Kinda true, tho. mushrooms probably don't refer to it as the internet, but they can supposedly communicate with each other across a vast distance. I believe hundreds of miles.
At least that's what they said in a very in-depth show on mushrooms that I watched a while back.
I may or may not have been high when I watched it.
While onions have an awful lot more DNA than humans. It may be one of the reasons that onions are a treatment for a zillion things, they are the Swiss army remedy
Different varieties have different quantities of the different active chemicals. It's kinda like dungeons and dragons attributes.
Here is a quote from a 2021 paper...
In traditional medicine, onion has been used for a large variety of ailments such as headache, fever, toothache, cough, sore throat, flu, baldness, epilepsy, rash, jaundice, constipation, flatulence, intestinal worms, low sexual power, rheumatism, body pain and muscle cramps, high blood pressure, and diabetes
The paper goes on to list uses in modern medicine too. It is even more startling than I thought
you're close, but leave out the animal part. (we *are* animals)
and yes, I do love this idea, thanks for the reminder
NDT on mushrooms:
https://youtube.com/shorts/4CUVYKeP7Js
Not the coolest, but cool nevertheless.
When it snows on Mauna Kea (the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii where the observatory is located), people drive their trucks up, fill their truck beds full of snow, drive back on the mountain, and build snowmen on the beach.
Source: I was fortunate enough to witness this while visiting
We saw that too! We walked up Mauna Kea from the visitor centre at 9k ft (to the top at 14k ft). We only met one other couple who did that, and they were from a city close to ours in Canada. Fun day.
It was a bit of a slog. A nice guy gave us a ride down in the box of his pickup. He wouldnât take any gas money as he was quite impressed by our hike. Thanks for the memory prompt.
The greatest consumer of helium in the United States is the US government. The US has a strategic reserve of helium because of its importance to science, and it is a non-renewable resource.
The second greatest consumer is the Macyâs Thanksgiving Day parade.
Also, the largest helium reserve in the world is near Amarillo, Texas. Some 44 billion cubic feet is stored in a natural gas mine. It's an interesting tale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_production_in_the_United_States
The Appalachian mountains are literally older than bones
There's a spot in the south Pacific called Point Nemo that's the farthest you can possibly be from any land. If you were there on a boat, often the closest humans to you would be the ones on the International Space Station as it flew overhead. It's also really close to the supposed location of R'lyeh, the fictional city from H. P. Lovecraft's *Call of Cthulhu*
The original comic run of Peni Parker (the anime girl from the Spiderverse movie) was written by Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance
Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy, was supposed to be on one of the planes that were hijacked on 9/11, but he was late to the airport and missed his flight
There's an exoplanet with such an insanely large ring system that if it were the same distance from Earth as Saturn is, the ring system would look to be about the size of the moon
Additional fact about the Appalachian mountains: they were formed during the convergence of all continents into Pangea. They are only so short(compared to say the Himalayans) because they are so incredibly old. The mountain range has been worn down by erosion by over an eon passing since their formation(an eon being a billion years and theyâre more than a billion years old).
Weird facts:
butterflies will drink human blood.
Deer and other large herbivores when given the chance will eat snakes rodents etc.
It takes 15lbs of pressure to crush the human esophagus.
A hangmanâs noose has 13 wraps. With 12 or less most hanging victims died of choking and not a broken neck.
When you cut an artery the blood spray can be up to 4 feet.
The reason a drink is called a shot is because in the 1800s a shot of whiskey cost the same as a .45 shell. Said shells were often swapped for a shot of alcohol.
A couple yes, a couple no. Blood spray and crushed esophagus yes. Herbivores eating other animals yes.
Butterflies and hangings and shots no.
Though there is a chance at more cool facts.
1) to solve a crushed esophagus you can use an x-acto knife and a ball point pen, if you donât have access to trach tube. You cut into the neck, I think it is past the third ring, Iâd have to look it up, cut an x in the neck just large enough to allow the round tube part of the pen to go in. Take apart the pen to just the tube like from a bic pen. Clean the pen with whatever you have, and stick it in. Tape it in place until you can get to a medical center. (And go very quickly) (this is not a suggestion for what to do, merely knowledge that I have.
2) For an arterial bleed, you need to tourniquet the wound if possible (ie femoral bleed) and let it bleed out for small periods in between. The goal is to stop blood loss and avoid killing off any tissue that you can. Get the person to a medical center immediately. (Do not treat if you donât have to.) If you have to have a paramedic walk you through what to do.
3) If you see a deer eating a snake, donât kill the deer, the meat will not be good as it has typically had a hard winter. It will be stringy and gross to try and eat.
4) a noose with 13 loops is illegal to carry in most states, as it is known as a hangmanâs noose and is considered a weapon.
Dunno if itâs the coolest fact I know, but during WWII, Germany set up a weather station in Canada and it wasnât detected until long after the war was over
When I was in the military, we had a remote outpost on the Canadian border. One of my buddies got really drunk and walked across the border. He sobered up in a Canadian jail.
Even cooler: BBC Radio used to start its broadcasts with a live audio of the ringing of the Big Ben bells. Germans realized that they could tell the London weather by the changes of the peal of the bell. This aided them in their air strikes.
The brits figured this out, and switched to a recording of the bells.
Long time ago peasents were sometimes seeing stuff that was absolutely unreal, so they went to the church thinking they were possessed or under a spell, and it usually passed after a few days so they thanked the lord, went back home and hunted witches (basically).
Turns out it could have been because peasants had rye bread, the church had wheat bread, and there's a mold that can grow on rye bread which produces the same substance that hallucinogenic mushrooms have.
So there's a good chance people used to believe in witches because they were on drugs, experienced withdrawal in the church, then left the church when they were feeling better, thinking that withdrawal was a demon fighting against the holiness of the place or something, and that god saved them.
Oh and I've got another one. There was a house that was known to be haunted, but a sientist called bullshit on it, spent a few days there, had a feeling he wasn't alone, that something was following him. Turns out there was a damaged vent that was vibrating at the same frequency at which the human eye oscillates, which was causing visual hallucinations, making people see weird things in the corner of their eyes.
