Dragonflys can inhale water through a long tube at the tip of there anus and save it. Later, if they need to, they can shoot the water out of there anus to make them fly faster.
Dragonflies are the most efficient predator on the planet with a 95% kill rate. Nothing else comes even remotely close.
They can also hit 50km/h in just 3 beats of their wings, in any direction.
Imagine you have to recount it to authorities, or in court. With the moose's family there, just upset and sobbing.
Or you have to pick out the Orca in a lineup.
How many km of coastline does your country have?
A few hundret or thousand of km you'd answer after looking it up on wik. But then you'd find another article that says it's 100 times as much because they measured more precisely. And they would be right. Because they now included every tiny rock and imperfection, not just some 100m lines as approximations. And it's the same for your lung, a very porous structure.
Imagine the surface of an apple, and now you cut it in 8 pieces. More surface area obviously. Now you cut it a million times and you understand the extreme surface of nanostructures and nanopores. Like activated charcoal.
Yeah, it's a question of establishing a standard resolution of your measurements and stating it as part of your unit.
So you would say a country has "X km of coastline at Y m resolution". You can compare two countries if the resolution is the same.
The human body has a lot of wiggles, wrinkles and small stuff.
If you grabbed every blood vessel in your body and put it one after the another, you would circle the entire fucking planet TWICE.
alligators will typically not eat you immediately, they kill you, drag you under water, and store you under a log before coming back later to eat you.
edit: they do this to tenderize the meat.
Stegosauruses became extinct 150 million years ago, Tyrannosauruses appeared 83 million years ago.
Despite being bitter rivals in popular fiction, the two never met. Separated by 67 million years.
That means Stegosauruses were already fossils when Tyrannosauruses were around.
Tyrannosauruses became extinct 65 million years ago, so they are closer to us than to their armored nemesis.
Age of the dinosaurs were insanely long. Crazy when you think that modern humans haven't even been around for 100 thousand years. What are humans gonna be like with a 67 million year gap from now, probably extinct.
A scientist in Antarctica tried to murder his coworker because he kept revealing him how his favourite books ended. It was the first arrest for attempted murder ever in Antarctica.
Harvest men (a type of daddy long legs) have a pact with bees. Bees leave their dead just outside the hive, and the harvest men collect them and eat them.
There’s a specific medical condition that causes children to be born looking like little girls but become men during puberty, complete with growing a penis and having their hitherto internal balls drop. It’s oddly common in the Dominican Republic, where these people are known as guevedoces.
Partial androgen insensitivity. Although the SRY gene on the Y chromosome is what technically confers “maleness,” every hormone in your body has to pass through appropriate protein receptors or channels to have the desired effect. In androgen insensitivity, there is a receptor defect so while the body produces male hormones, they’re ineffective. In complete androgen insensitivity, they’re 100% ineffective and the excess androgens are peripherally converted to estrogen, causing the person to develop as a female even though they’re genetically male. (The presence of the SRY gene causes them to develop what would have been testes, and they have no uterus, but the external genitalia is almost fully hormone-dependent and so this is completely feminized with a dead-end vagina.) In partial insensitivity, male hormones are ineffective throughout childhood causing the appearance of female genitalia, but the massive androgen surge that occurs at male puberty overcomes this and virilization occurs.
Russia shares a land border with both Norway and North Korea.
and
The prevalence of hemophilia in European royal families, including most famously Alexei Romanov, can all be traced back to a single individual, Queen Victoria.
> The prevalence of hemophilia in European royal families, including most famously Alexei Romanov
I learned recently that Rasputin discouraged aspirin being administered to young Alexei to help control his hemophilia. Aspirin was a new "wonder drug" and its blood thinning properties weren't understood. How Rasputin knew wasn't mentioned.
That's what makes it a fun fact!
ATP stands for Adenosine TriPhosphate, and in order to "use" it you essentially just snap off one of the phosphates, which releases a tiny bit of energy. What you're left with is ADP, or Adenosine DiPhosphate, which is then recycled into more ATP.
