People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren’t, As Shared In This Online Thread
The world is a strange place. You think you know how it works, but all it takes is one good documentary, and you end up questioning everything around you. Maybe even your own existence.
Heck, if you're lucky, you don't even need a twenty-to-sixty-minute video to expand your horizons. A quick scroll might be enough. And it brings me great joy to tell you that today we are, indeed, fortunate.
Recently, Redditor Aden_Elvis77 asked other users to share facts that sound fake but are actually true, starting a thread that has become an online archive of some of the most interesting trivia you can find.
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An infinite supply of food would not solve world hunger. We actually have more than enough food to end world hunger, the issue is with distribution/logistics.
Technically, that is exactly what the author said. The food is being wasted because it is failing to reach the available consumers needing it. Points for rephrasing in a way that possibly reaches understanding for some.
Load More Replies...True. It's funny how capitalism can get food on the shelves for profit but won't lift a finger to get it to those that need it most. And this is not singling capitalism out. Every system is flawed because it's governed by people. Where there are people, there will be greed. There's always someone more equal than the rest, to paraphrase Orwell.
It doesn't help when the aid that is sent is stolen by warlords or corrupt governments instead of getting to the people who need it. It's happened in Africa (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0176268016301720) and more recently in Yemen (https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1029542)
Load More Replies...There is enough food for the world, problem is cheaper to let it rot than transport it to where it is needed. Plus some areas the local governments/war lords find it easy to control the people if they control the food supply.
Warlord politics, too. They can't have the people they subjugate getting any kind of assistance.
The issue isn't with distribution or logistics, it's with capitalism. If you make food unaffordable and make junk food affordable, you guarantee poor health and poor quality of life.
Money also plays a very important role in ending world hunger. Who would want to go open McD in a backwards country where almost all of the customers can't pay for the food?
The issue is more, that food will not be distributed to people who cannot pay enoug for it. Rather let it grow bad in cold storage facilities to support the farmers.
More plastic flamingos exist on earth than living flamingos.
The same is true for unicorns.
The difference being, that there ARE live flamingoes, yet. There have never, so far as is known, been live unicorns.
But more trolls on the internet than on all the lawns and under the bridges in the world.
it took longer for humans to go from a Bronze sword to an Iron sword, than It took to go from an iron sword to the atomic bomb.
And if we don't tread carefully it won't take long to send us to ash age.
Can't wait to cruise the wastelands in my ex police interceptor hunting down bad guys, searching for guzzolene, water, food and women.
Load More Replies..."I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein. (maybe)
The problem here is that we are stuck accepting groups larger than a certain number, as a society. We keep creating, and demonizing, "them". "Them" is a concept that we need to overcome, before conflict resolution truly is effective. We will always be at war with "Them", so long as we keep defining others this way.
Separatism - and hence, Nationalism - is the greatest evil and our biggest threat.
Load More Replies...Dates given for 'the bronze age' differ depending on the region, but it is generally held to begin in the mid-4th millenium BC, while the iron age began about 1200 BC. So it actually took longer for the atom bomb.
Yes, I had to look this up too but maybe I have understood something wrong. The "First Sword" from was found at the earliest 5000 (3000BC) years ago. Bronze swords were used widely about 3700 years ago (1700BC), iron swords started being used 3200 (1200BC) years ago... there is 500 years difference between the two sword types. Iron was the metal of choice until about 1870 or 150 years ago, when militaries still used swords. The atomic bomb was invented 77 years ago. There is only 73 years difference between the use of Iron swords and the atomic bomb invention. So it is right but not 100% clear on the first reading
Load More Replies...36 years lie between the first motorized flight and jet planes
And just 63 years between motorized flight and the actual moon
Load More Replies...It's the information age. Any monkey can share with another monkey their crazy idea and make it work
I'm pretty sure this fun fact is not a fact. https://www.martialartswords.com/blogs/articles/bronze-vs-iron-vs-steel-swords-evolution-of-metals
Humans can smell some components of the smell of rain (the geosmin part of petrichor, specifically) far better than sharks can small blood in water.
I live in a rain forest area .. and love the smell of the rain. Also can sense the rain (hours before) is coming by the smell, moisture in the air.
I live in Michigan and I am the same way. I can smell rain and feel the barometric pressure change. Fun fact leaves turn upside down before it rains (to collect water) so Ive used that to verify an incoming storm.
