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In this day and age, we are constantly being bombarded with information. We have a 24-hour news cycle and countless articles, books, podcasts, documentaries and more available at our fingertips. But despite the access to information that we have, it’s still impossible for us to know everything.
So if you’re interested in learning some fun facts that you’ve never heard before, we’ve got a fascinating list for you down below, pandas. From interesting info about geography to facts about your favorite furry animals, enjoy reading through this information that Reddit users have recently shared, and be sure to upvote the knowledge that you find particularly shocking!
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#1
It’s not heli-copter. It’s helico, meaning spiral. And pter, meaning wings. Like pterodactyl.
Definitely a Human 2 years ago
No. We're just lazy and don't say the p at the start of pterodactyl
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Donkey boi 2 years ago
'Get to the Spiral Wings' - Strong Ruler (Arnold) Black Plowman (Schwarzenegger)
Ace 2 years ago
In French it's often shortened to Helico where in English it might be Heli or Chopper.
El Cucuy 2 years ago
I've never heard anyone refer to one as a Heli, but definitely Chopper.
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OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
Learning Greek gives you a ton of these surprises, it's basically a Lego block language, there are basic words that you just string together to make a new one
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#2
Scotland's national animal is a unicorn!
VikingAbroad 2 years ago
Unicorns were thougt to symbolize power and purity and be undefeatable. And also the only animal able to beat a lion.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 2 years ago
Or may be they failed to protect it, hence we don't see them anymore.
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JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
The U.S.A. is the Bald Eagle. Shamefully, we almost caused their extinction, becuase of habitat loss, illegal killing, the pesticide DDT, and other factors. However, to out credit, we put everything we had into conservation once we realized how bad things were. Now I hope this new avian flu epidemic sweeping the continent doesn't destroy our efforts. It just occurred to me that I have no idea why. Fun Fact: Benjamin Franklin proposed the Wild Turkey when nominations were being made, because he thought them to be intelligent birds, which they are, but just imagine his nomination had won...🤔...Now I'm off to Wikipedia to find out why the Bald Eagle was chosen.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Because the natural enemy of the unicorn is the lion, the national animal to that country to its south.
Lady Vader 2 years ago
I heard that this is because the only animal capable of beating a lion, is a unicorn. Therefore Scotland beats England!
#3
The year JRR Tolkien died is the One Ring verse but backwards.
1973!
*Three rings for the elven kings*
*Seven for the Dwarf Lords*
*Nine for mortal men*
*One Ring to rule them all*
Francis 2 years ago
yep that's a fact i gonna tell people randomly from now on :D
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Joseph Stillman 2 years ago
three for elven kings under the sky, seven for the dwarf lords and their halls of stone, nine for mortal men doomed to die, one for the dark lord and his dark throne in the land of mordor where shadows lie, one ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them in the land of mordor where shadows lie
Karolina Hofman 2 years ago
But wait, there's more! We first learn about the One Ring in "The Hobbit", published in... 1937!
Frederick Schulkind 2 years ago
I don't know his manner of death but, unless he committed suicide to fulfill that, it was just chance.
#4
Yesterday I was on YouTube and I stumbled upon animal ASMR. And there I was watching a snail eating a yellow watermelon. I never realized they make sounds too when they eat. Man I feel bad. Snails are underrated.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Most people like watermelon, even slow ones who carry their houses with them.
Ansi 2 years ago
The perfect lifehack. Just place your house over the watermelon and snack away. Snails are genius.
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Bored something 2 years ago
Why is a snail doing a faceplant into watermelon the cutest thing I've seen onthe Internet all month?
CascadedFalls 2 years ago (edited)
Looks up 'Snails drinking water', you won't regret it, at least I didn't. I love the one from Daily dose of internet, it's adorable. Around the 1:41 minute mark. :)
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2 years ago
I have pet snails and I like to sit there and listen/watch them eat for a long time it’s very fun
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I don’t know why, but snails have always been one of my favorite animals
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
If you're curious, this is the video from the picture. The snail is adorable! It's 15 minutes long! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9SxioZK1H0
Foxglove🇮🇪 2 years ago
When I lived in London I used to be able to hear the snails munching the grass outside my window
Lisa Lilla 2 years ago
I had the cutest Swiss friend one time who called slugs snails without houses 🙂
Samantha Mannion 2 years ago
I feed the slugs by my house sometimes they like the catfood I would put out for the strays so I would always put a few pieces on the ground for them. U can actually see the bigger slugs putting the food in its mouth and taking bites off it. They really are underrated
#5
The mammoths died out after the pyramids in Egypt were built.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
Your User name fits the comment perfectly! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for the laugh 🤗
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Mary Ellen McCarthy 2 years ago
Actually the last mammoths died out just 4 thousand years ago as pigmy mammoths on an island off Iceland according to fossils found there.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I like how they show mammoths being used to schlep rocks up to the pyramids in the movie 10_000 BC.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
However, it's been PROVEN that the pyramids are 10,000 yrs old, not 5,000. But it's real hard to fix a long told miscomception.
#6
Bananas are berries and strawberries arent
Harley 2 years ago
What about blueberries? Did you know if you wait long enough they will turn into elderberries
#7
Not everyone has an inner monologue
Clown fish 2 years ago
They talk out loud all the dam time as I found out because one of my children doesn't have an inner monologue!!
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Alexandra 2 years ago
Weird? Pehaps. On the other hand, having a continuous inner monologue can be very tiring.
General Spyro 2 years ago
yeah if you do something embarrassing your monologue nEVER LETS YOU LIVE IT DOWN
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
if you google Libet 1985 timing experiment you'll see that apparently our brains decide on stuff before we are aware of it.
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Superb Owl 2 years ago
I don't have an inner monologue, unless I "turn it on". I'd describe my usual thinking as more akin to a movie that I am a part of that also has smells and touch.
BravePanda 2 years ago
It's soundless. I have no inner monologue. I have plenty of thoughts but there is absolutely no sound. More like thought bubbles in relative silence. I have a hard time with phonetic reading, I tend to focus on roots, prefixes, and suffixes. But on the other hand, I read very quickly.
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Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Mind=blown! I can’t imagine not talking to myself, aloud or otherwise. How ami supposed to have an intelligent conversation?!
#8
That we have a means of transplanting a full heart into a human being but if your colon stops working the best thing we have is to make a hole in your navel and have you s**t in a bag.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
You could have phrased the last bit better. The hole is generally made on the abdomen and not through the navel. It's called a stoma and is often a life saving procedure, I've had mine for 14 years now and would be dead without it. I'm probably over sensitive, but hate it being described as "s**t*ing in a bag".
DJay 2 years ago
They could have used better phrasing, but I think the point about it was that we have come so far with some medical procedures, yet we have still got so far to go. As you say you would be dead without your stoma, but so would the person without a heart transplant
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Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
After a botched cancer surgery, my Aussie Mum has had a stoma for a few years now. She would be mortified to call it a sh1t bag! As the whole thing feels like a pouch, she calls it her Joey :-)
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
I think it's completely dependent on one's personality, at the basic level. For example, I am the sort of person who would announce to whomever brings it up tactfully, that "No, I sh*t I a bag!!" Everyone's comfort level is different. I am mystified by folks' reservations as much as they are mystified by my unabashed candor.
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OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
It's difficult to transplant a colon, my guess is because of all of the bacteria that live there and that help the digestion, too many variables to consider that can lead to many complications. A heart doesn't use bacteria to operate
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Yet at the same time, some studies are being done on transplanting faeces to aid some digestive issues. (Some success has been found, but many scientists are sceptical about the benefits.)
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Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
Ostomy bags are way better than just saying “pooping in a bag.” And sometimes they aren’t permanent. There are ways of removing bad parts of your intestines and surgically reattaching them. Makes it shorter but it works.
L Melville 2 years ago
My husband lost 11cm of bowel and currently has an ileostomy. We're hopeful that his will be able to be reversed once his cancer is fully in remission. Fingers crossed!
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Emma Goransdottir 2 years ago
Ive had a lot of patients with a stoma and they would have died if they didnt get this help. Its not from the navel! Sometimes its temporary and sometimes permanent. But I am happy this is a way to save people.
Ausrine Ciapaite 2 years ago
I researched this one a bit. This surgery is a last resort procedure as not only it will change your life forever, but also you are going to have a very long and super painful healing time. I wish that an organ transplantation was a valid option.
L Melville 2 years ago
Not necessarily! My husband was given a TEMPORARY ileostomy when they worried his bowel would rupture from an aggressive adenocarcinoma tumor. He was diagnosed with Stage 3 (T3N1) colorectal cancer and underwent daily radiation and chemo for 3 months before tumor resection/removal surgery. He lost 11cm of bowel and 17 lymph nodes...but they're still hopeful that his ileostomy can be reversed! Healing was fairly straight-forward and we joke that his incision and healing process was pretty comparable to my c-section from delivering our daughter the year prior. There's quite a learning curve when figuring out how to manage and live with an ostomy. We were super grateful for online support groups and advice from other ostomates. After 3 more months of aggressive chemotherapy, he was declared in remission. They're currently investigating an unknown spot on his liver to ensure that it's not metastasized cancer...but as long as that comes back clear, they will schedule surgery to reverse!
