“Walmart Is The World’s Largest Retailer Of Diamonds”: 50 Facts That Are Useless But Interesting
People say that you're never too old to learn new things, and we here at Bored Panda strongly agree with that sentiment. We like to present you with interesting, lesser-known snippets of knowledge from time to time, and this occasion is no different.
Life can be full of interesting facts we don't even think about while going through our daily routines. For example, did you know that otters have little skin pockets where they can store their favorite rocks? Or that it snows in the Sahara desert? If you want to learn more random facts like these, scroll through this list we made for your curiosity and enjoyment!
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Two French Bulldogs
The dog on the left, Arnie, is an award winning French Bulldog.
The dog on the right, Flint, was bred by Hawbucks French Bulldogs, in the Netherlands. This breeder is working to restore a healthier template for Bulldogs, similar to how they looked about a century ago.
And has a bonus of not looking like it ran into a wall
Load More Replies...The longer muzzle is much better looking but the dog's health is the single most important factor - human vanity about owning an overbred type is disgusting. Dogs give only joy and did nothing to deserve this sanctioned abuse.
Good! Now fix the English Bulldog, the Pug, the Dachshund, SharPei, Bassett Hound, German Shepherd, Boston Terrier, Great Dane, Greyhound, Golden Retrievers, Cavalier King Charles Terrier, Cocker Spaniel, and about fifty other breeds that have been bred to the point many suffer breathing issues, cancers, hip dysplasia, spinal stenosis, gastric torsion, and many other disorders. That's a good start, though!
i'm not sure what's wrong with the goldens. could you explain please?
Load More Replies...Good on the breeder. It's terrible what "fashion" has done to the physiologies of some of the animals that we interact with.
Bl@@dy dog breeders especially pedigrees are horrible people. I saw a documentary about Crufts judges where they cheerfully admitted to drowning non-standard puppies, years ago. That's why the BBC doesn't show the competition any more.
Are they now in jail for animal abuse? Personally I'm all for dropping them into the middle of the ocean so they get what they gave.
Load More Replies...In Switzerland, It's Illegal To Own Just One Guinea Pig; If You Have Any, You Have To Have At Least Two. They Get Lonely!
Yes, I’m currently looking for some pups and read it’s been updated to recommend 3 rats now instead of 2.
Load More Replies...It should likewise be illegal to keep only one pet rat. They turn into basket cases if they have no rat friends to socialise with.
The Guinea pigs love this law, because you get on an endless loop of adopting more Guinea pigs, 'cause you rarely lose both at once, and then the singleton needs a new friend and so on and so on ...
Anyone in San Diego County who wants 2can at this moment get them from the humane Society. There are 135 who need homes
135... That's an odd number of guinea pigs.🤔
Load More Replies...Same should go for ferrets, and rabbits, and chooks, and so on.
I hope for the same law for parrots. They are very intelligent and social creatures.
Same goes for bunnies. In the wild, the live in groups of up to 20 animals. I
The Chicago Skyline Visible From Nearly 50 Miles Away In Indiana Dunes Sunset
During certain times of the year, the sun sets behind the skyline, offering this breathtaking view.
This is a great one to show the flat earthers and ask them to find the short buildings or the bade of the large ones!
Load More Replies...Indiana Dunes and the Red Skyline. Coming soon to a theater near you!
I am reminded of an effect of cold lake water that made Chi-town's skyline visible from Holland Mich.
Looks like an 80s synthwave poster. Just missing the gridlines and a DeLorean.
The world has so many little secrets we might have no idea about. Like the fact that giraffes' 50 cm-long tongues are black. Well, they're not black exactly, more accurately, they are dark purple or very dark blue. Still, why is that?
Scientists explain that it's nature's way of protecting their tongues from getting sunburned. Because they feed so high up, giraffes' tongues get exposed to the sun a lot. The density of dark melanin pigments in them offers better protection against UV rays.
When You Dream, One Portion Of Your Brain Creates The Storey, While Another Part Witnesses The Events And Is Really Shocked By The Plot Twists
I'm from Alabama (South USA). It's not a story unless it involves a cow, and a drunken relative.
Load More Replies...Sometimes if a dream moves in a direction I don't like, I can "rewind" it to that point and resume from there.
I do something like this only if its something i dont like I skip ahead lol, itll be scary or one of those things where youre stuck in a loop and im all wait this is a dream and i dont like this and I concentrate and change what is happening to skip ahead of the loop or past the scary part.
Load More Replies...This is why nightmares are actually very embarrassing. You make up a guy and then get scared of him.
I'm lucky. I can change my dreams whilst I dream. If something is upsetting or scary, I can change it. But I wake up with terrible headaches when I do.
That's lucid dreaming. Some people spend a significant amount of time practicing it through different experiments like sleep masks with blinking lights to get that good at it.
Load More Replies...Faces, people, everyone, and everything in a dream, represent something about the dreamer, so as to the ‘who’ these people are, that’s easy to answer. They’re aspects of you, the dreamer. As to the ‘why’ these people are in your dream, it’s because you’re processing issues around those aspects. To put it simply: sometimes they are people you passed on the street, or people close to you. But they can also be people fully created by your mind, like Anima and Animus
Load More Replies...Then how do you explain my recent experience of having two dreams occurring simultaneously, during which I was aware that I was dreaming, and kept switching between the two?
Lucid dream, or fever dream, or both. The only lucid dream I had was when I had the flu. I was very annoyed with the war of the worlds going on inside the bedroom wall all night. Eventually my fever broke and I went and swam with the dolphins.
Load More Replies...Given the breadth of my dreams, I'm not surprised to find that different parts of my (disurbed) mind takes control....might explain why I get up at 0400....
Steve Jobs Typed A Letter To A Fan Who Had Requested An Autograph From Him, Stating That He Does Not Give Out Autographs
This letter ended up selling at auction for $400k.
Famous people often pay by check in hopes that the recipient will keep the check for the signature instead of cashing it.
That wouldn't necessarily work today with the rise of mobile deposits.
Load More Replies...A suspect refused to provide a handwriting sample for an investigation. All well and good, but then they decided to get clever and sent a written complaint about how they'd been falsely accused, to the chief constable....
Ringo Starr no longer gives autographs because he says they eventually end up on ebay
Sometimes Dogs In Movies Have To Have Cgi Tails Because They Keep Wagging Their Tails. They Are Just So Happy To Be There!
When they were filming True Blood they even had to CGI the tails of the wolves that played the "werewolves" because they kept wagging them. I guess you just can't take the wag out of any canine. :)
When they were filming 'Cujo," they had to tape the St. Bernard's tails to their legs because they couldn't stop wagging.