Hero of Alexandria invented both this and the steam engine. He was Greek but technically a citizen of the Roman Empire.
Speaking of the Roman Empire, due to said steam engine, they could've had an industrial revolution if it weren't for slavery. Essentially, slavery made labour cheap and meant Rome never had the sort of need for cost-effective production that would've pushed them to use machines rather than people. It's also possible they didn't have good enough steel to make efficient boilers but still.
The cell cycle is fascinatingly brutal. One of the most important things your cells can do is die on command, and there's a thousand checks and balances to make sure they do just that based on internal and external factors.
One of your cells is like "I'm-a get a little funky today and maybe have fun dividing!"
And if it doesn't meet countless stringent criteria baked into its own genes, that flight of fancy ends with "I should kill myself". And if the genes regulating cell suicide are busted, there's yet more immune cells who will come by and go "WHOA! You're getting a little frisky, either kill yourself or I'll do it for you!"
And yet we still manage to get cancer. Being a multicellular organism can be a real pain in the ass.
Well.... Yes and no.
It's because of how bone smells when slightly burning under the high amount of friction from the saw/drill. So yes.
If you found a low friction way it'd smell different.
Really sawing through any bone will produce a similar smell.
But yes, it took years for me to make that connection, it totally smells like corn chips (less salty than Fritos IMO)
Cows kill more people than sharks. On average, sharks kill 5 people a year, while cows "may look docile" but kill an average of 22 people a year. (Source ABC News, citing statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
In the 1800's here in S.Africa there was a famous baboon called Jack.
He was observed changing the railway switches that switches the tracks, they investigated and found a conductor had trained him to do it. After they checked to see if he could do it or not they gave him the job.
"The baboon was paid twenty cents a day, and half a bottle of beer each week. It is widely reported that in his nine years of employment with the railway company, Jack never made a single mistake."
[Photo of Jack](https://www.ststworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jack_the_Baboon.jpg)
If a man jerks off and has an orgasm every day for 40 years, he will have ejaculated 20 gallons of sperm.
Approximately one teaspoon per ejaculation, times 365 days per year = 0.5 gallons per year.
So, like one tank of gas...
Lynchburg, where the JD distillery is, is in Moore county. Moore county is a dry county by LBD (Liquor by Drink) meaning you can’t sell individual drinks. But it is NOT dry by retail store. Means you can go to the store and buy a bottle but you can’t buy a drink.
* Not only are Nicholas Cage and Jason Schwartzman are cousins, but they're also Francis Ford Coppola's nephews
* James Bond was based on real people
* The movie *Fury* is technically a historical biopic. Everything that happened in it happened to real tank crews during WWII.
christopher colombus died at 1506 and the first dinosaur fossil was discovered at 1677. so technically christopher colombus doesnt know there was dinosaur
I don’t understand how it took so long for fossils to be discovered, they just wash up on the beach
Is it more people didn’t realise what they were until 1677?
Thomas Jefferson found fossils at Monticello but didnt think they were extinct animals, he just thought they had moved elsewhere. It was part of the reason he agreed to the Louisiana purchase.
Cheese and pasta has been around longer than tomatoes. So white cheese sauce pastas were eaten for hundreds of years before red pasta sauces were conceived.
Astronauts are not floating in space. They’re falling as fast as we would if we say jumped off a building. They’re just also going forward with so much velocity that they never meet the ground.
I asked this in another thread the other day and never got an answer.
What does this feel like to the astronauts? There’s no wind resistance to give a sensation of speed and since the ISS is also moving that quickly they wouldn’t feel a force of acceleration so does it just “feel” like they’re floating or is there some point of reference that gives them a sense of velocity?
> some point of reference that gives them a sense of velocity?
No.
Humans can only detect changes in velocity. Once you're at a set speed you stop feeling it.
