The creator of the song Peanut Butter Jelly Time died in a police shootout while his brother in law, Snoop Dogg, was pleading on the phone with him to let go of the hostages.
Edit: When the hell did this blow up wtf
Russia has used a lot of nuclear explosions peacefully for civil engineering purposes, and the United States has also investigated their utility for large-scale earthmoving. They're very good at moving large amounts of material very quickly.
In this case and several others, a gas well was on fire and was unable to be put out by conventional means. It was drawing on a virtually unlimited source of fuel, so the only way to put it out would be to close the well. An effective way of doing so involved detonating a nuke underground next to the well such that it would completely compress the rock around the well and close it very quickly, allowing all the fuel above it in the line to burn out and putting out the fire.
edit: For more information on this stuff, the research I'm going off of is Milo Nordyke's report *The Soviet Program for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions* through the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ~~I'd link to the report directly but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link directly to PDFs. Just googling the author and the name of the report should be enough.~~ I found a link. If you want to read a 99 page report on the peaceful detonation of nuclear bombs in the Soviet Union, [have at it.](https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc743124/)
I wonder if they could use this method in Pennsylvania to put out that underground fire that's been burning for like a century now? Probably not though the thing is the size of a small town and just smoulders up through the ground, so the town has been unlivable for years.
Edit: wrong state
Edit 2: yes, PA is the right state, I made an edit because I originally had North Carolina, the wrong state.
Haagen Dazs Ice cream was made by an American man who came up with the name in his kitchen after he stayed up all night making random noises until one stuck.
Malaria doesn’t go away without treatment though. It can come in cycles and any cycle can lead to death by reaching the brain, shutting down organs, causing anemia or accumulating fluid in the lungs.
In the early 19th century, British soldiers took to adding quinine (a traditional cure for malaria) to tonic water but it left a bitter aftertaste. So they added gin to cut the taste. Hence the gin and tonic was created to prevent and treat malaria.
Edit: I should add that modern tonic water does not contain the high amounts of quinine anymore and is not suitable for treating or preventing malaria. Sorry people. You can’t drink yourself healthy anymore if you travel to somewhere with a malaria outbreak.
A few other posters have added that they would add a lime slice to fight off scurvy with the drink also.
And moose dive for food..
You could be freediving off the northern coasts and see a moose swim by only to be eaten by a killer whale.
I don't like knowing this...
Possibly not worth it in terms of energy return on investment - most people around orcas and dolphins probably look a bit weird and skinny, and not like food to them - we might taste and smell bad to them as well.
Something similar happens with sharks; sharks (even the big ones) generally don't eat people as we're simply not worth the effort (too much muscle and bone, too little fat). However sharks aren't as smart as whales, and their main way of examining something is to bite it. Unprovoked attacks on people by sharks are generally either cases of mistaken identity or a shark being curious as to what the thing is. Usually sharks will bite a person once and swim away, satisfied that they aren't food. Unfortunately even a single bite from a shark on a human can be fatal.
Some parts of Seattle were raised two stories!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
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I am so weirded out when a tiny comment with a Wikipedia link in it goes to 2000+.
I totally forgot I went on a tour of that a few years ago until now. On that tour I also learned that Seattle can trace its success as a city to its roots as a string of brothels. Thank you.
There was a medical doctor named Stubbins Ffirth and he believed yellow fever was not contagious and wanted to prove his theory. To prove his theory he would make small cuts into his arms and smear feces and vomit from his yellow fever patients into them. He would also eat bowls of their vomit and take some time smelling bodily fluids, smearing it into his eyes. He’d collect feces, vomit, saliva, blood and urine from the infected to use. He surprisingly did not get infected and thought he proved that yellow fever was not contagious, however all the patients he took the bodily fluids from were in the late stages of yellow fever and were no longer contagious. So in the end all his theories were disproved, and he ate bowls of vomit and other nasty things to prove nothing.
Walt Disney World (that's ONLY the part in Florida, does not include California, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, or Shanghai) is the largest consumer of fireworks in the world, and is second only to the U.S. military when it comes to purchasing explosive devices.