Load More Replies...Airplane! has an extra funny touch; in the scene where the guy is being "mauled" by the golden retriever, YOU CAN SEE THE DOG'S TAIL WAGGING LIKE CRAZY. Doggie actor was just playing and having a great time!
Yes, I came here to mention this one and also Beethoven, one of the dobermans can’t stop wiggling her tail like a manic
Load More Replies...They had to do that with the wolves in Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe :)
Does spelen mean play? I know a little German, but no Dutch.
Load More Replies...Their co-stars haven't threatened to destroy their careers yet. That's why theyre happy. Just wait.
Who hasn't experienced the sensation of falling when trying to fall asleep? Probably very few of us. You know that feeling of getting jolted awake right as you're drifting into a sweet, sweet nap? That's called myoclonus.
Scientists say that we feel the sudden jerking or falling sensations as we drift from one sleep phase to another. They call the movements "hypnagogic jerks," and they usually happen in the first light stage of sleep. Our brains interpret it as being awake and sometimes check in by waking up our muscles as a means of protection.
The Incans Created A Brilliant Engineering Technique
It is called ‘ashlar masonry’, where rocks are cut to fit perfectly together without mortar. This allowed the stones to move in its place during an earthquake, before settling back in their original positions.
Nifty, but not new when the Icans developed it. The technique was used in Bronze Age Mycenae a few thousand years previously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashlar#Use
Load More Replies...Very different from what I imagined, thanks for sharing.
Load More Replies...My Dad, Uncle and 2 brothers worked in construction but all 4 followed my Dad and specialized in masonry. My Dad, Uncle and One of my Brothers is gone, but I can still drive all over and look at places that all 4 built and in some cases help design. The ONLY place that I will go out of my way to avoid is the building that Dad was killed while working on. My Uncle and Brother that have both passed away were onsite when it happened and they NEVER returned to their jobs after that day. All 4 always loved looking at these types of things, Dad always believed that you had to learn from the past, so you could make improvements in the present, that way the future can build on what you've learned and the mistakes that you have made, so they can make their own improvements and avoid previous mistakes in order to keep moving forward. If he had lived long enough to see things like this he would have been so excited and blown away to actually be able to look at this type of things
I do believe this but would not want to test it out during a quake.
And each block is fitted to the last blocks, however they may be shaped. https://www.aracari.com/blog/aracari-team-insights/inca-walls/
No iron or steel making, mortar-free masonry of a sort abandoned in Europe long ago (although the South American version was very highly developed and well adapted to its purpose), human sacrifice, "writing" by knotting string. Compared to Europeans, they would have seemed somewhat backward - especially when looked at by aggressive conquerors who just wanted to steal the loot and viewed anyone who wasn't white and Christian as "obviously inferior".
Load More Replies...Lego clips together. Ashlar masonry are smooth blocks of the same shape where the surfaces have high touch ratios.
Load More Replies...These "Wavy Walls" In England Surprisingly Use Fewer Bricks Than Straight Ones
Originating in ancient Egypt, their arch design provides sturdy support with just one layer, unlike straight walls that require two.
I live in England and have seen this photo several times but never seen a wall actually built like this. The post suggests these are common here - they definitely aren’t.
Interesting... they can be found pretty frequently in old (~17th to 18th century, old to us) sites in the Eastern U.S. I'm in Maryland and can think of at least 3 nearby.
Load More Replies...Yep! And my alma mater, University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson
Load More Replies...Your Pets Will Forgive You If You Accidentally Step On Them
Once your heart starts beating again. Little Sadie is so incredibly smart, she knows I'm wobbly when I first get up from a seated position and gives me a wide berth. Coming out of the bedroom in the morning is more of the same.
Load More Replies...Me 2, I'm baby. I didn't mean to step on your foot or tail and then give extra love.
Load More Replies...Step on my dog nightly since he sleeps in front of the bathroom, also keep bisquits for him in bathroom .
Sounds like he does it on purpose because he gets biscuits for it. :)
Load More Replies...Yes, but you have to apologise! I am convinced that they understand an apology!
I think so too! On occasions where I've knocked into the cat somehow he will stop dashing away when I make an oral fuss "Oopsy, oopsy, I'm sorry baby!" and he comes right back
Load More Replies...''Oh god, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! My poor precious little angel did I hurt you? Poor, poor baby I'm so sorry!''
Yes and they also refer to us contemptously as "Big Feet" when we're out of earshot.😂
Here are a couple of fun facts about the Sahara desert: it used to be a lush rainforest and it also has snow from time to time. The lush jungle was there more than 6,000 years ago, verified by academics Robert Korty and William Boos found in 2016 by analyzing precipitation patterns today and from the Holocene era.
Otters Have Skin Pockets For Their Favorite Rocks
I am a woman. I have small pockets that fit nothing if I have any at all.
Dogs Can Tell When Your Comming Home By How Much Of Your Scent Is Left In The House If You Have A Daily Routine
How about “you’re” (you are) coming home instead of “your” … horrible spelling.
I think my cat does this too. Every day when I get home from work she is sitting at the door. Then, she'll meow at me loudly. I think she is asking where the helluvi been all day!!
Back when (1980s) I had to commute work every day, our dog would start to get antsy about 15 minutes before the ferry I was on reached the landing according to my wife.
Our dog reacted based on hearing my father's car from some distance away, obviously well before we could.
Same. My dog also gets upset if one of us is late coming home.
Load More Replies...In that case, my cats are much smarter. If they go outside when I go to work, they know what time I should be coming home. They wait for me at the door. If I'm late, I get an earful
Lobsters Were Considered Disgusting And Low-Class Food, To The Point That Feeding Them To Prisoners Too Often Was Considered Cruel And Unusual Punishment
Also they're basically just big sea roaches.
My great grandfather was a lobster fisherman in Nova Scotia and my grandmother took lobster sandwiches to school in the 1930s becaus they were so poor. She was so ashamed that she hid them from the other children.
English settlers in Jamestown who were on the verge of starvation did not consider eating them or crabs. Although they did wipe out the local oysters and clams
Load More Replies...Very true, but if it's butter I'm after, bread is a lot cheaper than lobster.
Load More Replies...Servants in some of the big houses, especially in Scotland, had it written into their contracts that they would only be served lobster no more than 3 (?) times a week.
Shrimp = Roaches, Lobster = Scorpions, Crabs = Spiders. Aquatic varieties. No thank you.
And no matter what you eat you're eating worms. Nematodes are everywhere.
Load More Replies...In 2022, the Sahara saw unusual snowfall in its Algerian territory. However, that wasn't the first time we could see snow, as the phenomenon was also recorded in 2017, 2018, and 2021. The temperatures in the desert get awfully high, at about 50°C during the day, but they also drop very low at night. In 2005, in Algeria, the lowest recorded temperature was -14°C. When the temperature is cold and there's moisture in the air, snow forms.