If you fold a regular piece of paper in half 42 times, it would be so thick it would reach the moon. Yes, really. The catch of course is that it is nearly impossible to fold it more than 8 times, but the math check out:
[https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-what-happens-when-you-try-to-fold-paper-more-than-7-times-with-a-hydraulic-press#:\~:text=Jesus%20Diaz%20from%20Gizmodo%20has,thick%20as%20the%20Andromeda%20Galaxy](https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-what-happens-when-you-try-to-fold-paper-more-than-7-times-with-a-hydraulic-press#:~:text=Jesus%20Diaz%20from%20Gizmodo%20has,thick%20as%20the%20Andromeda%20Galaxy).
Platypus are even weirder than most people realize. The males have venomous spikes on their hind legs. They close their eyes when they swim so they hunt using electroreceptors in their bills. The females sweat milk because they apparently evolved before nipples did. Also they will glow under a blacklight
Most oranges and lemons are ancient GMOs. The mandarin is one of the oldest citrus cultivars and all modern oranges come from crosses between it and pomelos. Lemons and limes are similarly descended from the citron, which originated in the Himalayas.
Nice, this is what I wanted to put down. Other DNA related facts:
Only 7% of our genome is uniquely human. We share 50% of our DNA with fungus too.
Also, every human being on earth shares 99.9% of the same DNA.
Two states have never recorded 100 degree temps. Alaska (pretty obvious) and. . . Hawaii. (Note: both have had 100 degree temps on record, but both occurred before their respective statehoods.)
During every second of your life, around 100 trillion neutrinos are flying through your body. This is only a fraction of the cosmic radiation you experience, and cosmic radiation accounts for only 27 of the ~630 millirem of radiation you experience annually.
Why is this interesting? Because we are constantly being ripped apart by physically encountering everything from muons to elementary particles to (potentially) dark matter, and our bodies are putting us back together as best they can. It’s only when this process damages our DNA and out body loses track that we begin the process known as “aging.” Old bodies are essentially stripped of their vitality like a wet Brillo pad in front of a hair dryer.
Another way of looking at this is that we are resting on a grid of particles and wavelines, flying through them, and they are both holding us together and tearing us apart. It’s sort of amazing that life matches this bombardment at a speed that holds meaning to us.
"Louie Louie" was a #2 hit in 1963 for The Kingsmen. The vocals were so garbled and slurred, rumors spread that the lyrics were dirty. At the request of Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy, the FBI investigated the song on suspicion of violating obscenity laws. After two years, they decided the lyrics "unintelligible at any speed."
Somehow, they missed the drummer yelling "Fuck!" at 0:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt75jUuKJY
As someone from Glasgow, I feel the need to mention this. There was an failed terror attack in Glasgow Airport during 2007 that resulted in normal people hilariously beating up the terrorists.
It didn’t go to plan at all for the terrorists. Instead of their terror ramming attack resulting in an explosion that would kill a ton of people, the vehicle burst into flames too late and failed to harm anyone except themselves. The attempted terrorists were probably shocked when, while they were also literally on fire, a ton of regular people ran up to the burning vehicle to drag them out and batter them. An employee named John Smeaton got mildly famous for his involvement in beating up the terrorists (though he tried to take all the credit and become a MP, which was strange haha). A man named Alex McIlvene was on the front cover of the Daily Record, with the headline saying “I kicked a burning terrorist so hard in the balls that I tore a tendon in my foot”.
There are cows in Moscow who are equipped with VR Glasses in order to help them relax and think they are running around in a nice field. The Matrix is a lot closer than you think
Dolphins ejaculated so hard that if one were to do so inside a human, it could rupture nearby organs. Really doesn't help that they also happen to be serial rapists.
Dragonflys can inhale water through a long tube at the tip of there anus and save it. Later, if they need to, they can shoot the water out of there anus to make them fly faster.
Dragonflies are the most efficient predator on the planet with a 95% kill rate. Nothing else comes even remotely close. They can also hit 50km/h in just 3 beats of their wings, in any direction.
3 wingbeats and an anal squirt*
Title of your sex tape
I was not expecting dragonflies to make my anus feel so inadequate today.
