol I have mine. I've known about this one for a while. My buddy asked me if I was a monkey, told me to touch pinky and my thumb and bring my hands up, looked at them and said "You're a monkey" and walked off. Looked it up and learned about it.
#49
When Germany was bombing the UK Hitler avoided bombing the town hall of my local town because he liked the architecture and wanted the building for himself.
Wilf 3 years ago
There are a lot of stories similar to this across the whole of the UK. The most famous is probably that of Senate House in London- the huge concrete HQ of the University of London (and such a towering mass of concrete that it was the inspiration for Orwell's Ministry of Truth). It was supposedly spared to serve as the Nazi party headquarters after the invasion. However, nice as these stories are, there is no evidence of any orders from Hitler to protect specific buildings. The reality is that high-level night bombing of the time just couldn't be that accurate anyway. Ironically, there is some evidence to the contrary- that specific buildings of cultural value (rather than economic or military value) WERE deliberately targeted in bombing campaigns.
#50
I know far too many about McDonald's. - McDonald's owns the lots that every McDonald's franchise sits on, and charges the franchise owner rent. This makes McDonald's the world's largest real estate developer. - Thanks to Happy Meal toys, McDonald's is also the world's largest toy distributor. - The Happy Meal was based on a box of cereal: put the food in a colourful box with a free toy inside - McDonald's is the world's largest purchaser of Coca-Cola. They're so big, Coca-Cola has an entire corporate division dedicated to servicing McDonald's. - A McDonald’s at a ski resort in Sweden is famous for having a "ski-thru." It's just a fancy outdoor window that skiers can ski up to and place their order. - A McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona has become famous for have turquoise arches instead of the usual Golden Arches. This is because a local zoning bylaw says the golden arches would clash with the red rocks.
DC 3 years ago
Since they now provide animal-free options, I rode to a McDrive on my bike recently ... only to discover that, a few cars in front of me, another cyclist already was waiting. And just behind me, another one came ... when I first did this 20 years+ ago, they tried to refuse to serve me, as "this isn't for bikes!", which I, succeedingly, doubted.
Scagsy 3 years ago
Our local KFC has a notice saying 'cars only'. I don't see what the problem is. I'm not a cyclist myself but I imagine that some cyclists do indeed eat burgers. They have wheels too, which has to be to their advantage. And I can't even begin to imagine what this cycle/car hybrid called a 'motorbike' would stir up. What if it has a sidecar? *Brain explodes*
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Abigail Coty 3 years ago
McDonalds was once sued by a group of Hindu(?) people because they were frying their signature fries in beef oil and didn’t make it well-known. Hindu people were unknowingly eating beef which was very upsetting and led to a lawsuit.
Kylie Kozub 3 years ago
Red and golden go better together than turquoise and golden And I say that as someone who has turquoise as their favourite colour :D
Lynn Morello 3 years ago
If as you say Coca Cola services McDonalds, Do they provide Diet Coke or Coke Zero??? I hate this Sugar Free Crap they make.
#51
Apparently in the early 1960s, a lounge singer named Vaughn Meader suddenly found himself extremely lucky: he sort of looked like newly elected President John F. Kennedy and he could imitate him fairly well, too. He used this to perfect an impersonation comedy act of Kennedy, which got him a deal for a comedy album. He and a few others released "The First Family". "The First Family" was a SMASH. Nearly everyone in America owned this album. It was part of nearly every home, like a fridge or a TV. People couldn't get enough. It wasn't edgy or even insulting; it was just comedians doing parody of the Kennedy family and people ate it up. Even Kennedy loved it. In a sense, it was groundbreaking in that no other U.S. President was lampooned in such a way before; in fact, Richard Nixon refused to buy it because he felt it crossed a line of respect towards presidents. Vaughn Meader became one of the most well-known celebrities in America in the blink of an eye. A second album was in the works. Then Kennedy was shot, the second album scrapped, Meader couldn't find work, lost all of his money, became an addict, and I think he ended up owning a bar somewhere. A true rise and fall tale.
