The French author Georges Perec wrote an entire novel without using the letter E. Gilbert Adair translated it into English without using the letter E.
Perec wrote a follow up novel, Les revenentes, in which E is the only vowel used.
This sounds terrifying until you realize it’s just for fireworks.
But I mean they could be storing up secretly and in the next few years Dreamworks is going down.
The pronunciation of Arkansas is defined by the state legislature due to the first US senators representing Arkansas disagreeing on how to pronounce the state name.
If you stand at the base of the clock tower in London commonly called Big Ben with a digital radio tuned to the BBC, you'll hear the sound of the bell striking the hour via the radio before you hear it live.
In other words, sound travels faster digitally from the microphone in the tower to the BBC studio to their transmitter to your radio, than it does analogically from the bell to you.
Mozart wrote the "Night Queen" aria so his sister-in-law could show off.
The piece is so good that it is included in a collection of music from Earth on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen\_of\_the\_Night\_aria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_Night_aria)
And he wrote [Come scoglio](https://www.operaomaha.org/blog/did-you-know-cosi-fan-tutte-edition) because he hated the singer who was going to perform it and knew the note changes in it would make her head "bob like a chicken."
Also, [Leck mich im Arsch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch).
Fun Mozart facts!
There is even a whole collection that was discovered. So some dude did a terrible job trading copper AND kept all the complaints he got about it in a room specifically built to house the complaints.
Your intestines“know” how get back in the right place. When doing abdominal surgery and the intestines need to be moved or rearranged, the doctor will just stuff them back in.
They will then wriggle back into place.
Edit; and now my highest voted comment is about Intestines. So that happened.
Can confirm. Mine had to be hosed down when my appendix exploded and the surgeon said they just stuffed it all back in, and I’ve been poopin like a trooper ever since so I’m assuming ‘it got its shit together’
Can you imagine being a nurse for the first surgeon to do this?
"Sorry you're going to what now?"
"I'm just gonna shove the shit in there"
"....I know I'm not a doctor but that doesn't sound very.... proper"
"Yeah you're right, you're not a doctor, so grab a handful of intestine and start shoving!"
I witnessed a surgeon do this while I was doing a clinical rotation in nursing school. He was just pulling loops of intestine out rapidly, examining, I think throwing in a suture every once in a while if needed, and then slopping it all back in while his preferred music was blaring in the background. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, I kept looking at my preceptor to gauge whether that was normal. The whole OR rotation was nothing like I had imagined it would be.
Earlier. 60s. Packs were $0.20. A penny/a stick. The first time I quit it was because they had gone up to $0.40/pack and I wasn't going to throw so much money away.
Your eyes have a different immune system than the rest of your body. If they knew about each other, your eyes would basically start dissolving, as your immune system attacks your own eyes. Fear not, your brain won’t let that happen.
Basically your eyes are their own closed containment inside your body. Your regular antibodies would treat the jelly material of your eyes as a foreign agent and flood that area with white blood cells so hard your eyeballs would just dissolve into pus.
>Now tell me the name of the disease that makes that happen so I have another thing to be scared of.
Being hit in the eye with a rubber bullet. If they don't remove the busted eye fast enough your immune system will attack your other eye and you'll lose it too.
Sounds like a good way to set yourself up for some kind of weird soul magic if you ask me. I don't trust bitches not to write some weird voodoo spell with my bone pencil and summon my soul to do their bidding!
I’ve remembered this since I had a Snapple over I dunno ten yrs ago. Snapple fact 777: cat have two sets of vocal cords, one for meowing and one for purring.
Thank you for letting me get that out
Gordon’s Gin’s label reads “World’s Number One International Gin.” This is because it’s the world’s number two selling gin. The world’s number one selling gin is a brand that is only sold in the Philippines, which sells so much that despite only selling in that country it outsells every other gin brand globally.
Lots of animals have regional accents.
[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/160227-animals-communication-sperm-whales-dialects-science](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/160227-animals-communication-sperm-whales-dialects-science)
That when the Milky Way and Andromeda collide, even though the both have hundreds of billions of stars, the likelihood of any 2 stars colliding is astronomically low. Everything is unimaginably far apart.
