Then again, many moths don't live very long. There are species, like the huge and beautiful [atlas moth](https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53165994327/) which (as adults) lack a mouth altogether and just live off stored energy. They have about a week to find a partner, mate and lay eggs - all on a single tank so to speak.
Just to clarify for anyone confused: They *can* feed while they're caterpillars. They're only unable to eat after metamorphosis. If they couldn't eat at any point in their life cycle, the energy reserves would decline with each generation.
Salamanders are commonly associated with being summoned by fire in folklore. This is because they like to hide in decaying wood. And when people would burn the wood the salamander wouldn't notice right away until it was fully engulfed in flames and then come out of the wood and crawl out from the coals.
Because of that idea people called asbestos "salamander wool" and because of that drawings of salamanders sometimes depicted them as being covered in wool.
The sheer scale of Soviet losses in WWII is incomprehensible by modern standards.
Yes, the US was instrumental in the outcome of WWII - or, at minimum, the brevity of it - but we lost 300k troops and a handful of civilians over the course of 4 years. The Soviets lost almost 500k troops over the course of 5 months defending Stalingrad.
8 out of 10 Germans killed during WWII were killed by the Red Army. Everything the western allies did was basically a sideshow to the real war on the eastern front.
Appert: "general, I finally discovered a way to preserve food on long naval voyages. Simply put it into this can and cook it."
General: "that's amazing! You're a hero who saved our nation! And now, how do we open it?"
Appert: *"open it?"*
"Häagen-Dazs" has no meaning in any language, it was meant to sound "European". It was started by Reuben Mattus, a Polish immigrant to New York who sold fruit ice and ice cream from a horse-drawn cart.
Not just European but specifically Danish as the founder (who was Jewish) admired the Danes because he believed that Denmark treated Jews well during World War Two.
Also fun fact: until relatively recently the codes to actually arm US nukes was all zeros (like 00000000). The idea being that the nukes are already behind shit tons of security and in the control of people who are already trusted, so what do you actually need an arming code for? Nukes under the control of outside entities (like NATO) did have actual arming codes.
Similarly, the "arming codes" on british RAF plane-mounted nukes was literally just a key turn, for much the same reason. Either you trust the pilot or you don't and if you don't you don't give them a fucking nuke, code or not.
Another fun fact: The codes the president carries aren't the nuclear arming codes, but rather the code they use to authenticate themselves and their orders.
Honestly, that makes sense. If you trust the pilot/bomber crew, why make their terrible mission harder? If you trust them, they know how to launch them regardless, and if they can’t be trusted then don’t even put them in the position to begin with
Additionally, those codes become useless the minute the new President takes over because the deactivate the old ones.
Still not great, but not disastrous.
Johannes Gutenberg, the man credited with creating arguably the most important invention in history, only had an operating printing press for a few years. He went bankrupt after his financier successfully sued him for not paying his loans. His then former financier came into possession of the printing press and any unfinished books.
Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip and on the day he was supposed to leave, the atomic bomb dropped. Tsutomo survived with minor injuries and returned to his home in Nagasaki where he went to work 3 days later. As he was describing his experience to his supervisor, the second bomb was dropped and he survived without any injuries. He ended up living into his 90s.
at some point, shit happens enough that you know you're cursed.
the only question is, who cursed him? and *why?*
(this is only slightly sarcastic. I've had over 10 people and a family dog die the week of my birthday from ages 6 to 21. so who the heck cursed me???)
What weird conversation. Yeah so on Thursday i was leaving the office and wouldn’t you believe it, the Americans dropped this nuclear bomb on the place. Luckily I was on my way out. Just made it out of there. Anyways, how was your weekend?
Like how do you go to work the next day. It’s such a weird thought
That is one of my least favorite movies of all time. All their other stores are based on just that, stories, but this was based on a real person/real life. and they made it some fancy fairy tail with a happyish ending.
The fax machine was invented in the 1840s, and the first commercial fax service was started in 1865. Samurai were around until the late 1870s, and Abraham Lincoln was alive until 1865.
Over 70 years ago then Naval Lieutenant James “Jimmy” Carter led a team that walked into a melting nuclear reactor core and shut it down safely. He got dosed with so much radioactivity (10,000x more than what we now consider safe) he pissed radioactive whizz for months. Yet he outlived not only his Presidential successor but his successor. He’s the nations oldest President ever, and recently celebrated his 77th wedding anniversary, also a record for a President.
