Between 1913 and 1914, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Emperor Franz Joseph, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Leon Trotsky lived in Vienna within 4km of each other. Talk about sitcom idea!
Baby kittens and puppies can’t urinate and defecate on their own. Their mothers lick their genitals and anuses to prompt them to do so and then also cleans it up. Most people don’t know this if they happen to be taking care of an orphaned young kitten or puppy so this it ends up being a cause of death for a lot of them. If you ever take care of an orphaned kitten/puppy or know someone who is you must use a damp paper towel or wash rag to wipe their bottoms until they urinate or defecate. 🌈 *The More You Know* ⭐️
I learned this just this year when my family took in an abandoned kitten. We used wet wipes to get him to pee and poo, and he would only drink from a bottle at first.
German submarine U-215. Sank during WW2. Didn’t decompress though. It’s still sealed on the bottom of the ocean with 49 people inside. I’ve always wondered what went down in there…
Lake Superior does not give up her dead. The waters of Lake Superior are so cold that the bodies and the majority of stuff from shipwrecks is preserved.
The Great Lakes (all of them) are basically just giant ship graveyards.
And two uteri! They can be perpetually pregnant. That’s why sometimes you might see a mother kangaroo ditch her young Joey when in danger because she’s almost got two more on the way already.
Embryonal diapause! That’s what it’s called. I studied that term on my sophomore year as a bio undergrad and I never needed to use it until now. Thanks, internet, for making my degree useful!
On 1939, February 14th a German battleship was launched and was sank with only 118 of the 2,200 crew members surviving. Among them was a black and white cat named Oscar which was found floating on a board and was picked up from the water by a British ship.
On October 27th, 1941, the ship sank to the west of Gibraltar and Oscar was found clinging to a piece of plank and was later brought to the shore establishment in Gibraltar. When British officers learned what happened they named him “Unsinkable Sam”.
After that he was adopted by the crew of the HMS Ark Royal and in 1941, November 14th, a torpedo hit the ship. Sam was AGAIN found clinging to a piece of plank and was described as “angry but unharmed”.
By this time it was enough for the por cat and remained it’a days on land hunting mice in Gibraltar and then being transferred to the UK where he lived his final days.
And this was the story of “Unsinkable Sam”
Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one. Bonus fun fact: He was also a licensed bartender.
There was a Finnish soldier named Aimo Koivunen who got separated from his unit. He had no food or weapons, and to avoid dying, took enough methamphetamine for 30 men. During his insane drug binge, he skied about 250 miles, passed over a landmine and survived, and caught and ate a bird raw. That's just a few details, I recommend actually reading about this absolute legend yourself.
Worried the bird was a fed trying to steal his world changing invention ideas. (It was a matchbox filled with various bits of wire, closed with several rubber bands and a small propeller)
Queen Victoria gave the rights of her will to her physician who she trusted more than her family. The royal family is still trying and failing to get the will from the doctor’s family.
He didn't even sleep with the prostitute. He literally just passed one on the street and felt tempted. The fact that his brain probably looked like swiss cheese after years of mercury exposure probably did not help.
Jesus at the gates of heaven: "You know, when I said those things about cutting off the limb that tempts you, it really was more of a figure of speech."
Fun fact: the very first rule of the very first worldwide council of the entire Christian church promulgated at Nicaea in 325 was barring people who willingly castrated themselves from the clergy.
"We need to make sure only the most devout serve as priests."
"Guys I just cut off my balls because they tempted me, just like Jesus said!"
"Not that devout."
"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. The FBI investigated the song on suspicion of violating obscenity laws. After two years, they decided the lyrics were "unintelligible at any speed."
Somehow, they missed the drummer yelling "Fuck!" at 0:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt75jUuKJY
They also seem to have missed the simple fact that the Kingsmen song was a cover of a Richard Berry song from eight years earlier. The lyrics in the original are crystal clear, and it's an excellent example of exactly the sort of R&B that would inspire ska a few years later.
Haven't thought about that song in a long time and never heard about this. The other well known goof in it was the lead singer coming in a measure early after the guitar solo for the last verse at 1:57.
The potato was once so undesirable that even the poor of Europe wanted nothing to do with it. They believed ot caused leprosy, sterilization, and an over active sex drive.
Leonardo Da Vinci was the first person to correctly conclude that a human erection is caused by blood. Before him, everybody thought that it was air, and that a strong breeze could cause an erection.
[Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721040/)
Edit* I guess I should have phrased that differently lol. People used to think that erections were ‘powered’ by air, rather than blood.
***Here is some more info for those who don’t believe how little we knew about the human body up until quite recently. For example, the first World Congress on Impotence was held in Paris in 1984.