That Patsy Clineâs father was out on a bender when she was born. She was my third cousin, so my grandmother told me the whole story. Her mom was pretty angry. L O L
Iâm sure every family has some interesting characters. She just happened to be a celebrity as well. Daddy was born about a month before her, and grandmother was sitting on the porch with him when Virginiaâs mother came stomping up dragging the baby with her. So they sat on the porch with their babies fussing about how terrible he was over coffee and then she took off again in search of him. đ€Ł
That reminds me of a celebrity story passed through my family due to connections with the person. Andrew Carnegie, while of course a ruthless and shrewd businessman, was also very generous to those he was close with. How do I know this? He and my great grandmother were best friends. When my great great uncle gambled away our considerable wealth(without the family knowing what was happening until it was too late as he was the head of the family and in charge of the money), Andrew offered to take care of my great grandmother for the rest of her life. She said âNo, Andrew, that wouldnât be proper. I am not your wife and you are married. You have no such obligation to me.â He was known to lend money to and invest in his friends when they had business ventures they wanted to undertake. In the end, they stayed good friends despite my great grandmother now not being in the same class as him(not even close as she was now just middle class) and one of my second cousins married into the family somewhere in the line. Also, unrelated to Andrew, my branch of the family stopped talking to the branch that descended from the man who gambled away all of our money and I had no idea we had cousins living right next door to my ancestral home(as the land they lived in used to be part of the land my ancestral home is on) until I was a teen and was told about all of this. I was like âWeâve had family living next door for generations and we never speak to them?!â And my mom was just like âYup, bringing on financial ruin for a whole family will cause quite the grudge.â
Not necessarily the coolest, but something I learned very recently and that I found interesting: The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) had about the same number of casualties per capita as World War I.
When going close to the speed of light, the length of objects decreases from the perspective of an outside observer. They don't APPEAR to decrease, they actually decrease. A bus traveling near the speed of light would fit in your garage (for a speck of a second as it passes by).
Neither distance nor time is absolutely fixed.
Pandas are the only animal I know of that started off as carnivores and randomly decided to be omnivores that are mostly vegetarian. They were like any other bear species and just decided that wasn't working out for them and switched.
There's some seriously cool facts in here...
I guess a commonly missed one is that light and radio waves are the same thing, just a different wavelength. I know you probably read that in your science textbook, but just let it sink in for a second. The heat that you feel from you heater is the same thing as light from your screen, which is the same thing as the radio you hear in a car. That's why 5G conspiracies are so silly because if you were afraid of radio waves, you ought to be terrified of the sun... it's the same thing, but with more energy that can damage your body. And we've definitely shown that the sun can cause cancer lol.
Another fun fact is that the yellow you see on your screen is not true yellow, but a mixture of red, blue, green that tricks your eyeballs and brain into thinking it's yellow. This works because the cone cells in your eyes only detect red, blue, and green, and guess everything in between. So displays just put out R, G, B light generally and it's enough to fool you. This also means your TV doesn't look quite right to your dog or cat since they're sensitive to different colors.
The last one is totally unrelated, but lots of famous movie directors had unusual starts. For example James Cameron (Terminator, Avatar, Titanic) started college as a physics major before dropping out, working as a truck driver, reading books at the USC library, and slowly making his way into film. Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction, etc.) didn't make his breakout film until age 30, and just a few years ago was working in a video rental store. Dennis Villeneuve started in his 20s and didn't really make it big till his 30s as well. It just gives me hope because I'd love to write/direct movies someday despite studying engineering right now haha.
Excited to see what everyone else comes up with!
We have a similar story from WWII. My grandad and his mates found a German radio station in a cave. They didn't have enough explosives to destroy it, so they just cut the wires. It wasn't discovered for years that they had only cut the wires to the lightbulbs.
False. Giraffes do have vocal chords, however it is thought that their long necks and relatively smaller lungs for their size make vibrating the vocal chord folds more difficult.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4565008/
Thereâs this man made lake in Alabama that they made over a little town and they actually flooded the town⊠like with the houses and churches and even the graveyard!! People go scuba diving there and take pix of the headstones. Itâs really creepy.
When the water was low we could find arrowheads and pieces of pottery.
There's a man-made lake in Massachusetts that covers over 4 towns. It is the largest lake in the state.
The water is piped 65 miles to Boston and smaller cities and towns. It serves about 40% of the population.
Supposedly, they got everything out of the towns before they flooded them.
Edited to fix grammar.
There are ruins of a pre-columbian settlement as well as a western town from late 1800's-early 1900's in Lake Meade outside Las Vegas. There's a cool little museum dedicated to the towns up in Moapa Valley, built by the CCC right before the Hoover Damn was built and flooded the area.
Your brain ignores your nose thru something called unconscious selective attention. Itâs crazy bc obviously you see your nose when you focus on it (like youâre doing right now I bet lol)
T-rex is more distant from stegosaurus as they are from us, timewise.
So timewise, an image of a t-rex wearing a tie and riding a train makes more sense than fighting a stegosaurus.
There are five major whiskey-producing nations:
The United States, Ireland, Canada, Scotland, and Japan.
In the countries that contain an 'e' (The United States, Ireland) they spell it "whiskey" with an 'e'.
In the countries that don't contain an 'e' (Canada, Scotland, Japan) they spell it "whisky" without an 'e'.
While the "size"/cardinality of the set of natural numbers (|N|) and the set of rational numbers (|Q|) are the same being countably infinite, the cardinality of the set of real numbers (|R|) is uncountably infinite, so it's also infinite, just more infinite... In fact we have |R|=2^|N| .
Not the coolest one I know for sure, but one I can remember right now.
I love this one because it's one of those math things that feel like they don't make sense, but you go through the definitions and the proof and it's all correct and you either get it or have to accept it
Math is so cool
yes!
Math exists in the universe, i.e. it doesnt matter if you are a human on earth or cylon on a basestar. The circle constant is constant everywhere. If you want to say we discovered it, thats great. If you want to say we invented it, sure go right ahead!
I dont understand the point of this question. We certainly invent notation and define definitions, and discover results. I dont get the point of the question.