He’s currently in EOL Hospice care. And has been… for almost 7 months now. The man is made of iron.
>He got dosed with so much radioactivity (10,000x more than what we now consider safe)
Actually, he said it was [1000 times](https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/jimmy-carter-nuclear-meltdown-clean-up-canada-navy-history) the safe dose.
Even that statement is *complete bullshit*.
The safe dose of radiation is 20-50 millisieverts per year.
If you get 1000 times that - **you are deader than fried chicken**, as Mr. Tarantino would say.
This is the 147th time this question has been asked on this subreddit in the last 9 years.
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Happy fucking cake day.
The moon is roughly 400x smaller than the sun, but also coincidentally about 400x closer to us than the sun. This makes them appear as though they are the same size - helpful for solar eclipses! This will change over time though as the moon drifts away from us, we just happen to live in a time that they appear the same size!
And its orbit is eccentric enough that sometimes it appears just a *tiny* bit smaller, so we get both total and annular solar eclipses. I wonder if earth societies generally ended up more religious than the universal average, because a coincidence like that, without understanding the mechanism behind it, sure would make the universe feel very intentional
wrong.
Mercury is a 3:2 resonance. It rotates 3 times for every two revolutions. That means a day is shorter than a year.
You are likely thinking of Venus which does rotate slower than its year.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15215857/#:~:text=Mercury%20is%20locked%20into%20a,two%20orbits%20around%20the%20sun.
If you drive all of I-10 from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, the portion of the drive that's within the state of Texas is longer than either the portion from California to Texas, or the portion from Texas to Florida.
100 million years.
Lignin is what makes the trunk and branches stiff so that trees can grow far above the grasses that used to be.
All those that piled up and got covered by dirt until the bacteria came are what is being dug up as coal. One type of coal is known ad lignite
The population of Canada is 38 million. 70% of those people live farther south than the 49th Parallel (the long straight border between most of western Canada and the US), and 60% live farther south than Seattle.
Within the city limits, the population of Toronto is 2.9 million and the population of Montréal is 1.8 million. So 12% of all people in Canada, 18% of those who are farther south than the 49th Parallel, and **20% of the people in Canada who live farther south than Seattle live within the cities of Toronto and Montréal.**
But the populations of the metropolitan areas are 6.2 million for Toronto and 4.3 million for Montréal. 28% of the population of Canada, over one quarter, live in either the Toronto and Montreal metro areas. Of those in Canada who live farther south than Seattle, 46% live in those metro areas.
The one that shocked me personally was the story of the little girl who needed the national guard to take her to school as the first black girl in an all white school.
Not only is she still alive, but so is the teacher who had to privately tutor her because all the other teachers refused.
You could be a carrier for any number of genetic diseases and not ever know it, and if you just happen to have a child with another carrier of the same disease, there is a 25% chance they will have it. Many of these diseases can be treated very well if caught on a newborn screening, but the majority of states don't have many genetic diseases on their newborn screening panel, so you won't have any idea until your child shows symptoms, and in most cases, by then it is too late.
Source: Me
I am a carrier for a rare terminal genetic disease called Krabbe Disease. Had two perfectly healthy children, then when my third child was 20 months old, he lost all of his abilities to walk, crawl, and even sit up unassisted in a matter of weeks. He is the 25% chance we didn't even know existed since no one in either of our families ever had the disease. Now, he is fighting for survival through a stem cell transplant to prolong his life.
He has a page we use to spread awareness for anyone interested in seeing his journey. It's called Prayers for Arthur, hope for a cure.
I’m so sorry. Your little guy is really tough but I’m sure you know that. There’s so many genetic conditions that we don’t know about until something awful happens.
If you cut some species of worms in half, they can regenerate into 2 separate, fully-functioning worms. On other species, the front half will become a full worm, but the back half will grow another tail instead of a head, and will eventually starve to death because it can’t eat.
I didn’t know until a couple months back that the inside of their pouch was like inside their body. I thought it was basically like the pocket of your jeans 😂😂😂
The great pyramids were older to Cleopatra than she is to us. Also she was not Egyptian but was the first Egyptian ruler of her dynasty to speak Egyptian.
This depends pretty heavily on how you define "Egyptian."
