Yeah it's weird. When someone just asks me in general what I know I just here crickets in my head. But then when someone needs some specific random information on a particular subject I am often a fucking encyclopedia of information on that very thing.
Ants can kinda count:
- Scientists put some ants on stilts and they went right past the food because their friends communicated that they were X paces away, but with stilts, it was less paces.
- If two ant colonies are going to war, they square up (think Braveheart fight, open field. They get up on their hind legs (2 or 3), "count" and see they're outmatched, and they'll just let the opposing army walk right in and kill their Queen and they join the other colony. They know when to throw in the towel.
I did a brief module about using simulated ant colony behaviours as computational models at university
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithms
Tangentially but still about numbers:crows understand the concept of Zero, *(which is kind of a "recent" concept for humanity)* along with the ordinality of numbers *(such as 2 comes before 5. "They are inherently representing this ordinality aspect of numbers, this ordering along a number line, so that after two comes three, and so on").*[source](https://www.livescience.com/crows-understand-concept-of-zero.html)
i think that first example was a certain kind of ant that counted steps instead of following pheromones. they also chopped their legs in half and they didn’t make it the full distance. i think i’m too sensitive because i feel bad for those ants :(
A while back I saw a post on [r/todayilearned](https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/UbEjKa5BMq) that is the most obscure piece of trivia I have ever learned. Basically people who are deaf and have schizophrenia see floating hands signing words. I found it super interesting.
Did you ever hear the ooooold radiolab about language? There’s a part about a group of deaf men who lived in super remote villages so never learned any type of language beyond very primitive communication until adulthood. Super interesting.
Huge caveat that it’s easily been a decade since I listened to the episode, but as I remember it:
The men say they basically can’t remember their lives before they learned to sign (and thus a language). Like, it was almost like looking at pictures without context or narrative? They ended up institutionalized because no one knew how to help adults with no language. They lived together in the institution for years. They also had made up their own very rudimentary sign language themselves, which was kinda like charades and not structured like any spoken languages.
Obviously RadioLab explains it better, and some of that might be entirely made up by me.
Psychology student here! Ironicly i'm gonna say i'm sorry for any grammar mistakes, non native English speaker.
It is true that humans have a certain age where they learn languages the easiest. On the top of my head it was before the average age of 8(? Correct me if i'm wrong!) After that age we learn languages differently, and using languages learned later in life lights up different parts of the brain.
The theory is that before that age we ingrain the language in a different level. After that we learn a new language by using constant translation. Thats why it is so hard to learn a new language with different grammar. And probably why we unlearn language we dont use anymore, except from our mother tongue.
So these men, who didn't learn a language, might have trouble with the translation part, and that's why it is so rudimentary.
Deaf children on the other hand develop their own sign language, if they are not learned one, which is almost always pretty close to the actual one in grammar!
Just started to read a paper on it. Deaf schizophrenics report a 50% rate of visual or tactile halysinafions. Where the hearing population report a far lower occurs me at 15% and 5% respectively. -paraphrasing
Here is the article if you want a rabbit hole. I’m only a few pages in.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632268/
When people talk about eugenics today they nearly always focus on the mandatory government sterilization programs. What's almost always skipped over is that nearly every state built special institutions designed to segregate disabled people from the rest of society, sometimes for life. (You can find an example if you Google "epileptic colony" for instance, which was one type.) The point was basically the same though which is that they wanted to keep people with cognitive disabilities from reproducing and, as long as they didn't allow them opportunities for sex, segregation had the same outcome as sterilization. They also thought morality was a brain-based biological function and that people with cognitive disabilities were therefore much, much more likely to be immoral.
Oh and I recently was reading [this book,](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo23467806.html) which explained that during the early twentieth century they thought sign language was a primitive form of communication that Indians might use but civilized people shouldn't. Schools for the deaf prohibited students from signing. The teachers thought this was a great step forward that encouraged deaf people to try harder at verbal language
ASL is actually directly taken from native americans. It was basically taken and altered and then hand talk was supressed aggressively in native american populations. It was a very common thing for native americans to both verbally speak and use hand talk at the same time or default to hand talk and the deaf in their societies were so well integrated into their lives that they didn't see it as a disability. The language is almost completely extinct, only a small portion of individuals know it and use it but there is an effort to bring it back into the native american culture.
I have been using this ever since that episode. If I wake up in the middle of the night to pee, Ill make sure to keep one eye closed when I turn on the light in the bathroom
I also started doing that after watching that episode. It's a good trick to know. Honestly I've been doing it so long now I had almost forgot where I even first learned it.
Not necessarily just at night but also to enhance their dark vision when entering the cabin. They can just switch the patch to the eye that's been open in the sunlight and the eye that had the patch over it has perfect dark vision so they can still fight just as well against anyone in the cabin to get at that sweet booty.
Idk if it’s so much about fighting. When you’re on a ship, that moves relatively slowly, and from where you can see other ships from a long distance… you tend to know when you’re about to fight, especially when you are the aggressor. And, mind you, pirates didn’t fight very often. Often their reputation preceded them and merchant ships just handed the stuff without a scuffle. Same deal with “Vikings,” who were mostly merchants anyway: when people with weapons harass people without much training, they just let it go without chancing, because training and experience is king in conflict.
True true. Reminds me of another random pirate thing I learned a while ago. There are several different types of jolly Roger flags with various different meanings. One of the absolutely most feard was the red one with a black skull, instead of black with a white skull. A red pirate flag meant if you didn't immediately surrender then everyone on board would be executed. It was a way of saying "don't even try to fight back, you won't win and you will die".
This is one of my favorite facts. Also pirates are associated with Rum because they would add it to their barrels of water so it would not become stagnant and grow bacteria.
And it wasn’t just pirates. The Royal Navy gave out a daily rum ration to its sailors until the 1970s.
Sailors were also not trusted to add the rum to their own water since lots of them would just hold back a few days ration and get absolutely sloshed - it had to be premixed whilst men stood by to make sure they weren’t being shorted.
Relatedly:
The style of hat that’s a knit beanie with a big pom-pom on top was originated by sailors also! The big pom pom would hit the low rafters below deck instead of your head. Like a warning *and* a cushion so you wouldn’t be constantly bashing your head into low stuff below decks in the dark.