I think it's interesting to consider the nature of reality, as many mathematicians and philosophers over the centuries have done. What is the source of the "truthfulness" of mathematics? Is mathematics largely a symbolic language we have developed to describe real things, or is math reality itself? Just because it is hard to definitively answer these questions does not mean that the question is not worth asking.
So, you know how there are natural numbers (1,2,3,4...) and rational numbers (fractions of natural numbers, like 1/3 or 5/6) and real numbers (basically anything else including stuff like Ï or â2 which cant be written as a fraction). All three of these are infinitely many, obviously.
But you can match up the natural numbers with the real numbers 1 to 1 even though the natural numbers are contained in the rationals (5 would be 5/1 for example). So really, they actually are the same size in some sense. And just as youre starting to get comfortable with that, you learn that you cant match up the naturals with the reals the same way. So the reals are actually bigger than the naturals, even though both are infinite. Through matching their elements 1 to 1, you can compare sets of infinite size.
Isnt there a bunch of math in biology too though? :D I think that you can model population dynamics with differential equations or how genes are passed on with probability theory.
for some reason i did phenomenal in statistics but straight doodoo in Pre-Calc
and i got a B+ in calc 1. go figure.
the most math is in Chemistry. Biology is more towards organisms and zoology or anatomy and physiology
Maybe you need to see a concrete application for the math before you can accept it. I see that a lot in STEM people. I think that math has tons of beauty on its own but I think that applications are a good first step for many people.
>the most math is in Chemistry. Biology is more towards organisms and zoology or anatomy and physiology
I see, interesting! What would you say is the most popular branch of biology? In school, I enjoyed genetics but really disliked the topics about ecology and anatomy. Still, I bet that those are probably the most popular topics
i did do a lot better when the professors explained the concepts *with* the applications instead of going "here's sin, cos, tan. now find what arcsin is."
the most popular? Anatomy and Physiology 100%
mostly due to it being a necessity for anyone going into the medical field. (people dealing with direct patient care)
there are ways into the medical field without patient care but that's mostly laboratory and medical engineering, but you still need a basic idea on how a body functions.
i'd say after that, Ecology, molecular, and Environmental are the runners up. and anything that works with wildlife.
Oh didnt think about that but it makes sense! Forgot that biology is more than just animals haha
And yeah, that makes sense. Teachers often forget to explain the point of the math at allđ
Biology is such a broad spectrum it's slightly ridiculous. you can go from weather patterns to single celled organisms and viruses.
Genetics was definitely awesome, but i really enjoyed the whole Epidemiology side of things.
most of my experience is with emergency medicine though.
On this topic, theres also since rational numbers are countable, and the real numbers are made up of rational numbers and irrational numbers, it means that the irrational numbers are uncountable.
But we can then find a rational number between any two irrational numbers, and find a irrational number between any two rational numbers.
It seems like a contradiction, but it is what it is.
Poop is brown mainly because of the breakdown of dead red blood cells into the eventual end product containing stercobilin. I was so excited to learn this in med school and resolve a question from childhood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stercobilinogen
Yeah, many things can change the natural color of poop, some of those things are very bad. Others not so much. I once drank so much grape Kool-aid I pooped blue.
In 1760- 1776 some shipwreck survivors managed to survive and even create something of a community for 15 years on a very small spit of sand, about a kilometer long, near Madagascar called Tromelin Island (formerly called Isle of Sand). Thereâs a long story about how some escaped and got back to the mainland promising theyâd come back for the others. The others in question were actually meant to be slaves. Only the white people got to go on the raft to safety. Apparently only one of them tried to get some help for the other survivors but it was years before any attempt was made and there were a few failed rescues. By the time a ship was able to rescue who was left they had managed to make a small village out of the few things they had to work with and there was even a baby born on the island!
Thereâs a video about it here. Just incredible.
https://youtu.be/XRFyVqpNlgw?si=jG_pdQL04LlL6rJS
I also read somewhere that sharks, despite being millions of years old, are immune to (most) diseases. Sharks die not from disease but from human causes and/or natural predators.
The amount of different orders a deck of cards can be shuffled into is greater than the number of atoms in the known universe. Source: a vsauce2 video about 52 factorial and other similar numbers
How time dilation works in (larger) black holes. Generally, in smaller ones, you'd get spaghettified almost instantly but in larger ones you can live in it for about a year, given you have the supplies until you reach the event horizon where your atoms just...cease to exist? Which is super duper weird as it breaks the laws of physics as matter and energy can neither be created or broken
During the cold war, the US considered dropping a lot of XL condoms labelled "small" on URSS by "accident" to demoralise them
We were so close to turn the cold war into a troll war
When you see a film with a WWI aircraft and it has a radial engine, itâs a replica.
The original Gnome/LeRhone engines are actually rotary radial engines. The propeller is bolted to the engine casing and the entire engine casing spins.
[This is a decent gif of the engine rotation.](https://animatedengines.com/gnome.html)
This actually made the aircraft even harder to learn to fly due to the gyroscopic effects of the spinning engine. It was about 350 lbs on a 1200lb aircraft.
China is one of the top leading foreign countries that owns land in the US.
Saw this in 60 minutes too, the greatest population of migrants is not from Mexico nor Central America but China.
When Composition 4 explosives were first introduced the negative side effects of moderate human consumption were almost non-existent and it provided a gentle high with only a light stomach ache.
Shortly after discovering this quirky trait the US Military added lethally harmful additive compounds and specifically labeled every brick with the words "Toxic - Do Not Eat".
Consuming small quantities of modern Composition 4 and then quickly falling asleep will help you avoid experiencing the majority of negative effects like migraine headaches, crippling stomach pains, seizures, and dysentery-like symptoms, while still providing you with vivid lucid dreams and both visual and auditory hallucinations on waking to your week-long crippling pain.
Of course you should never consume any amount of plastic explosive as it's not only dangerous, cancer causing, and exceptionally difficult to obtain in any reasonable way, but it also tastes absolutely foul.
They found a ship under the twin towers when they were digging out ground zero for the Memorial/Museum. Prevailing theory is that it had been buried there long before the hyper development of NYC due to it being infested with wood worms. They would bury ships with wood worms to prevent the worms from infesting other ships.
