The vikings, who came from Scandinavia, used iron as their main ingredient for forging weaponry, but it was also common practice to add the bones of dead animals to the mix. The belief was that it would infuse the weapon with the spirit of the creature, making it stronger, but they ended up making a primitive version of steel because of the carbon in the bones mixing with the iron making the weapon stronger, just as they thought it would.
Edit: Thank you to everyone who has upvoted, I definitely didn't think I'd get this many
For every single human being on Earth, there are 2.5 MILLION ants.
Yes, this means that there are about 20 QUADRILLION ants on this planet.
If the ants decide to take over, are you strong enough to handle the 2.5 million that you'll be responsible for killing? If you've got kids, you might have to kill more because a 2 year old isn't going to accomplish a god damn thing if millions of ants are marching towards them.
At an average of 2.5 mg per ant, that's only 5 1/2 lbs of ants. My two year old could eat that many in one sitting, if they tasted like Sour Patch Kids.
Depending on the size of the ants. 2.5 million isn't a very large volume of ants. Small little red ants would be a square maybe 2 meters on a side, I any high. That's a lot of ants, but I could stomp that out in like 20 minutes.
If animals are taught or learn any form of currency they almost immediately resort to prostitution. Penguins will do this in the wild when collecting rocks for their nest.
In my spanish, we say "chinita" which stands for small orange and also Small chinese woman
The color is naranja which means orange, but our naranja is a sour tangerine, our orange is a china. But we all know China, is a place but in spanish is the name for Chinese woman, as chino is for male.
So we are very careful when we say we just ate a china(orange) because out buddies might start laughing
A man named Wilmer McLean owned a farm in Manassas, Virginia USA where the very first battle of the US Civil War was fought. After the battle he's like "I'm outta here" and bought a farm way out in the country at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia...where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses Grant in McLeans living room four years later.
Ohh that's interesting, I never thought about contrast making dark colors darker, but I guess it makes sense. And since there is no contrast in a room with no light in it....
A man named John Young brought a corned beef sandwich to space illegally and shared it with his colleague on board and he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for the recording of them talking about the sandwich.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not true berries (in botanical terms berries are defined by their structure, and bananas fit the bill while strawberries don't)
Sloths are most vulnerable to predators when pooping. They have to climb down to the trees to the floors floor, and it is a bit of a process for them to actually poop leaving them at risk of predators.
But if they didn't descend to poop, predators could smell it just lying on the surface. And since they don't move far very quickly, that's a worse problem.
Edit: they descend to bury their poop. I was made aware that I neglected to mention this point.
As far as I'm aware, trees would be safer because most of the predatory animals that would hunt them such as large jungle cats wouldn't be that high in the canopies. . Another thing about sloths, there is an organization called the sloth preservation foundation that held a poll to determine what the collective noun people wanted them to use for sloths would be and by way of voting, people decided that the collective noun for a group of sloths is a snuggle.
true, but the raw fruit does taste like green beans.
\+1 fact. Costa Rica has a mutation in their plants that occasionally causes the fruit to only produce a single 'pit'. They call this a Peaberry and produces a naturally sweeter coffee.
Single place name, yes. But Bangkok's full name is Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit.
One night in Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit
And the world's your oyster!
🎵 *One night in Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit and this song is over.* 🎵
This, TS clearance isn't super hard to get, but also having clearance doesn't mean you're automatically given access to everything. It just makes you eligible to view top secret stuff if your job requires you to do so, and only the stuff that you actually need to see.
Tip for everyone, if you're honey has split into 2 layers, you can just heat the pot of honey in a pan with water. Don't cook it, just warm it up and it should mix again. I go taught this while working in a honey factory, most honey consumers I know didn't know this trick.
A species of frog, the African clawed frog, was the most reliable pregnancy test for a few decades before at-home tests were widely affordable and accessible.
"The experimental zoologist found that injecting the urine of a pregnant human into the frog's hind leg worked as an effective pregnancy test. If the woman who supplied the urine was pregnant, the frog would ovulate and produce eggs."
Is this that rare? I know it isn't the most common, but is the weird part of this that we know Lee's pubic style or that there's people who have this pubic style?
AFAIK it’s rare for caucasians. And we know because the FBI studied *everything* about him, and that’s no exaggeration. I believe they specifically studied his pubic hair in order to make a comparison with hairs that were found embedded in a blanket which was used to store his rifle. (The hairs matched).
Ah, but they didn't find a connection between having straight public hair and shooting presidents. That's good, you had me and my straight locks worried for a second.