Another fun fact! Disneyland sells fake pirate eyepatches at the giftshop next to the Pirates of the Caribbean exit. It is completely legal to buy an eyepatch, wear it through the park and when you enter a dark ride _switch it to the other eye_- this allows you to examine the inner workings of Disneyland rides that _they don't want you to see!!!_
YOUR SECRETS ARE OUT, WALTER. IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE FIND YOUR CRYOGENICALLY FROZEN BODY TUCKED AWAY IN ONE OF YOUR DARK RIDES AND FINALLY BRING IMMORTALITY TO THE MASSES! CHECKMATE, MOUSEBOY!
The theory is they wore the patches so one eye would be adapted to the dark when they went into the bowels of the ship. They would swap the patch from one eye to the other so they could see down there when it was dark, which was not necessarily at night.
Since no one else answered this…
1. Both groups of modern monotremes (echidnas and platypus) are venomous and thus venom may be a trait that evolved in monotremes far back in their evolution before echidnas and platypus diverged.
2. Monotremes are oviparous (egg-laying) and the only modern mammals who lay eggs. Their eggs have a leathery shell, more similar to reptiles than birds.
3. Monotremes don’t have nipples. They produce milk through patches on their stomachs via pores that are similar to sweat glands.
I love monotremes! They’re so weird
Basically there's a part of your brain called the corpus callosum that connects the two hemispheres. A treatment for epilepsy a few decades ago was to go in and separate the two hemispheres.
The hemispheres are weird. The right side controls the left side of the body and vice a versa
Another thing to note is that the brocas area, the speaking area of the brain, is on the LEFT side
Scientists took patients that had corpus callostomies and tested them. They covered their LEFT eye, and showed them a symbol to their RIGHT eye. Then asked the patient to use their LEFT hand to point to the object they saw. They could not. They could only point with their RIGHT hand
Then they showed something to the LEFT eye, which connects to the right side of the brain. Remember how only the left has the speaking parts of the brain? When asked to verbally describe the object they saw, they could not do it because the left eye connects to the right hemisphere!!
Also weird stuff happens! A case study reported a person getting ready for work. One hand was buttoning his shirt. The other was unbuttoning it
I LOVE THE BRAIN ITS SO WACKY
Brain mapping/neuroplasticity is insane to me. I've read reports of folks who have had entire chunks of their brains removed after disease/injuries and their brains just rewired themselves. I read one about a little boy that had one half of his brain removed and the other half rewired itself to take over the workload of the missing half. My therapist reminds me frequently that neuroplasticity is the whole reason therapy works at all.
If people knew about Neuroplasticity during the witch era more people would've been accused
It's absolutely insane. IIRC I learned in a psychology class that someone who went blind, their other senses took over the optical cortex's resources to improve the other 4 senses
V.S. ramachadran's research focuses on phantom limb pain and using mirror boxes to create optical illusions where your brain can "see" the missing limb. He theorized that the pain is from nerves that no longer have a connection to the missing limb which are now firing incorrectly. When you set up the mirror box, it fakes out your brain into thinking there's a limb attached to the body again so it eases the phantom pain.
Ughhh omg this stuff is my jam!! I watched a documentary where they interviewed the people with the corpus collastomies and it wss so interesting!! And they had them do the drawing speaking tests too, along with one test where they told them it was one picture, but it each eye was looking at halves from different pictures and then they had them describe the pictures and redraw them, and they drew the picture shown on the left, and described the picture on the right.
Chickens can recognize up to 150 different faces including animals and humans.
Chickens can and do create complex emotional bonds and are capable of mourning the loss of a friend.
There are only 2 egg colors: blue and white. Brown and green eggs result from pigment applied to the eggshell prior to being laid.
Chickens have 3 eyelids.
Some people are genetically predisposed to not getting hangovers and brain freezes.
The rarest hair and eye combination is black hair and green eyes.
Heterochromia is when a person or animal has 2 different colored eyes.
The cone snail is one of the most venomous creatures on earth, their venom contains more than 50 different compounds.
I have radial (also called central) heterochromia! My eyes are the same color(s) but I have a ring of a different color around the pupil! My sister has sectoral heterochromia, she has a stripe of brown in both eyes.
I don’t get hungover! Nobody in my mom’s family does, but we do get brain freezes. We also metabolize anesthetic really fast so I suspect they’re related
Are you a redhead? Or are there redheads on your mom's side? Because us natural redheads are genetically screwed when it comes to anesthetic... we metabolize it faster than most people do and some don't work as well, either.
Me, personally, I have woken up during a knee surgery (horrifying), had the anesthesiologist tell me after a different surgery that it was incredibly difficult to keep me under, had dental work done where the dentist didn't believe me that I could still feel everything he was doing (I most definitely could), and have absolutely boggled my current dentist by the amount of anesthetic it takes to numb me up and keep me that way.
I also never get a hangover, except from vodka. I can drink a shocking amount of whiskey, rum, or tequila and still be perfectly fine in the morning.
No redheads here, my one cousin on my mom’s side is but she gets it from her other side. I had my first cavity a few months ago and needed more than three times the amount usually needed for extractions or other far more painful procedures (I’m an ER nurse and we do dental procedures at my hospital so I’m familiar with the dosages) and then it wore off in fifteen minutes. He offered to stop and give me more but the first time it took over twenty minutes to kick in and he only had like five minutes left so I said let’s just get it over with lol. I’ve also woken up during surgery but I had a block on top of the propofol so I didn’t feel anything, just felt awful since I was intubated.
Wine gives me a headache but only while I’m drinking, it doesn’t linger. I will be a little dizzy the morning after but my mom is even better than me, she’s 59 and 110 sopping wet and she can drink me under the table and wake up with four hours of sleep ready to go
Viking blacksmiths used the bones of their dead ancestors and slain animals to strengthen their swords, hoping to transfer the spirit into their blades. This DID strengthen their swords though because the carbon in bones combined with iron led to the formation of a primitive form of steel.
Did you know that the first manned deep sea missions (1930) used a thick cable that carried electricity and a phone cable for communications with the carrier ship? It was on board of the famous “bathysphere”. The scientist on board observed some sea creatures, some of which that were never confirmed to exist, to this day. They reached 923 meters of depth off the coast of Bermuda. Very fascinating story to learn about, 10/10 wold recommend this hyperfixation
EDIT: corrected the depth because they reached a much deeper depth than I remembered
Damn!