Load More Replies...I do too, but ever since I was a little girl I say it's smells like worms.
James Garfield could write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other at the same time
I'd expect him slurping spaghetti - it's tricky to eat lasagna with both hands occupied.
Load More Replies...A hemispherical brain allows this where both sides of the brain work evenly. I have a friend who has this and there is nothing she can't do - makes you feel inferior though!
That's not impressive, I can fly a helicopter using both hands and feet.
Pft. I can make a bunny shaped shadow with my hands while tapping my feet to the rhythm of Happy Birthday. Beat that! 😊
Load More Replies...Pretty sure this is a myth. Look up presidents writing with two hands myth
He was an incredible man, but all anyone ever remembers is his assassination
He also came up with an entirely new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
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I’m shocked by the amount of people that refuse to believe narwhals are real animals. I’ve got one tattooed on my forearm, so I probably get people talking to me about them more often than normal lol. It usually ends in me pulling up pictures on google, and them still being skeptical.
Just shocking. I will be taking donations to raise narwhal awareness and fund a sanctuary for abused and neglected narwhals. $500 contribution minimum and you will receive a commemorative toothpick for your generosity.
What about a narwhal shaped toothpick dispenser? And when it runs out of toothpicks, it becomes a whale shaped paper weight.
Load More Replies...Narwhals, Narwhals living in the ocean, causing a commotion cuz they are so awesome!
Narwhals, Narwhals Swimming in the ocean Pretty big and pretty white They beat a polar bear in a fight
Load More Replies...I did not realize narwhals were real for an embarrassingly long time. But I also believed it when I found out they were real.
Same but different... I thought unicorns were real for quite some time as a kid. I was shocked when I learned they weren't. I mean, a horse with a horn seemed like it could be a thing, right?
Load More Replies...People are stupid. They think a dolphin with an extra long tooth can not exist, but a vegetarian hiena with 3m long legs and 3m long neck can. That's the giraffe.
I never really looked at narwhals, until a tusk was used to stop a terrorist running amok with knives on London Bridge. And it was a murderer on a rare day out, not less, who grabbed the tusk that was mounted on the wall of a pub. One of the most bizarre news stories, ever.
My sister in law had no idea they were real because she had only seen one in the movie Elf. :D But she believed us when we told her. I still like to tease her about it.
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" marks the one and only time that Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny have ever officially appeared in the same place at the same time, as well as Daffy and Donald.
All characters screentime between both companies was timed down to the frame to make sure they both had exactly equal amounts with their characters
Well, they didn't want Mickey or Bugs to suffer a bruised ego if one got more screen time. Cartoon characters are famously precious about these things.
They're reallly not narcissists - they're just drawn that way.
Load More Replies...It's what sold Bob Hotchkis on starring in that movie. He got to be the only Hollywood star to film with Bugs and Mickey. Pretty cool when you think about it.
Here's a reminder that downvotes are not to he used when someone doesnt have the same opinion than you, but when someone is being offensive or if it's one of those bots promoting a website
Load More Replies...Mickey Mouse's nervous titter sounded completely psychotic in the scene. He's just too "innocent." In context with Bugs, who always knows what's going on, and given that the human character, Eddie Valiant, was falling to his death... ooh, it just made him sound like a murderous lunatic. Bugs has always been crazy, so no problem there.
I work at a company that deals with licensing and I can tell you this was a HUGE feat! Licensors are a pain in the a*s about their assets and the fact that this actually happened is amazing!
The average blood pressure of a giraffe is around 300/190. They need to have a high BP to get the blood all the way up the neck to profuse the brain with oxygen. I am thoroughly impressed by their cardiovascular system.
they do! their hearts are 2 feet long, weighing around 25 pounds. that seems pretty big for us, but for such large animals, i guess not really haha
Load More Replies...Also, a giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck that a human has.
A human has in their whole body right? Right??
Load More Replies...A giraffe's coffee would be cold by the time it reached the bottom of its throat. Ever think about that? No. You only think about yourself. (-The internet)
I had a dream about my history teacher in hs telling is giraffes had an auxiliary heart in their necks. It became one of those dreams that you forgot was a dream and becomes a memory. I tried explaining this to people who thought I had lost my mind. This was before the internet was everywhere so we couldn't just look it up. We debated this until someone questioned why my history teach was teaching about giraffes and it suddenly dawned on me that this had never happened. I remember seeing high school text book style illustrations of this in my history book and everything. Flat out never happened though. Brains are weird.