First Documented Complaint
The First Complaint "Letter" (Made From Clay) Was Sent In 1750 Bc In Mesopotamia From A Man Named Nanni To A Merchant Named Ea-Nasir. Nanni Was Mad That He Received The Incorrect Grade Of Copper That He Had Already Paid For And That The Merchant Was Rude To His Servant When Confronted.
Thousands upon thousands of such tablets have been discovered at ancient sites in Anatolia and Mesopotamia that used to be Bronze and Early Iron Age trading colonies. They're full of stories similar to this.
The Guinness Book Of Records Was Invented By The Guinness Beer Folks
They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments.
In a similar vein, the organisation that awards Michelin stars to restaurants is the same Michelin company that sells tyres. The idea was that they would provide a guidebook of places to go to encourage people to drive more and therefore need more tyres and so started rating restaurants.
I never knew that but now I think about it the guide does have he Michelin man on it, never connected the dots!!!
Load More Replies...A little more info on this: The idea for the book came from Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery in the early 1950s. Beaver was inspired to create the book after a trivia disagreement with his hosts during a European hunting expedition. He wanted to create a resource that could settle debates and draw people to pubs.
If I remember correctly the original argument was what was the fastest game bird, which is an argument only families as rich as the Guiness family would be having. They realised there wasn't anywhere specific to look up things like this, and thus the book was born. Source: QI. Fastest game bird was a species of goose, apparently, which wound everyone up as geese are not game birds!
It originated in Castlebridge, Co Wexford not too far from where I live
I doubt bar arguments was the reason given in the product planning meeting.
If You Have 10 Dollars In Your Pocket And No Debts , You Have More Wealth Than 25% Of Americans
I'm surprised it's not a far larger percentage. I've probably got more than $10 in my wallet but it's been a long time since I've had no debt. This statement seems to be saying that only 25% of Americans are carrying debt. Unless they mean negative net worth, which is quite different (since cars, houses, and belongings can count toward the positive), but I think that still seems like a low percentage, even with that accounted for.
It's saying that 25% have a negative net worth. That's not at all ambiguous or unclear.
Load More Replies...Kinda a silly way to look at things, like saying a homeless person has more wealth than the guy making $500k with a $1m mortgage and $80k car loan. Technically true, but meaningless, really.
You have to reach a certain level of 'affluence' to be able to obtain debt..
Nah. They’ll give student loans to anybody. Especially if you enroll in a for-profit trade school.
Load More Replies...Let's go to the animal kingdom and explore some fun facts about them. The ever-cute otters are a good place to start. Did you know that they have skin pockets underneath their armpits? what do they put in there? The food they plan to eat later or rocks they'll use to crack open mussels and other hard-shelled snacks.
The Amazon River Is Over 4,000 Miles Long And Doesn't Have Any Bridges That Cross It
The Indiana Bell Building Was Rotated 90° While Everyone Inside Still Worked, 1930
Over a month, the structure moved 15 inches per hour, with 600 employees working without interruption. Gas, heat, electricity, water, sewage, and phone services remained intact, and no one inside felt the movement.
The boss watched the sunrise that morning from his office, but now he wanted to see the sunset. ;-)
Load More Replies...You left out the critical piece of information that explains the 15 inches per hour. In addition to being rotated, the building was also moved 52 feet to the south.
There's a description and video here https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how-did-they-move-an-11000-ton-telephone-exchange-without-suspending-its-operations
Heck - when they built the sewage system for Chicago they raised city blocks while people used the buildings. In 1856, an engineer named Ellis S. Chesbrough drafted a plan to install a city-wide sewer system. After heated debate, the plan was approved, and contracts were taken out to lay the system on the existing roads, and then build the roads up 4-14 feet higher depending on where they were in the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
The Sahara Desert Used To Be A Tropical Rainforest
The Sahara Desert is known for being the world’s hottest desert. However, just 6,000 years ago, this dry land was a lush rainforest with thick vegetation and high rainfall.
And the continent of Antarctica is technically a desert -- making it the largest one in the world.
I find this really interesting. The town of Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, UK, has less average annual rainfall than areas of the Sahara Desert. Clacton-on-Sea gets on average 17mm (0.69 inches) and the northern area of the Sahara gets on average 100mm (3.9 inches). Even the dry core of the Sahara gets approx. 15mm (0.59 inches) per year, which is only 2mm less than Clacton-on-Sea...
Actually, the Lut Desert in Iran is the hottest desert in the world. Temperatures there can reach 159 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius) on average.
I think it is tied with Sonora for surface temperature. Death Valley holds the record for highest air temperature.
Load More Replies..."My great-grandfather used to work as a lumberjack in the Sahara." "But there aren't any trees in the Sahara!" "Not *now*..."
The Sahara is in fact NOT the hottest desert in the world… the Lut desert in Iran is the hottest.
Climate change. No, for real! We are so used to blame just the humankind for it. Although we are contribuiting to it, but the Earth is passing in a quick move (geologically speaking) through climate changes naturally. Antartica was also green and full of life like 5 minutes ago in Earth's existence.
Load More Replies...Lol no . Get your facts right, it was closer to an appearance of a Savannah,not rainforest. Fossils, cave paintings, and dried up geographical features suggest that rainfall and sunlight it recieved at the time was just enough to sustain grassland habitat, there seasonal rivers and watering holes, once again when earth shifted it's axis the seasonal monsoon ended and it went back to it's current state
Another fun animal fact in our list is that guinea pigs must have a companion in Switzerland. Such a rule is included in the Animal Protection Ordinance. Yet the Swiss themselves claim that actual enforcement of this animal protection requirement depends on the opinion of the cantonal veterinary services. Other animal species that have to be kept in groups or at least pairs, are guinea pigs, mice, gerbils, rats, degus, and chinchillas, and for birds, Japanese quails, macaws, cockatoos, parakeets, parrots, canaries, estrildid finches and lovebirds.
Sudan Has The Most Pyramids In The World (Not Egypt)
Egypt and pyramids are almost synonymous, but did you know there are pyramids in Sudan too? Nubia, a region in Sudan, has 255 pyramids — twice the number in Egypt!
Of course, for a good chunk of history Nubia was ruled over by the Pharaohs so no doubt there was some cultural crossover going on.
and occasionally the Nubians turned it around and ruled the Egyptians. see the 25th Dynasty of Egypt 754BC to 656 BC.
Load More Replies...And more than are actually in Egypt. Please remember they didn't have country boundaries the way we do - they hadn't been invented.