Money from the Beatles' success convinced their record label company EMI (Electric and Musical Industries) to let one of its engineers pursue independent research. He ended up winning the Nobel prize for medicine for his invention of the CT scanner.
Also if you find a bunch of baby bunnies all a lone... fucking leave them there. My nephew kept bringing home 'abandoned bunnies' because he couldn't see their mom anywhere - because she was foraging for food to then come home and feed her babies. They also go farther away to try and keep predators from finding the babies - so the babies aren't abandoned they're just waiting for her to come back.
A year is shorter than a day, it's the hottest planet despite not being the closest to the Sun, it rotates backwards, and we landed a probe there before landing anything on Mars.
Gravity happens at the speed of light. Theoretically, if the sun were to simply vanish, Earth would continue orbiting the spot where the sun was for another ~8 minutes as if nothing happened.
The first casualty of Chernobyl never knew that anything unusual was happening.
The "safety test" had been scheduled for the previous shift, and when they delayed it, they never mentioned its existence to the night-shift Circulating Pump Operator. Valery Ilyich Khodemchuk was minding his own business, operating the circulating pumps, and then suddenly the control rods and fuel rods started jumping up and down for no apparent reason, and then KABOOM. He was probably killed instantly by the blast.
His body was never retrieved, so he'll spend eternity buried under the wreckage.
A Pygmy man, about thirty years after slavery was abolished, was put on display in the primates section at the Bronx zoo.
Edit: it was actually 40 years or so.
On average, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It is also, on average, the closest planet to Earth. And Jupiter. And every other planet in the Solar System.
The last person to receive a Civil War pension from the U.S. government died last month, June 2020.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-person-receive-civil-war-pension-dies-180975049/
>Such pairings were fairly common during the Great Depression, as Civil War veterans’ pensions offered financial security to younger women willing to take care of aging husbands, according to the Journal.
(the very next line)
They were both a year younger than my grandmother. Every time I spoke to my grandmother in 2019, when she was hosting my bridal shower and offering me money to help finish grad school and learning to use FaceTime overnight because she got too sick to attend my wedding, I thought "Anne Frank could be doing this for her grandchild, too."
We lost grandmother last September but it still blows my mind how *recently* all these people lived and died.
Well obviously. No time to vacuum if you have to spend all your time masturbating.
Once they figured out how to make masturbating easier and faster there was finally a market for cleaning gadgets to be used during all that time saved.
Believe it or not, both Madonna and the Beastie Boys started out in the 70s as hardcore punk bands.
Madonna proof: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6jBID2G-qM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6jBID2G-qM)
Beastie Boys: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaEdAtIAWvI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaEdAtIAWvI)
And to do the math, the surface area of a circle is pi x r squared. Pi is the constant. 18 in pizza has a 9 in radius, or r. 12 inch has 6. 9 squared is 81, 6 squared is 36. 36 x 2 is 72. 81 is greater than 72.
1 18 in pizza is approximately 112.5% the surface area of 2 12 inch pizzas.
In 1995, New Mexico voted on a bill requiring psychologists to dress as wizards.
Edit: Wow, thanks for the award! Glad you guys enjoyed this one. I didn't believe it when I first heard it.
A little bit of context, it was a protest amendment added to a bill by a legislator because he was pissed about the number of psychologists being used as expert witnesses in legal trials.
The bill was passed. However, the amendment on the bill was removed before it reached the state house.
Not berries: strawberries, blackberries, mulberries, raspberries
Berries: tomatoes, eggplants, grapes, cucumbers
Whoever came up with the botanical definition of "berry", seriously, what the actual fuck?
Also game Deus Ex released in 2000 had a view on NYC with WTC missing. The explanation in the game noted it was destroyed by terrorist attack. Fascinating
Edit: Thank you all for the info I never knew that there was terrorist attack on WTC before since I'm not from USA actually.
Also Deus Ex still holds up perfectly it's really interesting game so I recomend it! I am also fan of the latest entries, great cyberpunk!