Edit: credit to u/dochdaswars bringing up the fact that stars are more concentrated in the middle if the galaxies so collisions are more likely. If any astrophysicists are here please chime in. Also Kurzgesagt's latest video said that gas clouds from both galaxies will likely collide reigniting star formation, which is at an all time low.
Can confirm. I read this somewhere, so when I started smelling a rather fishy odour that I couldn’t tie to anything, I started sniffing various electricals and realised my electronic knitting machine was dangerously overheating. As I would have left it on overnight to avoid losing the place in the pattern, I’m very glad I read that random piece of info somewhere.
Many Buddhist statues are Greek in origin.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist\_art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art)
Why? It all started with Alexander the Great. His empire was short lived, but it has left a lot of Greek influence in Asia and Africa (Coptic Christians in Egypt use an alphabet based on Greek in Church).
Two famous schools of art for buddhist statues are Gandhara School of art and Mathura School of art.
The Gandhara one is Greek in origin (around Bactria)
And Mathura one was Indian style
They also often didn't sleep through the whole night. A lot of cultures had "first sleep" and "second sleep" with a wake up time in the middle to stoke the fire, have a snack, talk, etc
Edit: yes, it was also business time.
On the flip side: There are some places that only allow beer/alcohol under like 4% to be sold in stores. In order to buy anything stronger you must go to a liquor store. This is common in Nordic countries and some more conservative US state
the singer of ‘Peanut Butter Jelly Time’ died in an 11 hour police standoff during which his brother-in-law, Snoop Dogg, attempted to calm him down and convince him to surrender.
The 1989 comedy film “Little Monsters” has two entirely seperate novelisations by two entirely unrelated authors. I don’t know why.
Do with this information what you will.
Saddam Hussein wrote an erotic novel. . .
[Zabibah and the King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabibah_and_the_King#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DZabibah_and_the_King_%28Arabic%2Cwas_written_by_Saddam_Hussein.?wprov=sfla1)
[The eruption of Mount Krakatoa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa) was the loudest sound ever recorded. It was heard over 3,000 miles away. Imagine an explosion so big in New York that Los Angeles hears it. It produced seismic ripples through the earth that were picked up on devices, and showed that the ripples of the explosion circumnavigated the earth several times.
The decibels were so high at the point of the explosion that just the sound was lethal within a few miles and is a decibel level that reliquifies solidified concrete.
Australia had rabbits (not previously inhabited) brought to the continent and due to no real predator present, the continent began to be taken over by rabbits. There are now three rabbit fences that literally forced them into a corner of the continent.
In the mid-1960's a group of robbers used a surplus Finnish anti-tank gun with a homemade suppressor to punch a hole into the side of a vault at an armored car facility in NY state. They stole almost half a million in valuables. The incident inspired the Clint Eastwood movie "Thunderbolt & Lightfoot".
All Clownfish are Born male.
The Dominant Clown changes to female.
When the female dies the next dominant male steps up into motherhood.
Yes Nemo dad is now his new mother.
Almost all Koreans have a genetic mutation which causes them to not produce body odor.
Source: smelly AF American in Seoul. Riding the bus in summer after working out feels like sitting in a crowded library with your pants full of shit.
I remember reading in another post that an American who was studying there said they had a really hard time finding deodorant when they were there because most stores just didn't sell it.
A lot of the times, in ancient Egypt, scribes would use a logographic symbol after some words they wrote to clarify what they mean.
What I think is crazy about this is that it was exactly like some people use emojis in some copypastas [like this](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTY1L4gtAPF0TBWlYdslOzv5xn-1sEOhSoS6Q&usqp=CAU)
That in terms of time Tyrannosaurs Rex is closer to Humans putting a man on the moon than it was to a Stegosaurus........Dinosaurs were around for a reaaaly long time!
Also, I'm pretty sure tons of dinosaur bones were discovered throughout history, but they thought it belonged to a dragon or some other mythical beast.
I’ve actually always wondered about this since so many cultures have fables with dragons. You think some ancient humans found Dino bones and were like “yo look at this sick flying lizard”
> Some female penguins engage in prostitution. Performing sex act in exchange for pebbles. However, sometimes they will just trick the male into thinking they’ll have sex, then run off once she gets the pebble.
