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Knowledge is something that can always be improved. At the same time, it's also a thing that no matter how much effort you put in, you'll have some blind spots because it's impossible to know absolutely everything, isn't it? There are things that we are doomed to never learn about. But today's list isn't about them. Instead, it's about the things many people don't know but can learn about. And when is a better time to start than now?
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#1
If you want to stop and have a chat, you won't die if you move out of the walkway.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
If you move to the side, a piano might fall on your head.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
This is definitely false. If you move out o the walkway, you will likely be in the road, where there is a very good chance that you could be deleted.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
Obviously no one is suggesting you move your conversation into street traffic. Most sidewalks have 2 sides: the dangerous side such as the road or a cliff or a river and the safe side such as a building or a park. Just step out of people's way for the duration of your conversation. Safely.
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Tell that to the idiots I work with. The idea of standing one side of a hallway (instead of face to face and blocking the entire hall) is too difficult for them to grasp.
Michael None 1 year ago
This happens a lot to me while driving my car in my neighborhood. People stop their car in the middle of the damn road to have a chat. I want to get by Sharon, pull it over if your want to gossip.
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#2
Ctrl Backspace deletes the entire word.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Just tried to do that on my old Olivetti typewriter but I couldn't find the Ctrl key
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
My fav ever was the discovery that highlighting a word and pressing shift+F3 will change the word between all caps, no caps, and just the first letter capitalised.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I wish. Like many of the other things here, it depends on the program you're in. It works in Microsoft Wordpad (my usual program unless I need more bells and whistles), but it doesn't work in Firefox, Thunderbird, or Open Office Writer. Every now and then I hit Caps lock instead of the "A" key, and it would be nice i f I could fix it without typing it all again.
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Jaybird3939 1 year ago
Alt-Tab will show you all the pages you have open and you can switch between.
Origami Chik3n 1 year ago
CRTL+Backspace deletes entire word behind the cursor, CTRL+Delete - in front of it.
#3
A burial plot is called a graveyard if it's part of a church lot. It's called a cemetery if separate.
David 1 year ago
According to various definitions I'd rate this as 'mostly true. True in that graveyard is more commonly associated with a church, but untrue in that both words are technically correct whether or not a church grounds is involved. So not a great hill for the grammar nazis to die on (pun intended). --- "The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον 'sleeping place') implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard."
Xandra 1 year ago
Is this just in English or other languages too? There's no difference in my language (cemetery - cimitir)
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
We in german have the word "Friedhof" (Peace Yard; literally) for both, but I'm actually not sure if there would be another word in that context that maybe isn't very common
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Probably many of us have heard the saying that “knowledge is power” at least once in our lifetime. This phrase comes from the Latin aphorism "scientia potentia est" (the words can be placed slightly differently, but it doesn’t change the meaning). Commonly, it’s attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, as the expression "ipsa scientia potestas est" ('knowledge itself is power') occurred in his book “Meditationes Sacrae” (1597).
As you can see, Francis Bacon didn’t use the exact aphorism that’s assigned to the “knowledge is power” saying. The first time this exact Latin phrase was written was in the 1668 version of “Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes, an ex-secretary to F. Bacon.
#4
The only difference between chemistry and biology is life. If it's alive, it's biology, if it's not its chemistry.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Why- it's true! And, just incidentally, both chemistry and biology - are actually physics! Man, the Sophomores are taking over!
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
And everyone knows physics is just math. So everything is just math!
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Lotekguy 1 year ago
Not so for Hindus. I don't believe in reincarnation, but I know I did in a previous life.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
If it wiggles, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics.
David 1 year ago
Nah. More like an overlapping Venn diagram. Biology includes some chemistry but not all of the field of biology is chemistry. Behavior and distribution are just two of the parts of biology that are not chemistry. "the study of living organisms, divided into many specialized fields that cover their morphology, physiology, anatomy, behavior, origin, and distribution."
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
each level you move up, the more each category overlaps. at GCSE, they're more distinct. at A level, Biology has a lot of Chemistry, and Chemistry is basically Physics.
#5
Scuba is an acronym, standing for self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
Spannidandoolar 1 year ago
I swear I learnt this from a TV show...I want to say Boy Meets World but I may be wrong, something of that era!
Shadow Puppet 1 year ago
Did you know Tuba is also an acronym? It stands for "terrible underwater breathing apparatus"
Marianne 1 year ago
Many people (including my younger self) are also mistaken about what is inside the breathing apparatus. No, it's not oxygen, because 100% oxygen would kill us. It's just compressed air.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Yes and no. A lot of people are mistaken about the standard (insofar as there is one) gas for SCUBA, but many gas mixtures besides regular air are used. Recreational divers often use Enriched Air Nitrox (commonly referred to as just "nitrox" though nitrox is really any mixture of nitrogen and oxygen).Enriched Air Nitrox is air that has a higher than normal percentage of O2 to reduce the uptake of nitrogen during the dive, which extends he allowable duration of the dive. Technical divers often use "trimix" with is O2, N2 and helium. Decompression divers often use pure O2 or high % O2 mixes to speed the offgassing of N2. O2 is toxic at high partial pressures, s the amount of O2 in the mix determines the maximum depth at which it can be used. Pure O2 is used for the final (and long) stage of decompression at 20'.
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David 1 year ago
Barely. It was in syndication before I was old enough to watch it. A few years ago I borrowed the DVDs from my local library because I remembered watching some episodes as a kid. But I got kind of bored with it and didn't finish watching them all. I think it was just a bit too dated for my liking
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Douglas Tucker 1 year ago
Thank you Jacques Cousteau and others for the invention/conception. I learned about "Scuba" from the 1950s TV show, Sea Hunt, and the early 1960s TV show, Assignment Underwater. Watching Lloyd Bridges underwater made this Boomer as a kid to fashion his own air tanks out of rolled up cardboard strapped to my back with my suspenders and my mom's vacuum cleaner hose. My buddies knew exactly where I was coming from, but all the adults thought I was just a weird kid.
