In the Middle Ages, people thought farting in jars and sniffing them would help prevent death. True or false? Weirdly enough, it actually checks out as true. In fact, during the Great Plague of London in the 1600s, some doctors would recommend that people keep “fart jars” to ward off the bubonic plague.
While it more than likely did not save many people, the strange piece of information has been forever immortalized in history books. And it's just one of many very strange but fascinating tidbits that can be found on the Weird Facts IG page. Over 1.2 million people follow the account for their daily dose of oddly interesting information.
Bored Panda has picked out a few of our personal favorites from the page for your scrolling pleasure. Upvote the ones that leave you intrigued, and enjoy sharing your newfound knowledge with your family and friends this holiday season.
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Mark Hamil is seriously one if the cookies human beings out there.
Awwwwww. Way to go Mark! You made his dreams come true before he died.
The only thing that makes animals dumb is that they can't talk, which is the meaning of dumb.
We don’t deserve Dolly. She is truly one of the best among us.
Load More Replies...I've never begrudged Dolly her wealth because she's so generous with her time and money. She fully remembers the poverty of her childhood and is doing everything in her power to to help those find a way out. She is an absolutely wonderful human being.
She's got signs/giant bulletin boards outside of Denver that are about spreading kindness :) such a great lady
Load More Replies...She has been so generous for so many different things over the years. When somebody started a wildfire in either TN or NC she gave money for the people there in the mountains that lost everything. I think she has also done the same for the Helene victims.
I wish to have such a lady in my country. DP is No. 1 everywhere.
There is a difference between bad person and a person who has done a bad thing.
If they were out on a work detail they were probably in for something minor. Fleeing custody would likely have been a felony. They committed some sort of crime, but that doesn't mean they're complete idiots.
Here work detail takes time off your sentence in county jail. Its mandatory at the prison level in the state of Georgia.
Load More Replies...In Sweden they forgot to lock the cell doors at night. Prispners went out and happily made cake and watched TV all night.
Just a side fact...EVERY prison in the state of Georgia has been deemed inhumane as of 2024 and the county jails are even more so. I can confirm this 100% from experience. Just because I thought I was helping someone, I ended up trading that "help" for a few years of my life and freedom. Must people in jail are decent.
In Georgia? I was born and raised there and I rarely see happy stories coming out of there. Nice surprise :)
Fresh eyes. Always good to have fresh eyes. With a little balsamic and garlic.
Load More Replies...I've watched them all. But, frankly, I never really got them. Yeah, yeah, dystopian planet, humans reverted back to primitive animals, whatever. But if Guzzoline was so scarce, why did these nitwits spend all their time traveling in gas guzzling vehicles? Made no sense.
It's the same with Waterworld. Why were people wasting fuel raiding instead of having sailing ships or making bigger settlements?
Load More Replies...She did. She basically saved A New Hope. George's original cut was a mess
Load More Replies...Anytgin you can do, I can do better! (Come on now.... Don't tell me you didn't sing that!
"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher (the only time she was right.)
It's just a standard action thing though? Cannot say edits are any better or worse than other films it just a big car chase
That's sad. But if you can't keep a good man down, it applies even more so for a woman.
oh come on, sadly plenty of good people, especially women, have been kept down. Given no opportunity to develop, learn, publish. Or worse, treated like witches. How many peasants who were Eistein level genius have been subjugated and ignored. Ploughing and digging without any knowledge to develop to greater things. The world keeps great people down all the time.
Load More Replies...It wasn't just because she was a woman though, although that certainly didn't help matters. . At the time the part of Poland she lived in was part of the Russian Empire, which put restrictions on higher education of non-Russian ethnic groups. ... The "Flying University" also operated during the Nazi occupation and during the Communist regime.
Not sure how the Sorbonne would feel about this "fact". She did do some studying with the Flying University but moved to France to study at the Sorbonne where she later became a professor.
The Sorbonne would respect this fact (sans quote marks) because it's true. Good grief.
Load More Replies...Her notes are sealed in lead, never to be opened since so radioactive.
Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will remain so for about 1,500 years: The notebooks contain radium-226, which has a half-life of about 1,600 years. The notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes at France's National Library. Visitors to the library must sign a waiver and wear protective gear to view the notebooks.
Load More Replies...And that is what all of us girls will be doing if the Fundamentalist Christians take over America and institute Christian Taliban Nation.
Don't understand the downvotes. You're speaking truth.
Load More Replies...The magazine was the MIT Technology Review that used a stock photo off Getty Images for the article, “The Hipster Effect,” authored by Brandeis University researchers. His friends and family thought it was his image. The irony is that this man confirmed the article's research that hipsters consider themselves anti-conformists actively going against the norm, but reality proved otherwise.
In junior year of high school, in 1987, I wrote a report on the goth or new wave kids I was friends with and how they considered themselves anti-establishment and existing outside of the norm. My thesis statement was that they were their own version of normal just as many different cliques or lifestyles were. I thought i was trying to show the inclusion within diversity. I titled the paper, “The Conformity of the Non-conformist.”
Load More Replies...How did the hipster burn his mouth on the pizza? He ate it before it was cool.