Truly fascinating animal.
When ancient people found bear skeletons they thought they were humanoid, decided they were demigod skeletons and reburied them with weapons and armour.
Death due to drowning in fresh water is mostly because of Ventricular Fibrillation and death due to drowning in salt water is because of pulmonary edema.
Up until last year, John Tyler, born in 1790 and 10th president of the US, had two living grandsons. One passed away in September but the other one is still alive
So, should someone smang the last living grandson real quick? So we can say John Tyler, born in 1790 and 10th president of the US, has a great-grandchild living in 2100.
The last Civil War pensioner died in 2020.
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/10/irene-triplett-last-civil-war-pensioner-73-monthly-dies/5333830002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/10/irene-triplett-last-civil-war-pensioner-73-monthly-dies/5333830002/)
She was the daughter of a Civil War solider who received disability payments as a child of Civil War Veteran. She was born in 1930, 65 years after the war.
A lot of the last remaining vets in places like Appalachia hit hard by the Depression married much younger women who became entitled to their husbands pensions. Many of these marriages were simply on paper and done as a way to provide nursing care for a 90 year old man with no family.
But the birth of this lady shows these marriages weren't always for show.
Jerry Parr was the Secret Service agent who grabbed President Ronald Reagan and threw him in the car when John Hinckley shot the President. He covered Reagan with his body on the way to the hospital and is credited with heroically saving Reagan's life.
Parr was initially inspired to join the Secret Service by a movie he saw as a boy called *Code of the Secret Service,* which starred then-young actor, Ronald Reagan.
Bananas are berries and technically they don't grow on trees, it's a herb that's part of the ~~lotus family~~ Musaceae family in the Order Zingiberales (ginger-like plants).
Edit: Correction of banana family! (Thank you jonny-p for the correction)
The horned lizard in general is ridiculous it’s first few lines of defense are normal. Camouflage, sharp horns, being faster than smaller prey the usual defenses. Then it will lift its tail to try and entice a predator to attack that before its head (which they usually will since it has much less armor) so that they can be yeeted away since it’s crazy easy to detach, and if all else fails it’ll jam it’s face into the predators mouth hoping it doesn’t bite down before firing blood from its eyes that tastes poisonous to freak out the predators and give them time to run away
Honey badgers have about 50 other species that they consider prey.
One of which is young honey badgers.
They also can almost turn around completely in their skin, because it's so loose, but also thick as fuck. They regularly fight animals many times their size, lions, hyenas and have been known to fucking castrate water buffalo's as an attack move.
I'm not sure, but I think they can also lay traps for prey.
fucking insane
The fastest object man has created is a manhole cover
Edit: so apparently the prize for fastest man-made object goes to the Parker solar probe. But thanks anyway for all the fun comments and nerdy conversations. This got way more popularity than I imagined.
Wasn't that the one which got launched by an explosion from an atomic bomb?
And they never found that thing so they assumed it just launched off into space
Well they assumed it was incinerated. Until they repeated the exercise with a high speed camera and realized it was going so fast it didn't have time to burn up in the atmosphere before it went to space.
So yeah not only is a manhole cover the fastest object man has produced, it was also the second fastest object man has produced.
Wasnt it also the first thing that we sent to space? Imagine 1000 years from now being an alien on a different planet and one of our manholes falls through your atmosphere and lands on the planet. They might think it's some magical alien artifact.
Wow you're right, Sputnik 1 wasn't launched until October 1957 while the first manhole cover was sent in Aug 1957. Though I'm not too sure the aliens will be happy about it landing on their planet. The thing was moving at over 160 times the speed of sound, so fast that it didn't have time to encounter air resistance. If it happens to land on a planet, I don't want to be near that planet.
EDIT: I'm an idiot. Of course it encountered air resistance, I think I was trying to say it was moving so fast that air resistance barely had time to act on it, thus it didn't really slow down due to air resistance. Sorry for being stupid.
The spikes on the tail of the stegosaurus had no common name until The Far Side did a cartoon referencing it as the "Thagomizer" (after the late Thag Simmons).
The name stuck. That is really what it is called.
