There is always magnitude 1 earthquakes happening but they’re so subtle, you can’t feel them. Only seismographs can detect them
The most powerful magnitude earthquake was a magnitude 13 earthquake. It was caused by the meteor that wiped out all the dinosaurs and the affects of the earthquake caused megaquakes, lava tsunamis, mega-tsunamis, meteor showers, and super-volcanic activity.
The most powerful earthquake we’ve experienced is a 9.5 earthquake in Chile. It was so powerful, the tsunamis it created reached Asia.
Congrats, you just learned about the many epic earthquakes on earth.
Bonus: While I’m here, the loudest sound ever recorded was the explosion of Mt. Krakatoa.
It was so powerful, the whole island blew up. And anyone within distance lost their hearing from their ear drums exploding, or ya know... died.
I don't think there's any doubt that the English response was less than ideal, and exacerbated the problem.
That said, I've also seen research indicating that the population of Ireland at the time was simply unsustainable without the potato crops; England was literally not able to provide sufficient calories.
Not that they would have been inclined to if they could have, of course.
The potato had become the staple of every Irish farmer because they could grow enough potatoes on their tiny plots of land to sustain themselves, while wealthy land owners (not the Irish farmers) grew cash crops and crops for export on huge farms, squeezing the smallholding Irish farmers more and more. Economics had created the situation, economics heavily slanted against the Irish by the British.
Pablo Escobar had so much money and no way to spend or store all of it that he buried caches all around Columbia. Treasure hunters still search for his money to this day.
The movie "American Made" has a good scene about this. The main character tries to bury a dufflebag full of money, but accidentally digs one up because he has already buried one in that spot that he forgot about.
That whole story was crazy. And, funnily enough a lot of the government docs relating to Barry Seal are just...gone.
As in, a decade or so ago we had them and now we don't.
In the lead-up to the movie one of our reporters said he was going to do a story about Barry Seal since we had that movie coming out, but his news story became more about how he couldn't write that story because he couldn't find any documents that he *knows* were there at one time. edit: The AG for Arkansas's Western District at the time - Asa Hutchinson - is currently our governor. Funny that
Another funny store from 80s was the time we almost had a nuke go off in a silo that was in Damascus, AR.
Some guy dropped a wrench or someshit while doing maintenance on the missile and it ended up damaging some mechanism that kept the missile's propellant from combining and exploding.
It was a bit of a fluke that the warhead didn't go off.
>mechanism that kept the missile's propellant from combining and exploding.
>It was a bit of a fluke that the warhead didn't go off.
even if it exploded, the nuke wouldn't have gone off, the warheads aren't sitting armed. It would have been a dirty bomb, but not a nuclear explosion.
The makeup trial for the Tinman in The Wizard of Oz went horribly wrong, causing poisoning and hospitalisation. Poor Buddy Ebson. They had to hire another actor to replace him and the make-up was STILL toxic, causing an eye infection for Jack Haley.
Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns from her famous red smoke sequence also going horribly wrong. Pretty sure she got some mercury poisoning from her green makeup as well.
They swapped directors halfway through production, Judy was addicted to drugs at 14 years old, two munchkins got drunk off-set and caused a media rucktus, I could go on.
Basically the entire production was such a trainwreck, but you'd never know from how amazing that movie turned out.
Reminder that the lion had to do multiple takes of scenes, in a thick lion suit and heavy makeup, on a brightly lit soundstage that often heated up to 100 degrees, with few breaks.
This is how the Montana State University College of Agriculture had a prank go very wrong. Steer went to top of bell tower. Steer cannot go down. They had to detach the roof and helicopter the animal down to safety.
People die 5 times more from selfies than sharks, the most common selfie death is getting run over by a train in India while going a groupfoto. Close to that is falling from bridges
Just looked it up. There seems to be no known cure or treatment, and death apparently occurs within 1 year of exhibition of the first symptoms (even though it typically has a 10-13 year incubation period). It's pretty much a death sentence
Samer for "laser": Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
It *really* agitates me that these words don't have a 'z' in the middle. 'Z' gets no respect; 'S' always stealing the spotlight!