Only smaller, more recent ones though that were inspired by egypts earlier ones
The modern boundaries are not the same as the boundaries of the past?
Oxford University Is Older Than The Aztec Empire
It’s seen my privates. I’ve used a loo/washroom there.
Load More Replies...Fact. There was NEVER an "Aztec empire". They were actually called Mexica. The Aztecs were a nomadic group of people who ended up settlling in the Valley of Anahuac, and changed their name to Mexica right when it happened.
Remember that the first thing Mexico did when it became independent was to declare itself a Mexican empire. I think it is in their blood
Load More Replies...The Middle East still doesn't get recognition for the first universities and the first hospitals
Load More Replies...Bologna's one is older than Oxford... Bologna : 1088 Oxford : 1096
Somewhere in my heart there is a star that shines for you...
Load More Replies...and has the same old idiot ideas and probably the same professors.
Oxford played it smart. No mass human sacrifices to the sun god . . .
In Arizona Its Illegal To Let Your Donkey Sleep In A Bathtub But It Can Sit In It
Donkey: "And in the morning, I'm making waffles".
Load More Replies...The closest I can come to confirming it is true is that the show Law or Not on Georgia's The Bear 92.5 radio show says that it is. Other sources claim that it was passed in 1924 when a donkey who used to often sleep in an abandoned bathtub got washed away in a flash flood. The rescue operation was so costly that a law was passed banning donkeys from sleeping in bathtubs (several sources add that this only applies after 7pm)
Load More Replies...Get out of the tub Drunk Donkey... I filled up the air mattress for you.
Therefore it's not uncommon to hear the cops banging on a door saying, "Lady, get your a*s out of the tub!"
The first calculations of Mount Everest did indeed show that it was 2,902 ft high. But nowadays we measure the peak at 29,029 ft. What's more interesting is that if we would measure it from the Earth's center, it wouldn't be Earth's highest peak. That title would go to Mount Chimborazo, which is farthest from the Earth's center due to the planet not being perfectly round.
Neitokainen Is A Body Of Water In Finland
It is shaped in the cartographic form of Finland.
Well it's man-made, supposed to be part of away long buried attraction.
1991. "The length of the pond is 116 meters (381 ft) and the average depth is one meter. The pond is in the shape of Finland at a 1:10,000 scale" - Wiki
Load More Replies...That had to have been man made (or at least with some help to the original lake) for it to be that perfect. (edit, yup. 100% man made. I was at least hoping most of it was natural and just had some help with formation but no. 100% man made).
Humans Have, On Average, Just As Many Hairs On Their Body As Chimpanzees, Human Hair Is Just A Lot Shorter And Finer
I wish humans had fur. No clothes shopping, no stupid fashion, just perfect in every weather condition
No, please! My cats are leaving enough hair on the furniture
Load More Replies...My husband is a redhead. He's older now, so his hairs vary from red to brown to white. But, he is still pretty furry. I refer to him as "The Domesticated North American Ginger House Bear". Sweep the bathroom and it looks like we own a Calico cat. We do not.
Women don't like to be reminded of this. Guys are okay with it though.
Al Capone Is The Reason We Have Expiration Dates On Milk Bottles
After his niece became extremely ill from spoiled milk, the powerful gangster reportedly lobbied aggressively for expiration dates to be placed on milk to ensure the safety of children and pregnant women.
This is a myth. A popular one, but a myth none the less, there's little evidence to support this story. Expiration dates didn't become mainstream until the 1970s, decades after Capone's death.
The claim seems to have originated with his grandniece Deirdre Marie Capone in her 2010 book. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/al-capone-expiration-dates/
Load More Replies...This kind of makes me not want to check out the entire list since this is unproven, nice fact checking BP.
BP scrapes, auto-censors and posts. No fact checkers, no editors on the Premium payroll.
Load More Replies...Here's a great review of the "facts" at Snopes - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/al-capone-expiration-dates/
Anyone who can't taste the spoiled milk must have other problems. Even My Mikey didn't like it.
Yeah... pretty obvious when milk is spoiled unless your senses of sight and smell are significantly impaired.
Load More Replies...Sell by, best by, use by and "expiration dates" are not regulated, with the lone exception of infant formula. For every other product, those dates mean NOTHING to consumers, they are strictly for RETAILERS for inventory purposes. Look at UHT milk. Unopened UHT milk has a shelf life of six to nine MONTHS.....but once opened, spoilage can begin in as little as seven days. In the U.S these unregulated meaningless dates, lead to retailers WASTING 43 billion pounds of food each year, while leading to consumers wasting an additional 90 billion pounds of food....with studies estimating that 68% of this discarded food in the U.S still being safe to consume. In the EU, these dates account for 10% of food waste. The only way to tell whether or not food is safe to eat, is for YOU to examine it, look for mold, smell it for signs of spoilage.....and failing signs of either, taste it. If it looks good, smells good and tastes good...it's good. Stop wasting food.
I've learned not to trust those expirastion dates. I trust taste and smell.
Speaking about planets, if someone were to ask you what color is the Sun, would you say "Yellow?" Unfortunately, it's not, and neither is it orange, red or any other tone of those. To our eyes, the Sun appears white, but it's actually all colors mixed together.
There Is No Universally Accepted Definition Of "Vegetable"
It's a cultural and culinary term, and varies from place to place.
Not quite. There is a universal scientific definition of 'vegetable', but 'vegetable' has no universally-agreed culinary definition.
I'm not sure that the word is used scientifically?
Load More Replies...Bacon is now a vegetable. So a bacon sandwich is a salad with croutons
Pizza is a vegetable according to the FDA. Heinz 57 is a smoothie. Tomatoes are technically a fruit.
Everyone always is very excited to say that 'actually tomatoes are fruit', but never acknowledges that so are: pumpkins, cucumbers, aubergines, bell peppers, squash, courgettes, okra, and marrows.
Load More Replies...Botanically a vegetable is anything that is not the reproductive portion of the plant derived from a flower. A root or tuber such as for yam or potato are vegetables. Edible flowers could be considered a vegetable since the ovary has not expanded to contain seed
from tandfonline.com "Botanically a vegetable is anything that is not the reproductive portion of the plant derived from a flower." So technically, if you aren't eating the part with seeds, it's a vegetable. Many plants reproduce without seeds and still contain fruiting bodies, such as mushrooms, which are a fungi with spores. The word vegetable is derived from Late Middle English/Old French with the meaning "growing from a plant". Just for fun you could go into why are bananas and avocados berries? bwahahaha
Clouds Weigh Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pounds, Full Of Water, Effortlessly Floating Above Our Heads
No support, No structure, just weight, floating around above us and we're like, yep totally believable, because they're clouds, duh.