Garryn Kinsey 1 year ago
Laser is another. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
southern_altitude 1 year ago
Wow if my mind was blown my "CCs" meaning "Corn Chips" I now feel enlightened
#6
A company called Warner Chappell Music collected licensing fees for use of the song “Happy Birthday to You” all the way until 2015. That’s why characters in movies often sing other songs like “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” and restaurant chains often have their own birthday songs they sing to customers.
AtMostAFabulist 1 year ago
I knew the song was still under copyright. Is it still, or did it go public domain in 2015?
arthbach 1 year ago
On the 22th of September, 2015, a USA Federal Judge, George King, ruled that the Warner/Chappell copyright claim over the lyrics was invalid. He determined they had the copyright over a very specific arrangement of the music for piano. The tune had previously been used for the song, "Good Morning to All".
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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
What day is today, it's Nibbler's birthday! What a day for a birthday, let's all have some cake!
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
That's why you should just freestyle rap. The look on your friends' & family's faces when they are expecting the crusty old birthday song is priceless!
Caessy Meschar 1 year ago
Please no one should tell GEMA in Germany that. They would demand money for the last 60 years
Jerry Lane 1 year ago
Public domain. There were always questions about the song’s origins and the right to a copyright it in the first place.
Yet, even though knowledge is power, everyone carries different levels of it. And this leads to the phenomenon of the “curse of knowledge” or “the curse of expertise.” It’s a cognitive bias where people incorrectly assume that everyone knows as much as they do on a certain topic. This makes it hard for them to imagine what it’s like to not have that knowledge.
One of the most interesting experiments done about this curse, which also quite easily explains the phenomenon, was conducted in 1990 by a Stanford University psychology graduate student Elizabeth Newton. She created a game, where people were assigned roles of “tapper” and “listener.” Tappers had to tap out the rhythm of a well-known song on a table, while the listeners had to guess the song.
Out of 120 songs tapped out during the experiment, only 3 were guessed correctly. Yes, only 3! Apparently, when a tapper taps, they hear the tune in their mind along with the taps, while the listener only hears the uncoordinated tapping sounds. And due to the curse, the tappers couldn’t see why it was so hard for listeners to understand the tune.
#7
Irukandji jellyfish grow only to about 1 cubic cm in size, but have an incredibly painful sting. One symptom of the sting is a strong impending sense of doom. Victims have begged their doctor to be killed as they were certain they would die anyways.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Yep, and they look nothing like the picture above lol https://australian.museum/learn/animals/jellyfish/irukandji-carukia-barnesi/
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Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
My first thought on reading that was "What, like a parking meter?" I must need sleep
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
I saw a video of a scientist/diver who got stung by one. It's awful and there's no pain killer that can stop it.
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
I saw a video on this last night. Supposedly it makes people suicidal. The question was " How many people committed suicide and didn't know it was because of a tiny jellyfish about 1cm in size?
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
Time to move to a double landlocked country...
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#8
Bananas are berries, and Antarctica is a desert.
Barbara Wilcock 1 year ago
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberry are not berries. Cucumber, pumpkin, advacodos are 😊
Cosmikid 1 year ago
And wheat is NOT a berry- and marketing wonks are not biologists, but pretend...
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Ok, now I'm curious - who the hell claimed that wheat is a god damn berry?
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Hannah Taylor 1 year ago
A tomato is a fruit when it's raw, a vegetable when it's cooked, and an awful mess when it's thrown.
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VikingAbroad 1 year ago
Arctic is bear, antarctic is the opposite of the bear. It is Ursus Major, that is being referenced. The arctic is closer to this constellation than the ant-arctic.
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#9
Mammals pee an average of 22 seconds, no matter if mouse or elephant.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
My wife pees for about 2 seconds (I'm not even joking, she pisses so hard that I worry she's gonna chip the porcelain), I pee for about 2 minutes. I think both of us are upsetting the average.
Beck 1 year ago (edited)
It’s called a “power piśs” 😀 I had a delightfully weird female roommate once who actually practiced this and did kegels every day. We went camping a lot (in the bush, no toilets) and she was always so excited to make me listen to how fast she could pee when we took bathroom breaks together (bush safety rules). It was pretty impressive tbh! 😂
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
I'm so tired of seeing this. It is not true. TL:DR - bad science based on filming 32 animals where the actual number is 0 seconds to 48 seconds. One study (Yang, et al 2014) looked at 32 animals at a zoo and discovered they pissed 21 seconds +/- 13 seconds. One standard deviation means that 67% (21 of 32) pissed between 8 and 35 seconds. 95% pissed between 0 and 48 seconds. You wonder how 0 is possible. The study includes a graph showing it takes a rat .16 seconds.
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
I thought it couldn't be true, because to the best of my knowledge rodents don't have bladders, they just expel urine as and when it's created
Load More Replies... Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I don't know how long I pee for, but I'm getting to the point where I have to pee *every* 22 seconds
PFD 1 year ago
Seems to be based on the much-hyped Yang etc al (2014), which says "all mammals above 3 kg in weight empty their bladders over nearly constant duration of 21 ± 13 s." Yes, that's remarkable consistency given the biological variance; still, plus or minus 13s per species (n = 32) plus the weight constraint suggest that it's probably not reliable. My own research (n = 1) suggests the variation in a single species can vary from a few seconds to at least several minutes depending on age, position, type and quantity or liquid consumed and the proximity of other species members.
PFD 1 year ago
Said paper explicitly said small mammals such as mice and rats don't pee this way, incidentally, but in frequent urination of single drops.
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Lotekguy 1 year ago
Curious about who funded the grant for that bit of research, who accepted the job, and why anyone thought it mattered enough for the effort? That's just how my stream of consciousness flows.