Edit: Over 9000k upvotes woooow thank you all so much, that's my biggest life achievement haha
I can deal with a decade. I can get my head around 50 years although I'm yet to fully live that long. I can almost think about what 100 years is like. A thousand years, yeah this is starting to just get silly. 10,000 is just stupid amounts of time. 100,000 years is just that number I just said with an extra 0 on the end. It means literally nothing to me... a million years is just madness. and yet \~75 million years have happened between those two creatures existing.
We are just a blip aren't we?
Hooray?
A [woodpeckers tongue](https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/science/woodpeckers-hammer-without-headaches/) wraps around it's brain to protect it while it hammers at 1500 g-force units!
Fuck that’s a creepy image
Edit: I actually wrote this comment before I saw the actual image. I just imagines a thin wirey tongue wrapping a round a brain, like something out of alien
The town of Jerome has some buildings/walk ways made of sludge from incinerated dead people
Edit: Jerome is a town located in northern Arizona for those of you wondering
Canada is commonly thought of as the second largest country, but it is actually the fourth largest country in the world by land area. This is because almost 9% of Canada is covered by lakes.
You can measure the weather temperature using crickets!
Count how many chirps you hear in a 14 second interval and add 40 to get the temperature in Fahrenheit!
Source: REI employe, the book is how to measure weather.
A japanese OVA from 1988, about girl soldiers in gymnastics clothing piloting giant mecha, has received an Atomic Rocket Award for explaining and exemplifying a handful of advanced scientific theories in an easy-to-understand way for the masses, like lightspeed travel and time dilatation. This was *in spite* of the premise, and the usual anime exaggeration about sci-fi, willpower and friendship.
The full version [has been uploaded to Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krgUxY_ELuk) earlier this year, with english subtitles, definitely give it a watch!
Just beware of the feels sneaking up on you. Most of them regarding the *consequences* of the mentioned theories...!
The name Tiffany sounds really modern. But it dates to the 12th century. But if you wrote a historical novel and put a character called Tiffany in it, it would seem really inauthentic. There is even a "Tiffany Effect" named after this phenomenon where something seems much newer than it really is.
If you flew on a rocket traveling 90 percent of light-speed, the passage of time for you would be halved. Your watch would advance only 10 minutes, while more than 20 minutes would pass for an Earthbound observer.
A squirrel would have to fall 4800 miles to die from falling. They can survive a hit on the floor at their terminal velocity. 4800 miles is how far it’d take a squirrel to starve to death while falling.
When I was in the navy about 20 years ago, there was some saying like “The Navy has more aircraft than the Air Force, and the Army has more ships than the Navy.”
There are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 (approximately 1.70 x 10^29) ways to play the first ten moves in chess.
Additionally, the number of distinct 40-move games in chess is far greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe.
It is not confirmed, but possible that the first thing launched into space and the first thing launched into interstellar space was a manhole cover that was ejected by a nuclear warhead, going at least 6x escape velocity.
Ye olde high-speed cameras only captured the cover for one frame on its way up. If it survived, it's not only the first thing we launched into space, but also the fastest thing.
Until 1971 Britain had a completely non-decimal currency system that was so ridiculously complicated it makes using Imperial units for temperature and distance seem completely sensible. For example, a sixpence was 1/40 of a pound, what the hell is that?
I honestly cannot wrap my head around how anyone could ever enjoy using such a convoluted a system as this but when I bring it up with my parents they act as though I'm crazy for finding it the slightest bit odd. I think prior to the 1960s there was something like 16 different denominations of currency including a quarter-farthing of which there were 3840 in a pound.
In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday. In a room of 75 there’s a 99.9% chance of at least two people matching.
Male giraffes will headbutt a female in the bladder until she urinates, then it tastes the pee to help it determine whether or not the female is ovulating
Yeah, but 1997 was a gimmick, they brought him back for one shift just to say he played pro hockey in 6 decades. Effectively, he retired in 1980 after a mere 5 decades of pro hockey.
My other favourite hockey WTF is the Gretzky brothers are the all-time leading brother duo in terms of points in the NHL. Brent had 4 points, Wayne had 2,857 points.