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Oh, some obscure number, you've probably never even heard of it.
Load More Replies...Kevin Hines claims the man next to him on the bridge got photos showing a sea lion holding him above water. Kevin was 19yo and in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression when he jumped. He is now a speaker, author, and advocate for mental health.
I watched a documentary about people jumping from the GGB. The guy who survived was interviewed for it. It's called "The Bridge". It's a bit sad, but also interesting.
As many San Franciscans will tell you, our only visits to the bridge are generally to take people visiting us out to do the tourists stuff. We otherwise have little to no interest in Fisherman’s Wharf or Pier 39. I’m a 3rd generation SFer and I’ve never been to Alcatraz. Neither has my mother. But the bridge. Many of us have made the 1.7 mile journey to the middle & back. And the thing is, you can’t help but think about jumpers. With the crisis phones along the path & the signage encouraging living & using the phones, the thought enters one’s mind. Now there a safety net that also brings the jumping to the mind. Which is why so many of the few survivors say they didn’t have an intention to jump. It’s often some weird primal spontaneity. It’s as if they’re thinking life will never get better than it is right now so why not go out on a high, maybe? There’s an insightful film about it called “The Bridge.”
I remember reading about this guy. He said the second he jumped he knew he had made a mistake.
Dude was probably pissed. I know that if I were to so far as to jump off a bridge like that and lived, I would be
I hate trying to fall asleep when the lights on my computer or some appliance are on. I'm totally on Otto's side on this one. Lmao!!
Load More Replies...I have heard in a few science journals that they are as smart as a dog, if given the chance.
More so, actually. 🐙 there are a few, myself included, who think that given the right push that they could be the next dominant species. Their behavior is changing. Usually solitary, there is a place where the behavior is changing. Older octopuses are teaching younger ones, it's a huge departure from the norm. By the "few" I mean actual scientists. I'm just a fan. These and cuttlefish. They are so smart!
Load More Replies...I highly recommend a book called Remarkably Bright Creatures if you're interested in this fact.
That book was wonderful - but most especially the Marcellus parts.
Load More Replies...People should watch the Netflix documentary "My Octopus Teacher." It's really good.
When I watch a movie or a show a second time a lot of times I will pick up something I missed or figure something out I missed the first time because I know what is going to take place further in the movie or show.
I suppose if you choose to watch a movie again, but with me it's a bit different. I've rented DVDs (before streaming) and online movies, totally forgetting this is a repeat action. Watching, watching, watching, until about 1/2 way through the realization hits that my brain is broken, my memory is shot, and I've wasted time and money.
I've had Gilmore Girls repeating since November 6th. The world can't feel 100% like a dumpster fire burning toward a full propane canister when Stars Hollow is on my screen. By the time we get through the impending era of world history (assuming we do) I suspect I'll have the whole series committed to memory.
I watch Gilmore Girls every year, starting in Fall 😂
Load More Replies...same with adhd, rewatching things you've seen a million times is good because you don't have to pay as much attention to them because they're familiar. if i'm working on something in a video game, i usually have youtube on in the background with markiplier or other people who play video games, with series vids that i've watched and listened to dozens of times before.
Kate Hepburn wore pants in the 1939 Broadway play "Philadelphia Story." Her action was considered scandalous.
Ahhh, men. Always policing what women are wearing. Still doing it now. It used to be that they were too immodest and now they're unhappy when women cover up..
There should be. But that's just my opinion.
Load More Replies...What next - allow women to vote? You mean, treat them like grown-ups???
in the us, in the 1970s, women were not allowed to wear pants in courts/institutions/corporate settings..
In the late 90s I was not allowed to wear pants at my job - at an upscale hotel. I had to wear a dress/skirt and pantyhose every day. Because the GM was a sexist pig.
Load More Replies...Sh*t like this makes me think of all those "before Ayatollah" pictures of Iran and then about electing Trump.
I remember when my grandma told me and my cousin about this girl she knew when she grew up (1920s, way out in the country in Denmark). This girl was a badass (not my grandma's exact words) and did a lot of things girls wasn't supposed to do. And this girl was the first female in the area that wore pants. And I could hear the pride my grandma had for this girl as she told us about her in the 2010s. (My grandma was also very untraditional in many ways so I think she really looked up to the pants-girl).
I hope young women today realize that men remorselessly take away women's rights that they fight the current fascist administration.
It would be great if the voice in my head wasn't so negative im talking to you sharon u nasty piece of c**p
Load More Replies...I found a brief article in TheBMJ by a Doctor claiming to be the treating psychiatrist in this case. TheBMJ is a legit peer-reviewed medical journal with a long history. The story at least seems to be true, although there is no definitive way to verify the details, and there are alternative possibilities aside from telepathy or magical intervention.
I hope if I ever get a major illness, that helpful voices will give me a heads up so I can get treatment in time...
You gotta be a tough dude with a name like Doris. (That Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue" comes to mind.)
sadly he was killed later on in the war when his ship, the light carrier u.s.s. liscombe bay was torpedoed by a japanese sub on thanksgiving day, 24 nov1943. the torpedo caused the ship's supply of torpedoes to explode, destroying the ship and taking with her 2/3 of the crew, miller among them.