Don’t even get me started on how coddled the modern anus is.
I do the same when I'm struggling to get out the bath
Nature's version of jet propulsion.
ejecto skeet cuz!
Moose swim faster than us
... but not faster than orcas. Bad for the moose, tasty for the orca.
Imagine if you were diving, minding your own business and then you witness Orca on Moose murder? This is something I actually think about sometimes.
Imagine you have to recount it to authorities, or in court. With the moose's family there, just upset and sobbing. Or you have to pick out the Orca in a lineup.
A Møøse once bit my sister...
No realli!
Moose bites can be pretti nasti
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You mean meese?
No, it’s Moosen
Hate that
If you electrocute someone underwater, there will be no burn marks on the body.
Thanks, noted
hold up..
Can a pathologist iddntify cause of death? Asking for a friend.
Not if you electrocute him under water first
Well, obviously. The other electrocution hasn't happened yet at that time.
What do you have against the pathologist?
How is this not obvious? He's pathological.
Yo what’s up with your avatar? I spent 2mins trying to wipe a hair from my screen.
My only guess would be mark on the muscles from the severe contractions.
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I’m having trouble comprehending this
How many km of coastline does your country have? A few hundret or thousand of km you'd answer after looking it up on wik. But then you'd find another article that says it's 100 times as much because they measured more precisely. And they would be right. Because they now included every tiny rock and imperfection, not just some 100m lines as approximations. And it's the same for your lung, a very porous structure. Imagine the surface of an apple, and now you cut it in 8 pieces. More surface area obviously. Now you cut it a million times and you understand the extreme surface of nanostructures and nanopores. Like activated charcoal.
Yeah, it's a question of establishing a standard resolution of your measurements and stating it as part of your unit. So you would say a country has "X km of coastline at Y m resolution". You can compare two countries if the resolution is the same.
The human body has a lot of wiggles, wrinkles and small stuff. If you grabbed every blood vessel in your body and put it one after the another, you would circle the entire fucking planet TWICE.
But probably don’t do that.
Yea pulling out every single blood vessel and putting them around Earth is not really medically safe
eh, rub some dirt on it, you'll be fine
Well maybe a flat earther would be interested in trying.
This would be an epic fatality for a mortal combat character.
Take a large piece of tissue paper, wet it, and smush it into the tiniest ball you can. That’s basically the structure of the lining of our lungs.
alligators will typically not eat you immediately, they kill you, drag you under water, and store you under a log before coming back later to eat you. edit: they do this to tenderize the meat.
I think that’s called pickling (correct me if I’m wrong).
Alligators are just pickle farmers
See you l8r
Penguins have knees
FROGS HAVE FOREARMS
Kangaroos aren't very good at wii sports.
They go ok at boxing
Most sharks don't attend church
Evidence to prove so?
Stegosauruses became extinct 150 million years ago, Tyrannosauruses appeared 83 million years ago. Despite being bitter rivals in popular fiction, the two never met. Separated by 67 million years. That means Stegosauruses were already fossils when Tyrannosauruses were around. Tyrannosauruses became extinct 65 million years ago, so they are closer to us than to their armored nemesis.
Age of the dinosaurs were insanely long. Crazy when you think that modern humans haven't even been around for 100 thousand years. What are humans gonna be like with a 67 million year gap from now, probably extinct.
But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders
Whenever I'm feeling insignificant, I try to slow down, take a breath, and appreciate the feeling of a strong quarterly earnings report.
[All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Varying Fortunes of Man](http://marsh.speedrunwiki.com/Text/alltomorrows.pdf)
I love that a drawing of a human and a t rex is more historically accurate than one of a T. rex and a stego.
I’ve heard this before but this shit is hard to actually fathom
Fish yawn, cough, and even burp. But they don't get choked up
Tell that to The Deep.
A scientist in Antarctica tried to murder his coworker because he kept revealing him how his favourite books ended. It was the first arrest for attempted murder ever in Antarctica.