They hate the largest left ventricle to heart mass ratio of any animal.... to get that blood up that neck
I used to work as a pharmacy technician. One day, after an incident, corporate sent out mandatory training stating that dogs take about 10 times the dose of thyroid medicine humans do and to be sure not to change what the vet wrote if people brought their pets' prescriptions in.
A single coal power plant produces more toxic waste in a year than every nuclear power plant has ever made.
Slightly misleading, the nuclear waste is much more toxic but has a much smaller volume/mass, so is much easier to contain. The coal plant just spews toxic gases into the air and dumps toxic ash in sludge ponds. Not to mention carbon emissions. A more revealing statistic is the comparison of deaths per terawatt hour of electricity generated. 24.62 for coal, 0.03 for nuclear. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
Actually no. The ash of many coal plants is actually low level radioactive. So in fact some coal plants emit more radiation than nuclear plants. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
Load More Replies...Let's just agree that nukes and coal could both end all life on the planet.
We need more well-engineered nuclear power plants in safe places to help us curb climate change.
Not a nuclear fan but there's a conspiracy about oil tycoons who force every kind of media to spread negative marketing of nuclear energy since the first plant. Interestingly there is a pattern in nuclear accidents for every generation to remember.
No need for conspiracy, just capitalist logic: nuclear power plant is a long-term investment - five years to build, if you REALLY rush it, expensive to construct, expensive to run. Oil and coal generate profit now, as the infrastructure is already there, so called renewables - in a very short term and are less labor intensive.
Load More Replies...Nuclear is the way we're gonna have to go someday. It's the best option by far in terms of reliability and sustainability, and honestly there's no reason not to start switching to it now.
Name one exploded coal power plant with a 30 km exclusion zone around it.
Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year
Anne Frank a life that was cut short by evil and yet we know her name across the world. Dr King didn't live for very long as well and we know him through whatever he did in that time.
Martin Luther King Jr was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his death in 1968.
Load More Replies...I learned this week that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid Julia Roberts' labor and delivery bill for her parents when she was born. Apparently, the Roberts parents owned a theater company outside Atlanta that was racially integrated and the Kings, at the time, were having trouble finding a program for their children that was desegregated, or that would even accept Black children. The Roberts' gladly took the children into the program and not long after, were in somewhat of a difficult financial position when Julia was born. The Kings very generously helped them.
Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Mad Dog Vachon. The list goes on and on.
Load More Replies...Most people know this,as Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged all the young girls to read the dairy of Anne Frank.
Platypus glow under blacklights
And as they produce milk and lay eggs they are one of the few animals that can make their own custard.
....how is this a real animal and yet "horse with horn" is fiction?
Load More Replies...CAN PERRY GLOW??????? as Scp_049, said below that's the colour that platypi glow, but what colour would perry glow?
Load More Replies...How do you turn a Platypus into a soul singer? Put it in a microwave until its bill withers..
Aren’t they also poisonous? I could be totally wrong but swear I’ve read this somewhere.
They are indeed. Their stinger is located at their elbows iirc. Not deadly but infuses terrible pain as I have read
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Komodo dragons usually reproduce sexually, but females in captivity have been known to reproduce by parthenogenesis, without the need for sperm.
Watch out guys, we're one evolutionary leap away from being obsolete.....
Only for reproductive purposes, but there's currently an overpopulation of humans. I got fixed, but I still like going through the motions
Load More Replies...Usually with parthenogenesis, the offspring would all be female clones, or sterile, I think.
All female, yes, but not exactly clones, and not sterile. They tend to have less genetic diversity than the parent and may run into trouble with recessives. But for surviving the species a generation or two until a mate can be found, its not bad.
Load More Replies...with massive genetic problems with the "clone" generation, seen in a few other reptile species, and one fish species.
But I think the fish species overcomes the problems by mating with males of another related species. But still they only get female offspring.
Load More Replies...But try explaining that to her husband who got separated from her. "I swear baby, I didn't mate with anyone else!"
Shaq 3-point stats. He made: 1 in his career
That's only one more than the number of Kentucky Derbys he's won as a jockey.