PFD 1 year ago
According to the authors, the main reason was that urination time is a very easy thing to observe and yet can be highly useful for diagnosing urological disorders "as well as inspiring the design of scalable hydrodynamic systems based on those in nature." Regarding the latter, "Engineers may apply this result to design a system of pipes and reservoirs for which the drainage time does not depend on system size. This concept of a scalable hydrodynamic system may be used in the design of portable reservoirs, such as water towers, water backpacks, and storage tanks." Funding was from an early career physics grant for the physical modelling and an undergraduate research award for the experiments.
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Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago (edited)
Gonna time it. ed: Just shy of 15 and a half seconds. So a full bladder I could see going a fair bit beyond the average. Interesting! Also that's a lot of pee from an animal that's huge.
This works with any other type of knowledge. Knowing some piece of information makes it hard to understand how others don’t know it, hence the curse in the phenomenon’s name.
And it’s not the only thing that's so cursed about it. In fact, this phenomenon creates quite a few problems between people:
- Makes some teachers have difficulty understanding how their students can’t comprehend a topic;
- Makes it difficult to communicate;
- Makes it hard to understand or justify your own past behavior;
- Makes it hard to predict or understand the behavior of others.
So, be aware that as you learn new things from this list, you might fall for the curse of knowledge. After all, as the question that prompted this thread suggests, the majority of people don’t know these facts, so don’t forget that!
Also, maybe you know any other facts that not many others know that weren't mentioned in this list? Share it with us in the comments! And don't forget to upvote the most interesting facts you learned from this list!
#10
Squirrels run faster up trees than on flat surfaces.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
It's probably more difficult for anyone to run up a flat surface.
Cosmikid 1 year ago (edited)
Could be lots of reasons, my best guess is that on a tree, all claws are full engaged in the bark giving an absolute push off - on flat surfaces- think of your dog trying to scramble on waxed linoleum...
Beck 1 year ago
That’s not the only reason squirrels like to run up trees :)
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 1 year ago
You obviously haven't seen a squirrel being chased by my dogs. Luckily, my local squirels can run very fast on he flat surface that's my yard.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Squirrels are next. That is why I like them. They can scamper up trees and across things other animals can't.
#11
Font describes the variation in style in which something is written: size, italic, bold, all caps etc.
Typeface is the variation in the style of letters (Arial, Times New Roman, Comic Sans) that most people refer to as fonts.
Hey! 1 year ago
If you're interested in fonts, read the book Font Psychology: Why Fonts Matter and How They Influence Consumer Behavior by Richard G. Lewis. Quite interesting.
Rinso The Red 1 year ago
"Typeface" hasn't been used in a LONG time. Modern software usually lists it as "font" regardless.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Upper case - taken from the upper case of letters. Lower case - taken from the lower case of letters. Both from the printing world, the lower case letters were used far more frequently so they were stored in the case closer to the typesetter who picked the individual letters to make up the lines that were then stacked into forms for printing.
T. 1 year ago
These terms are related to metal typesetting. With the rise of IT, font has been used interchangeably (and in German font is used for typeface - highlighting for font [typography-terms for use with software publishing]). In typography itself, font is a complete character set in a particular point size, in a particular typeface. I hope it's not too confusing, but publishing changed completely while the art, rules and terms of "setting text" are roughly the same.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
And the origin of this use of the word "font" ? Which originally meant "source", from "fountain"? From the days of "print" - which meant lead cast type, ink, and paper...
David 1 year ago
While I'm not disputing the fact, in my experience font was commonly used to refer to the typeface in casual use when I was involved in some smaller scale publishing. I think it's a bit like when someone tries to tell you Kleenex is a specific brand and you should say tissue. It's true, but a lot of folks are going to say Kleenex (or same for Q-tips) anyway.
PFD 1 year ago
Not according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which gives "typeface" as a synonym for "font".
Mike F 1 year ago (edited)
The OED evolves, slowly, but it does evolve. When I was in HS (in the early 70's) , I was in printing using cold type. The "font" was the package of individual letters, the "type", that was then distributed into the "job cases" for hand setting the cold type into a composing stick. The typeface was the style of the type.
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BoredBranzino 1 year ago
That's because typewriters haven't been used in forever, and typeset (cast) hasn't been used in longer than that. Font covers the specific set and the adjacent bells and whistles now, mostly universally.
#12
Most the people involved in the Hindenburg disaster lived.
Major Harris 1 year ago
the last survivor of this disaster died 08 nov 2019, Werner Gustav Doehner. hr was 8 years old when he was on her.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
97 people were on board; 35 people died and the others survived. One person on the ground was also killed.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I seem to remember reading somewhere the Empire State Building in NY was set up so that the Hindenburg could dock at the top.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
True, and I did not know that. Additional statistics on the deaths are interesting too.
#13
The Amazon River is over 4,000 miles long and doesn't have any bridges that cross it.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Technically, False. But also true. The Amazon river proper does not have any bridges. However, there are many small bridges crossing the distributaries, which are still part of the same river (as they leave and re-join the river). I know this for a fact because I have crossed them, just outside of Iquitos, Peru.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
Those tributaries count as part of the 4000 mile length so you correct in the right/wrong analysis.
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago
The two biggest reasons are 1)most of the Amazon basin doesn't have roads to connect that would need a bridge and 2)the river's width varies greatly from season to season. It can go from 4-5km at its widest to 50km in weeks during the wet season. The Amazon delta where it dumps into the ocean is 320km wide and a 100 km deep and it constantly changes.
#14
SONAR stands for SOund NAvigation and Ranging.
Ai-Li Mae Sarvis 1 year ago
Yes. also RADAR means RAdio Detection And Ranging. LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
KariAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
I love threads like this. Its all so interesting
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Adrian 1 year ago
Yep, like RADAR and LASER. They are used now without people knowing what they mean.
Ace 1 year ago
Not many. There were a couple of other electronic ones as well, like Decca Nav, mainly used in busy areas and only possible near shore stations. What we mostly used was charts, sextants and lots of manual calculations with trig and log tables.