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Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
My grandpa & a former coworker both had colo-rectal cancer that killed them. They both referred to the stoma & collector as "s**t bags".
Lynne Stankard 2 years ago
Rude! It’s a stoma NOT ‘s******’ in a bag’. Just try and think before you type.
#9
Mine is that there’s only 2 escalators in the entire state of Wyoming. I don’t know why it’s so surprising to me but it is.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
No, but people were trapped for hours when the down escalator broke.
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Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
I looked this up because it can't possibly be true. I was wrong. So strange.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
There are London neighborhoods with bigger populations than Wyoming.
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Bob Brooce 2 years ago
They're regulated like elevators, so usually inspected by the same people/departments that inspect elevators. That means there have to be official records. It might be difficult to get an accurate count of elevators or escalators in NY, but in WY the people in charge just know, and don't have to look it up.
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Bryn 2 years ago
In a bank, https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2017/10/03/herman-the-escalators-of-wyoming/986911007/#:~:text=Wyoming%20has%20two%20escalators.,an%20up%20and%20a%20down).
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MightTinyIrish 2 years ago
There is only 1 in Montana but in a few years we will have 2. Yes, this is a big deal and was on the front page of our local media.
#10
The famous circus music we all know is actually an 1897 military march called 'Entry of the Gladiators'.
still tired 2 years ago (edited)
The "da da duh da duh de, da duh da duh du deh, da da dah du deh, da da dah du de, ba ba buh ba ba buh da ba da bah boo beh"? 😊
Boris Long-Johnson 2 years ago
Now it’s known in our house as the Audi music after they used it in an advert implying all other drivers were clowns. The irony - we sing it when we see Audis being d1cks.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Audi is a lovely kitten! (Ok, he's quite often a d!ck, particularly to Bouche's tail)
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Bike Angel 2 years ago
Yeah, also a song composed by a guy whose surname is one typo away from an expletive
#11
Mine is that baby carrots aren’t real, they are just cut and shaved full size carrots.
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Technically called baby-cut carrots, as in the picture but marketed as baby carrots. Proper baby carrots do exist but are normal carrot shaped.
Sans Serif 2 years ago
I've been able to find those on occasion and they're quite tender and delicious - nothing at all like the 'baby-cut' which can be bland and woody...
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Kayjunmoon 2 years ago
This is strange. Surely ‘baby carrots’ are carrots picked early? I guess it depends where you buy carrots.
HTakeover 2 years ago
They use imperfect and "ugly" carrots that people typically pass up. Then whatever is left after shaving/cutting goes into other food byproducts like animal feed or juice.
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H M 2 years ago
Here in NZ baby carrots are pulled when still small, they are sold with the foliage attached and roots still on the other end. Small carrots, not carved carrots.
Justine Ludeman 2 years ago
Do they feed all the homeless rabbits the peels or just throw them away?...asking for a friend!
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I hate those. You're eating the core, the most bitter part of the carrot. Just buy smaller fresh carrots.
Sue User 2 years ago
Its not like they take a whole big carrot , shave it down to make one baby carrot then throw the rest away. They cut them up. They probably sell the shavings to, perhaps for farm feed. Industrial food manufacturing is pretty unwasteful. Thats how we got tator tots ( the leftover bits from making french fries ).
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Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch with Jim Carrey is now the singer of a punk rock/metal band: The Pretty Reckless
RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
She also has a chance to audition for "Hannah Montana", but she was too wild already. XD Also, when a young fan told her that she wanted to be just like Taylor, Taylor told the young girl "No you don't. I'm a freak. Just be yourself." Although I'm not 100% on the accuracy of that. ;P
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Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
WHAT?!?!? Well, guess what fact I'll be annoying every customer with today?
Queen Jackson. 2 years ago
My Roblox group from when I was ten and couldn’t afford to buy one was called this. I was so confused when I saw the band.
#13
Buffalo sauce is just hot sauce and butter. Rocked me to the core.
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
"Buffalo Sauce" generally means something else in animal husbandry.
Barry Pattison 2 years ago
Back in the early 90s, I worked as a cook at a bar and grill. Our house made buffalo sauce was literally Tobasco and butter. It was delicious.
ThatBlackNightingale 2 years ago
Is it just me or did I not realize I've been eating and buying hot sauce and butter .... I'm rethinking if I want chicken wings tonight
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Equal parts melted butter and your favourite hot sauce. Any idiot can make it
#14
Heteropaternal superfecundation. It's a thing.
"In rare cases, fraternal twins can be born from two different fathers in a phenomenon called heteropaternal superfecundation. Although uncommon, rare cases have been documented where a woman is pregnant by two different men at the same time."
Emma S 2 years ago
I find that so strange. They'd be twins but biologically only half siblings at the same time.
SpirklePlatz 2 years ago
But not as strange as their family get-togethers!
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Mathieu Brouwers 2 years ago
At school there were two brothers, born on the same day from the same mother. They are full siblings, but not twins. Their mother had TWO uteruses and had her period every two weeks (alternating).
Jessica Scott 2 years ago
Cats do it all the time. That's why you can have so many different looking kittens in one litter. They all had different dads.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago (edited)
I've always been fascinated with twins, twin study, and genetics. My biological dad was a twin, as were two of his aunts. My maternal grandmother was a twin, as were two of her siblings, though the other set of twins did not live to adulthood. My great-grandmother had 14 children, but only nine lived to adulthood. Imagine the devastating, debilitating grief she must've felt. I can't even imagine.
ShellsBells 2 years ago
There are cases of identical twins that one is a boy and the other is a girl. Unfortunately, the girl will have Turner's Syndrome.
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April Morris 2 years ago
It happens in dogs and cats quite often when they aren't neutered or spayed. I've seen puppies from 3 different sires. 😲
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Are you sure it doesn't also happen in dogs that have been spayed?
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#15
Dragon flies used to have a 21 inch wing span. They are also the greatest fliers of all flying creatures even better than humming birds. They are also the most successful predator in the world with a success rate of 75% to 80%. Most canine and feline species are at around 8%.
Ace 2 years ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but no, dragon flies did not have such a wingspan. Their ancestors did, sure, but it'd be like saying that humans used to be three feet tall and walk on all fours.
Bored something 2 years ago
How do you measure greatest fliers? I'd argue the wandering albatross could take that post in some regards, not landing for years at a time could be one measure of flying greatness.
Dan Holden 2 years ago
Can the wandering albatross fly backwards, sideways, or hover in one place? I'm pretty sure that's what was being referred to when they described them as the greatest flyers.
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Chewie Baron 2 years ago
It’s success rate is actually 97%. They are able to predict where their prey will be.
Temporary Dork 2 years ago
"Able to calculate an intercept course" is the phrasing that stuck with me.
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JK 2 years ago
Ok, the dragonfly success rate is actually ~95%, which is deemed the highest of all observed animals. However, the cat thing is so wrong. For starters domestic cats have a success rate of ~32%, of the wild cats, the black footed cat has the highest success rate of ~60%, followed by cheetahs and servals at ~50%
#16
*Regarding cremations:*
The word "ashes" is typically used instead of *cremains*.
But contrary to common belief, cremains are not ashes at all. For the most part, they are dry calcium phosphates together with some other minerals, including potassium and sodium, which in simpler terms means bone matter.
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
I figured that when i saw my mom's ashes and they were an orangish color, I was expecting more an ashtrayish look.
David 2 years ago
That is sort of weird actually because my grandmother's ashes were grey-ish. Definitely not orange.
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Sturgeon 2 years ago
TIL that the US have the word "cremains" Somehow seems inappropriate to use a pun to describe what's left of granny.
Robert T 2 years ago
Kind of goes with the word "crematoes" which we coined when my mum managed to burn the boiled potatoes.
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frinny 2 years ago
not really, they are ashes but anything that has not broken down during cremation, goes in a cremulator which is the grinding down of remains to power. so they are ashes as well
Jen Exer 2 years ago
Came here just to make sure everyone knows the after-burn cremations blender is called the Cremulator.
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Yep, took some of my dad's ashes to scatter in Thailand, pretty much crushed bone. Also, scattered my MIL laws ashes in the sea, a freak wave splashed her in my face, I may have eaten her.
April Morris 2 years ago
Also, some bones don't turn into ashes (cremains), so sometimes they need to crush them.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
And some are still hard pieces of bone, not all loose 'ash like' stuff.
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
Many Folks make this mistake/They think Ashes as in a fire.(Campfire, Etc.) The Extreme heat used in Cremation does not get this result!
#17
You can easily fly a spacecraft through the asteroid belt because asteroids are very far apart and there's an extremely small chance of colliding with one.
arthbach 2 years ago
The average distance between asteroids is 600,000 miles (about 1 million km). If a person can't manage to get a spacecraft through this gap they shouldn't be flying.
