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50 Posts From This FB Page Dedicated To “Amazing Facts And Unbelievable Things In The World” (New Pics)
Interview With Expert
There are few doubts that the world we live in is magnificent. However, at the same time, it’s also stranger than we could ever imagine. Aside from the fact that it’s the only planet believed to support life, it has plenty of various quirks, from uncommon natural phenomena to inherently strange organisms that call it home.
If you’re curious to know more about the peculiarities of our world, the Facebook page ‘Unusual Facts’ has your back. The range of these tidbits of information is so wide that there’s bound to be something for everyone. Scroll down to find them, and be sure to upvote the ones that surprised you the most.
While you’re at it, don’t forget to check out a conversation with Mark Janes, a chartered biologist, scientist, and author of 14 books who kindly agreed to share the most unusual fact from his field of expertise.
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Becky Samuel 1 year ago
And fewer people who act like any child in a public place is a breach of their human rights.
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Donna Peluda 1 year ago
We need more daycare, this is great but it could be very distracting for other students.
Bec 1 year ago
Yes, this is sweet but my college specifically prohibits having your kids on campus - meaning, no you can't bring them to class, no you can't have them sit at the library/ hallway/ student center while you are in class
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Paul Donahue 1 year ago
Imagine, a man in charge allowing you to breastfeed in a semi-closed environment. You've come a long way, baby!
Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
The professor should not have to be a babysitter, nor should the other students have to put up with a screaming kid.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Very commendable, although that's not British Sign Language. Must be Indian or American.
Jane 1 year ago
It looks like ASL... but Vellore Institute of Tech is located in India, so not sure.
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SillyPandaBunny 1 year ago
She actually copied this from another’s work and never even thanked them for it
Jeff Gabrisl 1 year ago
What blows my mind is that there are so many different flavors of sign language. If there was ever a chance to create a language that all people would be able to understand, it should be sign language. I do understand that different cultures have different gestures and body language, but I think that someone who is deaf/mute should be able to communicate with any other people. I would love if we created a universal sign language that was taught to everyone, so that communicating with any person would be easier.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago
They've each evolved separately like any other language.
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It's great, but as someone who uses sign language- I don't understand how it would work well? BSL (and I've been told this is the case for other sign languages too) is more than just hand signals. It's body language, it's hand movements at the same time as face movements. Various words use the same sign and it all depends on context whether you want to sign "my mum is home" or "my may is home" as they both have the same sign. We know from context what word the sign means, but a computer programme wouldn't and anyone who doesn't know BSL doesn't know that "mum" and "may" are the same sign so if the system reads "mum" it could mean "may" (or month, meter etc etc) and so be confused. The best way to understand sign language is to learn it.
Panda'sMom 1 year ago
Now, let's have a program that translates Engish to ASL. Pipedream, I know.
Angelshark 1 year ago
THIS. This is what AI SHOULD be used for. Not to steal the arts from humanity.
David 1 year ago
If it is anything close to accurate that is impressive. But even if inaccurate it's a start. Sign language varies some by country but using the US, since that is what I know, most deaf people use ASL and much of what is said does not translate directly from the sign. Context matters a lot. For comparison, think of all the oral phrases / slang in English that are not literal. "Kick the bucket" "Hit me up" She is using a different country's sign language but presumably the concept is similar. The first three basic signs match ESL and ASL. But the "no" sign is different than ours.
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Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago
Can you imagine how fantastic this world would be if Nanas were in charge?
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
What their husbands were doing at 4 am remains a closely guarded secret.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
Ninja nanas! How wonderful for the people they helped, plus you can never go wrong with cake!
From his 34 years in the field of science, chartered biologist Mark Janes finds that the most peculiar thing about our world is that life, at its heart, is ridiculously simple, even though it doesn’t seem that way.
Such realization dawned on him during his first lecture studying organic chemistry at college. “The lecturer said organic chemistry was the bedrock of the life sciences and carbon was the star of the show. He went on and on and on about how carbon was the backbone, core, or blueprint of life and had incredible properties.”
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Pyla 1 year ago
Teachers who love to teach are heroes, especially in this current cultural zeitgeist in the US
Nikole 1 year ago
Vote Blue if you live here. It won’t be a panacea, but it sure will help…
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
A excellent janitor who became a excellent principal. I once worked for a principal who might have made an adequate janitor, if closely supervised.
Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 1 year ago
Lucky! My teachers who really love their job and want to teach until they die are the ones that drive up to an hour every morning to get to school (and they’re the ones we don’t like)
JustAnotherCommenter(she/they) 1 year ago
Plot twist: he murdered the principal and blackmailed him into becoming a teacher
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k1ddkanuck 1 year ago
"Bird brain" shouldn't be an insult. They are sometimes smarter, more perceptive, and better communicators than people.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
It seems bird-brain has been used as an insult from the 1910s, likely because of the literal small size of the brain (though our science has improved enough to know that small brains don’t necessarily mean small minds, rather it is the number of neurons or the size of the brain in comparision to the body). However, an older version of bird-brain, bird-witted, has seemingly been in use since the 1600s! Anyway, sorry for the fact rant, but your comment made me wonder where the exact origin of bird-brain came from; still no clue, but I might delve into it more later.
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Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Some friends had a parrot, when they left him alone he would start shouting for help. After the police had been a couple of times they learnt is was just the parrot.
Jeff Gabrisl 1 year ago
Parrots aren't even the smartest birds, they just happen to be the best at copying humans. Corvids actually seem to be one the most intelligent types of birds. Crows, ravens, and magpie often demonstrate critical thinking skills that most people would only attribute to humans. Corvids have shown the ability to build tools and develop significant social circles, even with other species. Corvids actually have the ability to mimic human speach, just like parrots, but are less likely to. Parrots are the avian equivalent of a dog. They are easy to train, and they know that they depend on you, so they submit. Corvids are the avian equivalent of a cat. They know that they could easily destroy you and make you submit, so as long as you do want they want, they will be happy being adored, and maybe they will talk to you.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
Kudos to BP for not censoring "Willie." Good thing his name wasn't W***y.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Birbs understand a lot more than we give them credit for. We are NOT the only intelligent species on this planet. And the sooner we accept that, the better this world will be
Lorraine R 1 year ago
We've come a long way from the "dumb animal/soulless creature" attitude toward other sentient beings. But we need to go even farther.
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Shelley DuVal 1 year ago
I really think Willie would have appreciated a seed block a lot more though.
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Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
They also made them with doll patterns that you can find for sale online: 3169524728...5cd37e.jpg 
Susan Teter 1 year ago (edited)
My mom told me that grandma bought flour in these sacks, and that's how my mom and my aunt got dresses. This was after the Great Depression when people still were trying to survive.
Dusty's mom 1 year ago
Flour usually came in white sacks. Those were often turned into underwear or dish towels. Animal feed came in the colorful bags. It brought more women to feed stores, where they'd have the employees slinging bags around until enough were collected for a project. Happened in my family. We still have a quilt made of clothes that used to be sacks. Most farms needed several bags of feed at a time, making it quite lucrative for the feed mills if there were a lot of kids to clothe!
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
Intelligent design with built in repurposing - reminds me of the old Grolsch bottles with a square cross-section that could be used as bricks to build houses in developing world.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
Happened in the UK as well, especially during and after the second world war as clothing was subject to rationing.
Wendy Neumeyer 1 year ago
Flour sack dresses made a comeback for a little while. The closest I've seen in decades are the little kid pillowcase dress.
Tony Chambers 1 year ago
My grandmother actually sewed those sacks. And she also used the fabric to make clothes.
Once the lecturer moved on to draw a typical diagram of a carbon atom, Janes thought to himself, "Ok, if carbon is the blueprint and base of all life, do I look like anything like this image?”
The lecturer started explaining it by saying, “Carbon has a nucleus with 12 particles,” and Janes thought, “Well, my brain is clearly the nucleus of my body, and it breaks down to 12 cranial nerves; the numbers matched.”
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Goose of the Ahonkalypse 1 year ago
Same. Wikipedia is obviously not the greatest source for serious research papers but it's got to be the top used information source on the web AND it's ad free which is pretty unique in the current iteration of the web. Donating 3-5 USD is such a small thing to ask.
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Serial pacifist 1 year ago
A true humanitarian. Giving away knowledge for free is a great gift!