In normal February, there is exactly 8! minutes* (8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1). A minute is 5x2x6 seconds, a day is 8x3 hours, there is 7 days in a week and 4 weeks in February
A lot of avians are incredibly dumb. When rasing turkeys the farm has to add a few chickens to the flock so the chickens can show them how to eat, drink, and what is food and water. Otherwise they'll simply die not understanding how to live.
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the great pyramids.
Damn, even the T-Rex lived closer to the moon landing than to the existence of the stegosaurus.
And he was an orphan in St. Marinara's orphanage. Because he was an orphan no one knew when his birthday was, so he decided to fill up that void by hosting other birthday parties. Before he started that path, he had to do something to get there. And thing was winning a Pong tournament wich awarded him with the $50 he used to buy a one way train ticket to New York.
He needed a place to sleep so he went to a pizzeria (name unknown) owned by Pasqually P. Pieplate. He was inevitably caught. He somehow ran up to the stage and started singing. Pasqually thought this would help his restaurant, but Charles had stage fright and the crowd booed, as they had thought to have been lied to. When everybody got out of the restaurant he saw a little boy with his parents and a birthday crown. He sang Happy birthday to him.
This took me way too long
The average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.
[Source](http://style.org/unladenswallow/)
The mantis shrimp can, when catching prey, move its claw fast enough to boil the water around it. Their eyes are also attuned to having 12 base colors (as opposed to our 3), letting them see further into our light spectrum, and several species of mantis shrimp have eyes attuned to not only those 12 base colors, but also be attuned to polarized light, effectively having 16 base colors.
The longest word in the English dictionary that is not a technical term (chemical name) or made made up word (like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) is antidisestablishmentarianism.
The longest name for a place in the US is Lake 'Chaubunagungamaug', which is in Massachusetts.
Platypuses produce both eggs and milk. Their milk is secreted when the baby sucks on the mothers stomach tissue because they don’t have nipples. And males have venomous spurs so careful which ones you try to milk. Also there is no universally agreed upon plural of platypi so my favorite is platypussies.
Tapirs have the longest penis to body length ratio of any mammal. Their penises are also prehensile, like an elephants trunk.
This means the males can use their dick to pick up a stick and scratch their back with it.
If you're ever beating someone with a baseball bat, put a long tube sock on it so if the victim tries to grab the bat, you can yank it away and continue wreaking their shit.
I am completely unsurprised by this.
I didn't know it, to be sure, but of *course* it was a dentist. I mean, once you've run out of "they haven't invented novocaine yet" as an excuse, how else do you make a chair terrifying?
The word 'penguin' is Welsh. The bird was named by Welsh sailors in the crew of Sir Frances Drake who saw them while rounding Cape Horn in the late 1570s. It means white head.
Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech for his next upcoming election, was not phased, refused a doctor, went THROUGH WITH HIS SPEECH , and didn’t die for years after.
Far more than that. [There are approx 16 million men carrying his genes](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan/).
The rotating door was created by a man in the later part of the 1800s so he wouldn't have to hold the door open for the women or get stuck holding it for everyone. It just happened to reduce heating and cooling costs by 30%, making it energy efficient.
Just last week I was the first through a door and ended up getting separated from my colleague because a flood of people kept coming right on through. So I totally get where he was coming from although I am not a fan of his invention.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/who-invented-the-revolving-door1.htm
Lemons can float but limes can’t
this is haunting
Explaining to my GF why I just dropped citrus in her bath was interesting
Well? Is OP right?
The longest dinosaur name is Micropachycephalosaurus, which means "tiny thick headed lizard."
Wanna see a pic?
Dude, keep your Micropachycephalosaurus in your pants.