He was a center. His job was to literally stand under the basket. When was he supposed to take the ball past the three point line?
It happens sometimes. It's uncommon and they usually give the ball right back to a ball handler, but some centers can hit that shoot at the top of the key.
Load More Replies...Don't forget Frosted Flakes! And Papa John's pizza. He owns a house right behind my son's high school and he owns several of the Papa John's franchises around here, which is McDonough, Georgia...a suburb about 30 minutes southeast of Atlanta.
Load More Replies...Cecil Fielder played professional baseball for 14 seasons. Stole two bases.
If I were covering 2nd and saw Cecil Fielder coming, he would have gotten three.
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Our eyes view everything upside down, but our mind flips it right side up
Up and down are imaginary concepts, in the absence of a reference point. We just create a reference point arbitrarily.
Our up and down reference point is the ground and gravity. Scuba divers in murky water rely on seeing the direction of bubbles to indicate where the surface is. Some get narcosis and think they're swimming to the surfaces but are swimming deeper.
Load More Replies...You also have a blind spot and lines from blood vessels in the image which your brain filters out. You can find your blind spot (see https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chvision.html), it can be pretty freaky the first time you do this.
The brain filters out all sorts of things it thinks we don't need to see right now. That's the same reason you don't see your nose most of the time, even though if you look at it (or think about it) you see it perfectly fine.
Load More Replies...And if you have glasses that flip the image upside down, the brain will quickly adapt and flip it the 'right' way up. Then when you take them down, you see flipped image for a while, until your brain flips it again.
Someone kindly explain or leave a link to an good documentary on this. I don't know how to frame this as a search query and afraid to be sucked down an ocular rabbit hole 🐰
Load More Replies...You know what would be cool? If you could turn it off. Like if you were reading something upside down, you could just turn it off and see the thing right side up without turning your head like really awkwardly.
I learned to read upsidedown, sitting across the table from my brother. I can read either way without trouble and am always surprised that many people can't.
Load More Replies...Genuine question: how does the brain decide which way is the "right" way up?
I imagine cause and effect, if you move in one direction but the image you see does not seem to match the motion then your brain will start forming new paths and trimming old ones until the two agree.
Load More Replies...yep. the light reflects off of the retina, which kind of acts as a mirror in a sense. the new image that is reflected is what we actually end up seeing. it's all very fascinating how it works
The northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.
Similarly, the easternmost point in Brazil is closer to Africa than it is to the westernmost point in Brazil
This one I did not know, so I did the math. The closest point in Brazil to Africa is roughly from just north of the city of Natal to the coast of Sierra Leone. This is about 2,900 kilometers. From Natal to the westernmost point in the Brazilian state of Acre (on the Peruvian border) is roughly 4,300 kilometers. So Natal is WAY closer to Africa than to Peru. Out of curiosity, the distance from the northernmost point of Brazil to Nova Scotia is just under 4,300 km. And from the northernmost point to the southernmost point is just over 4,400 km. This stretches from Guyana/Venezuela to Uruguay. Brazil is the 5th largest country by area, after Russia, Canada, China, and the United States. For fun, here is Brazil rotated and super-imposed on Europe. The entire Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea fit easily in our northern states. Screenshot...de-png.jpg
We need to fix that, we could be invaded at any time!! /J
Load More Replies...It's a big country. What most Americans have a hard time believing is that nearly 50% of South America speaks a language that is not Spanish. And because the population of Brazil is so large, Portuguese is the second most spoken romance language, as far as first languages go (more people speak French, but as a second language). I often hear Americans talk about the "big three" romance languages as Spanish, French, and Italian, but more accurately it would be Spanish (470 million), Portuguese (250 million), and French (150 million). I say Americans here, but it's possible that European perceptions are similar.
For some context, Brazil has a population of about 215 million. Population of all of South America is 440 million. So about 49% of South Americans speak Portuguese, and 86% of lusophones (Portuguese speakers) live in Brazil.
Load More Replies...The southernmost point of Canada (Middle Island in Lake Erie) is further south than all or part of 22 US states
And you can fit the British Isles inside Alberta. I tell the folks back home that and they're gobsmacked. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Load More Replies...Well, there are still disputes between Japan and Russia over islands. Of course Japan also has that issue with China.