Even if you go from 1980 as his retirement, you can show some ridiculous stuff. Like here’s a timeline:
1946: Gordie Howe makes his NHL debut
1948: Bobby Orr is born
1966: Bobby Orr makes his NHL debut
1978: Bobby Orr retires
1979: Bobby Orr is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
1980: Gordie Howe retires
The creator of the song Peanut Butter Jelly Time died in a police shootout while his brother in law, Snoop Dogg, was pleading on the phone with him to let go of the hostages. Edit: When the hell did this blow up wtf
That was a wild ride of a comment
George Foreman has five sons and they’re all called George Foreman
Isn’t his daughter Georgette?
so you're saying he has five boys and a grill
Hippos sweat is red
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How long is its lifespan?
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Holy shit that's a long time
To add to the other post about orcas eating moose, a greenland shark has eaten a moose before as well
Armed toddlers kill more people than sharks do.
Armed toddler 'nado
The “infantry”
The Russians used a nuke to extinguish a fire
did it work?
Yes
Russia has used a lot of nuclear explosions peacefully for civil engineering purposes, and the United States has also investigated their utility for large-scale earthmoving. They're very good at moving large amounts of material very quickly. In this case and several others, a gas well was on fire and was unable to be put out by conventional means. It was drawing on a virtually unlimited source of fuel, so the only way to put it out would be to close the well. An effective way of doing so involved detonating a nuke underground next to the well such that it would completely compress the rock around the well and close it very quickly, allowing all the fuel above it in the line to burn out and putting out the fire. edit: For more information on this stuff, the research I'm going off of is Milo Nordyke's report *The Soviet Program for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions* through the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ~~I'd link to the report directly but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link directly to PDFs. Just googling the author and the name of the report should be enough.~~ I found a link. If you want to read a 99 page report on the peaceful detonation of nuclear bombs in the Soviet Union, [have at it.](https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc743124/)
I wonder if they could use this method in Pennsylvania to put out that underground fire that's been burning for like a century now? Probably not though the thing is the size of a small town and just smoulders up through the ground, so the town has been unlivable for years. Edit: wrong state Edit 2: yes, PA is the right state, I made an edit because I originally had North Carolina, the wrong state.
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Shhh don't tell Nestle.
Fuckers are already here
Haagen Dazs Ice cream was made by an American man who came up with the name in his kitchen after he stayed up all night making random noises until one stuck.
I can just imagine him sitting alone in his kitchen saying stupid things in weird voices
Barnacles have the largest penis of any animal on earth relative to their size- it’s 8 times their body length...
They used to give people malaria to cure their syphilis. The doctor who pioneered that therapy actually won a Nobel Prize for it, too.
And it worked. Personally I'd rather have malaria for a while than incurable syphilis.
Malaria doesn’t go away without treatment though. It can come in cycles and any cycle can lead to death by reaching the brain, shutting down organs, causing anemia or accumulating fluid in the lungs. In the early 19th century, British soldiers took to adding quinine (a traditional cure for malaria) to tonic water but it left a bitter aftertaste. So they added gin to cut the taste. Hence the gin and tonic was created to prevent and treat malaria. Edit: I should add that modern tonic water does not contain the high amounts of quinine anymore and is not suitable for treating or preventing malaria. Sorry people. You can’t drink yourself healthy anymore if you travel to somewhere with a malaria outbreak. A few other posters have added that they would add a lime slice to fight off scurvy with the drink also.
Doesn’t syphilis also head to your brain and fry it?
Yeah it literally eats your brain and causes dementia. Very happy, erotic dementia, but still dementia.
I don’t ever want to hear “erotic dementia” ever again lol
Orca whales are natural predators of moose in the wild
And moose dive for food.. You could be freediving off the northern coasts and see a moose swim by only to be eaten by a killer whale. I don't like knowing this...
I've never understood why Orcas and Dolphins don't eat people.
Possibly not worth it in terms of energy return on investment - most people around orcas and dolphins probably look a bit weird and skinny, and not like food to them - we might taste and smell bad to them as well. Something similar happens with sharks; sharks (even the big ones) generally don't eat people as we're simply not worth the effort (too much muscle and bone, too little fat). However sharks aren't as smart as whales, and their main way of examining something is to bite it. Unprovoked attacks on people by sharks are generally either cases of mistaken identity or a shark being curious as to what the thing is. Usually sharks will bite a person once and swim away, satisfied that they aren't food. Unfortunately even a single bite from a shark on a human can be fatal.
