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“Confirmation Bias Is A Scary Thing”: People Online Share 35 Scientific Facts That Sound Unbelievable But Are Actually True
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Science is a gift that keeps on giving. It enables us to understand some of the world’s most mind-boggling phenomena and the constant discoveries mean that there’s always something new to learn.
Redditors recently shared some astonishing scientific facts with the 'Ask Reddit' community. Thanks to the user rambojambo11 who started the discussion on this topic, they compiled quite a collection of pieces of information that sound unbelievable. We have combed through it to present to you some of the most fascinating ones, so keep scrolling for your daily dose of science. Also, if you get hooked after reading this list, don’t worry, there’s more here.
Bored Panda has reached out to rambojambo11 and they were kind enough to answer a few of our questions. You will find their thoughts below.
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#1
Infrared light was discovered all the way back in 1800. By accident. With a thermometer.
William Herschel (who also discovered Uranus) was experimenting with a prism. He wanted to see if different colors of light had different temperatures. So he had the room completely dark except a beam of light hitting a prism and casting a rainbow onto the table. He had placed thermometers in each color band to see if there was a difference. As a control, he had an additional thermometer past the ene of the light below the red band.
Except when he compared his readings he got something strange: the control thermometer was reading the highest temperature of all. This didn't make any sense. Was his thermometer faulty? He tried a few more tests with more thermometers in other places and came to an inescapable conclusion: there must be an additional invisible "color" below red that carried more heat than any of the visible colors. He named it infrared, which just literally means "below red".
JB 2 years ago
Discover infrared, meh, discover Uranus humor for mankind, brilliance and acclaim
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Groaver Andout 2 years ago
"William Herschel (who also discovered Uranus) was experimenting with a prism." Oh yeah? Experimenting, you say?
mhoulden 2 years ago
Where do you think Pink Floyd got the idea for Dark Side of the Moon from?
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Chewie Baron 2 years ago
It was his sister who discovered Uranus, but he got the credit because ShE waS A woMaN!
Mona 2 years ago
Caroline Herschel did many, many things, including discover comets and other celestial objects, but she did not discover Uranus. William Herschel was working alone that night. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/Caroline_and_William_Herschel_Revealing_the_invisible
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#2
that the human brain is the only organ in the history of existence that named itself.
Hugo Santos 2 years ago
The tongue says its name, but didn't name itself...
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#3
There was a period of about 50 Million years when we had trees on earth but nothing to decompose dead ones, so they just piled up, and up, deeper and deeper, they got buried and eventually we got coal!
LK 2 years ago
The Carboniferous period was when trees grew tall, but had shallow roots, and fell over. Trees landed on trees. There was no microbes capable to digesting cellulous of lignin. The trees turned into peat, and then into coal. It wasn't until the lignin and cellulose microbes evolved that trees started becoming compost.
Remy 2 years ago
This is not "100% True"... It is one theory but is not agreed upon as "fact". I'm a microbiologist and I'm in the camp that believes it's highly improbable that neither bacteria nor fungi had the means to breakdown plant matter not to mention plant matter isn't the only thing that makes up coal. Coal is heated and compressed carbon, and not all organic matter is/was trees. I am not a paleomicrobiologist nor a paleobotanist and didn't study this extensively, but it's my humble opinion that this one can't be called "100%True"... here's a god short read on the topic though (which is newer than the article that first claimed that this was how coal was formed during the Carboniferous period.) https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-ancient-forests-formed-coal-and-fueled-life-as-we-know-it
Winnie the Moo 2 years ago
Sad to think that dead trees are eventually a source of killing live trees because we burn up so much coal the air gets toxic.
Dovid de Bresser 2 years ago
That is worrying, since from this explanation it follows that as we now do have those microbes, no further coal will be created. Ever.
juice 2 years ago
i would assume soil, wind and rain, and maybe other plants contributed
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Chris Theodorakis 2 years ago
This may not be true. There is evidence that lignin-decomposing fungi existed at this time. The alternative is was just because there were vast swamps at the time, and peat accumulates at the bottom of swamps because the acidic, oxygen-poor water there slows down decomposition. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-was-most-of-the-earths-coal-made-all-at-once/
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago
Correct. It would simply decompose via microbes.
Load More Replies...The Reddit user really got the ball rolling when they asked the community members what is a cool scientific fact that they know that sounds unbelievable. “I am always interested in learning about cool new facts and what better place than Reddit to ask this question!” they told Bored Panda.
Their question attracted roughly 3,000 comments, which must have provided plenty of information for them to get acquainted with. The answers from other redditors covered all sorts of fields, from chemistry to geology and everything in between. The OP, who is a mechanical engineer themselves, said that they have always been fascinated by physics and the universe.
They also revealed which scientific fact blew their mind the most: “The fact that I love the most and like sharing with people is that the human brain named itself! Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from!”
#4
30-50% of people don’t have an internal monologue.
Settled for Infamy 2 years ago (edited)
I simply cannot fathom this, Even in the most dire of personality disorders. How could one prepare important , well anything or review correct personal behaviour. I'm not doubting, just feeling genuine confusion regarding this
ThreeAngryLlamas 2 years ago
I have no idea how an internal monologue would be necessary for that. I don't have one, and I can still reflect, it just isn't narrated.
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Jack S 2 years ago
You know those people we're all jealous of who can go to sleep within a minute of shutting their eyes? It's them lol.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
Yes 😆 my partner has no internal monologue, doesn’t think too much and can fall asleep within two minutes, it’s mind blowing and baffling to me
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Serial pacifist 2 years ago
What? How? Who are these people? Don’t mind my comment, just talking to myself.
Cowws 2 years ago
with everyone it must be different, but for me, it's not actually silence. Usually there's stuff there, a feeling, a song, a few words, just not full blown sentences and arguments. Or maybe I do have an internal monologue and just don't think much lol
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Kaa 2 years ago
That must be those people who chatter all the time and can't just shut up for a moment
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
As a chatterbox, I can very well assure you that I have an inner monologue
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Wilf 2 years ago
I'm one of those people. I only found out this wasn't considered 'normal' until quite late in life. My friends simply don't understand what it must be like. It's hard to describe to other people. You just sort of absorb things and work intuitively. If I wanted to have an internal discussion with myself- for example to weigh up options before making a decision- I actually have to vocalise it. Honestly, I have to pretend I'm talking- out loud- to another person in order to do that. Apparently people have that other voice in their heads all the time!
Natasha Young 2 years ago
You just described my experience beautifully!: " If I wanted to have an internal discussion with myself- for example to weigh up options before making a decision- I actually have to vocalise it. Honestly, I have to pretend I'm talking- out loud- to another person in order to do that." It blows my mind that this isn't considered normal. The alternative sounds chaotic and stressful to me, but it does explain why I like to process things out loud with other people.
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Superb Owl 2 years ago
As a default, I don't have an internal monologue, but I can turn it on if I want or need it.
Johnny OTS 2 years ago
I don't buy this. Never have. Can anyone say that they don't or know someone who can the say that?!? I don't!!!
Superb Owl 2 years ago
I don't have an internal monologue. My thoughts are images, feelings, smells, sounds... I can turn the monologue on, mostly, if I want to, but if I don't make a conscious decision to have it, it's not there.
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#5
The largest organism in the world is a massive underground network of mushrooms.
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago (edited)
Possibly. I learned this fact on that Netflix documentary "Fantastic Fungi" (it IS fantastic, highly recommended!!), and when I saw it on Last of Us, I was quite proud of my trivial knowledge lol.
Load More Replies... Sope Ogunlaiye 2 years ago
The mycelium network actually makes us travel throughout the universe in seconds if we have a spur drive. I saw it on Star Trek so it must be science. There's nothing more sciency than Star Trek
Higgleton 2 years ago
If you eat certain mushrooms, you too can travel through the universe from the comfort of your bedroom.
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Mickysixxx 2 years ago
It helps the forest communicate by sending distress signals to other trees when one is under attack from pests. The trees then send nutrients using the mushys to help counter the pests damage
DonnerDinnerParty 2 years ago
I thought that the Pando Forest was the largest organism..? I do know that it is shrinking however, due to human activities and drout 😕
#6
Giraffes’ tongues are black and purple to prevent sunburn while they’re feeding up high.
Lauren S 2 years ago
I knew if the colors but not the purpose! We can feed giraffes at our zoo and I love to watch how they curl their tongue around the food!
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Yes. Love the giraffes myself <3 Also am envious of their tongues. Could have made a lot more money in my life in a different industry.
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Thee8thsense 2 years ago
I was once kissed by a giraffe, and can attest to this tongue fact. They also have drool with a very thick viscosity.
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
The closest relative to the giraffe is the okapi. After that, you have to cross over to North America and look at a pronghorn to find the only other close relative. The three are the only modern representatives of the super-family Giraffoidea.