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Every single person on Earth could have about 950 square feet in Texas and leave the rest of the world completely empty. (Not that anyone would want that!)
Have you ever been to Texas? Have you even met one of us?
Load More Replies...That sounds like a lot until you realise it just over 30 feet by 30 feet and you could still (potentially) smell their farts.
Ah, the Fart Radius distance calculation. Again, we Americans will use literally anything to avoid measuring with the metric system.
Load More Replies...When Alaska was made a state, Texas complained bitterly because it was no longer the largest state in the US. Alaska finally got tired of it and told Texas to be quiet or Alaska would divide itself in two which would demote Texas to being the third largest state.
And, if those folks were all in Alaska they could have the same 950 square feet - PLUS, there'd still be room for the state of Texas beside them!
Someone from Texas insisted to me that if all the snow in Alaska melted you'd find the state that remained underneath was actually smaller than Texas. Like I said, he was from Texas.
Load More Replies...But remember, we need the rest of the planet for plants which give us food and oxygen and there are other resources humans need. It's easy to see there is a real human overpopulation problem when all of our needs are taken into account -- it's not just about physical space.
at least not in texas. Give me land in Oregon or Montana, and I'd be happy
I like my feet the shape they are, thank you, and I certainly don't need any more
Carrots were purple in medieval times.
No. This is the only surviving photo from medieval times.
Load More Replies...this is true, the reason is that farmers cultivated them to be orange to honor their king, I belive it was the earl of orange. someone fact-check and correct me if I'm wrong.
What rhymes with purple?. What rhymes with orange?. Coincidence?. I think not.
hirple and sporange, of course (they're actual words i swear)
Load More Replies...I was too busy watching the knights bash each other to pay attention to the carrots. Quite a show!
Purple, white and yellow were their earlier colours. Apparently White was unpopular as it's easily confused with parsnips.
it's just the skin that's purple. I planted some in my garden this year. I skinned one and it was orange like a regular carrot. Parsnips, on the other hand, might have color all the way through.
There are ones that are purple all the way through, but rarer
Load More Replies...At least in Viking age Scandinavia carrots where white or yellowish. Wild carrots, which are white (but very small), are still growing in Scandinavia.
Almonds are from the peach family.
If you look inside the pit of a peach, the center looks just like an almond
Do not try eating peach pits, though. You likely don't have the cyanide tolerance built up for it to be a good time.
Load More Replies...🎶 Millions of almonds, almonds for me, millions of almonds, almonds for free 🎶
Millions of almonds, destroying California's water table, millions of almonds, burning homes and wildlife every summer.
Load More Replies...And wild almonds are deadly... As can be the kernels inside peach or apricot pits if you eat too many of them. (If you don't, the DO taste almondy.)
Some brands of amaretto are actually made with peach pits and not almonds.
Also pink peppercorns are from the cashew and pistachio family!! Look out for those allergic to nuts, especially tree nuts!!
Ooh! Good to know! I was totally unaware. Also, Szechuan pepper is in the citrus family.
Load More Replies...... Which is actually the Rose family. The rose family gives us a LOT of produce: almonds, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, apples, quinces, pears, nectarines, loquats, raspberries, blackberries, salmonberries, boysenberries, strawberries, and of course, roses (and rose hips).
The Italian name for the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” roughly translates to “If You Dump Me, I Delete You.”
In Brazil it was "Brilho Eterno de uma Mente sem Lembranças" or "Eternal Light of a Mind without Memories".
"The Shawshank Redemption" in Italy is "On the wings of freedom".
"Silver Linings Playbook" is "The positive side".
"The Immigrant" is "Once Upon in New York".
"My own private Idaho" is "Beautiful and damned".
"There will be blood" is "The Oilman".
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It's more "If you leave me, I'll cancel you" but the spirit is the same.
Strawberry is not a berry but banana is
A strawberry is a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle.
Couple of fun facts for you. Tomatoes, cucumbers and anything with a seed is actually a fruit!! The strawberry is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside.
I started presented this to my 1st year biology majors (university) as being good bar-bet fodder. After that, the odds of them recalling it correctly for exams increased remarkably.
Yes, big and bland. Smallest ones are the tastiest, especially wild ones.
Load More Replies...A simple fruit from one flower produced from a single ovary containing many seeds. Strawberries use multiple ovaries, so they are botanically speaking an aggregate fruit.