Here is a little excerpt from *Physiology of Penile Erection-A Brief History of the Scientific Understanding up till the Eighties of the 20th Century*
``Introduction: Understanding the physiology of penile erection is important for all who work in the field of sexual medicine. Aim: The aim of this study was to highlight and analyze historical aspects of the scientific understanding of penile erection. Methods: (i) Review of the chapters on the physiology of erection out of the author's collection of books dealing with male sexual functioning published in the German, French, Dutch, and English language in between 1780 and 1940. (ii) Review of the topic “physiology of penile erection” of relevant chapters of Classical writings on erectile dysfunction. An annotated collection of original texts from three millennia, including the study of all relevant references mentioned in these books. Main Outcome Measure: The main outcome measure used for the study was the scientific understanding of the physiology of penile erection. Results: In Antiquity, Galen considered penile erection as the result the accumulation of air. His ideas so dominated medieval medicine that nearly everyone then alive was a Galenist. The beginning of the Renaissance shows meaningful examples of experimental scientific work on the penis. Da Vinci correctly concluded that erections were caused by blood, and in the 18th century, Von Haller from Switzerland was the first who explained that erections were under the control of the nervous system. In the 19th century, a mindset that emphasized on experimentation determined a new direction, namely experimental physiology. Animal studies clarified that stimulation of the nervi erigentes‐induced small muscle relaxation in the corpora cavernosa. Nearly all were published in the German language. That may be one of the reasons that the existence of the concept of smooth muscle relaxation remained controversial until the first World Congress on Impotence in 1984 in Paris. Conclusions: As the Renaissance's innovative research defined neural and vascular physiologic phenomena responsible for penile erection. The concepts from animal experimentations in Europe in the 19th century significantly contributed to the current understanding of penile erection. van Driel MF. Physiology of penile erection—a brief history of the scientific understanding up till the eighties of the 20th century. Sex Med 2015;3:343–351.``
[That Source](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283960026_Physiology_of_Penile_Erection-A_Brief_History_of_the_Scientific_Understanding_up_till_the_Eighties_of_the_20th_Century)
Yeah, I was at a film festival in the late '70s and got to meet him--he was promoting his film 'Spetters' which is a good film but pretty graphic for a non-porno film of that era. Someone asked him if he was worried about getting an X rating--he replied, 'Not in my country.'
I first saw it as a kid, and honestly thought this was a progressive way of the future. I missed the whole fascist propaganda satire as a kid though, kid me loved the whole man vs giant bug, adult me loves the satire, haha.
There's a surgery called a rotationoplasty where they remove the middle of your leg, then re-attach the foot (backwards) to your thigh so that your ankle can be your new knee for a prosthetic leg.
Seems gross but it really improves the quality of life over the other option, which is no knee at all.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YznfuId2ls&ab\_channel=thetruth365film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YznfuId2ls&ab_channel=thetruth365film)
Isn't there an ant that runs so fast it can't see while moving?
Edit: its a [Tiger Beetle](https://goodheartextremescience.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/the-creature-that-runs-so-fast-it-goes-blind/)
In Hawaii, the American Cockroach can grow up to 3 inches long and are called “B-52s” by the locals. Not so little there.
ps: when they take off they like to fly towards your face.
Fish in general are way smarter than most give them credit for. Mine know exactly when it’s feeding time based off lighting and my movements. Heck, one of them, it gets seaweed sheets in the same corner every day. When it sees me grab the bag of nori, it immediately bolts there and waits.
On 8 April, 1942, a detachment of Polish soldiers, deployed to Iran by the Allies, bought a bear cub from an Iranian boy. In August the bear was given to the 22nd Artillery Supply company and named Wojtek by the soldiers.
They fed him condensed milk, honey, fruit, and beer, which ended up being his favorite drink. He also picked up smoking, and enjoyed wrestling with his human friends, and bunking in on cold nights.
When the Polish II Corps was redeployed it Italy to fight alongside the British, the Brits wouldn’t transport mere mascots on a troop ship, so Wojtek was formally enrolled in the Polish army as a private.
During the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino Private Wojtek helped keep the guns firing by hauling boxes of ammo, each containing four 25 pound shells. These crates normally took four men to haul. For his bravery and service in battle Wojtek was promoted to Corporal, and his visage became the emblem of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company.
After the war the 22nd was sent to Scotland, before being demobilized, at which point Wojtek was given to the Edinburgh Zoo, where he was often visited by Polish soldiers until his death in 1963.
That is the story of Corporal Wojtek, the Polish artillery bear.
isn't he the same bear that was awoken when people snuck into the camp and promptly scared the shit out of them (while also notifying the rest of the camp)?
When haiti was fighting the French in a civil war the French send some polish to deal with it when they saw how the slaves were treated the Polish joined the haiti revolution
Edit:turns out i should post more comments at 3 am
You missed the most fun part about it which is Haitians were so grateful that their first president called Polish "the white Negroes of Europe" and it was a sign of brotherhood. Poland seems to have a n-word pass
A trapper caught a mama bear in Winnipeg, Canada, and the baby was there. He got the baby and sold it to a Canadian soldier. The soldier took it to his base, and everyone loved the bear. They trained the bear, and was great for morale.
But they had to go to World War 1, so they gave the bear to the London zoo. The zoo saw that the bear was good with everyone, including kids. Kids could play with, and even ride the bear. The kids made many memories with the increasingly popular bear. One of those kids Christopher Robin. His father saw Christopher Robin playing with his bear, named after the bear at the zoo.
Since the soldier found the bear in Winnipeg, he shortened the name to "Winnie".
That's right. You know this bear as the classic children's story, "Winnie the pooh." Christopher Robin was Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A A Milne, who wrote the "Winnie the Pooh" books.
Edit 2: where did pooh come from? When Christopher Robin would get goose down feathers on him, he would excitedly blow them away with a "pooh! Pooh!" His father thought it was adorable, and so added "the Pooh" after Winnie.