It's actually more than that. From USGS.gov: We're only going to look at the weight of the actual cloud particles. One estimate of cumulus cloud density is given at https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-how-much-a-cloud-weighs, as a density of about 0.5 gram per cubic meter. A 1 cubic kilometer (km3) cloud contains 1 billion cubic meters. Doing the math: 1,000,000,000 x 0.5 = 500,000,000 grams of water droplets in our cloud. That is about 500,000 kilograms or 1.1 million pounds (about 551 tons). But, that "heavy" cloud is floating over your head because the air below it is even heavier— the lesser density of the cloud allows it to float on the dryer and more-dense air.
classical non-sense. Clouds are almost only air with a few micron-size droplets. Small summer clouds contain about a bathtub worth of water spread in a large volume. Also this air is saturated with vapor, and thus lighter than dry air. In convective clouds (cumulus, cunimb, etc) this air is warmer than environment, and thus lighter too: that's why they raise.
Then how full to they have to be let them release the rain? I never understood that. We can have the darkest of storm clouds overhead and nary a drop.
Well lIttle chicken never saw the sky fall so I guess we are all safe.
Not exactly. In still air, clouds are actually falling at terminal velocity of a few mm/s. This may however be negated or exacerbated by an updraft or downdraft.
Owls Have Tube Shaped Eyes, Rather Than Spherical Ones
This makes it difficult to move the eyes in their sockets, but is counteracted by the ability to rotate their heads 270 degrees in either direction.
Their eye structure takes up so much of their skull that little room is left for a brain. Among birds owls are low IQ due to that.
270 degrees. If you add "in either direction, you are saying that they can move their heads 540 degrees, or more than all the way around...
Read part of What An Owl Knows recently, found the interesting info fascinating.
We can see different colors of the Sun during different times of day. At sunset, it's yellow, orange, or red, because these have the longest wavelengths and they make it through the Earth's thick atmosphere. During midday, the sky looks blue to us because the shortest waves (blue, green, and violet) bounce around and scatter around the atmosphere.
When Mt Everest Was First Measured It Was Exactly 29,000 Feet
It was reported as 29,002 because exactly 29,000 was not believable.
People would think it was made up because it's too neat a number
Load More Replies...The latest theory about the change in height is that it is related to erosion from the rivers surrounding the mountain range that adds height to the mountains. (actually, erosion deducts earth from the base making the base of the mountain lower which adds to the height measurement).
29,002 f÷t above the beach, where the tide is constantly rising and falling? Really? We paid guys to argue this out?
approximately 8923.07692 washing machines :)
Load More Replies...Fun Fact: If You Look Super Closely On Your Ps5 Controller, You’ll See Teeny Tiny Playstation Symbols
I won't, my eyes aren't that good any more. I'd need glasses and a magnifier of some sort.
The Ps5 is a home video game console that came out in 2020. Ps5 stands for Playstation 5. The symbols on the controller are the shapes on the buttons of the controller. Hope this helps 👍
Load More Replies...I'll be damned....but it's only on the back of the grips, that's what creates the texture for the grip.
They are. It's just a cool little detail on it but of you feel that grip on the back of the controller, that's the shapes.
Load More Replies...Yes it does. I have a slim and my controller and my console both have them.
Load More Replies...Every Two Minutes, We Take As Many Photos As All Of Humanity Took During The 1800s
Another Fact: The camera was invented about 2,500 years ago. But it took a couple thousands years to develop usable film.
The first camera was invented in the 1800s. You think new tech is hard to access now?
Have you ever wondered how the clouds keep floating in the sky and not falling? If you haven't you probably didn't know that a typical cumulus cloud weighs around 551 tons. Clouds don't fall because the rising air that they form out of keeps them floating in the air. The air below the cloud is denser and allows it to float atop.
Giraffe Tongues Are Black
For a hot second I thought the nostril was an eye socket and freaked me out.
Actually it varies from giraffe to giraffe and can be blue, black, or purple
When I was much younger I went to a zoo and fed a giraffe whatever the zoo was giving us to feed them. I distinctly remember the giraffe delicately eating out of my hand with a lovely blue tongue, so you are correct.
Load More Replies...They're long enough to wrap around a human wrist too. I know that because I fed a giraffe at the zoo once and he thought I was a little slow in handing over the lettuce I guess.
I have had the honor of being kissed by a giraffe, and a long with the tongue comes lots of viscous saliva. Worth every sticky minute though.
Looks as though this giraffe has a pink birthmark on it's tongue
Yeah I knew that one....how ? BECAUSE OF THAT F*CKING LONG NECK WHO STOLE MY CANDIED APPLE AT THE PLANCKENDAEL ZOO THANK YOU VERY MUCH
That If You Knock Your Tooth Out And Put It Back In The Socket It Will Grow Roots Back And Save The Tooth
And apparently, if you can't reinsert it, you're supposed to store it in milk (not water) and make an emergency appointment with your dentist. Who knew milk was good for your teeth even when they're outside your mouth?
I worked in a school and had to give first aid to a child who knocked out an adult tooth in its entirety. Placed in a cup of milk and the dentist was able to put tooth back, child had a brace for 2 weeks and was fine, dentist was very glad we did the milk thing.
Load More Replies...When I was a kid a boy had a major bicycle crash right outside one of the classrooms. My teacher ran out there and shoved his front teeth back in. She was a real hero, that lady. He came back to personally thank her once he was out of the hospital.
The root of the tooth does not "grow back", it was never severed in the first place if you're able to save the tooth. The ligament around the root of the tooth can reattach to the root and if you're lucky the nerve can also reattach. But more than likely the nerve will not reattach and you'll need a root canal.
As a child, I fell & bent my front teeth back - like they didn't come out - they were just pointing the wrong way. Following our dentist's phone advice, my mom just reached in & pulled my teeth straight. And they healed fine! I'm not sure that would have worked with permanent teeth though. I'm sure kids' teeth are different.
Incorrect. It's the root you place back into the socket, it does not grow back. A tooth without root cannot be put back. It can however reattach itself in the socket. This happened to me, It was hanging by its nerve at the time. After several years however it turned out that the tooth was dead and it had to be removed.
Put it in milk and rush to DDS and yes it grows back. Unless it is false. LOL
Going by this, is there (or has there ever been) such a thing as dental grafting?
There was a poster in our Dental Nurse office at primary school (complete with photographs) of this, how to clean and reinsert it and what to do next. Helpful but terrifying for kids aged 10 and under 😄
China Has Only One Timezone
As folks in Beijing is preparing to go to bed at midnight, folks in Xinjiang are just beginning to watch the sunset. China is almost the size of the United States, which has six timezones! Interestingly, China didn’t always operate on Beijing time.