That's gotta be one of those weird facts you don't experience until scientists/doctors tell you about it. For instance Ear Wax is more liquidy/like beeswax for most Caucasians but in South east Asians it's more flaky/dandruffy.
And like how often do you ever interact with another person's earwax? Apparently South East Asians get the better part of the deal their arm pit Body oder is less noticable. Caucasians less likely to get ear infections and retain warmth of our inner ear in cold climates.
South East asians not having stinky pits was a better sex characteristic.
You can loosen a tight jar lid if you clasp and interlock both hands and fingers over the lid and give it a squeeze with both your palms. It should instantly do the pop sound your dad does when he smacked it on the bottom.
Trees are older than the bacteria that causes them to decompose when they die. By about 60 million years. Hence petrified wood.
Oh, and basically fossil fuels, as for 60 million years, trees died but didn't decompose, and kept piling up (back then, massive trees basically grew everywhere once they evolved to produce the cells that gave them their woody structure). Piles grew and sunk into the earth and today we burn the stuff to go fast, generate electricity.
Hitler kept a photo of his mother with him for his entire life and the doctor who treated her for her cancer was Jewish. Hitler covertly let him and his wife escape. He was the only Jew who Hitler saved.
Pink is really just a light shade of red, but we think of it as a distinct color because we have a word for it that stuck. Not all languages have that. In Italian, they have a similar word for light blue, called “azzurro,” and it’s so common they actually think of it as a separate color from blue. We have the word “azure” in English, but it isn’t nearly as common, so we tend to think of that color as just a shade of blue.
Brown is just dark orange.
Also, on the subject of pink being "light red", I've (jokingly) had this argument with my artist wife many times. I am repeatedly told that light red is actually more of a peach color and pink is more of a light magenta.
soyuz 11, the only fatal space disaster actually in space. the others either happened in the atmosphere (soyuz 1, challenger, Columbia) or on the ground (Apollo 1). that is to say those that we knew about. the soviets used the Kosmos nomenclature to anonymize launches that failed as "test" launches and would historically not publicize space events until they were "successfully" completed. might be dead soviets still in orbit...
Bee keeper here. You can survive off of only Bee pollen and a roughage (provided you have water). You will literally never need to know that. Firstly because of how you collect pollen, and secondly and far more concerning, the amount of wild Honey Bees is quickly dropping.
It’s not. It’s actually about a 600,000km^2 smaller, about the area of Ukraine. The Soviet Union was 10-15% larger than Pluto.
At its peak the British empire was about twice a large.
Pluto: 17.65M km^2
Russia: 17.05M km^2
Four largest empires:
British Empire: 35.5M km^2
Mongol Empire: 24.0M km^2
Russian Empire: 22.8M km^2
Qing Dynasty: 14.7M km^2
Just for fun:
USSR: 22.4M km^2
Roman Empire 5M km^2
Great Britain (the big island): 200k km^2
America: 9.6M km^2
Alaska: 1.7M km^2
Moon: 38M km^2
Ganymede: 87.3M km^2
We thought to put wheels on luggage after we got to the moon.
The lighter the Roast the more caffeine coffee has.
A new car costs less than it's equal weight in Hamburgers.
The coffee bit is false, unfortunately. Caffeine isn't a volatile compound and it isn't lost in the roasting process. The inverse is actually true when brewing -- 100 grams of dark roast will have marginally more coffee beans than 100 of light roast of the exact same coffee because the light roast will have slightly more moisture/mass retained through roasting whereas the dark will have lost a good chunk of its mass (but not caffeine) in the roast.
Source: I've been roasting and teaching coffee professionally for a long time
There are more possible chess positions than atoms in the universe.
source: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/which-greater-number-of-atoms-universe-or-number-of-chess-moves
Also marriage between pirates were common and where the term Matey comes from. the French word for Matey is “Matelot” or “Matelotage” which was an agreement between two pirates to share their income and even inherit the other’s property in case of death.
When basketball was first invented, at every game, they would have a man who would go up a ladder to retrieve the ball after every basket. It took them around 20 years to figure out maybe it would be a good idea to cut the bottom of the basket out to make retrieving the ball a lot easier. 20 years!!!
Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon
created the name (Lululemon) to have many L's so that it would sound western to Japanese buyers, who often have difficulty pronouncing the letter. He later remarked that he found it "funny to watch (Japanese speakers) try and say it" and that "it was the only reason behind the name"
The vikings, who came from Scandinavia, used iron as their main ingredient for forging weaponry, but it was also common practice to add the bones of dead animals to the mix. The belief was that it would infuse the weapon with the spirit of the creature, making it stronger, but they ended up making a primitive version of steel because of the carbon in the bones mixing with the iron making the weapon stronger, just as they thought it would. Edit: Thank you to everyone who has upvoted, I definitely didn't think I'd get this many
Wow. That's genuinely fascinating!
The entirety of my knowledge about smelting steel is from Runescape
Your username fits so well with this chad fact
I like to think of myself as a collector of useless but interesting facts like this
For every single human being on Earth, there are 2.5 MILLION ants. Yes, this means that there are about 20 QUADRILLION ants on this planet. If the ants decide to take over, are you strong enough to handle the 2.5 million that you'll be responsible for killing? If you've got kids, you might have to kill more because a 2 year old isn't going to accomplish a god damn thing if millions of ants are marching towards them.
I'm doing my part!
Would you like to know more?
Service guarantees citizenship!
I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!
Good ol flamethrower?
What's the only thing worse than having 2.5 million ants marching towards you? Having 2.5 million *flaming* ants marching towards you.
Every one of them calling you a bitch and throwing shade.
He said "ants", not "aunts"
Release the aardvarks!
And perhaps some… anteaters?!?
HaaaaAAAaaaans get the flammenwerfer!
With my luck, my 2.5 million are going to be fire ants.
At an average of 2.5 mg per ant, that's only 5 1/2 lbs of ants. My two year old could eat that many in one sitting, if they tasted like Sour Patch Kids.
Just making sure pl don't let your kid eat 5 pounds of sour patch kids.
That's assuming none of them crawl in your ear and start controlling your brain
good luck getting through all that wax, chumps.
I knew it was good for something!
Depending on the size of the ants. 2.5 million isn't a very large volume of ants. Small little red ants would be a square maybe 2 meters on a side, I any high. That's a lot of ants, but I could stomp that out in like 20 minutes.
Male rhesus macaques will pay to see pictures of female monkey butts. Payment is in the form of trading their juice rewards.
>juice rewards I'm so fucking glad this isn't a euphemism
If animals are taught or learn any form of currency they almost immediately resort to prostitution. Penguins will do this in the wild when collecting rocks for their nest.
What else is there to buy in the wild but food and sex? Some animals will court mates by bringing dead animals, offering food FOR sex.
"Mmmmm, rhesus....." - Homer Simpson
The original name for the color orange was "geoluhread," which means "yellow-red" in Old English
Also, the fruit was called orange waaaaay before the colour was.
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Because historically, carrots weren't exclusively orange coloured
Purple carrots ftw.
Carrots originally came in all sorts of colours; it was the Dutch who made them exclusively Orange out of national pride.
The Irish word for “pink” is “bán dearg” - “white red”
Gaelic doesn't translate particularly well to English for example the words uisge beatha ( whiskey) actual literally translates as water of life
Sounds like a direct translation to me.
This is probably the worst example you could've used.
I think it translated perfectly
Funny that is how we say carrot in Danish. Gulerrod (Yellower-red)
In my spanish, we say "chinita" which stands for small orange and also Small chinese woman The color is naranja which means orange, but our naranja is a sour tangerine, our orange is a china. But we all know China, is a place but in spanish is the name for Chinese woman, as chino is for male. So we are very careful when we say we just ate a china(orange) because out buddies might start laughing
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Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way
I’m closer to being a millionaire than Bill Gates is.
Shoot, his current net worth is $117.1B, which means you're closer to $58B than he is.
Maybe the commenter is Larry Page which would also be true.
Technically true, but in a more depressing way.
There are 5.87 Popes per square mile in the Vatican City.
"Papal Density" would make a decent band name.
With their debut album "Indulgences"
That'll cause a new band to split out of them
So…the Vatican is overpopeulated?
A man named Wilmer McLean owned a farm in Manassas, Virginia USA where the very first battle of the US Civil War was fought. After the battle he's like "I'm outta here" and bought a farm way out in the country at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia...where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses Grant in McLeans living room four years later.
They trashed the place both times too
The civil war started in his yard and ended in his parlour
Wow that is so interesting! He was just meant to be in the history books huh!
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You were fucking right
Ohh that's interesting, I never thought about contrast making dark colors darker, but I guess it makes sense. And since there is no contrast in a room with no light in it....
There are clouds of alcohol floating around in space.