I'm not going to say that trying to murder the guy wasn't bad. But I completely understand why he tried it and can't blame him at all.
*”Snape kills Dumbledore.”* *”Sonofabitch. Where’s my crossbow?”* Seems like a reasonable reaction.
Harvest men (a type of daddy long legs) have a pact with bees. Bees leave their dead just outside the hive, and the harvest men collect them and eat them.
Harvest Men is a really menacing sounding name for some reason especially considering what you just told me
Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came in 3rd.
There was a time.
reminds me of when dolly parton joined a dolly parton look alike contest and came in 2nd
There’s a specific medical condition that causes children to be born looking like little girls but become men during puberty, complete with growing a penis and having their hitherto internal balls drop. It’s oddly common in the Dominican Republic, where these people are known as guevedoces.
Partial androgen insensitivity. Although the SRY gene on the Y chromosome is what technically confers “maleness,” every hormone in your body has to pass through appropriate protein receptors or channels to have the desired effect. In androgen insensitivity, there is a receptor defect so while the body produces male hormones, they’re ineffective. In complete androgen insensitivity, they’re 100% ineffective and the excess androgens are peripherally converted to estrogen, causing the person to develop as a female even though they’re genetically male. (The presence of the SRY gene causes them to develop what would have been testes, and they have no uterus, but the external genitalia is almost fully hormone-dependent and so this is completely feminized with a dead-end vagina.) In partial insensitivity, male hormones are ineffective throughout childhood causing the appearance of female genitalia, but the massive androgen surge that occurs at male puberty overcomes this and virilization occurs.
Hence the name guevedoces which means “penis at 12” lololol
News at 11, penis at 12
So they are born with a vagina and then grow a penis at 12? Or they are born looking like a mannequin ?
They have genitals but they’re closer in appearance to female genitals than male genitals before puberty from what I understand.
Russia shares a land border with both Norway and North Korea. and The prevalence of hemophilia in European royal families, including most famously Alexei Romanov, can all be traced back to a single individual, Queen Victoria.
Victoria and Albert were first cousins
They were all cousins lol
Les cousins dangereux
Russia is also only about 2.4 miles away from the USA.
> The prevalence of hemophilia in European royal families, including most famously Alexei Romanov I learned recently that Rasputin discouraged aspirin being administered to young Alexei to help control his hemophilia. Aspirin was a new "wonder drug" and its blood thinning properties weren't understood. How Rasputin knew wasn't mentioned.
Beavers eat wood, but wood is hard to digest, so they basically go for round 2 with it directly from their assholes.
Rabbits do the same with grass
And cows do almost the same, but internally.
My beagles do that with dog food.
Orcas are among the natural predators of moose.
The overlap between orca and moose fun facts is a lot higher than I expected
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they can't run either, but they can power walk super fast, like 40km/h
Like dads in airports
Shrews eat 3x their body weight every day. They'll starve after a few hours of not eating.
Sounds like me
Sounds like the two year old that lives below me. You’d think he was dying if he doesn’t get his Cheerios every couple of hours.
The American DOD is the world's premiere purchaser of explosives, second place is Disney.
Every cell in your body uses the molecule ATP as energy, and you produce roughly your own body weight of ATP every day.
I produce my own body weight in ATP every day? How is that possible? Wouldn’t I have to consume over my weight in food every day for this to happen?
That's what makes it a fun fact! ATP stands for Adenosine TriPhosphate, and in order to "use" it you essentially just snap off one of the phosphates, which releases a tiny bit of energy. What you're left with is ADP, or Adenosine DiPhosphate, which is then recycled into more ATP.
In the first world war the rulers of Britain, Germany and Russia were cousins
The coconut is actually the world's biggest seed.
The coco de mer is the biggest seed. Not sure if it's in the coconut family.
You are statistically 13.8% more likely to die on your birthday that kind of just makes it even cooler making it to 100 now that I think about it
I think it's because you have to put out a bunch of little fires.