François Carré 3 years ago
Now I can imagine an interesting story about Kennedy getting replaced by his doppelganger on the trip to Dallas for some reason, then after the murder having to impersonate Meader for the rest of his life and never being able to tell the truth to anyone.
#52
I'll c/p it from the internet but i like this: "The samurai were officially abolished as a caste in Japanese society during the Meiji Restoration in 1867. The first ever fax machine, the "printing telegraph", was invented in 1843 and Abraham Lincoln was famously assassinated at Ford's Theater in 1865. Which means there was a 22 year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln."
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
But DID a samurai send a fax to Abe? Did any samurai send any faxes? So curious
Lynn Morello 3 years ago
What year did Abe Lincoln became president in 1861 so that cuts it down to 4 years. But 22 years for any other US president.
#53
A blue whale has a heart the same size as a small car.
#54
The human brain clock speeda are incredibly slow, about 200Hz... But it can do so many operations in parallel that to replicate such a level of parallelism with currently best parallel processing CPUs, we'd need so many that the number is unfathomable and to power such computer we'd almost need a full Dyson sphere worth of power.
Kira Okah 3 years ago
Dyson Spheres, btw, are theoretical megastructures. Effecively a series of artificial rings orbiting a sun specifically to capture solar energy for a spacefaring species' energy needs. Sorry, something that I learned about recently as Dyson Rings are in our Stargate rp, very interesting.
NsG 3 years ago
Don't apologize! Often these articles give just a small snapshot of the full (and more interesting) fact, and context is often lost. I sometimes learn more from the follow up comments!
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Brains are slow but have such insane processing power that, in order to replicate that processing power in a computer, it would take so much energy that the only way we know of to provide such an amount would be using a method that is very much theoretical (and intended to power long distance space travel). Even then it might just about be enough energy to power that process.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
hmm yeah but ask anyone what the cube root of pi is, and it will take even a professional mathematician hours or days to work it out. Whereas a cheap computer from the 1970s would answer instantly. so.... the constant comparisons of the brain to a computer are misleading. Our memory is also shockingly bad. Hence the so-called "mandela effect", and hence most people can't draw from memory, only by copying something in front of them.
#55
Most of the world trees are planted by a squirrel who forgot where his nut was burried
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago (edited)
The squirrel from ice age definately did not plant any tree then
#56
Mario wears a hat because during the Donkey Kong days (when he was known as Jumpman) the animation was too primitive to animate hair while he was moving or jumping
thebossanovabird 3 years ago
Mario’s new ability in Super Mario Odyssey is being able to possess enemies with a hat. If it weren’t for this decision, I bet SMO would have a totally different gimmick! Just goes to show how one decision can change everything…
#57
-We put a man on the moon before we thought to put wheels on a suitcase. -the lighter was invented before matches were -Hippopotamus milk is pink -Saudi Arabia imports their camels from Austrailia -From the time it was discovered, to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto had not yet made one trip around the sun. -Nintendo was founded in 1889!
Scagsy 3 years ago
Foof! That was exhausting! I felt as though I had to read it superfast. I don't know why. Anyone else?
Sasy 3 years ago
I got held up in my country having an extra i in it, but I think it was once the word wheels got in there, we all just started rolling faster.
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The Scout 3 years ago
The camels had become a problem in Australia. In the 1840s europeans brought them there to explore the inland deserts and to establish transport lines. They were not as suited to the task as originally thought, so they were freed in the widlerness- where, not fitting into the ecosystem and having no natural predator, they multiplied and promptly became a problem. Australia has to spend about 10 million dollars a year to control the damages done by wild camels, and they are actively hunted. Also a camel emits 0.97 of a carbon-equivalent tonne per year.