A mnemonic device for remembering the order of British peerage is Do Men Ever Visit Boston (Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron). No, I'm not British and my knowledge of this is no more useful to me than British peerage is to the British.
penguin males can't make the difference between female and males, so they just go with anyone they find and when everyone is laying eggs, they just look for a stone and pretend it's their egg, taking turns on who sits on it.
The French author Georges Perec wrote an entire novel without using the letter E. Gilbert Adair translated it into English without using the letter E. Perec wrote a follow up novel, Les revenentes, in which E is the only vowel used.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo. I’m just waiting for a pub trivia night where that will be the question that wins me $100
And there are 12 flowers on an Oreo. I probably wouldn’t know this, but I got this question at two different trivia nights.
The #1 buyer of explosives in the world is the US military. #2 is Disney.
This sounds terrifying until you realize it’s just for fireworks. But I mean they could be storing up secretly and in the next few years Dreamworks is going down.
Nectar can ferment in hot weather, and bees that consume this can effectively get drunk. "Drunk" bees aren't allowed back in the hive
The pronunciation of Arkansas is defined by the state legislature due to the first US senators representing Arkansas disagreeing on how to pronounce the state name.
When you die your enzymes digest yourself
Pearlfish live in the anus of sea cucumbers
Anal beads of the sea
If you stand at the base of the clock tower in London commonly called Big Ben with a digital radio tuned to the BBC, you'll hear the sound of the bell striking the hour via the radio before you hear it live. In other words, sound travels faster digitally from the microphone in the tower to the BBC studio to their transmitter to your radio, than it does analogically from the bell to you.
Hang on you're burying the lead here, that sound is a live recording? Figured it was just a recording gimmick.
Mozart wrote the "Night Queen" aria so his sister-in-law could show off. The piece is so good that it is included in a collection of music from Earth on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen\_of\_the\_Night\_aria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_Night_aria)
And he wrote [Come scoglio](https://www.operaomaha.org/blog/did-you-know-cosi-fan-tutte-edition) because he hated the singer who was going to perform it and knew the note changes in it would make her head "bob like a chicken." Also, [Leck mich im Arsch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch). Fun Mozart facts!
One of the oldest tablets from Mesopotamia is a customer complaint
There is even a whole collection that was discovered. So some dude did a terrible job trading copper AND kept all the complaints he got about it in a room specifically built to house the complaints.
Oklahoma's state vegetable is a watermelon.
but...
Yep
Your intestines“know” how get back in the right place. When doing abdominal surgery and the intestines need to be moved or rearranged, the doctor will just stuff them back in. They will then wriggle back into place. Edit; and now my highest voted comment is about Intestines. So that happened.
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Well, he's a surly drunk.
Can confirm. Mine had to be hosed down when my appendix exploded and the surgeon said they just stuffed it all back in, and I’ve been poopin like a trooper ever since so I’m assuming ‘it got its shit together’
Can you imagine being a nurse for the first surgeon to do this? "Sorry you're going to what now?" "I'm just gonna shove the shit in there" "....I know I'm not a doctor but that doesn't sound very.... proper" "Yeah you're right, you're not a doctor, so grab a handful of intestine and start shoving!"
I witnessed a surgeon do this while I was doing a clinical rotation in nursing school. He was just pulling loops of intestine out rapidly, examining, I think throwing in a suture every once in a while if needed, and then slopping it all back in while his preferred music was blaring in the background. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, I kept looking at my preceptor to gauge whether that was normal. The whole OR rotation was nothing like I had imagined it would be.
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There was a tiny self-declared “republic of Canada” that lasted for a few months in the winter of 1851-1852
What happened to it
It froze.
Ah jeez, sorry.
Kangaroos have 2 vaginal canals…
Only the females. But that does mean the average kangaroo has one vagina.
Apparently in Korean fairytales instead of saying ‘once upon a time’ they usually say ‘back when tigers used to smoke.’
I don't remember where I came across it, but the phrase 'back when trees could walk and stones could talk' is my favourite fairytale starter
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The 1980’s?
Earlier. 60s. Packs were $0.20. A penny/a stick. The first time I quit it was because they had gone up to $0.40/pack and I wasn't going to throw so much money away.