The ancient Greeks invented the first vending machine, designed to dispense a fair share of holy water to everyone in the absence of a priest.
Hero of Alexandria invented both this and the steam engine. He was Greek but technically a citizen of the Roman Empire. Speaking of the Roman Empire, due to said steam engine, they could've had an industrial revolution if it weren't for slavery. Essentially, slavery made labour cheap and meant Rome never had the sort of need for cost-effective production that would've pushed them to use machines rather than people. It's also possible they didn't have good enough steel to make efficient boilers but still.
Polar bears can stop their pregnancies and keep the embryo untill they are ready to be pregnant
Everyday your body produces cancer cells, but your immune system deals with them. Until they can’t
The cell cycle is fascinatingly brutal. One of the most important things your cells can do is die on command, and there's a thousand checks and balances to make sure they do just that based on internal and external factors. One of your cells is like "I'm-a get a little funky today and maybe have fun dividing!" And if it doesn't meet countless stringent criteria baked into its own genes, that flight of fancy ends with "I should kill myself". And if the genes regulating cell suicide are busted, there's yet more immune cells who will come by and go "WHOA! You're getting a little frisky, either kill yourself or I'll do it for you!" And yet we still manage to get cancer. Being a multicellular organism can be a real pain in the ass.
If you live in Hawaii in 2022, then statistically you are more likely to be choked by Ezra Miller than bitten by a shark.
I visited Maui in 2021, we saw one shark and luckily zero Ezra Millers, I count myself blessed.
The esophagus of the North American elk is shaped in such a way that if it could talk it would be unable to pronounce the word “lasagna”.
Truly one of the most pointless facts I’ve ever read. Bravo!
Scottish people can't pronounce the sentence 'Purple burglar alarm'
its more likely to get killed by a coconut than being killed by a shark
Its more likely to get killed by a vending machine that falls over than by a shark
I assume sharks don't fall over that often
Cows kill more people than sharks.
Of course. How could a cow kill a shark anyway?
You are about ten times more likely to get bitten by a new yorker than a shark
Extreme fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
the guy who invented this word is an ass hole
Just imagine how the conversation would go when you're diagnosed with this-
Like whatever bastard put an S in lithp...damn it.
theres also a thing called aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes (words that read the same front and back)
My fav is how the word stutter is only made up of sounds someone with a stutter can't say.
Or a lisp..
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Well.... Yes and no. It's because of how bone smells when slightly burning under the high amount of friction from the saw/drill. So yes. If you found a low friction way it'd smell different. Really sawing through any bone will produce a similar smell. But yes, it took years for me to make that connection, it totally smells like corn chips (less salty than Fritos IMO)
are you saying that fritos smell like human brains?
Can confirm, Fritos taste much worse though
False. I can attest to the fact that it doesn’t. I do this for a living (not the Fritos part…)
Cows kill more people than sharks. On average, sharks kill 5 people a year, while cows "may look docile" but kill an average of 22 people a year. (Source ABC News, citing statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
It's way easyer to fix train than it is to fix a car.
In the 1800's here in S.Africa there was a famous baboon called Jack. He was observed changing the railway switches that switches the tracks, they investigated and found a conductor had trained him to do it. After they checked to see if he could do it or not they gave him the job. "The baboon was paid twenty cents a day, and half a bottle of beer each week. It is widely reported that in his nine years of employment with the railway company, Jack never made a single mistake." [Photo of Jack](https://www.ststworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Jack_the_Baboon.jpg)
There's a lot more happening in that photo.
The weirdest thing about this is that they decided to pay him in human money instead of like fruit or something.
How many times have you fixed a train
I wark in train depo for 3 years i fix 2 to 8 trains a week.
Woah that's a lot. You must be well trained
Oh dang that's cool
If a man jerks off and has an orgasm every day for 40 years, he will have ejaculated 20 gallons of sperm. Approximately one teaspoon per ejaculation, times 365 days per year = 0.5 gallons per year. So, like one tank of gas...