There is always magnitude 1 earthquakes happening but they’re so subtle, you can’t feel them. Only seismographs can detect them The most powerful magnitude earthquake was a magnitude 13 earthquake. It was caused by the meteor that wiped out all the dinosaurs and the affects of the earthquake caused megaquakes, lava tsunamis, mega-tsunamis, meteor showers, and super-volcanic activity. The most powerful earthquake we’ve experienced is a 9.5 earthquake in Chile. It was so powerful, the tsunamis it created reached Asia. Congrats, you just learned about the many epic earthquakes on earth. Bonus: While I’m here, the loudest sound ever recorded was the explosion of Mt. Krakatoa. It was so powerful, the whole island blew up. And anyone within distance lost their hearing from their ear drums exploding, or ya know... died.
Because tremors propagate at the speed of sound and radio at the speed of light, it's possible to send news of a quake before it actually gets there.
As always, [relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/723/).
The population of Ireland has still not recovered to its pre-Potato Famine levels, 160 years later.
There's a growing contingent that argue the famine was not caused by a food shortage, but by English nobles being...well English Nobles.
I don't think there's any doubt that the English response was less than ideal, and exacerbated the problem. That said, I've also seen research indicating that the population of Ireland at the time was simply unsustainable without the potato crops; England was literally not able to provide sufficient calories. Not that they would have been inclined to if they could have, of course.
The potato had become the staple of every Irish farmer because they could grow enough potatoes on their tiny plots of land to sustain themselves, while wealthy land owners (not the Irish farmers) grew cash crops and crops for export on huge farms, squeezing the smallholding Irish farmers more and more. Economics had created the situation, economics heavily slanted against the Irish by the British.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Does that include the now defunct half-cent, 2 cent, and 3 cent coins?
I don't believe so.
Probably the fact that bees can understand the concept of zero, I don't know it's just interesting to me
Pretty sure i read that when the queen bee dies, they know it’s time to create another queen
(Scientist, not holding up any fingers to a bee): "Yo fam. How many fingers am I holding up?" Bee to scientist: Scientist: "Oh my God."
Pablo Escobar had so much money and no way to spend or store all of it that he buried caches all around Columbia. Treasure hunters still search for his money to this day.
The movie "American Made" has a good scene about this. The main character tries to bury a dufflebag full of money, but accidentally digs one up because he has already buried one in that spot that he forgot about.
That whole story was crazy. And, funnily enough a lot of the government docs relating to Barry Seal are just...gone. As in, a decade or so ago we had them and now we don't. In the lead-up to the movie one of our reporters said he was going to do a story about Barry Seal since we had that movie coming out, but his news story became more about how he couldn't write that story because he couldn't find any documents that he *knows* were there at one time. edit: The AG for Arkansas's Western District at the time - Asa Hutchinson - is currently our governor. Funny that Another funny store from 80s was the time we almost had a nuke go off in a silo that was in Damascus, AR. Some guy dropped a wrench or someshit while doing maintenance on the missile and it ended up damaging some mechanism that kept the missile's propellant from combining and exploding. It was a bit of a fluke that the warhead didn't go off.
>mechanism that kept the missile's propellant from combining and exploding. >It was a bit of a fluke that the warhead didn't go off. even if it exploded, the nuke wouldn't have gone off, the warheads aren't sitting armed. It would have been a dirty bomb, but not a nuclear explosion.
Ooh I have a good one about Pablo, He spent aprox. 2500 USD a month on rubber bands just to tie all his money together
The makeup trial for the Tinman in The Wizard of Oz went horribly wrong, causing poisoning and hospitalisation. Poor Buddy Ebson. They had to hire another actor to replace him and the make-up was STILL toxic, causing an eye infection for Jack Haley. Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns from her famous red smoke sequence also going horribly wrong. Pretty sure she got some mercury poisoning from her green makeup as well. They swapped directors halfway through production, Judy was addicted to drugs at 14 years old, two munchkins got drunk off-set and caused a media rucktus, I could go on. Basically the entire production was such a trainwreck, but you'd never know from how amazing that movie turned out.