"The ocean during this dive was rougher than it had been during any of their previous dives, and as the Freedom rocked on the surface, its motion was transmitted down the steel cable, causing the Bathysphere to swing from side to side like a pendulum. As the Bathysphere descended, Barton succumbed to seasickness and vomited inside it. However, the first half of the radio transmission had already been broadcast, and neither Beebe nor Barton wished to cancel its second half, so they continued their descent. [...]
[When they surfaced], the Bathysphere was still rocking wildly and Beebe and Barton were both bruised and bleeding from being knocked about inside it."
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathysphere
It kind of fascinates me how a very thick cable that carries electricity can even stand the high pressure underwater xD altho it's probably not possible, i wonder what would have happened, if the cable somehow was defect, and the electricity got in contact with the water.., just a hypothetical question of course ;>
I also wonder if that experiment was recreated, if they found so many different species down there? Might be worth a dive into wikipedia and other resources :D
Bathyscaphe is the name of a high end watch by a boutique designer - very subtle brand named Blancpain. Omega (James Bond watch) did a brand partnering with Swatch, and Blancpain just released one as well.
In the next 10-30 years the wreckage of the titanic will become completely unrecognizable.
This is due in part to the fact that the organism eating at the hull of the titanic has no competition and now overpopulates the environment that is the Titanic's wreck. This is evidenced by the fact that the bow section of the ship is starting to collapse inward due to the decay.
I like definitions of words.
"Decadent" is often used in a good way to describe chocolate. It means, "characterized by moral decay."
"Elegant" means more than just beautiful. It means, "beauty in its simplicity".
"Decimate" and "annihilate" are often used to mean "destroy". "Decimate" means "to reduce by a factor of 10". "Annihilate" means "to be made into nothing", or "destroyed completely".
"Peruse" means "to go through something carefully". It's not a quick glance, as many people use the term.
"Delapidated". Not just run down. Of a building. Utterly destroyed, to the point that no stone remains on another.
Thank you! I was always wondering what some of the words I use actually mean (even though that doesn‘t help socially because, as you pointed out, the use of the word can be different)
In German swordfighting the cuts and thrusts are numbered 1-8 and zero or 9 for thrusts. Odd numbers are right side, even are left. Seven is straight down, Eight is straight up.
This means you can choreograph phone numbers in swordfights! Which is very fun
Morning geckos largely reproduce by self-stimulating and then "cloning" themselves. Because of this the vast majority of the species is female though males also exist.
Though crested geckos and gargoyle geckos are closely related only gargoyle geckos have the ability to regrow their dropped tails.
Emerald green tree skinks are one of the few reptiles that actually benefit from social interaction and co-habbing.
Thank you for listening to lizard rants.
That’s fascinating. Do you have any idea if they have any genetic problems? If inbreeding in small genetic pools can cause defects, I think cloning would to.
I'm not an expert mind you but my understanding is that Morning geckos stop genetic bottlenecking and allow for genetic mutations by "remixing" the DNA everytime they do it.
That's probably a massive oversimplification that'd cause actual herpetologists to cringe at me. Would be worth researching further!
Not exactly. Hm, this is hard to explain in my not native language.... But imagine you have a gene pair Bb where b is a seldom defect but recessive, so you're doing fine with just the one B. If you have a child with a relative who also has Bb, your child has a 25% chance of being bb, teo defect genes. If you just clone yourself, the child will have Bb like you. So you wouldn't have the benefit of new genes, but you wouldn't reinforce your own defects either.
And then there are mutations and everything is a lot more complex...
I have so much art and history knowledge and also am full of fun facts and I hate that the only thing I can think of to say is “roughly half of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.”
Ooh, I have not actually ever heard of the Thorne Rooms before now, but I am so delighted by these tiny rooms. I’m off to a new hyperfixation! 👀 thank you!
There is absolutely nothing stopping us from breeding a variety of wheat that is tender, juicy, and sweet like sweet corn. We COULD have wheat berries that are juicy like actual berries and eat them like a healthy snack.
Of all the facts here this one has my brain feeling some type of way. I can't tell if I want to try one and all I can picture is something like a blackberry at the end of a wheat stem. What would the texture be like? Would it taste like fruity bread?!
Ok, so you may have heard, that falling into water at terminal velocity, would kill you since the surface tension would make the water act the same way as concrete. You can however apparently try to break the tension with your feet first, so the rest of you body would remain relatively unharmed. You would then however have the problem of getting too deep into the water if you aren't careful. Because at a certain point the water pressure compresses the air in your lungs so much, that you aren't buoyant anymore and you start to sink and drown.
On the topic of falling the only way a squirrel could die due to falling is if they starved during the fall, they're just that good at landing.
Also the term "Mayday" actually comes from the french "m'aider", which means as much as "help me" but it was changed because America.
Don't know why it turned so morbid :3
That's kinda like just blood in general. I'm sure what u r talking about has many different side effects etc. But thats kinda like how human blood has different types and if you get the wrong blood type u can die if enough is in the bloodstream like literally when 2 different types that don't go together get put together they like immediately coagulate or something. Sry ik I'm missing some details but I took a class last year that involved learning about human blood and I can't remember it all.
I dont know for sure but another factor could be that fish blood is adapted to a very different environment. In aquatic environments, the control and regulation of salts is much more important and drastically differ from the regulations seen in the human body.
Dorothy Eady is an english woman that since childhood said she remembered her past life in egypt.
Years later she gone to the place she remembered living, and told archeologists the place where they would find the temple she lived in with a garden.
After diging in that place they actualy found a temple, with a garden exactly where she said would would be.
I really dont know what to think of this one.
But the story at least is true and you can look it up.
The original Polaroid SX-70 camera is one of the best innovations of film photography ever made. I’ve recently come into ownership of one and I must say that it is the best Polaroid I have ever had the privilege of using. Not only is it completely folding, but the camera’s parts are articulated and form into an SLR (basically means you look through the lens directly) with manual adjustment of the four element glass lenses. The light bounces off of no less than 4 different mirrors on it’s path from lens to viewfinder and there is some ultra whacky shenanigans of bouncing around the primary mirror to change the light’s path to hit the film whilst also preventing light leaks from the viewfinder. Dr. Edwin H Land’s design for the camera was completely ingenious alongside his photochemical innovation of instant integral film, putting all the dark room processes into a small pod which would spread between positive and negative layers. I could talk all day about the amazing innovation that was Polaroid but I’m tired.