Sometimes, heroic people don't fit the mold of 1950-1990 America! Dorry is indeed a Hero!
They showed the guy in Tora! Tora! Tora!, too. Probably my favorite part of the film.
Why was it necessary to mention that he had been African-American?
Because no black enlisted at that time was ever allowed to be anything but cooks and dishwashers. He received no combat training yet still did his duty and saved countless lives. Color is important for context in life. You shouldn't be color blind but recognize that color is beautiful and rich. Celebrate the difference while acknowledging what makes us the same. The color of his skin? Brings the most needed context.
Load More Replies...Action Movie? Damned,it was a disappointing romcom at best. Unrealistic flight scenes don't make up for it either, but ... we really expected a war movie when we watched it in the cinema. We were disappointed by the genre, and disappointed by the rather annoying stories that were sparked by this movie being a romcom happening to happen during WW2.
Absolutely. Monument, statue, town name changed in his memory to Nacozari de García, several streets and schools across Mexico are named after him, a ballad, a day of commemoration (7th November), posthumous American Cross of Honour, and declared a Hero of Humanity. He is a Mexican national hero.
Load More Replies...I'm often relieved to not have a husband. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have one to help. Then I remember all the stuff they'd probably want me to do for them.
It's not womens work it's everyone's responsibility, "you live here too" should be enough said..
Load More Replies...It depends. He isn't the greatest at the little stuff, but he ROCKS the big stuff. It's hard to keep it in perspective sometimes because the little stuff is easier to see than the big stuff. Thankfully we balance each other out pretty well. And he's cute!
And often, it’s not balanced in the short but in the long term. My SO frequently plays on his phone instead of tending to stuff that needs tending. But then there are days where he has the house sparkling clean by the time I get up. And when our daughter was born, he did 90% of the housework for the first ~9 months because we both agreed that our little one comes first and I should rather cuddle/play with her than worry about housework while my husband’s at work.
Load More Replies...i agree so i got rid of the husband kept the kids couldnt have been happier
Learn how to use power tools and amass a garage full off tools. No need for a husband.
There are so many helpful videos of how to maintain your house, car, and other things on YT.
Load More Replies...Another way to look at it is that 54% of mothers said that their children caused them more stress than their husbands.
I often say that this is the only way I will consider hunting a sport. Unless the animals have weapons too how is it even a contest?
Load More Replies...The Japanese went back to whaling in 2019. Now they are hunting Fin whales that are classified as Vulnerable. No excuse for this. Absolutely no excuse. And don't waste your time informing me how it's a tradition, because most traditions are idiotic and/or destructive.
They even come up with the blatant lie, that its for science....
Load More Replies...I have a shovel made in 1951, I can dig 70 year old holes.
Load More Replies...This also clued marine biologists into the real life span of whales. Whales were hunted nearly to extinction right before electricity became popular and accessible. Whale blubber was used for lamps all over the world, so whale populations were quickly dwindling. It wasn't until the next generation of whales started aging, and finding the occasional whale with evidence of its age, that biologists became aware that whales lived past 100. Now that so many of that generation of whales are into their 100s, we're learning about their aging process and have yet to establish their true lifespan!
if you have to hunt whales you should have to do it the traditional way. No modern technology. Sailing ships, row-boats, and hand-thrown harpoons only.
Evil genius!!!! Just look at that sinister grin,he knew what he was doing..
All the pop up ads that have ever been invented should be sent to him one right after another without letup.
I personally know the guy who invented click bait is NOT sorry
The coffee flavor is still yummy and the new deep dark chocolate is beyond yummy. My dumb a*s means Hagen dass.(sp?)
Load More Replies...I met Ben Cohen. Not a fan of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream. I like Tillamook and hagen daaz because they use oregon strawberries to make strawberry ice cream.
I used to pick strawberries in Oregon when I was a teenager. Varieties intended for jams and such, super juicy and too fragile to ship to stores. But heavenly good right off the vine.
Load More Replies...Another common cause is old machinery that generates infrasound (ultra-low frequency noise). Infrasound is known to cause inherent sense of dread and (at the right frequency) can cause visual distortions that look like movement.
That's one theory of what happened at Dylatov pass. If you haven't heard of the Dylatov pass incident look it up, it's a crazy story.
Load More Replies...Why, you don't say? Haunted houses are actually poison houses? Flabbergasting news!
Or you're unlikely to haunt a house that didn't exist when you died because it wasn't built yet.
….That’s kind of what this post is saying though? Houses that are allegedly haunted often have reasonable explanations.
Load More Replies...This wonderful person, whom his fellow cast called a "a sweet man", suffered with such pain. He had Marfan syndrome and gigantism that caused respiratory problems, and he was forced to use a wheelchair due to the pain.
Peter came to my Wedding in the 1980's, he worked with my Ex Father in Law in a Large Hospital.
Load More Replies...while filming out in the redwood forests, he had to have body guards to prevent him from being shot from over eager hunters believing him to be a bear or even bigfoot!
And killed it! He is everyone's favorite character. In my opinion, anyway.