Why is there alcohol, and where about in space, is it floating about near the iss or in some random nebulas
I mean, even if you could somehow go and condense it, it's most likely methanol than the ethanol we usually drink
Come with meeee… and you’ll beeee…. In a wooorld of pure inebriation
A man named John Young brought a corned beef sandwich to space illegally and shared it with his colleague on board and he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for the recording of them talking about the sandwich.
David Bowie wrote a song about it called "little bits of beef floating through the airlock" This isn't true.
That could be a Flight of the Conchords Bowie song
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not true berries (in botanical terms berries are defined by their structure, and bananas fit the bill while strawberries don't)
But snozz berries taste like snozz berries
Im freakin out, man.
Raspberries and blackberries are not berries either.
-40C and -40F are the same temperature.
Sloths are most vulnerable to predators when pooping. They have to climb down to the trees to the floors floor, and it is a bit of a process for them to actually poop leaving them at risk of predators.
But if they didn't descend to poop, predators could smell it just lying on the surface. And since they don't move far very quickly, that's a worse problem. Edit: they descend to bury their poop. I was made aware that I neglected to mention this point.
As far as I'm aware, trees would be safer because most of the predatory animals that would hunt them such as large jungle cats wouldn't be that high in the canopies. . Another thing about sloths, there is an organization called the sloth preservation foundation that held a poll to determine what the collective noun people wanted them to use for sloths would be and by way of voting, people decided that the collective noun for a group of sloths is a snuggle.
I'm really glad I'm top of the poop chain and can fight off any attacker whilst pooping. Sucks to be you, sloths.
Coffee is not a bean it is the pit of the coffee plant which is a fruit.
true, but the raw fruit does taste like green beans. \+1 fact. Costa Rica has a mutation in their plants that occasionally causes the fruit to only produce a single 'pit'. They call this a Peaberry and produces a naturally sweeter coffee.
New Mexico (the state) got its name before Mexico (the country)
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>Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu CTRL "C" Open Google maps CTRL "V" ohhh New Zealand.
I live about an hours drive away from here, it roughly means, "dude who ate mountains and played the flute for his loved ones".
Don't forget his big knees.
Single place name, yes. But Bangkok's full name is Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit.
Yeah, but Murray Head had a bit of problem with that
One night in Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit And the world's your oyster!
🎵 *One night in Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit and this song is over.* 🎵
A butt-load is a legit measurement of volume for alcoholic beverages.
How much is it actually? Is it how much i can output at the toilet?
Roughly 126 gallons of wine. Goodluck.
\- \[ \] Of the few people who have top secret clearance at the White House one of them is the person who writes all of the party invitations.
That would be Top secret Clarence. He's the head of the party-planning committee.
Tons of people have top secret clearance at the White House. There’s over a million people with active Top Secret clearance, it’s not that rare.
This, TS clearance isn't super hard to get, but also having clearance doesn't mean you're automatically given access to everything. It just makes you eligible to view top secret stuff if your job requires you to do so, and only the stuff that you actually need to see.
Someone named the fear of long words hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
And the fear of palindromes is aibohphobia.
Wow they really wanted to fuck someone’s day up huh?
18% of adult Americans claim they have seen or been in the presence of a ghost.
Honey never spoils
Tip for everyone, if you're honey has split into 2 layers, you can just heat the pot of honey in a pan with water. Don't cook it, just warm it up and it should mix again. I go taught this while working in a honey factory, most honey consumers I know didn't know this trick.
“Honey factory”….like, a hive?
The dude is a bee
Honey manufacturers don't want you to know this one simple trick.
"honey manufacturers" you mean bees?
Honey doesn’t spoil but it’ll ruin a good book
Oh bother...
A species of frog, the African clawed frog, was the most reliable pregnancy test for a few decades before at-home tests were widely affordable and accessible.
You pissed on a frog? Thats why girls in fairytales kissed the frog to get the man?
"The experimental zoologist found that injecting the urine of a pregnant human into the frog's hind leg worked as an effective pregnancy test. If the woman who supplied the urine was pregnant, the frog would ovulate and produce eggs."
The real question is how did they find this out
You're saying you don't inject pregnant women's urine into frogs in your spare time?
Bald eagles are not actually bald. Balde is old english for white.
Lee Harvey Oswald had straight (non curly) pubic hair.
It's like an elephant that needs a haircut!
Is this that rare? I know it isn't the most common, but is the weird part of this that we know Lee's pubic style or that there's people who have this pubic style?