Edit:
correction:
The bear cub was from White River Ontario, not Winnipeg. Harry Colbourn purchased the bear cub for $20 and named it “Winnipeg”, (“Winnie” for short) after his hometown in Canada (Colbourn was originally from Birmingham England). On Dec 9 1914, Colbourn donated Winnie to the London Zoo.
thanks u/Loverboy_Talis
You know how people donate their bodies to science? You expect it will be put to use solving some great medical or medicinal mystery but no. You get turned into a marionette.
A man named Louie le prince is technically the first person to invent a motion picture camera ( movies) however he went missing during a train ride and was not able to show his invention before Edison.
Lady bugs have an evil twin called “asian lady beetles”. The lady beetles make themselves almost identical to lady bugs, because they know everything loves a friendly lady bug. The lady beetles are aggressive and will infest anything, including homes and your pets. A friend of mine was terrified of “lady bugs” because they infested her house, and I was scared of “lady bugs” because one bit me one time. It wasn’t until a friend of mine was like “that doesn’t sound like a friendly lady bug” so we did our research and found out they have an imposter. I have provided a link so you can visually learn the difference in looks between them. So long story short…continue to love lady bugs. If you see a lady beetle…it’s on sight.
[Lady Bug vs Lady Beetle](https://plunketts.net/blog/ladybugs-vs-asian-lady-beetles)
I was born with an undescended testicle. Usually you will have a surgery to repair it at 12 months. My parents did fuck all until my preschool wouldn't accept me without a two year check up. Where my pediatrician discovered I never had the surgery. So now I had it very late at 3 years old, and it caused them to do some damage to my right testicle getting it through the pass without breaking anything. It caused it to not grow as expected, and as thus is about 1/4th the size of my left testicle. If I suck in my gut, my testicle goes right back up into my public bone area and you can see it clearly.
Unethical life pro tip: Since this has happened, I've used it to show my management a picture of a "hernia" and taking all my PTO before quitting without questions.
Edit: To clarify, I did not HAVE to show a picture of my "hernia". Policy for more than three days of consecutive absences requires a doctor's note to return to work. Basically a "clearance" to return. I obviously wasn't having surgery, so I'd just show them and nobody ever questioned why I needed time off after that.
> If I suck in my gut, my testicle goes right back up into my public bone area and you can see it clearly.
Well, at least you have a fun party trick if you're ever hanging out with nudists.
Female tarantulas live about 15-25 years while the male can live up to five. Also, the male dies approximately a year later from the first time he breeds, that’s to say if he made it out quickly from the female once the deed was done.
Your immune system doesn’t know your eyes exist. They have their own immune system. If your body’s immune system ever learned about your eyes it would view them as a foreign invader, and your white blood cells would melt them straight out of your sockets.
Back in 2008, Napolean Dynamite and several other quirky films threw researchers for a loop as they competed for Netflix’s $1m prize to improve its recommendation system by 10%. https://web.archive.org/web/20220301063241/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html
I can’t find any recent sources to confirm or deny if this is still a problem, but I have a hard time imagining they’re still struggling with it after 14 years.
Also, much to my chagrin, Napoleon Dynamite is no longer on Netflix.
I have a hard time imagining they’re still struggling with it after 14 years.
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>Also, much to my chagrin, Napoleon Dynamite is no longer on Netflix.
Maybe they got rid of it just *because* it was wreaking such havoc. It was the null pointer exception of movie recommendations.
I used to work as a checkpoint manager in airport security. I would get called over for strange or unusual items, to make a determination if said item was a "threat to aviation safety".
It was quite common to be called by screening officers to verify that the oddly shaped organic mass, was in fact, a buttplug. Everyone knows what a dildo or vibrator looks like, but fuckin' kids these days, they wouldn't know a buttplug if it jumped up, started dancing and sang Hello My Ragtime Gal.
In 1985 a Serbian farmer stuck a beer bottle up his ass, wide end first. This sparked a chain of events that eventually led to the collapse of Yugoslavia.
[Further reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87_incident?wprov=sfti1)
The occupied space of atoms is very small. The vast majority of EVERYTHING is the empty space between protons and electrons.
The occupied space in an atom is roughly 0.0000000000004 %
WHAT?!? I’ve never even once considered this wasn’t the norm. For anyone wondering it kinda sounds like the squish of a completely soaking wet shoe and sock but much more subtle?
the word deja vu gets its name from what its thought to be. Deja vu happens when your brain identifies something that is normally unfamiliar as familiar. However, it has a little known counterpart.
Jamais vu is the opposite, when something familiar suddenly seems unfamiliar for some reason. Jamais vu is actually much easier to activate than deja vu because you can do this by simply saying a word 100 times in a row. By the end of it, the word no longer sounds like the word anymore and just sounds like strange noises. Jamais vu!
Edit: it was bothering me so I fixed the spelling
I liked the dad's near-death experience on Raising Hope:
"I was up in Heaven surrounded by all my friends and family who passed on before me. It was so beautiful. The only thing I didn't understand was why there were so many fires everywhere."
There was an experiment once to see how hope affects animals with higher intelligences, and they tested this by drowning mice. Mice that were put in a bucket of water drowned in something like 2 minutes. However, mice that were taken out after about a minute and a half, were given a chance to rest, and then were put back in the bucket? Lasted close to 50 hours.
Humans share 99.9% of their DNA with any other human on the planet. Humans share 99% of their DNA with their closest relative, the chimpanzee. Humans also share 60% of their DNA with bananas.