He was great as chewie!! Its almost a good thing he didn't go for Vader because that freed up the role for James earl Jones. Rip to the legend <3
06 dec 1917, halifax nova scotia. the s.s. mont blanc, a freighter HEAVILY loaded with explosives for the war raging in europe, collided with another ship in the harbor. the mont blanc caught fire and the crew could not put it out. they radioed the harbor of the situation and then abandoned the ship, made it to shore and took shelter behind a small rise. the explosion is one of the largest non nuclear explosions caused by man, killing 1,782 people in the town.
Halifax right? I toured the city once and they showed us how far the impacts of the explosion went. Unbelievable!
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
Load More Replies...Boy, this gave me some serious flashbacks of sitting on uncomfortable folding chairs or gym bleachers in town meetings well past midnight and realizing I live among some of the dumbest people on the planet. But it's their democratic right to speak and speak and speak.
Like the story of the zoo in california, that put in a railroad. They held a contest to name it. The winner? W'Gasa, when asked the winner sheepishly replied, "Who gives a s**t, anyway?" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wgasa/
In the fifth hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy book, Arthur Dent is on a version of the planet Earth that is called now what. I always thought that would be a great name for a town. They said that the name came because people landed on the planet looked at how horrible it was and said now what?
I used to go to a bar in North Carolina called "He's Not Here!
There's a town named Ink because the directions were "Print in Ink."
There's a restaurant in Barcelona (in the Raval area, just right of The Rambla) called 'It's MY F**** Restaurant' I went in and chatted to the owner. I said I bet this is so named because you're sick of having to get rid of drunk tourists at the bar and KEPT having to repeat the statement. He smiled and said he had named it thus to prevent him from having to do that since he was so sick of it in his last place!
Terrible Maps says that the strangest city name in GA, USA is “Flippen”, and while that is a legitimate city in GA, Cumming has it beat, hands down. Which is also a legitimate city. I like to joke that it’s just north of Breathing Hard (which is not a legitimate city), but it always gives me the giggles
If I die I think I might want potatos plants each year planted on my grave site. My favorite food when growing was mashed potatoes and gravy. Either that be cremated and my ashes be spread in a potato field.
He was also, if the legend is true, a fine psychologist. Story has it that, since the people of the time wanted nothing to do with that weird stuff, he posted armed guards around the fields. That made the content of the fields valuable, and the potatoes were promptly stolen and presumably enjoyed by the thieves. People are contrary that way.
yes. In fact he instructed the guards to be corrupt and take bribes to allow people to steal the "valuable" plants.
Load More Replies...He even got the french version of cottage pie named after him, hachis Parmentier.
Also Potage Parmentier, a leek and potato soup. One of my all-time favorites.
Load More Replies...That MARS book the guy survives by planting and eating potatoes. High calorie yield with easy growing.
The Martian! I once asked author Andy Weir why they didn't have seeds for other food, given that the character is a botanist, and got the reply that he was studying ferns.
Load More Replies...If those are potato plants in the picture, they''re surprisingly lovely!
Potatoes are nightshades, so it made sense that people avoided them. Back then, no one would've known how close a pig's physiology is to human, so if the pigs weren't dying, it meant they were safe to eat (if cooked and not green or black). The mistake that caused The Irish Famine was too great a reliance on potatoes as a food source.
Well, that and the English still taking the wheat when the potatoes failed.
Load More Replies...Some animals purposely eat fermenting fruit and get drunk, some bears in Russia huff jet fuel to get high, shrews eat fermented nectar. Animals do find ways to get high.
It must be super fun to be a big powerful cat that can hunt and kill things with claws/fangs and then go get high. ;)
I can understand it. I've been with my husband 23 years and the thought of being separated or one of us dying is terrifying. I'm sure they were together much longer than that.
Load More Replies...I guess that's the source of inspiration for James Cameron's iconic shot of that couple in the "Titanic" movie.
Yup! They absolutely refused to leave one another in the end. Isidor Strauss even told his wife to get on the boat she was offered since she could save herself even if he couldn’t come with her. Indeed, she told him that wasn’t going to happen because she wasn’t going to be with him.
Load More Replies...Well... I have always liked Macy's over Dillard's. That and 'Miracle on 34th Street'. But now this too.
You still have too be able to get in to MIT. Which is NOT easy. :)
Load More Replies...Upon graduation, you are given the choice of losing an eye or a leg.
“The degree cost me an arm and a leg but it was worth it”
Load More Replies...it actually makes sense, in a number of ways say "Science, technology, engineering, mathematics and piracy" - STEMP
At Harvard, to earn the right to rob, loot, and pillage, you must graduate from their business school.
Money may not buy happiness but it sure as hell helps with what does give happiness. Access to better food and medical care, less stress, doing things to enjoy your life like traveling and experiences like concerts and plays. Things you simply can't afford if you're poor.. Next can they study why there are idiots who need to study the obvious?
I remember when taking Psychology classes one professor saying something along the lines that most psychological research ends up just saying things that your grandmother could have told you and this fits that definition to a T
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can sure as hell rent you paradise.
immediately thought of Glitz and Glam's song from Helluva Boss
Load More Replies...Gee, what an astonishing realization. Who would have thunk it? Not having to worry about being able buy groceries all month verses having ones electricity shut off. Forget about having medical tests run that you need but cannot afford. Of course being poor and being treated like c**p at work because your employer knows you have to have this job is happy making.