Load More Replies... Beck 1 year ago (edited)
Yes, people who are educated in these subjects will have knowledge of these subjects. Some people who don’t have education in these subjects won’t have knowledge in these subjects. 🤷♀️ That’s like me making fun of everyone who doesn’t know how to fly a plane because “pilots are taught this in pilot school.” Shaming people for not knowing the same random fun facts that you do isn’t kind or necessary.
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#15
The amount of [crimes] that happens on cruise ships. Most of them unresolved too.
AtMostAFabulist 1 year ago
I would assume the same crimes that occur in any city. Some of those boats are as big as a small town.
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WonderWoman 1 year ago
Another wonderful reason to never go on a floating petri dish - cruise.
Susan 1 year ago
And it's crazy how many people I know that come back sick from a cruise. It's a breeding ground for sharing germs!
Imreallyjustaghost 1 year ago
It truly is gross. Strep ran rampant on the one and only cruise I was on.
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Tina Harnish 1 year ago
Especially sexual assault. Nothing done about it. One reason I never want to go on a cruise. Not the fact of crimes. The fact they pretend they don't happen and never attempt to prosecute them.
WhatEvenIsLife 1 year ago
There are so many things that make me not want to go on cruises. I used to work in the epidemiology department of a state that had a coastline and the number of mass illnesses that took place on cruise ships was insane.
#16
An 18 inch pizza is more than two 12 inch pizzas.
And to do the math, the surface area of a circle is pi x r squared.
Pi is the constant. 18 in pizza has a 9 in radius, or r. 12 inch has
6. 9 squared is 81, 6 squared is 36. 36 x 2 is 72. 81 is greater than 72.
Ace 1 year ago
Many pizza menus don't take this into consideration, so, for example a 30cm pizza that costs chf20 is 7 cents per square cm, a 40cm at chf30 is only 5 cents per sq cm. (Prices from dominos.ch)
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Oh, I 100% guarantee they did the math. It's just the volume discount, as usual.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I was under the impression that there would be no math today.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
More cleverly...if the radius is z and the height is a, then the volume of the pizza is "Pi *z*z* a".
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago
Another factor - both sizes of pizza probably have roughly the same amount of 'dead zone' out by the crust edge so the sauce and toppings don't fall off in the oven. So that bigger pizza not only has more total area, it probably also has a greater percentage of it with toppings. But I'm not going to try to bother with the math to verify that.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
You only need to do the math if you want to quantify it precisely. The crust is normally the same width, so it increases in direct proportion to the radius, while the saucy part of the pizza increases as the square of the radius.
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David Wallin 1 year ago
If you want to compare relative sizes (area), just square the diamteter. A 10" pie gives 100, and a 14" pie gives you 196. So, quite quickly you know that a 14" is about twice (196%) of a 10". 18^2 = 324, 12^2 = 144, double that 288, which is less than 324.
#17
Kysman95 said:
When you get killed by army ants it's not the poison or biting that kills you. >!But the invasion of lungs!<.
IHateThisDamnWebsite explained:
Ants crawl down your mouth and you suffocate as they get to your lungs.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
That's not something I ever expected to type in my life.
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LadyRougarou 1 year ago
Vemon* Venomous is when something bites you and you die, poisonous is when you bite something and you die and if you bite each other and you die that's just kinky 😏
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Ants will crawl into your lungs and eat them, that's what will kill you if you get attacked by them
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Delta Dawn 1 year ago (edited)
I’m for real going to buy a small respirator and carry it with me at all times, in case of army ants, methane pockets, and derailments of train cars carrying poison gas. (I have been watching a lot of disaster documentaries lately…)
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
If you find a respirator small enough to carry around please tell us how to get it!
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#18
If your nerve is broken in the wrong way, the nerve will send a pain signal to the brain and it won't stop.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
My best friend's daughter has extreme nerve damage in her stomach area, and is literally in constant pain. She's outlived doctor estimates from sheer cussedness.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Same with my cousin--she was trampled by her horse and the doctors told her she probably wouldn't walk again, especially with all the nerve damage. I think she forced herself to walk again out of pure spite.
Load More Replies... KariAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
I've got cauda equina. I've a lot of nerve damage. I'm numb from my buttock to my toes on one leg and I'm numb in my undercarriage. The pain is constant and my nerve damage is permanent. I can't remember what it's like to not feel pain and this only happened to me last November. I love coming on here to read the funny sarcastic and interesting comments. Takes my mind away for a little while
Cosmikid 1 year ago (edited)
And if it's broken in the RIGHT way... ??? A textbook case of "factoid removed from all relevant context." And "break"? Do you mean "sever", or "rupture", or.."stretch beyond capability" or...
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
Yeah, clarification is needed. It's called complex regional pain syndrome. Horrible pain. For me, it happened during surgery.
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GraceN 1 year ago
Yes, I have that and trigeminal neuralgia. Extremely painful shocks in the face.
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago
I seem to recall another BP article that said it was the lack of signal that caused the pain. I'm a bit fuzzy on it but the gist as I recall is that your brain is used to receiving a constant signal from any given nerve and having that signal disconnected is perceived as pain. It seems counter intuitive to me so the answer is probably deeper than that. It was part of an article about why people with amputations feel 'pain' in their hand / foot / whatever that is no longer part of their body.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Basically, pain is strange (heck there’s even a book about pain called that). Chronic pain is classed as nociceptive pain - there is no structural damage to nerves or tissue/bone, but the CNS has become sensitised and so produces pain before there is any need to protect by pain.
Load More Replies... Lotekguy 1 year ago
If a broken bone is misaligned when first treated, it may need to be broken the right way to reset it. You could call that a Medical Mulligan... or not, depending on who's in the room.
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ScootyPuffJr 1 year ago
Compressed nerves can also make you itch, and there won't be a rash or hives, so it's sheer insanity coping--and trying to get a doctor to listen to begin with.