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arthbach 2 years ago (edited)
The average distance between asteroids in our galaxy is 600,000 miles (about 1 million km). Compare this to to 238,855 miles (384,400 km), the average distance the Earth is from the Moon.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
When challenged on that in the Star Wars scene where the Millennium Falcon is being chased, George Lucas said, "That's because they weren't in _our_ asteroid belt."
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
If the movies showed the true density of an asteroid belt, you would not see any asteroids. That would be boring, so they exaggerate.
#18
Sharks have been around longer than trees.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
What's crazy is that grass is a pretty recent development... meaning that any land that was too dry for trees was a desert.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
And yet humans seem determined to wipe them out. Which ones, you ask, the trees or the sharks? Well, both, it would seem.
#19
Elected official get things like lifetime healthcare or lifetime pensions after leaving their elected job, NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY SERVED.
Uncanny 2 years ago
Liz Truss was in and out of the job as PM of England in less time than it takes a lettuce to wilt. And now she’s set for life. It’s just wrong, honestly.
Emma S 2 years ago
Yep. She's entitled to claim over 100k a year in expenses for being a former PM even though she was only in the job for 6 weeks. Truly makes me sick.
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White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago
Not quite. At least for US Congressional Representatives, they have to pay 1.3% salary into a retirement fund called Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. The pension only pays out after 62 with at least 5 years of service, after 50 with at least 20 years, or anytime with at least 25 years. As for healthcare, that's not free either. They can either pay for their own private insurance, or pay for it through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Keith 2 years ago
Correct and the pension is not their annual salary. It’s the average of their highest three annual salaries times 1% per year that they worked. So a one term congress member would earn an annual pension of less than $4,000
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Ian Reynolds 2 years ago
Liz Truss getting a life long pension for ruining the country in 6 weeks is pathetic, in the UK the healthcare is not really issue.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Liz Truss not being prime minister is well worth the money.
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But they complain about welfare and food stamps for the poor. Plus elected officials give themselves raises and always want more days off. Then they have the nerve to call people on welfare freeloaders. Something about the pot calling the kettle black comes to mind here.
April Morris 2 years ago
Yet the rat bastards in one party resent the rest of us having similar healthcare. Makes zero sense that they keep staying in power.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
And get to vote themselves pay raises while keeping minimum wages at the same level for 20 years.
Dane 2 years ago
That is a pretty general statement, especially for such an international audience. But, at least in the US, it is true that government jobs, regardless of the level, historically have had more generous benefits than the private sector, usually as an off-set to a generally lower salary.
Kelly Scott 2 years ago
They can and have voted to raise their own salaries.
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That Narwhals have a long tusk protruding from the left side of their jaw. That is correct, it isn't centered, and it isn't a horn or antler... Oh did that not blow your mind enough? Well some Narwhals have two long tusks.
Vanessa Panerosa 2 years ago
Because of incredible PBS shows such as Wild Kratts my children will never know a time in their life without such knowledge. I, however, in my 30’s was learning right along with them! 🤣 Also, like dolphins, beluga whales, orcas and pilot whales, they’re porpoises, not whales. They have teeth, and hunt their prey as opposed to filter feed. Another fact about narwhals is that none have ever survived in captivity.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
yes, amongst other things, i learned from the wild kratts that pigeons produce milk for their young...but instead of breasts, their mammory glads secrete the milk into their esophoguses, and the milk is vomited into the mouths of their young....
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Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. Also - not much is really known about Narwhals because they can't really be studied well. They literally die if held in captivity.
Deep One 2 years ago
When I was a kid (late 60's) many still thought Narwhals were mythical. My first hint they were not was in reading 20,000 leagues Under the Sea (fiction I know but the way they were presented seem as accepted fact so I looked it up at the public library.)
Deep One 2 years ago
Also I've always wanted a narwhal tusk for a walking stick! :)
Load More Replies... Gary Geracci 2 years ago
Did you know that Sperm Whales have no discernable upper teeth? Their lower teeeth fit into sockets in their upper jaw?
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
I knew this...there has also been some recent developments in research studying for what they use their tusk(s).
#21
The salinity in the human body almost equals that of the sea.
It was less the fact itself but the realization that we have such a strong connection to where we all came from.
Annik Perrot 2 years ago (edited)
We took the sea with us when we crept up to land. Our cells need saltwater to survive, our eyes need saltwater to be able to see... and à human fœtus needs to swim in saltwater while it evolves from à single cell to fish to human.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
And, of course, if you live in a saltwater ocean your salinity needs to be pretty similar to your surroundings, otherwise all yer water will osmose out
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Rinso the Red 2 years ago
There's an "aquatic ape" theory that our ancestry includes a semi-aquatic stage. This would explain most of the differences between us and the other great apes. Ex. Our ability to hold our breath underwater. Sub-cutaneous layer of fat, etc.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
Also the fact that we're comparatively hairless, that the body hair we do have all goes in one direction (streamlining), and that babies can reflexively swim for their first six months.
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Sorry - this is repeated often but isn't true. The ocean has more than 3x the salt level of blood. Ocean: 3.0%, human blood: 0.8%
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Actually, the reason that it is significantly LESS salty than the sea is even more fun: our body chemistry was created when the sea hadn't had so much salt added to it by eroding continents yet
Justine Ludeman 2 years ago
Sounds like a good idea for my next mixer, thanks...
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Saltwater in your lungs will kill you from drowning. Freshwater in your lungs can kill you from a heart attack that results from a massive electrolyte imbalance.
#22
Tetris helped a group of scientists learn some pretty intresting s**t about Alzheimer's.
We learnt that our brains will still store memories, but they can't retrieve them anymore.
This was discovered from a experiment involving people who had akzeiheimers, playing Tetris.
It was found that people could subconsciously dream about tetris with out remembering having ever seen it or played it.
The phenomenon was called "the Tetris effect".
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
That is true. Playing Tetris a couple of hours after a traumatic event is surprisingly helpful to prevent possible PTSD. (Tetris or no Tetris, some people don't develop PTSD). It also helps if you already have PTSD. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828932/
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Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
Huh. So it's like when you delete a file on your computer. The file's still there, you've just deleted the registry entry that lets your computer find it. The file doesn't go anywhere until it's overwritten with another file.
Susan Bosse 2 years ago
You can tell those of us who grew up playing Tetris and those who've never played by watching how one packs a car or stacks items for maximum storage, etc. Lol
Suby 2 years ago
I can fit two shopping carts' worth of items into one. Tetris skills.
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Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
It taught me how to load a 4 piece band (sans members) into a compact car, a shopping cart and a dishwasher, so there is that! (I'm also great at packing boxes for moving, etc.)
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
Yes/ I was taught to think Tetris when i started to getAnxious in public after my Plane Crash!
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
Tetris is an ordered system.If you have strongly ordered thought processes and lived that way you DO dream about Tetris!
#23
There are 30% less birds in North America now than there was in 1970.
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
The district my job is had a very real problem with doves, they solved it bringing squirrels and a couple of falcons. Now you can walk without the fear of poop from the skies, but the squirrels are quite agressive. They plan to solve this with some wolves, so lets see how this turns out.
rapid unscheduled disassembly 2 years ago
I remember reading that one of the reasons for their population drop is cats. Also flying into buildings
Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
Where I live it's mainly pesticides reducing the insect population - so no food for the birds.
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WindySwede 2 years ago
According to this, not even closely the most deadly reason for deaths of birds in US https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds 1: cats, 2: windows on buildings. Correct should be correct, even how we feel about the facts.
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Downunderdude 2 years ago
*fewer. Fewer relates to number; less relates to quantity. Soooo...'There are 30% fewer birds and as a result there is less bird poop.'
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
blame feral and "outdoor" domesticated cats...they are an invasive species dessimating the natural environment and nobody seems to care....
#24
If you go by Greco-Roman Mythology within the Disney universe, Ariel and Heracles are relatives. Heracles's dad is Zeus, who has a brother, Poseidon. Now, Poseidon has children of his own, including a merman named Triton. Keep in mind, with this logic, this would make Zeus Ariel's Uncle, thus making her and Heracles cousins on a technicality.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
In Greco-Roman Mythology, pretty much everyone is related, via Zeus/Jupiter.
kaycee14 2 years ago
TIL that Heracles and Hercules are the same person. The first is his Greek name and the second is Roman.
JB 2 years ago
But now pronounce testicles the same way and you've got another ancient hero name.
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martymcmatrix 2 years ago
According to »Greek Mythology« →first there was »chaos«, followed by »inbreeding« and subsequently »castration«...
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
FYI: Heracles was the original Greek name of the hero most now know by his Roman name of Hercules.
Anony Mouse 2 years ago
Well if you're going by that mythology, odds are that Zeus would have tried to bang them both.
Rahul Pawa 2 years ago
If the OP is true, Ariel and Heracles would be first cousins once removed. Ariel would be second-cousins with Heracles's kids.