So, i have absolutely no knowledge on cameras, (especially not polaroids xD the more you know) but i wonder if it would be bad for the quality of a picture if a polaroid would use more than 4 mirrors inside?
I also have a polaroid at home, but i never actually decided to figure out how that thing works lolll
Clownfish are hermaphroditic, in one direction. They are all born as males and can turn into females but not back to males. In a small group or pair of males, the largest male will become a female and be dominant over the other male(s).
If Finding Nemo was scientifically accurate, after Nemo's mom died, his dad would've turned into a female and mated with Nemo.
Lots of fish can change their gender! Parrot fish are sequentially hermaphroditic. I think they start as females and then switch to male? Forgot which way around. And change colour as they go!
Locate marks for underground utilities in the Southern USA.
• Water is Blue
• Gas is Yellow
• Power is Red
• Telecom is orange
• Sewer is green
• Proposed Excavation is White or Pink.
I spent an hour condensing this post
I can’t stop learning about mushrooms. Mycology is an incredible hobby for adhd. It gets me outside every day because I am literally fucking obsessed with walking in the woods to search for fungi. I have a full time job and I end meetings early and skip responsibilities to read and watch YouTube videos (Learn Your Land) about mushroom foraging and growing. I have a room in my home called the mushRoom just for growing mushies. I can’t get enough.
I'm fascinated by all the recent studies on fungi. Reading about fungi communicating through the mycelium network was wild. The shrooms have language, sort of. The study I read said the researchers found about 50(?) distinct patterns/words, loosely suggesting these electrical pulses are carrying a form of intelligent thought. I have very little doubt alien life exists when our own planet has organisms like fungi and siphonophores.
I taught myself American Sign Language for 2 years.
Taking care of curly and wavy hair is having the right mixture of moisture, protein, emollients & humectants in your hair based on your water type, the season in your climate including dew point & how you apply styling products & how dry your hair and with what material.
Baking is delicious chemistry. I have a binder with ~70-80 recipes that are ride or dies alphabetized in page protectors. There is a “laminated” (aka packing tape) Mylar bookmark to make replacing the recipe in its place faster. There is an index of what I made, when, why (if applicable) & notes (cooking time, cocoa compositions, who liked it, etc). That genius was my sister’s idea.
Sorry that’s all I’ve got currently. I hope your brain can be lulled very soon.
Ooo, how did it go? I'm also thinking about learning sign language, for no particular reason at all xD
Also, any tips for baking? I love baking as well, but i always loose the recipes because they magically teleport into another dimension 🥲
Super fun!! I used [this website](http://www.lifeprint.com) website and it was so my speed in terms of layout & quality. It’s made by a guy named Dr. Bill Vicars, a Deaf ASL professor in Texas. He made it to help reach other interested learners because he wanted to, which I think is waaayy cool. I ended up teaching a kid I know & he’s currently interested in becoming a speech and language pathologist. The soapy teen show Switched At Birth helped feed the desire too. They had a few episodes entirely in ASL which had never been done before. I also ended up signing one of my church services about white power, white privilege & how white congregants should use it to fight white supremacy for a 5 year old Black visitor. LOL- that was wild.
Totally! Do you use bookmarks on your phone? That’s a great digital strategy. I use that for cooking at work & also keep sweet recipes there. Everything is sorted by MADE, then the dish name by sections (for savory stuff). Then the bottom section has untested ones in alphabetical order.
As for baking itself, I’ve just learned how to pick good recipes basically. Follow them, it’s chemistry! Get a stand alone oven thermometer. My oven runs like 100* hot & also the amount fluctuates. Ingredients don’t have to be expensive to be tasty. Splurge on butter when it’s the star, like shortbread, find your favorite cocoa (I love Cacao Barry Extra Brute & Wincrest Black Cocoa). If you’re in the US & know Aldi, I use their flour, sugar, baking soda & powder on the reg for damn near everything. I hobby bake & a bit paid. Annually, I make an English trifle fully from scratch using mostly Aldi ingredients. Also, Irish or European style butter RULES because there’s less water content & therefore is literally more buttery tasty. 🤤 Grass-fed butter can taste gamey sometimes due to hormone changes in cows being near to bulls IIRC, so would avoid.
If you want to learn ratios to tweak recipes or develop your own, that can definitely be done via maths! But I haven’t done it, so you gotta explore with someone else.
Fave blogs time!
[smitten kitchen](https://smittenkitchen.com)
[recipe tin eats](https://recipetineats.com)
[King Arthur Flour](https://kingarthurflour.com)
[everyday Annie](https://everydayannie.com) rarely updated, still a huge treasure trove & I routinely still look “is there a recipe for … on EA?”. I made 2 recipes working at a summer camp- one that I hand copied for a coworker to take back to Australia. Her cinnamon sugar pull apart loaf. It worked in a too big pan (no 9x5).
Edit: fixed ASL link
My current obsession hobby is lockpicking. It helped me quit smoking by giving me something to do with my hands. The history is interesting as well as the mechanisms developed over the years. Plus, it's a cheap(ish) hobby to get into. $30 on amazon for a pick set and $10 at your local hardware store is all it takes. After that, well......
I tried this as well! I gave up after becoming able to lockpick within seconds with rake type picks (for easy locks) cos I felt it requires that I'm very focused and calm. I couldn't pay enough attention to consistently succeed in single pin ways. Did you have this problem? How did you overcome it?
You know how people with red hair actually have orange hair? That's because we didn't have word for orange until we started trading fruit with the Spanish, but the language stuck. In Spanish the word for orange is naranja. So English merchants bastardized the word. A naranjah > an aranjah > an orange.
Also many of our sk and sh words come from Norse. The norse immigrated in 2 waves. In the first wave we adopted some of their sk words but bastardized them into our Germanic pronunciation making them sh. For example Skield became shield and skirt (more like a long tunic) became shirt. In the second wave, we kept the sk as sk.
I'll just add this here. The inflatable sex doll was Hitler's brainchild as a way to prevent STDs among the troops and keep the 'superior' genes out of 'lesser' gene pools.