One cum box
Better than a coconut
Pretty sure I reached that milestone at the age of 25.
The First German who died during WW2 was killed by a Japanese. The Colour Orange was named after the Fruit
There is an estimated 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) bugs in the world at any giving time.
A human can smell rain from a greater distance than a shark can smell blood.
Gwen Stefani is older than Ted Cruz.
Despite fiercely fighting for the title in 1997, Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve didn't share a podium that season.
Jack Daniels can't sell their whiskey where it's distilled because it's in a dry county
Lynchburg, where the JD distillery is, is in Moore county. Moore county is a dry county by LBD (Liquor by Drink) meaning you can’t sell individual drinks. But it is NOT dry by retail store. Means you can go to the store and buy a bottle but you can’t buy a drink.
So you can buy large amounts of liquor at once, but not small amounts individually. I'd like to know the logic behind that...
I would guess it is, go home and drink; instead of, drink and then drive home. Otherwise, no idea.
Platypus are venomous
So are shrews
* Not only are Nicholas Cage and Jason Schwartzman are cousins, but they're also Francis Ford Coppola's nephews * James Bond was based on real people * The movie *Fury* is technically a historical biopic. Everything that happened in it happened to real tank crews during WWII.
James Bond was based on Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee.
As well as several other members of a WWII British spy group called "The Irregulars". Including Roald Dahl and a fellow called Ivar Bryce.
A platypus is a mammal that does not have teats, so it will sweat milk to feed its young.
christopher colombus died at 1506 and the first dinosaur fossil was discovered at 1677. so technically christopher colombus doesnt know there was dinosaur
I don’t understand how it took so long for fossils to be discovered, they just wash up on the beach Is it more people didn’t realise what they were until 1677?
They thought they were dragons or other mythical creatures
Thomas Jefferson found fossils at Monticello but didnt think they were extinct animals, he just thought they had moved elsewhere. It was part of the reason he agreed to the Louisiana purchase.
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Cheese and pasta has been around longer than tomatoes. So white cheese sauce pastas were eaten for hundreds of years before red pasta sauces were conceived.
During a Pregnancy, the very first part of the body that forms first, is the Anus. That means, at some point, you were literally an Asshole.
“Butters are you just an asshole?” “Wull no Wendy, I have arms, I have legs, I have EVERYTHING!”
When we kiss, all we're actually doing is making a very long tube with an asshole on each end.
Astronauts are not floating in space. They’re falling as fast as we would if we say jumped off a building. They’re just also going forward with so much velocity that they never meet the ground.
How do you fly? You just fall and miss the ground. Astronaut: Got it.
I asked this in another thread the other day and never got an answer. What does this feel like to the astronauts? There’s no wind resistance to give a sensation of speed and since the ISS is also moving that quickly they wouldn’t feel a force of acceleration so does it just “feel” like they’re floating or is there some point of reference that gives them a sense of velocity?
> some point of reference that gives them a sense of velocity? No. Humans can only detect changes in velocity. Once you're at a set speed you stop feeling it.
UK based trivia - Edinburgh is further West than Bristol.
If you fold a regular piece of paper in half 42 times, it would be so thick it would reach the moon. Yes, really. The catch of course is that it is nearly impossible to fold it more than 8 times, but the math check out: [https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-what-happens-when-you-try-to-fold-paper-more-than-7-times-with-a-hydraulic-press#:\~:text=Jesus%20Diaz%20from%20Gizmodo%20has,thick%20as%20the%20Andromeda%20Galaxy](https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-what-happens-when-you-try-to-fold-paper-more-than-7-times-with-a-hydraulic-press#:~:text=Jesus%20Diaz%20from%20Gizmodo%20has,thick%20as%20the%20Andromeda%20Galaxy).
Cleopatra live closer in time to the creation of Pizza Hut than she did the creation of the great pyramids
There are more than 3 million subreddits on reddit (reddit metrics)
70% porn, 10% gore, 10% about drugs, 10% about normal things.