Joseph Stillman 2 years ago
it's better not to hard about it, i lose brain cells daily tryng to figure it out
#25
Blucifer (the Blue Mustang sculpture located at the Denver International Airport) killed its creator, Luis Jiménez, when a section of the sculpture fell on him, severing and artery in his leg
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Just to be clear, "Blucifer" is a nickname derisively given it by people who think it looks strangely evil.
possessedcat101 (she/her) 2 years ago
I have seen the Blue mustang in real life. Sinister f**k.
two-sided llama 2 years ago
well there's marie curie, the inventor of the hang glider, the inventor of the wed rotary press, and an inventor of a new sturdy lighthouse design ( guess what happened)
Verena 2 years ago (edited)
A bit strange to have this statue. They should have a helicopter circling it, to depict correctly how the real mustangs are treated. And add some statues of dead foals to it, trampled down during the panic stampede. The US see their wild mustangs as vermin that must be eradicated, because a) an invasive life form and b) their home is needed for the meat industry. Contrary to that, most other countries with (semi)wild horses, are proud of having them around, and protect them and their habitat not only by law, but their hearts. Nobody would ever think of harming them. Population control is done by pulling gently selected male yearlings, and only if a good home is guaranteed. This practice of brutal roundups, separating tiny foals from their mums to send off to slaughter in brutal transports and letting the foals starve to death does not impress me.
#26
That the bananas we eat today have been domesticated/modified to remove their seeds. Blew my mind
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Now they're bred and raised to be measuring devices.
Jennik 2 years ago
But soon we will have to adapt to measuring in watermelons, or cabbages or something :-( https://www.businessinsider.com/bananas-going-extinct-gros-michel-cavendish-disease-2023-9#:~:text=Cavendish%2C%20the%20most%20commonly%20available,t%20agree%20on%20what's%20best.
Load More Replies... Hime 2 years ago
Today's banana's are also a clone. So if something ever wipes out the modern banana, we have no means of starting banana's from original banana seeds.
ShellsBells 2 years ago
Also, if you have something that is banana flavored, it doesn't taste the same as the bananas we eat. That's because the flavoring was based on the original banana.
Load More Replies... Cassidy Moore 2 years ago
Also the bananas we eat all regrew from a single individual, and therefore contain exactly the same genes as their 'parent' plant. For this reason they can be thought of as clones.
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
I had my seeds removed too when I was domesticated. Two mini bananas running around the house is enough.
AlienBarbu 2 years ago
not only that, there used to be a banana that tasted really like bananas, even more than our actual bananas, that got wiped out because of a disease.
Zaach 2 years ago
The current mono-crop species of bananas is being devastated a fungus; it will probably be extinct within a decade. The plantations are working on another variation that will be immune - if history is any judge, the new variation will not taste as good. The current variation is called the Cavendish which is considered less tasty than the Big Mike (Gros Michels) which were devastated by disease in the first half of the 20th century.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
Most modern vegetables and fruits have been bred for favorable qualities, and barely resemble how they started. In this way, one could say they are all genetically modified.
#27
71% percent of the green house gasses emitted in the world come from only 100 corporations. Not sure if it's true, but if it is, WTF.
Adam Jeff 2 years ago
It depends how you calculate it. Most of the 100 are oil, gas and coal companies. If you attribute 100% of the emissions from a barrel of oil to the company that got it out of the ground, then it's true. If however you attribute it to the person or company that actually burns the oil, it's definitely not true.
Astrophile 2 years ago
What about the company that pumps, ships and refines the oil?
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v 2 years ago
The 71% "quote" is a horrible game of telephone that people will never stop playing, even if presented with the real context of the 71% statement "100 corporations are responsible for 71% of emissions related to fossil fuel and cement production, not 71% of total global emissions."
DJay 2 years ago
I can believe this. Depends how far up the corporate chain you go as a lot of brands are owned by the same companies. I think if you look at Unilever, you could actually eat, drink, wash, clothe yourself and medicate yourself with various different brands and companies that are all ultimately owned by Unilever
Astrophile 2 years ago
They even own food brands. I wonder if you could live your entire life consuming nothing but unilever brands. (Not that I’d want to try it)
Load More Replies... Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
How much greenhouse gases are produced by volcanoes and wilfires each year? Are these included in the 100% total? If so there can't be much left for emissions by individuals.
#28
Your skeleton is wet while you're using it.
It makes perfect sense but it DEEPLY upset my brain to have 2 and 2 put together.
Garthus Andicus 2 years ago
Tuesdays usually. I rent it out to my local school.
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Moosy Girl 2 years ago
Mm, someone on reddit compared pregnancy statistics to leg amputee statistics and ended up with an average of 2.01 legs per person.
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Bob Brooce 2 years ago
If that bothers people, consider that it's probably better to describe it as moist.
Sue User 2 years ago
Exactly. It FREAKS me out to think of bones as dry. All that rubbing.. shudder.
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#29
Wombat poo is naturally cubical
Uncanny 2 years ago
So, you can’t put a square in a round hole, but you can GET a square from a round hole? Interesting. (Not so interesting if in fact wombats have square buttholes, but there’s no way I’m googling wombat buttholes. I’ll end up on some weird alert list.)
Donkey boi 2 years ago
I googled it for you (I'm likely already on the weird alert list), rest easy friend, they do NOT have square buttholes.
Load More Replies... Mark 2 years ago
As someone who has lives in Australia I will tell you, do not ask about the wombats. The things are a walking cinder block with half of its body mass being its butt. The wombat was the mascot of the 2000 Summer Olympics and was called Fatso the fat arsed wombat. Oh and one more thing… they are marsupials, like all bouncing dogs of Australia, but their pouch faces backwards. God just selected Australia and pressed randomize, and for Australia, that’s saying something.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Huh, I did lots of research on the 2000 Olympics because I was in primary school when they happened, but I had never heard of Fatso, only the official Syd, Olly, Millie and paralympic Lizzy. I also only learned about wombats pouch facing the other way last week, when my mum had to rescue a baby because it's mother had been hit by a car. I guess you really do learn something new every day!
Load More Replies... Thomas Klobucnik 2 years ago
Their butts are also armored, so they can go head first into a burrow and fend off attack...
Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
They will often defecate on a prominent stone or bump on a foot track. The cubic shape will help stop the pool rolling off.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
They're also the only other land animal besides humans that regularly sleeps on their backs.
#30
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
JL 2 years ago
We can substitute an understudy. D**k Van Dyke is older than sliced bread.
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#31
Bar code scanners, scan the white part of the bar code and not the black part. It doesn't scan just the white part, it looks for whatever isn't black.
David 2 years ago
Either way you look at it, the light reflects differently between the two contrasting colors and it is that pattern the scanner is reading. it makes sense the white reflects back more.
KT 2 years ago
Which explains my eyes taking time to adjust after reading white script on a black background
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Barcode scanners *scan* the entire barcode, because until it's scanned they can't "know" what's what. They can it all, and decode the pattern, so the whole process depends on both parts, and there's a reason that both the white and black vary in width. They also don't "look for whatever isn't black" or filling in a white segment with a color other than black wouldn't prevent an accurate scan/decode.
Cassidy Moore 2 years ago
And the thickness and distance of the black lines make up the UPC number
TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago (edited)
And they were invented by NASA to improve their storage system for Spaceshuttle parts
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago (edited)
No. "The barcode was invented by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver and patented in the US in 1952." -" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode " One use: It was improved enough by the 1970s to register shipping containers around the world.
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I just found out that Abigail Folger (Daughter of Folger's coffee chairman Peter Folger and heir to the multi-billion dollar company) was m******d by the Manson family and her death was overshadowed by Sharon Tate.
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
Murdered isn't a dirty word... seriously BP, stop censoring language.
Dogfacedboy1980 2 years ago
Yes. This "unalived" s**t is just f*****g stupid
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Bored something 2 years ago
Wow, I had no idea the manson family conducted weddings. 🙄 BP it isn't bad to say mur der ed we don't need that sensored, we aren't that precious and it does change how things can be read when so much is being edited out.
Isabela Cincu 2 years ago
Her white dress turned crimson after the stabbings...i watched Tarantino' s one upon a time in Hollywood and really wished that his version was true
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
'Mothered'? 'Mongered'? 'Museumed'? 'Monkeyed'? 'Mortared'? 'Machined'? 'Maligned'? Really, BP, you spare my sensitivities, but aggravate my confusion.
Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Henceforth and hereafter we shall mourn the loss of soro doeth.
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#33
Over half of Canada's population lives south of Seattle.
arthbach 2 years ago
And all of the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherland, and Denmark are above that latitude. As is the majority of Germany, Poland, and Czechia. The north of mainland Scotland is over 10 degree further north than Seattle.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
I live in Massachusetts, roughly at the same latitude as Chicago...and as Barcelona and Rome. This is why everyone has air conditioners and window screens in the US. The northernmost point of the continental US is at the same latitude as Frankfurt, while the southernmost point is at the same latitude as Calcutta.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
Coincidently, over half of the US's population also lives south of Seattle. Also true for Mexico, Brazil, and even Tierra del Fuego (Not a country. I just like saying it.)
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
I think the curious part is that just *under* half the U.S. population lives *north* of Seattle.