It's useful for things like train schedules, but impractical for syncing time with daylight. For example, if work starts at 8 in the morning for everyone, one side of the country eats breakfast before work and gets off at dinnertime, while the other side of the country eats lunch before work and gets off at bedtime.
How does this comment make sense? I lived in China for 25 years, and I always ate breakfast at the same time in the morning and dinner at the same time at night. The only difference was how much light there was at those times throughout the year.
Load More Replies...Several countries which are big enough to have multiple time zones, don’t. India being one. When you think about it, there’s really no need for time zones
The lower 48 states have only 4 time zones, with Alaska being 1 hour, and Hawaii being 2 hours behind the pacific time zone....however when accounting for all occupied dependencies there are 9 time zones, and accounting for all unoccupied dependencies there are actually 11 time zones for the U.S.
They don't' save electricity, you have to turn on light at 7pm in shanghai and all east coast which is the most populated area. And the daylight starts at 5am, with no one in the streets. The only good thing that there is no Daylight Saving Time in China and Hong Kong/Macau
There Are More Privately Owned Tigers In Texas Than There Are Wild Tigers On The Rest Of The Planet Combined
One more reason to dislike Texas. Texas needs to just become its own country.
Texas does indeed suck and deserves all the hate but no. If it did secede and become it's own nation it would consume it's own resources and destroy it's own economy in, like, a week. Then it would declare war on it's neighbor states for resources and all the other states lorded over by authoritarian Republicans would side with Texas, fracturing the Union, perhaps beyond repair.
Load More Replies...Instead of just attacking the evil Texans let's investigate. Here's a link: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/verify-are-there-more-tigers-in-texas-than-in-the-wild/287-588841948 which will tell you that the 'more tigers in Texas' claim was made by the Humane Society, but when asked they had no data to back it up. Secondly, tigers are endangered in the wild, but that doesn't stop poachers from grabbing cubs and smuggling them for the exotic pet trade. Most of these tigers end up in wild animal sanctuaries. You can't just throw a wild tiger cub back into the forest. These sanctuaries are in Texas because they are mostly privately owned, which is legal in Texas.
Thank you for spending the extra 45 seconds to figure out that THEY ARE HELPING and not just having tigers as pets
Load More Replies...In a sanctuary where their quality of life is similar—-but safer—-than the wild, then OK. Treated as pets or abused, NO. They are wild animals, and deserve to live as such, with the only exception being 24/7/365 protection from the worst predators on earth—-humans.
Definitely better in the wild, but the problem is that most of them are in India, a very populous country. And unlike most wild animals, tigers are very willing to attack humans. So it's easy for us to say they belong roaming free in the wild but if you live near them you might have a different point of view.
Load More Replies...There Are Only Two Countries In The World Where Coca Cola Does Not Exist
You might think Coca Cola is something you can find anywhere in the world but these two countries have been in long-term US trade embargoes — North Korea since 1950 and Cuba since 1962.
Isn't it up to 3 now? I thought Coca-Cola was one of the brands to pull out of Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine.
still plenty of each here, you can buy in any shop
Load More Replies...You can still make them with different brand cola
Load More Replies...Not sure if it's still true today, but many Arab countries used to boycott it as well due to Jewish ownership of the company.
I suspect that may be incorrect. I was in USCG during the early 80's, the amount of vessels heading south carrying tv's and other items during the Cuban exodus were numerous.
My father ran the fleet at Coca-Cola for 30+ yrs. Yet I never acquired a taste for sodas.
The Sun Is Not Yellow
When viewed outside earths atmosphere it is white. It only looks yellow due to our atmosphere "pulling" the blue light out, leaving it looking yellow. It's an illusion.
Well, if you want to get technical, all colors are illusions. The colors our brains perceive are the wavelengths either created by objects (as in light sources) or reflected by objects. Colors do not exist as a property of those objects themselves. So, with that in mind, you can say the sun is yellow (from our vantage point on Earth, at least) and be as correct as when you say an apple is red.
Except you're not seeing the sun's light as a reflection off another object when observing it and it's color is an actual representation of the wavelength of visible light it is emitting. So your analogy is like comparing apples to ... The color is absolutely a characteristic of light. In fact it's how we classify stars. Including those who emit mostly light in a non visible spectrum. Arguing that how our brain interprets those colors makes them an illusion is not really accurate.
Load More Replies...The actual colour of the sun is green, as it emits more green and blue wavelengths than other colours. It appears white because the amount of light is so intense. You get the same effect with all stars, from red dwarfs to blue hypergiants - they will always appear to be white, regardless of their actual colour.
Technically it also fits the definition of "black", since black is the absence of colour, and it doesn't reflect any light.
How does all the blue light end up in the ocean? Or is the water pulling out the red and yellow rays?
B******t, the sun is yellow-- here is my proof... 2024-12-29...0af11b.png
There Are More Fake, Plastic Flamingos For Sale, Than There Are Living Flamingos On The Planet
That's because the live ones never stand still when I try to put them in my yard. ;)
Their color comes from the algea they eat, they are hatched white.
Some flamingos love in hot springs, so they can drink boiling water. If the water a flamingo is standing in overnight freezes they don't get frostbite, they just wait for it to melt and go on with their flamingo business.
Left Handed People Only Represent About 10% Of The General Human Population
There would probably be a lot more if they hadn't made them switch to their right hands in previous generations. My mom was forced to write right handed.
My mom and I are both lefties. My grandma went to Mom's school and threatened mayhem if they tried to change her, and my mom did the same for me (I think she threatened to sic grandma on them).
Load More Replies...From National Geographic: "It is probable that about 8% to 10% of the population has been left-handed for at least the past 200,000 years or so. Detailed data only began to become available for those born in the nineteenth century, and there is growing evidence that the rate of left-handedness fell precipitously during the Victorian period, reaching a nadir of about 3% in about 1895 or so, and then rising quite quickly until an asymptote is reached for those born after about 1945 to 1950, with 11% to 12% of men and 9% to 10% of women typically being left-handed in Western countries." The anti-left handed practices started in the Victorian age (tying a hand behind a student's back, hitting the left hand, etc).
I have always found left-handed people to be rather sinister compared to more adroit right-handers.
For those curious: The word "sinister" comes from the Latin word sinister, which means "on the left side". The word "sinister" has its origins in the historical association of the left side with weakness and the right side with strength. In heraldry, "sinister" refers to the bearer's true left side of a coat of arms, which is the viewer's right side.
Load More Replies...I met tons of them when I worked in property management. I think I only met a couple of upper level managers that weren't lefties.
Apparently a fair number of lefties go into real estate because being a leftie means forms are difficult for them. So they go into a career field where that's not such a big part of the job.