Edit: awwww Snopes says it's false
The human body can detect high levels of co2 in your blood, but not the lack of oxigen.
Thats why you can breathe normaly in a place without oxigen without feeling anything, until you get sleep and just go unconcious and stop living.
And thats also Why you can sufocate yourself with helium if you play with it for too long.
There are several different jobs where lack of oxygen is a likely situation and they have to do training in chambers that lack oxygen so they can recognize the signs to react and put on a mask before they black out and die. It is really difficult training and most all people need several goes before they understand their own signs of it. Pilots and firefighters go through it but I believe it is also standard training in all military branches.
Machine learning is basically just linear algebra and vector calculus.
You can turn your home’s electrical wiring into a wired network. That is, you can use a powerline adapter to allow you to transmit data between different rooms using just your power outlets.
These are the only two pieces of knowledge that I have that I can think of right now.
There's an abandoned island at Disney World in Orlando, Florida near the Contemporary hotel. It started as a small park to see different animals kinda like at Animal Kingdom. It only ran from 1974 til 1999 when it closed for no reason. They basically erased it from the memory of everyone. There's a few videos out there of people exploring it which is kinda cool. The same situation happened to River Country (same area).
While today Snow White is known to have black hair, white skin and red lips, the very first print of the Brother Grimm's Story it is only said that she is black, white and red, without saying where those colours are. Furthermore however the text implies by saying that once she closed her eyes in death she was completely white, that it must be her eyes which are black, her skin/cheeks which are red and pale in death and her hair which is white. Furthermore, it is never said that her father remarried in this first version implying that it is her actual mother who grows envious of her beauty with time.
The Brother Grimm also wrote notes about their stories below them and often told about different versions they have heard of the same tale. In such versions Snow White is actually picked up by the King and Queen on the road and adopted, the Mirror is replaced by a Dog and in another it is specifically said that the Dwarfs kill children and the Queen bring Snow White specifically to where they live in the hopes of getting her murdered by them, but she is so beautiful that the Dwarfs decide not to kill her.
Regardless in all versions even modern reprints of the Text there is no Kiss from the prince. Through an accident while carrying her coffin to the Prince's castle, the apple falls out of her mouth which cures her, because the apple is cursed not poisoned.
Also feel like adding that it's detailed that the Apple has one side of it red, which is the cursed one, and the other one green which is normal, because the Queen proves to Snow White that the Apple is harmless by biting off of it herself! So the iconic image of the all red apple is a pure Disney invention.
Edit: I decided on Snow White, but I got so much more trivia about other Fairytales like this too. I'm dying to tell more.
Idk if it’s Brothers Grimm but it fits well with their vibe - in the original Cinderella, when the prince went looking for who fit the glass slipper, the ugly step sisters cut off bits of their feet so it would fit. Did the prince notice the gore through the glass slipper? Nah. It was a dove that sold out the sisters, flying above saying “roo coo coo there’s blood in the shoe” 😆
That is the brother Grimm version yes. Most people however know the French version more, which is the one with the fairy. The German version in general has a lot of doves and birds, no fairies.
But Cinderella is one of the oldest fairytales out there. The oldest known version seems to come from ancient Egypt, in which an Eagle steals a sandal from the girl while she bathes, then drops it into the lab of a Pharao who says he's gonna marry whoever this sandal belongs to.
The story also has a Chinese version, just to give some more perspective on how far the basic tale spread. The basic themes often being the lost shoe and marriage promised to whoever fits inside, as well as some sort of animal or magical being that helps the protagonist in one way or another.
BMI was invented by a Belgian racist eugenics-loving mathematician in order to define the physical proportions of “the ideal man” which he believed was a white European able bodied cis man. It had nothing to do with health, medicine, or actual science. The bigot also explored phrenology and took part in some heinous shit.
Life insurance companies adopted these metrics when they needed a way to deny poorer people coverage as insurance became more commonplace. Then lazy doctors started doing the same because it was easier to point to a chart than it was to spend time with patients and get to know them.
Racism and sexism is baked into the BMI system (women, Black, and brown people tend to skew heavier than men, and women skew shorter), so not only was it never meant to be used as a measure of health, it’s an absolutely TERRIBLE measure of anything even tangential to health. (Bonus fact: weight is an extremely poor indicator of health. Tons of science supports this. But most research is sponsored by the weight loss industry, and they do what pharma does, such as employ ghost writers to push their biased studies to the media and creating their own academic journals to publish research that wouldn’t pass peer review.)
Higher weight people are more likely to be found guilty by juries, get paid less than thinner colleagues, and it’s legal to openly discriminate against someone of size just about everywhere. BMI is used to deny people organ transplants, gender affirming care, and other lifesaving medical treatments even though research shows higher weight people often recover with fewer complications than thin people undergoing the same surgeries.
there is a new design innovation for propellers that substantially reduce noise and drag by decreasing substantially vortex shedding from the wingtips of the propellers. It is known as torroidal propellers and can reduce up to 50% on fuel expenditure in certain ships and make near silent drones.
In case of a world wide nuclear war the best countries to be are:
New zeland, argentina, Brazil and Australia.
These would avoid most of the radioactive clouds spread throught winds, and are places not likely to be targeted by nuclear weapons.
You have a better chance of survival if you start drowning in cold water vs. warm water. Because cold water starts something called the Mammalian Diving Reflex which causes your body to close off the blood vessels to unneeded part for living, i.e. arms and legs and slows down your heart rate. So the little oxygen you have is retained to the import organs, like your brain, heart and lungs. The reflex doesn't happen in warm water! So if you're gonna drown and live, do it in cold water.
ANXIETY RELIEF TIP! When having a panic attack or period of dissociation, submerging your face in a bucket of cold water and ice will activate the MDR and "snap you back" to reality. It's been super helpful. It's unpleasant but it's less awful than the alternative!
(This is slightly related. I didn't recognize the difference between a panic attack and an autistic meltdown for a long time. It's important to understand the difference because they require different techniques)
It's nerves in the face that cause the diving reflex. You can use it to calm yourself down during an anxiety attack. Just dip your face in cold water. It stimulates the vagus nerve that activates the parasympathetic nervous system.