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Marcio achilles sardi 2 years ago
And yet none of the Canadian population lives in Seattle itself
Dave Van Beurden 2 years ago
I think I can safely say this is untrue. there will be Canadian migrants there.
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Kelly Aitken 2 years ago
There is a town part of Washington that is only accessed by ferry, or by coming through the border and driving back down through yet another border. I can't recall the name though, but it's in Vancouver
Kelly Aitken 2 years ago
Point Robert's! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington
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CanadianDimes 2 years ago
More accurately over half the population of Canada lives at a more southerly latitude than Seattle. This phrasing always makes me imagine a Seattle suburb with over 17 million people.
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
100% of the people in Australia and New Zealand are living south of Seattle. Who'd'a thunk it?!
Kelly Aitken 2 years ago
And I'm part of the other half! Yet only 8-9 hours away from Seattle!
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
Yep, they all snuck across the border and now live in a little suburb called Renton
#34
That there were different species of human. Neanderthals in particular absolutely blew my mind. I only really understood this was absolute fact in my early 20's. (Catholic school, not taught about evolution)
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
There were many species of humans. We carry genes from most of them.
Alexandra 2 years ago
And new species are still discovered every once in a while.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
Homo floresiensis. Cause they were found on the island of Flores.
Load More Replies... two-sided llama 2 years ago
i was taught about evolution in a catholic school what catholic schools are you guys going to.
Gabby M 2 years ago
It does depend on WHEN you went to Catholic school. They started in the 50's as part of the Science curriculum and then in the mid 90's the pope (John Paul II) deemed it (evolution) did not interfere with Church doctrine. Basically, saying the faithful can choose which(or both) to believe. Evolution vs Creation kind of.
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Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
What sort of Catholic school doesn't teach evolution? The church recognises evolution as a valid theory and not out of keeping with doctrine. I was taught it at Catholic school in the 80's.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
Exhibit A of why I would never send my kids to Catholic/Christian schools. University professors are not going to care why they don't know the basics of Evolutionary Theory and this kind of gap in a young person's education is just "hamstringing" them before they even start the game. I witnessed it myself in Anthropology classes in college.
Terran 2 years ago
The Catholic Church recognises evolution and saya it does not interfere with church doctrine
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago (edited)
Other posters note that we carry genetic traces of these earlier types of humans. The fact that we carry those traces indicates that the different types of human interbred, and produced fertile offspring. As i recall from the little biology that i learnt, this indicates that those types were not different species at all. (Happy to be corrected by anyone with appropriate biology quals.)
Janet Sparrow 2 years ago
I went to Catholic school, my whole life, and we most definitely learned about evolution. Catholics are not hung up on stuff like that. They believe in science.
Red_panda 2 years ago
AND we mated with them. So anyone who isn't African has a tiny (like 1-3%) amount of archaic human DNA. The Neanderthals went west to Europe and the Denisovans went east to Asia. Then when homo sapiens left Africa, they met up and made babies with them.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I did 23&me, and was tickled pink to find out I have more than average amount of neanderthal DNA
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RandomPerson (She/They) 2 years ago
I was trying to post an interesting fact about history, there was a typo, and I accidentally deleted it trying to edit.
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#35
Squirrels can't die from falling from any height
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Define "any". If a squirrel falls out of an airplane, it's not going to be wearing a parachute.
Albert 2 years ago (edited)
It doesn't need a parachute. A study shows that even if it falls from the stratosphere, its terminal velocity is so low, that it will survive the fall. (it might die from a lack of oxygen, but not from the fall). - https://medium.com/swlh/why-a-squirrel-would-never-die-from-falling-no-matter-how-high-it-falls-bd2dfb44e231 - "The fact is that this is such a low terminal velocity, that it is reached in the first 3 seconds of the fall, so for a squirrel it is the same to fall from the top of a pine tree as from the stratosphere: in both cases it will hit the ground at the same speed."
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General Spyro 2 years ago
ACTUALLY they have to fall 4800 miles because that gives them time to starve to death
RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
That's exactly what I was gonna say. Technically, they can't fall from ANY height without dieing, but at the same time, they won't die from the fall, unless something is preventing them from positioning themselves properly.
Load More Replies... Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
This is because as a result of the size and shape of their body, their terminal velocity (fastest falling speed) is about 23mph, which they can survive.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 2 years ago
Technically, that's true for any creature. Assuming no heart attack, it's not the fall that gets you; it's the sudden stop at the end.
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
It's all about terminal velocity, the highest velocity it reaches while falling: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/squirrels-can-survive-fall-any-height-least-hypothetically
Peter Panda 2 years ago
And the amount on insides they have. There's a wonderful RI Christmas lecture where the drop ballistic jelly blobs (crash test hamster and crash test dog) from the ceiling and look at the damage.
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 2 years ago
Theoretically maybe, but definitely not true. I have personally witnessed a squirrel falling from a tree and dying. Horrible, yes. Hope to never see anything like it again. To he fair, it was a juvenile squirrel (fully furred and bushy tail, just smaller than adults).
Giles McArdell 2 years ago
I think cats are more interesting, there is a range of fall height at which they will be injured or killed, below that range is harmless, above that range they have time to get their spring-like bodies prepared for the landing.
Justine Ludeman 2 years ago
I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree once, shocked me. Pretty funny and it did NOT stick the landing 🤣
DC 2 years ago
Generally, the smaller an object is, the lower it's velocity towards ground is gonna be, if it's similar in shape and density. As squirrels tend to not be giants, but have a large airbrake attached to their hindmost bodypart, they'll eventually reach an equilibrium of forces consisting of gravity and aerodynamic drag at a speed that is survivable at impact.
#36
Cats are safe from injury in any fall as long as they fall from a certain height or higher. Basically, small animals are so light that air resistance slows their fall to a safe speed. For cats, they have to have enough time to adjust their body and spread out to increase resistance and slow their fall.
David 2 years ago
I'm picturing men in white lab coats with clip boards tossing various animals out the back of a C 130 cargo plain. "Yep! Yep! Nope! Okay, so cats and squirrels are fine but cows are right out!"
Sue User 2 years ago
"I swear to god, i thought turkeys could fly" Les Nessman, wkrp in Cincinnati.
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HannahNo 2 years ago
Not true. Cats injure their chin and head pretty easily when falling from a greater height. Their chin smacks on the ground as there is now leg underneath it, obviously. And they don't fall slower like the squirrels do. So they might be able to run away after an incredible fall (like in all those videos) but they still are injured and will possibly die from it later.
Chris Jones 2 years ago
Worked in animal welfare for a while - you are absolutely right.
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RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
This is mostly false. Cats can die from a fall. If it is within a certain range, the cat can't properly "parachute" and slow its fall enough to be survivable. Aside from that, when they do parachute, while they are greatly reducing their fall speed, they are still taking the impact with their ribs, abdomen, and basically their entire underside, so they do break ribs, and can break other bones, any of which could puncture a sensitive organ and cause death.
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Mike Roberts 2 years ago
My cat survived a ten story fall but had a dislocated hip from the bush he landed in. Went on for 14 more years, without anymore falls.
eMpTy 2 years ago
For humans you should jump off the 4th floor. It's high enough to end your life. Any higher you have time to change your mind on the way down to a guaranteed exit.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago (edited)
There's a great Steve Aylett story about a guy who can't find a fifty-storey building to chuck himself off, so he chucks himself off a one-storey building fifty times.
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Humans can regrow the tips of their fingers if they get cut off below the nail bed.
Roger9er 2 years ago (edited)
Can confirm, happened to me when I sliced meat in a machine in a mental hospital kitchen where I worked in my 20's. Even my fingerprint has been completely restored.
Sans Serif 2 years ago
Same experience, dropped an engine block on mine and it regenerated nicely...
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AnkleByter 2 years ago
The same isn't true for toes. I snipped off the end (to almost the base of the nail) of one of my toes when I was a kid doing something stupid. Now the toe is a bit stubby and the nail that attempts to grow doesn't grow out like a normal nail. It grows straight up from the starting point. I have to cut it back down to skin about once a month.
Triplets Mum 2 years ago
My dad lost the tip of his finger above the last knuckle in a mitre saw mishap, despite being a master woodworker for years. They tried to reattach it, but alas, he was doomed to flipping 3/4 of the bird for the rest of his life. There was no growing back.
Anna Drever 2 years ago
My elderly mother has ‘pruned’ her fingertips a few times whilst gardening. Now that her eyesight isn’t great we’ve asked her to slow down and take her time as she’s normally rip, sh*t and bust. 😬
sturmwesen 2 years ago
nope. I testet this on my 32 year old self. I got no print but scar tissue, but you wont notice I left 0.5cm behind without studying my finger real close.
Load More Replies... Jane Hower 2 years ago
I've heard that if too much 'fixing' is done by Dr's then it won't happen. Guess you have to leave it alone mostly and let it do it's thing.
Puter Prsn 2 years ago
If the cut is at the base of the nail, it will grow back a little shorter. Also, it will splay out a little while regrowing and needs shaping to keep it looking more normal. Happened to me and I have one finger that is a bit wonky now but most people don't even notice.