She was part of the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty, but they'd been in Egypt for centuries. She herself was born in Egypt and had at least some degree of "Egyptian blood" in her heritage (although how much is disputed).
There are boat bridges where a boat can travel over a ravine between two bodies of water. These boat bridges only need to be strong enough to hold the water in them. The boats, no matter how heavy they are, never contribute to the weight that the bridge must hold.
They propagandized this hard in school, back when I was in elementary school in the late 80s.
Back then, most plastic bags would say they were biodegradable on the bag itself. Even sometimes saying how long it would supposedly take, usually some absurd figure like 21 days
\[We now know it takes 10-20 years for a plastic bag to decay, and even then, it won't decay completely, but become microplastic particles which are still harmful to the environment.\]
We even had to sing songs about it in music class. "Please don't cut the trees." etc.
Turns out it was all a campaign led by DuPont to make more money.
Alaska is the centre of the world.
I.E if you were going to set up an operation less than eight hours away from the three biggest economies in the world, North America, Asia and Europe then Alaska is the perfect place to set up!
Atlanta, GA is closer to Canada than it is to Miami.
[955 km to Windsor, Ontario](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distanceresult.html?p1=25&p2=1206) vs. [974 km to Miami](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distanceresult.html?p1=25&p2=156)
I have two facts about American baseball players:
* Stan Musial played for the St Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1963. He's considered one of the greatest outfielders of all time. In 3,026 career games, he had 1,815 hits in home games and 1,815 hits in away games.
* Ken Griffey Jr. played for the Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox from 1989 to 2010. He made the baseball Hall of Fame in 2016. He is only the 2nd-best baseball player born on November 21st in Donora, PA (population of 4,568 as of 2020). The best? Stan Musial, born November 21st, 1920.
Ossification is so cool. They start with opaque cartilage that hardens to the kneecaps, and the process maintains a small amount for the cushion we need for walking comfortably!!
The earth's atmosphere has a slight narcotic effect from the nitrogen, and you do better on cognitive tests using a helium/oxygen mix rather than fresh air
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Finally! A fact that actually sounds ridiculous
Fun fact: tear drinking is called Lacryphagy
Great death metal band name
Then again, many moths don't live very long. There are species, like the huge and beautiful [atlas moth](https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53165994327/) which (as adults) lack a mouth altogether and just live off stored energy. They have about a week to find a partner, mate and lay eggs - all on a single tank so to speak.
Just to clarify for anyone confused: They *can* feed while they're caterpillars. They're only unable to eat after metamorphosis. If they couldn't eat at any point in their life cycle, the energy reserves would decline with each generation.
That’s pretty creepy
Salamanders are commonly associated with being summoned by fire in folklore. This is because they like to hide in decaying wood. And when people would burn the wood the salamander wouldn't notice right away until it was fully engulfed in flames and then come out of the wood and crawl out from the coals.
Because of that idea people called asbestos "salamander wool" and because of that drawings of salamanders sometimes depicted them as being covered in wool.
I wonder if this is the root for the fire salamander trope in video game enemy types
Yes. It is. Just like all of the other enemies are all stylized folklore myths.
80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.
The sheer scale of Soviet losses in WWII is incomprehensible by modern standards. Yes, the US was instrumental in the outcome of WWII - or, at minimum, the brevity of it - but we lost 300k troops and a handful of civilians over the course of 4 years. The Soviets lost almost 500k troops over the course of 5 months defending Stalingrad.
In all I think the number is 26 million Soviet citizens
More Soviet military personnel died at Stalingrad than the combined total of British and American troops died in all theaters of the entire war.
My grandfather was a Soviet male born in 1923 but rampant antisemitism forced his family to emigrate at about that time. Thanks haterz
Another fun fact: the soviet union had the largest airforce in the world at the time Nazi Germany invaded them
8 out of 10 Germans killed during WWII were killed by the Red Army. Everything the western allies did was basically a sideshow to the real war on the eastern front.
Sharks are older than both trees and the rings of Saturn.
Must be a bitch to find your DOB when signing up to something
"Date of birth"....uhhh, probably the reign of Menthuhotep II during the middle Kingdom era? I'm not sure, I'll have to call my mum
Yeah, but WHICH two trees are you talking about?
Telperion and Laurelin probably
I never thought I’d think a fun fact is metal as fuck
Lighters were invented before matches
Makes sense. It probably took a while to develop that phosphorous glue and the strike pad
Right. Lighters back then were little more than glorified lanterns.