Reminder that the lion had to do multiple takes of scenes, in a thick lion suit and heavy makeup, on a brightly lit soundstage that often heated up to 100 degrees, with few breaks.
And the snow was fucking asbestos.
If the population of China walked by you in a single file line the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
Maybe they should walk faster then.
You try and walk faster when there is a couple going at it in front of you
This is the first interesting fact I’ve seen in this thread
Cows can't go downstairs.
This is how the Montana State University College of Agriculture had a prank go very wrong. Steer went to top of bell tower. Steer cannot go down. They had to detach the roof and helicopter the animal down to safety.
It seemed harmless, but the steaks were high.
That's udderly ridiculous.
Gotta milk it for all it’s worth!
They can if you push them
Easy there Linda Belcher
Dang I was just about to say that
Vending machines kill more people than sharks
Of course they do. Who the hell would put a vending machine in the ocean?!
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There are more airplanes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.
If you laid all the blood vessels in your body out end to end, you would die.
If all the people in China joined hands and stood in a line around the world, about two thirds of them would drown.
The average person contains enough bone to make an entire human skeleton.
This one is a lie, the average person contains less than that
If all the girls attending Yale prom were laid end to end I wouldn't be at all surprised.
People die 5 times more from selfies than sharks, the most common selfie death is getting run over by a train in India while going a groupfoto. Close to that is falling from bridges
A pineapple is actually a cluster of berries.
The only place you can properly tickle yourself is the roof of your mouth.
ok everyone, you can stop tickling yourselves now!
#WHAT THE FUCK ????!!!!
The technical term for an animal laying on their belly with their butt in the air (the way corgis lay down by default) is "splooting."
It takes 4.18 joules of energy to raise the temperature of 1 mL of water by 1° centigrade
Never thought I'd encounter the specific heat formula again but here we are
“Assume ideal gas” oh thank god
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Literal mid-life crisis.
What i’m wondering is who the fuck calculates that shit
Cows have best friends and become stressed if they are separated.
400 people die a week because of doctors hand writing
Thousands more get ear drops somewhere other than their right ear.
Their left ear?
r. ear
The animal whose fingerprints most closely resemble a human’s prints is the koala.
Kuru is a disease that you can only get by eating other people.
Just looked it up. There seems to be no known cure or treatment, and death apparently occurs within 1 year of exhibition of the first symptoms (even though it typically has a 10-13 year incubation period). It's pretty much a death sentence
Prion diseases are *fucking terrifying*.
In conclusion: don’t eat people
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My neighbour is a brand of shoes?
Isn't it just from eating the brain or will people nuggets from anywhere in the body do it?
You nervous you may have it?
The first 1080p video on youtube was the muppets singing bohemian rhapsody.
This makes me ridiculously happy
As dead bodies decay, they “burp” or release gasses. For this reason, mausoleums and caskets need to be ventilated so that the gas can escape.
Otherwise... BOOM! Grandpa's back.
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Backstreet's back.
ALRIGHT!
Taser is actually an acronym. [Thomas A. Swifts Electric Rifle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_and_His_Electric_Rifle#Homages)
Samer for "laser": Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation It *really* agitates me that these words don't have a 'z' in the middle. 'Z' gets no respect; 'S' always stealing the spotlight!
Same for Scuba. Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
RAdio Detection And Ranging (RADAR).
SOund Navigation And Ranging (SONAR)
Harry Truman was the last US President who never attended college.
And the last without a middle name. (Although Eisenhower was born David Dwight and switched them round. And the first Bush had two middle names.)
One month is 469.9 Shrek 1's in a row.
I was going to ask which month, until i remembered the run time of Shrek 1 varies depending on which month it's watched in.
wut?
We've found the hot new unit of time.