#38
The Anno Domini dating system wasn’t created until 525 AD.
Peter Panda 2 years ago
It's not even universal amongst Christians: The Ethiopian church uses a different biblical event, and even if they used the same one they think other Christians are a few years out. We probably are.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
Yep. The thinking is that Jesus was born around 5 B.C.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
And FWIW, A.D. means "Anno Domini", or "the year of our Lord". It starts with year 1, the year Jesus was born (except they made a mistake in the calculations so He was most likely born in about 5 B.C.). There was no year 0.
decaf 2 years ago
I thought dating system is a specification of how to date ladies at first. English as a second language and too much social media don't match well.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 2 years ago
I thought exactly the same. Guess who else is English as a second language person.
Load More Replies... Daniela Lavanza 2 years ago
I heard it was calculated by priests to determine Easter's day. Also, there may have been errors in their calculations: we're maybe a few years before or after 2023 after Christ's birth.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I was wondering about this while reading a book about ten Caesars today
#39
That Bald Eagles don't make noise and that it's Redhawks that they use for the sounds of Bald Eagles in movies.
Lyrica Melody 2 years ago
No such animal - there are Red-tailed Hawks, and Red-shouldered Hawks, but there is no bird with the common name of Redhawk. It's the Red-tailed that usually provides the sound effects.
Actively Lazy Cat 2 years ago
Lol I read this in the voice of Dwight Shrute🤣🤣
Load More Replies... David 2 years ago (edited)
NOT TRUE. I have heard them many times because they live around here and frequently fly over my property. But it may well be true that movies use a different sound because bald eagles do not have a strong cry and they actually sound a little bit like a seagull. Have a listen for yourself: - -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RArGl2vkGI
Donald 2 years ago
My parents have a pair nesting in the forest right across the street from their house and I see them frequently while fishing. They definitely make noise, sounds like a really burly seagull.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 2 years ago
This whole statement is false. Bald Eagles DO make noise, it a high pitch call similar to a Gull. For film they use the call of a Red-tailed hawk in very specific circumstances. Red-tailed hawks actually have a husky/strained sound to their screech. The sound you hear in the films film is recorded from within woodland where the tree canopy muffles some of the sound wavelengths allowing for a crisper sound, and with mountains, hills, or a valley nearby to apply a slight echoing.
Tracy Wallick 2 years ago
Bald eagles do make noise, it's just not the majestic, shrieking cry we've been lead to believe, it's the call of a red-tailedhawk.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
I live near the Hudson River and if I want to go out for an hour and see eagles on a given day I've got a success rate of perhaps 90%. In some places I'll see them and not hear them, but frequently (especially around dusk) I'll hear them but not see them when they're roosting in the trees. Very different than a loon, but I think it sounds a bit haunting. Here's a shot from a week ago. eagle-moon...13645e.jpg 
Doozle bug 2 years ago
I’m picturing the casting line out side of the studio. A sparrow turning to its neighbour and saying “ I may not be an eagle but I am a trained vocalist”
Aiden Kennedy 2 years ago
I live in the Alaskan rainforest. This statement is not true. Eagles are very vocal. And they do make the signature sound
#40
I was mostly surprised because I thought “man, wouldn’t it be cool if that existed?” So I googled it and found out it existed!! A language made of whistles. That way you can communicate from far off. It was developed in some mountainous place where people had to communicate from mountain peak to mountain peak before the use of binoculars.
Daya Meyer 2 years ago
Yodeling has had the same purpose, communicating over long distances in the Alps.
Crybabyartist 1 year ago
So when those people aren't on the mountains trying to communicate and they're at home in front of the fire do they yodel quietly to each other?
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Ayesha Aleena 2 years ago
For anyone wondering where that place is, it's Kuşköy, Turkey. Also the people of Khasi Tribe in Meghalaya, India have two names, one is their actual name and the other is a unique whistling tune. None of of the tunes are ever repeated.
Peter Panda 2 years ago
My wife and I do this because I'm hard of hearing. But we only have yes, no, OK and I'm off playing my bagpipes.
MARCOS FERNANDEZ ESPIN 2 years ago
This language is called "el silvo gomero" and spoken (or whistled) in the island of La Gomera, which belongs to the Canary Islands). It is actually a transcription of Spanish into whistle sounds and it's got vowels and consonants. It's been taught to children at schools so that the tradition remains in the future.
Janet Sparrow 2 years ago
Plus there's this: Khoisan is defined as those languages that have click consonants and do not belong to other African language families.
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago (edited)
Singer Miriam Makeba was one who spoke/sang it. See a song called "The Click Song as well as Pata Pata." It was also the language used in "The Gods Must Be Crazy." In our print, the click is defined by a "!" If I miss my guees, I remember the bushmen used it so as not to scare off their prey.
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#41
That you can re-use a lint roller by tearing off the used sticky one. I always thought, "Why would people pay for this?" I was 50 years old when I realized I was an idiot.
Vanessa Panerosa 2 years ago
Wait until they find out about toilet paper!
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I’ve Seen Things 2 years ago
Tell me you’re not a cat owner, without telling me you’re not a cat owner.
Skinny Pig 2 years ago
Reminds me of the story about the old lady who would throw away her Nokia phones and buy new ones when the battery ran out.
AnkleByter 2 years ago
Most of them actually do, but no one reads that outer wrapping, they just open and use. I've never bought or seen one that didn't, but there might be some that don't, somewhere.
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Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
This presupposes the abilities to 1. Find a corner to peel and 2. Have the fingernail long enough to get a hold of that corner.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
Hey, I had an aunt who didn't know there was a filter over the stove that needed to be cleaned - she only noticed when greasy ikky stuff dropped down into her coffee on the stove. ugh
#42
Here's a random and highly specific fact: a piece of embroidery about the size of a sheet of paper (8.5 x 11 inches) uses almost half a kilometer of thread to make.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I love the fact that OP managed to use 2 different measurement systems in just one fact
Dan Holden 2 years ago
Likely a Canadian. We typically use a weird combination of the two.
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Mary Mosher 2 years ago
There are a couple of "depends" that apply here ... one being it depends on the type of embroidery stitch (satin stitch takes way more thread than running stitches), and it depends on the actual pattern - how densely the stitches are placed.
April Morris 2 years ago
I'm willing to bet that it's even longer than that. I can't believe how much yarn I've used on small and large projects.
Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
It probably also depends on the type of embroidery.
Load More Replies... Joseph Stillman 2 years ago
can someone convert half a kilometre into miles for us american idiots (myself included)?
Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
1 kilometer = 0.6 mile, so 0.5 km = 0.3 miles
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#43
Toucans are actually very omnivorous, and sometimes predatory.
DC 2 years ago
No. They only feast on fruit-flavoured, colourful rings made of wheat and sugar.
Bgray450 2 years ago
Toucans are omnivorous birds, so their diet consists of a wide variety of foods. Their primary foods are fruits and plants, known as their favorite snacks, but this diet must be complemented with insects and invertebrates to give them the needed proteins. "Some of the toucans’ preferred insects are termites, crickets, cicadas, ants, mealworms, spiders, and caterpillars. Furthermore, toucans are opportunistic predators; they can eat little lizards, smaller birds, and eggs."
Lori Bishop 2 years ago
True - https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-do-toucans-eat-their-15-favorite-foods/ Toucans are omnivorous. They eat a variety of foods including fruits, berries, lizards, rodents, small birds, and insects.
#44
That Kyle Gass from tenacious d is a julliard graduate with a masters degree in classical guitar. He's also the youngest master from there, earned at 12 years old. I knew he was good but that blew my mind.
Nicola Roberts 2 years ago (edited)
While appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on November 15, 2006,[6] Gass claimed to have been the youngest graduate of the Juilliard School of Music with a degree in classical guitar studies at the age of 13. Juilliard did not have a guitar program in 1973, but began its graduate level guitar program in 1989 under Sharon Isbin, and its undergraduate program in 2007. Earlier, in an article in the Sunday Times on October 29, 2006, Black stated that Gass was the youngest graduate of Juilliard.[7] On May 13, 2008, Gass was a phone-in guest on the Adam Carolla Show. When Adam Carolla asked him "... And did you go to Juilliard?" Kyle replied "I didn't. I—you know, I made that up as a joke," he continued, "and I thought it would be hilarious, and then I've been hearing about it ever since. Apologies to Juilliard."[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Gass & @Dogfaceboy 1980 for making me curious.
Dogfacedboy1980 2 years ago
On May 13, 2008, Gass was a phone-in guest on the Adam Carolla Show. When Adam Carolla asked him "... And did you go to Juilliard?" Kyle replied "I didn't. I—you know, I made that up as a joke,"
Joe Russo 2 years ago
If you want something similar to this but more generally about classical guitar...If you have any musician friends who play guitar, who play both classical guitar and (heavily distorted) electric guitar...have them play pieces on each instrument at random without telling you the composer. Mozart on an electric guitar will sound like modern metal. Metallica on a classical guitar will sound like Mozart. A friend of mine liked messing with me by doing exactly this...