Load More Replies...im ambidextrous...so im half right then hehe
Load More Replies...Does anyone know if it's easier for a lefty to write in Hebrew or Arabic? All three of my lefty aunts have crabbed writing styles when writing English.
Yet my mother was the only one right-handed of my grandparents' 4 children.
My husband and I are right-hand dominant. We ended up with two kids that are left-hand dominant. As far as I know, there's no lefties in my family, but three or four in my husband's. It's weird.
Has anyone ever noticed that many actors are left-handed?? I don't have any idea how many there are, but I've seen more than I expected . I always wondered if left-handed people tend to be more creative?? Just spit balling here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It Snows In The Sahara Desert
Anyone want to invest in a Saharan ski resort? Some shares still remaining. Act quickly before the shrewd Nigerian prince snaps up the rest!
there is sand skiing already in the Sahara ,,, who needs snow
Load More Replies...We also get Saharan sand blown over to the alps, creates some interesting patterns when skied over, leaving white tracks on an orange surface, then a day or two later with a litle more snow on top it leaves orange tracks on a white surface. Almost surreal the first time you see it.
In the same week as we had (still have) bushfires in parts of Australia in the last week, other parts of the country have had snowfall (during summer).
Typically hot temperatures do not go hand-in-hand with the definition of 'desert'. And as my comment on the other post mentioned, Antarctica is also a desert.
That would be my luck if I was stranded three with plenty of water.
Due To Evolution, Humans Share Genes With All Living Organisms. For Example, 60% Of Your DNA Is The Same As A Strawberry
There's more of a Same Paint Set Different Paintings reality than We Are All Unique.
In Chess There Are Over 9 Million Variations After Just 3 Moves Each
288 billion different possible positions after 4 moves each. In a complete game there are more possible positions than there are electrons in the observable universe.
Alas, none of those variations work against my aggressively competitive husband! LOL
According to one scientist, there's only one electron, and it's moving around through time.
Which scientist?cuz if your talking about joe who stands behind the mcdonalds he never finished his thesis
Load More Replies...The Cigarette Lighter Was Actually Invented Before The Match
And before the cigarette.
Well, sort of. The lighter was invented in 1823, but was nothing like the modern lighter. The first commercially-available *friction* matches came around in 1826. But self-lighting matches were actually developed in 1805 -- they involved dipping the matchstick (which was coated with several chemicals) into a bottle of sulfuric acid, which then produced a flame. And even if you take the 1826 date as gospel for matches, the lighter invented in 1823 was quite dangerous and quite bulky; the modern lighter didn't really appear commercially until the early 1900s.
That cigarette claim is flat out wrong. The cigarette, as would be recognizable today (with a paper tube), was first produced in France in the 17th century (although it wasn't called a cigarette at that time). The earliest form of "cigarette" (Using plant leaves as the wrapping) dates back to 9th century Native Americans.
Inaccurate. It reached Spain in the 17th Century. It was only introduced to France in the 19th Century.
Load More Replies...- behold! I invented a cigarette lighter! - a what lighter? - you will understand it later
Humans Are Bioluminescent And Glow In The Dark, But The Light That We Emit Is 1,000 Times Weaker Than Our Human Eyes Are Able To Pick Up
A few more amps and volts and I won't need to turn on the bathroom light at night..
But quit much infra-red? Is this referred to that, on in the visible range?
So that explains the constant comment "Oh when she was alive she lit up the room"
If you consider infrared heat as light, then yes. We're also emitting small amounts of nuclear radiation
If You're Allergic To Chocolate You're Usually Allergic To Cockroaches
Myth/hoax. Someone wilfully misinterpreted the FDA regulations about maximum levels of contamination in food and simply invented the rest of the story just for internet kudos. E.g https://www.thetakeout.com/cockroaches-in-chocolate-cause-allergy-fda-debunks-1847996401/
Many pest exterminators are allergic to ground coffee. About 10-15% become allergic to cockroaches in their work. Join the dots
Good early warning system for people who absolutely abhor even the idea of the nasty little home invaders, then. No chocolate in the house? Having a reaction? Clean and call the exterminator STAT!
Fun fact: People who are allergic to roaches dont like ground coffee. Yes. Looks like we get a little roach with our coffee.
There are quite a few bug eggs in flour as well.
Load More Replies...In Harry Potter, there's a magical sweet called Cockroach Cluster... I imagine that might have been a nightmare for magical population with chocolate allergy 😆😆
Is this because of the acceptable amount of insect fragments in chocolate bars—0.06% per 100g? Or is there some other weird connection between cockroaches and chocolate?
Another myth. If people were allergic to chocolate because of cockroaches, most people who were allergic to chocolate would also be allergic to seafood, and that is not the case. It's usually either milk allergy, nut allergy, peanut allergy, or soy allergy. Either those people part of teh chocolate or cross-contamination.
I'm allergic to chocolate. I have a mild lactose intolerance, I can sort of eat vegan chocolate (but only say a sqaure or 2 before throwing up - tastes like $h1t anyway) and I can eat white chocolate (which isnt exactly chocolate anyway, but cant stand that either) - doctors have found no other allergy (aside from whey & whey protein). So no, it's not soya, nuts, or milk I'm allergic to, just chocolate.
Load More Replies...48 Hours Of Youtube Footage Gets Uploaded Every Single Minute
Wow, 48 hours in a single minute. That is some serious time-lapse photography.
Not a fact, that post is 14 years old! In 2011, yes, 48. It's 500 hours now. "25 May 2011 — YouTube said Wednesday that 48 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute, up from 35 hours per minute at the end of last year." - https://phys.org/news/2011-05-hours-video-uploaded-youtube-minute.html
this seems very low: it means that there are only ~3000 simultaneous users in the world. → I guess you missed a "thousand" somewhere.
Most of these are smartphone reviews and comparisons. And cat videos.
Walmart Is World's Largest Retailer Of Diamonds
So... Walmart is funding wars and child labor and sometimes, slavery. Good grief. We're complicit if we shop there.
Walmart is just an all around terrible corporate citizen. From underpaying workers, union busting, gender and racial discrimination, and more, they just s.u.c.k. Some "fun facts" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart
Load More Replies...A quick search tells us they're big in "cultured" diamonds, their name for lab grown.
Load More Replies...There was a story in The Atlantic recently about how having a Walmart in your community will actually increase poverty rates. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/
Walmart has the lowest prices in town on useless pieces of compressed carbon.
I think that should be "Walmart is the World's Largest Retailer.....that sells "diamonds"."
When my mom worked at walmart she said by the time clock was instructions on how to get government assistance. I was shocked. I still shop there. I never buy meat there but i went today and a whole cart of food was only $112!