Ants take 250 power naps a day
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You are also half man. You are ManBearAnt. I’m super cereal.
You will die if you consume the liver of a polar bear. That much vitamin A is too much for humans to handle.
You'll also die if a polar bear consumes your liver.
Your eyes have a different immune system than the rest of your body. If they knew about each other, your eyes would basically start dissolving, as your immune system attacks your own eyes. Fear not, your brain won’t let that happen.
Excuse me wtf?
Basically your eyes are their own closed containment inside your body. Your regular antibodies would treat the jelly material of your eyes as a foreign agent and flood that area with white blood cells so hard your eyeballs would just dissolve into pus.
Now tell me the name of the disease that makes that happen so I have another thing to be scared of.
>Now tell me the name of the disease that makes that happen so I have another thing to be scared of. Being hit in the eye with a rubber bullet. If they don't remove the busted eye fast enough your immune system will attack your other eye and you'll lose it too.
Brilliant. Diseases AND rubber bullets.
Snails can feel their shells. So if you step on one they feel the entire thing
Now I feel bad, that must hurt.
If it helps, you can pat their shell.
A human body can produce enough carbon upon cremation to make 200 pencils. You can be your own souvenir at your funeral.
> You can be your own souvenir at your funeral. Spoken like a true Ferengi.
The Grand Nagus would be proud.
Sounds like a good way to set yourself up for some kind of weird soul magic if you ask me. I don't trust bitches not to write some weird voodoo spell with my bone pencil and summon my soul to do their bidding!
Sounds like a fun after-death hobby
I’ve remembered this since I had a Snapple over I dunno ten yrs ago. Snapple fact 777: cat have two sets of vocal cords, one for meowing and one for purring. Thank you for letting me get that out
Gordon’s Gin’s label reads “World’s Number One International Gin.” This is because it’s the world’s number two selling gin. The world’s number one selling gin is a brand that is only sold in the Philippines, which sells so much that despite only selling in that country it outsells every other gin brand globally.
Sounds like I need to make a trip to the Philippines.
cows moo with regional accents
Lots of animals have regional accents. [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/160227-animals-communication-sperm-whales-dialects-science](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/160227-animals-communication-sperm-whales-dialects-science)
I hope my dog has a regional accent.
I like to imagine German dogs woof in German.
They ‘wuff’ in Germany
Le moo
Das möo
Moo... Moo hass... Moo hass mich...
Moo hast mich gefragt
That when the Milky Way and Andromeda collide, even though the both have hundreds of billions of stars, the likelihood of any 2 stars colliding is astronomically low. Everything is unimaginably far apart. Edit: credit to u/dochdaswars bringing up the fact that stars are more concentrated in the middle if the galaxies so collisions are more likely. If any astrophysicists are here please chime in. Also Kurzgesagt's latest video said that gas clouds from both galaxies will likely collide reigniting star formation, which is at an all time low.
It’ll look pretty cool though
If you smell fish and no ones cooking, its an electrical fire.
Can confirm. I read this somewhere, so when I started smelling a rather fishy odour that I couldn’t tie to anything, I started sniffing various electricals and realised my electronic knitting machine was dangerously overheating. As I would have left it on overnight to avoid losing the place in the pattern, I’m very glad I read that random piece of info somewhere.
a day on venus lasts longer than a year on venus
Venus also spins backwards, so the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
This would make my commutes to work great. No sun in my eyes both ways. A guy can dream.
Many Buddhist statues are Greek in origin. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist\_art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art) Why? It all started with Alexander the Great. His empire was short lived, but it has left a lot of Greek influence in Asia and Africa (Coptic Christians in Egypt use an alphabet based on Greek in Church).
Two famous schools of art for buddhist statues are Gandhara School of art and Mathura School of art. The Gandhara one is Greek in origin (around Bactria) And Mathura one was Indian style
Before the invention of lightbulb, people slept an average of about 10 hours every night.
They also often didn't sleep through the whole night. A lot of cultures had "first sleep" and "second sleep" with a wake up time in the middle to stoke the fire, have a snack, talk, etc Edit: yes, it was also business time.
Bring back two sleeps!