Aballi 1 year ago
My friend has CRPS and the pain and experiences is excruciating. Look it up, it’s higher on the pain scale than giving unplanned birth or having a finger amputated.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
CRPS is fascinating (although not if you have to live with it) because of the physiological changes that take place in the affected area/limb. Hair growth changes and nail growth changes, the limb is a different colour/temperature. There’s been recent research investigating the role of immunoglobulins in causing it (injected into mice who developed symptoms, they’ve also demonstrated that with fibromyalgia too)
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#19
Centralia PA, Its a ghost town in Pennsylvania. Somehow they managed to set a coal mine on fire and its been burning since 1962. There are still a few people living there apparently but there are noxious fumes venting out of the ground so the government doesn't allow new people to go there.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
"somehow they managed" - mine fires are an ancient problem - there's one in Australia they think is 6,000 years old.
Beck 1 year ago
Super interesting! “Located under Mount Wingen in the state of New South Wales (Wingen means 'fire' in the language of the local Wanaruah people, the traditional custodians of the land), this underground smolder is a coal seam fire – one of thousands burning at any one time around the globe. Once ignited, these subterranean fires are almost impossible to put out. Slowly but intensely, they travel through the coal seam, a layer of coal that naturally occurs beneath Earth's surface.“ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-mysterious-fire-in-australia-has-been-burning-non-stop-for-at-least-6-000-years
Load More Replies... agirlandherrobot 1 year ago
"Somehow" - they were using a former pit-mine as the town trash dump. They thought they'd sealed it completely before converting it but they hadn't. It didn't matter until one Memorial Day in the 60s when they mayor decided the dump was an eye sore for all their planned celebrations so he instructed crews to burn it. They set it on fire and turned out they hadn't sealed it well enough, the fire had gotten into a mine shaft under the pit and started to spread. From there it was very largest the fault of the state govt failing to invest the money needed to do the job properly of finding out where the fire was located and putting it out.
Sky Render 1 year ago (edited)
There's tons of mine fires from centuries to even millennia ago still burning. 1962 is downright recent compared to some of them! Lignite burns very slowly!
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Someone set a pile of trash on fire too close to a crack leading down to the coal seam they were mining. It spread down into the mine. They didn't take it seriously at first, and didn't take action quick enough. Due to the properties of the coal, it's nearly impossible to put the fire out at the moment, so it will be expected to burn for another few hundred years or so....
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Centralia is also super disappointing. No visible sign of any mine fires, and just trash everywhere from people partying and leaving all their rubbish behind. The graffiti road was pretty cool though.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
They covered it over. The road and land it was on (Old destroyed Rt 61) was privately owned but owners never really did anything until idiots during covid tore a$$ up and down it pissing everyone off. Now it's buried under mounds of dirt. Sadly.
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SilverSkyCloud 1 year ago
isnt this the basis behind silent hill or was it somewhere else that had a still burning coal mine?
#20
The difference between a million and a billion, is approximately a billion.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Note that this is a metric billion (1000 million); imperial billions are 842 million (US) or 876 million (UK)
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago (edited)
A metric billion is actually 1,000,000 millions. The billion used by American economy adjacent countries is actually a kilo million.
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Dogfacedboy1980 1 year ago
A million seconds is about 11 days. A billion seconds is about 32 years.
Marilyn Holt 1 year ago
It's tricky to write these numbers in numerals. I think that's why most people just use 1M and 1B.
#21
The bow-wow theory of language (aka the onomatopoeic theory), which states that our imitation of natural sounds is the basis of language development.
Beck 1 year ago
I always thought this was so interesting :) kind of reminds me of how multiple languages consider cats to say “meow” or some similar variation (“miao,” “mau,” etc)
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Not sure whether the bow wow theory holds up. There is a theory that different sounds are created and learned as an infant gains more and more control over their mouth, tongue and vocal cords. The easiest sound to make is a "ma" sound which is why the word for mother is practically every language is an "M" word. Similarly, the "da" (or "pa") sound is the next one controlled therefore fathers are mostly "D" or "P" words. Seems more likely that we make sounds naturally and they just organically evolved as our vocal systems got more complex.
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Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Ona related note, the people who came up with the word "f*****g" were doing it wrong.
#22
Everything is made of chemicals and every single one of them will kill you with a sufficient dose.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
All knowledge is made up of facts, and every single one of them can be warped into uselessness...
Michael None 1 year ago
Remember kids everything is edible but some things are only edible once.
SleepSycho 1 year ago
Apples are made of chemicals... and vitamins or poison I always forget which?
Jane Hower 1 year ago
If a dose of something is small enough to help, it's probably also enough to hurt in larger doeses. Just be careful
#23
Your eyes have a separate immune system from the rest of your body. If they get damaged in such a way that it affects anything other than your eyes, your regular immune system can attack the damage and will not recognize them, meaning your own body can permanently blind you.
What's worse, your body cannot tell the difference between either eye. If one of them gets infected or damaged, your immune system can attack your healthy eye and take away your sight entirely.
AnkleByter 1 year ago (edited)
Ocular immune privilege, still not fully or mostly understood, we do know it performs this task quite well. This also makes eyes a great way to research therapies, because the immune response is localized, sometimes immediate and easy to track. The eyes aren't the only part that have this, though they do have a more extensive "system" of their own (using local mechanisms and global, meaning, outside of their system). A pregnant uterus, the testis and some areas of the brain also have this sort of function to better protect themselves and the rest of your body too. If you have an eye that has never functioned it's possible that eye and it's little quirky system can misfire and determine your functional eye (or even another part of you) is an enemy that must be destroyed, immediately, should you get an infection or injury. Makes for some interesting research, but not at all fun for me, lol.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Every time I read this fact, I have one question: Why the eyes? Why would that be the part of the body that can be destroyed by it's own body?
FaceTime Audio 1 year ago
Autoimmune diseases are fascinating. The immune system is fascinating!
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
So. Very. True. I had a scratched cornea from work one time - did not know it at the moment, but flooding my eye with water did *not* solve the issue. Boss refused to let me to seek medical treatment, so since I worked in a Mall I went to the optometrist on my lunch break. He grimaced, and ooohhh'd and awwww'd, and said I had to immediately go see his ophthalmologist buddy. I told him my boss wouldn't let me go, maybe I could call in sick tomorrow and go see him. Nope, damage would already be done. I was a dumb 21yr old and should have left and filed worker's comp, but instead, I couldn't take it anymore at one point, yelled at my boss for being an overbearing bsturd, went home and put on my sleep mask so I'd stop blinking constantly and slept as long as I could. Luckily, it didn't get infected, or I'd have been effed.
whaaaaaaaaaa 1 year ago
Always prioritize health. When you see what damaged health can do to someone, you understand that nothing else matters
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Chris Osborn 1 year ago
I can verify this to be true. I scratched my cornea in 2013. Long story short, 7 surgeries (including 2 cornea transplants), 1 eyeball rupture, and I am blind in my left eye. I now wear a prosthetic shell.
Tina Harnish 1 year ago
Recently read a story that mentioned a stomach problem ended up affecting the eyes. Didn't mention the separate immune system. Now the fact of a stomach problem causing eye problems makes sense.
okpkpkp 1 year ago
After eye muscle surgery I noticed a bump in the white of my eye and told my wife. She said that while I was in the recovery room my doctor did the final adjustment and then plunged the fishhook-looking surgical needle into the white of my eye and tied it off. I guess I was still half asleep but no pain cells in the eye? It was a bit freaky but I'd do it again.
#24
Sharks predate trees.
Major Harris 1 year ago (edited)
bull sharks are the only dangerous species of shark that can acclimate to fresh water. a bull shark was caught in 1995, 930 miles up the mississippi river near st. louis! and in australia, carbrooke golf course has a large water hazard/lake on the 14th hole that has several bull sharks that were swept into the lake from a river that overflowed its banks.
Fish that is a Panda 1 year ago (edited)
Although, there are no domcumented instances where any shark has leapt out of the water to attack a tree. (Yet)
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John Smith 1 year ago (edited)
I know what OP is saying, but this could also be read as meaning "Sharks prey upon trees" 😂
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Alogn these lines:grass is a real newcomer. Notice you never see it in documentaries about dinosaurs. Think how much of the world is covered in grass; consider that grass is more drought tolerant, and then think how much of the world would be desert but for grass.
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 1 year ago
This is a perfect example of why things like grammar and spelling matter. Sharks may pre-date trees, but they sure don't predate them.
Tina Harnish 1 year ago
1916 Mattawan Creek, off the Jersey shore, had a great white which killed a few people.
#25
The chances of a good recovery after CPR is abysmal.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
CPR is to keep oxygen circulating until you can get actual medical help to restore a rhythm (if they even can). CPR alone isn't going to fix someone. Just keep someone's brain from dying from lack of oxygen.
JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 1 year ago
As doctor Mike Said, chest compressions!
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arthbach 1 year ago
I live on a very small island, and there has been significant investment into ensuring all of the children in school receive first aid training. We also have defibrillators in public spaces. You phone the number on the box, get the code to open the machine, and the operator talks you through using the machine. Whilst this is happening, an ambulance is despatched. The distance/time to get to hospital is much smaller than in other countries. Because of all of these factors, when a person starts CPR, the patient has a 300% - 1000% higher rate of survival than in the neighbouring countries.
FaceTime Audio 1 year ago
May I ask which country? My country has many public defibrillator boxes, but BH I’ve never had to use one. Most public buildings I see have at least one.
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Ace 1 year ago
ITYM the chances of recovery after a heart attack in general. They're certainly higher if you get CPR than if you don't.
T. 1 year ago (edited)
In voluntary firefighter training we were also trained in CPR by the city's first responders, and were told: If after a heart attack, everything is handled well (defibrillator immediately, ambulance within 15 minutes and immediate hospital care) the survival rate is only 50%... So if you ever need to apply your CPR-knowledge, do what you can, but don't feel guilty if the patient doesn't make it.
Load More Replies... Happy Onion 1 year ago
Depends on the circumstances. If arrest occurs under anaesthesia, outcomes can be generally good depending upon patient age. Since oxygen and IV access are already present, everything happens much faster.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
Last I read, CPR has about a 10% success rate outside of a hospital. In a hospital at the hands of a skilled team, it's closer to 22%. But just because you get the heart beating doesn't mean all is well. It's very easy to arrest again, and it will certainly happen again if the underlying problem isn't dealt with. If the person goes down and CPR isn't started immediately (a lot of times a bystander finds the person down and calls EMS), then there's a good chance the brain will be irreversibly damaged.
Madam Puddyfoot 1 year ago
The same thing goes for animals. Please don't feel guilted into checking that "yes' to CPR in the event somethng goes south when you drop off your animal for surgery . The odds are abysmal also, and most folks don't have pet insurance to cover the cost of it, which can quickly become a LOT.
Robin Roper 1 year ago
Anyone who wants an elderly family member to receive CPR (Chest Compressions) has never seen the aftermath - it's awful.
Robert Larson, LPN, JD 1 year ago
Less than 50% and it doesn't matter what you do for CPR, you are breathing into a dead person so any chance is better than none
FaceTime Audio 1 year ago
I read that breathing air into the person’s lungs is no longer recommended and chest compressions are what you need to focus on. Stopping to do mouth-to-mouth interrupts your chest compressions, which are most important.
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#26
The only Spanish-speaking country in Africa is Equitorial Guinea. Its capital, Malabo, is on an island slightly northwest of the country’s mainland.
Linnoff 1 year ago
I have two issues here: first, that there are three different Guinea's in Africa, and even worse, trying to remember the difference between Ghana, Guyana, and French Guiana.
Wingsofwrath 1 year ago
French Guyana is the easy one - it's the one in South America with all the rockets...
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The country’s mainland is a little blob above Gabon and under Cameroon if you’re looking on a map.
#27
The tip of a shoelace is called an aglet.