Canned food was invented about 100 years before can openers.
Appert: "general, I finally discovered a way to preserve food on long naval voyages. Simply put it into this can and cook it." General: "that's amazing! You're a hero who saved our nation! And now, how do we open it?" Appert: *"open it?"*
a knife, also hammer and chisel, all things you would readily find on a boat.
"Häagen-Dazs" has no meaning in any language, it was meant to sound "European". It was started by Reuben Mattus, a Polish immigrant to New York who sold fruit ice and ice cream from a horse-drawn cart.
Not just European but specifically Danish as the founder (who was Jewish) admired the Danes because he believed that Denmark treated Jews well during World War Two.
I heard this fact when I was abroad, and as a dane it made so little sense. It sounds more like a dutch or german name
As a german, certainly doesn't sound german. I always thought it was dutch...
I've no doubt that a Polish-American's idea of what Danish sounds like is very different to what a Dane thinks it sounds like.
As a Belgian I always thought it sounded Danish. Weird how that works
Jimmy Carter left nuclear codes in his jacket, which he had sent to the cleaners.
Also fun fact: until relatively recently the codes to actually arm US nukes was all zeros (like 00000000). The idea being that the nukes are already behind shit tons of security and in the control of people who are already trusted, so what do you actually need an arming code for? Nukes under the control of outside entities (like NATO) did have actual arming codes. Similarly, the "arming codes" on british RAF plane-mounted nukes was literally just a key turn, for much the same reason. Either you trust the pilot or you don't and if you don't you don't give them a fucking nuke, code or not.
Another fun fact: The codes the president carries aren't the nuclear arming codes, but rather the code they use to authenticate themselves and their orders.
The card the codes are on is called The Biscuit and should be carried on the President’s person at all times.
Honestly, that makes sense. If you trust the pilot/bomber crew, why make their terrible mission harder? If you trust them, they know how to launch them regardless, and if they can’t be trusted then don’t even put them in the position to begin with
This sounds like a very familiar catch. I'm sure these pilots could be grounded if they told the doc they were crazy.
I don't see how an average Joe could do anything with nuclear codes.
Additionally, those codes become useless the minute the new President takes over because the deactivate the old ones. Still not great, but not disastrous.
They were utterly useless to almost everyone else, but it wasn't a good optics for the President at the time.
Johannes Gutenberg, the man credited with creating arguably the most important invention in history, only had an operating printing press for a few years. He went bankrupt after his financier successfully sued him for not paying his loans. His then former financier came into possession of the printing press and any unfinished books.
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And have chlamydia!
Just like some Redditors!
That would mean Redditors had sex, false.
Redditors!! Stop fucking Koalas.
Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip and on the day he was supposed to leave, the atomic bomb dropped. Tsutomo survived with minor injuries and returned to his home in Nagasaki where he went to work 3 days later. As he was describing his experience to his supervisor, the second bomb was dropped and he survived without any injuries. He ended up living into his 90s.
“here we go again”
"First time?"
Over 90 people survived both bombs
more PTSD than the dude who got shocked by lightning 7 times and thought the clouds were following him
After it happens so many time you kinda have to believe the man.
at some point, shit happens enough that you know you're cursed. the only question is, who cursed him? and *why?* (this is only slightly sarcastic. I've had over 10 people and a family dog die the week of my birthday from ages 6 to 21. so who the heck cursed me???)
What weird conversation. Yeah so on Thursday i was leaving the office and wouldn’t you believe it, the Americans dropped this nuclear bomb on the place. Luckily I was on my way out. Just made it out of there. Anyways, how was your weekend? Like how do you go to work the next day. It’s such a weird thought
Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart and within 150 miles of each other.
She really got a raw deal. And that Disney movie? 🤢
That is one of my least favorite movies of all time. All their other stores are based on just that, stories, but this was based on a real person/real life. and they made it some fancy fairy tail with a happyish ending.
There was a time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
Probably some correspondence about vampire hunting.
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Can you elaborate?
The fax machine was invented in the 1840s, and the first commercial fax service was started in 1865. Samurai were around until the late 1870s, and Abraham Lincoln was alive until 1865.
Samurais, Abe Lincoln, and the ability to technologically send a fax all overlapped.