Kathleen Stiles 1 year ago
Thank you, Josephine Blogs, for that translation. And special thanks to Stephan Pruitt for his wonderful and priceless contribution to the world!
Bob Eckert 1 year ago
I have Wikipedia on a monthly donation because it is supremely important that we support it.
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GrammyBeth 1 year ago
As an American, I am disgusted by the way we treated (and treat) Native Americans. We were the savages, not them.
WorkAholic1 1 year ago
A good way to honor the Native Americans is to share stories like this. Also, do you know about the Navajo Code Talkers? Keep their stories alive. While we cannot go back in time and change things, we can help by acknowledging the past and work to better the future for all Americans, native and otherwise.
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Celestial Phalanx 1 year ago
In 2020 the people of Ireland also raised just under $6m in Covid relief for the Navajo Nation and Hopi, after they were hard hit by the pandemic.
Musicon HaidaGwaii 1 year ago
Potato genocide. It was manufactured by the British. Ireland has enough food. The British stole it. A million Irish died as a result. Genocide.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
Oklahoma is home to 38 federally recognized tribes, 14.2% of our citizens is Native American which is the highest in the Nation and 26 indigenous languages are spoken in Oklahoma. I'm a PROUD member of Cherokee Nation from my Mom's side of the family, Grandma Lily was 1/2, Mom was a 1/4 which made things very interesting and incredibly tough for her side of the family, especially when Mom was growing up. There has been recent and extremely important laws about our lands made by the Supreme Court that I encourage people to read about them. Yes, I'm on the Cherokee Roll and have my "Indian" card, so I'm not blowing smoke up your a*s or appropriating someone else's culture.
Verena 1 year ago
Only a very small part of the white immigrants were legal and bought their land fair and square. The vast majority invaded the area of the US uninvited and forcibly (aka colonized) and - opposite to current illegal immigrants - did not do work the natives didn't want to do. Those immigrants killed the natives, stole from them and ruined the environment. Maybe this is the reason why a population consisting almost entirely of descendants of immigrants, hates today's immigrants so much. The fear of them doing the same as their ancestors did?
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
The Choctaw just built a monument celebrating this (R). I've shown it here with the one the Irish set up for the same event (L). 0_Choctaw-...ff02e0.jpg 
Jeff Gabrisl 1 year ago
The trail of tears is regrettable, but the worst thing that European settlers did to the native population is to introduce diseases that the native population had no antibodies to. Pestilence spread through the native population because things like smallpox had never been an issue for them. European settlers didn't " win the war" against the native population because they were better than them, they won because they were using biological warfare before anyone knew what it was
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Wasn't he kidnapped to be sold off to a couple who couldn't have kids? I think that's what I read.
Megan Romero-Herman 1 year ago
I can’t fathom my son missing for 29 years! I too would do whatever I could
ZombieGirl 1 year ago
Is there a movie out about her? I love watching "based on true story" movies
Pamacious 1 year ago
"The one-child policy had been introduced in 1979 in an attempt to control the size of China's rapidly growing population and alleviate poverty. Couples living in cities could have only one child, while those in rural areas could have a second if the first was a girl. Couples who wanted a son to carry on the family surname and take care of them in old age could no longer keep trying for a boy; they would face stiff fines and their additional children would be denied social benefits. The policy is believed to have contributed to a rise in the number of child abductions, especially of boys. But Jingzhi knew nothing about this. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53566460
Two Cat Studio 1 year ago
I hope, on the other side of this, the people who kidnapped that child were brought to justice, sentenced, & performing their time!
He continued telling the story, “Then he said, 'Then the nucleus is housed in the ground state of the atom.' And I thought, 'My head (nucleus) is attached to my torso, which seems to be the ground state of the body.' Then he said there is another region outside of the torso called the 'valence shell'."
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 year ago
Or the non-smokers get to go home earlier every day.
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
One of the first things I noticed when I quit smoking was that I got less breaks. I mentioned to my boss and she said, "Well, they really need it." I answered, "Oh, so I'm being punished for quitting smoking?" After that she told to just take a break when I felt like I needed one,
Kalevra 1 year ago
So knowing full well how hard it is to quit smoking you decided to s**t on people that you were once like out of a superiority complex?
Load More Replies... Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
Even when I was a smoker, before I switched to vaping YEARS ago, NEVER was given extra breaks even though one manager was a smoker. That was something you did on your standard break and lunch, especially when I worked in the middle of the Health Complex. You had to go off campus if you wanted to light up or vape and since the surrounding buildings had the same policy it left very few options for you to go too as well. You had to wait until the end of your shift, when you were in your car and off campus. Since you only had standard breaks, there wasn't enough time to walk off campus, smoke or vape, then make it back to your building within the 2- 15 Minute breaks or 30 minute lunches that you are allotted.
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
This makes me think of a beautiful ballet piece I saw called Hand in Hand by Zhao Limin (I think that's right). One dancer has one arm, the other has one leg. It is spellbinding.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
I haven't heard about a condition that leaves you without arms! What's it called?
BarfyCat 1 year ago
Usually it's a birth defect. My kid was born with only one arm.
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Carl Roberts 1 year ago
The way this is worded implies Barry/Bulkley was transgender. That is not the case. She had to hide her true identity as women were not allowed to serve in the military at that time, nor were they allowed to be surgeons.
similarly 1 year ago
True. The death of her father left the family in debt. A family friend offered to help her get an education disguised as a man.
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Mike Morton 1 year ago
It's sad that they disrespected his wishes for his body to not be checked after his death though, RIP James Barry
Rex-a-Roni 1 year ago
It's so very sad that James had to hide and deny his gender. I'm sure the world has benefited from his scientific contributions. RIP James Barry.
TribbleThinking 1 year ago (edited)
What's also sad is that they ignored Barry's instructions to be left in the clothes he died in and for his body not to be washed/prepped.
Load More Replies... happybabyelephants 1 year ago
She also performed the first successful cesarean where mother and baby both survived. An incredible doctor
Laura Gillette 1 year ago
I always wonder how women who did this in past times adjusted their voices so consistently, never slipping up, and no one questioned that their faces never had any stubble. Impressive.
Lesbitarian Lady 1 year ago
She wanted to be a Dr so very badly that she had to hide her true identity
"He said carbon has four bonds, or limbs, and I had four limbs bonding to the surroundings in a shared, covalent way. The valance shell also breaks down into eight parts, four from carbon and four others from other atoms, making eight called the octet rule. I realized my limbs had an upper and lower part, making eight. Everything fitted, and there was a lot more than that.”
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Lost Panda 1 year ago
"We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are."
InfiniteZeek 1 year ago
Mr. Rogers sis what all humans should strive to be. Can you imagine what kind of world it would be if we were all like that? Le sigh....
Richard Graham 1 year ago
There is an absolutely unlimited, bottomless list of wonderful stores about Mr. Rogers.
M S 1 year ago
I mean some kids can write a letter when they are 5 years old. But a blind girl? How? Doesn't she learn Braille before she gets into complicate writing with usual letters?
Jeremy James 1 year ago
Next time you're at the library, check out, "Dear Mr. Rogers: Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?" It's a wonderful collection of his correspondence with fans over the years.
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Axel Tojo 1 year ago
A karate teacher I know was suspected of having an affair by his wife, as whenever he went to Japan for training or competition he came back glowing and energetic. Turns out he has celiacs disease and the lack of gluten in the died (this was back in the 80'ies) made his guts start functioning again. Took them a while to figure this out.
JohninND 1 year ago
It's the roundup use on US crops, banned over there. Heard this numerous times.
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k1ddkanuck 1 year ago
I will always submit that smell-o-vision would be a superior means of long range interstellar "imaging".
Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago
Futurama is just the best! A very important show to my little family, we love it!
Such a correlation between humans and carbon made Janes discover that “life is the amplified fractal geometry of carbon; life is a unique situation where carbon can effectively grow bigger. Not literally, but through its chemistry. This theory is called 'The Theory of Carbonology'. It is a grand, unified theory that explains ALL anatomy and physiology."
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Bewitched One 1 year ago
What about HER life though. I assume she also survived but that’s kind of an important thing to include
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Ina Koenig emerged bruised, cold, wet and tearful from the chasm near Hanover, but rescued a little boy called Jannic who would have drowned had she not gone in after him.