#7
Sharks pre-date trees
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
Also: there were no grasslands when there were dinosaurs. Only deserts and forests, swamps, etc. Plants normally die of a lack of carbon dioxide. To get enough CO2 to survive, they have to hold their pores open in the daytime, when they can unfortunately act fantastically efficiently to dry up the plant. Grasses have a secret weapon, c4 metabolism: they can capture the sun's energy in the daytime by building high-energy carbon bonds. This does not make more carbon, and therefore does not provide food or growth. But it does mean that c4 plants can wait until it is dark to capture that carbon and complete the photosynthesis in the dark. Global warming would allow insects, cold-blooded animals, etc., to reclaim their advantages over mammals which can keep their body temperatures warm themselves. That kinda sucks being a mammal. But it would not cause desertification; just the oppsite: deserts form when the Earth is cool and has low carbon levels.
What?? 2 years ago
Sharks are MILLIONS of years old. You would have thought humans had learnt not to fear them, but I guess not.
Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
Show me one shark that's even one million years old!
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ask you out. However, most people are scared of sharks so they get rejected a lot.
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#8
Soap works simply because it makes water **more wet**. Soap breaks surface tension, easing water's ability to get into cracks and crevices, to wash away dirt deposits.
Laura Gillette 2 years ago
For dirt, yes. But soap also kills bacteria by disrupting the lipid layer of the cell membranes. This is why you don't need to use "antibacterial soap". Soap is already antibacterial. Antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers kill bacteria with poison, which bacteria can develop resistance to. This is why it's better to use non-antibacterial soap, which bacteria cannot build up resistance to. Antibacterial soap is contributing to the development of "superbugs"--bacteria (and viruses) resistant to antibiotics. Sadface.
Rougarou Cher 2 years ago
Also breaks the lipid layer of a virus. So I don't know why the antibacterial stuff is pushed so much.
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gmf 2 years ago
If you want a slightly more "ick" version of the same, the slimy feeling if you get bleach on your hands is from hydrolysed skin cells, i.e. the bleach turns a small amount of your skin to soap.
Corvus 2 years ago (edited)
Not quite accurate. Soap works because it's a surfactant, i.e. it's a substance that draws other particles/substances onto its surface.
I just work here 2 years ago
Seriously, I'm like no, it's a surfactant...
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Well, not entirely. I believe it also reacts directly with both hydrophobic and hydrophilic compounds in the “dirt”.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
But soap smells good and has other ingredients so I don't agree completely.
Martin Řezáč 2 years ago
Soap does work everything but not simply. Soap molecules have on one end what’s known as a polar salt, which is hydrophilic, or attracted to water. The other end of the molecule is a nonpolar chain of fatty acids or hydrocarbons, which is hydrophobic—meaning that it’s repelled by water but attracted to grease and other oily substances. In other words, it makes lipids (fats) soluble in water. Also it washes off lipid bacterial membranes thereby killing them.
Jay Dresser 2 years ago
and stops the dislodged sticky dirt from sticking back onto your skin.
Russell Tilling 2 years ago
Also detergents wrap grease molecules up, stops them sticking and lets them be washed away in water.
#9
There's a small chance that, if you were to slap your hand on a table, all the molecules in your hand would miss the table and go right through it. The odds are *astronomically* tiny, but not zero.
Higgleton 2 years ago
*slaps again in frustration* missed again! Proceed to get more and more angry
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Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
That just changes the odds, if you had a piece of paper, you are more likely to go through it than an inch of hard wood.
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Rune Kristiansen (Fippmeister) 10 months ago
They've already built a slapping machine to figure out how many slaps it takes to cook a chicken. Time to upscale that machine to test quantum tunneling probabilities. (═
cogadh 2 years ago
I had a cat when I was kid that was determined to prove this. He would randomly and repeatedly walk into walls, bonk his head, then move off and try a different wall. He had no vision or coordination problems and was otherwise perfectly healthy, so we figured he was just testing physics.
SaneMinotaur (she/her) 2 years ago
For some reason, this makes me think of the experiment where you see how many slaps it would take to cook a chicken. There are many YouTube videos, but I would love to see one where the hand goes through the chicken...
#10
Magnolias predate bees and were first pollinated by beetles and earlier bug species.
Mimi777 2 years ago
We had a tornado hit our area pretty bad in December 2021, tons of trees uprooted completely and damaged. so a lot of us got tree vouchers for $200. We were able to get two star magnolia and two Jane magnolia and planted them in the front yard. They’re blooming now! They’re beautiful.
Julia Mckinney 2 years ago
Even the ones made out of steel? (backs slowly out door then runs away)
Burnt Bagel 2 years ago
Sugar Magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don’t care………
Chancey 2 years ago
Saw my baby down by the river, knew she'd have to come up soon for air.
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WeatheredRobot 2 years ago
I read “Mongolians” first and was very confused there for a minute🤣
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
I just learnt recently about a scarab beetle in aus that pollinates flowers, a fiddler beetle, very kool looking and lime* green stripes etc. I found a dead one and asked an entomology group on fb
#11
The immune system does not encounter viruses and formulate an antibody that matches its shape. Instead, the immune system pumps out random antibodies that sometimes happen to match a virus it comes into contact with, and then begins to produce more of that specific antibody.
Serial pacifist 2 years ago
Also, viruses are not alive according to our understanding of life. They are inanimate complex organic matter. They lack any form of energy, carbon metabolism, and cannot replicate or evolve. Viruses are reproduced and evolve only within cells.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
There appears to be ongoing debate about whether viruses are living. I'm not knowledgeable enough about the subject to debate the matter, so I'm going with "don't know" for now.
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#12
Water IS actually blueish-greenish in color. It's just a very very weak tint, so it usually appears simply transparent (and reflecfing the color of stuff around and inside it). But when it's in very large volume, in a perfectly white room, under perfectlu white light, the water's very own teal colour becomes visible.
Similarily, the sun seems goldish-orange from Earth due to the atmosphere. The light of the Sun itself is mostly white. However, if we were to analise the light very accurately, it's actually a very subtle pale greenish/lime. We still see it as plain white in space, but I just think it's so cool.
Hotdogking 2 years ago
Thank you for all these colourful facts, they really brightened my day I won’t li(m)e. I’m honestly green with envy I didn’t kn(yell)ow them sooner, so I wasn’t redy for them. And yes, I eill keep this going till I’m blue in the face, just you white and see. 😁
No Name 2 years ago
The sun's visible light output is most intense in the yellow-green part of the spectrum. We've adapted to see that as white and see only highly monochromatic greens as green because if we didn't, well, we'd have struggled to find food or avoid ambush predators in a habitat dominated by green to yellow foliage.
No Name 2 years ago
Incidentally, chlorophyll and the way it absorbs red and blue but not green light was probably an adaptation to make early unicellular photosynthetic life a couple billion years ago more robust to changing sunlight. The sun is brightest in green light, but it's also most variable in that wavelength range, and stars typically flare less with age on the main sequence (once they start up the giant branch, all bets are off).
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Lauren S 2 years ago
I’ve also been told that stars appear to twinkle only because of our atmosphere. The stars themselves aren’t changing at all but the light going through our atmosphere makes them appear to shimmer.
No Name 2 years ago
Correct. The stars probably are changing too (Betelgeuse is a roiling amorphous potato of a star because its giant phase is so advanced), we just can't usually resolve those changes unless they're variable stars. As an aside, the reason planets appear not to twinkle (usually) is because the angular sizes of the eddies in the atmosphere, which act like tons of little shifting lenses, are much larger than the angular sizes of stars, but usually smaller than the angular sizes of planets. For stars, the whole image can jump around and has different wavelengths of light focused in different places at different times, but for planets, the images coming through the atmospheric lenslets usually have some consistent overlap. (Having taught astronomy in FL, I can tell you that planets can twinkle if the atmosphere is bad enough, e.g. after a storm)
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JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
I found corroborating evidence re: the color of water, but not for the sun being greenish. Has anyone found citations for this you're willing to share?
xXTheAnticXx 2 years ago
Here you go: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/what-color-sun Essentially, the sun emits most of its energy around 500 nm, which is close to blue-green light. So one might say that the sun is blue-green! The reason why the sun looks white to us is because our eyes see all of the light emitted by the sun, not just the majority (blue-green). Because though the sun emits strongest in the green part of the spectrum, it also emits strongly in all the visible colors – red through blue, making our eyes put the green, red, and blue parts of the light together in our vision. Hope this helps!
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Cosmologist wannabe 2 years ago
this is mostly true. The sun's blackbody radiation is approximately in that area, but because the visible light is on a logarithmic scale, the light appears mostly white. (I think, i haven't looked it up recently pls correct if anything is false.
#13
GPS tracking is not the satellites tracking the object, but the object tracking the satellites.
Frank Heidsick 2 years ago
That‘s why it is Bulls**t in Movies when they say „Their car has GPS so we can find it“. No, you can‘t. There‘s no feedback.
AndyR 2 years ago
You can have GPS trackers as an anti-theft measure, but I don't know how common they are in cars (more common in construction). It works the same way as a phone tracker, so the software pulls a GPS location and transmits it over LTE. You're about not being able to communicate via GPS though.
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Donkeywheel 2 years ago
Actually there is no « tracking » at all. The satellites send their signals in all directions and a receiver just calculates its own position from a few signals. It does not track satellites and the satellites don’t even know who is using the signals and where.