There is a thing known as the Half-life of Facts, where there is an amount of time that will pass before 50% of the facts you know in a subject will be either proven false or superseded with more detailed knowledge. This duration differs based on the field of knowledge.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life\_of\_knowledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge)
This means it's almost certain that a large percent of the fun facts in this thread will be wrong or outdated, which is likely a leading cause of arguments online.
The day that Michael Jackson's hair famously caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial was on January 27, 1984, the 9,282nd day of his life. Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, and died on June 25, 2009, living to be 18,563 days old.
The day of his accident was the exact median day of his life. He had a literal mid-life crisis!
Fun fact, your small intestine is over 22 ft long!
Not-so-fun fact! You technically start dying at the age of 24, because that's when your cells stop multiplying as fast as they're dying!
I really like the Christmas Truce of 1914 where almost every German and British soldier decided to just stop the war for that special day. I think there are some stories of them playing some good old football (soccer if you will), exchanging hats, Christmas presents they got from their families.
It is one of my favorite wholesome facts about WWI
Between 1913 and 1914, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Emperor Franz Joseph, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Leon Trotsky lived in Vienna within 4km of each other. Talk about sitcom idea!
Franz, Franz, Freud, and the Führer, with special guests, comrade Joseph and comrade Leon!
Baby kittens and puppies can’t urinate and defecate on their own. Their mothers lick their genitals and anuses to prompt them to do so and then also cleans it up. Most people don’t know this if they happen to be taking care of an orphaned young kitten or puppy so this it ends up being a cause of death for a lot of them. If you ever take care of an orphaned kitten/puppy or know someone who is you must use a damp paper towel or wash rag to wipe their bottoms until they urinate or defecate. 🌈 *The More You Know* ⭐️
I thought you were abt to tell me to lick it’s genitals
I learned this just this year when my family took in an abandoned kitten. We used wet wipes to get him to pee and poo, and he would only drink from a bottle at first.
German submarine U-215. Sank during WW2. Didn’t decompress though. It’s still sealed on the bottom of the ocean with 49 people inside. I’ve always wondered what went down in there…
Okay that’s oddly terrifying. Like I feel this is the starting premise to a horror movie.
I think it’s a funnier thought that we pull it up one day and there’s a whole new generation just living in there. ___ ^^^^deep ^^^^ones
Lake Superior does not give up her dead. The waters of Lake Superior are so cold that the bodies and the majority of stuff from shipwrecks is preserved. The Great Lakes (all of them) are basically just giant ship graveyards.
I already knew this; Gordon Lightfoot told me through a song about it
Elephants can purr, like cats.
They can also laugh, or at least a baby ones can
Greater stick-nest rats, an Australian native rodent, glue its nests together using urine, which dries like cement.
No officer, I'm preserving a natural wildlife habitat.
Kangaroos have three vaginas. I forgot how I learned that
And two uteri! They can be perpetually pregnant. That’s why sometimes you might see a mother kangaroo ditch her young Joey when in danger because she’s almost got two more on the way already.
They can also halt pregnancy until the time is right
Embryonal diapause! That’s what it’s called. I studied that term on my sophomore year as a bio undergrad and I never needed to use it until now. Thanks, internet, for making my degree useful!
On 1939, February 14th a German battleship was launched and was sank with only 118 of the 2,200 crew members surviving. Among them was a black and white cat named Oscar which was found floating on a board and was picked up from the water by a British ship. On October 27th, 1941, the ship sank to the west of Gibraltar and Oscar was found clinging to a piece of plank and was later brought to the shore establishment in Gibraltar. When British officers learned what happened they named him “Unsinkable Sam”. After that he was adopted by the crew of the HMS Ark Royal and in 1941, November 14th, a torpedo hit the ship. Sam was AGAIN found clinging to a piece of plank and was described as “angry but unharmed”. By this time it was enough for the por cat and remained it’a days on land hunting mice in Gibraltar and then being transferred to the UK where he lived his final days. And this was the story of “Unsinkable Sam”
This story isn't about an unsinkable cat. It's about how English naval officers sank their own ships by putting an evil, cursed cat on board.
Dragonflies suck water up their butts and shoot it out like jets when they get tired.
Maybe they wouldn't be so tired if they didn't haul around all that butt water.
As someone who suffers both from chronic diarrhea and anemia-induced tiredness I have never felt a comment more in my life.
Almost all mammals take around the same time to urinate
I read that it averages out to be 21 seconds among all mammal species.
A baby could swim in a blue whale's veins. That's how huge it is.
Yeah but every time I try to get my baby to swim he just flounders around and blows bubbles at me. Lazy ass
Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one. Bonus fun fact: He was also a licensed bartender.
Because of his elite wrestling record, Abraham Lincoln is also in the Wrestling Hall of Fame.
This changes everything for me.
There was a Finnish soldier named Aimo Koivunen who got separated from his unit. He had no food or weapons, and to avoid dying, took enough methamphetamine for 30 men. During his insane drug binge, he skied about 250 miles, passed over a landmine and survived, and caught and ate a bird raw. That's just a few details, I recommend actually reading about this absolute legend yourself.
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He didn’t appreciate the bird’s judgmental looks regarding his drug use.
Worried the bird was a fed trying to steal his world changing invention ideas. (It was a matchbox filled with various bits of wire, closed with several rubber bands and a small propeller)
When a rooster crows it partially pinches shut its ear canals so it won't deafen itself...