Lynn Morello 3 years ago
I don't think Australia has enough camels to supply Saudi Arabia, They have their own breeders.
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Hippo milk isn’t pink. That’s an Internet myth. Their milk is the same white/off-white of other mammals. Their sweat, however, is pinkish red because they secrete hippusudoric acid, which has a reddish pigmentation.
#58
A female cat can have kittens fathered by multiple males at once. That's part of the reason why a male cats "stuff" has spines on it that flip up when the male makes the pulling out motion. When up, the spines scrape the inside of the female so that the male cat can both dig deeper crevasses for sperm to settle in, and so he can pull out any other male cats sperm as a way for him to be sure that his kittens will be part of the litter.
Auntriarch 3 years ago (edited)
I've always thought they were vicious little f*****s. Look like I was right
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
It's probably why female cats are known to turn around and angrily swat the male when he pulls out.
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#59
Barcode Scanners scan the whites instead of the blacks
80 Van 3 years ago
I mean, true, but that’s also kind of like saying that a computer operates by counting the 1’s and ignoring the 0’s, which would be inaccurate. The black absorbs the light and the white reflects it, so in that regard, it’s seeing the white, not the black. But it’s still counting that void as relevant information.
#60
The human body is 99% empty space due to the space between atoms
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
If you took every car on this planet and removed the empty space you can fit all the particles in 1 foot by 1 foot box
David A Paterson 3 years ago
That's 99.99999% not 99%, there is a difference. But today we say that atoms don't contain any empty space, quantum mechanics says that that 99.99999% is completely filled with spread-out electrons, making the shrinking of atoms nearly impossible.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
So if you have an oscillation overthruster, you could travel *inside* things! Just watch out for the Lectroids from Planet 10.
#61
The total number of ways you can shuffle a deck of cards is... a really big a number. This big to be precise :80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 to be exact. It's very very very very very (x about a bajillion) likely that any time you shuffle a deck of cards, that exact order has never existed before. Someone else on Reddit said - Say that there exists 10 Billion people on every planet, 1 Billion planets in every solar system, 200 Billion solar systems in every galaxy, and 500 Billion galaxies in the universe. If every single person on every planet has been shuffling decks of cards completely at random at 1 Million shuffles per second since the BEGINNING OF TIME, every possible deck combination would still yet to have been shuffled.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
You can visualise numbers up to 10^40 quite easily. You can visualise a tenth of a mm, 1000 km, a tenth of a second, and 32 years, yes? Then 10^40 is just the number of cubes a tenth of a mm to a side existing for a tenth of a second, inside a cube 1000 km to a side existing for 32 years.
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Mike Patton, the lead singer of Faith No More did the vocals for the creatures in I Am Legend
I’ve Seen Things 3 years ago
As he has the second greatest vocal octave range of any professional singer…
#63
Finally, I can use the space facts I’ve had in my notes on my phone for ages: On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn't be able to see it anyway). On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be almost ten thousand miles away. Even if you shrank everything down so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a molecule, Pluto would still be over 35 ft away. Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way. Our nearest neighbour in the cosmos, Proxima Centauri, which is part of the three-star cluster known as Alpha Centauri, is 4.3 light years away, a sissy skip in galactic terms, but that is still a hundred million times farther than a trip to the moon. To reach it by spaceship would take at least 25,000 years. The average distance between stars is 20 million million miles. If we were randomly inserted into the universe, the chances that we would be on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion (1 with 33 zeroes). The core of a neutron star is so dense that a single spoonful of matter from it would weigh 200 billion pounds.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Neutron stars are like taking the sun and squishing it to the size of a small city. The only thing that prevents it all from becoming a blackhole is the repulsion of matter
Doob 3 years ago
Imagine it was possible to press the sun down to the size of a marble, i wonder how powerful it would be
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
At one point there was a website that let you "scroll" through the solar system to scale. Your hand gets tired before you even get to Venus!