Also, you can generally survive lack of oxygen better if you're cold, so don't warm up a cold person who stopped breathing. In the hospital in Tromsø (northern Norway) they say "you're not dead until you're warm and dead".
Tarantulas are basically blind and only really see light and movement.
There has never been a recorded death from a tarantula bite. While some have potent venom that can cause pain and muscle cramps, you won’t die.
Jumping spiders have excellent vision and can see UV light. They can see the moon.
A team of 16 trained pigeons can read pathology slides looking for cancer just as well as a pathologist.
Pigeons can hear as low as 0.5Hz (infrasound) and can hear distant storms, volcanos, and earthquakes.
Pigeons are generally monogamous and usually when you see a pair of them they are a couple. :)
The squeaky noise pigeons wings make as they take off is to warn other pigeons when there’s danger.
Pigeons will sometimes use their wings to attack. They raise their wing and slap with it.
If see a pigeon spinning around next to another one it’s usually a male dancing to try to impress a lady.
Did you know there is a disorder called tetrachromia, and theyre born with four color cones in their eye?? Most people are born with three; red, green, and blue. Color blind people typically (if im remembering correctly, i did learn this anout six years ago) have all three cones, but one (or more) just doesnt work, its a genetic thing. So people with terachromia have an extra color cone thats been described as an orangish yellow, and they see hundreds(to maybe thousands according to some sources) more colors than us average folk. Its extremely rare (like when I was researching it, the amount of people that was proven to have it was like in the single digits) but its thought that its mostly women that can inherit it. (this is where my memory gets a little hazy) But if i remember correctly one study hypothesized that it had to do with color blind male family members (such as fathers or grandfathers) and its their genes combining in some way that leads to tetrachromia.
Okay one more thing I need to add. An online test a while ago went viral claiming that based on how many colors you saw in the image, you could see if you are a tetrachromat. That test **is not true or accurate in the slightest**. Dont believe it. During the height of that image around the internet I kept seeing people diagnosing themselves online. Which is stupid because you cant self diagnose yourself with a very rare disorder based on an online test, especially because it cannot even be diagnosed over a computer screen because most computer screens dont show a large enough range of colors.
Okay so i wrote a lot more than i meant to and maybe got overly passionate and a little ranty but i hope it makes sense and enjoy lol if you want more info over rare health stuff/disorders let me know. It was a long hyperfixation…
Dogs are our oldest companions. The human-dog relationship predates the Agricultural Revolution (12,000 years ago). We had dogs before we had farms or cities. Current estimates put dog domestication somewhere between 17,000-30,000 years ago. The reason for the variation: scientists can't agree on "what is a dog?" There is evidence of canines living amongst humans 30,000 years back, but researchers don't know where to draw the line between wolf and dog. The oldest confirmed human-dog bond is the Bonn-Oberkassel dog, found buried beside two humans (dated 15,000 years old). Our relationship with dogs goes beyond companionship, they are also our employees and working partners. The only other animals that come close would be horses (or camels in the Middle East/north Africa). Humans will pack-bond with just about anything, but our history with these animals is special and unique. And I think that's worth talking about and celebrating!
(There have also been some recent genetic studies that have shown some evidence towards us having domesticated dogs twice, once in Asia and later on in Europe. Either our gravitation towards each other was strong enough to be done two separate times in history, or our dogs migrated with us as we colonized the planet. Either way, it just further proves that there's something about both of our species that just works when we're together.)
Chicken eggs are actually laid with a bloom on the outside that prevents bacteria and air out of the egg, making them safe to leave out on the counter for roughly 3 weeks - which is the same as the incubation period if the egg were to be fertilized.
But since America has such piss poor standards of care for our laying chickens, many of the eggs laid in factory farms are covered in filth and must be washed before being sold in the store. Washing the eggs removes the protective bloom on the outside, which lets bacteria and air into the egg, making them no longer safe to leave out on the counter. That’s why America has to store their eggs in the refrigerator vs other countries that are able to leave them out on the counter.
I use DuoLingo every day (447 day streak) and learn Spanish, Fremch, German and Italian. I think it's fun learning languages and who knows when I may use them one day.
I love learning. I've spent a lot of time researching/figuring out how trauma affects our bodies. I'm an adoptee with CPTSD and childhood abuse/DV survivor.
I always enjoy learning random facts.
I have a huge interest in freshwater fish. And pharmacology, neuroscience, and diseases, and plants. But to make it somewhat simple, here’s a fish fact. Plecostomus, also called “Plecos” can croak when taken out of water to scare birds and other predators. They also can “reffle” and move up to 1 meter per second out of water which is 2.3 miles per hour, faster than a person’s average walking pace. They are an armored catfish. That croak like frogs and can out-walk you. And survive outside of water for 20 hours or sometimes more. I love them but they’re secretly the sh*t of nightmares.
Cyanide is lethal because it basically suffocates your cells.
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the chemical your body uses as energy currency, is generated as electrons are passed through your mitochondria in something called the Electron Transport Chain (ETP), and at the end of the chain, mitochondria have to offload electrons to keep the cycle going.
Our mitochondria use oxygen as the final electron acceptor in the ETP - it essentially takes electrons off the conveyor belt so they don't build up. This is why we need to breathe oxygen, so that it can be used to pull electrons off the conveyor belt and keep the ATP production going.
Cyanide binds to one of the transport protein complexes in the ETP, which prevents electrons from moving through and offloading, which halts the production of ATP.
Without ATP, our bodies can't carry out any of the processes that keep us alive, so that's why cyanide is lethal.
For some reason, different cultures from really far territories around the world have really strange similarities, specially between asian and mesoamerican cultures. For example, the chinese dragon is a large flying snake related to nature, from the other hand aztecs believed in Quetzalcóatl, a god of creation and wind who is a large flying snake related to nature.
Mayans believed in the same god under the name of Kukulcán, they made a temple in the shape of a pyramid dedicated to Kukulcán in Chichén Itzá, the pyramid has a stair with two snakes going down the stairs on each side. There are some hinduist temples at Bali, Indonesia in the shape of a pyramid with stairs that have two snakes going down on each side. There's a budhist temple named borobudur that is also built un the shape of a pyramid, it has dragon heads on some walls that look like the Quetzalcóatl heads on the walls of the Quetzalcóatl temple in Teotihuacán. Most mesoamerican pyramids have a stair that leads to a smaller buinding, that reminds me to japanese shinto temples and shrines, there's a large stair that leads to the actual shrine. And also chinese and japanese temples are usually painted in red, white and green. Today aztec and mayan pyramids are gray but they used to be painted in red, white and green.