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
I remember this happening because I lived not too far away. I was so impressed with her strength and compassion, and so delighted that they both survived. On a side note, the idea of a kindergarten "student" is somehow hilarious.
Hugo 1 month ago (edited)
In the USA they haven't learned the word pupil. Either that, or kindergarten children are all busy attending lectures, studying in libraries, and submitting weekly essays to their professors.
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Schmebulock 1 year ago (edited)
How does a 3-year-old student fall down a mine shaft in the first place? Seems like there was some kind of negligence somewhere in this story. Who thought it was a good idea to let these kids near a dangerous mine shaft and why was there no barrier keeping people from getting to close?
LottaG 1 year ago
Celestial Phalanx provided a link higher up to an article about what happened. It says in the article "The shaft was constructed to bring light into a coal mine that closed down years ago. But the wooden planks meant to seal it off from the workings deep underground had rotted. Hidden in a copse of trees, Jannic plunged straight down - followed by his teacher."
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Greg Wilhelm 1 year ago
Very brave but have to add I would not let my daughter go on a field trip near old mine shafts.
Arjen de Landgraaf 1 year ago
What the heck is an OPEN mineshaft doing in a kindergarten??????????????????
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Boredest Panda 1 year ago
I’ve seen this one before, but Cher Ami must be acknowledged. Some heroes don’t need capes to fly.
Owen 1 year ago
'Some heroes don't need capes to fly' - What a lovely thing to say. Practically poetry.
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RobotMonkey God 1 year ago
this isn't heartwarming at all- they should have retired the poor creature from service after the first accident....
Marina Falkener 1 year ago
Accident?? The bastards shot her intentionally! And it was all in a single mission.
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similarly 1 year ago
I LOVE the Story Corps animation (found on youtube), narrated by Ronald McNair's brother.
Ace 1 year ago
One of the astronauts _who died_ on the space shuttle Challenger. Kinda significant part of the story omitted there.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I'm of the generation where everyone knows what happened to the Challenger, but you're right, so many people might not these days.
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Christopher Walkies 1 year ago
U.S. Segregation. In the 1930's, when they were criticised for their treatment of Jews and other groups, the German Nazis simply pointed west and said, 'But that's okay?'
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
"insisted on checking out his books before leaving"? Aren't you supposed to do that?
tee-lena 1 year ago
At the time black folks were not allowed in certain situations and spaces. Racist as f**k. It's the make America great again era that white racist people in the US want to go back to. Google Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his I have a dream speech
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Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
So they only allowed European-Americans? Can we please get rid of the hyphens already? If he wasn't born in Africa, he's not African American.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I'm not sure becoming an astronaut on the Challenger turned out that well for him. :( The shuttle exploded and killed everyone on board - in case you're not familiar with the event.
Christopher Walkies 1 year ago
See above. It's been mentioned. A little more kindly too.
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Janes is the formulator of a universal theory of life called the ‘Theory of Carbonology’ and has written 14 books on this subject. He presents the theory in a way that is both comprehensive and accessible and supported by a wealth of compelling evidence, including ourselves.
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ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Or Brits if we’re to be honest. I was wondering when the USA bashing was gonna happen. I mean, it’s a nation comparatively the size of Europe minus Russia with a similar population and just as much diversity. So much diversity in such a large population that the gross generalization can be nothing more than racist, xenophobic hatred & some twisted form of resentment. Can you imagine speaking to a Kosovo Serb whilst imagining the stereotypical British annoying behaviors and telling them “all you Europeans are alike”????? Cos that’s the ignorance & stupidity that comes with stereotyping Americans. Yes, some are loud & obnoxious & many dress obvious when traveling. But I guarantee there are many many more you didn’t notice because they aren’t discernible. And as a Dutch national and US national that has lived equally in each country: P**s off!
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 1 year ago
Swiss here. In some villages (not the cities), the inhabitants have to approve your citizenship. This happens during a town hall meeting. So the woman, Nancy Holten from Netherlands, was campaigning against cows wearing cowbells (which sound lovely to me but are quite heavy and loud) and that annoyed the hell out of the locals. I swear I am not making this up. She did get the Swiss passport later on.
Just stopping by 1 year ago
I got stuck on the"campaigning against cows".... Why is she a cow hater?
Load More Replies... Ace 1 year ago
Hah. Well not exactly. To apply for citizenship you need to first do so at the commune/gemeinde (local town council) in which you've been living for a minimum set time (five years where we are) and a notice will be published, to which any other residents can object. There was a famous case of rejection a few years back that made the headlines, a Dutch lady IIRC, who complained about church bells amongst other things, but she was eventually granted citizenship.
Schmebulock 1 year ago
SMH! This is the same country that hid a lot of Nazi loot, but they are concerned about people being annoying.
Neuropotathy 1 year ago
Putler's mistress Alina Kabayeva lives happily in Switzerland, no questions. Money rule.
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Baali Venomax 1 year ago
Except the Americans apparently. They are freaked out by black cats but most of the world just know ALL cats are cats and are lucky.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
She's also where we get the word "Friday" from, but for some reason modern humans celebrate Caturday instead.
Zaach 1 year ago (edited)
My Black and gold Tortoise-shell was named Freya when I got her as a rescut - my nickname for her was GG for Golden Goddess (another name for Freyja) P1040163-6...0dd8e4.jpg 
edit:(pic of her waiting to be recharged)
Tami Jones 1 year ago
I can't hear Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" without thing of Viking Kittens.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
Somewhere I've read that vikings favored ginger cats, and thereby increased their numbers in the population. I lived with one named Ralph. Awesome cat.
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Ladedah 1 year ago (edited)
This is exactly why logic and science should always be the first approach to something "unexplained." Just because you want it to be some kind of "devine sign from above", it doesn't mean that the sign isn't just saying "Please inspect the toilet upstairs."
WindySwede 1 year ago
They would say "science is the seek for truth and that is the path of the devil"
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One of his books, Carbon's Quantum Call!, provides a simple yet extensive explanation of carbonology and carbonomics, the new version of biology. “This is not just for scientists but for everyone,” Janes notes. “After all, biology is no more in light of this—it's carbonological life now! A more precise and simpler description of life.”
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AtMostAFabulist 1 year ago
So if my cat is a butt head, does that mean I should think of her as family?
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
That's why I head-butt cats as hard as I can, just to show the love. Just kidding.....I give kitties back massages and tail whips. They seem to love that stuff.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
We had an awesome black cat that was skittish around strangers and even people who came over often. He had manageable health issues but after a scare he was the only one allowed on the dining room table (never while eating , he was good about that). He always head butted my husband and me, mostly holding his forehead to yours and then nuzzled noses. Some friends that came over often and he tolerated and would come out and walk around and let them pet him knew they were loved when he would jump on the table during game night, walked around to the 4 of us and finally did the head butt to them. You’ve never seen such an excited beer drinking NASCAR loving man practically in tears❤️😂
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Ah, so that's why our cat does it to me! The cat accepts me; I have arrived!
G A 1 year ago
Mine do that, but knock my glasses off. Not sure if it's not just to annoy me.....
MaggieMay85 1 year ago
Mine like to use my glasses to scratch their face.
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anaisbananas 1 year ago
Some dogs "play sneeze" when approaching to let you or other dogs know that they are not a threat. Not all dogs do this but once you pay attention, it's pretty cool.
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TribbleThinking 1 year ago
That's horrendous. Hopefully they've learnt from this and added a simple autoplay facility for a looped warning message!
Holly Marley 1 year ago
Because people ignore recorded warnings, and wave it off as just another earthquake, eh whatever. That being said, she was in a third floor building, and there was clear access to the roof, which everyone thought was high enough, but the tsunami completely covered the building, only a few people survived by clinging to the radio antennas.
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EJN 1 year ago
I visited that area about 2 or 3 years after the tsunami, when the wreckage was mostly cleared but subsequent new facilities not yet built. It was so sad to see the scope of the disaster up close. The building where Miki Endo lost her life was nothing but girders and a little concrete. A nearby area building (part of a concrete building connected to the canal system for irrigation) had the high water mark on it; it was more than 10 meters. Seeing that gave me a real life understanding of what all of these people faced on that day.