Loren Pechtel 2 years ago
While the receiver doesn't actually track the satellites it is required to compute their position with the same accuracy as it computes it's own position.
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Fantastic Mr Fox 2 years ago (edited)
Isn’t this common knowledge? [Edit: Reading the comments, no! I bought one of those handheld Garmin GPS devices for my hiking. There was no subscription to pay, so therefore it was always obvious you didn't pay for satellites tracking your device. In the manual it also said a bit about how it worked. With a modern smartphone with built-in GPS it's probably less clear how this all works.]
Robert Wood 2 years ago
Reminds me of the NES Light Gun. It reads the point of the TV screen it’s pointed at. The TV screen doesn’t read a shot from the gun.
BG 2 years ago
Just about every car sold in the US within the last 20 years has GPS tracking in it's emergency response/telemetry. My 2007 pickup truck sends me an email when the tire pressure is low and would call 911 and give them my location if I were ever in an accident..
Loren Pechtel 2 years ago
Some cars have that, some don't, and if you don't subscribe there will be no cellular service to communicate the information. My 2013 didn't have anything of the sort at least as standard. (I never looked at what was in the high upgrades.) When a woman didn't look I replaced it with a 2018, still no cellular in the trim I was looking at, I don't know about higher.
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If you got sucked into a black whole, time would slow down too. Meaning while you are getting Spaghetiified, time is slowing down to the point where you will watch the universe die with you
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Blackholes are super weird and interesting. They can literally bend spacetime and light which means that you can see every angle of the blackhole by staring at it and not moving
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
Of course most of this is theoretical. Astronomers only just confirmed the existence of a blackhole recently.
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Yep, it is. It occurs when the gravitational force on your legs is much stronger than the forces on your head so your legs get pulled away from your body which everntually becomes a stream that’s a few molecules wide
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RezFidel 2 years ago
Did you know there maybe are white holes too?! https://www.space.com/white-holes.html
niki.bordeaux 2 years ago
Wow, thanks for the link, never heard about them before.
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#15
A serving of movie theater popcorn is equivalent to two Big Macs, in terms of calories, saturated fat, and sodium.
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago
And perhaps why it costs the same...lol. I will never understand paying $8 for a bag of popcorn smh
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Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
Not true. Unless you smother it in “butter”, oil popped popcorn isn’t really that bad for you.
Des 2 years ago
Except theatres don't pop it in unsaturated vegetable oil, they use an oil with saturated fat because it's more stable and results in better texture for the popcorn. Theatre popcorn can't be compared to home popped popcorn.
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Monday 2 years ago
Why choose? Just have two Big Macs AND a serving of popcorn.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Totally depends on how much popcorn grease ("butter") you put on it. But this also tells us ONCE AGAIN that Big Macs aren't that insanely unhealthy (even moreso if you leave off the "special sauce")
Hayley Moritz 2 years ago
A Big Mac is actually almost twice the calories of a serving of movie theater popcorn. The entry is wrong.
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Whoaa, I just checked for the Netherlands: 1 bag of regular salted popcorn, no toppings or whatever, just mais, sunflower oil and salt is 538 Kcal per 100 grams (that is 1 bag). 1 (one!!_) Big Mac is 525 per portion (source: MacDonalds NL - Albert Heijn Chio gezouten popcorn)
Tuna Beach 2 years ago
You would have to eat 14 cups. Big Mac - 563, 7 cups AMC popcorn - 600.
Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
That is what I wanted to know. How much popcorn, cooked in how much oil, with how much buttery topping on it?
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Dennis Vranješević 2 years ago
A Large Popcorn at an AMC theater is approximately 660 calories. A Big Mac is approximately 560 calories… so not double in terms of calories. Large Popcorn 31 g of Fat, Big Mac 32.7 g of fat, so not double fat. Large Popcorn (without added salt) 0 sodium, Big Mac 1g of sodium. Unless you drown it in butter and salt… the popcorn is roughly the equivalent of 1 Big Mac.
#16
Scientifically: The odds of my girlfriend having the same key in our city (San Diego) turns out to 1:724,480 but it seems impossible. After a year of dating, turned out we have the same key to our individual apartments. (Different lock manufacturers)
RajunCajun 2 years ago
I came out of a mall walked over to my truck, opened the door and started the motor before I realized this was not my truck. same green F150 and the same key it seems. I only realized it was not my truck when I saw the white snoopy stirring wheel cover that made me look at the rest of the inside to see stuff that was not mine.
Hayley Moritz 2 years ago
My friend had the same car key as one of her teachers in high school so she would move his car to a different parking spot during lunch.
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Janos Schumacher 2 years ago
I had a magic key for early to mid 90's Chryslers. It would open and start almost all K-cars post 1990. I could use for my wife's car, my car, my brother's car and my dad's car. That was pretty cool.
Higgleton 2 years ago
Reminds me of the counter intuitive answer to a math puzzle - how many people would you need to be in a room for the probability that any two people in the room share a birthday, to be more likely than not (eg over 50%). Answer: 23
Hayley Moritz 2 years ago
My mom, dad, mom's friend, and dad's aunt all had the same birthday with my mom's friend being born the same year as my dad. The four of them were never in a room together but three of them were at various times. I have no idea what the probability of that is.
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Sarah Wheeler 2 years ago
My old apartment key worked to unlock my friend’s apartment, but hers didn’t work to unlock mine. It worked great for when I cat sat for her though! She didn’t have to remember to leave me with a key. (I actually discovered it while cat sitting one time, I just thought “hey, I wonder if my key works in her door…” and it did. Tried hers on mine and it didn’t work 🤷♀️)
Clown fish 2 years ago
My backdoor key opens the front door but the front one doesn't open the backdoor
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
How did you find out those odds? I have TWICE found cars with my same key. One time, I found one which looks identical to mine (same make, model, color, trim) and was driving off before I started to ask myself what all this other person's stuff was doing in my car.
#17
There are some Ice Age animals that are so perfectly preserved in permafrost that scientists have been able to find them still with all their soft tissue, hair, and organs. They even found a couple mammoths that still had liquid blood in them and I remember one scientist even tasting the mammoth meat. Also there was a mummy found in China that was so well preserved that she still had all her skin, hair, organs, etc. Her body was even flexible that you could bend her limbs as if she was alive. They even found her last meal still in her stomach and could perform an autopsy on her to tell you why she died. She died over 2000 years before she was found.
Natalie Cilla 2 years ago (edited)
Who the **** goes “Oh, I just found this perfectly preserved, marvelous animal from the past - I’m sure I can take a bite!” Sir, respectfully, pack your own lunch.
juice 2 years ago
i don't know about mammoth meat, but i'd try the tomb cheese! 27c.jpg 
Lauren S 2 years ago
They tasted the mammoth meat? Why does that seem so awful to me? I know they teach you to use all your senses in 7th grade when using the scientific method but there are lines…
A Wild Bean 2 years ago
Yeah, aside from the fact that they're eating a historical specimen just so they can be a showoff at Never Have I Ever, there's probably some weird now-extinct bacteria in there that we're not adapted to. Let's please avoid another pandemic, especially so soon.
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#18
"The power required to make a 1000 decibel noise for one second is equivalent to the power of the entire sun for 4 billion years" A family member was talking about a "600 DB" car horn he bought over the holidays, and I was trying to explain to him that 600 DB is enough energy to destroy the planet and then some. Lol
Superb Owl 2 years ago
Logarithmic scales are a bit confusing. Like earthquakes – a 7.0 is about 32 times more powerful than a 6.0 quake.
Scott J 2 years ago (edited)
For every 5 dB increase, the sound is doubled. So 90 dB is twice as loud as 85. 180 dB is like a grenade going off right next to your ear.
Luna Crow 2 years ago
Thank you for explaining this for those of us who didn't know the scaling
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
The sound of shuttles launching is so loud that NASA has to dump a lot of water to prevent damage. The sound is enough to ignite grass 1 km away from its source
Rodney McKay 2 years ago
(Relatively) simple physics tells us that the loudest sound possible in air at standard temperature & pressure is 194 dB. It's a compression wave, and there are limits to the possible pressure. So, BS to all of this.
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
My friend once got a sound system for his car that could apparently kill you if he turned the volume all the way up. He was very proud. Death by Slayer - every metalhead's dream I guess.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
My uncle (sound tech for concerts and avid speaker tweaker) sweared he rigged up some sound system like this and 13 yr old me challenged this, the whole system was brought down by a 13yr old playing ushers ‘pop ya collar’ summer of 2001, I killed it with usher. Uncle thought it was funny but he never bothered to attempt this again on speakers.
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Pixie 2 years ago
You are not dumb, you are one of today's lucky 10.000 🙂 -> https://xkcd.com/1053/
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The blue whale, at nearly 100 feet long and nearly 200 tons, is the largest animal known to have ever existed.
wowbagger 2 years ago
The first time I read this, I couldn't believe it. What about dinosaurs? So I looked it up, and it's true. They think there *might* have been dinosaurs larger than this in what's now South America (larger than Titanosaurs), but there's no proof yet. It's really cool that we're alive at the same time as the largest animal ever.