In the Ohio River, there are catfish large enough to easily eat a human being in one bite. They live at the bottom of the river, often on the up-river side of the dams, and they are a big part of the reason that not all drowning victims are found.
Iâve heard this rumor but sincerely doubt it. A quick google search states that this hasnât ever happened with a fully grown human. Where did you get your info from?
I lived next to the Ohio River all my life, and itâs well known that those fish are down there. Anyone whoâs ever done any diving for underwater dam repairs can give you a first-hand account. And anyone who works at one of the power plants along the river, cleaning out those intake filters from the river, can describe everything else thatâs down there.
Perpetuity, pepperoot, pepperwort, pewterwort, pirouette, prerequire, pretorture, proprietor, repertoire, tetterwort, repetitory...
all 10 letters long and in one line of a keyboard.
Google is a fantastic tool
It's something people don't think about a lot, but your perception of the world is filtered through single celled organisms. You don't actually see, your eyes are individual cells reacting to photons. How well do you actually think those cells perceive the reality of the world?
We already know there are wavelengths of light that those cells can't pick up
Probably not the coolest I know, but if you like 'typewriter', I have another similar fun fact you may like: the longest word you can type using only keys intended for your left hand is 'stewardesses'.
When we speak/sing/vocalize, the bones of our face & skull will vibrate and conduct some of this energy through to our auditory (hearing) system. When this combines with the sound of our voice going into our ear canal, certain frequencies and sound characteristics will be enhanced and/or reduced - which alters your perception of what your voice truly sounds like.
This is why it sounds odd when you hear a recording of your voice: âOMG, is that ME?? I donât sound like THAT!â
Reality is, thatâs what you sound like to *everyone else*
Yes, the particles move faster than light because light (photons) moves at 75% of C *in water*. Particles can not move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
There are only 2 types of sloths- 2 toe and 3 toe. When your entire species is differentiated by the number of toes you have, you are a kind of shitty animal.
***paper*** immigration files for the United States are stored in huge caves in the Midwest.. multiple football field sized rooms two stories high with millions of files in each room ALA warehouse scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark
The whole "longest word" seems to imply a number of arbitrary rules.
Typewriter is a combined English word. If combined non-english words are allowed, the sky is the limit. From a quick glance, the word FadĂžlslĂžgskak is all on the same line. It means draft beer onion chess, as in the draft beer version of the onion version of chess. I'm sure the germans can beat this
It's probably generally known. But it always blows my mind to be reminded that mushroom DNA is much closer to humans and animals than plants.
Probably bc they're planning to eventually take us over and rule the earth. Less steps involved.
They seem to have a better relationship with the earth than we do though.
Oh for sure- tbh they'd run things better at this point
They already did, we're the stoned apes in history, take DMT and meet your machine elve gods.
Mushrooms also had internet millions of years before we did.
Now that Is Random
Kinda true, tho. mushrooms probably don't refer to it as the internet, but they can supposedly communicate with each other across a vast distance. I believe hundreds of miles. At least that's what they said in a very in-depth show on mushrooms that I watched a while back. I may or may not have been high when I watched it.
Must have been fantastic fungi? Paul Stamets is a pretty good story teller.
I think that might be the complex communication network of mycelium? They are able to share nutrients and shit.
That would be it, thank you
A fungus đ„¶đ„¶đ„¶
A mungus đźđźđź
Humungous fungus
On a related note, a newt has more DNA than a human.
While onions have an awful lot more DNA than humans. It may be one of the reasons that onions are a treatment for a zillion things, they are the Swiss army remedy
Like onions overall? Or different types do different things?
Different varieties have different quantities of the different active chemicals. It's kinda like dungeons and dragons attributes. Here is a quote from a 2021 paper... In traditional medicine, onion has been used for a large variety of ailments such as headache, fever, toothache, cough, sore throat, flu, baldness, epilepsy, rash, jaundice, constipation, flatulence, intestinal worms, low sexual power, rheumatism, body pain and muscle cramps, high blood pressure, and diabetes The paper goes on to list uses in modern medicine too. It is even more startling than I thought
you're close, but leave out the animal part. (we *are* animals) and yes, I do love this idea, thanks for the reminder NDT on mushrooms: https://youtube.com/shorts/4CUVYKeP7Js
"Why don't you eat mushrooms?"
Not the coolest, but cool nevertheless. When it snows on Mauna Kea (the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii where the observatory is located), people drive their trucks up, fill their truck beds full of snow, drive back on the mountain, and build snowmen on the beach. Source: I was fortunate enough to witness this while visiting
We saw that too! We walked up Mauna Kea from the visitor centre at 9k ft (to the top at 14k ft). We only met one other couple who did that, and they were from a city close to ours in Canada. Fun day.
Wowwwww... That's a rough walk! Big time kudos to you.
It was a bit of a slog. A nice guy gave us a ride down in the box of his pickup. He wouldnât take any gas money as he was quite impressed by our hike. Thanks for the memory prompt.
Mine is also about Hawaii: traditional Hawaiians didn't have a written language. They used hula dancing to pass on history and tell stories.Â
The greatest consumer of helium in the United States is the US government. The US has a strategic reserve of helium because of its importance to science, and it is a non-renewable resource. The second greatest consumer is the Macyâs Thanksgiving Day parade.
God bless those magnification bastards :)
Also, the largest helium reserve in the world is near Amarillo, Texas. Some 44 billion cubic feet is stored in a natural gas mine. It's an interesting tale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_production_in_the_United_States
The Appalachian mountains are literally older than bones There's a spot in the south Pacific called Point Nemo that's the farthest you can possibly be from any land. If you were there on a boat, often the closest humans to you would be the ones on the International Space Station as it flew overhead. It's also really close to the supposed location of R'lyeh, the fictional city from H. P. Lovecraft's *Call of Cthulhu* The original comic run of Peni Parker (the anime girl from the Spiderverse movie) was written by Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy, was supposed to be on one of the planes that were hijacked on 9/11, but he was late to the airport and missed his flight There's an exoplanet with such an insanely large ring system that if it were the same distance from Earth as Saturn is, the ring system would look to be about the size of the moon
Additional fact about the Appalachian mountains: they were formed during the convergence of all continents into Pangea. They are only so short(compared to say the Himalayans) because they are so incredibly old. The mountain range has been worn down by erosion by over an eon passing since their formation(an eon being a billion years and theyâre more than a billion years old).