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_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
Nice I guess I'm different :) I always thought it was how I was picturing the meaning
Perfumista Perfumista 1 year ago
Sadly I do not. When I watch music video reactors say they have goosebumps I initially thought it was a figure of speech. Took a while to realize it really had that effect on them.
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Katy McMouse 1 year ago
My brain is unique?!? I feel so much better about those pesky math grades, back in the day.
RajunCajun 1 year ago
My moods are super affected by music. when I am playing darts at the bar and I start getting in my head, I have a song that gets me out of it and my aim is improved.
Eunice Probert 1 year ago
Oh goodness, I get goose bumps. And I often want to cry when listening to music.
Since the science world is hesitant to take on new theories and explanations, Janes has his own show on Canalside Radio on Tuesday evenings at 8 pm, where he spreads the word about it. And as he told us, he’s looking for maximum impact to share the information about carbonology.
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
I have kids who I love dearly and I agree 100%. Poor woman.
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I was curious as to when this happened and after doing some research, it is said that between 1725-1765, she and her husband, Feodor had 69 children. Of those 69, 67 of them survived infancy, which is a miracle in and of itself given the time period. The father apparently went on to have another 18 kids, with his second wife, making him the father of 87. Imagine if he had to pay child support for all of them? Haha
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
How is there a photograph of them all if this happened in the 1700s?
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Rex-a-Roni 1 year ago
Absolutely disgusting. That poor woman was treated like nothing but a heifer for breeding.
CL 1 year ago
Maybe... There is almost certainly something medical going on here (possible hyperovulation according to Guinness). And without reliable birth control....well, things happen. Nothing necessarily malicious here.
Load More Replies... Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Yikes. I’d have sworn a vow of celibacy after the first two sets of twins! I had enough trouble dealing with my three girls and they were all singles. My brain refuses to compute 69 children
Pam Wilson-Hallinan 1 year ago
Too bad they didn't have Vasectomies back then!
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Sand Ers 1 year ago
And to be clear, when it “degrades”, that means it breaks apart into smaller and smaller pieces. It never will be anything but the plastic that it is now.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
Strange, because those particular containers are not plastic, but cardboard, with a layer of paraffine to make them waterproof.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
Just because it is FROM 1976 doesn’t mean that’s when it was thrown into the ocean 🤷🏼♀️
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
What, you think someone’s eating 48-year-old yogurt?
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Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
Blame the slobs who threw that in the ocean from whatever country that was.
Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
When the next round of dinosaurs show up...plastic will be polluting the planet
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michael Chock 1 year ago
Imagine, finding out that annoying coworker was your mother all along.
Kalikima 1 year ago
Better the "annoying coworker" than "the coworker I'm dating"..
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When we asked Janes what scientific mystery he would solve if there were no limits, he told us that he already succeeded in his dream of finding out the enigma of life, which now he knows is basically carbon and its activities through its chemistry. “So I found a strong answer to my question.”
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Weirdo with Internet 1 year ago
(she absorbed a twin sister in the womb and was carrying some of her eggs)
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Sky Render 1 year ago
Chimerism at work! It's not just bilateral asymmetrical, it can be specific to small regions of the body or even only patches of a given organ. We're learning that many assumed cases of mosaicism are actually chimerism in an unfamiliar form!
Steve Hall 1 year ago
How could she be charged with benefits fraud, there were three children, their genetic makeup doesn't count.
tee-lena 1 year ago
Not how America works. You have to prove where the kids come from if you want government help.
Load More Replies... RajunCajun 1 year ago
why would someone need to check her DNA in the first place? I have had three kids in the U.S. and i do not believe they have ever had DNA tested or their mother.
MaggieMay85 1 year ago (edited)
She was separating from her partner and for child support they required a dna test(she was pregnant with her 3rd) and it found she was not the mother. They thought it was some sort of surrogacy scam.
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Boris Mohar 1 year ago
"Despite being monitored while giving birth..." Can someone explain this?
Kalevra 1 year ago
so when you have a baby most people go to a hospital and monitored by a team of nurses and doctors in the maternity ward.
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Max Fox 1 year ago (edited)
Sigh. NO NO NO NO!!!!!! The DNA DID match her own, but as if she were their Aunt, not mother. The sets of DNA were NOT "Complete and different", the two sets of DNA shared 50% of the DNA that varies between people, because the woman was a chimera of two sisters. There is absolutely no possibility that a chimera can exist between two unrelated people. People actually believe that chimeras are made up of two unrelated sets of DNA, because of people like the OP.
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George Costanza 1 year ago
Also MRIs are hella expensive and make people claustrophobic while ultrasounds are cheap and quick.
Bewitched One 1 year ago (edited)
I imagine it’s just because it’s safer, and you can see more detail of the face, limbs, organs, etc., but this is still a great reason against mri’s of fetuses lol
tee-lena 1 year ago
Check out a pic of a child's skull. Still freaks me out
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Piwakawaka 1 year ago
Poorly phrased. 90% of Madagascar's biodiversity is not found anywhere else in the world.
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
I don't think we're are too far behind: - 87% of our mammal species, 93% of reptiles, 94% of frogs and 45% of our bird species are found only in Australia
cerinamroth 1 year ago
I'm fascinated by endemic species. I was once on holiday in Albania/North Macedonia and couldn't believe that Lake Ohrid had over 200 endemic species. Small fry compared with Madagascar, of course, but still - one lake with more than 200 species that aren't found anywhere else on earth! It's fabulous!
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David 1 year ago
Such a great cover. I'm generally not fond of songs that change things around from the original but IZ's version of it is one of my 'goosebump' songs. You can find it on spotify and YT. Youtube has a video that has that sound track and the visual is some clips / photos of him and parts of his memorial ceremony. It's kind of a sweet watch. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Not for me :( It was played on the harp at a family friend's funeral as they carried the little coffin out. Wee boy of 9.
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 1 year ago (edited)
You can look up "Iz Over the Rainbow" on YT but have tissues handy.
SageHare37 1 year ago
It's not his only recording. IZ released several albums.
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Angelshark 1 year ago
That version of the song makes me choke up just THINKING about it. I'mnotcryingyou'recryingshutup.
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Sand Ers 1 year ago
If you read his books, you’d have to sleep with the lights on too. And that the stuff he’s written down.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
Not to mention his wife's books. His are scary. Hers get in your head and play around.
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Boredest Panda 1 year ago
Doesn’t this make complete sense? Horror stories have to come from somewhere, don’t they?
Pyla 1 year ago
I can’t even think about a scary movie I saw a decade ago, no surprise
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RajunCajun 1 year ago
just want to say no SH#T, I could not even think of what is rolling around in that guys head.
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
It's the psychological horror that gets me with King's novels. Read 11/22/63
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I read The Mist, which originated as a short story in Skeleton Crew, when I was really young. To this day, every time I'm driving somewhere if it's REALLY foggy outside I think of that damn story.
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
I always thought that if I wrote horror stories, I wouldn’t be scared cuz I knew they weren’t real cuz I made them up in my head…
WindySwede 1 year ago
But if you write them down, they are not just in your head anymore...! 🙀🙃
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Carla Phillips 1 year ago
I hate that episode because it's so damn poignant. I can hardly watch it because it makes me cry.
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Kangaroo 1 year ago
I read this as “he was rip fido” due to lack of punctuation, and was wondering what a rip fido was lol
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Jossh Nine 1 year ago
Sometimes for a couple of years! So says David Attenborough.
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WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
Anyone who drives knows humans can do this too. Actually I think a lot of people on the road are shutting down way more than half their brain while they travel.
Khall Khall 1 year ago
Dolphins do it too. But might not be the same process because I think it's called something else.
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
Hey, so your comment made me curious about which was ‘correct’, swum or swam, since they’re both actual words. It turns out that ’swam’ is the past tense of swim, while ‘swum’ is the past participle. Swum is used after ‘have’, as in "I have swum in that pool before. So in this case, you would seemingly be right that the word should be ‘swam’. Anyway, swum and swam no longer look like actual words to me.
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parmadillo 1 year ago
Fuzzy Sea Monster Terrorizes Local Mouse Population For Over A Month Until Navy Liberates Island
Carla Phillips 1 year ago
Wanna know what my German Shepherd did? She decided to go under my deck and dig a literal cave. It starts under the deck and extends to my craw space. Not nearly as amazing luna, but still impressive
Robyn Picknell 1 year ago
Why did she jump off the boat in the first place, and what kind of boat was it? Was this during the day or at night?