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Space is just so big. Our solar system is 2 light years big so of course the distance is a lot. Can you share a link to that website?
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The sky you see at night with all the stars isnt the realtime image. As these stars are lightyears away, light from them takes years to reach to earth. Some of the stars you see in the sky might not even be there now. Blows my mind everytime i think about it.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
If aliens 5 billion light years away got our radio signals and could go faster than light, they would arrive at a burnt and empty lifeless planet if they chose to visit us
SomePilot 3 years ago
And even if we were to survive we would first be drowned in trash before it can happen
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Scientists believe Beatleguese (or however you spell it) has already gone supernova (exploded) an we may see it in a few years. They say it will be brighter then the moon.
BasedWang12 3 years ago
"Most of the stars you are wishing upon are already dead. Just like your dreams"
#65
The person least related to you on the planet is your 50th cousin. Statistically speaking, you have over 1 million 8th cousins.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
In a sense the fact that we are descended from Eve is true. Millions of years ago Mitochondrial Eve lived along with members of her species in Africa. All of us are descended from her lineage. The other female lineages died out. We know this by tracing the DNA of our mitochondria which comes from our mothers
Bunzilla 3 years ago
More recently, non-African humans faced two evolutionary bottlenecks 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. They're not really sure what happened, but that humans in Africa were unaffected. Those of African descent have more genetic diversity, which is a good thing.
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#66
The T.Rex existed closer in history to humans than to the Stegosaurus. Sharks are older than trees. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Lunar Landing than The Great Pyramids Sorry, not just 1.
Shelp 3 years ago
Yeah, those are the obligatory facts of every single "unusual facts" thread
Load More Replies... David A Paterson 3 years ago
Want another? Both mammals and birds had diversified enormously by 66 million years ago. T. rex was a contemporary of both primates and teals.
#67
In a game of chess after you played your first 5 moves and your opponent played his first 5 moves, there are already like 70 trillion possible chess games that could have been played.
Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago
Actually it’s 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 (or one hundred sixty-nine thousand septillion, five hundred eighteen thousand sextillion, eight hundred twenty-nine thousand quintillion, one hundred thousand quadrillion, five hundred forty-four thousand trillion).
#68
Every four years we have a leap year, unless you can divide the year by 100.. however, if a year can be divided by both 100 and 400, it still will be a leap year. So the year 1900 wasn't a leap year, 2000 was and 2100 won't be.
Julia Medd 3 years ago
Being a leap year has nothing to do with the Olympics
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One horse has about 15 horsepower while a human has about 1 horsepower.
DC 3 years ago
... and for what amount of time? I, basically untrained, can deliver about 100 W for several minutes, half an hour or so ... I can, for a minute or less, reach about 800 W ... which is close to 1 hp (735,5 W), but I sure can not provide anything close to 1 hp for any extended period of time. People who can are Tour de France material.
#70
Genghis Khan has over 16 million male descendants.
Scagsy 3 years ago
Everyone looks similar. We are all the same species. There is far more that unites us, than divides us. Seek out the common ground and overrule your prejudices.
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#71
Platypus dont have nipples, to feed their young they sweat milk.
Jill Bussey 3 years ago
Like all mammals, monotreme mothers produce milk for their young. But unlike all other mammals, monotremes like the platypus have no nipples. Their milk oozes out of mammary gland ducts and collects in grooves on their skin--where the nursing babies lap it up or suck it from tufts of fur.
#72
You can fit 1.3 million earths inside the Sun.
Trond Øien 3 years ago
And you can fit all the planets in our solar system lined up pole to pole between the earth and the moon.
#73
Tumors can grow miniature organs, hair and teeth, and are referred to as "teratomas".
Scp_049 3 years ago
Imagine if one day, a tumor grew an entire face, as well as vocal cords and proper organs, making it an actual living being.
Carrie Smith 3 years ago
I had a friend who almost died from her teratoma. She needed emergency surgery to remove it and she's doing fine now.