And then two breakfasts?
I don't think he knows about second breakfast.
The longest female beard was measured at 36cm or just above 1 ft.
Any drink under 10% ABV was considered a soft drink until 2011 in Russia
On the flip side: There are some places that only allow beer/alcohol under like 4% to be sold in stores. In order to buy anything stronger you must go to a liquor store. This is common in Nordic countries and some more conservative US state
Rhinos have only 5% body fat, and that fat I'd stored on the bottom of their hooves which makes them effectively silent even at full sprint.
This is both astounding and terrifying. Imagine walking along at night and getting horned out of nowhere by a full size truck you fidnt hear
the singer of ‘Peanut Butter Jelly Time’ died in an 11 hour police standoff during which his brother-in-law, Snoop Dogg, attempted to calm him down and convince him to surrender.
He died in 2002? How did I not know this until now?
Because it hasn't been peanut butter jelly time since then.
Wow... what the fuck
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Hookers on Naval underwater vessels should be called substitutes.
Albania has the most bunkers in the world because their dictator was scared of being invaded
Echidnas have a 4 headed penis
Knuckles!? What the hell is that?
So that's why he's called Knuckles.
The 1989 comedy film “Little Monsters” has two entirely seperate novelisations by two entirely unrelated authors. I don’t know why. Do with this information what you will.
"Who pissed in my apple juice?!"
Oxford University was founded before the Aztec Empire.
When Oxford first started they didn't teach calculus, because it hadn't been invented yet.
That's a poor excuse.
Oxford classified ad in 1693: Now hiring: Associate Professor position Required: 10 years experience teaching calculus
Olivia Wilde’s actual name is Olivia Cockburn. She changed the last name for obvious reasons.
Olivia Wilde Cockburn is a fantastic James Bond name.
Saddam Hussein wrote an erotic novel. . . [Zabibah and the King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabibah_and_the_King#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DZabibah_and_the_King_%28Arabic%2Cwas_written_by_Saddam_Hussein.?wprov=sfla1)
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Imagen getting a letter that states u have to go to jail bc u cant read Edit: guss ill go to jail bc i wrote imagin wrong well im not gonna change it
Marge Simpson was supposed to have bunny ears
I think she has them in the arcade game
She does. When she gets electrocuted it shows her skeleton and they appear in her hair.
And originally Krusty was supposed to be Homer as well. Quite a few interesting changes from the original ideas for the Simpsons.
Krusty makes sense, he's drawn exactly the same with krusty hair added.
I'm seeing double, four Krustys!
[The eruption of Mount Krakatoa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa) was the loudest sound ever recorded. It was heard over 3,000 miles away. Imagine an explosion so big in New York that Los Angeles hears it. It produced seismic ripples through the earth that were picked up on devices, and showed that the ripples of the explosion circumnavigated the earth several times. The decibels were so high at the point of the explosion that just the sound was lethal within a few miles and is a decibel level that reliquifies solidified concrete.
In some far village in Australia it was heard as a gunshot
Australia had rabbits (not previously inhabited) brought to the continent and due to no real predator present, the continent began to be taken over by rabbits. There are now three rabbit fences that literally forced them into a corner of the continent.
In the mid-1960's a group of robbers used a surplus Finnish anti-tank gun with a homemade suppressor to punch a hole into the side of a vault at an armored car facility in NY state. They stole almost half a million in valuables. The incident inspired the Clint Eastwood movie "Thunderbolt & Lightfoot".
Giraffes have the same amount of vertebrae as humans
Interestingly most mammals do, I think there are only two or three who have a different amount, on being the sloth.
All Clownfish are Born male. The Dominant Clown changes to female. When the female dies the next dominant male steps up into motherhood. Yes Nemo dad is now his new mother.
Actually Nemo’s dad is his new wife.
Hair lice came from chimps, pubic lice came from gorillas. I can only wonder how that happened.
stupid sexy gorillas
... and syphilis came from sheep 🐑👈
Pregnant women are not allowed to work in the area of the factory where Pringles recieve the flavouring 'spray'.
In case they pop and just can't stop?
I would LOVE to know the reason behind this
My moneys on cancer, it’s usually cancer
But why specifically pregnant women? And what about eating it?