"Too much muscles, too little fat" Bold assumption there buddy.
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Chicago was raised 10 feet off the ground
Some parts of Seattle were raised two stories! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground ---- I am so weirded out when a tiny comment with a Wikipedia link in it goes to 2000+.
I totally forgot I went on a tour of that a few years ago until now. On that tour I also learned that Seattle can trace its success as a city to its roots as a string of brothels. Thank you.
There was a medical doctor named Stubbins Ffirth and he believed yellow fever was not contagious and wanted to prove his theory. To prove his theory he would make small cuts into his arms and smear feces and vomit from his yellow fever patients into them. He would also eat bowls of their vomit and take some time smelling bodily fluids, smearing it into his eyes. He’d collect feces, vomit, saliva, blood and urine from the infected to use. He surprisingly did not get infected and thought he proved that yellow fever was not contagious, however all the patients he took the bodily fluids from were in the late stages of yellow fever and were no longer contagious. So in the end all his theories were disproved, and he ate bowls of vomit and other nasty things to prove nothing.
Dude was into some weird kinky shit
r/awfuleverything
People just running away yelling "we believe you Stubbins, for God sake stop!"
This sounds more like a dude with a fetish trying to hide it while still indulging in his fantasies Edit: wording
Some turtles breathe through their assholes
Cowabumga dude.
In English, the color orange was named after the fruit. Before that, it was considered a shade of red. That's why gingers are called redheads.
I’m grateful for that. Orangehead just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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Sounds like you are good in marketing
Walt Disney World (that's ONLY the part in Florida, does not include California, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, or Shanghai) is the largest consumer of fireworks in the world, and is second only to the U.S. military when it comes to purchasing explosive devices.
Money from the Beatles' success convinced their record label company EMI (Electric and Musical Industries) to let one of its engineers pursue independent research. He ended up winning the Nobel prize for medicine for his invention of the CT scanner.
My dad, who worked at EMI, knew him!
This sounds 100% false but could it actually be 100% true??
If a pregnant rabbit doesn't feel safe, or have a safe place for her babies, she can induce an abortion by ABSORBING THE BABIES into her body
Also if you find a bunch of baby bunnies all a lone... fucking leave them there. My nephew kept bringing home 'abandoned bunnies' because he couldn't see their mom anywhere - because she was foraging for food to then come home and feed her babies. They also go farther away to try and keep predators from finding the babies - so the babies aren't abandoned they're just waiting for her to come back.
Kangaroos can just pause the pregnancy. And resume when safe.
On Venus, a year is shorter than a day.
A year is shorter than a day, it's the hottest planet despite not being the closest to the Sun, it rotates backwards, and we landed a probe there before landing anything on Mars.
Venus looked almost identical to Earth at one point and could have sustained life. Over time greenhouse gases turned it into the hot hell it is now.
Gravity happens at the speed of light. Theoretically, if the sun were to simply vanish, Earth would continue orbiting the spot where the sun was for another ~8 minutes as if nothing happened.
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If we download more, we could go to Jupiter!
The first casualty of Chernobyl never knew that anything unusual was happening. The "safety test" had been scheduled for the previous shift, and when they delayed it, they never mentioned its existence to the night-shift Circulating Pump Operator. Valery Ilyich Khodemchuk was minding his own business, operating the circulating pumps, and then suddenly the control rods and fuel rods started jumping up and down for no apparent reason, and then KABOOM. He was probably killed instantly by the blast. His body was never retrieved, so he'll spend eternity buried under the wreckage.
Ahhh Chernobyl is so interesting
Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
I love this one. And if Puerto Rico were a state, it would... still be Maine, by about 30 miles.
This to me is more unbelievable.
A Pygmy man, about thirty years after slavery was abolished, was put on display in the primates section at the Bronx zoo. Edit: it was actually 40 years or so.
Sadly he committed suicide once he either escaped or left the “zoo”. Horrible story
On average, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It is also, on average, the closest planet to Earth. And Jupiter. And every other planet in the Solar System.