Kevin Hickey 2 years ago
Kyle's fingers be silver. Jack's voice then be gold, but lest you think we're vain. We know it's open mic night and we don't care. Tenacious D, we reign! We reign, supreme, oh God! Burrito supreme, and a chicken supreme, and a nacho supreme. Supreme, yeah. Go now Kyle, go now Kyle. Supreme!
#45
Peanuts are grown underground
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
They're technically legumes, not nuts. Peanut butter, therefore, is a form of refried beans.
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
There are 2 species of ground nuts native to Africa. Neither is particularly related to the peanut, other than also being legumes.
#46
More people have been to space than have explored the depths of the ocean.
les 2 years ago
Not true, many more people have explored the depths of the oceans accidentaly, just not many planned to do it and most because they boats sank.
ShellsBells 2 years ago (edited)
It depends on what is considered "depths of the ocean." I scuba dive, and recently went on a dive where 22 of us were diving. We went to about 80-90 feet, which in the area we were in, was the depth of that part of ocean. If they are are only using the Mariana Trench, I totally agree. If not, I am a member of a dive group that has more members than the amount of people in space. Edit- spelling.
Edison Lima 2 years ago
Would you say that a kid sitting at the shallow end of a swimming pool means they touched the bottom of the pool?
Load More Replies... Gary Geracci 2 years ago
After sinking-It's hard to report back Because you have been Squished flatter than a piece of paper.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
There are more people exploring the depths of the ocean at the exact moment you're reading this than have been to space in the entire history of space exploration. Of course most of them are exploring the fairly shallow depths. The number of people who have been to space isn't higher until we limit "depths" to something (well?) over 1000'. FWIW, the depth record for open circuit SCUBA is 1090'.
#47
Cherry seed has cyanide.. (Crushed)
Ace 2 years ago (edited)
Most stoned fruits from the same family have it in small quantities; almonds have probably the highest concentration of any that are eaten as nuts, such that you could ingest enough to kill you if you ate 1000 per day. But your digestive system would probably not allow you to do so. No, I'm not about tho try and test this,
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
And bananas can be slightly radioactive, but that doesn't mean that if you eat some bananas, you'll glow in the dark.
Justine Ludeman 2 years ago
Every forensic show on the planet teaches this little known fact...your best best is to just buy cyanide, who has the time to deal with all those little seeds...
David 2 years ago
So do apple seeds. The reason folks can eat apple seeds without getting sick is because they get swallowed whole and the coating is strong enough they come out the other end whole aa well. I forget the quantity needed to have enough cyanide to kill a human but it was something like 1 1/2 cups of seeds or some such. Doable if a person wanted to save them over time, but a lot more than the average person is likely to ingest even if they did chew them up.
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
This has been a known fact for years.of course peaches are included in this as well.
Maartje 2 years ago
This is why you remove the stones from fruits before you give them to your pet parrots; just to be on the safe side. Amazon vendor once sold a bird toy claiming to be made of walnuts, but they were peach pits. Twenty peach pits. I would have killed my 'too. I pitched a fit and they removed it.
#48
No one knows how eels make more eels. Seriously, look it up
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Yes they do. They mate, lay eggs, the eggs hatch larvae, which metamorphose into little eels, which grow into bigger eels, which mate.
Julie Zugz 2 years ago
Google search result #1: "They spawn, according to researchers, through external fertilization. Millions of eggs are released into the water by the females, where the male's sperm fertilizes them. In a dark turn of events, the eels then die"
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
not true...they mate like salmon: "They spawn, according to researchers, through external fertilization. Millions of eggs are released into the water by the females, where the male's sperm fertilizes them. In a dark turn of events, the eels then die."
Possibly Infected 2 years ago
https://www.intelligentliving.co/scientists-finally-figured-out-how-eels-reproduce/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20have%20never%20observed%20eels,together%20in%20captivity%20to%20reproduce.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Well, they've bred the common European eel (Anguilla anguilla), but there's a lot that is mysterious about how they breed in the wild: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-does-nobody-know-how-eels-reproduce-1623713 "When you think you discovered where eels get uncovered, that's a moray. And amoré! And an episode of Maury!
#49
You cant hum while holding your nose closed
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
I tried it and can still hum. It just sounds more nasally.
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ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
to clarify, you can't do it for long. gotta blow out the air somewhere.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Maybe I can't lick my own elbow but I definitely can lick ⚡🔞❗🧨☠️💣💥🚨 for sure....
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ifound_acoolfrog 2 years ago (edited)
my dad is looking at me and probably thinking what the hell is she doing
Jane Hower 2 years ago
You can, but only to amount of air you can push into your mouth since it can't go out your nose.
#50
The fact that there are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24... i need a bigger window, hold on...
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Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Have seen this fact before and looked into it. A study published in Nature started that there are about 3 trillion trees on earth, compared to 400 billion stars in the milky way.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
This is untrue. Specific kinds of forested habitat such as rain forests are reducing in area, but the overall number of trees has been steadily increasing for decades.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Despite what many people seem to think the number of trees on the planet has been steadily rising for decades. Only specific habitats such as rain forest are reducing, but overall tree planting numbers vastly outweigh these losses.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
To put it into numbers for you: It is estimated that there is around 100 billion stars in our galaxy. It is estimated that there is around 3 Trillion trees on earth.
Lori Bishop 2 years ago
OUR galaxy. Not the universe so this is true, unless we keep cutting down our oxygen making friends.
#51
That Einstein was an actual person!! I always thought he was a *theoretical* physicist.
#52
I recently found out that the uterus can like... sag or cave into itself and a doctor has to get up in there to push it back in place. It's rare but extremely painful. I wanted to dig a hole and crawl into it after finding this out.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Prolapses affect a much higher proportion of women that you might think, they are just *very* rarely spoken about. People with EDS suffer very badly from prolapses.
Nae Nae BB 2 years ago
It's called uterine prolapse, people used to (and sadly sometimes still do) shove inanimate objects up there to try and hold it in place. Obviously it's best treated by a doctor where it's either put back into place by hand and then surgically affixed or removed entirely due to tissue death from severe prolapse. Sadly women go through a lot of pain and issues just to be women.
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
It’s been a few years now and I’m still grateful every day to the one doctor that agreed to pull out my demonic uterus and toss it into the garbage before it killed me. :p
Phoenix(or nix)they/them 2 years ago
Down with the mean uteruses!(the regular ones can stay ig)
Load More Replies... Annymoose 2 years ago
Lived with it for ten years in pain before the sixth Dr I saw actually took me seriously and it had sagged so far he was surprised it had been missed, it was so obvious. Part of it was necrotic. If I'd gotten a fever I probably would have died (meaning sepsis). Ten years. "Periods just hurt sweetie". Every female ob I had shrugged me off and told me to take ibuprofen. Had to have it removed, it was too far gone.
afia kooma 2 years ago
It was worse when it was seen as "normal" after 10 or 11 kids. Women did the shoving themself, quietly in the bathroom after peeing or sex.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
A friend of mine who had this happen described it as "suddenly having a penis", which is WAY TMI for me. :)
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
you wanted to crawl into the hole you dug or crawl into the caved in uterus? (sorry everyone...)
#53
The first manmade object to ever leave the Earth’s atmosphere was a manhole cover launched into space from a nuclear bomb test. I think it is also still the fastest moving object humans have ever created.
Gabby Ghoul 2 years ago
We don't know if it actually left the atmosphere, it might have been vaporized. The Parker Solar Probe is currently the fastest manmade object, roughly 3 times faster than the manhole cover..
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
But incredibly, the manhole cover might even have left the solar system!!!!
Load More Replies... HARRY KOPPERS 2 years ago (edited)
V2 rockets left the atmosphere That manhole cover was probably flash melted and basically evaporated. Those nukes are quite hot.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
No, the fastest moving object humans have ever created is a toddler who's just been asked "What's that in your mouth?"
#54
That pirates are responsible for the US not being on the metrics system.
Everything about pirates is so commercialized or just b******t, but that's one they get to have forever.
Mike Crow 2 years ago
False. Canada switched to the metric system in 1975. The USA could have as well but has not switched because of stubbornness.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
The US tried multiple times to switch. They actually would have been early adapters but Thomas Jefferson didn't get a weight delivered via ship before a legislation was set to pass so it didn't happen. Could have been changed many, many times. There's actually an interstate in Arizona that's all km on the signs because it was built as a test interstate for changing over everything else, but then the plan fell through again.
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PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Only length and area/volume. Delta Dawn said above that weight is in pineapples and hamsters. But we need to guard the standard units very closely.
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Ace 2 years ago (edited)
I don't think so. The "metric" system didn't really come into being until Napoleon wanted to standardise measurements across Europe which at that time was mostly under his rule. 150 years or so after the period we think of as the age of piracy.
Alex Martin 2 years ago
The early US used multiple measurement systems. New York used the Dutch system other New England states used the English system. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson wrote to his friends in France asking for help. They sent scientist Joseph Dombey who brought a 1 kilogram standardized weight. Dombey's boat was caught in a storm, blown into the Caribbean, where it was captured by English Privateers. Dombey died in captivity before he could be ransomed. His 1 kilogram weight was sold off and was purchased by the Ellicot family where it was passed down as an heirloom until it was donated to a musuem in the 1950's. A bad storm and pirates may have kept the US from adopting the metric system.