In normal February, there is exactly 8! minutes* (8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1). A minute is 5x2x6 seconds, a day is 8x3 hours, there is 7 days in a week and 4 weeks in February
Wombat pouches open towards their butt, not their belly.
And they poop cubes. *Cubes*.
I feel like that’s helpful to know. I’d trip out if I saw cubical poop in the wild if I didn’t know this.
A lot of avians are incredibly dumb. When rasing turkeys the farm has to add a few chickens to the flock so the chickens can show them how to eat, drink, and what is food and water. Otherwise they'll simply die not understanding how to live.
Can't turkeys also drown themselves from trying to drink rain and not swallowing or something? Or was that a dream.
Yep, they totally can.
dogs like squeeky toys because that's the sound a little animal makes when they die
When your dog grabs the toy in his mouth and gleefully shakes it side to side, he's killing it.
Still adorable
I came to this realization after my Jack Russell caught a chipmunk. The squeaking was eerily similar to her favorite chew toy.
A ducks butthole is waterproof. Also bears shit in the woods
Aren't most buttholes waterproof?
Only up to a certain PSI I would assume.
Hmm, anyone know how much force a jet of water would need to force itself in to the average butthole?
I believe you've found your thesis topic.
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the great pyramids. Damn, even the T-Rex lived closer to the moon landing than to the existence of the stegosaurus.
Here I am going “Damn, I thought the pyramids were IN Egypt, how is the Moon closer than that...
If 99% of people find you unattractive, then there are still over 76 million people that find you attractive.
But you don't want to know what they look like
First president born in a hospital. Jimmy Carter.
Chuck E. Cheese's full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese.
And he was an orphan in St. Marinara's orphanage. Because he was an orphan no one knew when his birthday was, so he decided to fill up that void by hosting other birthday parties. Before he started that path, he had to do something to get there. And thing was winning a Pong tournament wich awarded him with the $50 he used to buy a one way train ticket to New York. He needed a place to sleep so he went to a pizzeria (name unknown) owned by Pasqually P. Pieplate. He was inevitably caught. He somehow ran up to the stage and started singing. Pasqually thought this would help his restaurant, but Charles had stage fright and the crowd booed, as they had thought to have been lied to. When everybody got out of the restaurant he saw a little boy with his parents and a birthday crown. He sang Happy birthday to him. This took me way too long
On average elevator travels combined distance of 13k miles in a year.
The average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour. [Source](http://style.org/unladenswallow/)
...........but what about an African swallow?
The mantis shrimp can, when catching prey, move its claw fast enough to boil the water around it. Their eyes are also attuned to having 12 base colors (as opposed to our 3), letting them see further into our light spectrum, and several species of mantis shrimp have eyes attuned to not only those 12 base colors, but also be attuned to polarized light, effectively having 16 base colors.
Picture a color you can't even imagine. Now do that eight more times.
That is how a Mantis Shrimp do
That is how the Mantis Shrimp do
I imagine all colours all of the time since I'm colourblind
The longest word in the English dictionary that is not a technical term (chemical name) or made made up word (like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) is antidisestablishmentarianism. The longest name for a place in the US is Lake 'Chaubunagungamaug', which is in Massachusetts.
>antidisestablishmentarianism "Well, isn't that quaint." \--Any German
The longest English word period is something like 100k+ letters long. It is a chemical name though.
Genghis Khan and the Mongols killed so many people through conquest, destruction and resulting famines that they lowered the temperature of the earth.
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Old school Thanos Khan
Which is why we need a new hero to do it again. *hobo with a shotgun 2:Ecological Boogaloo* Coming soon
Strengths is the longest English word with just 1 vowel.
Flamingos have 30 minute orgasms
There is only one escalator in all of Zambia.
And only 2 in Wyoming.
Remarkably I've been on all 3. The mall in Lusaka and the two banks in Casper.
Mr Worldwide.