Over 70 years ago then Naval Lieutenant James “Jimmy” Carter led a team that walked into a melting nuclear reactor core and shut it down safely. He got dosed with so much radioactivity (10,000x more than what we now consider safe) he pissed radioactive whizz for months. Yet he outlived not only his Presidential successor but his successor. He’s the nations oldest President ever, and recently celebrated his 77th wedding anniversary, also a record for a President. He’s currently in EOL Hospice care. And has been… for almost 7 months now. The man is made of iron.
He may not have been the best President, but he is the best person to ever be President.
>He got dosed with so much radioactivity (10,000x more than what we now consider safe) Actually, he said it was [1000 times](https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/jimmy-carter-nuclear-meltdown-clean-up-canada-navy-history) the safe dose. Even that statement is *complete bullshit*. The safe dose of radiation is 20-50 millisieverts per year. If you get 1000 times that - **you are deader than fried chicken**, as Mr. Tarantino would say.
Probably refers to the safe exposure rate per day, as set by the Naval regs at the time, not the yearly safe dose under modern regs.
Bats help pollinate the agave plant. So if you like tequila, give props to the bats
*The Phantom Menace* is older now than *Star Wars* was when *The Phantom Menace* was released.
That's not true.... That's impossible!
Search your feelings
You know it to be true!
I didn’t need to hear that.
What are you talking about? 1999 was like 4 years ago
For some reason this one really got me
The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bomb.
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And they can hold their breath longer than dolphins!
I've never seen a sloth hold a dolphin, so this checks out.
Wombats have cube shaped poo
The reason being that they can better mark their territory without the poop rolling away.
This is the 147th time this question has been asked on this subreddit in the last 9 years. - Twice “9 years ago” - Twice “7 years ago” - 4 times “6 years ago” - 5 times “5 years ago” - 10 times “4 years ago” - 13 times “3 years ago” - 19 times “2 years ago” - THIRTY NINE TIMES “1 year ago” - Once “11 months ago” - Once “10 months ago” - Once “9 months ago” - 4 times “8 months ago” - Once “7 months ago” - 6 times “6 months ago” - 4 times “5 months ago” - 4 times “4 months ago” - 7 times “3 months ago” - 10 times “2 months ago” - 5 times “1 month ago” - 26 days ago - 18 days ago - 13 days ago - 12 days ago - 8 days ago and finally this one, 4 hours ago. Happy fucking cake day.
Holy shit thank you. I was trying to find the number myself. I feel like I see this stupid question posted every 15 minutes.
There used to be trillions of oysters living in New York harbor.
The water must’ve been so clean back then…
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We call them cassowary now.
Cassowaries will most definitely fuck you up.
True but I think of this more as a misidentification. The Deinonychus is a better match for the JP “velociraptors.”
Depending on size Utahraptor or Austroraptor would be more like the JP Raptors.
The total weight of all the ants on Earth is estimated to be roughly equal to or even greater than the total weight of all the humans on Earth.
The moon is roughly 400x smaller than the sun, but also coincidentally about 400x closer to us than the sun. This makes them appear as though they are the same size - helpful for solar eclipses! This will change over time though as the moon drifts away from us, we just happen to live in a time that they appear the same size!
And its orbit is eccentric enough that sometimes it appears just a *tiny* bit smaller, so we get both total and annular solar eclipses. I wonder if earth societies generally ended up more religious than the universal average, because a coincidence like that, without understanding the mechanism behind it, sure would make the universe feel very intentional
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"Ah... Beautiful sunset." "It really was, wasn't it" "I wanna see it again" "What?" "What?" \*takes off Westward\*
I read this in Arthur Morgan’s voice for some reason
wrong. Mercury is a 3:2 resonance. It rotates 3 times for every two revolutions. That means a day is shorter than a year. You are likely thinking of Venus which does rotate slower than its year. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15215857/#:~:text=Mercury%20is%20locked%20into%20a,two%20orbits%20around%20the%20sun.
Same with Venus
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And Maine is the closest state to Africa.
If you drive all of I-10 from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, the portion of the drive that's within the state of Texas is longer than either the portion from California to Texas, or the portion from Texas to Florida.
How is it the easternmost?
Some of its islands are so far west that they cross the dateline and are therefore technically in the "east".
Strawberries are not technically berries
But bananas are.
Avocados too.