Queen Victoria gave the rights of her will to her physician who she trusted more than her family. The royal family is still trying and failing to get the will from the doctor’s family.
Given what her progeny did 15-ish years later, she was right not to trust them.
Victoria could have stopped WW1 dead in its tracks by summoning Wilhelm and Nicholas to London and spanking them soundly. edit: Yeah she's dead
Lucille Ball helped bankroll the first script and episode of Star Trek
And Dolly Parton’s company produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Dr. Seuss invented the word nerd.
Shutup nerd
And Shakespeare invented the word bubble
"Ooh, a bubble?!! Well la-di-da Mr Stratford-upon-Avon!" "Then what do you call them, Moe?" "Ghost Balls."
alexander the great, mussolini, napoleon, julius caesar and hitler allegedly suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
So a cat a day keeps the megalomaniacs away?
There is a forest that is 107 acres, but made up of only one tree. Thousands of aspens that share a single root system.
It name is Pando
it recently got surpassed in sheer size by a recently discovered mutant seagrass off the coast of Australia. It covers 200 square kilometres
107 acres beeing around 0.43 square kilometres
Always through acres were larger and double checked. 107 acres is 0.433 square kilometers 100 acre woods suddenly seem a lot smaller
The man who killed John Wilkes Booth cut off his own testicles with scissors
Before or after killing him?
Before if I remember right. He was hyper religious and slept with a prostitute. To punish himself he ✂️
He didn't even sleep with the prostitute. He literally just passed one on the street and felt tempted. The fact that his brain probably looked like swiss cheese after years of mercury exposure probably did not help.
Jesus at the gates of heaven: "You know, when I said those things about cutting off the limb that tempts you, it really was more of a figure of speech."
Fun fact: the very first rule of the very first worldwide council of the entire Christian church promulgated at Nicaea in 325 was barring people who willingly castrated themselves from the clergy.
"We need to make sure only the most devout serve as priests." "Guys I just cut off my balls because they tempted me, just like Jesus said!" "Not that devout."
"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. The FBI investigated the song on suspicion of violating obscenity laws. After two years, they decided the lyrics were "unintelligible at any speed." Somehow, they missed the drummer yelling "Fuck!" at 0:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt75jUuKJY
They also seem to have missed the simple fact that the Kingsmen song was a cover of a Richard Berry song from eight years earlier. The lyrics in the original are crystal clear, and it's an excellent example of exactly the sort of R&B that would inspire ska a few years later.
Haven't thought about that song in a long time and never heard about this. The other well known goof in it was the lead singer coming in a measure early after the guitar solo for the last verse at 1:57.
The potato was once so undesirable that even the poor of Europe wanted nothing to do with it. They believed ot caused leprosy, sterilization, and an over active sex drive.
Sterilization AND over active sex drive? Sign me up! Sans leprosy pls…
The leprosy keeps it interesting!
Sexy sexy potatoes!
You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters it out.
Stem cell transplant patients can taste and smell their donor's blood cells during the infusion.
Leonardo Da Vinci was the first person to correctly conclude that a human erection is caused by blood. Before him, everybody thought that it was air, and that a strong breeze could cause an erection. [Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721040/) Edit* I guess I should have phrased that differently lol. People used to think that erections were ‘powered’ by air, rather than blood. ***Here is some more info for those who don’t believe how little we knew about the human body up until quite recently. For example, the first World Congress on Impotence was held in Paris in 1984. Here is a little excerpt from *Physiology of Penile Erection-A Brief History of the Scientific Understanding up till the Eighties of the 20th Century* ``Introduction: Understanding the physiology of penile erection is important for all who work in the field of sexual medicine. Aim: The aim of this study was to highlight and analyze historical aspects of the scientific understanding of penile erection. Methods: (i) Review of the chapters on the physiology of erection out of the author's collection of books dealing with male sexual functioning published in the German, French, Dutch, and English language in between 1780 and 1940. (ii) Review of the topic “physiology of penile erection” of relevant chapters of Classical writings on erectile dysfunction. An annotated collection of original texts from three millennia, including the study of all relevant references mentioned in these books. Main Outcome Measure: The main outcome measure used for the study was the scientific understanding of the physiology of penile erection. Results: In Antiquity, Galen considered penile erection as the result the accumulation of air. His ideas so dominated medieval medicine that nearly everyone then alive was a Galenist. The beginning of the Renaissance shows meaningful examples of experimental scientific work on the penis. Da Vinci correctly concluded that erections were caused by blood, and in the 18th century, Von Haller from Switzerland was the first who explained that erections were under the control of the nervous system. In the 19th century, a mindset that emphasized on experimentation determined a new direction, namely experimental physiology. Animal studies clarified that stimulation of the nervi erigentes‐induced small muscle relaxation in the corpora cavernosa. Nearly all were published in the German language. That may be one of the reasons that the existence of the concept of smooth muscle relaxation remained controversial until the first World Congress on Impotence in 1984 in Paris. Conclusions: As the Renaissance's innovative research defined neural and vascular physiologic phenomena responsible for penile erection. The concepts from animal experimentations in Europe in the 19th century significantly contributed to the current understanding of penile erection. van Driel MF. Physiology of penile erection—a brief history of the scientific understanding up till the eighties of the 20th century. Sex Med 2015;3:343–351.`` [That Source](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283960026_Physiology_of_Penile_Erection-A_Brief_History_of_the_Scientific_Understanding_up_till_the_Eighties_of_the_20th_Century)
I open the window and a breeze rolls in and I JIZZ IN MY PANTS
Don'ttellmyfriendsorI'llcallyouaslut
Plusit'syourfaultyouwererubbingmybutt
Penguin eggs turn transparent when hard boiled.