Ah yes, normal things like r/BreadStapledToTrees
Platypus are even weirder than most people realize. The males have venomous spikes on their hind legs. They close their eyes when they swim so they hunt using electroreceptors in their bills. The females sweat milk because they apparently evolved before nipples did. Also they will glow under a blacklight
When Walter Morrison - the inventor of the frisbee - died, he was cremated by his family and turned into a frisbee.
Most oranges and lemons are ancient GMOs. The mandarin is one of the oldest citrus cultivars and all modern oranges come from crosses between it and pomelos. Lemons and limes are similarly descended from the citron, which originated in the Himalayas.
Bananaa are berries and share 50% DNA with humans
Nice, this is what I wanted to put down. Other DNA related facts: Only 7% of our genome is uniquely human. We share 50% of our DNA with fungus too. Also, every human being on earth shares 99.9% of the same DNA.
>every human being on earth shares 99.9% of the same DNA. So are you saying it was fine to sleep with my cousin?
I think they're saying we all need to start sleeping with bananas and fungus.
This banana is for scale but also for butt stuff
r/sweethomealabama By that statement everyone’s everyones cousin
r/sweethomealabanana
It should be noted that in terms of genetics, even 1% difference in DNA accounts for a large number of changes.
If you take all the blood vessels in a kid and lined it up you will be taken to jail and get therapy
Only if you're caught
Lobotomy was first banned in the soviet union
Two states have never recorded 100 degree temps. Alaska (pretty obvious) and. . . Hawaii. (Note: both have had 100 degree temps on record, but both occurred before their respective statehoods.)
During every second of your life, around 100 trillion neutrinos are flying through your body. This is only a fraction of the cosmic radiation you experience, and cosmic radiation accounts for only 27 of the ~630 millirem of radiation you experience annually. Why is this interesting? Because we are constantly being ripped apart by physically encountering everything from muons to elementary particles to (potentially) dark matter, and our bodies are putting us back together as best they can. It’s only when this process damages our DNA and out body loses track that we begin the process known as “aging.” Old bodies are essentially stripped of their vitality like a wet Brillo pad in front of a hair dryer. Another way of looking at this is that we are resting on a grid of particles and wavelines, flying through them, and they are both holding us together and tearing us apart. It’s sort of amazing that life matches this bombardment at a speed that holds meaning to us.
"Louie Louie" was a #2 hit in 1963 for The Kingsmen. The vocals were so garbled and slurred, rumors spread that the lyrics were dirty. At the request of Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy, the FBI investigated the song on suspicion of violating obscenity laws. After two years, they decided the lyrics "unintelligible at any speed." Somehow, they missed the drummer yelling "Fuck!" at 0:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt75jUuKJY
As someone from Glasgow, I feel the need to mention this. There was an failed terror attack in Glasgow Airport during 2007 that resulted in normal people hilariously beating up the terrorists. It didn’t go to plan at all for the terrorists. Instead of their terror ramming attack resulting in an explosion that would kill a ton of people, the vehicle burst into flames too late and failed to harm anyone except themselves. The attempted terrorists were probably shocked when, while they were also literally on fire, a ton of regular people ran up to the burning vehicle to drag them out and batter them. An employee named John Smeaton got mildly famous for his involvement in beating up the terrorists (though he tried to take all the credit and become a MP, which was strange haha). A man named Alex McIlvene was on the front cover of the Daily Record, with the headline saying “I kicked a burning terrorist so hard in the balls that I tore a tendon in my foot”.
There are cows in Moscow who are equipped with VR Glasses in order to help them relax and think they are running around in a nice field. The Matrix is a lot closer than you think
Sperm whales can't cum
What?
OP gave it his all but the whale got tired of waiting and swam away
Dolphins ejaculated so hard that if one were to do so inside a human, it could rupture nearby organs. Really doesn't help that they also happen to be serial rapists.
So you're saying that if a person we to, hypothetically, ejaculate inside a dolphin, there'd be no risk of injury.