People who say money doesn't bring you happiness.
Load More Replies...I'm not a rich Vet but it sure seems that the less I worry about money, the more I have.
Oh my ... "MoNeY dOnT hApPiFy YoU11111" - random obnoxius stupid rich person. Seriously, lack of money is what sparks worries and sorrow, often to the point these eclipse everything else you're trying to think. That makes you unhappy. Once money has pulled you out of this valley of fears and frownery, MORE money will contribute very little to your happiness. Affording, having TWO Ferrari instead of one, never can make you as happy as having one instead of a VW, and having a VW instead of no vehicle at all, is the largest step in these by far, in regard to overall happiety. Which money doesn't improve over the abscence of threats and sorrows, but up until that point, sure does. Surest!
Possible reason: Happiness can be the result of achieving a goal. With inherited wealth, there is no goal to achieve.
I argue psychology isn't a real science, and it's reasons like this that I maintain that opinion. All these clowns had to do was randomly ask poor people if money would brighten their lives. It's common sense. As a nihilist, I'm firmly aware that the one who dies with the most toys wins.
It's the oldest continuously working bar. There are ruins of bars that are much older.
It's nothing of the sort. Every single piece of this "fact" has been utterly debunked.
Load More Replies...went past a winefarm in Germany last summer, dated around 700 AD. Probably had no bar!
Oldest or oldest still in operation? Regardless, no one is shocked it's in Ireland.
Another fun fact: This will only be true for a set period of time. The moon is moving away from us, which will make total eclipses go away.
But with all the star/planet/moon combos out there they gotta be more coincidences like this
That we know of, so far. JWST is out there providing some incredible, mind blowing details and changing the opinions of astronomers and physicists on certain aspects they thought they understood. We've only scratched the proverbial surface.
To be fair, we don't know all too many planet-moon-combinations to begin with. Exomoons, I'm not sure if there even are known ones yet, but the widespread possession of moons in our solar system might point to many, maybe most, planets do have moons. Just seems like our one is exeptionally large in relation to the planet ... but, maybe only those planets allow evolution up to the point of understanding it's necessariety, and thereby, of course, allow only habitants of larger-than-due moon bearing planets to recognize them having any moon at all.
I can't help but think of Alan Davies (QI) every time I read/see something about Blue whales.
And when the answer finally was "blue whale" he didn't get it xD
Load More Replies...Wrong. There were dinosaurs - Sauropods - the were probably even larger. Blue whales get up to 33 meters long, but some dinos reached lengths of 40-50 meters. Sure, they haven't found a complete skeleton yet, but scientists can guess their size from individual bones.
The post says largest, not longest. Largest refers to body mass. They can weigh more than 180,000kg, so yes, they are larger than any dinosaur and the largest animal that has ever been known to live.
Load More Replies...The extinct whale species Perucetus colossus was estimated to have been slightly bigger.
One of the designers that created the breathalyser was recently done for drunk-driving and has been banned from driving for a year, was in the local news yesterday, think they did use a breathalyser on him too.
I heard about a guy caught speeding with a radar gun who went to court to fight the ticket. When it was his turn to get on the stand, he brought up a screen and proceeded to list all the things that could go wrong with a radar gun, and how, and why. Like birds flitting through trees, wind blowing, etc. It was pretty technical and he got off.
After all, here it's the same as everywhere else - they gotta prove that you've committed an offense, not just assume so and have you prove otherwise. Therefore, objection may be taken unless they've followed the protocol issued for the device they're employing, and if they fail to do so, the measurement can vastly deviate from the true velocity (... which is why there's a rather strict protocol about all of them, and how to set them up and so forth), which, to me, sounds like it's perfectly reasonable to object, if you're uncertain about the measurement being correct.
Load More Replies...Good luck with that. If one comes after me, I’m sure to leave a pee trail
Load More Replies...When I was in middle school, there was two pictures of a field. One showed what a human saw in the field. The other one showed what a bird like a eagle saw. The second one showed like small animals hidden in the field the bird saw while humans couldn't see them.
Eagles' eyesight is 3 x better than humans. Hawks' eyesight is 7 x better than humans.
If you're going to get so specific then you might think about naming an individual species of hawk or eagle that's used for the comparison. There will be considerable variations between subspecies, especially hawks, which is a very broad group of species, with inconsistent definitions varying between the US and Europe.
Load More Replies...Sounds likle my wife shopping when she's looking for something. Or me in a hardware store, for that matter.
So basically they're just missing thumbs and that's why they don't rule the world?
I read somewhere that Hitler copied the toothbrush style moustache from Chaplin, who he was a fan of. Chaplin"s response was the movie "The Great Dictator ", as a fu€k-you to Hitler.
Being against capitalism doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay your bills. But yeah F Charlie Chaplin .
Load More Replies...Black Irish have black hair. That's how they distinguish between the Black Campbell and the Red Campbell. Also the Scots, the Black Douglas has black hair and the Red Douglas has red hair.