Robert Ayers 2 years ago
It really is an honour that we are alive in the same time period, yet we almost hunted them to extinction 50 years ago!
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Keley Babs 2 years ago
It is the largest animal now, and to have ever existed. It is also the loudest
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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
Keyword- ' known for sure '. There is a possibility that an Ichthyosaur related to Shonisaurus grew to be bigger.
#20
There was a scientific paper published by a physicist, backed by numerous prominent scientists, that determined that peanut butter has no appreciable effect on the rotation of the Earth...
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
Citations please (or sandwiches, either will do)
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Raphaëlle Laflamme 2 years ago
They actually won an ig nobel for it! An ig nobel is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. (wikipedia)
Jaya 2 years ago
I really enjoy reading the nominations each year, there are so many hilarious ones. I really recommend it to anyone.
Load More Replies... EP 2 years ago
Agreed…. Pet peeve when the pics don’t match the post content!
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Earthquake903 2 years ago
Phew! I was concerned for a minute that peanut butter did actually affect the earth's rotation. What a relief to know it does not.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
We're lucky earth doesn't have a roof of the mouth
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#21
The key to eternal life is coded into all known DNA cells but so far proven impossible to crack. Every known living thing generates, adds, becomes bigger, better, stronger faster up to a certain point to then suddenly reverse and we don't know why. When a baby grows it's cells form al sort of usefull things. At around 21 years old the process reverses and science can't figure out why. Technically we should be able to regenerate indefinitely.
Elita One 2 years ago
It always amuses me that as a woman, I can grow an entirely new human, but I can't regrow a lost limb/organ.
Cherreka Wirth 2 years ago
Maybe look at it like you aren't growing it, it's growing itself! You are just feeding that growth, still pretty amazing that we and it can do that.
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Delta Dawn 2 years ago
this is a steaming load of barely coherent pseudoscience. i *think* it’s trying to say that our cells age at a sort of pre-programmed rate and for reasons that aren’t immediately obvious, since some organisms’ cells do not age (ie the telomeres of their chromosomes don’t shorten with each cell division whereas ours do, until the telomeres are gone and the cells can no longer divide). individuals aging either somehow improves their evolutionary fitness, or the process is blind to evolution because the cells don’t stop dividing until we’re so old that statistically we’ve died of communicable disease, injury or predation - and as such have already had as many children as was possible for us to have (and we have helped them out as much as we can). anything that happens to an organism after reproductive age is broadly exempt from evolutionary pressure. (apologies for the vague discussion, it’s late and I should be sleeping)
Kat Pekin 2 years ago (edited)
I'm not sure thats entirely accurate. They do keep regenerating, but not as fresh cells. Sort of like washing a shirt, it's always clean but never new again. Your cells are sort of refreshed but not brand new cells. I may be utterly wrong, I am far from any sort of scientist but I heard it on QI.
Liz Clarke 2 years ago (edited)
Yes, it's to do with telomeres. It's been a long time since uni for me, but there's part of the cell called a telomere that has finite amounts. I think it depends on the type of cell but say when you're born a cell has 32 telomeres. Each time the cell divides everything is replicated everything is duplicated apart from them. So first gen has 32, 2nd gen has 16, 3rd 8, 4th 4, 5th 2- after that the cell dies. Because cells can't replicate indefinitely we age and die.
Load More Replies... Chewie Baron 2 years ago
There is a species of jellyfish, the eternal jellyfish? that at a certain age, regenerates to a juvenile.
Aboredpanda 2 years ago (edited)
Yes. Cancer if it doesn't stop dividing, as cells eventually mutates. If I remember correctly. (It's been a few years)
Load More Replies... June Blair 2 years ago
Because God didn't allow Adam and eve to eat from the tree of immortality they got kicked out before that happened, so death entered maybe they where 21 years old when it happened.
#22
Female ferrets die if they don't find a partner to make with. Since they don't leave "Heat" Until they're mated with, the Oestrogen overload leads to Anemia, and death.
Airt 2 years ago
Don't worry, responsible owners fix their ferrets and all is good, they live Happy, l'ing lives!
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TheDag 2 years ago
This is true and it used to be unless a Jill is mated with a Hobb they would indeed die. However these days vets can give your Jill an intravenous injection of Proligestone often referred to the Jill Jab which brings the female ferret out of oestrous
Bryn 2 years ago
TIL that female ferrets are called Jills... Which begs the question, why aren't the males called Jacks :D
Load More Replies... Serial pacifist 2 years ago
The Antechinus marsupial has so much sex that it literally dies. 11 months old, males reach their 'sperm limit'. Then, they do it for up to 14 hours with each female, until their bodies break down. The male will get gangrene and various other infections, dying before his birthday.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Yep…I worked for veterinary clinics for a long time in the 1990s-2000s, and we didn’t see too many ferrets but the females always had to be spayed. Explaining it to the owner was odd as well. Like, didn’t you at least read a proper care book before you bought this helpless creature?!
Little king trash mouth 2 years ago
Pan is a pine marten. Not the same, no? But great reference!
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A mirror is technically a time machine. When you look at your reflection, you're not looking at your ACTUAL reflection, you're perceiving photons that hit the mirror an immaterially short time before and is just now hitting your eyes. So you're actually seeing a picture of yourself from the past. That's a vast oversimplification but, yeah.
Hotdogking 2 years ago
Hyjacking this fact to say that, because of the same reason as the mirror looking at the past, If an alien race the same distance away as one of the Nebulas Hubble observed were to look at Earth through a telescope, they’d see the dinosaurs
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
We made that mistake before and decided to check it out. But then we saw that there are no dinosaurs now 🥲
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Stacia 2 years ago
Read somewhere once that the image you see in a mirror is not how you actually look to yourself or other people. How you look in a picture is the "real" you.
Monday 2 years ago
That is such a pity, the me in the mirror looks better than me in pictures.
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Andy Frobig 2 years ago
By that reckoning, an eye is a time machine, because nothing we see is exactly simultaneous with our perception of it
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
in the vein of this. We have never measured the one way speed of light. It very well could be that light travels twice as slowly one way, then twice as fast the other. It doesn't break the physics and we may never know the truth.
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
There's a great veritasium / smarter every day video on YT about this.
Load More Replies... Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago (edited)
True, but, to a lesser or greater extent, this is true about ALL things we see and hear. Both light and sound take time to travel.
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
That doesn't make it technically a time machine. Also, this is just how vision works. Literally everything you're looking at happened in the past.
#24
In the entire records of human history, there are only 16 instances of recorded hammerhead shark bites on humans, and not a single fatality.
Bookworm 2 years ago (edited)
If you think about it, their mouths aren't really well positioned to bite something as large as a person; it's not what they're evolved for. Hammerheads are generally bottom feeders, sweeping the sand for invertebrates and small buried fish and rays. When Great Whites attack, they can kill because they're evolved to eat large marine mammals like seals, and I know it's not remotely a new idea to point out that a human swimmer or surfer looks a lot like a seal from below, but if you look at it beyond silhouette, it's really not a big jump at all from the size and basic body plan of a seal to a person.
Liz Orreo trex ago go 2 years ago
And in general, we are not as fatty as seals, and taste bad, so they spit us out
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Joe Publique 2 years ago (edited)
Because tiny mouths? Good luck getting my f@t a$$ into your mouth Mr Hammerhead. Great Whites on the other hand....
Harise Poland 1 year ago
when I saw one at the aquarium I thought I was seeing a cartoon come to life. even tho I knew what they looked like already, nothing is stranger to see. (for me at least)
David Paterson 2 years ago
Thank you. There tends to be a major disconnect between animals perceived to be deadly and those that are actually deadly. For example, normal honey bees are actually quite deadly.
Wb Cochran 2 years ago
And how valid is the source of this statistic? Indeed, what is the source?
Karl Baxter 2 years ago
That’s only because they talked to the survivors. Perhaps the hammerhead kills and leaves no traces?
#25
1.3 million earths can fit inside the sun. 5 BILLION suns can fit inside the largest star ever observed, UY Scuti.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
We’re actually really tiny when it comes to the universe. The planets and stars are so far apart that it takes years to get there. If the Milky way was the size of the United States, the sun would be the size of a white blood cell
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Go to YouTube and watch the channel "Red Side." Really cool videos of graphically represented size differences. The "visible universe relative sizes" one will make you feel tiny. (Disclaimer: It's not my channel or that of anyone I know. I just think it's cool.)
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
UY Scuti is what Kirk says before asking when the warp engines will be back on line
gerry.garh 2 years ago
So 6,500,000,000,000,000 earths fit comfortably inside UY Scuti. And by the way, even as the Sun is 1.3 times (I guess by volume) larger than our Earth, the Sun's gravity is only about 27.9 times that of Earth
DC 2 years ago
... on the surface. 1.3k, right? Inside, gravity is a lot stronger.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
The Universe song from Animaniacs just started playing in my head.
Mat O'Dowd 2 years ago (edited)
Time to watch the Galaxy Song by the Monty Pythons, taken from "The Meaning of Life" https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk
#26
a photon of light doesnt experience any time from the time it is emitted to the time it is absorbed. It was born, it died, all in one instant.