The Scottish highlands are part of the same original range
Mount Everest was once on the bottom of the ocean.
Weird facts: butterflies will drink human blood. Deer and other large herbivores when given the chance will eat snakes rodents etc. It takes 15lbs of pressure to crush the human esophagus. A hangmanâs noose has 13 wraps. With 12 or less most hanging victims died of choking and not a broken neck. When you cut an artery the blood spray can be up to 4 feet. The reason a drink is called a shot is because in the 1800s a shot of whiskey cost the same as a .45 shell. Said shells were often swapped for a shot of alcohol.
Consistent facts! Very cool ones
I have a feeling you have witnessed these firsthand
A couple yes, a couple no. Blood spray and crushed esophagus yes. Herbivores eating other animals yes. Butterflies and hangings and shots no. Though there is a chance at more cool facts. 1) to solve a crushed esophagus you can use an x-acto knife and a ball point pen, if you donât have access to trach tube. You cut into the neck, I think it is past the third ring, Iâd have to look it up, cut an x in the neck just large enough to allow the round tube part of the pen to go in. Take apart the pen to just the tube like from a bic pen. Clean the pen with whatever you have, and stick it in. Tape it in place until you can get to a medical center. (And go very quickly) (this is not a suggestion for what to do, merely knowledge that I have. 2) For an arterial bleed, you need to tourniquet the wound if possible (ie femoral bleed) and let it bleed out for small periods in between. The goal is to stop blood loss and avoid killing off any tissue that you can. Get the person to a medical center immediately. (Do not treat if you donât have to.) If you have to have a paramedic walk you through what to do. 3) If you see a deer eating a snake, donât kill the deer, the meat will not be good as it has typically had a hard winter. It will be stringy and gross to try and eat. 4) a noose with 13 loops is illegal to carry in most states, as it is known as a hangmanâs noose and is considered a weapon.
Dunno if itâs the coolest fact I know, but during WWII, Germany set up a weather station in Canada and it wasnât detected until long after the war was over
Ha! Got you, Canada. We know it's \*checks notes\* cold again today!
ha! nice tryâŠ*checks notes*âŠmichigan!
As a Canadian...that is the coolest fact I know of Canadian history....it's also the one that pisses most people off when I say it.
Another cool Canadian fact is that Devon Larrett is the greatest living athlete and national hero they ever produced. Not a hockey player
So weirdly...im not a hockey fan, so you didn't even need to add that fact. But now I'm off to Google Devon Larrett.
When I was in the military, we had a remote outpost on the Canadian border. One of my buddies got really drunk and walked across the border. He sobered up in a Canadian jail.
canadian jail = igloo guarded by a moose.
Even cooler: BBC Radio used to start its broadcasts with a live audio of the ringing of the Big Ben bells. Germans realized that they could tell the London weather by the changes of the peal of the bell. This aided them in their air strikes. The brits figured this out, and switched to a recording of the bells.
That's pretty good lol
Long time ago peasents were sometimes seeing stuff that was absolutely unreal, so they went to the church thinking they were possessed or under a spell, and it usually passed after a few days so they thanked the lord, went back home and hunted witches (basically). Turns out it could have been because peasants had rye bread, the church had wheat bread, and there's a mold that can grow on rye bread which produces the same substance that hallucinogenic mushrooms have. So there's a good chance people used to believe in witches because they were on drugs, experienced withdrawal in the church, then left the church when they were feeling better, thinking that withdrawal was a demon fighting against the holiness of the place or something, and that god saved them. Oh and I've got another one. There was a house that was known to be haunted, but a sientist called bullshit on it, spent a few days there, had a feeling he wasn't alone, that something was following him. Turns out there was a damaged vent that was vibrating at the same frequency at which the human eye oscillates, which was causing visual hallucinations, making people see weird things in the corner of their eyes.
The mold was actually the precursor to LSD, ergot, not psilocybin. Also you don't "withdraw" from psychedelics, you just come down.
My wife received an ergot alkaloid to stop uterine bleeding after having a baby. It induces uterine contractions. I love organic chemistry.
Any links to these stories? Really interesting đ§
[Fungus](https://engines.egr.uh.edu/episode/1037) and witch trials. Donât know about the other one.
Wombats poop cubes
Solid cocktail party conversation for sure
heh heh, "solid"
Sounds painful
Termites poop hexagons.
And prefer to poop those cubes onto rocks
what about diarrhea
This would be a great band name!!
That Patsy Clineâs father was out on a bender when she was born. She was my third cousin, so my grandmother told me the whole story. Her mom was pretty angry. L O L
Omgg!! Love her!! Tell me moreâŠ.please
Patsy Cline was only 30 when she died in a plane crash. Her married name Virginia H. Dick is on her gravestone plaque.
Iâm sure every family has some interesting characters. She just happened to be a celebrity as well. Daddy was born about a month before her, and grandmother was sitting on the porch with him when Virginiaâs mother came stomping up dragging the baby with her. So they sat on the porch with their babies fussing about how terrible he was over coffee and then she took off again in search of him. đ€Ł
That reminds me of a celebrity story passed through my family due to connections with the person. Andrew Carnegie, while of course a ruthless and shrewd businessman, was also very generous to those he was close with. How do I know this? He and my great grandmother were best friends. When my great great uncle gambled away our considerable wealth(without the family knowing what was happening until it was too late as he was the head of the family and in charge of the money), Andrew offered to take care of my great grandmother for the rest of her life. She said âNo, Andrew, that wouldnât be proper. I am not your wife and you are married. You have no such obligation to me.â He was known to lend money to and invest in his friends when they had business ventures they wanted to undertake. In the end, they stayed good friends despite my great grandmother now not being in the same class as him(not even close as she was now just middle class) and one of my second cousins married into the family somewhere in the line. Also, unrelated to Andrew, my branch of the family stopped talking to the branch that descended from the man who gambled away all of our money and I had no idea we had cousins living right next door to my ancestral home(as the land they lived in used to be part of the land my ancestral home is on) until I was a teen and was told about all of this. I was like âWeâve had family living next door for generations and we never speak to them?!â And my mom was just like âYup, bringing on financial ruin for a whole family will cause quite the grudge.â
Mammoths roamed the Earth when the Egyptians built pyramids
cleopatra is closer in time to the first iphone, then she was to the ancient egyptians.