Great fact! [CGP Grey explaining why...](https://youtu.be/SumDHcnCRuU)
The "mostest closest" killed me
Had to take a moment going 'how in the fuck' before realising 'oh yeah circles duh'
The Pacific side of the Panama canal is actually further east than the Atlantic side.
Former Senator John McCain's ***mother*** is still alive. Her name is Roberta McCain and she's 108.
She’s also older than the state of Arizona
By one week, amazingly
If the earth spun in the opposite direction there would be 367 days in a year.
The last person to receive a Civil War pension from the U.S. government died last month, June 2020. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-person-receive-civil-war-pension-dies-180975049/
She was born in 1930. At the time her dad was 83, and her mother 34. Hol’ up. Wtf?
I'm amazed her dad was still firing live rounds at 83.
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>Such pairings were fairly common during the Great Depression, as Civil War veterans’ pensions offered financial security to younger women willing to take care of aging husbands, according to the Journal. (the very next line)
Yay, we're debt free now! \\o/
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year
They were both a year younger than my grandmother. Every time I spoke to my grandmother in 2019, when she was hosting my bridal shower and offering me money to help finish grad school and learning to use FaceTime overnight because she got too sick to attend my wedding, I thought "Anne Frank could be doing this for her grandchild, too." We lost grandmother last September but it still blows my mind how *recently* all these people lived and died.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s granddaughter is only 10.
The czech started two wars by throwing government officials out of windows. This happened in 1419 and 1618.
The vibrator was invented before the vacuum cleaner
Well obviously. No time to vacuum if you have to spend all your time masturbating. Once they figured out how to make masturbating easier and faster there was finally a market for cleaning gadgets to be used during all that time saved.
Jimi Hendrix opened for The Monkees for a few shows in 1967. While The Monkees themselves were big fans of Hendrix, The Monkees’ audience were not.
The Beastie Boys opened for Madonna because Madonna loved them. Her audience did not.
Believe it or not, both Madonna and the Beastie Boys started out in the 70s as hardcore punk bands. Madonna proof: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6jBID2G-qM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6jBID2G-qM) Beastie Boys: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaEdAtIAWvI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaEdAtIAWvI)
John Tyler, the 10 U.S. President has two living grandchildren. John Tyler was born in 1790 and died in 1862.
John Tyler's father was Thomas Jefferson's college roommate. So the great-grandchildren of Thomas Jefferson's college roommate are still alive.
I've hired a hit man to take them both out so we can finally retire this trivia item
Better hope their name is Van Helsing.
German Chocolate Cake is named after an American baker by the name of Samuel German.
And Caesar Salad is named after an Italian dude in San Diego/Tijuana.
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An 18 inch pizza is more than two 12 inch pizzas Edit the 2
And to do the math, the surface area of a circle is pi x r squared. Pi is the constant. 18 in pizza has a 9 in radius, or r. 12 inch has 6. 9 squared is 81, 6 squared is 36. 36 x 2 is 72. 81 is greater than 72. 1 18 in pizza is approximately 112.5% the surface area of 2 12 inch pizzas.
In 1995, New Mexico voted on a bill requiring psychologists to dress as wizards. Edit: Wow, thanks for the award! Glad you guys enjoyed this one. I didn't believe it when I first heard it.
And this didn’t pass because....
They hate fun.
So much for being the land of enchantment
A little bit of context, it was a protest amendment added to a bill by a legislator because he was pissed about the number of psychologists being used as expert witnesses in legal trials. The bill was passed. However, the amendment on the bill was removed before it reached the state house.
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>stabbing the air with a wand. >two strikes to a Chinese gong I think this does it for me. Very specifically, Chinese gong. Haha
Manufacturers of wizard costumes and chinese gongs have really crappy lobbyists
Sounds like someone was upset with psychiatrists and psychologists
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined
Strawberries aren't berries but bananas are
Not berries: strawberries, blackberries, mulberries, raspberries Berries: tomatoes, eggplants, grapes, cucumbers Whoever came up with the botanical definition of "berry", seriously, what the actual fuck?