Burnt Bagel 2 years ago
Sure am glad I didn’t drop any acid before spending time with this thread!
RezFidel 2 years ago
Photons which are "born" inside our sun take millions of years to get out of the superdense core. They bounce around like a flipper ball forever until the finally reach the surface and then its just a sprint of 8min to earth... So the light we see is actually millions of years old.
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
millions of years from our perspective … if the photon itself was somehow sentient, it would not experience the same passage of time, due to its speed
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Alan Jay Weiner 2 years ago
How does that work if we see light from a star light-years away? Wouldn't the photon have lived that many years(-ish) ? (I *really* wish I'd studied physics in school - would've loved it so much more than the biology class we were forced to take...)
No Name 2 years ago (edited)
Google "light cones". Basically relativity says that space and time are linked such that the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. Massive particles would require infinite energy to move at light speed, but massless particles like the photon can *only* move at light speed, so all of their motion is in the spatial dimensions and none in the temporal dimension(s, that we know of). Because of length contraction in the direction of motion, from the perspective of massless particles, there is also no distance between where they're emitted and their final destinations.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago
True. There's a twist to this though. When light passes through some glass or water for instance, it slows down. And relativity says that because it travels more slowly than speed "c" it does age, it does experience time. And yet it doesn't. This is an interesting paradox.
deejak 2 years ago
I'd go out on a limb and say a photon cannot experience *anything*, even if it happened all at once.
Marek Čtrnáct 2 years ago (edited)
Photons don't have valid frames of reference.
Load More Replies... Wb Cochran 2 years ago
It undergoes a change from existence to non-existence. Thus, since “time” is actually just a measurement of change, a photon does “experience” “time”.
MissMePhoenix 2 years ago
I read "a photo of light" at first, which made it absolute gibberish lol
#27
Apart from hosting life, the rarest thing about earth may be its eclipses. It is a complete coincidence that the moon is the same size, and orbits in the path of, our sun.
Jan Rosier 2 years ago
Wow, talk about oversimplyfying... the moon is in no way the same size as the sun.
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows the sentence referred to the same apparent size. It’s so obvious that the word could indeed be removed. But I guess some people could not resist showing the world their infinite wisdom.
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Phil Vaive 2 years ago
It's not just that the moon is the same apparent size as the sun, but we're also at the exact right place in time to see it this way. The moon is slowly moving away from the earth, so a few million years ago, the moon was closer and appeared larger, so it would have totally blocked out the sun (no ring of fire, just complete darkness). In a few million years, the moon will be even further away than it is now, and will basically just cause a dip in the sun's brightness.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
The moon is to earth ratio is one of the biggest planet is to moon ratios in the solar system
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
Isn't it the biggest now that Pluto has been demoted?
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Not only is it a complete coincidence, but it's a coincidence of TIMING not SIZE. The moon is gradually moving away form the Earth, and thus appearing smaller as time goes by.
No Name 2 years ago (edited)
It's also not a very impressive coincidence when you do the math, since *total eclipses will continue to be possible for at least another couple hundred million years.
Load More Replies... PurpleUnicorn 2 years ago
Sun and moon are vastly different in size, but their respective distances from earth make them seem comparable, and enables eclipses
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
"the moon is the same size"... as what?!? Not the Earth, nor the Sun. Eclipses are possible in anyplace where syzygy, the linear alignment of three celestial bodies, can occur. It can be a sun-planet-moon alignment or a sun and two planets. I s it rare? Yes. Is it unique to earth? No.
Delta Dawn 2 years ago (edited)
they’re referring to solar and lunar total eclipses, specifically. If the moon’s apparent size was smaller you wouldn’t get total solar eclipses and vice versa
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Lake Superior can hold all of the water from the rest of the Great Lakes combined with room to spare. This is more geography, but it always blows my mind when looking at a map that the continent of South America is almost entirely east of the United States.
Detroit Citizen 2 years ago
Also if you could empty the Great Lakes and cover the holes, it would fill the continental US with four or five feet of water. Living in Michigan we were taught all these weird and random facts about Michigan. Also also, you can be anywhere in the lower peninsula (the mitten) and have some sort of water source within 1 mile (river, lake, stream, aqua fir(sp), etc)
TomCat 2 years ago
The citizens of Flint had a potable and easy source of clean water from Lake Huron. Until the government decided to switch to the Flint river and caused generational harm in the forms of lead poisoning, etc. There is no reason anyone livingg in the great lakes region shouldn't have access to the most abundant source of fresh water on earth.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
As for South America. The most westerly end of the Panama Canal is in the Caribbean Sea and the most easterly end of the Panama Canal is in the Pacific Ocean. Because the land between North and South America is S-shaped and the middle literally reverses direction.
#29
In Newtonian physics it was generally accepted that a planet call Vulcan was closer to the sun than Mercury. The math needed some kind of extra planet to explain Mercury's weird orbit. Astronomers around the world for a couple hundred years would confirm a sighting, but it would never be there when you tried to use physics to predict where it would be. Even the famous french scientist that found Neptune with math predicted Vulcan using the same formulas. The idea didn't die until Albert Einstein changes physics with special relativity. Suddenly all the orbits of our planets make sense and Mercury has a weird orbit because it is so close to the sun.
Basically, smart dudes figured a planet existed when it didn't because their system didn't work out. It took changing the system to meet reality. Confirmation bias is a scary thing.
Edit: General Relativity not Special.
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
« smart dudes figured a planet existed when it didn't because their system didn't work out » No, they made an hypothesis to explain the observations, and that’s exactly how science works. One of the other hypothesis was an incomplete model and that led to the relativity theory. There is no « confirmation bias », op does not know what he’s talking about.
Justin Trouble 2 years ago
Not only are you correct, but you have an amazing user name.
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Superb Owl 2 years ago
That was not confirmation bias, that was science in progress. If a theory can't explain the observations, we then know it's flawed, and that we need a better theory to understand the phenomena it covers. Newtonian physics is a special case of Einsteinian physics, which we are pretty sure is a special case of a more fundamental theory that we haven't been able to formulate.
BewilderedBanana 2 years ago
not to be a pedantic banana but i think you mean hypothesis not theory (in the scientific context i mean). but yes, you are of course correct
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I am kinda pissed on about Planet X, the 10th planet. The truth is that scientists denied the existence of Planet X for decades (perhaps only meaning to deny certain characteristics of the planet). Then another planet was found, but before its discovery was announced, they changed the definition of a planet, and only that decision is why we never heard of Planet X (and XI and XII). To be fair, however, Pluto did turn out to be smaller than expected and the most obvious alternate definition of a planet (revolves directly around a star and is large enough that gravity would round off even its solid matter) would include Ceres. On the other hand (a third hand?), counting Ceres as a planet would mean that Johannes Kepler's "God's law" (later named the Titius-Bode law after scientists who figured out precise calculations for it) happened to be correct... except for Pluto.
Julia Ford 2 years ago
I’m sure they will find a definition that suits their needs.
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Penny Kemper 2 years ago
I think it's great not scary. People might have been wrong for a long time, but eventually it got straightened out. That's wonderful.
Roger Gurr 1 year ago
Proper science is adapting theory to fit the facts. Most of what was absolutely known to be scientific fact 500 years ago has turned out not to be. Not everything, it had been worked out the world wasn't flat, planets revolved around the sun, in pre biblical times.
Chintan Shah 2 years ago
This should be much higher as it actually addresses the title of the post most directly
#30
Not super scientific but an animal fact TONS of people refuse to believe. Monkeys are omnivores and they love to eat meat, more so than fruits and vegetables. I mean Monkeys, not apes lots of people group them in the same category
Liz Clarke 2 years ago
Chimps have known to hunt for meat too, and they also eat insects. I think only gorillas and orangutans are herbivores- they don't hunt but I'm not sure about insects
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
chimpanzees. They are bastards in the purest meaning of the word.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
er... if you live in africa you will know things like this. Also, saying "not apes" is incorrect. There are recorded instances of chimps eating smaller monkeys with spears, and, chimps normally eat bugs... so. https://phys.org/news/2015-04-chimps-senegal-fashion-spears.html
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
I think the reason for separating monkeys from apes is that many people already know about meat eating in apes, but don't realise how common it is in monkeys, not to try to say that apes don't do it.
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Turns out that there are very few mammals that are NOT potentially carnivorous, especially if you're not Catholic. (Too obtuse? When Catholics fast from "meat," they don't fast from fish or other cold-blooded creatures.)
Midoribird Aoi 2 years ago
A lot of herbivores eat meat now and then, if they can get it, since their environment cannot get enough critical nutrients in any other way...like phosphorus or calcium. Bones are rich in these.
Bryn 2 years ago
That's different though, that's osteophagia. Primates eat meat on a regular basis
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Elaine Grummitt 1 year ago
Here’s another fun animal fact. The hyena is a genus that just contains the hyena. Their nearest genetic relative is the mongoose.
Lucy Shupe 2 years ago
Chimpanzees also go to war. They will kill their “enemies” and in some cases will eat them.