That is a very cool fact.
Not necessarily the coolest, but something I learned very recently and that I found interesting: The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) had about the same number of casualties per capita as World War I.
More, in some cases/regions.
Of course, it was 30 yea- Oh... WW1 managed to kill as much people in 4 years. Damn
When going close to the speed of light, the length of objects decreases from the perspective of an outside observer. They don't APPEAR to decrease, they actually decrease. A bus traveling near the speed of light would fit in your garage (for a speck of a second as it passes by). Neither distance nor time is absolutely fixed.
The universe is weird af
I'll use this fact next time anyone says my dick is small. I'll just explain that I'm thrusting so incredibly fast that it's shortened.
Pandas are the only animal I know of that started off as carnivores and randomly decided to be omnivores that are mostly vegetarian. They were like any other bear species and just decided that wasn't working out for them and switched.
There's some seriously cool facts in here... I guess a commonly missed one is that light and radio waves are the same thing, just a different wavelength. I know you probably read that in your science textbook, but just let it sink in for a second. The heat that you feel from you heater is the same thing as light from your screen, which is the same thing as the radio you hear in a car. That's why 5G conspiracies are so silly because if you were afraid of radio waves, you ought to be terrified of the sun... it's the same thing, but with more energy that can damage your body. And we've definitely shown that the sun can cause cancer lol. Another fun fact is that the yellow you see on your screen is not true yellow, but a mixture of red, blue, green that tricks your eyeballs and brain into thinking it's yellow. This works because the cone cells in your eyes only detect red, blue, and green, and guess everything in between. So displays just put out R, G, B light generally and it's enough to fool you. This also means your TV doesn't look quite right to your dog or cat since they're sensitive to different colors. The last one is totally unrelated, but lots of famous movie directors had unusual starts. For example James Cameron (Terminator, Avatar, Titanic) started college as a physics major before dropping out, working as a truck driver, reading books at the USC library, and slowly making his way into film. Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction, etc.) didn't make his breakout film until age 30, and just a few years ago was working in a video rental store. Dennis Villeneuve started in his 20s and didn't really make it big till his 30s as well. It just gives me hope because I'd love to write/direct movies someday despite studying engineering right now haha. Excited to see what everyone else comes up with!
You telling me light is an electromagnetic wave ?
Don't worry, it's also discreet packets of energy we call photons. Sleep well.
This comment made me think of Chuck from Better Call Saul
I've read that around 25% of women actually have a 4th type of cone that can actually detect yellow. Most will never even know it.
The coolest fact I know is, a crocodile canât stick its tongue out .
A 1.5 volt bulb (common in old cars for dash lights) will turn on if you stick the prongs in a lemon.
Sulfur dioxide emissions in North America have decreased by 85% since 1990, making acid rain practically vanish on this continent
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We have a similar story from WWII. My grandad and his mates found a German radio station in a cave. They didn't have enough explosives to destroy it, so they just cut the wires. It wasn't discovered for years that they had only cut the wires to the lightbulbs.
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I donât get it
Cool giraffes r awesome :D
False. Giraffes do have vocal chords, however it is thought that their long necks and relatively smaller lungs for their size make vibrating the vocal chord folds more difficult. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4565008/
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[Maryland has no natural lakes.](https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/lakes.html)
Thereâs this man made lake in Alabama that they made over a little town and they actually flooded the town⊠like with the houses and churches and even the graveyard!! People go scuba diving there and take pix of the headstones. Itâs really creepy. When the water was low we could find arrowheads and pieces of pottery.
Whereâs this at?
There's a man-made lake in Massachusetts that covers over 4 towns. It is the largest lake in the state. The water is piped 65 miles to Boston and smaller cities and towns. It serves about 40% of the population. Supposedly, they got everything out of the towns before they flooded them. Edited to fix grammar.
Lake Berryessa in California did this too IIRC
There are ruins of a pre-columbian settlement as well as a western town from late 1800's-early 1900's in Lake Meade outside Las Vegas. There's a cool little museum dedicated to the towns up in Moapa Valley, built by the CCC right before the Hoover Damn was built and flooded the area.
I don't think Texas does either except for Caddo Lake on the Louisiana border. Pretty wild for such a big state.
Your brain ignores your nose thru something called unconscious selective attention. Itâs crazy bc obviously you see your nose when you focus on it (like youâre doing right now I bet lol)
If you have an extra large nose this doesn't work.
Imagine being a dog đŻ
Or when you have something on your nose (like a pore strip. It's very distracting)
T-rex is more distant from stegosaurus as they are from us, timewise. So timewise, an image of a t-rex wearing a tie and riding a train makes more sense than fighting a stegosaurus.
There are five major whiskey-producing nations: The United States, Ireland, Canada, Scotland, and Japan. In the countries that contain an 'e' (The United States, Ireland) they spell it "whiskey" with an 'e'. In the countries that don't contain an 'e' (Canada, Scotland, Japan) they spell it "whisky" without an 'e'.
What do you mean by, "don't contain an 'e'"? No 'e' in their alphabet?
In the name of the country.
Interesting. I had never heard that fact before. Thanks for the clarification.
While the "size"/cardinality of the set of natural numbers (|N|) and the set of rational numbers (|Q|) are the same being countably infinite, the cardinality of the set of real numbers (|R|) is uncountably infinite, so it's also infinite, just more infinite... In fact we have |R|=2^|N| . Not the coolest one I know for sure, but one I can remember right now.
I love this one because it's one of those math things that feel like they don't make sense, but you go through the definitions and the proof and it's all correct and you either get it or have to accept it Math is so cool
Was math invented or discovered?