Load More Replies...Morgan Freeman's Red is one of my favorite characters in one of my favorite movies!
"We're gonna need a bigger boat." "Fück boats. I'm gonna get an orca." (From an early rejected draft of "Jaws".) 🤫
So basically if a bit of shark blood was released into the water at regular intervals at beaches where shark attacks are a known risk, that risk could be reduced to zero without any special equipment or mass killing of sharks.
Orcas will also teach other Orcas ways to kill Great Whites. An Orca pod off California was observed to be killing GWS in a unique way. The pod migrated up the coast and as they went other Orca pods in their path started killing sharks with the new method.
It's crazy, if s shark senses a orca is an area the shark will abandon that area for up to a year. Or as are beautiful but man are the bullies. Some people done realize or know that orcas are the oceans Apex predators. Sharks are even afraid of dolphins. They will check all around before nodding off. Sharks have evolved strategies like camouflage, keen sense especially with electroreception and also being able to remain motionless in the water.
I mean, we had the movies Jaws and Orca back in the day. Why not a crossover like Jason vs Freddy?
Which is shark language translates to: "AAAHHHHHHHRRRR!!! RUN FOR YOUR FECKIN LIVES MATES!!!!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Scholastic_Ability_Test On test day, the KRX stock market opens late, and bus and metro service is increased to avoid traffic jams and allow students to get to the testing sites more easily. Planes are grounded during the listening portion of the English section so their noise does not disturb the students. In some cases, students running late for the test may be escorted to their testing site by police officers via motorcycle.
Okay, I'd gotta hand it to the late people, arriving via police motorcycle is pretty bada**
Load More Replies...By contrast, when I was living in student family housing at the University of Toronto, they wouldn't even reschedule the building's monthly fire alarm test to fall outside of exam periods.
This always struck me as dystopian. These are highschool students, barely adults, and a stupid exam is deemed as so important that planes are halted. I feel so sorry for them. Also, many of them repeat the year and take the exam again only so they can get a better score. They would have passed - often even with a high score - but are pressured to retake the exam a year later because only perfect is considered good enough.
And the suicide rate over these exams is... well, terrible
Load More Replies...When I was sitting the exams for the commonwealth scholarship we had blasting going on outside our window. Perhaps 10 m away. Every quarter to half an hour we had to stop work and duck under the desks in case of flying rocks. Then KABOOM and back to work until the next one. Those Korean students get it easy.
Adam Hills has a fantastic routine about the Australian accent coming from the Cockney convicts being sent over from London. The Oz heat caused them all to slow right down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKgVln8XmuE
Load More Replies...Sounds legit. Would explain why Queensland has broader accents too, since the are the home of Bundaberg rum.
Could be, I'm originally from Victoria and have often been told, now I'm a Queensland resident, I sound British 😄
Load More Replies...Well, rum was used as currency for a while in the early settlement.
For the untrained ear, some Australian accents are surprisingly similar to the UK. I'm watching a series set in Tasmania and I have to remind myself they're not Scots or northern Irish 😆
He was working from home before it was cool /s. He did have to pay back a fine which was equivalent to a year's salary. That's the most the company could recoup so he still got 5 years pay for nothing. His defense? He moved to a location that had no work. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35557725
Sometimes it doesn't take much to set a good example. But we all know why the dads took up this responsibility.
Bill Gates balancing his professional life with fatherhood, showcasing the influence of leading by example. It's fascinating how one simple gesture can inspire others to reassess their own roles and responsibilities in family life
Balancing is easier when you're the CEO.
Load More Replies...Monkey see, monkey do. I mean, where were they before their CEO had the idea! I would be mad to find out that my dad is dropping me off everyday at school so he could gat a score with his boss.
What's wrong with your Dad doing both? After all, he would be trying to advance his career to support you and the rest of the family.
Load More Replies...This has nothing to do with this but everyday me and my daughter set aside 1 hour or longer if needed to just talk about everything and anything she wants. She loves to do this while helping me cook. We even have a journal we have back and forth if she don't want to talk that day or whatever. My husband is a OTR semi driver. So when dad comes home they get a daddy daughter day with only them. According to her she absolutely loves how our family operates (which i hope is true haha) spens time with your kids people. The dishes can wait but the time with them as kids you'll never get back
I've always thought that bill gates is just a better billionaire than musk or bezos
Not the best person but it's not hard to be a better person than elon musk
Load More Replies...in 2021 Belinda Gates decided to file for a divorce from Bill Gates. It is well observed facts that around that time many women divorced their husbands.
Why had these guys been dropping their wives off at kindergarten?
that character was scarier than most characters in horror movies IMHO
We have to assume that political leaders were excluded as candidates.
I watch a lot of action movies and psychological thrillers that contain graphic scenes, but this movie, whew boy. It began with graphic violence. After putting it off for a few years, I finally watched it, I'm guessing for at least the first 15 minutes before shutting it down. This level of reality is too much for me.
lol guess you haven't seen the Substance makes this movie look like peppa pig
Load More Replies...The guy that played Jeff was a Christian and had an extremely difficult time saying the swear words and the reading off the list of porn videos in his store.