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
Facultative omnivory is a LOT more common than most people generally know. For instance, deer will gnaw random bones and pilfer carcasses for bones for the calcium. Some deer go as far as killing baby chicks in ground-dwelling bird species for the same thing. They want the bones. Growing antlers every year puts a strain on the calcium in their own bones.
#31
Some people have extra spleen or liver that are pea sized.
DuchessDegu 2 years ago
My spleen is twisted, doctor found out when I had xrays for a stomach issue. I was a bit worried and asked what does it mean and his answer was "well if it was your nose I'd suggest plastic surgery, but since it's inside just leave it!"
Zane Lumagrowl 2 years ago
Hey as long as it's able to do its job, that's the important part!
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
Didn't know that but I bet we all met some people who apparently have a pea sized brain 😉
Phoenix(or nix)they/them 2 years ago (edited)
Oooo that's super interesting! Something to look up now! Idk why I'm excited. Edit: I just looked it up, and apparently it is rare, but cool ngl
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Lee Stone 2 years ago
Lots of people have weird natural variations in their bodies. One relatively common one is having an extra artery or vein somewhere. My ex who often complained of mild pain in one leg, discovered he had two femoral arteries in that leg and only one in the other. As many as 4% of people have a sex variation of some form (there are many) that may be very apparent to them or can be completely unknown.
Jason 2 years ago
Super secret fact. I have an extra finger. It's just really tiny but it has its own fingerprint.
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Darklighter_r 2 years ago
Yep, that's me with a little extra spleen just above my regular spleen. no discomfort whatsoever (yet? :D ), found out by accident after a CT scan
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Some people have their internal organs reversed. It is called Situs Inversus and can make it very difficult for doctors to diagnose medical conditions.
Veronica Jean 2 years ago (edited)
...Excuse me, I need to check the black market prices for something I'd like to sell. Totally unrelated, I assure you.
#32
It's almost 20 kilometres from the top of Everest to Challanger Deep at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Scaled down to size of a billiard ball, the earth would be smoother than any billiard ball ever manufactured.
Miles Mawyer 2 years ago
Yeah! Seems like a short trip either way if it wasn't for gravity making it difficult. Fascinating.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
you need to give the stats about how defective the surface of a billiard ball is as well, to prove this case.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
The ratio of the size of an allowable bump to the size of a billiard ball is about 0.002. Applying that ratio to the earth would mean allowable bumps of about 28 km, so the earth is smoother (but shrunken down would nonetheless make for a bad billiard ball as it isn't round enough). Ten Things You Don't Know About the Earth | Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/ten-things-you-dont-know-about-the-earth
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Ali H M Salehuddin 2 years ago
Michael from Vsauce disputed that. Earth, shrunken to billiard ball sized will only be as smooth as top a pancake. Far rougher than an actual billiard ball. https://youtube.com/shorts/7VYXHiLAIK4?feature=share I've seen argument from both sides. No idea which one is correct.
Demosthenes 2 years ago
Yeah that’s not true. Here’s a cute Reddit entry with the maths included: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/ejhomq/self_is_the_earth_really_smoother_and_rounder/
#33
The sound of a crack of a whip breaks the sound barrier.
gerry.garh 2 years ago
The tip of a cracking whip breaks the sound barrier, generating a perceptible sound to humans, not the other way around.
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
This one is worded really weirdly. The sound doesn't break the sound barrier. The sound IS the breaking sound barrier - the tip of the whip travels faster than mach 1, creating the sound
#34
On average Mercury is the closest planet to Earth by a considerable margin.
Marek Čtrnáct 2 years ago
Cool fact: on Mercury, the Sun can be in retrograde. Orbital movement and rotation of Mercury work against each other so the Sun moves extremely slowly in its sky. But when the Mercury is in periheliom, its orbital movement speeds up so much that the Sun moves backwards in the sky for some time.
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if someone were to scream nonstop for a year it would generate enough energy to heat up a cup of coffe
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
If that were true, my sisters would have evaporated me.
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Neuropotathy 2 years ago
If someone tweeted nonsense for 4 years it would heat a cup of covfefe.
Liz Clarke 2 years ago
I know from a very reliable source that laughter has more energy than screams
New Everywhere 2 years ago
"Put that thing back where it came from or so help me..."
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David Wishengrad Exorcist, 1st class 2 years ago (edited)
The most important scientific fact itself was not listed. It is that needless and preventable suffering and death can only occur after the truth that life is most important is dismissed and stifled, and so the truth of the importance of life itself is the cure for those things and anyone claiming we do not have the cure or that is does not exist is flat out lying.
David Wishengrad Exorcist, 1st class 2 years ago (edited)
There is no science without life. That is the very first scientific fact. Any claim otherwise can never be real science. It's contradiction to use life and then claim the possibility could exist that life doesn't matter, even in science. Such a claim has no possibility of ever being true and so cannot be true, philosophy (an idea that could be true) or theory (evidence pointing to the likely possibility of being true). It's a position of pure nonsense and an outright abuse of the causes of life and science to use life to deny, withhold, and stifle the truth that life is always Truthfully Most Important. Now let's see if anyone here honestly cares about life. The cure itself has been placed freely in your hand,"Life is Most Important in Life is The Most Important Truth in Life" is one way to word it correctly. There are more. Do you agree this is correct? Your actual integrity is on the line. There are no do-overs for getting shared the cure for the first time.
Load More Replies... Thee8thsense 2 years ago (edited)
When I scream, I suspect it generates enough energy for an entire pot of coffee, instantly.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
But their throat would have been bloody raw by the end of the first day.
#36
Kiwis have more vitamin C than an orange 🍊!
#37
The energy expended by a feather hitting the floor is more energy ever collected by every radio telescope ever built.
Libstak 2 years ago
Soon in comparison, how much energy does a human expend when hitting the floor? And how many "volunteers" do I need to have a viable scientific study for this?
howdylee 2 years ago (edited)
have you seen the video of the experiment inside a vacuum tunnel with a bowling ball vs feather. Giant tube/silo structure, all the air was removed, and a bowling ball and a feather were dropped from the top at the same time. They landed at the same time because without air, there was no resistance to slow either down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs
#38
1 billion seconds is over 32 years
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
And a million seconds is 11 days. Really shows how much money some people have
Suzana Stantic 2 years ago
It's my 33rd birthday today, so officially I am alive for more than 1 billion seconds 😄
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
This one is missing the most interesting comparison: 1 million seconds is about 11 days. Now if you compare that to dollars, you can see just how obscenely selfish billionaires are.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Yeah. It's very easy to visualize a billion. Just visualise a second and visualise 32 years.
NoCleverName 2 years ago
My absolute favorite math fact: there are different "infinities" and this results in a larger infinity between 1 and 2 than between 1 and infinity. If you were to count whole numbers to infinity, you would begin at 1 and start counting. But if you were to count decimals, where would you start? 0.1? 0.0001? 0.00000000001? You can always add another zero and don't even have a defined starting point. Therefore, more numbers between 1 and 2, than 1 and infnity. 🤯
#39
If you could fold a sheet of paper in half 50 times it would be 100 million km thick
Elita One 2 years ago (edited)
Not sure why people are being downvoted about how paper can not be folded in half more than 7 times, it's true, even Mythbusters proved it with a humongous piece of paper inside an aircraft hanger and they could not fold it past 7. This is just a hypothetical if the paper could be folded that much.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
Not credible. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/494571-most-times-to-fold-a-piece-of-paper
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
This situation is just hypothetically, not going to work properly in reality
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Robert Trebor 2 years ago
(Hundreds of pandas scurrying to find various sizes of paper to try...)
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I was always told that it's impossible to fold a piece of paper more than 7 times.
Maya Baggins 2 years ago
And a human cannot fold a sheet of paper more than 8 times. Source: my dad worked with printers
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/494571-most-times-to-fold-a-piece-of-paper
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#40
All the planets in our solar system could collectively fit in one continuous line between the earth and the moon
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
It's about 240,000 miles to the moon. Jupiter has a diameter of about 80,000 miles. Saturn, 70,000. You can do the rest of the math yourself if you want, but it adds up.
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Hyrule26 2 years ago
Are we counting the rings and other shite or no because i feel like that would have an impact on how much space each planet takes up.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
My quick back of the envelope estimate says no. It must be just the planet's bodies.
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#41
A randomly shuffled deck of cards most likely has never been seen before and will never be seen again. 52 factorial (52!). Obviously I didn’t come up with this. But wow. It’s very easily searched online. Blew my mind. *edit: parenthesis
Wintermute 2 years ago
I googled this awhile back. Another fun fact I stumbled on is that, since card decks all start in the same order, the first few shuffles will be pretty common. A buddy at work and I debated how many shuffles until you get a completely original one. I thought 100 or so. Turns out its.... 7! Only 7 shuffles and you've seen something no one ever has before, or so some math nerd online assures us.
David Paterson 2 years ago
That's a random shuffle. Given that a shuffle is extremely far from random, it takes a lot more than seven. If I remember correctly, some casinos ran into blackjack trouble because they weren't shuffling their cards enough to generate a random distribution.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
If there was a monkey typing random words for every atom in the universe, you'd run out of atoms before you got more than a few words out. People who use that to claim that a multiverse would disprove the need for intelligent design should recognize that such a multiverse would need to be much larger than our universe in multiple dimensions (which many do believe is true).