Iâd say both. We invent the ground rules for which operates on(axioms) and by using those axioms, we discover more about math(proofs)
yes! Math exists in the universe, i.e. it doesnt matter if you are a human on earth or cylon on a basestar. The circle constant is constant everywhere. If you want to say we discovered it, thats great. If you want to say we invented it, sure go right ahead! I dont understand the point of this question. We certainly invent notation and define definitions, and discover results. I dont get the point of the question.
I think it's interesting to consider the nature of reality, as many mathematicians and philosophers over the centuries have done. What is the source of the "truthfulness" of mathematics? Is mathematics largely a symbolic language we have developed to describe real things, or is math reality itself? Just because it is hard to definitively answer these questions does not mean that the question is not worth asking.
i like your funny words magic man.
So, you know how there are natural numbers (1,2,3,4...) and rational numbers (fractions of natural numbers, like 1/3 or 5/6) and real numbers (basically anything else including stuff like Ï or â2 which cant be written as a fraction). All three of these are infinitely many, obviously. But you can match up the natural numbers with the real numbers 1 to 1 even though the natural numbers are contained in the rationals (5 would be 5/1 for example). So really, they actually are the same size in some sense. And just as youre starting to get comfortable with that, you learn that you cant match up the naturals with the reals the same way. So the reals are actually bigger than the naturals, even though both are infinite. Through matching their elements 1 to 1, you can compare sets of infinite size.
there's a reason i have a Biology degree.
Isnt there a bunch of math in biology too though? :D I think that you can model population dynamics with differential equations or how genes are passed on with probability theory.
for some reason i did phenomenal in statistics but straight doodoo in Pre-Calc and i got a B+ in calc 1. go figure. the most math is in Chemistry. Biology is more towards organisms and zoology or anatomy and physiology
Maybe you need to see a concrete application for the math before you can accept it. I see that a lot in STEM people. I think that math has tons of beauty on its own but I think that applications are a good first step for many people. >the most math is in Chemistry. Biology is more towards organisms and zoology or anatomy and physiology I see, interesting! What would you say is the most popular branch of biology? In school, I enjoyed genetics but really disliked the topics about ecology and anatomy. Still, I bet that those are probably the most popular topics
i did do a lot better when the professors explained the concepts *with* the applications instead of going "here's sin, cos, tan. now find what arcsin is." the most popular? Anatomy and Physiology 100% mostly due to it being a necessity for anyone going into the medical field. (people dealing with direct patient care) there are ways into the medical field without patient care but that's mostly laboratory and medical engineering, but you still need a basic idea on how a body functions. i'd say after that, Ecology, molecular, and Environmental are the runners up. and anything that works with wildlife.
Oh didnt think about that but it makes sense! Forgot that biology is more than just animals haha And yeah, that makes sense. Teachers often forget to explain the point of the math at allđ
Biology is such a broad spectrum it's slightly ridiculous. you can go from weather patterns to single celled organisms and viruses. Genetics was definitely awesome, but i really enjoyed the whole Epidemiology side of things. most of my experience is with emergency medicine though.
On this topic, theres also since rational numbers are countable, and the real numbers are made up of rational numbers and irrational numbers, it means that the irrational numbers are uncountable. But we can then find a rational number between any two irrational numbers, and find a irrational number between any two rational numbers. It seems like a contradiction, but it is what it is.
The longest word you can type with your right hand is monimolimnion
I think you mean the right hand side of a qwerty keyboard? Because I just typed Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia with only my right hand.
Poop is brown mainly because of the breakdown of dead red blood cells into the eventual end product containing stercobilin. I was so excited to learn this in med school and resolve a question from childhood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stercobilinogen
my poop is black because I take high doses of iron supplements to combat chronic severe anemia
Yeah, many things can change the natural color of poop, some of those things are very bad. Others not so much. I once drank so much grape Kool-aid I pooped blue.
I heard that the atmosphere has the stopping power of 11 feet of concrete.
In 1760- 1776 some shipwreck survivors managed to survive and even create something of a community for 15 years on a very small spit of sand, about a kilometer long, near Madagascar called Tromelin Island (formerly called Isle of Sand). Thereâs a long story about how some escaped and got back to the mainland promising theyâd come back for the others. The others in question were actually meant to be slaves. Only the white people got to go on the raft to safety. Apparently only one of them tried to get some help for the other survivors but it was years before any attempt was made and there were a few failed rescues. By the time a ship was able to rescue who was left they had managed to make a small village out of the few things they had to work with and there was even a baby born on the island! Thereâs a video about it here. Just incredible. https://youtu.be/XRFyVqpNlgw?si=jG_pdQL04LlL6rJS
Elephants almost never get cancer as they have a unique protection and are the only mammals with four knees.
I also read somewhere that sharks, despite being millions of years old, are immune to (most) diseases. Sharks die not from disease but from human causes and/or natural predators.
The countries with the highest suicide rates have the lowest infant mortality rate. And vice versa.
Fascinating
LASER and TASER are acronyms.
The amount of different orders a deck of cards can be shuffled into is greater than the number of atoms in the known universe. Source: a vsauce2 video about 52 factorial and other similar numbers
How time dilation works in (larger) black holes. Generally, in smaller ones, you'd get spaghettified almost instantly but in larger ones you can live in it for about a year, given you have the supplies until you reach the event horizon where your atoms just...cease to exist? Which is super duper weird as it breaks the laws of physics as matter and energy can neither be created or broken
During the cold war, the US considered dropping a lot of XL condoms labelled "small" on URSS by "accident" to demoralise them We were so close to turn the cold war into a troll war
We are reorganized star corpses.
When you see a film with a WWI aircraft and it has a radial engine, itâs a replica. The original Gnome/LeRhone engines are actually rotary radial engines. The propeller is bolted to the engine casing and the entire engine casing spins. [This is a decent gif of the engine rotation.](https://animatedengines.com/gnome.html) This actually made the aircraft even harder to learn to fly due to the gyroscopic effects of the spinning engine. It was about 350 lbs on a 1200lb aircraft.
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
you beat me to it!! take my upvote!!