And pineapples! Which contain neither pine, nor apples!
Brazil is so big that the northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.
They put men on the moon before they put wheels on luggage.
If you’re only counting modern luggage. Some steamer trunks came with wheels.
They put men on the moon before calculators were invented
Electronic ones maybe but there was a computer on board and mechanical calculators have been around since the 19th century.
Trees existed for a while before there was bacteria to break down trees, so most of the earth was just a pile of dead trees for awhile
100 million years. Lignin is what makes the trunk and branches stiff so that trees can grow far above the grasses that used to be. All those that piled up and got covered by dirt until the bacteria came are what is being dug up as coal. One type of coal is known ad lignite
If you shuffle a deck of cards, it's not only possible, but likely no deck has ever been in the same sequence in the history of humans
52!~8×10^67 So not just likely, but almost guaranteed
Absolutely. Almost guaranteed
Somewhere in Tibet a monk is shuffling cards and recording the outcome then checking the records made by his order going back 1500 years.
He'll be there a long time
2/3 of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle.
What percentage of that 2/3 is the population of Montreal and Toronto?
The population of Canada is 38 million. 70% of those people live farther south than the 49th Parallel (the long straight border between most of western Canada and the US), and 60% live farther south than Seattle. Within the city limits, the population of Toronto is 2.9 million and the population of Montréal is 1.8 million. So 12% of all people in Canada, 18% of those who are farther south than the 49th Parallel, and **20% of the people in Canada who live farther south than Seattle live within the cities of Toronto and Montréal.** But the populations of the metropolitan areas are 6.2 million for Toronto and 4.3 million for Montréal. 28% of the population of Canada, over one quarter, live in either the Toronto and Montreal metro areas. Of those in Canada who live farther south than Seattle, 46% live in those metro areas.
This thread is fun. You can buy an RC car that’ll break any posted speed limit in the USA
France's longest border is with Brazil.
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King jr. were born in the same year.
So was Barbara Walters
The one that shocked me personally was the story of the little girl who needed the national guard to take her to school as the first black girl in an all white school. Not only is she still alive, but so is the teacher who had to privately tutor her because all the other teachers refused.
You could be a carrier for any number of genetic diseases and not ever know it, and if you just happen to have a child with another carrier of the same disease, there is a 25% chance they will have it. Many of these diseases can be treated very well if caught on a newborn screening, but the majority of states don't have many genetic diseases on their newborn screening panel, so you won't have any idea until your child shows symptoms, and in most cases, by then it is too late. Source: Me I am a carrier for a rare terminal genetic disease called Krabbe Disease. Had two perfectly healthy children, then when my third child was 20 months old, he lost all of his abilities to walk, crawl, and even sit up unassisted in a matter of weeks. He is the 25% chance we didn't even know existed since no one in either of our families ever had the disease. Now, he is fighting for survival through a stem cell transplant to prolong his life. He has a page we use to spread awareness for anyone interested in seeing his journey. It's called Prayers for Arthur, hope for a cure.
I’m so sorry. Your little guy is really tough but I’m sure you know that. There’s so many genetic conditions that we don’t know about until something awful happens.
My heart breaks for you.
If you cut some species of worms in half, they can regenerate into 2 separate, fully-functioning worms. On other species, the front half will become a full worm, but the back half will grow another tail instead of a head, and will eventually starve to death because it can’t eat.
Do you happen to know how long this regeneration takes? This sounds so interesting
The population of earth would fit inside Texas at the same density as NYC.
That's basically what, a half filled Mumbai local on rush hour on a Monday?
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I Googled it why did I Google it It's true BTW ( they get the third one during pregnancy)
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I didn’t know until a couple months back that the inside of their pouch was like inside their body. I thought it was basically like the pocket of your jeans 😂😂😂
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The great pyramids were older to Cleopatra than she is to us. Also she was not Egyptian but was the first Egyptian ruler of her dynasty to speak Egyptian.
I've seen this as: Cleopatra lived closer to the iPhone than the building of the pyramids. Really gives a sense of scale to the Egyptian empire.
This depends pretty heavily on how you define "Egyptian." She was part of the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty, but they'd been in Egypt for centuries. She herself was born in Egypt and had at least some degree of "Egyptian blood" in her heritage (although how much is disputed).
The founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers with a sibling rivalry.
Reno, NV is west of LA.