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago (edited)
She was fine, just slightly malnourished. A comma between ‘great’ and ‘save’ might have helped.
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Lego Man 1 year ago
The problem is if it was me in school after that 20 minutes I’d be demanding at least another couple hours 😴
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
I just went down for an hour. Hour passes, turn off alarm, take another hour. May not get to sleep tonight.
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This is why they need the sleep... 7:30am-5:00pm!!!! I had to google it... "Children attend school five days a week. The school hours depend on the grade and the area, but, usually, kids start their days at 7:30 or 8:00 and finish at about 17:00. The school year in China typically starts in September and ends in late June or July."
MissMePhoenix 1 year ago
We *used* to do that in america too when i was a kid in elementary school. We literally had nap time in school. It was ***the best*** Now as an adult sending my kids to school, they no longer have it. I was baffled when i found out. 0/10 Would not recommend
Stefan 1 year ago
You don’t. In kindergarten, they have special rooms lined with beds for sleeping. In schools, the chairs can fold out to become a small bed. Even us teachers enjoy a good 20 minutes too.
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Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Good dark chocolate. Not that nasty excuse that Hershey calls good
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Alien-Gal-19 1 year ago
Are you sure? Because I eat a ton of that sugary goodness, and I still have a mental breakdown at least once a week.
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
Maybe the phrasing should be more precise. I'd think dark chocolate might be what this post is talking about....not Mars, or Oh Henry or some c**p imitation chocolate. I'm not preaching here, I love Oh Henry and Snickers.
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Trophy Husband 1 year ago
850 years is exact, 33 generations is approximate because the length of a generation varies depending on when the parent had the child.
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
it is also one of the few in the region that has never been destroyed or fallen to enemy action
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similarly 1 year ago
I watched a documentary about night movers, and had the impression they mostly help women and children escape from domestic abuse. The founder of one company was a woman who left an abusive marriage, and vowed to help other women.
Mike Morton 1 year ago
What's the documentary called? Id love to check it out!
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badmotorfinger 1 year ago
I now have the song Night Moves by Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, stuck in my head.
me McG 1 year ago
♫ Workin' on mysteries without any clues Workin' on our night moves 🎶
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Nikki Gross 1 year ago
It's sad that every time I hear the name Cato, it automatically makes me think of Kato Kaelin from the OJ Simpson trial.
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
That blunder is right behind trusting a Sicilian when death is on the line and starting a land war in Asia...
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
If you do work to fulfill an agreed upon exchange, it isn't volunteer work.
Sally Moen 1 year ago
You will need to apply for a work visa in many countries to enter. Not all. Good to check before you go, you don't want to be turned away at the border. This sounds fun btw
Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago
Fark that! I ain't traveling to work. I want to see the place I'm traveling to. Can't do that when you're laboring on a farm.
Dawn Marie 1 year ago
I just looked at the web site and it looks amazing!!! If I was 30 years younger, I would love this!!
Two Cat Studio 1 year ago
THANK YOU for this very valuable information. I shall check it out to see what I can do!
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Dumb teenager 1 year ago
It’s the Hawaiians, Greeks, Canadians, South Americans, Italians and Chinese you should be thanking. All we did was appreciate it
Load More Replies... Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I tried it and I don't like it. If someone else does, you do you, but this combination is an acquired taste
Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
YAY! I just LOVE hawaiian pizza! Yeah! Come on and judge me: I assume myslef 😎
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Piwakawaka 1 year ago
I looked it up and its coat is actually those colours!
Load More Replies... Katy McMouse 1 year ago
They're like the drag queens of the squirrel world. And, before I get in trouble- I adore drag queens. They make your life more colorful and beautiful when they are around.
David 1 year ago
have seen before, always looks photoshopped, but when you google pics, they really are multiple colors.
Hugo 1 month ago
Ratufa indica. I say the colours have been exaggerated in that picture.
Load More Replies... Grace Gibson 1 year ago
tbh japanese squirrels are more adorable and American squirrels look like drunk dead-beat dads
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G A 1 year ago
Obsession has slid into madness. She will have long since been scattered to the ocean floor. I doubt even bones remain.
David 1 year ago
I'm not trying to be dark, but after 10 years in the ocean there would not be much to find. And given the nature of the event, she is likely not the only skeleton in the ocean.
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Steve Hall 1 year ago
The accident may have been life threatening, but the visitors were a death sentence.
G A 1 year ago
Not sure I believe this. How would he have all of them as first contacts, rather than family?
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
They saw it on the news and recognized it was him AFAIK
Load More Replies... Alien-Gal-19 1 year ago
Someone should make a whole T.V show about this man, and that incident is the finale.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I've never understood how men can juggle 2 wives without them knowing about each other. How in the hell can you find the time to have 17 girlfriends and they don't know about each other?! If you have a job then that takes up even more time. How do you keep them from showing up to your house at the same time or one calling while you're with a different girlfriend? I'm really confused at how he pulled this off and for how long.
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BewilderedBanana 1 year ago
There are actually 7 ravens currently at the Tower: Jubilee, Harris, Poppy, Georgie, Edgar, Branwen and Rex :)
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
How can I sign up to be a raven master? Spending my life safeguarding super smart birds in what looks like hogwarts seems like a pretty good career path
DetriMentaL (It/That) 1 year ago
Dead curious, what other animal connections do the royals need in their monarchy?? First i hear about the bees, and now ravens-Fantastic!
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Ace 1 year ago
It's perhaps worth pointing out that neck and back protection airbags have been around for some time, often used by top level bike racers.
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Sathe Wesker 1 year ago
It’s the size of Great Britain?! Equal to 4,000 Great Pyramids?! How the bloody hell was this not Pyramids before?!
Robyn Picknell 1 year ago
Wow! That is so awesome and cool!! I love insects and learning about them! Pity I am so bloody squeamish that I can only cope with handling only a very few, harmless species, otherwise I would have loved to be an entomologist. 😁 Still, does not stop me from continuing to learn about them while admiring them from afar!
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WindySwede 1 year ago
They usually go hand in hand? 😕 ivory, bluefin tuna, whales, et cetera... 😐 I would like to grow this tree, but would probably not make it past the autumn temps here..
Load More Replies... Jossh Nine 1 year ago
Used for an instrument is fine by me. That serves a purpose. Used to sit on just because it's "rare" and "prized"? That's stupid.
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
Some people say this is the best wood for recorders, but I much prefer the sound of palisander rosewood. For me the grenadilla sounds (and feels) too harsh and edgy.
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Edward Loopyderm 1 year ago
There are people here afraid of them, because snake. I found one in my patio once, showed it to my son, who caught it and took it to one of his ecology classes at university. Lecturer grabbed it and dropped it into formaldehyde. Poor little snake 😒
JustAnotherCommenter(she/they) 1 year ago
Why is every word yellow instead of the important detail?
Ria C. 1 year ago (edited)
I was wondering if I was the only one that saw more "wire" than snake. Edit:word
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similarly 1 year ago
I don't think people are "sent to" nutrition and exercise professionals. Maybe asked if they want to talk to someone, but it's completely optional. Japan tried to cut down on obesity by fining companies that had too many overweight employees, but there have been complaints that it's leading to discrimination, so they may not do this much longer.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
You are not mandated to go, but they will make a referral. Not attending to it could lead to being shortlisted at your employer (who pays toward your insurance)
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Pyla 1 year ago (edited)
PBS Nova did a show on obesity. The sumo wrestlers, though fat, were extremely healthy because their fat was outside their thoracic and abdominal cavity. They work out 6-8 hours a day. Only after retirement do metabolic diseases start creeping in. Also for women, benefits of exercise are cumulative, so we keep the benefit longer. This is from an article I read
David 1 year ago
Japanese people are more petite than Americans. And that isn't a fat joke. I'm curious what the average waist measurement of fit Americans would be. I do realize the US gene pool is much more diverse than Japan. I am 5' 10". In high school my waist was 34". I have big bones (for real, not a fat joke) and was then a pretty muscular farm boy bucking hay bales. My best friend was concerned because she thought I was too skinny. Now I'm an aging potato, but even if I was fit, my waist would be more than 33.5"
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badmotorfinger 1 year ago
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover, and my penis was missing again.