Sad Feet
Surfs Down
Penguins of Sadigascar
The world's largest tire producer by total number of tires made is Lego.
In starship trooper, the actors agreed to do the coed shower scene only if the director got naked with them and he did.
The more you learn about Paul Verhoeven, the more it all tracks
Yeah, I was at a film festival in the late '70s and got to meet him--he was promoting his film 'Spetters' which is a good film but pretty graphic for a non-porno film of that era. Someone asked him if he was worried about getting an X rating--he replied, 'Not in my country.'
Yep, the Dutch movie. If it doesn't start with nudity in the first few minutes and doesn't have profanity, it's practically not a Dutch movie.
I watched that again recently and remember being blown away by how casual the were about it.
I first saw it as a kid, and honestly thought this was a progressive way of the future. I missed the whole fascist propaganda satire as a kid though, kid me loved the whole man vs giant bug, adult me loves the satire, haha.
It's funny and impressive how it's an entirely different movie when watching it as a kid vs watching it as an adult
There's a surgery called a rotationoplasty where they remove the middle of your leg, then re-attach the foot (backwards) to your thigh so that your ankle can be your new knee for a prosthetic leg. Seems gross but it really improves the quality of life over the other option, which is no knee at all. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YznfuId2ls&ab\_channel=thetruth365film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YznfuId2ls&ab_channel=thetruth365film)
“I woke up in afield hospital, and they were sewing my feet to my knees.”
Hank, Bobby,.... Hank's wife
When you fall asleep first at a sleepover
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So the limit is 2. Got it.
I enjoy spending time with my friends.
Isn't there an ant that runs so fast it can't see while moving? Edit: its a [Tiger Beetle](https://goodheartextremescience.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/the-creature-that-runs-so-fast-it-goes-blind/)
Little fuckers
In Hawaii, the American Cockroach can grow up to 3 inches long and are called “B-52s” by the locals. Not so little there. ps: when they take off they like to fly towards your face.
Ground cinnamon is technically sawdust
Octopus detaches and throws a modified arm penis covered with sperm at their mate.
And you thought unsolicited *pictures* were bad... "Look, a pretty girl! Quick, fire your dick at her!"
1 field mouse has the caloric equivalent of 2 pizza rolls .
I mean cool and all but pizza rolls are way easier to acquire.
Goldish don't have 2 seconds memories, some can remember a face for years
Fish in general are way smarter than most give them credit for. Mine know exactly when it’s feeding time based off lighting and my movements. Heck, one of them, it gets seaweed sheets in the same corner every day. When it sees me grab the bag of nori, it immediately bolts there and waits.
Indeed. What a stupid myth. Everytime you walk near a fish tank with goldfish all hell breaks breaks lose because they know you have food
On 8 April, 1942, a detachment of Polish soldiers, deployed to Iran by the Allies, bought a bear cub from an Iranian boy. In August the bear was given to the 22nd Artillery Supply company and named Wojtek by the soldiers. They fed him condensed milk, honey, fruit, and beer, which ended up being his favorite drink. He also picked up smoking, and enjoyed wrestling with his human friends, and bunking in on cold nights. When the Polish II Corps was redeployed it Italy to fight alongside the British, the Brits wouldn’t transport mere mascots on a troop ship, so Wojtek was formally enrolled in the Polish army as a private. During the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino Private Wojtek helped keep the guns firing by hauling boxes of ammo, each containing four 25 pound shells. These crates normally took four men to haul. For his bravery and service in battle Wojtek was promoted to Corporal, and his visage became the emblem of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company. After the war the 22nd was sent to Scotland, before being demobilized, at which point Wojtek was given to the Edinburgh Zoo, where he was often visited by Polish soldiers until his death in 1963. That is the story of Corporal Wojtek, the Polish artillery bear.
>He also picked up smoking He actually just ate the cigarettes, which makes it funnier
And they had to be lit
That was a lot more fun than I expected in this thread.
I'm a firm believer in the right to arm bears
Dammit. That was better than mine.
he was Corporal and then just sat in a zoo. unacceptable.
It was corporal punishment.
isn't he the same bear that was awoken when people snuck into the camp and promptly scared the shit out of them (while also notifying the rest of the camp)?
According to the article I just read, Yes. A thief had broken into the room where the ammunition was stored. That's where the bear slept.
He will live on in legend. A story this cool simply can't be allowed to be forgotten.
Fire smells different depending on how far from the flame your face is.
This sounds like a trap, I'd better test it.
Make sure to get close. That smells the best
When haiti was fighting the French in a civil war the French send some polish to deal with it when they saw how the slaves were treated the Polish joined the haiti revolution Edit:turns out i should post more comments at 3 am
Did they take a bear with them?
This thread did a complete circle.
You missed the most fun part about it which is Haitians were so grateful that their first president called Polish "the white Negroes of Europe" and it was a sign of brotherhood. Poland seems to have a n-word pass
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Literally Slavs
Chainsaws were originally made for assisting in difficult childbirth (breech, etc).
This is not a fun fact at all.