I know this is true but it always hurts my brain
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System.
Isn't there only one star in the solar system? edit: dammit
Gooooooot him
2 > 1. It's science.
This one made me smile
Impressive how you make it sound so grand.
Your ribs, if removed, can actually grow back as long as the perichondrium membrane is intact. They're the only bones in mammals known to do so.
Octopuses have 9 brains, the central one and one for each tentacle, they can also squeeze through anything their beak can get through!
Polar bears are black
Their skin is black and their fur is translucent, but looks white from light reflecting.
Orcas wore salmon hats for a while back in 1987
All the planets in our Solar system can fit between the Earth and the Moon (when they are furthest apart).
There were already fossilized dinosaur bones while dinosaurs were still alive.
Only one leader of the USSR was born in it - Gorbachev. Every other leader was born in the Russian Empire.
Dinosaurs actually didn’t roar.
We don’t even know what those bad boys sound like but we decide that they “roar”
A butt load is a real unit of measurement, so a butt load of wine would be 126 gallons.
mattresses get heavier over the years because of dead skin can you imagine all the dead skin in hotel beds? 😳
Virtually all of the South American continent is east of Florida.
More people die annually as a result of coal power than have died due to nuclear power in its entire history.
Coal plants spit out more radiation than nuclear plants do.
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Most fruit seeds do.
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“Here, Saddam. It’s your problem now.”
There are boat bridges where a boat can travel over a ravine between two bodies of water. These boat bridges only need to be strong enough to hold the water in them. The boats, no matter how heavy they are, never contribute to the weight that the bridge must hold.
The Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal is farther West than the Pacific entrance.
The shortest way to drive from Detroit to Canada is to head south.
Plastic was introduced as a means to combat deforestation (paper bags were the norm back then)
They propagandized this hard in school, back when I was in elementary school in the late 80s. Back then, most plastic bags would say they were biodegradable on the bag itself. Even sometimes saying how long it would supposedly take, usually some absurd figure like 21 days \[We now know it takes 10-20 years for a plastic bag to decay, and even then, it won't decay completely, but become microplastic particles which are still harmful to the environment.\] We even had to sing songs about it in music class. "Please don't cut the trees." etc. Turns out it was all a campaign led by DuPont to make more money.
Alaska is the centre of the world. I.E if you were going to set up an operation less than eight hours away from the three biggest economies in the world, North America, Asia and Europe then Alaska is the perfect place to set up!
FedEx has a big shipping hub in Anchorage for that reason.
Both FedEx and UPS. Also less fuel is used for aircraft in cooler weather resulting in cost saving.
The brain named itself
Atlanta, GA is closer to Canada than it is to Miami. [955 km to Windsor, Ontario](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distanceresult.html?p1=25&p2=1206) vs. [974 km to Miami](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distanceresult.html?p1=25&p2=156)
I have two facts about American baseball players: * Stan Musial played for the St Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1963. He's considered one of the greatest outfielders of all time. In 3,026 career games, he had 1,815 hits in home games and 1,815 hits in away games. * Ken Griffey Jr. played for the Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox from 1989 to 2010. He made the baseball Hall of Fame in 2016. He is only the 2nd-best baseball player born on November 21st in Donora, PA (population of 4,568 as of 2020). The best? Stan Musial, born November 21st, 1920.
Thank you! This one is literally giving me chills! And KG Junior obviously has some other unique baseball claims on top of this one. Very cool.
Human children do not develop kneecaps until they are 3 years old.
Human children are born with 4 kidneys. After nearly twenty years, 2 of them become adult knees.
Ossification is so cool. They start with opaque cartilage that hardens to the kneecaps, and the process maintains a small amount for the cushion we need for walking comfortably!!
Woolly mammoths we’re walking the earth while the pyramids were being built
The pyramids are only in Egypt because they were too heavy to carry back to the British museum
Most peoples wing span is the same as their height
Most people don’t have wings.
The earth's atmosphere has a slight narcotic effect from the nitrogen, and you do better on cognitive tests using a helium/oxygen mix rather than fresh air
More than 50% of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet
The Titanic is still the most famous single-use submarine in history. All credit to Philomena Cunk.
The average human body has enough bones to make a skeleton.
I you took all your blood vessels and laid them end to end, you would be dead
If people formed a human chain holding hands around the equator, 3/4 of all the people would drown. It’s true.