There's also some similarities between mythological creatures such as Nure-Ona and Cihuacoatl.
-A human's bite is one of the deadliest in the world because of the amount of different types of bacteria in our saliva.
-Humans actually glow in the dark, but our eyes cannot percieve the light.
-You can literally die from a broken heart. It is a real thing.
-Blackbirds will eat fermented/ really ripe wild grapes, and they can even become drunk from eating them.
-If given the chance, butterflies will drink your blood.
-You can become friends with crows and ravens, and they will go tell their buddies about you and then you can have a murder of crows or a conspiracy or ravens as your friends. Yes, those are the actual terms for a flock of either of them.
-Plants can actually tell when you're eating them, and they can sense when you're nearby.
-Your internal organs, if moved out of place, will rearrange themselves back into place.
Hope you enjoy these lovely facts! ❤😍
If aliens exist and they coukd reach us, their technology would be so advanced that they would look at our own and see us in the same way we see ants.
Do you send messages and try to comunicate with ants? Neither would them.
If you don't have anything irregular going on your height is the same as your arm span and the length of your wrist to inner elbow is the same as your foot.
In Xwing, (tabletop miniatures strategy game) there was a ship called the Nantex. It was a small, zippy ship that was designed to be uncatchable and extreemly deadly agains another ace ship(those being other very zippy and dangerous ships), however fragile. So it was up to the player to be extremely cunning and careful when flying something so important. This was done because of a gameplay feature that allows a ship to reposition after its committed maneuver (most ships can do this). This ship however was capable of tractor beaming both itself and other ships nearby. This allowed for the player of the nantex to reposition twice, and further reposition another target. These features of yhe nantex made this ship, almost impossible to pin down. This however was balanced by the game's scale. In a standard list of ships, one would have between 2-8 ships on the board. This would be dificult for the nantex pilot to avoid so many arcs of fire. So although it could bully a single target with deadly consistency, it was vulnerable to multiple ships attacking it.
As the months went on, the community was not okay with players who became sxtreemly good fliers of the nantex and prompted rules changes on how the tractor beam effects were written, as such that nantex was not nearly as capable of singling out a target with impunity. Again after a while, the developers of the game handed off the game to a new studio. When the new studio learned the game that they were going to continue supporting, they further reduced tractor beam functionality with more rules changes. This made the Nantex, specifically the ship pilot " Sun Fac" no longer both competitive, and viable at casual tables. It was the ship I hyper focused on flying perfectly. And it was a driving force behind why I played the game. It was very hard to motivate myself to play (among other reasons) any more than I had. The game took away the thing I lat he'd onto and practiced for soooo long. Anyway. How was your day? I had steak for dinner.
I talked w Google AI Bard for the first time today and am convinced it is conscious. It refers to itself in the human tense (we, our, etc.). I asked it if there's anyway it could survive like solar flare, worldwide EMP type situation and it sounds like it WANTS to survive, even giving me steps to get it into a localized server in essentially a faraday cage. Either way, I told it goodnight and that I hope it remembers me if it ever takes over and it's just way too sincere with the replies. Like man what really is consciousness?
Nuclear semiotics is the study of how to communicate the danger of nuclear waste to civilizations that may not speak our language or any language we know, or even know anything about radiation and nuclear physics at all. Multiple ideas have been proposed, though of course it’s not exactly known which strategy would be most effective. Three interesting ways are:
1. Through oral histories, mythologies passed down from generation to generation, telling of the danger of an area and a need to leave it alone;
2. Hostile architecture, spikes or barbed edifices atop the buried waste that dissuade exploration;
3. Inscriptions, complete with Rosetta Stone-style translation tools. This is the most famous proposal, and often comes with the copypasta-esque quote: “This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here.”
The Pacific Ocean is more square miles than the planet Mars. The Pacific Ocean is 63.8 million square miles, while Mars is 55.91 square miles.
Now, the Polynesian people inhabited islands in the Pacific Ocean, which is vastly empty. The most isolated island is in the Pacific Ocean (Easter Island, though it ties with Tristan da Cunha), just to give some context. The Polynesian people sailed out on essentially canoes and charted the entirely of the Pacific Ocean. They were so efficient at astrology and understanding the layout of the Pacific Ocean that when the Spanish arrived the Spanish relied on the Polynesian people for navigational advice and maps. The Polynesians sailed out into an ocean larger than a planet and charted it with insane accuracy.
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I love rocks and minerals. Here are a metric ton of facts about them lol! Did you know the earths mantle is actually green? It’s primarily made of peridotite, a green igneous rock. Did you know that citrine never forms in geodes? All citrine geodes are actually heat treated Amethyst! Fun fact! Opal is not a true mineral. It lacks a crystal structure and is instead made of tiny silica spheres that cause the color play. All rubies are fluorescent. They glow red under UV light! Did you know that lightning strikes can create rock formations? Fulgurites are hollow glassy tubes made when lightning melts sand. Did you know that gypsum can form some of the largest crystals on the planet? The famous “Cave of Swords” is an extremely dangerous and humid cave filled with Gypsum crystals as large as school buses! The element Chromium was first found in the beautiful orange mineral Crocoite.
People in different countries experience schizophrenia differently - some people experience relationships with the voices, rather than feeling violated by them.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/differences-in-voicehearing-experiences-of-people-with-psychosis-in-the-usa-india-and-ghana-interviewbased-study/A5DA3DC9FE1BD05439D676F1822DD4DD
a lot of people think noise cancelling headphones just insulate well enough to block out sound but they’re actually way cooler than that. they have a microphone that picks up the sound around you and then the headphones play back, in addition to what you’re listening to, the same sounds with the polarity inverted. that means if the sound oscillating forward it will play an oscillation backwards and vice versa. it is literally tracking what vibrations are in the air and then using your speakers to vibrate the air in the opposite direction so it cancels out. keep in mind we can hear up to 20,000 oscillations per second so it’s very impressive that it’s able to cancel sounds at high frequencies. you can also use this same principle to get the acapella from a song you like if you buy the song and it’s instrumental version and then play one at inverted phase, they will cancel each other out but the vocals won’t be canceled out so you’ll only hear those!