Alias-the-shade 2 years ago
Try telling that to any magic gathering or yugioh player it’s almost like the universe is direct we f***ing with me bending the laws of probability just to mess up my game
RedMarbles 2 years ago
About 2600000 possible 5-card hands. About 80000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 possible shuffled decks.
Rodney McKay 2 years ago (edited)
So, since there are 78! possible combinations for a Tarot deck, that means it's likely that no two people will ever have the same fate.
#42
All matter in the universe is made of elementary particles which aren't particles but wave forms or ripples. So the whole of human existence is just a killer song or a really big plunk in a multicosmic pond.
Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 2 years ago
That's a song by Smeg and the Heads!
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There is a star that, if you analyse the light eminating from it over time, looks really freaking weird compared to all other observable stars. This star was discovered by citizen scientists, and likely would have been missed by 'normal' anomaly discovery techniques. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Some theories say that there may be a dyson sphere around it or it’s just that there’s a lot of things orbiting it very quickly
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Sounds like Larry Niven's "Smoke Ring," a gas torus surrounding a neutron star. (The two books in the series are "The Integral Trees" and "The Smoke Ring" and I highly recommend them.)
David Paterson 2 years ago
I was a citizen scientist working with the same data from the Kepler space telescope and found two others. I let the Kepler astronomers know, but it was never publicly announced in the press. My best guess was some extremely unusual sunspot activity on those stars.
#44
[Astronomers estimate there exist roughly 10,000 stars for each grain of sand on Earth. That’s a lot of stars.](https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2019/02/05/more-stars-than-grains-of-sand-on-earth-you-bet/60474645007/) this blow my mind...
Mat O'Dowd 2 years ago
What if our universe is only a big beach in another dimension, fractals!!!
#45
4/5 of all the animals on earth are nematodes (microscopic roundworms)
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
Fun Fact: If you have fleas in your yard, spray with nematodes. They feed on fleas, making it a safe organic pesticide.
TomCat 2 years ago (edited)
And ticks!!! I just pulled two off my dog. This is probably the most helpful information I've learned in a LONG TIME! Will be applying come spring. Thanks, OP!! (And ice cream 🍦)
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago
I've heard it said that if nematodes were the only organisms visible on Earth, then humans could still be seen by the ghostly shadow from all the nematodes living on and within us.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
There's a roundworm named after Pres. Obama. It infects humans. It was meant as a compliment. A parasitic worm. Trying hard not to think that Sean Hannity would approve of that more than most Democrats...
RedMarbles 2 years ago
Obama probably appreciated it at least and probably wouldn't care what Hannity thought except to any extent Hannity's opinion has any negative effect on democracy or society.
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the size of the universe is actually speeding up instead of slowing down.
we are actually made of stardust. so the stars died so you could exist.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
If you think of it, we’re all 13.8 billion years old. The original elements in the universe were hydrogen and helium with tiny trace amounts of lithium. Some clouds of gas got denser than others and merged to form stars which were able to create the elements up till iron before they went supernova. Some of those stars left behind neutron stars which were ridiculously dense. Those neutron stars who were in a binary merged into each other and gave out heavy elements like gold, platinum, lead etc. All those elements travelled several lightyears over time and finally merged into a cloud 4.6 billion years ago forming the sun and our solar system. A couple million years later, life formed through a chain reaction of organic compounds. The asteroid crashed into our planet 65 million years ago which had some more elements that earth didn’t have before. Flash forward to today and here we are with all the stuff made up of elements that travelled long distances to make us and the world we live in
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I think OP is referring to the fact that the rate of expansion of the universe is speeding up. The universe is expanding so fast that we can’t ever reach any point beyond the Local Group (a cluster of galaxies involving the Milky Way) as the space between ours and the next group is increasing. We’re trapped in a very small corner of space which we can’t get out of which kind of seems depressing. There will come a time when galaxies are so far apart that light from them will never reach us and our galaxy will be shrouded in darkness as the last few stars slowly die out, bathing the sky in twilight for the very last time
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TheElementalGod️️ 2 years ago
And one day it might become too fast for gravity to keep things together
#47
If you put all the DNA molecules in your body end to end, the DNA would reach from the Earth to the Sun and back over 600 times
A Wild Bean 2 years ago
I assume all the cells, because they said "all the DNA molecules in your body" :)
Load More Replies... Detroit Citizen 2 years ago
Chest compressions chest compressions chest compressions!! I love Dr Mike
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If you take a bunch of skin cells from a developing embryo and place them into a Petri dish they will self assemble and begin performing tasks. Look up Dr. Michael Levin xenobots for more info
David Paterson 2 years ago
They're called "embryonic stem cells" or "pluripotent stem cells". They haven't yet diversified into different human tissues such as muscle tissue, brain tissue, blood cells etc. So still retain all the information for making a complete human being. You can use them to grow a clone.
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If we tie a string tightly around a basketball then we need to add 6.28 inches of string to raise the string 1 inch above the basketball all the way around. Unbelievably, if we tie a string tightly around the equator of planet Earth then we still only need to add 6.28 inches of string to raise the string 1 inch above the entire planet all the way around.
Lauren S 2 years ago
I can’t wrap my head around this, anyone able to break it down? Is this like, in order to add one inch to any diameter that changes the circumference by 6.28 inches? No wait, add 2 inches because it’s one inch on each side. And yeah, that’s exactly how that works actually.
Lama 2 years ago
Exactly. You're adding 1 inch to the radius, and since the circumference of a circle is 2π*radius, it adds 2π to the circumference.
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Broad Panda 2 years ago
This is so counterintuitive that I've just been playing with an online circumference calculator. It's right, but I don't like it.
Julie Zugz 2 years ago
The ratio of 1inch/basketball is so much greater than 1 inch/Earth. Does that make sense? Is that why 6.28 doesn't change?
#50
Dinosaur fossils existed while dinosaurs were still alive.
Lama 2 years ago
No. What they mean is that dinosaurs walked the earth for such a long time, that the first remains were already fossilized before the last one died.
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Rodney McKay 2 years ago
Human fossils often exist while the humans are still alive. They're called "Boomers".
g90814 2 years ago
I'm a boomer, and I cracked up at this... not fossilized yet tho.
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Toby Flenderson 2 years ago
Fossilization can occur in days or weeks in the right conditions so… yeah.
Cherreka Wirth 2 years ago
There was also archeologists in ancient Egypt studying even ancienter (is that even a word) Egypt. I know it's not as old, but I always found that interesting. And gives you perspective of just how long Egypt was powerful.
#51
Peanut are not nuts. Neither are cashews. Peanuts are legumes. Cashews are seeds.
Detroit Citizen 2 years ago
Just laughed coffee out my nose at this one lol
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
wait I thought nuts (except peanuts) were all seeds? I mean what is an almond if not a fruit seed/pip...?
Cherreka Wirth 2 years ago
They are. But so are beans. Technically peanuts are more closely related to pinto beans than almonds.
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I forget who says it. But a great scientist said once “if you look anywhere in the universe, you should see an equal amount of mass”. I think this is the the cosmological principle by Einstein I wanna say. Well the “Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall” doesn’t care. It is a huge group of galaxies forming a giant sheet-like pattern which is about 10 billion light-years long, 7.2 billion light-years wide, and almost 1 billion light-years thick. Mind you our galaxy is only 200,000 light years across. Also the universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So.. this wall also contradicts theories about the evolution of the universe. The structure is 10 billion light-years away, which means that we see the structure 10 billion years ago, when the universe is only 13.8 billion years old, and its light was just approaching us. The 3.8 billion year span of time is too short for a giant structure 10 billion light-years long to form. The mind boggles.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
It’s called inflation and is one of the reasons why our universe is the way that it is
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David Paterson 2 years ago
“if you look anywhere in the universe, you should see an equal amount of mass” as a statement is usually just written as "the universe is isotropic". It's close to true, but has a few subtleties that I don't want to go into now.
Korrie Broos 2 years ago
And we think we are the only living beings on this earth in the whole universe?????
#53
A pregnant woman carrying a daughter is also carrying all future grandchildren from that daughter at the same time.
A Jones 2 years ago (edited)
That's true, it's not only by choice of one's path in life. It is also physical factors of being fertile, biological changes/issues in the future, and all that jazz. Edit: corrected grammar.
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BigFish Artwire 2 years ago
It'd be more accurate to just say that female fetuses already have all the eggs they'll ever have in their lives.
PeridotPlatypus377 2 years ago
I remember learning this in school. There was some kind of TED talk about it warning us that we need to take care of our health because not only would our daughters health be influenced but their daughters too. Whether we take care of our health today or not will have an impact a hundred years from now
Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
St. Anna, but minus spermies she can maximally do same devilled eggs.
Trainingfortheballetpotteh🇺🇦 2 years ago
yes it is. females develop all of the eggs they will ever have while in the womb. So when pregnant with a girl your carrying all of you potential grandchildren too.