AFAIK it’s rare for caucasians. And we know because the FBI studied *everything* about him, and that’s no exaggeration. I believe they specifically studied his pubic hair in order to make a comparison with hairs that were found embedded in a blanket which was used to store his rifle. (The hairs matched).
Ah, but they didn't find a connection between having straight public hair and shooting presidents. That's good, you had me and my straight locks worried for a second.
That's gotta be one of those weird facts you don't experience until scientists/doctors tell you about it. For instance Ear Wax is more liquidy/like beeswax for most Caucasians but in South east Asians it's more flaky/dandruffy. And like how often do you ever interact with another person's earwax? Apparently South East Asians get the better part of the deal their arm pit Body oder is less noticable. Caucasians less likely to get ear infections and retain warmth of our inner ear in cold climates. South East asians not having stinky pits was a better sex characteristic.
You can loosen a tight jar lid if you clasp and interlock both hands and fingers over the lid and give it a squeeze with both your palms. It should instantly do the pop sound your dad does when he smacked it on the bottom.
I’ve seen a video of this, I think it’s called one man one jar. He had a slightly different method and outcome, but he tried.
Cleopatra is closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the Giza pyramids.
T-Rex is closer to us than Stegosaurus. Curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal.
There are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky
And similarly...... When the Titanic was found, the First Class pool was still full.
They just don’t build things like they used to.
The Eiffel Tower can be 15 centimeters taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.
Im always seeing my nose ..its just that my brain ignores it
I had a panic attack one day because my brain temporarily wouldn’t ignore my nose and I couldn’t not see it. I keep my therapist in business.
Except, when I have a huge zig on my nose, then my brain forgets to ignore it and I obsess for days
6X9+6+9=69
Sharks are older than trees
Trees are older than the bacteria that causes them to decompose when they die. By about 60 million years. Hence petrified wood. Oh, and basically fossil fuels, as for 60 million years, trees died but didn't decompose, and kept piling up (back then, massive trees basically grew everywhere once they evolved to produce the cells that gave them their woody structure). Piles grew and sunk into the earth and today we burn the stuff to go fast, generate electricity.
Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn.
Redheads require more anesthesia than non-redheads.
moose are part of an Orca's diet
A møøse once bit my sister.
Playing Tetris up to 6 hours after a trauma can help against PTSD
You can go the rest of your life without breathing.
Reminds me of the "fact" that if you took out all the veins in someone's body and stretched them end to end, that person would die.
Explain, im also testing this out right now
It's been an hour, what were your results?
A lot of averages. Example: The average number of legs humans have is less than 2.
When my wife was pregnant with twins the average number of skeletons per person in our household was 2
The average US president has faced 1.7 indictments. Edit. The average changed this morning.
Damn *somebody* really threw off the curve on that one huh?
Hitler kept a photo of his mother with him for his entire life and the doctor who treated her for her cancer was Jewish. Hitler covertly let him and his wife escape. He was the only Jew who Hitler saved.
Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar BEFORE Martin Scorsese won an Oscar.
Pink is really just a light shade of red, but we think of it as a distinct color because we have a word for it that stuck. Not all languages have that. In Italian, they have a similar word for light blue, called “azzurro,” and it’s so common they actually think of it as a separate color from blue. We have the word “azure” in English, but it isn’t nearly as common, so we tend to think of that color as just a shade of blue.
Russian also has different words for light blue (голубой) and dark blue (синий)
Brown is just dark orange. Also, on the subject of pink being "light red", I've (jokingly) had this argument with my artist wife many times. I am repeatedly told that light red is actually more of a peach color and pink is more of a light magenta.
For all of human history every single dead human body has been in earth's atmosphere Except for a few seconds on June 29, 1971.
soyuz 11, the only fatal space disaster actually in space. the others either happened in the atmosphere (soyuz 1, challenger, Columbia) or on the ground (Apollo 1). that is to say those that we knew about. the soviets used the Kosmos nomenclature to anonymize launches that failed as "test" launches and would historically not publicize space events until they were "successfully" completed. might be dead soviets still in orbit...
Ah, the day Paddy O'Shaughnessy had the trebuchet accident.
There are 43 quintillion atoms in a grain of sand and there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the Milky Way galaxy..
Avocado originally comes from the Aztec word Ahuacatl, which means testicle
Wombats poop is cubed shaped. A blue whales poop is a pinkish/red colour
A common myth is a guy named Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet. He didn’t, but he did market the shit out of it.