Firstname Lastname 1 year ago
Great, now I'm singing the Phineas and Ferb aglet song. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_DuY0CQUz4&ab_channel=DisneyXD)
Vonny 1 year ago
This was a Jeopardy show a few weeks ago. A contestant answered it correctly. So I've now heard the word 'aglet' twice this year whereas I can bet $ I'd not heard the word even once in decades.
Rinso The Red 1 year ago
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
For some reason my last two puppies have been fascinated by the aglets. They won't chew the shoes, they won't chew the shoelaces, but they crunch the damned aglets off every single shoelace they could find.
#28
Water doesn't conduct electricity.
Edit cuz I should probably explain; pure water doesn't conduct electricity. Getting water to that level of purity is relatively costly however.
mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago
Adding any salt (ionic compound) will make water conduct electricity. These salts are referred to as electrolytes.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
And pure water is bad for you. Contrary to some myths drinking a glass of it won't kill you. But truly pure water strips electrolytes from your body. So drinking too much will definitely harm you.
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is usually done in a bath of deionized water for this very reason.
Definitely a Human 1 year ago
So what you're saying is that the vast majority of water on earth will in fact conduct electricity
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Yes, water is a poor conductor, it's the stuff that is in it (salt, for instance) that conducts.
Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
PFAS are a type of fluoride chemical, adding fluoride to water should never have been allowed but now PFAS are stacking with all the other fluoride people are exposed to, we need a universal fluoride/fluorine ban. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/16/texas-pfas-forever-chemicals-public-water-systems-epa-limit/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hvhAEiB19M
#29
If you get a tooth abscess on the maxillary (top arch) canine to canine. It needs to be taken care of ASAP. The area is called the triangle of death when it comes to abscess or infections.
Source: Dental Hygienist
Also
AtMostAFabulist 1 year ago
i honestly thought that mirror was actually a hook that was pulling the teeth up. Yikes
FloralDangerNoodle 1 year ago (edited)
Also sinus infections, which can lead to bacterial meningitis, which can lead to death.
Lowrider 56 1 year ago
I just had a lot of dental work done and my dentist told me if I hadn't gotten this procedure done, the infection would've killed me.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
when I was little, my mum had a root abcess in this area. if she pressed on her swollen face, it left dents where she pressed. when it burst, the smell was horrific. she later needed a root canal, and I remember the huge black stitches she had on her gums.
Jane Hower 1 year ago
Also don't pick at sores in that area as it could shoot infection straight to the brain.
WhatEvenIsLife 1 year ago
Gosh, good thing dental care is so cheap in the U.S., especially with insurance. /s
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
As someone who has four root canals in that area, I can attest! I nearly wound up in the hospital if my dentist had not done an emergency root canal on a Sunday! The cause of all four root canals was an upper jaw injury.
Definitely a Human 1 year ago
Why is the dentist using the mirror to look at the part of the tooth they can already see?
#30
Migatte-no-Blakae said:
A broken clock is right twice a day, but a clock ticking in reverse is correct FOUR times a day.
peckx063 explained:
Start one at midnight going forward and one backward. After six hours they'll both be at 6, after another six hours they'll both be at 12, after another six hours they'll both be at 6,after another six hours they'll both be at 12.
Sky Render 1 year ago
And technically nearly all clocks that are not broken or running backwards are correct less than twice a day (depending on how far off their reckoning of a second is). At least if you're comparing to the international atomic clock down to the femptosecond or less.
James Munroe 1 year ago
The problem is that you will not know when it is telling the right time unless you have another clock to compare it with.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Sir, I'll have you know that this is the Internet!
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You can collapse your lungs from laughing.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Not quite right. People with certain conditions can suffer a form of attack as a result of laughing (such as an asthmatic having an asthma attack, and narcoleptics falling asleep), and smokers can have a phlegmatic attack which can cause blockages in the lungs and airways. The act of laughing forces air from the lungs (including stale air), which is why a good laughing session always includes a large intake of breath. The collapsing of a lung occurs when air gets trapped between the lung and chest wall, which would not occur when laughing. *Unless there was another force/injury, such as a broken rib, which is rare, but possible.
FaceTime Audio 1 year ago
Lungs can also just spontaneously collapse. Risk factors include being a tall, skinny man, and certain other conditions like vascular EDS. It happens a fair amount in teenage boys for no reason other than existence. It’s very treatable, with some evidence suggesting in mild spontaneous pneumothoraxes, the best course of action is watching and waiting (per NEJM), but chest tubes and even surgery can be used in more severe cases. Reoccurrence is relatively common, but surgery lowers that risk. My dad just had his second in 5 weeks.
Load More Replies... Beck 1 year ago (edited)
Not exactly a myth. Here’s an article about Pilgaard-Dahl syndrome, AKA “Laughter-Induced Pneumothorax,” AKA a collapsed lung from laughter. To be fair, this isn’t something that can just randomly happen to anyone. “The syndrome consists of laughter-induced pneumothorax in smoking middle-aged men when exposed to hearty humour.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21156116/
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
I once had a lung collapse while I was sitting down stretching. I was stretching up, with my arms above my head and got this incredible pain in my chest area. I walked around for a couple of days before being convinced to go to hospital emergency room. This was years ago when my asthma was not being controlled well. I was not having an asthma attack that day, but just sitting down writing a letter. I NEVER let my asthma get bad for more than a couple of days now, then a trip to an urgent care center for an x-ray.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
When I first watched Finding Nemo I couldn't breathe for quite a long time when Doreen started 'talking' to the whale. I laughed so hard for so long!
#32
The human body has no means of sensing "wetness", and thus doesn't know what "wetness" is. It can only sense temperature and pressure. Put on a latex glove and submerge your hand in water, and it will feel wet.
The movie The Fifth Element is the only movie to reach general audiences, in which the protagonist and antagonist are never made aware of one another, let alone meet on screen.
Domestic cats have what's known as a "Non-Fatal Terminal Velocity". Which means that, provided they are of healthy age and weight, you could punt one out of a 747 at cruising altitude and it would hit the earth with no measurable damage.