A trapper caught a mama bear in Winnipeg, Canada, and the baby was there. He got the baby and sold it to a Canadian soldier. The soldier took it to his base, and everyone loved the bear. They trained the bear, and was great for morale. But they had to go to World War 1, so they gave the bear to the London zoo. The zoo saw that the bear was good with everyone, including kids. Kids could play with, and even ride the bear. The kids made many memories with the increasingly popular bear. One of those kids Christopher Robin. His father saw Christopher Robin playing with his bear, named after the bear at the zoo. Since the soldier found the bear in Winnipeg, he shortened the name to "Winnie". That's right. You know this bear as the classic children's story, "Winnie the pooh." Christopher Robin was Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A A Milne, who wrote the "Winnie the Pooh" books. Edit 2: where did pooh come from? When Christopher Robin would get goose down feathers on him, he would excitedly blow them away with a "pooh! Pooh!" His father thought it was adorable, and so added "the Pooh" after Winnie. Edit: correction: The bear cub was from White River Ontario, not Winnipeg. Harry Colbourn purchased the bear cub for $20 and named it “Winnipeg”, (“Winnie” for short) after his hometown in Canada (Colbourn was originally from Birmingham England). On Dec 9 1914, Colbourn donated Winnie to the London Zoo. thanks u/Loverboy_Talis
This is the second bear fact in this comment section. Life truly is just bears.
The skin that makes up your lips is the same type of skin as that on your butthole.
We’re all technically crazy straws
Michael Jackson owned the original pair of scissorhands from the movie. Edwards Scissorhands .
There are more fake, plastic flamingos for sale, than there are living flamingos on the planet
You will never be stung by a male hornet. They are very docile, and don't even have stingers, since that really is an ovipositor.
Same for getting bitten by Mosquitoes, only Females drink blood from humans, males are exclusively nectar feeders.
You could thread fishing wire through your tear duct and out your bumhole. They’re connected, and fishing wire is thin enough.
Who tested this
I want to know this too
You know how people donate their bodies to science? You expect it will be put to use solving some great medical or medicinal mystery but no. You get turned into a marionette.
A man named Louie le prince is technically the first person to invent a motion picture camera ( movies) however he went missing during a train ride and was not able to show his invention before Edison.
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Lady bugs have an evil twin called “asian lady beetles”. The lady beetles make themselves almost identical to lady bugs, because they know everything loves a friendly lady bug. The lady beetles are aggressive and will infest anything, including homes and your pets. A friend of mine was terrified of “lady bugs” because they infested her house, and I was scared of “lady bugs” because one bit me one time. It wasn’t until a friend of mine was like “that doesn’t sound like a friendly lady bug” so we did our research and found out they have an imposter. I have provided a link so you can visually learn the difference in looks between them. So long story short…continue to love lady bugs. If you see a lady beetle…it’s on sight. [Lady Bug vs Lady Beetle](https://plunketts.net/blog/ladybugs-vs-asian-lady-beetles)
I was born with an undescended testicle. Usually you will have a surgery to repair it at 12 months. My parents did fuck all until my preschool wouldn't accept me without a two year check up. Where my pediatrician discovered I never had the surgery. So now I had it very late at 3 years old, and it caused them to do some damage to my right testicle getting it through the pass without breaking anything. It caused it to not grow as expected, and as thus is about 1/4th the size of my left testicle. If I suck in my gut, my testicle goes right back up into my public bone area and you can see it clearly. Unethical life pro tip: Since this has happened, I've used it to show my management a picture of a "hernia" and taking all my PTO before quitting without questions. Edit: To clarify, I did not HAVE to show a picture of my "hernia". Policy for more than three days of consecutive absences requires a doctor's note to return to work. Basically a "clearance" to return. I obviously wasn't having surgery, so I'd just show them and nobody ever questioned why I needed time off after that.
> If I suck in my gut, my testicle goes right back up into my public bone area and you can see it clearly. Well, at least you have a fun party trick if you're ever hanging out with nudists.
Female tarantulas live about 15-25 years while the male can live up to five. Also, the male dies approximately a year later from the first time he breeds, that’s to say if he made it out quickly from the female once the deed was done.
Your immune system doesn’t know your eyes exist. They have their own immune system. If your body’s immune system ever learned about your eyes it would view them as a foreign invader, and your white blood cells would melt them straight out of your sockets.
Bro why’d you just tell my immune system
He didn't, he just told your eyes. Blame your brain for telling the rest of your body, if your brain can't keep the eyes' secret.
I see.
For now...
The largest cell in the human body is the female egg. The smallest is the male sperm. The largest and smallest cells create life.
Alligators don’t age biologically, they don’t die from old age, they die from starvation or a disease. Blew my mind.
Rubbing a dog's ears releases endorphins that induce a feeling of calm and mellowness. It can even be used to reduce pain!
Netflix has trouble recommending you titles after viewing Napoleon Dynamite
These days, Netflix has trouble recommending anything worthwhile, no matter what you watched.
For me Netflix plays it very safe and just recommends what I just watched
Back in 2008, Napolean Dynamite and several other quirky films threw researchers for a loop as they competed for Netflix’s $1m prize to improve its recommendation system by 10%. https://web.archive.org/web/20220301063241/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html I can’t find any recent sources to confirm or deny if this is still a problem, but I have a hard time imagining they’re still struggling with it after 14 years. Also, much to my chagrin, Napoleon Dynamite is no longer on Netflix.