My “in my head” Voice 1 year ago
Good point. The unanswered question is "does it grow back?"
Load More Replies... FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Understandable that the male spider has a fight or flight response, but does he grow a new penis? 🤔
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Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
I was gonna make a witty joke about DUI’s but I forgot what I was gonna type 😭
WindySwede 1 year ago
Maybe that atleast they couldn't get dui because they had no wheels? 🤷♂️
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 1 year ago
Probably more like discovered than invented. Water gets into a ceramic jar holding grain, it starts to ferment… after that it’s just optimizing the process and adjusting to taste.
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Invent the beer, then work on the wheel. 2000 years with no drunk drivers.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
It was probably invented earlier than that. Some anthropologists think the agricultural revolution happened because of beer. Basically, you don't need large fields of grain to feed your family, but you DO need that much grain if you're going to brew it.
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k1ddkanuck 1 year ago
Which is why Remembrance Day is on Nov 11th. In Canada, we observe a minute of silence at 11:00am on that day for that reason!
Stuart Wilson 1 year ago
No it didn’t. The war did not end until the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. The armistice began at 11am on the 11th of November, but the war was still technically going.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Yes, as a Brit working in Germany it was slightly jarring to hear people starting the Karneval season as we were thinking about a minute's silence in memory of the war dead. But having said that, I find Britain's morbid fascination with WWI and WWII highly distasteful now. I would prefer it if there was more emphasis on building bridges of peace between nations and peoples for the future instead of glorifying victories in years gone by.
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 1 year ago
Which was a catastrophically stupid thing to do. Nobody knows how many men died to serve the egos of officers who wanted the “glory” of launching the “final” battle of the war. It’s why when a cease fire agreement is reached now, it’s dispatched and implemented immediately.
Adam Jeff 1 year ago
Exactly. It had already been obvious for some time that an armistice was coming, even more so for the last 3 days when the German delegation arrived in France to negotiate the final wording. Any commanders who ordered advances in the last few days were absolute d*cks. 2,738 men died on the last day alone.
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And a few more people on each side died so they could reach this time, because some units didn't get the word about the cease fire.
Ian Webling 1 year ago
This was a deliberate decision for symbolism and cost many lives as the war could have ended a few days earlier. Despite knowledge that the war was about to end, some acts - like artillery bombardments - increased. The soldiers knew that they would have to carry all the unfired ordinance back to to base.
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Grenelda Thurber 1 year ago
1) There are different types of kidney stones, caused by different conditions, composed of different materials with different appearances. Admittedly some are more horrific-looking than others. 2) Much of the pain of a kidney stone is caused by the spasming of the the little tube that runs from the kidney to the bladder (ureter) when it is irritated by the stone traveling down it.
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TheElderNom 1 year ago
Some people actually get creeped out when it is too quiet.
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I’ve visited it! It’s surreal because the “hotel room” is basically in the center of a large part of the main cave, and the daily tours of the rest of the caverns wind around it. Another area has leftover supplies from when it was a bomb shelter. (You take an elevator down to the caverns).
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Well it would be quiet until the person in the next cave turns their music up loud
me McG 1 year ago
In avoidance of the exorbitant fees of rooms mini-bar, guest were forced to crawl to the nearest Grand Canyon Caverns Tavern. 🥃
Tabitha 1 year ago
“Grand Canyon Caverns Tavern.” Try saying that three times fast. And keep it clean.
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Accommodates up to 6 guests. $1000 per night for 2 guests, $100 extra per guest.
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k1ddkanuck 1 year ago
Oh koalas... the cutest little chlamydia addled, smooth brained mistakes of evolution that ever did breathe.
Owen 1 year ago
They're not very bright. But they are adorable and should be hugged if you already have chlamydia.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
I've done this before. Not particularly impressed. Probably because I only had wine, mayo, and carrots in my fridge. ;)
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I never have a problem finding recipes for what I have in my cupboards or fridge. The problem I have is actually wanting to eat them. Some of those recipes would make me gag.
Patricia Steward 1 year ago
HAH! I put in chicken and celery, and one of the recipes it gave me was for a milkshake!
Paulina 1 year ago (edited)
I tried that website. If the list of ingredients they allow you to choose from is any indication of how people shop and cook in USA, then I'm not surprised they have a nation wide obesity problems. A huge portion of it is ready-made mixes and sweets. Like, none of canned or dried legumes & lentils, but 7 types of premade canned soup... Very little actual herbs and spices, but plenty of mixed seasonings like "taco flavor" and store bought sauces like ranch etc. Then even more premade things - hashbrowns, cheeze its, several kinds of chips, 6 types of highly sugared cereals, all kinds of cake mixes and pie fillings, cookies, chocolates and other sweets... I'm really not impressed.
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
I swear by half a grapefruit. It's like being slapped awake and given a cold shower. Followed by a piece of homemade bread with butter and soothing cup of coffee.
Chonky Panda 1 year ago
It's actually not, you just get fructose instead of caffeine.
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Hugo 1 month ago
A square is a special case of a rectangle. Quite clever, really: if you hang it upside down by mistake, or even on its side, it's still right.
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Vatican City has joined the conversation with their square flag.. Another useless fact, Vatican City has a smidge over 5 Popes per square mile 😀
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
It's an amazing flag. Has someone who has taken a lot of time to practice vexillology, it is still one of my favorites, but if you want to see the worst one, look up "Bienville Parish"
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Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
yeah we know him .... orange tan, 100 words of vocabulary, ego the size of Mount Everest
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Slapdash1 1 year ago
If you pour water in my ear my foot will move towards your bütt. This is called the "leave my fekking orifices alone test."
me McG 1 year ago (edited)
If you tell an obviously fabricated lie to a normal person their eyes are prone to roll up into their head... if they identify as MAGA they will continue to stare forward in incomprehension.
RajunCajun 1 year ago
called the shock trauma handshake, a procedure in which two fingers are inserted into the r****m in order to make sure that your brain still has control over your a**l sphincter
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Jossh Nine 1 year ago
I didn't know that. Thankfully I'm not allergic to shellfish, so cricket stew it is.
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Schmebulock 1 year ago
Guess it's the non-protein part that makes one delicious and the other nasty!
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George Costanza 1 year ago
As advanced as Japan is they are rigidly homogeneous and fairly racist unfortunately.
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
My nieces in Japan were allowed to keep their brown curly hair because they are mixed race, but they had to carry a document with them signed by their parents and the principal at school. They had a similar document stating they were allowed to wear a non-standard shoe size. Pure madness.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
It also has children with naturally curly hair require faculty approval or they are forced to straighten it
boredpandaki 1 year ago
and that would explain the trend to have way too colorful hair dying afterwards. Traumas....
Anikulapo 1 year ago
I think it’s frowned upon to stand out from the crowd in general, so if you’re just a kid you’d better fit in the mold.
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cerinamroth 1 year ago
Thank f**k for that. (I also read that swearing and being messy are also signs of high intelligence. Oh, and being forgetful.)
Verfin22 1 year ago
My brain works like Drew Barrymore's in 50 First Dates. Not a clue what I did the day before. But damn if I'm not good at Jeopardy and useless trivia.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Me too! Pub quiz queen but don't remember how I met my team.
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G A 1 year ago
Don't tell people that! They CAN but they should always have access to fresh water.
Kangaroo 1 year ago (edited)
No. Please tell people this. This post isn’t saying NOT to provide them water, literally EVERYONE knows pets need food and water bowls. People actually SHOULD KNOW THIS about cat kidneys. They’re used to getting most hydration from their food. Some people only feed their cats dry food with a bowl of water next to it and aren’t realizing that their cat is actually becoming dehydrated from that - food should have some moisture in it. Cats don’t have a huge thirst drive, they don’t drink much water, although should always be provided water. TELL PEOPLE THIS PLEASE, especially cat owners, so they know to provide plenty of opportunities for hydration for their cats. Knowledge is the key to responsible pet ownership, not trying to keep people in the dark about how their pet’s health works for some reason 😂 telling people cat kidneys are efficient isn’t going to make anyone stop giving their cats water, jfc 😂
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michael reid 1 year ago
It's not milk though. Crop milk is made by breaking down already existing molecules, whereas mammals milk is made by building up molecules into milk
Schmebulock 1 year ago
Only a matter of time before some hipster starts a business milking pigeons!