To temporarily reduce, or remove entirely, the symptoms of tinnitus, cover your ears with your palms as hard as you can, and ensure you middle fingers are touching behind your head, then rapidly tap the entire length of your fingers against the base of your skull.
You may own your phone, as in the piece of hardware in your hand, but you own exactly none of the things it can do. Remember that when texting, taking pics, posting online, or anything else you do.
David Paterson 1 year ago
The dropped cat one isn't true either. An animal has to as small as a mouse to survive a drop from a 747. Even a rat is too big and will die.
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Thee8thsense 1 year ago
If someone decided to punt a cat in my presence, it is the punter's life that would cease.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Anyone who tries to chuck us out of a plane is coming along. We have nine lives. Soft can-openers only have one.
Ace 1 year ago (edited)
One of ours once jumped from a second-floor window without harm. Little blind Barty, couldn't see how far down it was. I miss Barty, who got to about fifteen IIRC. I miss them all. Sabre and Henry and Samuel and Nutmeg and Titi and Pippo and and Sylvester and Boris and Jay and Rocket and Lucy and Jack (most of all, cos just a couple of months ago, sniff, sniff). Still, James and Poppy and Snowflake are here to make me feel better.
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I'm not sure the Fifth Element one is right. I mean the antagonist is approaching from space as some sort of nebulous threat. But they are aware that it's approaching. While they never meet it as such surely that counts as being aware of it? And I'd say Lord of the Rings is the same. Frodo never meets Sauron, he's just a nebulous threat in the background. All the actual interactions are with minions, just like Fifth Element...
whaaaaaaaaaa 1 year ago
All I could fine about this: https://screenrant.com/movies-hero-never-meets-the-villain/
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I'm very suspicious about the cat one. Wouldn't it die from anoxia at cruising altitude before being splattered all over the ground when it hit ?
WorkAholic1 1 year ago
Well, I just tried the tinnitus one. So far, (knock on wood) it's working
Corvus 1 year ago
Can confirm the cat thing... yesterday, my cat accidentally fell from the 3rd floor. Not even a scratch - she was a little scared, but otherwise completely unharmed.
Cathy 1 year ago
So happy your cat is fine 😘 But one case doesn't prove a theory.
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#33
Your immune system has at least 1 cell to combat every single infection that could ever exist. Your T-cells are cells that, when created, go through a sort of training phase in the thymus where they are allowed to change their genetic code at random, in order to be able to battle 1 random very specific disease. During this, the body also kills any T-cells that are accidentally adapted to kill human cells. Then the T-cells are sent to lymph nodes, to be found later by presenting an antigen (a part of a pathogen) to it. Basically you have something for everything in your body, the problem is just finding it, as it takes a good few days for your body to locate the specific one.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Except - the first premise is flat not true. Wishful thinking. Your body does NOT "know" what to do with every possible- disease - totally novel diseases exist, and are not in your database.
Happy Onion 1 year ago
And the only way for your body to "learn" is by experiencing the pathogen... Either by infection or vaccination.
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Jessica Shookhoff 1 year ago
Ok, this isn't exactly correct. The genetics of our immune system are heckin lit, and come with a ton of ways to create antibodies to just about everything infectious we might encounter, but not to everything. There's a region in the genes of antibodies called the hypervariable region that frequently mutate in order to bind to diverse antigens, and do a pretty darn good job at helping the adaptive system to recognize many, many kinds of antigens. However, there are some antigen 'shapes' that your specific antibody genes just can't recognize. Sort of like an immune blind spot. And this is true for everyone. So there are always some antigens that our specific immune systems won't respond to. I mean, it covers most infections, just not 100%. Which is still pretty damn impressive!
Susan 1 year ago
So we could be immune to everything except we have an inefficient filing system?
JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Eh, it just the time it takes to find the cell. If it takes too long it can be deadly
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PFD 1 year ago
Would have been nice to have some fact-checking before reposting this lot, as most are either total b******t or pretty trivial.
General Stukov 1 year ago
Agreed. Please do your own tradeable and don't just believe this as facts
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Christine Graves 1 year ago
Fact checking is a thing. If it isn't a fact didn't post it as one.
Member_389 1 year ago
'Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing!' That appears pretty obvious when you read this load of garbage. Most of it is inaccurate, at least the parts that were actually finished before posting it.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
Fun fact: Humans are capable of natural flight, as long as they strongly disbelieve in the concept of gravity. That disbelief can be achieved under moments of extreme stress but also extreme ignorance and youth. Scientists have almost achieved results by dropping babies off of the Empire State building in a series of tests in the 1950s. Unfortunately due to the ratio of success/failure and the optics of the situation, they did not publish any of their research. Anti-flight authorities are still looking for them to this day. Believe it or not.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
Just in case, I have to publicly state that this is complete sarcasm and should not be taken seriously. No babies have been harmed for this joke, but some intelligent people have hurt their eyes by rolling them.
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Would have been nice to have some fact-checking before reposting this lot, as most are either total b******t or pretty trivial.
General Stukov 1 year ago
Agreed. Please do your own tradeable and don't just believe this as facts
Load More Replies... Christine Graves 1 year ago
Fact checking is a thing. If it isn't a fact didn't post it as one.
Member_389 1 year ago
'Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing!' That appears pretty obvious when you read this load of garbage. Most of it is inaccurate, at least the parts that were actually finished before posting it.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
Fun fact: Humans are capable of natural flight, as long as they strongly disbelieve in the concept of gravity. That disbelief can be achieved under moments of extreme stress but also extreme ignorance and youth. Scientists have almost achieved results by dropping babies off of the Empire State building in a series of tests in the 1950s. Unfortunately due to the ratio of success/failure and the optics of the situation, they did not publish any of their research. Anti-flight authorities are still looking for them to this day. Believe it or not.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
Just in case, I have to publicly state that this is complete sarcasm and should not be taken seriously. No babies have been harmed for this joke, but some intelligent people have hurt their eyes by rolling them.
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