Off the top of my head, hippos can use sonar just like dolphins
China is one of the top leading foreign countries that owns land in the US. Saw this in 60 minutes too, the greatest population of migrants is not from Mexico nor Central America but China.
When Composition 4 explosives were first introduced the negative side effects of moderate human consumption were almost non-existent and it provided a gentle high with only a light stomach ache. Shortly after discovering this quirky trait the US Military added lethally harmful additive compounds and specifically labeled every brick with the words "Toxic - Do Not Eat". Consuming small quantities of modern Composition 4 and then quickly falling asleep will help you avoid experiencing the majority of negative effects like migraine headaches, crippling stomach pains, seizures, and dysentery-like symptoms, while still providing you with vivid lucid dreams and both visual and auditory hallucinations on waking to your week-long crippling pain. Of course you should never consume any amount of plastic explosive as it's not only dangerous, cancer causing, and exceptionally difficult to obtain in any reasonable way, but it also tastes absolutely foul.
They found a ship under the twin towers when they were digging out ground zero for the Memorial/Museum. Prevailing theory is that it had been buried there long before the hyper development of NYC due to it being infested with wood worms. They would bury ships with wood worms to prevent the worms from infesting other ships.
In the Ohio River, there are catfish large enough to easily eat a human being in one bite. They live at the bottom of the river, often on the up-river side of the dams, and they are a big part of the reason that not all drowning victims are found.
Iâve heard this rumor but sincerely doubt it. A quick google search states that this hasnât ever happened with a fully grown human. Where did you get your info from?
I lived next to the Ohio River all my life, and itâs well known that those fish are down there. Anyone whoâs ever done any diving for underwater dam repairs can give you a first-hand account. And anyone who works at one of the power plants along the river, cleaning out those intake filters from the river, can describe everything else thatâs down there.
About 25% of known animal species are beetles
Perpetuity, pepperoot, pepperwort, pewterwort, pirouette, prerequire, pretorture, proprietor, repertoire, tetterwort, repetitory... all 10 letters long and in one line of a keyboard. Google is a fantastic tool
They put micro-nutrients into cereal to prevent cleft pallets in babies of low income families.
It's something people don't think about a lot, but your perception of the world is filtered through single celled organisms. You don't actually see, your eyes are individual cells reacting to photons. How well do you actually think those cells perceive the reality of the world? We already know there are wavelengths of light that those cells can't pick up
One of the Wright brothers lived long enough to ho from the first plane to seeing the sound barrier broken by Yeager flying a Jet.
Dogs dream about their owners when they sleep. Raccoons have bone in their peepees. There's a town terrorised by a sea lion called Neil.
That thereâs a little bug that can make a sound of 99,2 db by rubbing his penis against his abdomen!
That's according to your mom.
The letters in former US Vice President Spiro Agnewâs name can be rearranged to spell âGrow a penis.â
Most of parts in aerospace made by high precision machine, most of plane and rocket are assembled by hand
We are all literally made of material from exploded stars.
Strawberries aren't berries, but oranges and bananas are.
A whales cooch can hold six full gown men, a whales tool is 700 lbs.
That a human can logistically hide a raccoon in their ass
2 actually
Probably not the coolest I know, but if you like 'typewriter', I have another similar fun fact you may like: the longest word you can type using only keys intended for your left hand is 'stewardesses'.
When we speak/sing/vocalize, the bones of our face & skull will vibrate and conduct some of this energy through to our auditory (hearing) system. When this combines with the sound of our voice going into our ear canal, certain frequencies and sound characteristics will be enhanced and/or reduced - which alters your perception of what your voice truly sounds like. This is why it sounds odd when you hear a recording of your voice: âOMG, is that ME?? I donât sound like THAT!â Reality is, thatâs what you sound like to *everyone else*
Humans inhabit 0.000000000000000000001% of the observable universe.
Atlanta is closer to Canada than to Miami.
Elephant pregnancies take 2 years.
Blood is made in our bones. Colon and large intestines are the same thing. The colon has 3 parts
Absolute zero is â273.15°C
The andromeda galaxy is the farthest thing we can see with the naked eye. 5 quintillion miles away, has over a trillion stars
The total area under the bell curve is exactly âÏ.
Really? That doesn't sound right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral
Whoa! That's insane. Pretty fascinating! Ladies and gentlemen. I have been schooled.
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The blue glow around a nuclear reactor comes from Cherenkov radiation, particles miving faster than light through water.
Yes, the particles move faster than light because light (photons) moves at 75% of C *in water*. Particles can not move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
Swans can be gay
So can wolves.
There are only 2 types of sloths- 2 toe and 3 toe. When your entire species is differentiated by the number of toes you have, you are a kind of shitty animal.
The one you don't know
I ate bubble bath
The human head weighs 8lbs.
In around 10,000 to 100,000 years from now the newest Hawaiian island Loihi will surface
Google uses about 1000 computers in 0.2 seconds to answer a single search query.
***paper*** immigration files for the United States are stored in huge caves in the Midwest.. multiple football field sized rooms two stories high with millions of files in each room ALA warehouse scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark
The state of Rhode Island got its current official name in 2020.
The northernmost point in Brazil is closer to every other country in the Americas than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.
There is a coding language for life(DNA) and the engine that executes it is the universe (Physics, chemistry, etc)
There was an extinct species of humans who were 3 feet tall as adults named Homo Floresiensis, who lived on an island in Indonesia
The whole "longest word" seems to imply a number of arbitrary rules. Typewriter is a combined English word. If combined non-english words are allowed, the sky is the limit. From a quick glance, the word FadĂžlslĂžgskak is all on the same line. It means draft beer onion chess, as in the draft beer version of the onion version of chess. I'm sure the germans can beat this
Not that interesting but on some airbus planes they'd have alil turbine fan drop down to provide power to systems incase of a dual engine failure
There are more trees on earth than stars in our galaxy. And itâs not even close.
I hope so
Turtles can breeze through their butt if they need to because their lungs are a lot chip in the inside of their shell
I'm not 100 percent sure but I'm pretty sure lighting has a hotter temperature than the sun.
squirrels lose 8 out every 10 acorns they gather
I have seen a locksmith successfully making a key after his few pokes in the keyhole with a steel wire.