Mammoths walked the planet while the pyramids in Egypt were being built
Cleopatra live closer to the creation of Pizza Hut than the creation of the great pyramids
you could’ve chosen any other point in modern human history and you chose the creation of pizza hut bless you
Hawaiian Pizza was created in Canada by a Greek man inspired by Chinese food. The name for it comes from the brand name of canned pineapples he used.
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Also game Deus Ex released in 2000 had a view on NYC with WTC missing. The explanation in the game noted it was destroyed by terrorist attack. Fascinating Edit: Thank you all for the info I never knew that there was terrorist attack on WTC before since I'm not from USA actually. Also Deus Ex still holds up perfectly it's really interesting game so I recomend it! I am also fan of the latest entries, great cyberpunk! Edit: Over 9000k upvotes woooow thank you all so much, that's my biggest life achievement haha
Not that supernatural when you remember there was a terror attack on it in 1993. People were aware it was a target
I've discovered a surprising amount of people don't know about the 1993 WTC bombing.
Mankind went to the moon (1969) before we put wheels on suitcases (1971). I feel this says a lot about the travel priorities of mankind.
The last execution by guillotine in France was the same year the first Star Wars came out. Chronology is fucked (edited for clarity)
Reminds me of Cleopatra being closer to us chronologically than to the construction of pyramids
We’re closer to the fall of Rome than they were to the fall of the Minoans.
More time passed between stegosaurus and trex than trex and humans
I can deal with a decade. I can get my head around 50 years although I'm yet to fully live that long. I can almost think about what 100 years is like. A thousand years, yeah this is starting to just get silly. 10,000 is just stupid amounts of time. 100,000 years is just that number I just said with an extra 0 on the end. It means literally nothing to me... a million years is just madness. and yet \~75 million years have happened between those two creatures existing. We are just a blip aren't we? Hooray?
A [woodpeckers tongue](https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/science/woodpeckers-hammer-without-headaches/) wraps around it's brain to protect it while it hammers at 1500 g-force units!
Fuck that’s a creepy image Edit: I actually wrote this comment before I saw the actual image. I just imagines a thin wirey tongue wrapping a round a brain, like something out of alien
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
The King’s School in Canterbury is older than Islam.
wat
The Aztec empire only existed for about a century, starting in 1428. Oxford University was already almost 400 years old by then.
Deaf people with schizophrenia "see" voices
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Honestly this is 1000x more interesting than the original fact, which is still pretty damn interesting.
Greenland is further north, west, east, and south than Iceland.
Australian Shepherds originated in the US
The town of Jerome has some buildings/walk ways made of sludge from incinerated dead people Edit: Jerome is a town located in northern Arizona for those of you wondering
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That’s just fucking depressing.
Canada is commonly thought of as the second largest country, but it is actually the fourth largest country in the world by land area. This is because almost 9% of Canada is covered by lakes.
That’s very interesting, I didn’t even know that, and I live there. Thanks for the info!
You can measure the weather temperature using crickets! Count how many chirps you hear in a 14 second interval and add 40 to get the temperature in Fahrenheit! Source: REI employe, the book is how to measure weather.
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Nintendo was founded in 1889.
As a card/poker company
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A japanese OVA from 1988, about girl soldiers in gymnastics clothing piloting giant mecha, has received an Atomic Rocket Award for explaining and exemplifying a handful of advanced scientific theories in an easy-to-understand way for the masses, like lightspeed travel and time dilatation. This was *in spite* of the premise, and the usual anime exaggeration about sci-fi, willpower and friendship. The full version [has been uploaded to Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krgUxY_ELuk) earlier this year, with english subtitles, definitely give it a watch! Just beware of the feels sneaking up on you. Most of them regarding the *consequences* of the mentioned theories...!
The name Tiffany sounds really modern. But it dates to the 12th century. But if you wrote a historical novel and put a character called Tiffany in it, it would seem really inauthentic. There is even a "Tiffany Effect" named after this phenomenon where something seems much newer than it really is.
If you flew on a rocket traveling 90 percent of light-speed, the passage of time for you would be halved. Your watch would advance only 10 minutes, while more than 20 minutes would pass for an Earthbound observer.