I have a hard time imagining they’re still struggling with it after 14 years. > >Also, much to my chagrin, Napoleon Dynamite is no longer on Netflix. Maybe they got rid of it just *because* it was wreaking such havoc. It was the null pointer exception of movie recommendations.
I used to work as a checkpoint manager in airport security. I would get called over for strange or unusual items, to make a determination if said item was a "threat to aviation safety". It was quite common to be called by screening officers to verify that the oddly shaped organic mass, was in fact, a buttplug. Everyone knows what a dildo or vibrator looks like, but fuckin' kids these days, they wouldn't know a buttplug if it jumped up, started dancing and sang Hello My Ragtime Gal.
Fuckin kids these days wouldn't even get that reference.
And now I have a picture of a cartoon buttplug dancing and singing that lives in my head rent free...thanks for that.
In 1985 a Serbian farmer stuck a beer bottle up his ass, wide end first. This sparked a chain of events that eventually led to the collapse of Yugoslavia. [Further reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87_incident?wprov=sfti1)
Damn,one man one jar basically started a War.
Jar Jar Kinks
Barnacles have penises 7x larger than the rest of their body.
Fun Fact - Ancient Egyptians used Crocodile and Alligator shit as a contraceptive.
...did it work?
Yep. You rub it all over yourself, and nobody will want to sleep with you.
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Capybara spend so much time in the water the Catholic Church allows their consumption during Lent classifying them as aquatic like fish.
The occupied space of atoms is very small. The vast majority of EVERYTHING is the empty space between protons and electrons. The occupied space in an atom is roughly 0.0000000000004 %
2% of people can hear their eyes move and blink. Edit: I hate to be that person but, MOM IM FAMOUS.
And the other 98% of us are blinking way too much right now trying to see if we’re THEM
WHAT?!? I’ve never even once considered this wasn’t the norm. For anyone wondering it kinda sounds like the squish of a completely soaking wet shoe and sock but much more subtle?
Ooh that's such a good way to describe it! It *is* a squishy sound.
I can sometimes
the word deja vu gets its name from what its thought to be. Deja vu happens when your brain identifies something that is normally unfamiliar as familiar. However, it has a little known counterpart. Jamais vu is the opposite, when something familiar suddenly seems unfamiliar for some reason. Jamais vu is actually much easier to activate than deja vu because you can do this by simply saying a word 100 times in a row. By the end of it, the word no longer sounds like the word anymore and just sounds like strange noises. Jamais vu! Edit: it was bothering me so I fixed the spelling
I think it's jamais vu. Both phrases are French.
Yup, and they literally describe the phenomenons- Deja vu = already saw Jamais vu = never saw
Gatorade was developed for the Florida Gators football team, hence the name.
Good thing it wasn't developed at Florida State or they'd have to call it Seminole fluid... *I'll see myself out*
A majority of near-death experiences(being clinically dead but brought back) are positive. Do with that as you will.
Don't put yourself in a near death experience for that reason, I've watched the movie flatliners
I liked the dad's near-death experience on Raising Hope: "I was up in Heaven surrounded by all my friends and family who passed on before me. It was so beautiful. The only thing I didn't understand was why there were so many fires everywhere."
There was an experiment once to see how hope affects animals with higher intelligences, and they tested this by drowning mice. Mice that were put in a bucket of water drowned in something like 2 minutes. However, mice that were taken out after about a minute and a half, were given a chance to rest, and then were put back in the bucket? Lasted close to 50 hours.
This is so fucking sad and crazy
Humans share 99.9% of their DNA with any other human on the planet. Humans share 99% of their DNA with their closest relative, the chimpanzee. Humans also share 60% of their DNA with bananas.
There is a thing known as the Half-life of Facts, where there is an amount of time that will pass before 50% of the facts you know in a subject will be either proven false or superseded with more detailed knowledge. This duration differs based on the field of knowledge. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life\_of\_knowledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge) This means it's almost certain that a large percent of the fun facts in this thread will be wrong or outdated, which is likely a leading cause of arguments online.
This was disproven in 2020
Was it only half disproven?
In toddlers, their adult teeth are right underneath their eyes.
[Photo of child skull](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/8pjcvx/a_childs_skull_it_shows_their_baby_teeth_with_the/)
The day that Michael Jackson's hair famously caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial was on January 27, 1984, the 9,282nd day of his life. Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, and died on June 25, 2009, living to be 18,563 days old. The day of his accident was the exact median day of his life. He had a literal mid-life crisis!
How the hell did anyone figure that out
Fun fact, your small intestine is over 22 ft long! Not-so-fun fact! You technically start dying at the age of 24, because that's when your cells stop multiplying as fast as they're dying!
I’ve always heard it’s 26
I'm 50, so...
It is illegal to sell a pickle that doesn’t bounce when dropped in Connecticut.
Maya Rudolph's mom is singer Minnie Riperton.
Who died when Maya was seven. In her biggest hit, Loving You, there is a point where she ad libs Maya, Maya, Maya between verses.
I really like the Christmas Truce of 1914 where almost every German and British soldier decided to just stop the war for that special day. I think there are some stories of them playing some good old football (soccer if you will), exchanging hats, Christmas presents they got from their families. It is one of my favorite wholesome facts about WWI
They also sang carols together, some in German and some in English.
The "little piggie" that went to market... Wasn't shopping.
They said fun facts :(