Load More Replies...Strawberries are berries. They are unique because their seeds are on the outside but I am pretty sure they are still berries. Bananas are herbs. Where did these "facts" come from?
Virtually all bananas grown in Guatemala, in Latin America in general, and around the world for export are genetically identical.
Sharks are older than trees
Yes. That is most definetly the only reason sharks don't eat trees as food /s
Load More Replies...In the evolutionary time line, sharks appeared on earth before trees.
Load More Replies...That isn't true. I just googled it. NASA has found, that the rings are 4,5 billion years old. not the 100 mio. years that was formerly believed. So the rings are approximately the age of earth itself.
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The number of ants on Earth has a mass greater than all birds and mammals combined
Same with beetle, but the mass of all the beetles, outweighs the rest of all the creatures on earth.
Black pepper is a stone fruit, similar to an apricot
Same problem with peach pits above - apricot seeds are high in cyanide.
Load More Replies...So if we dry the pit of the fruit to get black pepper, what does the fruit taste like? Is it edible?
Wow! I guess you learn something new everyday! That’s very interesting!
Not. A pepper had multiple seeds encased in the fruit. An apricot has only one!
The Rope Around The Earth Problem
Take a rope tied tautly around a basketball. Now the rope must be lengthened so that there is a one foot gape between the ball and the rope at all points, as if the rope is hovering a foot away around the entirety of the ball. How much must the rope be lengthened to accomplish this? 6.28 Feet.
Now take a rope around tied tautly around the equator of the earth. We have the same goal for the one foot hovering gap around the entirety of the earth. How far must the rope be lengthened? 6.28 Feet.
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This is so counter intuitive just about no one will believe it until shown the math
No point showing me the math because I most certainly wouldn't understand it. I'll take you at you word.
Circumference is directly proportional to radius, so a change to radius of 1 unit will always change the circumference by 2pi units.
Load More Replies...I did not believe this so I did some maths. Circumference is found by multiplying the diameter by pi (C = πd). Adding another foot around a circle increases the diameter by two feet, and no matter how large or small the circles are,, whether they're 1000ft and 1002ft or 20,000,000ft and 20,000,002ft, that two-feet difference always adds just 6.28ft to the circumference. Mind.Blown.
But how many bananas does it take to go around the wot.? That's what I want to know!
Load More Replies...In both cases, the new diameter/distance across the rope circle is increased by 2 units (feet) -- one on each side ("see" or draw it) ... multiply this by pi to get the new Circumference. -----> 2 x pi (3.14) = 6.28 unit increase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (This works with all units . . Feet .. Meters .. Bananas)
Well yeah, the gap is adding the same distance to the rope's diameter in both instances, so the amount of extra rope you need is the same. The original length of the rope is irrelevant.
If you assume the original radius is r1 Original circumference = 2π(r1), New circumference = 2π(r1 + 1ft), New circumference = 2π(r1) + 2π(1ft), Take away the original circumference from the new one to get the difference in length: Difference = (2π(r1) + 2π(1ft)) - 2π(r1), Difference = 2π(r1) - 2π(r1) + 2π(1ft), Difference = 2π(1ft) = 6.28ft approx, As the radius always cancels out, the change in circumference is always 2π times the air gap no matter how big the object is.
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A French guy once ate an entire airplane.
I also want to know how much wine it took to flush down the metallic aftertaste?
Load More Replies...Dude...my buddy and I have talked about this since we learned about it when we were in high school! We're 33 now. Just occasionally go, "yeah...but a dude are a PLANE"
Apparently not. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
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The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams ( about the weight of a paperclip) of matter into energy.
That seems so small - but its genuinely terrifying - a gigantic amount of energy is required to translate energy into mass
Wait are we talking about turning energy into mass, or matter into energy?
Load More Replies...That's that whole E=MC2 thing. The amount of atomic energy potential is the amount of mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. And the speed of light is a big number.
Raf, you are impressing the hěll out of me today with all these knowledge bombs you're dropping (pun very much intended). Not that I don't typically enjoy reading your comments but you're coming in hot today! 😎
Load More Replies...So, there must be enough paper clips in the world to wipe out our solar system for all eternity.
Which is why Matter/Antimatter reactions are so energetic. They literally turn matter into energy.