Eva Ribes 3 years ago
do a google image search for teratoma tumor. I just learned this in anatomy class. gross
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Babies are not born with kneecaps! Instead a small peice of cartilage that later goes through ossification (turning to bone) becoming the patella (kneecap). Usually develops during the 2-6 year old range.
Davo gifman 3 years ago
This is why I find it difficult to believe parents; when they say their child was walking at 6mo.
#75
Elmer's glue has a bull on the label because he is the boyfriend of the cow on Borden dairy products. A marketing trick from when Borden made the glue.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Wait, so the white substance comes from him, like the milk comes from her...
#76
The letterbox on the famous black door of No. 10 Downing Street does absolutely nothing. There's no hole on the other side.
KitFrey 3 years ago (edited)
Honestly, the builder was probably having a laugh and making a metaphor. Or they forgot, could be either.
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Lynn Morello 3 years ago
All mail for 10 Downing Street, is delivered by courier AFTER it is checked for explosives and such,
#77
if you lined up all of the other planets in the solar system, they would fit almost perfectly between Earth and the Moon.
Kira Okah 3 years ago
At the furthest distance between the Earth and moon, since someone will bring it up.
#78
Most eyes in the natural world including yours are wired the stupid way around, with the wiring pointing inwards meaning you have to have a blind spot where the optic nerve leaves. Yet there are eyes that have evolved without this problem just by being oriented sensibly, proving eyes have not only evolved many times, but also evolution isn't perfect it's just guesswork
#79
Fuzzy caterpillars turn to moths. Smooth ones turn to butterflies. (There are some exceptions to this rule)
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
I still haven't heard a satisfactory distinction between moth and butterfly. I get that one's day and one's night, but what else? Eating nectar vs not-eating?
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Biologically moths fold their wings horizontally (like a bird) while butterflies do it vertically. So some night "moths" are actually butterflies and vice-versa. The day-night distinction is not a biological one but a "common language" one
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Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Moths have fan shaped wings. Butterflies have wings that are double sectioned.
#80
In the earlier stages of the universe, the sky used to be orange, but it has slowly redshifted into infrared which we can’t see.
#81
Babys are able to survive longer under water than adults/kids. It‘s f*cking insane how long they survive. That‘s because babys have a reflex to not breath under water. Drowning isn‘t oxygen-deprivation, it‘s water filling up the lungs.
BasedWang12 3 years ago
The last line is also how investigators can find out if a body was dead before or after being dumped into water.
#82
Van Gogh killed himself one year after Nintendo was founded.
#83
Just learned that barnacles have the largest penises in the animal kingdom if you compare it to its size.
#84
Atmosphere of Mars is more than 95 percent carbon dioxide and less than 1 percent oxygen. Inhabiting mars permanently other than research for humans is not an easy task.
Lynn Morello 3 years ago (edited)
Now that depends on which of the species of humans you question, some are more dense than others.
Load More Replies... Tonk Terrier 3 years ago
Practically impossible due to the various chloride chemicals in the Martian dust
Shine Caramia 3 years ago
Also Mars doesn't have a magnetosphere. There are lots of things we can overcome, but we cannot artificially create a magnetosphere.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
I am more worried about the low gravity and what it would do to our bone development and strength.
#85
The speed of sound through mayonnaise is approximately 2613 ms-1
#86
Capybaras are fish according to the Vatican
Nathaniel 3 years ago
So the rich could still eat meat on a Friday. Because giving up one day of meat is so hard for the elite. I think beavers are classed as fish too.
Shelp 3 years ago
AFIK it was not for the rich (they don't eat something as common as a capybara, but had rather pigs and cows imported for their personnal consumption) but for the indigenous people who didn't want to join a religion forbiding them to eat meat on fridays.