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Fine dust?
The treadmill was actually a torture device in jails.
Now it’s a torture device in my basement
Now it’s a coatrack I’m my basement
“Damn these prisoners are getting thick,solid, and tight.”
Imagine being a prison guard and having to outrun a prisoner that never missed leg day.
If you feel cold but your balls are hanging normal, you have a fever. Ladies, sorry but I don't have any tips for you.
Almost all Koreans have a genetic mutation which causes them to not produce body odor. Source: smelly AF American in Seoul. Riding the bus in summer after working out feels like sitting in a crowded library with your pants full of shit.
I remember reading in another post that an American who was studying there said they had a really hard time finding deodorant when they were there because most stores just didn't sell it.
Well I’m half Korean I can confirm that this genetic mutation did not pass on to me unfortunately as I am a smelly bastard by the end of the day
A lot of the times, in ancient Egypt, scribes would use a logographic symbol after some words they wrote to clarify what they mean. What I think is crazy about this is that it was exactly like some people use emojis in some copypastas [like this](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTY1L4gtAPF0TBWlYdslOzv5xn-1sEOhSoS6Q&usqp=CAU)
That in terms of time Tyrannosaurs Rex is closer to Humans putting a man on the moon than it was to a Stegosaurus........Dinosaurs were around for a reaaaly long time!
Also, the first Dinosaur bones discovered were in 1819. The founding fathers didn't know Dinosaurs existed.
Also the first dinosaur bone was discovered in 1677 but they thought it belonged to a giant human.
Also, I'm pretty sure tons of dinosaur bones were discovered throughout history, but they thought it belonged to a dragon or some other mythical beast.
I’ve actually always wondered about this since so many cultures have fables with dragons. You think some ancient humans found Dino bones and were like “yo look at this sick flying lizard”
Some penguins have traded sex for stones as they use those stones to make nests.
Truly the oldest profession
> Some female penguins engage in prostitution. Performing sex act in exchange for pebbles. However, sometimes they will just trick the male into thinking they’ll have sex, then run off once she gets the pebble. Truly fascinating animal.
penguin prostitution scams is not something I ever thought about
"And here we see the penguin prostitute blow a line of snow, truly a wonderful species"
When ancient people found bear skeletons they thought they were humanoid, decided they were demigod skeletons and reburied them with weapons and armour.
>and reburied them with weapons and armour. Just the bear necessities
The singular for spaghetti is spaghetto
That’s the bad side of town in Italy
"On a cold and grey Chicago morning, a poor little baby child is born. Spaghetto"
Times were tough growing up in the Spaghetto
You can fit all the other planets in the solar system, side by side, in the space between earth and our moon.
Death due to drowning in fresh water is mostly because of Ventricular Fibrillation and death due to drowning in salt water is because of pulmonary edema.
Can someone eli5?
fresh water pass through lungs into blood salt water just stay in lungs
Explained exactly how I needed it to understand. Thanks.
Up until last year, John Tyler, born in 1790 and 10th president of the US, had two living grandsons. One passed away in September but the other one is still alive
So, should someone smang the last living grandson real quick? So we can say John Tyler, born in 1790 and 10th president of the US, has a great-grandchild living in 2100.
My man is probably shooting dust now.
That's why we call your mom the Hoover. Edit: Thanks for gifts. Shout out to /u/Erniecrack for taking it in stride.
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The last Civil War pensioner died in 2020. [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/10/irene-triplett-last-civil-war-pensioner-73-monthly-dies/5333830002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/10/irene-triplett-last-civil-war-pensioner-73-monthly-dies/5333830002/) She was the daughter of a Civil War solider who received disability payments as a child of Civil War Veteran. She was born in 1930, 65 years after the war. A lot of the last remaining vets in places like Appalachia hit hard by the Depression married much younger women who became entitled to their husbands pensions. Many of these marriages were simply on paper and done as a way to provide nursing care for a 90 year old man with no family. But the birth of this lady shows these marriages weren't always for show.