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BewilderedBanana 1 year ago
I would love to believe that they paid her so much for that job that she didn't need to work another day in her life... but somehow i doubt it
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Nicky 1 year ago
You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby round round round...
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
That's the sort of wacko idea you expect some guy to come up with in 1865 not 1965
JoNo 1 year ago
I'm presuming it never got to the stage of using it on patients, as it says "patented" not trialled or put into use.
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martin734 1 year ago
My dad was a Royal Navy helicopter pilot and he said that helicopters don't actually fly, they just beat gravity into submission.
Tanja J 1 year ago
I also heard "helicopters are so ugly the Earth repells them".
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Carl Roberts 1 year ago
This is the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Arizona. Dedicated on November 11, 2011. Every November 11 (Veterans Day), at approximately 11:11 AM Mountain Time, the sun shines through the opening. The time actually varies between 11:10:58 AM and 11:11:22 AM
Schmebulock 1 year ago
Seems kind of silly to have such a large memorial that only does its thing once a year.
PFD 1 year ago
It's just the name of a thing, dude. Loads of countries have a "great seal" (the UK has three: the Great Seal of the Realm, the Great Seal of Scotland and the Great Seal of Northern Ireland). Chill.
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Nicky 1 year ago
Post omitted that he would forgo avocado toast, the main reason he saved $60 B.
David 1 year ago
"made it a point to get his hair cut in poor countries". WTF? "Jenny, cancel all my appointments for the next few days. I'm flying to Botakapastomi for a haircut." "Yes sir, but sir, there is a barber across the street." "Thank you Jenny, I am aware of that. But the haircuts in Botakapastomi cost less. Please call and have them ready my corporate jet." "Yes sir."
Kangaroo 1 year ago
I think it was more that he travelled a lot and got his hair cut while travelling 🤭
Load More Replies... Schmebulock 1 year ago
Lots of cheap rich people, but who wants to live their life as a miser.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Right? If you have the means to enjoy your life, I think you should do it (responsibly of course). Man could have enjoyed a fancy haircut and a nice hotel once in a while. Seems kind of a shame and a waste that he decided to live the exact same sort of life as anyone else when he had the means to do and experience interesting and fine things most of us will never get a chance to do.
Load More Replies... Giraffy Window 1 year ago
Poor *countries? Like "oh, the top is getting a little long. I think I'll head to Milawi this time" ? Is this a typo?
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago (edited)
You do you, pal. But if I had that much money, I'm going to stay at the most luxurious hotels, hire a personal driver, hire a personal hair stylist, and drive a Rolls Royce. You can call me shallow if you want, but if I had that much money, you BETTER BELIEVE I'm gonna treat myself to the finer things in life!
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
I hope they had some spare parts left over when they built his coffin.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
He didn’t exclusively fly to poor countries for haircuts. He travelled very often for work and made sure to get his haircuts while in poorer countries.
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Schmebulock 1 year ago
Where, when, how? I have some serious doubts about the scientific merit of a "middle school' project.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Which is why you don’t have ice in your drinks. The ice machine needs regular cleaning but it’s often tucked out of the way in the back room of a hotel / bar and no one likes the job of cleaning them. I never have ice! Equally if you are travelling in a country in which you only drink bottled water, why would you accept ice that’s made with an unreliable water source?
David 1 year ago
SOURCE? I dot not believe this 'fact' or at least I question the methodology used. Unless they mean the water coming INTO the toilet, which is basically the same potable tap water in the building. If they don't clean the ice machine, then yeah, it could have more bacteria than tap water.
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
Toilet water in the tank (a.k.a. drinkink water) or from the sewer?
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
More likely a lack of cleaning for the water tank, same reason why you never should drink coffee in a plane
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similarly 1 year ago
I solved all but the last two squares of a rubick's cube on my own before I finally looked up how to solve it. I don't think I ever would have solved the last bit on my own. Solving a rubick's cube is as easy as following dance steps, but I think the inventor was a genius, not only for making it, but figuring out how to solve it.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
When I was a kid companies or fairs occasionally used to give out these little puzzles with a picture broken up into 4x4 squares with one square missing. The task was to shuffle them around into the right order until the picture was complete again. I never managed it, but was always convinced there was some "algorithm" or pattern to be repeated over and over to make it work. It's the same (in 3D, so more complicated) with the cube.
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Pollywog 1 year ago
I was really good at solving Rubik's Cubes when I was a kid. I'd have to take it to an adult to mix it up for me or I'd solve it too quickly. My Aunt Sue was the best, she was super smart and it would take me a lot longer to solve it when she mixed it up. I kind of want to buy one to see if I can still solve them. (RIP Aunt Sue 💜)
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badmotorfinger 1 year ago
And they have yet to find their soul mate the elusive peanut butter fish.
Neon 1 year ago
Hahahaha - that was a wicked one!!! :) 5. November coming up... Hope you get this message across ;)
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
I don't remember the numbers but millions of people get stung by jellyfish every year.
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readingthequibbler 1 year ago
I like your terminology. I believe it's called a disc golf basket, but your terminology is much more fun!
Load More Replies... Pyla 1 year ago
Humans are animals, we don’t have this. I don’t believe any primates have this. Lemurs do.
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#82
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Walked away from 6 motorcycle accidents. In 2 of them my helmet absorbed the impact and basically disintegrated.
Load More Replies... RajunCajun 1 year ago
I never ride my bike on the highway with out a helmet. One summer a truck sent a rock to my head and pulled the paint off the helmet. I would have died. So now even in states that it is legal to ride with out I will still use one.
Richard Smith 1 year ago (edited)
"Your head is fine! No injuries. I found it over here behind the car..."
BunnyMommy 1 year ago
I don't like those percentages. I'm not doing anything that has a 31% chance of giving me traumatic brain injuries..or having a greater that 50% chance of death. Nope.
Kangaroo 1 year ago (edited)
……um, that’s not how that works 😂 motorcycle riding, while risky, doesn’t have a greater than 50% chance of death. Do you know what that means? If that were true, it means that more than 50% of people who ride motorcycles should be dead right now. Which is clearly not the case 😂 Reducing the chance of death by 42% does not mean you had a 58% chance of dying. 🤦♀️😂
Load More Replies... Richard Graham 1 year ago
In the medical field, motorcycle drivers who do not wear helmets are known as "organ donors".
Kangaroo 1 year ago
I’ve heard them referred to as “donorcycles” instead of motorcycles as well
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ShellsBells 1 year ago
There are two instances I know of that people have ridden their motorcycles without helmets to protest helmet laws. They both somehow fell, hit their heads, and died, all because of not wearing a helmet. One in Florida and one in New York.
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Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Technically, they are poisonous. They contain tomatine, which is mildly toxic to humans, but highly toxic to dogs and cats.
similarly 1 year ago
They were also known as wolf's peaches and love apples, and were thought by some to be an aphrodesiac.
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
I've also heard them called wolf apples.
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Miliukov Oleksandr 1 year ago
Another theory suggests - poison abilities of tomatoes were more prominent for rich people as they were using more pewter dishes, which react badly to acidic foods
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
And just because they weren't eating them, I suppose their tomatoes grew like crazy, compared to the four pathetic tomatoes I had this year. Grrrr...
#84
Schmebulock 1 year ago
You can't sell those in the US or pro-lifers will start protesting and body shops!
Danielle Hardesty 1 year ago
He's hoping for a coup, I prefer a sedan, but so long as it has four wheels and is healthy.
Hugo 1 month ago
I'm hoping for a military coup, but I'm not thinking of China.
Load More Replies... WindySwede 1 year ago
Paint or wrap? Has it water under the wrap that boils due to heat, creating steam??
#85
Kangaroo 1 year ago (edited)
Yep! I work for a couple dealerships. A guy came in with $50,000 cash to buy a vehicle. They managed to convince him to finance the vehicle - even though that would cost him more in the long run - because the dealership makes more money when you finance a purchase. They dont like people who come in with cash and pay off a vehicle all at once. Its kind of gross.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
Credit car companies make quite enough from the cut they take from the seller without any need to be paid interest. And who does the seller get that money from? The money we pay them.