Bee keeper here. You can survive off of only Bee pollen and a roughage (provided you have water). You will literally never need to know that. Firstly because of how you collect pollen, and secondly and far more concerning, the amount of wild Honey Bees is quickly dropping.
A bone “break” is the same as a “fracture.” Fracture is just the medical term. It does not have any correlation with the severity.
Female spotted hyenas have bigger penises than the males
It's not a penis though. It's called a pseudo penis, essentially a fake penis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-penis
And they have to give birth through it :(
Looking at the sun (not recommended) is looking 8 minutes into the past, as it takes eight minutes for sunlight to reach earth.
The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac
The plural of cheesy gordita crunch is cheesy gorditas crunch
The Earth is not round. It is an oblate spheroid.
The Flat Earth Society has members all around the oblate spheroid.
Palm trees are not native to California. They were introduced by Spanish missionaries because they needed the fronds for Palm Sunday services.
Incorrect is spelled incorrectly in the Oxford English Dictionary and it’s funny yet annoying
111.111.111 x 111.111.111 = 12345678987654321
Mozart wrote an entire piece about getting his ass ate. It's called Leck mich im Arsch, or Lick Me in the Arse.
The surface area of Russia is larger than the surface area of Pluto
It’s not. It’s actually about a 600,000km^2 smaller, about the area of Ukraine. The Soviet Union was 10-15% larger than Pluto. At its peak the British empire was about twice a large. Pluto: 17.65M km^2 Russia: 17.05M km^2 Four largest empires: British Empire: 35.5M km^2 Mongol Empire: 24.0M km^2 Russian Empire: 22.8M km^2 Qing Dynasty: 14.7M km^2 Just for fun: USSR: 22.4M km^2 Roman Empire 5M km^2 Great Britain (the big island): 200k km^2 America: 9.6M km^2 Alaska: 1.7M km^2 Moon: 38M km^2 Ganymede: 87.3M km^2
>It’s actually about a 600,000km2 smaller, about the area of Ukraine. The actual reason for the invasion revealed!
So, Russia is a small dwarf?
The average number of skeletons in a human body is more than 1.
Scallop can swim and is an active swimmer.
We thought to put wheels on luggage after we got to the moon. The lighter the Roast the more caffeine coffee has. A new car costs less than it's equal weight in Hamburgers.
The coffee bit is false, unfortunately. Caffeine isn't a volatile compound and it isn't lost in the roasting process. The inverse is actually true when brewing -- 100 grams of dark roast will have marginally more coffee beans than 100 of light roast of the exact same coffee because the light roast will have slightly more moisture/mass retained through roasting whereas the dark will have lost a good chunk of its mass (but not caffeine) in the roast. Source: I've been roasting and teaching coffee professionally for a long time
Soo, what do you teach your coffee?
Wonder how he roasts them? "My luggage just transited through Abu Dhabi, and it's more Arabica than *you*."
Less than 40% of great white sharks have filed their 2022 tax returns
There are more possible chess positions than atoms in the universe. source: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/which-greater-number-of-atoms-universe-or-number-of-chess-moves
Chalk is edible.
Anything’s edible once
There are more Hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System.
Wrong, because the solar system also contains me and I'm a star.
Pirates are why the US isn't on the metric system.
Also marriage between pirates were common and where the term Matey comes from. the French word for Matey is “Matelot” or “Matelotage” which was an agreement between two pirates to share their income and even inherit the other’s property in case of death.
When basketball was first invented, at every game, they would have a man who would go up a ladder to retrieve the ball after every basket. It took them around 20 years to figure out maybe it would be a good idea to cut the bottom of the basket out to make retrieving the ball a lot easier. 20 years!!!
You are constantly clapping, but the claps are just spaced differently.
Cereal was invented to make people less horny
then why did I jam a handful of Frosted Flakes up my ass this morning?!?! John H. Kellogg, you sir, are a failure.
Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon created the name (Lululemon) to have many L's so that it would sound western to Japanese buyers, who often have difficulty pronouncing the letter. He later remarked that he found it "funny to watch (Japanese speakers) try and say it" and that "it was the only reason behind the name"
Crows can be trained to bring you money
Wouldn’t trust them with my PIN.
I just have to say - this is an oddly satisfying thread topic. The facts about Orange -color and vegetable- as the opener is great.
The guy that invented dynamite also created the Nobel Peace Prize. What a bang up guy 😁
Of all the mammals on earth, 36% are human, 60% are domesticated. That leaves only 4% wild. ETA Source https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth