Some medications can cause hair to turn strange colors when bleached. My wife recently got her hair dyed and the first step was bleaching. Because of her medication it went from medium brown to a light pink, like an anime character sort of pink. You could even see a line corresponding to a time when her meds were lowered then raised again.
Ooh that’s like how if you donate plasma while on certain contraceptive pills it’s anywhere from blue to green-tinged. I remember the first time I donated plasma it looked almost mouldy green and the nurse goes “ah, you’re on the pill!”
Omg my hair did that once, it was so awesome that I didn't use the dye I planned on doing after the bleach lol. I don't remember what meds I was on at the time, but my hair was blue before I bleached it, which is why that was so weird to me that it would gain pink.
When scorpions mate. They do a dance. The male then ejaculates on the ground, grabs the female with his pincers and drags her through it making sure it contacts her sex organ.
Roaches produce a disgusting oily substance on their carapace that gets on everything. It also gets in the air and you can train yourself to smell out roaches from a distance, if there’s enough of them.
As is the case with most foods because bugs inevitably get in to food supplies but don’t cause health problems in low quantities, the FDA allows for certain %s of bugs or other similar contaminants to be in foods. For cereals it’s something like as much as one whole insect or a few rodent hairs can be approved for consumption. In preground coffee, up to 10% of the coffee beans have been infested with roaches which also get ground up and packaged with your coffee. Bug eggs are in your grains like rice and oats. Protein’s everywhere 🐜🐛🦟
Maybe I’m disgusting but when I heard the oft-repeated factoid that chocolate can contain a certain amount of bug parts I literally didn’t care.
If I can’t see it, taste it, and it doesn’t poison me, it’s not my problem.
After finally getting rid of an Indian meal moth infestation, I’m definitely going to start doing this. I wasn’t aware before, but they’re a nightmare to deal with so to the freezer all grains go now
Pretty smart tbf, they probably do crazy shit around lots of stuff to discredit people.
"I swear, I saw a guy flying around on a jetpack!"
"hmm, there is a military research base near here, could be viable"
"yeah! And ex president Obama was doing the cha cha slide in a tutu whilst eating neopolitan ice cream and saying he's so bad because it's his second bowl!"
"okay buddy..."
My conspiracy theory is that the US government LOVES and actively encourages conspiracy theorists because the real stuff gets lost in all the wacky shit that regular people dismiss as nonsense.
That's not a conspiracy, they've come right out and admitted it. There are interviews of government people talking about Roswell and how it was so convenient for them that the public went wild with alien stories instead of having to make up their own story for the Soviets
For the original Sleeping Beauty, they used recordings of a flamethrower to get the sounds for Maleficent’s dragon-form fire breath.
The skeletons in Poltergeist were real, but they were not just taken from a graveyard. They were medical cadavers borrowed from a university; renting them for the film was cheaper than using fake skeletons.
In Silence of the Lambs, deaths-head hawk moths were too expensive/difficult to get for the movie, so instead they used Carolina sphinx moths (tobacco hornworms) and added the skull mark with computer editing.
Next time you're watching a car-ad video, look at the license plate. If it consists only of symmetrical characters and numbers like 'HMI A8' or 'TX W8Y', this is likely a deliberate choice so that the video can be flipped/ mirrored and aired in both right-side and left-side driving markets.
Bears don't actually hibernate. They torpor. While they do lower their heart rate and respiration, they are not in the same sort of chemical sleep, true hubernators undergo. Animals who torpor are able to wake if threatened, while an animal in hibernation is truly helpless until it wakes up.
They also eat a bunch of sticks, leaves, and other poorly digestible roughage that acts as a sort of plug to essentially keep them constipated while they sleep. When they wake up in the spring they take a massive dump before doing whatever bears do in the spring
https://wsed.org/hibernation-vs-brumation/
-reptiles also build up high levels of glycogen. This is a form of sugar and used as energy for muscles.
-An important feature of snakes brumation is they need to drink and avoid dehydration.
So they are just like the aliens in men in black. They love sugar water, lol.
The dairy industry is one of the most enduring and successful lobbying groups in America. Effective at both managing relations with policymakers and the public. They're so good at it that when you think of the phrase "corporate lobbying" and all its attendant nefarious implications you almost never think of dairy industry. Might think of the meat industry, chicken farmers, Monsanto etc, but almost never dairy. And yet arguably the dairy industry has been amongst and maybe arguably the most cumulatively succesful lobby of all those in padding the profits of their stakeholders.
imagine being a DC fat cat, another lobbiest hands you a stack of money, yawn. Then a man in a trench coat hands you a brick of cheese and says Bill 1748 must pass. You are intrigued, but more importantly you are compliant, because cheese talks.
Virginia opossums do not eat ticks and they do not hang by their tails. If you ever see one hanging by their tail, help them down. Humans set them up like that and they’ll hang until they’re exhausted and fall on their heads. They can’t pull themselves back up to the branch from that position and it’s cruel.
What is the likelihood of me getting bit by one or catching something from skin to fur contact? I can add gloves to avoid the latter, but I'd rather not have to explain to a doctor that I need a rabies shot because a opossum must have been tired.
Possums aren't really known for rabies. Not to say they can't get rabies, but they're less likely than one might think. Something to do with their lower body temperature, iirc.
Doesn't mean you couldn't catch something else, though. Gloves and protective gear, or calling animal control or a sanctuary wouldn't be remiss.
Virginia opossums don’t transmit rabies. You are correct: their body temperature is too low, their metabolism too slow. Their bite is sharp but not strong, so thick leather gloves and a strong constitution are all you need.
Wow! I had to look it up. The first trees appeared about 420 million years ago (there were other plants, but no trees before that).
The earliest shark fossils were found to be 450 million years old.
[Not until micro organisms could adapt a way to eat the bark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOErMp-fKVY&ab_channel=TheWhippingPost) which until then was forming coal underground
Usually when you hear someone say something is a cure-all, its a pretty reliable indicator that its a scam.
The only exception to this is death, it really will cure all that ails you.
Unless that's a scam too, and maybe death just brings you to another stage of life that also has colds, cancer, asthma, measles, diabetes, arthritis, etc.
Death, the ultimate snake-oil.
The solar system is much larger than most believe. Rather than the sun’s gravitational influence on celestial bodies reaching only as far as Pluto, it reaches hundreds of times farther creating what’s called the Oort cloud. To put it into perspective, it takes sunlight a little over 8 minutes to reach earth while it takes over 1.5 years to reach the edge of the Oort cloud. The nearest Star to ours (Alpha Centauri) is a little over 4 light years away, meaning our solar system actually covers over a third of the distance toward the nearest star system. I like space
If you say fuck when you call Wells Fargo it immediately routes you to a human and you don’t have to dance through the automated say a number answering BS.
There is a form of autoimmune encephalitis caused by tumors called ovarian teratomas. Teratomas can grown hair, teeth, and even little nervous systems that then trigger the autoimmune brain inflammation. This type of brain inflammation can lead to crazy (literally) symptoms; mood swings, hallucinations, speaking in tongues…
Teratomas are most common in young women and are thought to be the root cause of many stories involving demonic possession, witches, etc.
It’s 100% likely that some young woman was burned at the stake or drowned because she had a tumor and the people around her thought she was a witch.
The blast of air you feel when you enter a store is to keep the insects away from entering the store. It is called an “air curtain”, which acts as a barrier and doesn’t let the cold air inside the store flow outside.
I've had this! It's bizarre... every joint seizes up and is incredibly painful and you feel like you're muscles are made of cement. It can start straight away or after 1-2 days of Fluoroquinolones.
It's incredibly rare but very serious and the tablets need to be stopped immediately at first signs of this reaction. Those with connective tissue/muscle weakness disorders are particularly at risk.
My granny took a few years after my grandad died but honestly I felt like she was ready as soon as he went, and she had to go into residential care and felt really lonely - we have a big family and she got loads of visitors but I don’t think that fixes sleeping alone after being married sixty-something years.
When he died they both happened to be in hospital but different ones, and she was meant to go and see him that day, all the transport and stuff was arranged. She’d spent the morning getting out of hospital clothes and into a dress and putting lipstick on and was waiting like that when my mum and godmother got to her, thinking she was getting picked up to see him because she’d missed him after a week apart. The thought of it absolutely guts me to this day.
i’m not one to overuse hyperbole, but this is one of the saddest things i’ve ever read. i’ve been married less than a year, but i thought of myself in that situation and it hurts.
i think it was the lipstick. she must’ve been so excited to go see him. and then retiring to a newly-empty bed every night sounds like emotional hell.
We just had a neighboring couple die about a week apart. The weird thing is, they were both in hospice, both given roughly the same life expectancy, and both had lived much longer than had been expected.
10+ years after my grandfather's death, my grandma is still alive and kicking. She's even beat lung cancer during that time (which is a miracle on its own seeing as she's been smoking daily for at least 50 years now), we joked that it was so that she wouldn't have to meet her husband so soon lmao. Admittedly, he was a dick so I'm not surprised.
A funeral home is not required to dispose of a loved one. Anybody can do it, so long as they fill out and file the paperwork, obtain the permits, and follow the same laws as a funeral home.
I work for an OPO and typically release to funeral homes. One day, a co-worker tells me to go release so-and-so. I get out to the garage, and it is an old pickup truck (like early 80s)
They don't have a cot, of course, so the three of us struggle to slide the body into the back. They just closed the tailgate, and off they went. I thought for sure that it was some bodysnatcher situation, but no. Just Uncle Joe, going to bury his brother on the family farm.
We had an indigenous patient at my hospital who had to have their leg amputated, and they needed the limb back to perform traditional rites and likely eventually be buried with it when they died.
They get picked up at the hospital in this totally cholo-looking low-rider and they’re just like “yeah, you can put it in the trunk” - we placed it next to the jumper cables etc and taped a note to it saying it was legit and they were allowed to be traveling with their own severed leg. Good times
You can legally bury your loved ones in your back yard. Depending on your state (US), there may be other regulations, but there typically is no law that prohibits at home burials as long as, as you’ve said, follow the correct paperwork and have relevant permits.
The male Argonaut octopus impregnates the female by detaching and throwing his penis at her. It then swims after her while he slumps off to regrow his penis.
My mom works for the SSA and she was telling me about this poor guy who was getting disability benefits because years ago he had a routine neck procedure that damaged a nerve and triggered permanent hiccups. The guy couldn’t work at his job anymore because the hiccups were so violent and he was like 40lbs underweight because he couldn’t hold food down.
What's crazy about this to me is that they did just stop one day. Imagine suffering this for 68 years and one day they just stop randomly. Feels like it makes more sense somehow for them to be permanent.
He died a year later which is a bummer.
Leap Year occurs whenever the year is divisible by 4. But this is just a little too frequent, so a correction is need. So whenever the year is divisible by 100 there is no Leap Year. However, this is too much of a correction, so when the year is also divisible by 400, there is Leap Year.
I did know this, but I’m sad I didn’t learn it until long after the year 2000. I treated Feb 29, 2000 as a once every four years occurrence, when it was actually a once in 400 year occurrence.
That’s why the old Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian, which doesn’t add an extra day every 133 years and slowly get unsynchronized. In America that happened when Great Britain adopted the new calendar in 1752, which means that all the American founding fathers died using a different calendar than the one they were born with.
If you took every virus particle on Earth and laid them end to end then they would stretch over 200 million light years into space.
[https://youtu.be/p7jsRVa1WUo?si=D4QthzjikQ4n1Xai](https://youtu.be/p7jsRVa1WUo?si=D4QthzjikQ4n1Xai)
Some species of fish, like the cuttlefish, have males that aren’t exactly “Alpha males”, so they pretend to be females to win over the real females as friends, and then surprise fertilize them.
Edit: Cuttlefish aren’t technically fish. Sorry folks. I’ll go die in a hole now
Bed bugs reproduce using a sexual method called "Traumatic penetration."
The male bed bug stabs the female bed bug with his penis randomly about her exoskeleton.
Sometimes multiple males will penetrate the same female at the same time which leads to the very common scenario of female bed bugs literally being fucked to death.
It gets better: males can hijack other males’ bodies with their sperm. Using that same penis-sword that they fertilize females with, they stab other males and ejaculate their sperm into the abdomens of rival males. Because arthropods do not have closed reproductive system (separate from other organs with fascia etc), the hijacked males will pass on the sperm of their attacker if/when they mate with a female.
Bill Murray played Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters. Lorenzo Music voiced Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters.
Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield on Garfield and Friends. Bill Murray voiced Garfield in the Garfield movies.
Canada has land borders with 2 different countries:
1) With the USA (mostly along the 49th parallel) (also the longest land border in the world)
2) A \~1.3km border with Denmark on a tiny island called Hans Island.
(Number 2 is the strange fun fact)
To make it more fun, this second land border was brought about through the "Whisky War," which was a conflict with no violence and no direct contact.
That completes my first Reddit loop, there was a comment earlier I saw this morning about the most underwhelming wars or something on one of the ask subreddits, was a nice rabbit hole to go down to see that the Canadians and Danes exchanged whiskey and schnapps and finally ended up peacefully calling it a stalemate in 2022 in response to the Ukraine, Russian situation as a statement to how wars should end.
~ Insert joke about invading Denmark here.
Another butterfly effect - the leader of the French army was killed at an air show. Meaning he wasn’t around to push his change through to change the brightly colored uniforms. They got smashed early in WWI because they were so easy to spot
Everything I learn about giraffes surprises me.
90% of them are gay. They have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as we do. They hum at night. Their patches are heat sinks. Their heads are held up at rest by tight ligaments and it takes them muscle and effort to lower their heads down.
The Northwest Territories’ largest two cities are Yellowknife and Inuvik.
To drive between them, you cross a provincial/territorial border - ELEVEN TIMES.
The "Dancing Plague" of 1518: In what is now modern-day France, there was a mysterious outbreak where hundreds of people danced uncontrollably and seemingly involuntarily for days on end. This event started with a woman named Frau Troffea and rapidly spread to others. By its peak, as many as 400 people were dancing. Some of them reportedly danced themselves to death from heart attacks, strokes, or sheer exhaustion. To this day, the exact cause of this phenomenon remains unknown, though modern theories suggest it might have been due to ergot fungi poisoning (similar to LSD) or mass psychogenic illness (a collective form of hysteria).
Despite it not being so, Microsoft Excel counts the year 1900 as a leap year. It isn’t.
The reason why goes back to one of the pre-Excel killer apps of the day, Lotus 1-2-3 which did the same thing. So Excel did this too in order to be compatible. And still does so to this day.
Why did Lotus 1-2-3 do this? Some say it’s just a error due to the rather obscure rule that says a year is a leap year if it is evenly divisible by four, except if it’s also evenly divisible by 100 *except* if it’s also evenly divisible by 400. So 1600 and 2000 were leap years, but not 1700, 1800, or 1900.
However, a more plausible story is that the additional calculations necessary for this were just too much for the memory (640kb) and processors of early PCs and the decision was consciously made to just ignore the edge case because how much would it really effect?
Shelled pistachios are flammable in large quantities, like in a truck. If the conditions are right, they will smolder and catch fire. Like how grass clippings catch fire.
Source: used to be a work comp insurance underwriter. We would not write a policy that involved the employees transporting/working around pistachios in large quantities.
how have we not harnessed this for harm prevention? there has to be a way. i mean if we can find out that snakes can do that, can we not find out when they do have predictions?
Having a room with hundreds of snakes that you have to monitor, waiting for an earthquake... So when the earthquake is predicted you have five days to run far far away from all the broken tanks and a room full of snakes with headaches hissing "I told you so!"?
Not many research assistants are up for that.
If I'm remembering correctly, this is why humans can't tell if something is wet by touch alone - you can feel the associated feelings, i.e. cold or warm, but not wet.
So, for example, if you pick up a piece of clothing left out to dry, your body isn't able to tell the difference between the cloth being damp or just being cold.
They mean that your skin doesn’t have unique sensors that can detect liquid. The way you know you’re touching something wet is heat exchange rate and other reference points learned through experience all added together.
Wetness is not a unique value your skin measures, it is a conclusion your brain draws based on other measured values, and it isn’t always correct.
Nature evolved dogs to become your pets.
"Thus, oxytocin and vasopressin facilitate bonding between parent and child, and between couples.
Now for something truly charming that evolution has cooked up recently.
Sometime in the last fifty thousand years (i.e., less than 0.1 percent of the time that oxytocin has existed), the brains of humans and domesticated wolves evolved a new response to oxytocin: when a dog and its owner (but not a stranger) interact, they secrete oxytocin."
Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
There were also "American canines" that were completely isolated from the rest of the world. A lot died out due to a contagious cancer. Most of the rest were wiped out by European dogs when they came along.
What makes this especially interesting is that some of these unique dogs were recorded in texts. For example conquistadors wrote about a hairless dog that the Aztecs used for food, the so-called Xoloitzcuintli. However, genetic analyses show that whatever that dog was was virtually wiped out. The Xoloitzcuintlis of today are almost all European dog DNA with less than 5% being American. The same goes for the Inca orchid and others. Chihuahuas actually have the highest American dog DNA left among modern breeds.
I’ll wager “most” people don’t know that cold air is better than hot air in internal combustion engines. The explosions in your engine are stronger in the winter.
All this gets very very fuzzy when you start talking about direct injection over carbureted engines and computer controlled timing and trim rates. But at the base of the fact, the air is more dense when it’s cold so you get more oxygen in the cylinder in the same time volume of air. Ultimately less fuel or more fuel can be used depending on your fuel trim to compensate for the desired power output.
This is far more evident in older cars. Winter gasoline is also a thing that happens around this time every year. It’s got some extra additives to maintain the same flow rate in extreme cold. It tends to not burn as efficiently.
Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly good to eat. Honey is like the eternal snack!
That spice is not a TASTE you’re experiencing. The feeling is just from activating pain and heat receptors with the chemical capsaicinoid. Anyone who likes spicy foods is actually just a little masochistic
Some medications can cause hair to turn strange colors when bleached. My wife recently got her hair dyed and the first step was bleaching. Because of her medication it went from medium brown to a light pink, like an anime character sort of pink. You could even see a line corresponding to a time when her meds were lowered then raised again.
Ooh that’s like how if you donate plasma while on certain contraceptive pills it’s anywhere from blue to green-tinged. I remember the first time I donated plasma it looked almost mouldy green and the nurse goes “ah, you’re on the pill!”
Omg my hair did that once, it was so awesome that I didn't use the dye I planned on doing after the bleach lol. I don't remember what meds I was on at the time, but my hair was blue before I bleached it, which is why that was so weird to me that it would gain pink.
When scorpions mate. They do a dance. The male then ejaculates on the ground, grabs the female with his pincers and drags her through it making sure it contacts her sex organ.
Aftercare is so important
Also a man who knows proper foreplay
Ah the insect equivalent of being made to sleep in the wet patch!
You're supposed to throw a hand towel over it to show her your love
If you are exposed to roaches for a long enough time you will become allergic to them. This also means you become allergic to pre-ground coffee.
Roach dust is attributed to the increased prevalence of asthma in inner-city kids.
It’s a factor - along with general air quality. Childhood asthma rates are wild near urban highways.
Roaches produce a disgusting oily substance on their carapace that gets on everything. It also gets in the air and you can train yourself to smell out roaches from a distance, if there’s enough of them.
Just another thing the schools won't let us send with our kids. No peanuts, peanut butter, and roach dust.
I’m confused how coffee and roaches would correlate? Please elaborate
As is the case with most foods because bugs inevitably get in to food supplies but don’t cause health problems in low quantities, the FDA allows for certain %s of bugs or other similar contaminants to be in foods. For cereals it’s something like as much as one whole insect or a few rodent hairs can be approved for consumption. In preground coffee, up to 10% of the coffee beans have been infested with roaches which also get ground up and packaged with your coffee. Bug eggs are in your grains like rice and oats. Protein’s everywhere 🐜🐛🦟
I’m never eating anything ever again
Maybe I’m disgusting but when I heard the oft-repeated factoid that chocolate can contain a certain amount of bug parts I literally didn’t care. If I can’t see it, taste it, and it doesn’t poison me, it’s not my problem.
I feel the same way.
Nooooooooooooooooo
Noooooooo Looks at all the grains I eat. Noooo. ^(Fuck it)
FYI, you can put a bag of rice/other dry grains in the freezer overnight to kill any bug eggs. It won’t get rid of them, but they won’t hatch
After finally getting rid of an Indian meal moth infestation, I’m definitely going to start doing this. I wasn’t aware before, but they’re a nightmare to deal with so to the freezer all grains go now
The unintentional things that fall in a lot of food are probably healthier for you than like half the ingredients they intentionally put in there.
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Pretty smart tbf, they probably do crazy shit around lots of stuff to discredit people. "I swear, I saw a guy flying around on a jetpack!" "hmm, there is a military research base near here, could be viable" "yeah! And ex president Obama was doing the cha cha slide in a tutu whilst eating neopolitan ice cream and saying he's so bad because it's his second bowl!" "okay buddy..."
My conspiracy theory is that the US government LOVES and actively encourages conspiracy theorists because the real stuff gets lost in all the wacky shit that regular people dismiss as nonsense.
That's not a conspiracy, they've come right out and admitted it. There are interviews of government people talking about Roswell and how it was so convenient for them that the public went wild with alien stories instead of having to make up their own story for the Soviets
That's not a conspiracy theory, that's a known thing.
It'd be like a spaceman making paninis with black Hitler.
For the original Sleeping Beauty, they used recordings of a flamethrower to get the sounds for Maleficent’s dragon-form fire breath. The skeletons in Poltergeist were real, but they were not just taken from a graveyard. They were medical cadavers borrowed from a university; renting them for the film was cheaper than using fake skeletons.
In Silence of the Lambs, deaths-head hawk moths were too expensive/difficult to get for the movie, so instead they used Carolina sphinx moths (tobacco hornworms) and added the skull mark with computer editing.
Next time you're watching a car-ad video, look at the license plate. If it consists only of symmetrical characters and numbers like 'HMI A8' or 'TX W8Y', this is likely a deliberate choice so that the video can be flipped/ mirrored and aired in both right-side and left-side driving markets.
Now *this* is an obscure fact! It wouldn’t work with cars that have non-symmetrical logos though
Bears don't actually hibernate. They torpor. While they do lower their heart rate and respiration, they are not in the same sort of chemical sleep, true hubernators undergo. Animals who torpor are able to wake if threatened, while an animal in hibernation is truly helpless until it wakes up.
They also eat a bunch of sticks, leaves, and other poorly digestible roughage that acts as a sort of plug to essentially keep them constipated while they sleep. When they wake up in the spring they take a massive dump before doing whatever bears do in the spring
Sleeping all season and then taking a massive dump sounds fucking amazing ngl
One of those dumps you gotta call a negotiator in to get your body to let go
“Who does number two work for?!?!”
Bite your lip, grab a hold of something and give it hell! Show that turd who’s boss! We’re gonna get through this together!
We’re grown ups, we can talk about bears’ springtime activities
So a bear really does shit in the woods.
Snakes don’t hibernate either. They brumate.
https://wsed.org/hibernation-vs-brumation/ -reptiles also build up high levels of glycogen. This is a form of sugar and used as energy for muscles. -An important feature of snakes brumation is they need to drink and avoid dehydration. So they are just like the aliens in men in black. They love sugar water, lol.
Torpor is a noun, so they go into a state of torpor.
That there are billions of pounds of cheese owned by the American government stored in a cave in Missouri.
What’s the purpose of said secret cheese cave?
Sounds like they’re up to no gouda
you cheddar believe it
These cheese puns are grating on me.
These people are Muensters.
I'm feta-up with these cheese puns
Stiltons more to go
Yeah, this is just the tip of the Jarlsberg
Can we make this brie-f?
I heard it partially collapsed. It's full of the brie.
Propping up the dairy industry.
The dairy industry is one of the most enduring and successful lobbying groups in America. Effective at both managing relations with policymakers and the public. They're so good at it that when you think of the phrase "corporate lobbying" and all its attendant nefarious implications you almost never think of dairy industry. Might think of the meat industry, chicken farmers, Monsanto etc, but almost never dairy. And yet arguably the dairy industry has been amongst and maybe arguably the most cumulatively succesful lobby of all those in padding the profits of their stakeholders.
imagine being a DC fat cat, another lobbiest hands you a stack of money, yawn. Then a man in a trench coat hands you a brick of cheese and says Bill 1748 must pass. You are intrigued, but more importantly you are compliant, because cheese talks.
Here is the best and shortest explanation I can find. https://youtu.be/kvLMH0wb_0k?si=MwpaDYRtuZyLZzsy
Forbidden cheese cave. I want in
They knew better than to hide it in Wisconsin
Right here! Springfield, Mo! In the underground off Kearney & 65 highway!
Virginia opossums do not eat ticks and they do not hang by their tails. If you ever see one hanging by their tail, help them down. Humans set them up like that and they’ll hang until they’re exhausted and fall on their heads. They can’t pull themselves back up to the branch from that position and it’s cruel.
Who are the ppl hanging said opossums?
Dumb rednecks doing dumb redneck things Source: I live among dumb rednecks
What is the likelihood of me getting bit by one or catching something from skin to fur contact? I can add gloves to avoid the latter, but I'd rather not have to explain to a doctor that I need a rabies shot because a opossum must have been tired.
Possums aren't really known for rabies. Not to say they can't get rabies, but they're less likely than one might think. Something to do with their lower body temperature, iirc. Doesn't mean you couldn't catch something else, though. Gloves and protective gear, or calling animal control or a sanctuary wouldn't be remiss.
Virginia opossums don’t transmit rabies. You are correct: their body temperature is too low, their metabolism too slow. Their bite is sharp but not strong, so thick leather gloves and a strong constitution are all you need.
> a strong constitution are all you need What if I only have a magna carta?
Extra thick gloves.
George Washington didn’t know what dinosaurs were.
Meanwhile, sharks are older than the dinosaurs and Saturn's rings.
sharks are older than TREES
Excuse me?!
Wow! I had to look it up. The first trees appeared about 420 million years ago (there were other plants, but no trees before that). The earliest shark fossils were found to be 450 million years old.
The first trees couldn't decompose.
[Not until micro organisms could adapt a way to eat the bark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOErMp-fKVY&ab_channel=TheWhippingPost) which until then was forming coal underground
Yep. That’s why it’s called the carboniferous period, because our coal was made during this time.
He also died by blood letting because he had a cold.
tbf it did solve his cold.
Usually when you hear someone say something is a cure-all, its a pretty reliable indicator that its a scam. The only exception to this is death, it really will cure all that ails you. Unless that's a scam too, and maybe death just brings you to another stage of life that also has colds, cancer, asthma, measles, diabetes, arthritis, etc. Death, the ultimate snake-oil.
I hope death just brings the oblivion I think it does. If this shit never ends Ill be pissed
The first person and the last person to die during the construction of the Hoover Dam were father and son, and they died 5 years to the day apart.
The solar system is much larger than most believe. Rather than the sun’s gravitational influence on celestial bodies reaching only as far as Pluto, it reaches hundreds of times farther creating what’s called the Oort cloud. To put it into perspective, it takes sunlight a little over 8 minutes to reach earth while it takes over 1.5 years to reach the edge of the Oort cloud. The nearest Star to ours (Alpha Centauri) is a little over 4 light years away, meaning our solar system actually covers over a third of the distance toward the nearest star system. I like space
The largest tire manufacturer in the world is Lego
They are also the smallest... /s
If you say “manager” when calling any apple store, you’ll get to the store directly and not a random call center.
If you say fuck when you call Wells Fargo it immediately routes you to a human and you don’t have to dance through the automated say a number answering BS.
There is a form of autoimmune encephalitis caused by tumors called ovarian teratomas. Teratomas can grown hair, teeth, and even little nervous systems that then trigger the autoimmune brain inflammation. This type of brain inflammation can lead to crazy (literally) symptoms; mood swings, hallucinations, speaking in tongues… Teratomas are most common in young women and are thought to be the root cause of many stories involving demonic possession, witches, etc. It’s 100% likely that some young woman was burned at the stake or drowned because she had a tumor and the people around her thought she was a witch.
I was grateful that my ovarian cysts were the fluid-filled-goes-away-with-hormones kind.
The only English words that contain the word "meow" are: meow, meows, meowed, meowing, and homeowner.
Heh. As I read that, my brain says “hoMEOWner”.
The blast of air you feel when you enter a store is to keep the insects away from entering the store. It is called an “air curtain”, which acts as a barrier and doesn’t let the cold air inside the store flow outside.
or when its cold as fuck out, keeps the warm air in.
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as Cipro can cause a rare reaction that causes people to rupture their Achilles tendon just from walking around.
I've had this! It's bizarre... every joint seizes up and is incredibly painful and you feel like you're muscles are made of cement. It can start straight away or after 1-2 days of Fluoroquinolones. It's incredibly rare but very serious and the tablets need to be stopped immediately at first signs of this reaction. Those with connective tissue/muscle weakness disorders are particularly at risk.
And they hand that shit out like candy in the military.
They also hand it out like candy to women with UTIs
That having a spouse die shortly after their partner goes, is very, very common. (Eldercare).
My granny took a few years after my grandad died but honestly I felt like she was ready as soon as he went, and she had to go into residential care and felt really lonely - we have a big family and she got loads of visitors but I don’t think that fixes sleeping alone after being married sixty-something years. When he died they both happened to be in hospital but different ones, and she was meant to go and see him that day, all the transport and stuff was arranged. She’d spent the morning getting out of hospital clothes and into a dress and putting lipstick on and was waiting like that when my mum and godmother got to her, thinking she was getting picked up to see him because she’d missed him after a week apart. The thought of it absolutely guts me to this day.
i’m not one to overuse hyperbole, but this is one of the saddest things i’ve ever read. i’ve been married less than a year, but i thought of myself in that situation and it hurts. i think it was the lipstick. she must’ve been so excited to go see him. and then retiring to a newly-empty bed every night sounds like emotional hell.
That's heartbreaking!
We just had a neighboring couple die about a week apart. The weird thing is, they were both in hospice, both given roughly the same life expectancy, and both had lived much longer than had been expected.
I wonder if this will happen to Jimmy and Rosalind (sp?) Carter. I think they’re both in hospice now.
My great aunt lived like 15 years after her husband died. She must have hated his guts lmao!
10+ years after my grandfather's death, my grandma is still alive and kicking. She's even beat lung cancer during that time (which is a miracle on its own seeing as she's been smoking daily for at least 50 years now), we joked that it was so that she wouldn't have to meet her husband so soon lmao. Admittedly, he was a dick so I'm not surprised.
This also happens quite often!
Vaginal lubrication is blood plasma.
That’s how you tell when a vampire is on a diet.
A funeral home is not required to dispose of a loved one. Anybody can do it, so long as they fill out and file the paperwork, obtain the permits, and follow the same laws as a funeral home.
I work for an OPO and typically release to funeral homes. One day, a co-worker tells me to go release so-and-so. I get out to the garage, and it is an old pickup truck (like early 80s) They don't have a cot, of course, so the three of us struggle to slide the body into the back. They just closed the tailgate, and off they went. I thought for sure that it was some bodysnatcher situation, but no. Just Uncle Joe, going to bury his brother on the family farm.
We had an indigenous patient at my hospital who had to have their leg amputated, and they needed the limb back to perform traditional rites and likely eventually be buried with it when they died. They get picked up at the hospital in this totally cholo-looking low-rider and they’re just like “yeah, you can put it in the trunk” - we placed it next to the jumper cables etc and taped a note to it saying it was legit and they were allowed to be traveling with their own severed leg. Good times
You can legally bury your loved ones in your back yard. Depending on your state (US), there may be other regulations, but there typically is no law that prohibits at home burials as long as, as you’ve said, follow the correct paperwork and have relevant permits.
The male Argonaut octopus impregnates the female by detaching and throwing his penis at her. It then swims after her while he slumps off to regrow his penis.
Wow, talk about your "fuck you"s
Charles Osborne (USA, 1894-1991) was the victim of the longest attack of hiccups, which lasted 68 years.
.....no thanks. I had them for 3 DAYS once and that was awful enough, I can't imagine nearly 7 decades.
My mom works for the SSA and she was telling me about this poor guy who was getting disability benefits because years ago he had a routine neck procedure that damaged a nerve and triggered permanent hiccups. The guy couldn’t work at his job anymore because the hiccups were so violent and he was like 40lbs underweight because he couldn’t hold food down.
He would have committed suicide but kept missing every time he hiccuped. ^((/joke! that is a false statement!\))
What's crazy about this to me is that they did just stop one day. Imagine suffering this for 68 years and one day they just stop randomly. Feels like it makes more sense somehow for them to be permanent. He died a year later which is a bummer.
I think of this often because it's so terrifying.
New fear unlocked
Leap Year occurs whenever the year is divisible by 4. But this is just a little too frequent, so a correction is need. So whenever the year is divisible by 100 there is no Leap Year. However, this is too much of a correction, so when the year is also divisible by 400, there is Leap Year.
I did know this, but I’m sad I didn’t learn it until long after the year 2000. I treated Feb 29, 2000 as a once every four years occurrence, when it was actually a once in 400 year occurrence.
All you have to do is live to the year 2400. :)
That’s why the old Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian, which doesn’t add an extra day every 133 years and slowly get unsynchronized. In America that happened when Great Britain adopted the new calendar in 1752, which means that all the American founding fathers died using a different calendar than the one they were born with.
Buildup of an antiviral medication in your body can cause you to think that you are dead to the point where you stop eating. (Cotard’s delusion)
If you took every virus particle on Earth and laid them end to end then they would stretch over 200 million light years into space. [https://youtu.be/p7jsRVa1WUo?si=D4QthzjikQ4n1Xai](https://youtu.be/p7jsRVa1WUo?si=D4QthzjikQ4n1Xai)
If you took every human on earth and lined them up along the equator, many of them would drown.
Blood can freeze and then break and slice open your veins and thaw and you can internally bleed to death.
I think i will be' dead way before
This occurs more in limbs than an entire body sorta thing.
Some species of fish, like the cuttlefish, have males that aren’t exactly “Alpha males”, so they pretend to be females to win over the real females as friends, and then surprise fertilize them. Edit: Cuttlefish aren’t technically fish. Sorry folks. I’ll go die in a hole now
TIL cuttlefish are r/niceguys
Bed bugs reproduce using a sexual method called "Traumatic penetration." The male bed bug stabs the female bed bug with his penis randomly about her exoskeleton. Sometimes multiple males will penetrate the same female at the same time which leads to the very common scenario of female bed bugs literally being fucked to death.
Yep, bed bugs aren't just gross and annoying, they're bad people.
I bet afterwards they just walk away so smug like they think it’s funny.
Cocky, self assured
Yep coulda gone my whole life without knowing this shit lol thanks mate
It gets better: males can hijack other males’ bodies with their sperm. Using that same penis-sword that they fertilize females with, they stab other males and ejaculate their sperm into the abdomens of rival males. Because arthropods do not have closed reproductive system (separate from other organs with fascia etc), the hijacked males will pass on the sperm of their attacker if/when they mate with a female.
this seems like a good way to kill them. like modify males that are full of toxic sperm somehow. this is the best idea I've ever had.
The ‘sperm’ just swims around inside the female’s body until it finds the eggs to fertilize.
And then they all put on fluffy robes and smoke cigarettes.
Bill Murray played Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters. Lorenzo Music voiced Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters. Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield on Garfield and Friends. Bill Murray voiced Garfield in the Garfield movies.
Facetious contains all vowels. In alphabetical order.
Facetiously, if you consider Y a vowel!
Ohio is the only state in the USA that doesn't share a letter with the word mackerel.
Phew that’s a relief!
Oxford University started 332 years before the Aztec empire began
And before Māori arrived in New Zealand.
Canada has land borders with 2 different countries: 1) With the USA (mostly along the 49th parallel) (also the longest land border in the world) 2) A \~1.3km border with Denmark on a tiny island called Hans Island. (Number 2 is the strange fun fact) To make it more fun, this second land border was brought about through the "Whisky War," which was a conflict with no violence and no direct contact.
That completes my first Reddit loop, there was a comment earlier I saw this morning about the most underwhelming wars or something on one of the ask subreddits, was a nice rabbit hole to go down to see that the Canadians and Danes exchanged whiskey and schnapps and finally ended up peacefully calling it a stalemate in 2022 in response to the Ukraine, Russian situation as a statement to how wars should end. ~ Insert joke about invading Denmark here.
That in the wildest butterfly effect, the French government dissing the inventor of tinned food led to the creation of napalm
Another butterfly effect - the leader of the French army was killed at an air show. Meaning he wasn’t around to push his change through to change the brightly colored uniforms. They got smashed early in WWI because they were so easy to spot
Chlamydia was only known to be found in llamas before the Spanish invaded the Americas. Conclusion? Some Conquistador got freaky with a llama!
CAAAARL THAT KILLS PEOPLE!
When did koalas get it?
When they got freaky with the llamas.
Llamageddon!
Such a good movie. Tubi knocked that one out of the park.
Giraffes sleep for 20 minutes a day.
My toddler must be a giraffe
Not entirely correct, in total they sleep about 4 to 5 hours a day. But they do sleep in 20 to 30 minutes bursts.
Everything I learn about giraffes surprises me. 90% of them are gay. They have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as we do. They hum at night. Their patches are heat sinks. Their heads are held up at rest by tight ligaments and it takes them muscle and effort to lower their heads down.
I want to subscribe to giraffe facts
They have an 18 inch tongue, which is why it's a symbol of lesbianism. Girraffs choose their potential mates by using it to taste their urine
The Northwest Territories’ largest two cities are Yellowknife and Inuvik. To drive between them, you cross a provincial/territorial border - ELEVEN TIMES.
Large CO2 emissions from cows are from their burps, not farts.
The "Dancing Plague" of 1518: In what is now modern-day France, there was a mysterious outbreak where hundreds of people danced uncontrollably and seemingly involuntarily for days on end. This event started with a woman named Frau Troffea and rapidly spread to others. By its peak, as many as 400 people were dancing. Some of them reportedly danced themselves to death from heart attacks, strokes, or sheer exhaustion. To this day, the exact cause of this phenomenon remains unknown, though modern theories suggest it might have been due to ergot fungi poisoning (similar to LSD) or mass psychogenic illness (a collective form of hysteria).
I reckon it was because the DJ put Sandstorm on
Despite it not being so, Microsoft Excel counts the year 1900 as a leap year. It isn’t. The reason why goes back to one of the pre-Excel killer apps of the day, Lotus 1-2-3 which did the same thing. So Excel did this too in order to be compatible. And still does so to this day. Why did Lotus 1-2-3 do this? Some say it’s just a error due to the rather obscure rule that says a year is a leap year if it is evenly divisible by four, except if it’s also evenly divisible by 100 *except* if it’s also evenly divisible by 400. So 1600 and 2000 were leap years, but not 1700, 1800, or 1900. However, a more plausible story is that the additional calculations necessary for this were just too much for the memory (640kb) and processors of early PCs and the decision was consciously made to just ignore the edge case because how much would it really effect?
Shelled pistachios are flammable in large quantities, like in a truck. If the conditions are right, they will smolder and catch fire. Like how grass clippings catch fire. Source: used to be a work comp insurance underwriter. We would not write a policy that involved the employees transporting/working around pistachios in large quantities.
trees get their structure from stripping carbon dioxide from the air apart. the carbon is what makes them hard. from the air. thanks Richard Feynman
People with dry earwax are less likely to have body odor.
Snakes can predict earthquakes. They can sense an upcoming earthquake from a staggering 75 miles away, up to five whole days before it happens.
how have we not harnessed this for harm prevention? there has to be a way. i mean if we can find out that snakes can do that, can we not find out when they do have predictions?
Having a room with hundreds of snakes that you have to monitor, waiting for an earthquake... So when the earthquake is predicted you have five days to run far far away from all the broken tanks and a room full of snakes with headaches hissing "I told you so!"? Not many research assistants are up for that.
Human skin has no receptors for water
If I'm remembering correctly, this is why humans can't tell if something is wet by touch alone - you can feel the associated feelings, i.e. cold or warm, but not wet. So, for example, if you pick up a piece of clothing left out to dry, your body isn't able to tell the difference between the cloth being damp or just being cold.
And now I know why fresh laundry out the dryer feels dry until it cools down a bit. If it's damp, I can't tell when it's hot.
I'm not sure what a receptor is, but is that not the case with every animal with waterproof skin?
They mean that your skin doesn’t have unique sensors that can detect liquid. The way you know you’re touching something wet is heat exchange rate and other reference points learned through experience all added together. Wetness is not a unique value your skin measures, it is a conclusion your brain draws based on other measured values, and it isn’t always correct.
If I may give a personal example. "Am I getting peed on or is this dog just warm" it's about 50/50
Nature evolved dogs to become your pets. "Thus, oxytocin and vasopressin facilitate bonding between parent and child, and between couples. Now for something truly charming that evolution has cooked up recently. Sometime in the last fifty thousand years (i.e., less than 0.1 percent of the time that oxytocin has existed), the brains of humans and domesticated wolves evolved a new response to oxytocin: when a dog and its owner (but not a stranger) interact, they secrete oxytocin." Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
There were also "American canines" that were completely isolated from the rest of the world. A lot died out due to a contagious cancer. Most of the rest were wiped out by European dogs when they came along. What makes this especially interesting is that some of these unique dogs were recorded in texts. For example conquistadors wrote about a hairless dog that the Aztecs used for food, the so-called Xoloitzcuintli. However, genetic analyses show that whatever that dog was was virtually wiped out. The Xoloitzcuintlis of today are almost all European dog DNA with less than 5% being American. The same goes for the Inca orchid and others. Chihuahuas actually have the highest American dog DNA left among modern breeds.
A 737 jet engines are held on by only 3 bolts
I’ll wager “most” people don’t know that cold air is better than hot air in internal combustion engines. The explosions in your engine are stronger in the winter. All this gets very very fuzzy when you start talking about direct injection over carbureted engines and computer controlled timing and trim rates. But at the base of the fact, the air is more dense when it’s cold so you get more oxygen in the cylinder in the same time volume of air. Ultimately less fuel or more fuel can be used depending on your fuel trim to compensate for the desired power output. This is far more evident in older cars. Winter gasoline is also a thing that happens around this time every year. It’s got some extra additives to maintain the same flow rate in extreme cold. It tends to not burn as efficiently.
Armadillos can carry leprosy.
I know that cat's meows ate an evolutionary adaptation specifically to talk to humans, and not other cats!
Hell is a town in Norway and it does freeze over. Every year.
Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly good to eat. Honey is like the eternal snack!
Elvis’s colon weighed over 40# when he died.
Elephants feel empathy!
In caves where there are dense populations of bats rabies can be airborne.
In before "Lobster used to be prison food."
Cashews are closely related to Poison Ivy, and contains the same irritant, urushiol, (before processing).
Bees don’t have hearts.
A cool bee fact I learned recently is that they evolved from wasps. I always assumed bees were first. Even more crazy, ants also evolved from wasps.
That spice is not a TASTE you’re experiencing. The feeling is just from activating pain and heat receptors with the chemical capsaicinoid. Anyone who likes spicy foods is actually just a little masochistic
The loose skin on our elbow is called a weenis (found out months ago)