Taxpayers subsidize the income of Walmart employees. Which is part of the reason why groceries are cheaper. Ideally, collectively not shopping there should decrease the need for taxpayer-funded government assistance, but of all of these social services programs food stamps & general assistance are a tiny fraction. As in, less than 10% of federal “welfare.” So even tho many Walmart employees earn below the poverty line, not shopping there only hurts the consumers budget & does nothing to promote better wages or decrease tax subsidies. I argue for the need for Walmart often, yet don’t have one near me & haven’t shopped at one in over a decade. Mostly because they’ve little I want to own or consume.
Load More Replies...Why? They sell jewelry just like any other store.
Load More Replies...yes but they got them from the factories that had extra after making diamond tip tools.
Pillow Fighting Is A Real, Recognized Sport In Canada. It Was Founded In Toronto In 2004 By The Pillow Fighting League
I won't say I'm inept, but in my last pillow fight the pillow won.
In my last pillow fight my pillows momentum threw me of the bed sooooooo
Load More Replies...My husband (66) and I (61) have pillow fights a few times a year. He came home from work one day to find a can of Silly String on his desk with a note that read: Prepare to defend yourself, Sir. Our battle was epic! Keeping the play in your marriage is just as important as any other aspect.
I am Canadian and have never heard of pillow fighting as a sport. Not saying this isn't true.....just a very obscure fact, if true.
When I was in college I used to teach martial arts in a big room we would clear out by pushing all the couches to the edge. The couch had these large very durable very heavy square cushions and plenty of them. So at the end of class sometimes it would devolve into the most insane and highly physical pillow fight you'd ever seen in your life. We're talking being hit by a pillow so hard it lifts you off your feet.
There Are More Ways To Arrange A Deck Of Cards Than There Are Stars In Our Galaxy
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in our solar system.
According to NASA, there are approximately 100,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy. I calculate there are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 ways to arrange the order of cards in a 52-card deck.
Correct. If anyone wants to check, let them have their calculator compute 52! (That's 52 factorial, not an emphatic 52.)
Load More Replies...Please give an explanation to dispute that claim.
Load More Replies...Half Of All Bank Robberies Take Place On A Friday
This is because a majority of companies pay on a weekly basis, and thus people are going to want to cash their checks. So banks will get extra cash on hand to deal with the large amount of withdrawals. On average, a bank will have to to three times their usual on hand cash on Fridays, to deal with the checks being cashed.
Oh. I was thinking dudes wanna gear up for a good weekend!
Load More Replies...Someone decided to do this in a bank that took up the first floor of an office building. In a room full of people waiting to cash their checks, he took out a gun and told the teller "This is a stick-up!" He immediately began hearing a click and the word "Freeze" over and over again. The local FBI office was in that building, and he was trying to rob a bank filled with agents waiting to cash their checks. The clicks came from their guns being readied.
Bank robberies no longer happen here, first of all because of the lack of banks with tellers (banks are more like "customer support shops), as they are replaced by ATM's. Second, we pay (in shops) about 85% by card. Third, salaries are paid at the end of the month by direct transfer. (As we pay all our bills by direct transfer)
I got a little inheritance when I was 15, so was set up with a financial advisor. They set up my banking for me. Which has evolved into my husband & my joint & individual accounts. We use Fidelity Private Bank primarily and also JP Morgan & UBS regularly. I’m 50 and have only set foot in a physical bank to do my banking maybe 5 times in my life. Even back in the early 90s we had ATMs, wire transfers & such. With the ascent of internet banking, and everything done electronically, there’s not a lot of need for physical branches or paper checks.
Load More Replies...In Australia, Thursday used to be the day that government pensions and other payments were made, now they depend on when your payment is started. I presume wages were similar.
You Know That Feeling Like You’re Falling You Get When You’re Falling Asleep?
That happens because sometimes your muscles relax and your heart rate slows down too quickly that your body thinks you’re dying. So, it gives you that falling sensation which jolts you awake.
Parrot Fish Are Responsible For Most Of The Sand In The World
They eat coral looking for the good stuff And spit out the chewed up pieces which happens to now be sand.
When I went scuba diving in Curacao, we could hear them crunching on the coral. It was pretty cool 😆
Parrotfish make white sand from chomped up coral. Most sand is produced by geological processes. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g201506/parrot-fish-facts-sand-maker/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand#Sources
So I just checked this and it’s not true. Most sand is formed by the erosion of rocks in water.
wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand#Sources ( besides, carbonate sand is not the main amount, and only a small part of it comes from coral ).
The beautiful white sand beaches in Abu Dhabi, I used to enjoy telling people it originated from parrot fish bums
Most People Have More Than The Average Number Of Arms
Alright! Alright! I'll take it back to the hospital after the New Years celebrations. Jeez
Sloppy language. For comparison: most people have arithmetic mean = 1.999 arms which is less than the average (median) 2 arms.
Due to some genetic twist, there may be a few. But they would be vastly out numbered by those with less than one arm for some reason. So the average is less than two.
Load More Replies...Arms aren't round, they're oblong, to one degree or another.
Load More Replies...San Fransisco’s Golden Gate Bridge ‘Speaks’
This is one of the newer facts about the world. In June 2020, San Francisco’s beloved Golden Gate Bridge started speaking up about some amendments made to the railings on the bike path. Literally.
On part of the bridge the wind makes a wall vibrate, which then produces a "singing" noise. They're planning to fix the wall though.
Load More Replies...We Are Closer To The Year 2040 Than The Year Of 1994
So? We're closer to the year 3000 than the year 1224 - not exactly a revelatory fact.
Shut up already and 1970 was 55 years ago, yes, I know I am old, I don't have to be reminded!!!
I'd say it lower than one, people have legs, arms, fingers missing. And I'd say a pregnant woman counts as 2 bodies.
Load More Replies...Wait, are we talking about the article, or life in general?
Load More Replies...These must all be true because they're on Bored Panda. And they've got pictures.
Fact is there's a lot of misleading misinformation in this list, as usual. Premium content.
By the time I get to the bottom of the article my phone can’t handle this website anymore
If you are allergic to latex, then allergic to tomatoes too. Found out the hard way. Very close to having a Tracheotomy
I'd say it lower than one, people have legs, arms, fingers missing. And I'd say a pregnant woman counts as 2 bodies.
Load More Replies...Wait, are we talking about the article, or life in general?
Load More Replies...These must all be true because they're on Bored Panda. And they've got pictures.
Fact is there's a lot of misleading misinformation in this list, as usual. Premium content.
By the time I get to the bottom of the article my phone can’t handle this website anymore
If you are allergic to latex, then allergic to tomatoes too. Found out the hard way. Very close to having a Tracheotomy