Everest is nowhere close to being the farthest away from the center of the earth. The top of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2.1 km farther away, even crazier is that Chimborazo isn't even the highest mountain in the Andes.
Yes, or as I like to think about it, it’s because the earth is shaped like a slightly deflated ball
Load More Replies...Because the height of a mountain doesn't account for its base's height above or below sea level. Mauna Kea is over 4000 feet taller than Everest but its base is far below sea level on the Pacific floor. Everest's peak is the highest altitude above sea level, making Mauna Kea the world's tallest and Everest the highest. The peak of Chimborazo is furthest from the Earth's centre due to its position near the equator. Because the Earth is not perfectly round but is slightly oblate, the equatorial bulge puts the land further from the Earth's core than the land further North where the Himalayas formed (and are still forming).
Yes....told my friend who lives in hawaii now.... I climbed the tallest mountain on the east coast(USA). And the tallest in x, x, x, other states this year!!!! Then he enlightened me to Mauna kea and blah blah blah. So yep.
Load More Replies...Everest also isn’t the tallest mountain. It’s the tallest ABOVE sea level, but the true tallest mountain is Mauna Kea in Hawaii. It’s shorter than Everest above sea level, but that’s because half of it is pretty much submerged in water. The whole stretch from the ocean floor to its peak makes it about a mile taller than Everest.
According to the Doomsday argument, there is a 95% chance that in the next 9120 years human civilization will die out.
The Doomsday Argument is specifically about the extinction of the human species (and doesn't use the term "human civilisation" actually). Human civilisation (which is here only the way that the poster on reddit described it, not the Argument itself) describes the entirety of the development of the human species. Either way, it does absolutely mean the extinction of the human species.
Load More Replies...If you look at human collective behavior, it's not a question of whether civilization is going to die out, just when and how. I would say 9120 years is wildly optimistic. My estimate would be 300 years.
Then you are stille much more optimistic than I am.
Load More Replies...Because by then the human race will have downloaded themselves into the internet where they will live for eternity in a world of make believe and bliss. We will truly live in paradise.
Your brain can’t really distinguish between imagination and reality.
Mine can. In my imagination I'm a Platinum-selling rock star with a bevy of groupies and a fleet of sports cars parked at my huge mansion. In reality, I'm an out-of-work football coach, living off cereal with a wife and a dog. It's quite easy.
Yes it is possible to differentiate reality and imagination because in one you’re an omnipresent God and the other is super depressing
Load More Replies...BS, it absolutely can. Afferent information (reality, which is perceived through our senses) is processed in an entirely different way by the brain to efferent information (self-generated by the brain, imagined). Surprise is a conflict between afferent and efferent information. This difference is, for example, why you can't tickle yourself.
I dunno man, I keep having this very boring but incredibly vivid and realistic recurring dream where I go to the store and buy milk, and then when I wake up and go to the fridge I am surprised to see no milk 😅
Load More Replies...This is too little information to really comprehend the phenomenon. This refers to false memory syndrome. If your imagination is close enough to reality, it can form a false memory. And our brains are unable to distinguish between those false memories and real ones. This happens because our brains have a mechanism to fill in gaps in our perception, like filling out the seconds we miss when we blink, and that mechanism can cause us to perceive an imaginary memory to be true. It's not like we imagine something and just don't realise we're imagining it. But if, for example someone would insist we've been with them on a trip and provide us details of what happened on the trip and we tried our hardest to remember the trip that process of filling the gaps can kick in and we imagine the trip and don't realise it's not a real memory. This happened during the satanic panic, where therapists and police asked extremely leading questions unwittingly implanting false memories in kids.
Those memories weren't true, those rituals never happened, but it only came out when a girl remembered very vividly an abuse by her grandfather during the questioning, but the following investigation showed that this couldn't have happened because the grandfather was already dead and the kid was somewhere else during the time the rituals were supposed to have happened. Proper investigation showed that all of the allegations could be quite easily disproven. Alleged victims that were said to have been killed during the rituals were alive etc. After that, research showed the false memory syndrome and strict rules for questioning were implemented to avoid it.
Load More Replies...It's why many people who claim to have had weird experiences such as seeing ghosts, alien beings, demons or religious figures vividly, for example, refuse to believe they were possibly hallucinating, because the brain sees unexpected hallucinations as reality. Expected hallucinations - those induced by knowingly taking hallucinogenics - seem real when they're happening but once the effect wears off the brain processes the memory of them differently because it knows the cause.