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Catarina 3 years ago
i'm frombrhe EU and never heard about that...there are snails that live IN the sea...but those are a different kind of snails much like seahorses
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
yeah but the vatican aren't well-known for being that much in favour of science, right?
#87
The speed of thought is about 100m/s.
#88
The Apollo astronauts' footprints on the moon will probably stay there for at least 100 million years. Since the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, there's no wind or water to erode or wash away the Apollo astronauts' mark on the moon. That means their footprints, roverprints, spaceship prints, and discarded materials will stay preserved on the moon for a very long time
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Even though Stanley Kubrick filmed the whole thing in a film studio. No I am not being serious.
BobTheDeathGripper 3 years ago
I was gonna downvote you then. But I read the second sentence.
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One of the Zimbabwe’s presidents name was “Banana”.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
Canaan Sodindo Banana was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country’s independence.
#90
All house flies are the same species and the size of the flies depends on how much food they had when they where larvae.
Kira Okah 3 years ago (edited)
But some smaller flies you get in your house that are mistaken for common house flies are actually lesser house flies, which are a different species. Lesser house flies are the ones that circle the middle of the room, not an activity of common house flies.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
Thank you. I have frequently observed an unusual house fly species circling in the middle of the room. Most house flies don't.
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Caligula once declared war on Neptune
The Scout 3 years ago
His troops are reported to having taken that quite literal, atacking the ocean and repeatedly stabbing the water with tridents...
Adam Zad 3 years ago
The ocean, knowing it had ZERO chance of prevailing against the powerful Roman Legion, didn't even fight back.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
Similar story to King Canute, but his was more humble. He was trying to show that the sea does not obey kings.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
This actually had a purpose. The purpose was to test the loyalty of his troops. Caligula and Canute were not the only two, there was at least one other general about 400 years earlier.
#92
Otters are necrophilic rapists, even worse than dolphins.
ComfyPanda 3 years ago
WTAF. Thanks for ruining my favorite animal for me lol still cute AF though
#93
111 111 1112 = 12345678987654321 Sorry I thought you said useless
#94
The McLaren F1, which set a top speed record in the '90s, has tail lights from a bus.
#95
There are more units of Planck time in 1 second than there have been seconds since the Big Bang.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
The Planck time is the time it takes for light to travel a distance equal to the Planck length. So yes, it's small. The shocker is the Planck mass, which isn't small at all, it's as heavy as 750 thousand human red blood cells. The Planck mass is 20 times as heavy as the worm C. elegans.
#96
Warren G is Dr. Dre's cousin. Dre first heard Snoop Dogg on a demo that Warren G had made for him. Also, Hall of Fame NFL wide receiver Art Monk is related to legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk.
Jennifer Mann 3 years ago
Warren G and Nate Dog regulate any stealin' of his property, which as a middle aged white lady I assume means ensuring they had proper appointments and permits.
BasedWang12 3 years ago
And Nate Dog really is Snoops cousin. Despite the legend, Snoop and Bow Wow ARENT biologically related... Instead Snoop saw Bow Wow perform when he was like 6 where Snoop coined his name and have him slots on Doggystyle (only one released on that album) he was actually in the Gin & Juice video too
What do you think ?
Seán Baron 3 years ago
There are so many apple varieties around the world, that if you were to eat a different apple variety every day, it would take you over 20 years to get through them.
kcanded 3 years ago
Hooray for so many apples that are not red delicious!
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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
More things happened in the first second of the universe’s existance than the rest of the history and the future of the universe
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago (edited)
Fun fact: Many people don't know that some plants are male plants and some are female plants.
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Seán Baron 3 years ago
There are so many apple varieties around the world, that if you were to eat a different apple variety every day, it would take you over 20 years to get through them.
kcanded 3 years ago
Hooray for so many apples that are not red delicious!
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More things happened in the first second of the universe’s existance than the rest of the history and the future of the universe
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago (edited)
Fun fact: Many people don't know that some plants are male plants and some are female plants.
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