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Stainless steel isn't magnetic...I didn't have stainless steel appliances growing up, but we bought all stainless for our kitchen and I got some cute magnets. My fiancé told me they won't stay on and why, and I was genuinely surprised and disappointed.
Ace 2 years ago (edited)
Yes, "stainless steel" is a catch-all term for a wide variety of alloys, only a few of which, due to their specific crystalline structure, are not ferro-magnetic.
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Robert T 2 years ago
Well the magnets on my kitchen timer stick perfectly well to the stainless steel front of my oven.... so someone is making a massive overgeneralisation.
Sanguinius 2 years ago
This is another one that used to disappoint people in my old job delivering appliances to people. Their old fridge would be covered in magnets and they'd expect to transfer them to their new stainless steel fridge I just brought them... but no luck. They will stick stick to the sides though. That plastic-y dimply material that practically all fridges are made of. But the doors themselves are no good for magnets.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Funny. My brother has a stainless steel fridge and magnets stick to it just fine.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
When we bought this fridge, we quickly choose this one while the salesman kept going on about extra's and specific things we didnt want to know about. We just wanted to know ONE THING: will all of my magnets stay on? When we finally were able to ask him he was speechless. Untill we realised the big stickers at the front with information were actually magnets. He said we were the first ever that asked that question.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Try to get a TAC with a piercing and let us know your experience XDDDDD
#56
An atomic bomb exploding doesn't make that terrifying roar you hear in movies. It just makes a regular *BANG!* like any ordinary explosive. Most of the footage of nuclear bombs has no sound, so directors add in the sound effect later.
eykntspel 2 years ago
Also an atomic bomb exploded high up in the atmosphere would be perfectly safe to stand under (outside of the blast radius of course) and has no risk of radiation poisoning as a result. The dirt and debris that is normally kicked up and carried by the wind is what causes the dangerous radiation after the explosions.
quentariel 2 years ago
If you are close enough to hear the explosion, you are probably dead anyway.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Yeeeeeeeahhhhhh..... so HOW do they know then???
Load More Replies... HARRY KOPPERS 2 years ago
The very loud bang from the Trinity test broke windows 70 miles away in Socorro. The cover story that it was an ammo dump wasn't believed, as an ammo dump would go boom.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Uh... no. That blast wave is sound. A louder sound than you can imagine.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
But blast wave is a different dynamic than the explosion itself.
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When the toilet bowl water splashes and "touches" your butt when you poop... It's called "Poseidon's kiss" Some jellyfishes are technically immortal.
Spam Jam 2 years ago
I love the train of thought that these two facts were posted together. Was someone "kissed" by a Jellyfish while on the toilet?
#58
40% of the world's almonds are bought by chocolate manufacturers
ShellsBells 2 years ago
Fun fact- It takes 1-3 gallons of water to grow a single almond, and there are about 92 almonds in a cup.
#59
That the pirates were the first one with a kind of social insurance
Nae Nae BB 2 years ago (edited)
They also practiced democracy, where all adults (including women) voted for their leaders. There was a strict code to live by and offenders were exiled or worse. Women were allowed and expected to vote long before women were allowed to vote in European countries or the USA.
Charlie the Cat 2 years ago
So what you're saying is that pirates were more civilised than the rest of civilisation.
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Starting at Earth's orbit, it takes as much energy to fly into the Sun as it does to fly past Neptune.
Ian Webling 2 years ago
Curiously though, much of that energy to reach the sun is needed to slow down.
Wood Carver 2 years ago
It does say fly into the sun, surely you can do that at full speed lol
Load More Replies... LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Having done both, I can confirm this. However, I lack evidence as Nintendo felt Link going into space was "unrealistic".
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
I prefer the heat to the cold so I would probably choose to fly into the Sun (after liberal use of sunblock of course)
#61
The way pineapples grow. Was totally drunk on a Kenny Cooler in a Texas Roadhouse when I googled it. Never been able to forget it.
Gretchen Esquilin 2 years ago
I'm currently growing a pineapple plant! It's so much fun to watch!
MagicJacket 2 years ago
And each pineapple plant can only fruit once. So each pineapple is from a separate plant.
#62
The sound when you slap your fingers is not made by your fingers but by the middle finger and the palm
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I will say, when I try to keep my middle finger up and not hitting my palm, the sound made is far less distinct that it is normally.
Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago
in a finger-snap, the middle finger drops onto a pocket created by your curled 4th-5th fingers, your palm and the base of your thumb. The snap is enlarged by the echo chamber created, but you can snap your fingers in other ways and it won't be as loud. That also determines the pitch. Move your other fingers closer to your thumb and the pitch gets higher.
David 2 years ago
It is for me. I just tried it. the finger slips off the thumb and slaps hard into the palm below the thumb. try using both hands so you thumbs (or fingers of your choice) slip off each other with the same amount of force but do not hit your palm. Almost not sound. Certainly not the familiar 'snap'.
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When I was 6 and found out that my grandma was my mom's mom. Mind blown.
David 2 years ago
I was slack jawed when I saw that video clip. I figured that out over 50 years ago when my age was a single digit. I couldn't believe he had just realized that and thought he was a genius for doing so.
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
You should have seen my 3 year old niece's face when we told her about this. She looked at us like we were all crazy. :)
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Wait till she's a teenager and you tell her anything.
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 2 years ago
the moment my nephew realised his mom is my sister! so cute. Or, when i was little, to find out that my cousins Uncle Wim was the same person as my Uncle Wim :-D
David 2 years ago
I knew this at a young age. My grandparent "TIL" moment was when I realized some grandmas are a******s. I was blessed with a wonderful grandma. I was well into adult hood when it occurred to me that grandparents are just old parents whose kids had kids and that adults who were buttheads were likely still buttheads when they became grandparents. Of course I knew that rationally if you had asked me but it just never "clicked" because I'd only been around grandparents who were as nice as the stereotypes portrayed in many movies.
#64
Many herbs have gone extinct in an attempt to help with birth control.
Alex Martin 2 years ago
The Ancient Romans and Greeks used an herb Silphium as birth control. It was also used as a spice and an aphrodisiac. It is believed to have grown in a small area of present day Libya. It became extinct in antiquity likely due to over cultivation (valuable cash crop used in trade) and possibly some form of climate change.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
I didn't know that herbs practiced birth control. But if they've gone extinct, it sounds like they were pretty successful.
#65
Santa isn't real
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Oh no? Then how did that Santa I met at the mall make my dad disappear and never come back?
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The Problem With Censorship Is ******* 2 years ago
YES. And no one can ever tell me otherwise.
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
Ok, I really enjoy articles like that but I would absolutely love to see some sources to support the claims. Sure, I can google my butt off but sometimes it's so vague or so abbreviated, it's pretty frustrating.
DB 2 years ago
I posted this one before but it's still pretty interesting. Longtime bandmate Derek St. Holmes has been shot by Ted Nugent. TWICE!
howdylee 2 years ago
Here's my random fact I learned yesterday: Andre the Giant holds the world record for the largest number of beers consumed in a single sitting. These were standard 12-ounce bottles of beer, nothing fancy, but during a six-hour period Andre drank 119 of them. https://drunkard.com/10_06_andre_giant/
Don Adams 2 years ago
Very enjoyable! Here's one - more people have walked on the moon (12) than scored a run off Mariano Rivera in the post season (11 in 96 games)
Jaya 2 years ago
Nice one! The fun thing is that you can do this with many things. "More people have walked on the moon, than have been on holiday with my brother" "More people have walked on the moon than have been at today's party" "More people have walked on the moon than have been born to my mother" "More men have been on the moon than have been inside of my vagina", lol. Okay, that one I actually feel sad about, lol.
Load More Replies... Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
Ok, I really enjoy articles like that but I would absolutely love to see some sources to support the claims. Sure, I can google my butt off but sometimes it's so vague or so abbreviated, it's pretty frustrating.
DB 2 years ago
I posted this one before but it's still pretty interesting. Longtime bandmate Derek St. Holmes has been shot by Ted Nugent. TWICE!
howdylee 2 years ago
Here's my random fact I learned yesterday: Andre the Giant holds the world record for the largest number of beers consumed in a single sitting. These were standard 12-ounce bottles of beer, nothing fancy, but during a six-hour period Andre drank 119 of them. https://drunkard.com/10_06_andre_giant/
Don Adams 2 years ago
Very enjoyable! Here's one - more people have walked on the moon (12) than scored a run off Mariano Rivera in the post season (11 in 96 games)
Jaya 2 years ago
Nice one! The fun thing is that you can do this with many things. "More people have walked on the moon, than have been on holiday with my brother" "More people have walked on the moon than have been at today's party" "More people have walked on the moon than have been born to my mother" "More men have been on the moon than have been inside of my vagina", lol. Okay, that one I actually feel sad about, lol.
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