The one that directed Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma
Load More Replies...It depicts a 30-something man in an emotionally abusive, inappropriate relationship with a 17 year old girl. I couldn't believe so many people loved it just because the dance scenes were good.
Load More Replies...When Monthy Python premiered one of their first films, the audience hated it. So to make sure they made the next batch of viewers pay a token price, and suddenly there was so much love for it. This has later been known as sunken cost fallacy, and they are proud to have played a part in proving it to be accurate :p
So many critics are just full of hot air. I can't tell you how many highly rated movies I've seen that end up being garbage! I've concluded that Rotten Tomatoes is worthless. So sad!
My guilty pleasure. Objectively worse than many, but thoroughly entertaining. I remember all the rave about it when I was a teenager
Mmm, yes? I'm Italian, but even I know that tomatoes weren't endemic in Europe. It's quite obvious that tomato sauce was a thing in the place where tomatoes naturally grew.
Y’all were just too chicken to eat tomatoes because of the pewter dishes they were served on
Load More Replies...Also chocolate and potatoes. Two foods that most people don’t realize first came from what is now the Americas.
Load More Replies...Still. If I were to be in the water and see one of them, I am outta there!
No, I've seen the documentary, nothing bad really happens You just live in the whale's belly for a little while and get shot out the blowhole and then you're fine. A wooden puppet might start talking to you, but the documentary said that's perfectly normal.
Load More Replies...Unlike captive orcas. And frankly, who can blame them for lashing out.
You think that, to orcas, we're like dogs? Like, they're more advanced so see us and are like ahh, such pure innocence, so to kill one of us is like us seeing people hurt/kill dogs? And that's why they hate Great White's so much, because they hurt us. They go full John Wick.
But Great Whites don't intentionally hurt us either. Most attacks are due to a case of mistaken identity.
Load More Replies...Killer whale Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau at Sea World Orlando in 2010
In Spain we have the "Gladis" orcas that bump against boats and nobody knows why
I'm willing to bet the problem would not have arisen if the name had been Fort Straight.
OMG this used to happen to me when I lived on buttchop avenue
They rejected Fort Gay, yet the Strait of Gibraltar was accepted as a location without issue.
I was told I couldn't wear a weed California shirt into a food pantry. Refused to believe me when I explained it was the name of a town. Also had issues wearing a billabong shirt because it has bong on it. With that logic I can't wear a home depot shirt because of the word pot.
What about Woodenbong and Tittybong then? Both towns in Aust. You shoud start a t shirt collection just to see how ridiculous they get about turning you away
Load More Replies...Used to drive past a used car sale yard calked Mike Hunt Motors. It never failed to get a giggle
Load More Replies..."War between the States", which my mother, who was born in Florida and raised in South Carolina, refers to as the "War of Treason". As opposed to one of my coworker who was born and raised in Indiana, who refers to as the "War of Yankee Aggression" or the "War for States Rights". But he states that it was never about slavery.
I literally made this joke in a post like 2-3 weeks ago!
Load More Replies...Considering the housing market, it seems a hell of a deal, but also looking at the photo a hell of traffic noise
I guess if they decide to open up the businesses and get people in again they could change the name to "waucyonda"
Had to make someone, anyone, pay. That's just the way justice works. Hence the blindfold. She doesn't see a thing. We have cases pending here in the US where death row prisoners have been medically exonerated via DNA or expert research, and their cases are still pending. Some of them could actually be executed in spite of the scientific evidence.
Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three, was exonerated through DNA and it took 3 years before he was released. THREE YEARS!
Load More Replies...Randy Giles?!? Why not just call me horny Giles or desperate for a shaggy Giles? (Spike in the episode tabula rasa).
Shhhh. They don't like it when you say that out loud.
Load More Replies...Not surprising. I bet the best film about the US wasn't made in the US.
Not really. His life didn't go so well afterwards. Google him if interested in the details.
Load More Replies...He lost - the court found that human tissues and organs are not "marital property" and can't be considered an item of property to be valued in a divorce suit. The court also warned Batista that his attempt to extort money for the kidney was legally unsound and could expose him to criminal prosecution.
And for many years, Microsoft used Apple computers to write the code for the Windows operating systems.
Apparently, this is more common than you might expect, and may be responsible for claims of Japanese longevity.
Is responsible. Japanese researchers have shown like 80% of their centigenarians are dead. And apparently the number major factors to living so long is bad record keeping and fraud; not just in Japan either.
Load More Replies...I think most of the smell dissipates once the majority of the "meat" is gone
Load More Replies...It's a basic tenet of law, in America as elsewhere, that "better ten guilty men go free than one innocent is wrongly punished". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
Load More Replies...He “invented” Vaseline by scooping it off the surface of a creek in Pennsylvania, as the Shoshone had already been doing for centuries for use as a salve and leather conditioner
I used to be an organ donor, and we had a cheap funeral arrangement where the casket was "rented", and the silk liner was actually a body bag. Our corpses would be put in a styrofoam "box", then our remains interred into a double-deep cement vault. Years later, I decided to give my body to our State University for as long as they wanted it, in order to train future Doctors. Yes, they will cremate it when they're done with my body & put the ashes into a memorial wall. The best part?, that wall is less than a stone's throw away from our cemetery plot. (And, no, they don't sell the organs, they study them. Previous poster is a liar.)