Gia SDP 1 year ago
I refuse to have credit cards. Haven't had any for at least 15 years. Got myself in too much debt as a young woman. Now if I need something, I must pay actual $. If I can't afford it, I must save for it. Credit cards are horrible for young people, in my opinion.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Sure but now that I’m older and pay off my credit card every month, my credit score is almost perfect and I’ve gotten tons of free stuff from my points, even a free flight to Thailand and back. You can refuse to have credit cards if you want, but some people are responsible enough to use them and reap the benefits without going into debt.
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Dawn Marie 1 year ago
I would love to see a correlation between those that watched this and the subsequent cancer rates.
Colin Matthews 1 year ago
That , unfortunately was kind of the point. The military were advised to find a test ground on the East coast where prevailing winds would blow dust away from populated areas in to deep oceans. However the military wanted data on the effects of radiation so chose the west coast and frequently waited for winds to blow toward cities before detonation. There is plenty of evidence and data about this and the role that certain corporations played in keeping it quiet. Sad but kind of expected
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
And yes I know it’s for baby boom post war
Load More Replies... Jerome Lenovo 1 year ago
remembers me fallout 3, the megaton bomb explosion viewed from Tenpenny tower hotel
#87
*onyx* 1 year ago
Honestly, I would have let him go (unless what he did to get in there was REALLY horrible)
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
Pretty sure he assaulted two women. And assisted in a robbery… or multiple, repeatedly, that resulted in a LOT of money being stolen.
Load More Replies... Pandemonium 1 year ago
About 2.5 cm = 1 inch. As a schoolboy they told me we would be going metric in 1985. Really.
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Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
A famous author visited my school and said that WHEN HE WAS CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN A WOMAN WENT INTO A PORTA POTTY BUT THE WIND COMICALLY BLEW IT OFF THE CLIFF WITH HER IN IT. LIKE. THAT TYPE OF DEATH IS FOR SIDE CHARACTERS IN COMEDY MOVIES.
#89
Janos Schumacher 1 year ago
Good deal. That's how surnames work. Are you Jimmy from over there? Or are you Jimmy from here? Boom. Now you have surnames.
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
Why there’s so many butcher bakers and smiths in England
Hugo 1 month ago
Smith is the commonest, Taylor 4th commonest, Wright 13th, Walker 18th. All other surnames in the top twenty (in England) have origins other than occupations.
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Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
I will admit that that’s funny, but maybe in todays CO2 levels we shouldn’t be doing that…
PFD 1 year ago
It *was* 1974. It wouldn't fly now. https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_eruption_of_mount_edgecumbe
Load More Replies... Kangaroo 1 year ago
Alaskans thought it was pretty funny. It’s gone down in Alaskan history as one of the greatest and funniest pranks 🤷♀️ maybe they just have a sense of humour though 🤭
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John Mosley 1 year ago
The Eiffel Tower is 15 cm shorter in winter due to the Effect of Shrinkage.
#92
The Goo King 1 year ago (edited)
Hmm. Southampton Old Bowling Green dates back to 1299... and that's just a place I know of. There's likely to be older.
#93
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Your savings used to be $63,750 before you got the purse, I presume?
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Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
Perhaps the materials? The painstaking process of making it? Insanity?
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Imagine the size of the tchotchies that go in it.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
'cause they could. 🤷 In their defence: at least this attempt at seeking attention and boasting is not wasteful, unlike the usual "biggest/fastest/most/highest/..." numbers.
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Sand Ers 1 year ago
“Assembled” maybe. It took a lot longer than 9 hours to fabricate the pieces.
Adam Jeff 1 year ago
True. But then if you ask someone how long it took to build their house, they don't start counting from when the bricks are fired, do they?
Load More Replies... Schmebulock 1 year ago
It's 100% not all that in the picture provided. It takes days if not longer for concrete to cure.
Chris Wilson 1 year ago
The picture is deceiving, in reality it's only 9 inches by 4 inches and would fit nicely in a model layout.. It's how temu got their big break
#95
WindySwede 1 year ago (edited)
And some varieties still have seeds. Cause I grew some years ago, quit large seeds.
Load More Replies... Neon 1 year ago
Commercial bananas are seedless and propagated exclusively by vegetative means. The banana has a reduced underground stem, called the rhizome, which bears several buds. Each of these buds sprouts and forms its own pseudostem and a new bulbous rhizome. These daughter plants are called suckers. Banana plants are typically propagated through their rhizomes, not seeds. However, wild bananas do have seeds and they are dispersed primarily by animals. Animals eat the fruit and then excrete the seeds in a different location, allowing new plants to grow. https://nhb.gov.in/pdf/fruits/banana/ban011.pdf
Load More Replies... Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
Bananas are seedless because we genetically altered them to be able to developed without fertilization. Before that they had great big black seeds all up through the middle. We're slowly getting more seedless apples too. We can't resist messing with stuff we ought not mess with. Meanwhile we fret over the younger generations becoming detached from where their food comes from. We used to grow all kinds of things in the classroom for fun out of the seeds that came from what we'd had for lunch.
#96
Kangaroo 1 year ago (edited)
Also, there’s no way this would take 2 hours to pronounce 😂 I stumbled my way through the first two lines in about 40 seconds, and there’s only 28 lines. Google says that’s just over 18 minutes.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago (edited)
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Jihana 1 year ago
Because there is a system. That extremely long name aside, the scientific name of chemicals are actually easier than made up names. They give you additional information about its properties and structure.
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Sky Render 1 year ago
3.9 of those years were doing Jack, and the last few days was them stealing the design of Hydrox cookies wholesale.
similarly 1 year ago
I really don't buy this one. You're not going to sit around "designing" a cookie for four years when you could just make them and sell them. More likely, the "iconic Oreo design" wasn't finalized until the 4th year of production.
Schmebulock 1 year ago (edited)
We have come a long way. Today someone in China can knock off a product in a matter of minutes!
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
The project status meetings must have been a drag, with a "90% complete" status week after week after week
#98
*onyx* 1 year ago
I think it's one of two things 1: The photo is AI generated Or 2: It's another scientist person thingy walking up
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Carl Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
This image is fake AI garbage. The bananas grow to 18 cm (slightly longer than an average cavendish banana), NOT 25-30 cm, nor anywhere near that AI monstrosity. The name comes from the size of the tree, NOT the fruit.
Adam Jeff 1 year ago
I suspect AI has a slightly skewed idea of what your average New Guinean banana farmer looks like too.
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According to the banana scale, this is a photo of the world's smallest person.
Skara Brae 1 year ago
There's something fake-looking about that photo, so I found a website selling seeds that includes several pictures. https://www.quintadosouriques.com/store/seeds/fruits/musa-bananas/giant-upland-banana/
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Amy Manzanares 1 year ago
And 88% of the population are immigrants, most living under the poverty line. Dubai's poverty rate alone is almost 20%, where the whole entire country of the US is around 11.5%. Interestingly, immigrants represent 14% of the US population in 2021, but represented 24% of those experiencing poverty that year.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
This is absolute rubbish and I'm fed up with it being posted as fact.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
The zero angle is also written angel twice for some reason
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Laura Gillette 1 year ago
No this is not accurate. Number glyphs evolved from Indo-Arabic number glyphs, which replaced Roman numerals in Europe: Num_hindu_arabic.gif 
Celestial Phalanx 1 year ago
This has been shown time and time again to be a completely unfounded connection to the creation of modern Western numeric script. If you look at the evolution of Indian-to-Arabic-to-European numerals, you can see this has no historical relevance. For example, at no point in historical usage, going back 1,200 years, has the number 9 ever been written or used with angles.
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highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
Did anyone else read the totally barmy and seemingly unrelated theory in the article text?
Sky Render 1 year ago
What is with the random coloring of text in these images anyway? It makes a lot of them look like some sort of madman's manifesto.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Guessing it's just from OP. They prob didn't do these themselves?
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highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
Did anyone else read the totally barmy and seemingly unrelated theory in the article text?
Sky Render 1 year ago
What is with the random coloring of text in these images anyway? It makes a lot of them look like some sort of madman's manifesto.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Guessing it's just from OP. They prob didn't do these themselves?
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