Hallucinations however are SENSORY experiences, not imaginary ones. Reality is perceived by the brain through sensory information - afferent information this is called. Imaginations created by the brain are efferent information and are processed differently by the brain. As hallucinations are sensory experiences, they are processed as afferent information at the time no matter the cause. This actually proves that the brain processes imagination and reality separately, not disproves it.
Load More Replies...If the physicalists/scientistics are right, then that's false because I *am* my brain and *I* can distinguish between imagination and reality.
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasted 57 seconds. It was a Loganair flight between two Scottish islands, Westray and Papa Westray. It was recorded the shortest commercial flight, with the distance of 1.7 miles.
Imagine getting to the airport hours early for a 57 second flight 🙃 But honestly, seems like a ferry would be more economical.
Legend has it that the passengers are still trying to get to the end of the in-flight movie...
I wonder how much it costed (manpower, fuel, electricity, ticket prices, etc)
You can still catch this flight daily, Noel Phillips did it recently and recorded it.
Guy called Tom Scott has a video on his YouTube channel of doing this flight. Interesting and very brief. 😉
Crickets’ ears are on their legs
That's not a cricket, that's a grasshopper. Grasshoppers ears are called Tympanum and they are on the body under the closed wings and not on the legs as with crickets.
Not sure what Penny posted in her comment, but if she didn't mention this: BP is NOTORIOUSLY terrible with their stock images XD I agree an accurate fact needs an accurate image... but BP is abominable with the images they use. A lot of times they're straight-up wrong, or disturbing when taken in context with the post they're paired with :<
Load More Replies..."How do you call a cricket without legs? A deaf cricket". No, that does not sound like it makes sense.
I think the answer is "Anything you like, he can't hear you."
Load More Replies...This is why crickets never wear corduroys, the "wiff, wiff, wiff" would drive them crazy.
The guy who played the villain in Karate kid 3 ( Terry Silver , Thomas Ian Griffith ) is actually 7 months younger than Ralph Macchio , ( Daniel LaRusso). It’s weird because the karate kid was still supposed to be under 18 and the villain was supposed to have fought in Vietnam.
I think the actor that plays Johnny is also younger than Ralph Macchio.
Load More Replies...Johnny was the good guy and soooo much cuter! he still looks good now in Cobra Kai
Ralph Macchio is actually 4 months older, Ralph Macchio was born in11/4/1961 and Griffith was born in 3/18/1962.
The CIA made a heart attack gun.
It was a dart gun that fired a pellet of frozen poison. When the poison melted, it would enter the bloodstream and mimic the effects of a heart attack gun. Because the actual pellet melted, there would be no evidence except a tiny hole. It was supposedly developed in case Richard Nixon started abusing his power. https://oddfeed.net/was-there-really-a-cia-heart-attack-gun/
Load More Replies...Why is this not surprising. The CIA came up with crazy stuff during the cold war.
In a few million years we won't see solar eclipses on Earth anymore because the moon would be too far away to cover the sun - it moves 4 cm away from Earth per year
Almost panicked because I wanna Conroe sewing solar eclipses and then I remembered I probably won't anyway, and a few million year has no effect on me SO. Kinda like how a discord's friends status is 'Christmas is a week away' and I panic even tho I know it's wrong. That's a neat fact tho
Load More Replies...one weird fact that i know is the fact that,even despite the idea of one,aside from belief,there is no god.anything religion explains,science cn do the same thing.
Oh really? Tell me where the first living cell came from then. How did it come into existence?
Load More Replies...In a few million years we won't see solar eclipses on Earth anymore because the moon would be too far away to cover the sun - it moves 4 cm away from Earth per year
Almost panicked because I wanna Conroe sewing solar eclipses and then I remembered I probably won't anyway, and a few million year has no effect on me SO. Kinda like how a discord's friends status is 'Christmas is a week away' and I panic even tho I know it's wrong. That's a neat fact tho
Load More Replies...one weird fact that i know is the fact that,even despite the idea of one,aside from belief,there is no god.anything religion explains,science cn do the same thing.
Oh really? Tell me where the first living cell came from then. How did it come into existence?
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