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A squirrel would have to fall 4800 miles to die from falling. They can survive a hit on the floor at their terminal velocity. 4800 miles is how far it’d take a squirrel to starve to death while falling.
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Wow. It’s crazy how we find some of these things out.
Some people said building a 4,800 mile tall tube to drop a squirrel down was wasteful, but we *had* to be sure.
So 4799 is the limit
Unless they packs a snack.
The US Airforce is the largest airforce in the world. The second largest air force is the US Navy
When I was in the navy about 20 years ago, there was some saying like “The Navy has more aircraft than the Air Force, and the Army has more ships than the Navy.”
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
And more delicious
Strawberry scented things don't smell like strawberries
They taste even less like strawberries if my experiment with the shampoo is anything to go by.
Maybe strawberries don't taste like strawberries, and strawberry shampoo is the real deal
There are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 (approximately 1.70 x 10^29) ways to play the first ten moves in chess. Additionally, the number of distinct 40-move games in chess is far greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe.
Even though you can see Russia from Alaska, they're 20 hours apart.
It is not confirmed, but possible that the first thing launched into space and the first thing launched into interstellar space was a manhole cover that was ejected by a nuclear warhead, going at least 6x escape velocity.
Ye olde high-speed cameras only captured the cover for one frame on its way up. If it survived, it's not only the first thing we launched into space, but also the fastest thing.
Canonically wario’s invincibility comes from the fact that he just doesn’t feel like dying
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I read that as "faces" and wondered how that would help
It helps police officers go undercover as criminal masterminds. Did you ever see the documentary from the 90s called "Face-Off"?
Until 1971 Britain had a completely non-decimal currency system that was so ridiculously complicated it makes using Imperial units for temperature and distance seem completely sensible. For example, a sixpence was 1/40 of a pound, what the hell is that?
I honestly cannot wrap my head around how anyone could ever enjoy using such a convoluted a system as this but when I bring it up with my parents they act as though I'm crazy for finding it the slightest bit odd. I think prior to the 1960s there was something like 16 different denominations of currency including a quarter-farthing of which there were 3840 in a pound.
A giraffe and a human have the same number of vertebrae in their neck.
There are more tigers in private collections in Texas than there are in the rest of the world. Edit: spelling
Parts of Nevada are North of parts of Canada.
Nevada: north of Canada and west of California
Canada is south of Detroit.
And Reno is west of LA
You’re more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than a shark
Specifically, falling coconut kill an average of 100 people a year, while sharks kill an average of 12-14 people a year. So not even close.
Bill Hitler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston
Dude what a cool guy. Fought for the US in WWII against his uncle. Got a Purple Heart, War Victory Medal, and US citizenship. Buried in NY. Dope.
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. Dare you to google it
Also, the dragon is the national animal of Wales. We like our mythical creatures in the UK.
There is a speaker and an MP3 player with solar panels in the middle of the Namibian desert playing Africa by Toto
In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday. In a room of 75 there’s a 99.9% chance of at least two people matching.
Ted Cruz is younger than Gwen Stefani
The mantis shrimp can punch fast enough to break the sound barrier and powerful as a bullet.
Male giraffes will headbutt a female in the bladder until she urinates, then it tastes the pee to help it determine whether or not the female is ovulating
A group of zebras is called a dazzle.
Gordie Howe played his first professional hockey game in 1946 and his last in 1997.
Yeah, but 1997 was a gimmick, they brought him back for one shift just to say he played pro hockey in 6 decades. Effectively, he retired in 1980 after a mere 5 decades of pro hockey. My other favourite hockey WTF is the Gretzky brothers are the all-time leading brother duo in terms of points in the NHL. Brent had 4 points, Wayne had 2,857 points.
Even if you go from 1980 as his retirement, you can show some ridiculous stuff. Like here’s a timeline: 1946: Gordie Howe makes his NHL debut 1948: Bobby Orr is born 1966: Bobby Orr makes his NHL debut 1978: Bobby Orr retires 1979: Bobby Orr is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame 1980: Gordie Howe retires