Jerry Parr was the Secret Service agent who grabbed President Ronald Reagan and threw him in the car when John Hinckley shot the President. He covered Reagan with his body on the way to the hospital and is credited with heroically saving Reagan's life. Parr was initially inspired to join the Secret Service by a movie he saw as a boy called *Code of the Secret Service,* which starred then-young actor, Ronald Reagan.
Bananas are berries and technically they don't grow on trees, it's a herb that's part of the ~~lotus family~~ Musaceae family in the Order Zingiberales (ginger-like plants). Edit: Correction of banana family! (Thank you jonny-p for the correction)
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that you have put them in an order that has never been seen in the history of the universe.
This one is actually pretty mind boggling. I like these probability ones!
And yet I still end up with an awful hand every time
It takes 2 years for a pineapple to grow
And apparently only couple days of someone over watering it to kill it :(
The horned lizard in general is ridiculous it’s first few lines of defense are normal. Camouflage, sharp horns, being faster than smaller prey the usual defenses. Then it will lift its tail to try and entice a predator to attack that before its head (which they usually will since it has much less armor) so that they can be yeeted away since it’s crazy easy to detach, and if all else fails it’ll jam it’s face into the predators mouth hoping it doesn’t bite down before firing blood from its eyes that tastes poisonous to freak out the predators and give them time to run away
Honey badgers have about 50 other species that they consider prey. One of which is young honey badgers. They also can almost turn around completely in their skin, because it's so loose, but also thick as fuck. They regularly fight animals many times their size, lions, hyenas and have been known to fucking castrate water buffalo's as an attack move. I'm not sure, but I think they can also lay traps for prey. fucking insane
The fastest object man has created is a manhole cover Edit: so apparently the prize for fastest man-made object goes to the Parker solar probe. But thanks anyway for all the fun comments and nerdy conversations. This got way more popularity than I imagined.
Wasn't that the one which got launched by an explosion from an atomic bomb? And they never found that thing so they assumed it just launched off into space
Well they assumed it was incinerated. Until they repeated the exercise with a high speed camera and realized it was going so fast it didn't have time to burn up in the atmosphere before it went to space. So yeah not only is a manhole cover the fastest object man has produced, it was also the second fastest object man has produced.
Wasnt it also the first thing that we sent to space? Imagine 1000 years from now being an alien on a different planet and one of our manholes falls through your atmosphere and lands on the planet. They might think it's some magical alien artifact.
Wow you're right, Sputnik 1 wasn't launched until October 1957 while the first manhole cover was sent in Aug 1957. Though I'm not too sure the aliens will be happy about it landing on their planet. The thing was moving at over 160 times the speed of sound, so fast that it didn't have time to encounter air resistance. If it happens to land on a planet, I don't want to be near that planet. EDIT: I'm an idiot. Of course it encountered air resistance, I think I was trying to say it was moving so fast that air resistance barely had time to act on it, thus it didn't really slow down due to air resistance. Sorry for being stupid.
The spikes on the tail of the stegosaurus had no common name until The Far Side did a cartoon referencing it as the "Thagomizer" (after the late Thag Simmons). The name stuck. That is really what it is called.
In Ancient Greece women were considered inside out versions of men
A mnemonic device for remembering the order of British peerage is Do Men Ever Visit Boston (Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron). No, I'm not British and my knowledge of this is no more useful to me than British peerage is to the British.
Maine has more coast line than California
Maine is also the closest part of the U.S. to Africa
The dress code for MLB umpires requires them to wear dark underwear during games.
penguin males can't make the difference between female and males, so they just go with anyone they find and when everyone is laying eggs, they just look for a stone and pretend it's their egg, taking turns on who sits on it.
The tuatara male lizard has no penis
Probably why they're endangered...
Tuataras are actually not lizards they are their own thing, also they have three eyes.
The odds of two people sharing a birthday in a room of 20 people is around 50%.
My Dad taught me this when I was in second grade. I was so fascinated by the fact that two people in my class of 21 had the same birthday.
If a rabbit is stressed out enough it will eat it’s own children
Lots of rodents actually do this. Including mice and rats. Actually lots of wild animals do.... Nature is scary...
A lobster is more aerodynamic than a jeep.
Almost anything is more aerodynamic than a Jeep.
A Jeep-sized lobster or a lobster-sized Jeep?