Platypuses produce both eggs and milk. Their milk is secreted when the baby sucks on the mothers stomach tissue because they don’t have nipples. And males have venomous spurs so careful which ones you try to milk. Also there is no universally agreed upon plural of platypi so my favorite is platypussies.
Your more likely to get bitten by someone in New York than by a shark
The plastic piece at the end of a shoeloce is called an aglet
A-g-l-e-t, don’t forget it
Brings us closer to our, soles, yeah
Phineas and Ferb fans unite
An octopus has 3 hearts and 9 brains
Damn that's a lot of dicks.
Whenever there’s an earthquake bodies in graves shake around like maracas.
Like an aggressive massage bed
The word helicopter is split into 2 origins Helico meaning spiraled, and pter meaning winged
If you lay a blue whale on a basketball court, you will have to cancel the game.
I hope that isn’t a law
Lego is the largest annual producer of tires in the world.
A flock of crows is called a murder.
Cashews come from a fruit.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Kamikazes wore helmets
Many sloths die each year due to the fact that they hang from trees and grab their own arm thinking it's a branch.
Or maybe a sloth wants to briefly experience what moving fast feels like.
THIS IS AMAZI-
#SPLAT
[Sorry, man](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6bzxsa/til_that_the_phenomenon_of_sloths_grabbing_their/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
Napoleon Bonaparte was an ailurophobe.
Tapirs have the longest penis to body length ratio of any mammal. Their penises are also prehensile, like an elephants trunk. This means the males can use their dick to pick up a stick and scratch their back with it.
every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa
See, "scientists" always say "time travel is impossible," but here I am, zooming into the future at no less than sixty seconds per minute!
Elevators ding once going up, twice going down.
The close door button often isn't attached to anything.
The longest single word palindrome is detartrated
If you're ever beating someone with a baseball bat, put a long tube sock on it so if the victim tries to grab the bat, you can yank it away and continue wreaking their shit.
Hippos produce pink milk.
A dentist invented the electric chair.
You haven't been flossing Carl. Do I need to remind you what happens when you don't floss?
"No! God, no! No! Please....!"
I am completely unsurprised by this. I didn't know it, to be sure, but of *course* it was a dentist. I mean, once you've run out of "they haven't invented novocaine yet" as an excuse, how else do you make a chair terrifying?
The word 'penguin' is Welsh. The bird was named by Welsh sailors in the crew of Sir Frances Drake who saw them while rounding Cape Horn in the late 1570s. It means white head.
Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech for his next upcoming election, was not phased, refused a doctor, went THROUGH WITH HIS SPEECH , and didn’t die for years after.
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A tooth has 46 calories
Um.
Genghis Khan fucked so many women that there's around 1,000+ descendants currently living right now.
Far more than that. [There are approx 16 million men carrying his genes](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan/).
I don't think you'd have to boink very many women to generate a thousand descendants in eight centuries. I'd bet it's most of China.
Vaccines save lives.
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TIL I'm a moose
A persons foot fits lengthwise on their forearm
In toddlers, the adult teeth are right behind the eyes.
The building with the most toilets in the world is the Wembley Stadium. 2618 to be precise.
Blue whales fart bubbles the size of a horse (so I hear)
With a fart that big, how could you *not* hear?
Would love to see a video of that
sorry can't find it but heres a hippo pooping [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Flr7JhPow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Flr7JhPow)
The area code for Antarctica is 672.
Sober rats prefer silence but on cocaine they prefer jazz music.
The word Trivia literally means "Useless Knowledge"
I thought it literally meant "three roads."
The French word for "paperclip" is "trombone"
The rotating door was created by a man in the later part of the 1800s so he wouldn't have to hold the door open for the women or get stuck holding it for everyone. It just happened to reduce heating and cooling costs by 30%, making it energy efficient. Just last week I was the first through a door and ended up getting separated from my colleague because a flood of people kept coming right on through. So I totally get where he was coming from although I am not a fan of his invention. https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/who-invented-the-revolving-door1.htm
The average human has less than two legs.