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There are different sizes of infinity
A Wild Bean 2 years ago
Fun fact, you *are* the center of the universe (as is absolutely everything). Technically, the 'center' is the point from which all edges are equally distant, and from any given point, the edge of the universe is an infinite distance away. (Sorry if I didn't explain this very well)
Superb Owl 2 years ago (edited)
There's a hotel with an infinite amount of rooms, and all the rooms are occupied. Another quest comes in and asks for a room: "Sure, just a moment", the clerk says. He then goes to room 1., and asks the person there to move to room 2 and tell the one there to move to room 3, and ask the person already in room 3 to move to room 4 – and so on. And so the new guest gets room 1, and everyone still has a room. In an infinite hotel, that was already fully booked.
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#55
There are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
Happily I keep adding more, 14 last year, more this year, and I have seeds of others still to grow...they will go to other people with more space than I have...trees are so beautiful, and underestimated, amazing plants.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
Apparently they no longer use that as a measurement because it's far harder to figure out how many grains of sand there are than stars in the galaxy.
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A gamma ray can strike us any time and wipe all Live on Earth out.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Gamma rays form when blackholes consume so much from their accretion disk that they expel tons of energy, when stars go supernova, when neutron stars collide etc. so far, it’s highly unlikely for any of these events to happen near us any time soon
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
er surely this depends on how far the exploding star is, how intense the gamma ray field is, etc.,? I mean gamma ray bursts are emitted in nuclear explosions but life on earth still exists.
Telepathetic 2 years ago
Gamma rays are hitting us all the time. I think you mean a Concentrated Pulse of Gamma Rays
Surenu 2 years ago
The actual name of the phenomenon is Gamma Ray Burst. Long story short, as stars collapse, they send out an immensely powerful flash of gamma radiation in random direction. As it is a wavelength of light, it travels at the speed of light, so it could hit us at any given moment and completely and utterly annihilate all life on at least one half of the planet, causing devastating havoc on the other half. Luckily, they have to be aimed very precisely to affect us at all, and they're not all that common - they happen only once a day or so.
Load More Replies... ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
That's cool. I prefer that to dying of a terminal illness or some sh*t.
#57
Wombats' poop is cube shaped. Not sure that counts cause I believe it though?
BenyA. 2 years ago
I met an austrailian who kept leaving brown rubiks cube in my bathroom. I guess they're not rubiks cube
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
Wombats will also 'extend' their burrows during emergencies such as bushfire, for other animals to take shelter. And, God please don't, hit one with your car, you might survive, your car won't..
David Paterson 2 years ago
There's even been a scientific study to determine how far down the digestive system these little cubes form. At the end or well before the end.
#58
Benford's law, absolutely mindblowing: An observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small. The number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5% of the time. If the digits were distributed uniformly, they would each occur about 11.1% of the time. It has been shown that this result applies to a wide variety of data sets, including electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, house prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, and physical and mathematical constants. Source: wikipedia because this is very difficult to explain Much better explained by Latif Nasser here!: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lag6EfVJi-s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lag6EfVJi-s) at 2:11
Broad Panda 2 years ago
Lol, this is silly. Of course 1 is most often the leading digit in data sets. Most data sets are counting or measuring, and we start with 1. What's mind-blowing is that there's any need for a whole law to be made about it.
#59
A mountain on a neutron star is only a few inches high. The amount of energy "lost" for the Earth to orbit around the sun is equivalent to running a space heater. The mites on your eyebrows & eyelashes have no anuses and will eventually explode from a buildup of fecal matter. Dog cancer is contagious and has been traced back thousands of years to one individual. Human lice cannot live on any other animal and using the "genetic clock" an approximation can be determined on when humans first started wearing clothing. The name for natural gas comes around because coal gas was refined for lighting but the other came straight out of the ground. Wallabies have square poop. People have fallen from heights above 18,000 and survived. Stewardess from Yugoslavia Airlings (bombing), a girl fell into the Amazon rainforest and WWII aircrews falling from their planes. Honey is still edible after thousands of years under ideal circumstances. There was a chicken that survived getting its head chopped off and became a circus oddity (it eventually choked to death after its owner fed it). Dinosaur fossils have been discovered with soft tissue inside the bones, paleontologists determined the color patter of some species and an armored dinosaur mummy was found in Alberta. The moon moves away from the earth at a rate of an inch a year.
Cherreka Wirth 2 years ago
Not technically when humans first started wearing clothing, but when humans lost their body hair. They can trace when pubic lice and head lice last shared an acestor. After that they evolved separately and didn't interact. It's just assumed we started wearing clothes at the same time we lost our body hair.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
The chicken still had most of his brainstem, so not entirely headless. Horrific that he was kept alive, although hopefully he had zero awareness with only a brainstem, and not even an entire brainstem. Mike the Headless Chicken - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Rodney McKay 2 years ago
Meh. I fall from a height of well over 18,000 μm every time I take a step.
Rodney McKay 2 years ago
"A mountain on a neutron star is only a few inches high." Photo, or it didn't happen.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
A neutron star is really dense so it has a high amount of gravity. The gravity is so much that if it collapses a little bit more, it will become a black hole. The mountains can’t reach a high altitude with all that so they’re just a couple inches tall
Load More Replies... Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
The stewardess´s first name is Vesna (springtime). I remember it, the plane fall in Prague suburb. It was an attentate, not clare bis yet.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
It's one unusual type of dog cancer that's transmissable, not dog cancer in general. Contagious Cancer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228048/
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A Bi-Cycle 2 years ago
Bored Panda, for the love of all that is holy, PLEASE stop randomly reloading the pages. I’ll be on #22, then it will randomly reload and the whole format would have changed as posts move up or down depending on the points.
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I think that might be your browser settings, not BP. My BP pages never reload unless I tell them to.
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Fun fact: there’s an exoplanet J107b which has 37 rings. There’s also a planet 55 Cancri e which is made out of diamond and costs 26.9 nonillion dollars
majandess 2 years ago
My sister and I are Rainbow Brite fans, so when we learned about the diamond planet, we got all excited. We've called it Spectra ever since.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
If the universe really does collapse into a black hole, that would mean that such a black hole would contain all of the information in the universe throughout time. Now consider that from a photon's "point of view," the universe was formed and dies in an instant. The entire universe, therefore, would be merely the information found in an instant's worth of photons projected throughout time and space by a black hole. What's more, a universe that collapse onto itself would not be oscillating, since time gets lost in that Big Crunch; there is not one universe after another after another. It's just one universe wherein time is a function of volume.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
How well do you manage confirmation bias? How regularly do you change your opinion on things that were once emotional matters or important to you and in a direction that does not comfortably line up with other beliefs. If you adopt positions that better line up with some group that you identify with, that doesn't count. If it's in your self-interest or the interest of someone you care about, that doesn't count. If it's the trendy position of comedians or politicians or talking heads or TV shows that "take on tough issues," that doesn't count. In all those cases, you're decreasing cognitive dissonance, not allowing it to change your mind.
R. H. 2 years ago
Far sadder than that. People decide "truth" based on how it makes them feel.
Load More Replies... Jan Dunn 2 years ago
Yes the random reloading is super annoying if I move my phone I'm back to number one if that happens more than once I just close it out and don't read it. So think about that bored panda!!
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
That's an issue with your phone/browser settings, BP works fine for me. My browser of choice is Brave (on all devices, it's great), in case you can't find the setting to change on whatever you use.
Load More Replies... A Bi-Cycle 2 years ago
Bored Panda, for the love of all that is holy, PLEASE stop randomly reloading the pages. I’ll be on #22, then it will randomly reload and the whole format would have changed as posts move up or down depending on the points.
Judes 2 years ago
I think that might be your browser settings, not BP. My BP pages never reload unless I tell them to.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Fun fact: there’s an exoplanet J107b which has 37 rings. There’s also a planet 55 Cancri e which is made out of diamond and costs 26.9 nonillion dollars
majandess 2 years ago
My sister and I are Rainbow Brite fans, so when we learned about the diamond planet, we got all excited. We've called it Spectra ever since.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
If the universe really does collapse into a black hole, that would mean that such a black hole would contain all of the information in the universe throughout time. Now consider that from a photon's "point of view," the universe was formed and dies in an instant. The entire universe, therefore, would be merely the information found in an instant's worth of photons projected throughout time and space by a black hole. What's more, a universe that collapse onto itself would not be oscillating, since time gets lost in that Big Crunch; there is not one universe after another after another. It's just one universe wherein time is a function of volume.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
How well do you manage confirmation bias? How regularly do you change your opinion on things that were once emotional matters or important to you and in a direction that does not comfortably line up with other beliefs. If you adopt positions that better line up with some group that you identify with, that doesn't count. If it's in your self-interest or the interest of someone you care about, that doesn't count. If it's the trendy position of comedians or politicians or talking heads or TV shows that "take on tough issues," that doesn't count. In all those cases, you're decreasing cognitive dissonance, not allowing it to change your mind.
R. H. 2 years ago
Far sadder than that. People decide "truth" based on how it makes them feel.
Load More Replies... Jan Dunn 2 years ago
Yes the random reloading is super annoying if I move my phone I'm back to number one if that happens more than once I just close it out and don't read it. So think about that bored panda!!
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
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