The schools and organizations harvest any usable organs & tissues, and sell them, keeping the profits. It’s illegal for private individuals to make these same business arrangements
My MIL had this idea to reduce costs of her funeral/final disposition. She found it was FAR more expensive than just cremation.
This is, kind of, difficult to believe. 20 years is a very long time.
Sadly all too easy to believe. Hoarders' homes often have whole rooms, blocked off by rotting garbage, that haven't been accessible for years or even decades.
Load More Replies...Says someone who's clearly never been in a hoarder's house. There's a reason they wear ventilators to clear them out.
Load More Replies...Is that a reference to the Sandman comic?
Load More Replies...I wonder what the lyrics would be to "The Twelve Pubs of Christmas"?
I wouldn't last further than the 2d pub, considering the stimulating effect any type of brew has on my bladder (excluding tea and coffee).
Nor should you be of the Hawaii one, given the tempering effect of the Pacific.
Load More Replies...And that's indirectly the fault of Thomas Edison, as he sent his employee Maxim to Britain to get rid of him as competitor. Maxim got bored with doing paperwork and developed the first real machine gun
Everybody claiming shooting fireworks at living creatures is fun, is invited to come along at my place with their kids or little sibling. They will get placed in the saddle of one of my horses, which are sweet and gentle, and then the fireworks-lovers may shoot. Let's how much fun this really is. Fireworks-lovers claim that animals should learn to deal with it, "because it is the same as a thunderstorm".
Load More Replies...Frank Sinatra broke several bones in his hand while acting in a fight scene in his 1962 movie The Manchurian Candidate.
Glad he wasn't around my place last night. I fell asleep on the couch and woke at 4am and went to bed. After lying there for about 10 minutes I suddenly wondered if I had locked the front door. Glad I got up to check, because I hadn't.
Locking doors is so routine for me that it's rote behavior. When I moved to a quiet town many years ago, the neighbors razzed me for locking my car and home. My house and car, btw, were the only ones not robbed about 10yrs later. I'm back in the city and both doors are locked. Automatic reflex.
Load More Replies...You need to understand where some of us live. We haven't locked our doors in 2+ years, but we live in southwest France in the vineyards. The only thing that comes in our house uninvited is mice, and we have cats for that.
Load More Replies...No, you thick-skulled ignoramuses, it's THREE months of darkness. Some terminally ignorant person on Weird-facts posts something astoundingly moronic, which is then copied by an equally ignorant person on BP, because some of the "writers" on BP evidently failed out of school before they learned about the tilt of the earth in third grade.
The ant/arctic circle marks the point at which the sun will not set or rise, for three months. Closer to the pole the ant/arctic night gets longer and longer, so in theory if you are exactly on the pole at the earth's surface then the period of "darkness" would be six months. But it's not really dark, more a sort of twilight anyway.
Load More Replies...Just watched that movie a few days ago, laughed so hard I was crying when he throws that orange and hits Pierce Brosnan in the back of the head. Such a great movie.
Famous or celebrated, not infamous. How can a mustache be infamous? Did it commit a crime?
Apparently you are not aware of what he did with mustache. Eww, gross. I can't even talk about it.
Load More Replies...My daughter recently went tandem skydiving. You fall at terminal velocity which is close to 150mph. She said she was told not to look down. And the reason was it was so hard to take a breath into her lungs from the pressure on her ribs. Apparently when you look up you can catch a breath.
Maybe you aren't old enough to remember that time. If you were, you would understand :)
Load More Replies...It's repeating that Antisemitic propaganda that was added to the New Testament by the Church. Any part of the story from before his arrest until the crucifixion that involves Jews was added on to shift the blame away from the Romans to the Jews. There are some many parts of that story which are contradicted by basic Jewish law, how the Temple was run, the strict separation between the Priesthood and the Rabbis, the actual struggles between the different movements (the Sadducees, the Pharisees, the Essenes, and more), the assorted courts of Jewish law, etc. Yet the movie tries to be true to Christian antisemitic propaganda, rather than to historical truth.
Which is also pretty much the only way to get through watching the movie.
i loved that movie! it wasn't good, but it was fun, which is what matters.
Another paywall! I’m not voting on any articles that have this, please join me in this mildest of acts of rebellion!
It's rather silly when you think about it. Everything is ranked by user votes with most popular first. So they're paywalling literally their worst content as defined by reader votes.
Load More Replies...Birb - Just ignore, downvote, and mark as harassment. The guy upvotes himself from his mom's basement, but he is still several hundred points in the red overall.
Load More Replies...Another paywall! I’m not voting on any articles that have this, please join me in this mildest of acts of rebellion!
It's rather silly when you think about it. Everything is ranked by user votes with most popular first. So they're paywalling literally their worst content as defined by reader votes.
Load More Replies...Birb - Just ignore, downvote, and mark as harassment. The guy upvotes himself from his mom's basement, but he is still several hundred points in the red overall.
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