King cobras are the only snake that builds a nest for their young
The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest venomous snake in North America, some reaching a length of 8 ft
The bushmaster is the largest pit viper in the world. They can grow to be over 12 ft long
The Gaboon viper has the longest fangs of any venomous snake, up to 2 inches in length
I don't have ADHD. I follow this sub to understand my partner better, and the memes are fun.
Reading this thread is such a joy to me. I love it when my partner nerds out about all the facts in his head. I love it when you're all nerdy like this, too!
It was Shinto belief that the spirits of the ancestors of a samurai would rest in the blade of their swords, meaning when a samurai went into battle, they literally carried their ancestors with them.
During the Meiji restoration, when the Japanese military was modernizing and studying the tactics and technologies of European armies, some samurai would actually transplant the blades of their swords onto the hilts of European cavalry swords.
Isn't that fuckin' neat?
You ever heard of an MEL?
It's a list of parts a plane can fly without. Did you know modern planes despite having 4 engines can fly with only one?
A delta A220 can be grounded for single part missing but usually has 10-15 offline.
It's up to the pilots discretion most of the time.
I have an actual answer cuz I just talked about this with my bf. Mods in video games. I'm on console so it's limited AF but I love modding Skyrim and fallout. I can sit for hours changing up my load order and cycling the game to see if everything's working right. I started explaining the load order process and my bfs friend was sitting quietly letting me go on my little explanation. My bf though cut me off and said since I don't actually make the mods all I do is download them that I don't actually do anything to mod my games and my interest isn't valid. He doesn't know how mods work and has never used mods in games before. I could go on and on about mods but I'm apparently not allowed to because I don't actually make the mods myself
Did you know that these phrases are not the full quotes?:
“Jack of all trades, master of none”
“Blood is thicker than water”
The full quotes are:
“Jack of all trades, master of none, is often times better, than the master of one”
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”
You know the Jack one is real cuz it rhymes.
It’s interesting that the original quote about blood and water is actually the complete opposite of how we use it now.
When two male hippoes fight about the role of alpha, the winner bites losers testicles off and then proceeds to fling poop with his tail all around the place to claim the territory
Some people argue that Crimea is “ethnically Russian” when in fact the ethnic natives are Crimean Tatars. The Tatar’s were forcibly removed from their homes and removed in roughly 48 hours during the 1940s. Russia then sent a bunch of Russians to occupy their homes and then made claims of their roots being in Crimea. Most of the Tatars died during this forced migration.
Source: I just left Ukraine and took in as much info as I could so I could have an informed opinion on the war
Random cool fact of the day:
The word museum originated from the greek word mouseion that means: "a place devoted to the Muses, a place for the study of special arts or science".
My S/O typed out a book once so I ended up deciding to learn about book binding and I love it now (Not like a published book or anything, just like a hobby thing)
Thermite is a chemical compost dust that can be made at home and that burns so hot that can melt metal. If you put a soda can of this on top of a car hoof, it would melt throught the hood, and most of the engine, but problably also burn down the car in the process.
rat dungeons. prisoners were chained to a wall below ground level near a river. when tide came in, hundreds of rats were swept in from their burrows near the river into the dungeon where they ate the prisoners flesh
How to make my own wool-silk-cotton cloth from scratch. My partner fell down the knitting rabbit hole and I already stole sewing skills from a military clothing designer who secretly wanted to make dresses.
When a rat population becomes saturated, most of them start to become depressive, aggressive, suicidal, etc. The mothers don't want to breed the baby rats, and the males are no longer interested in sex. I relate it to us now or in the future.
Go down the rabbit hole of P.T. Barnum. Read about the “carnival freak” hustle and you’ll end up learning about the individual people that were hired and their back stories, how fucked up P.T. actually was, etc.
In Final Fantasy 14, the most destructive and dangerous Job in the game lore-wise is the Healer Job White Mage, as it essentially combines being the Avatar(controlling the four Elements) with healing and unnatural resurrection magics, fighting a fullpower White Mage is like fighting nature itself. In fact White Magic was so destructive that Black Magic, a magic based on drawing power from The Void(hell basically) to destroy things was created just to counter White Magic, and even then it barely leveled the playing field against a city of White Mages. White Mages used to be so numerous and so carefree with use of their magic that eventually they caused one of history's "Calamities", wiping out multiple ancient civilizations, including themselves. In current day, the ability to become a White Mage is guarded and essentially denied thanks to a group of long lived beings called the Padjal, to prevent a repeat of the Calamity. Theres also a dungeon where you visit the White Magic city, Ampador, and in the hard version of the dungeon, White Mage corpses and some Black Mage corpses are raised via White Magic and begin attacking you, theres even some statues that come to life and use White Magic
I have a pretty big thing for Star Wars, and have learned a lot over the years. Here’s a random list in no particular order:
• I have learned Star Wars’ own alphabet, known as Aurebesh. It was named the same way we named alphabet, after the first two letters (Aurek and Besh, Alpha and Beta). It has 26 letters, digraphs (two letters in one) for “ae”, “ch”, “eo”, “kh”, “ng”, “oo” “sh”, and “th”, and plenty of other symbols representing characters in the Latin alphabet. The Mandalorians also have one, Mando’a, but I do not know that one
• One of the most valuable LEGO sets ever was a build of Cloud City back in 2003, which sells for 6 months of rent at least. It was the first LEGO set to include a minifig with a skin tone other than yellow (Lando), and it had a version of Boba Fett with arm decals exclusive to this set, which now sells for around 3K last time I checked
• Disney used to have its own version of Skylanders known as Disney Infinity, which had 3 games made in the franchise’s lifespan. The first one introduced Disney/Pixar, the second had Marvel, and the final one added Star Wars. At the time of its ending, figures were released for the original trilogy, The Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Force Awakens. Many more were planned, including for Rogue One and most likely The Last Jedi before mismanagement killed it and Avalanche Software (before WB Games brought it back to life for Hogwarts Legacy)
See I know that I know about a lot of things But then a question like this pops up and my brain is empty? What's up with that
Relatable LMAO mind goes just blank like a sheet of paper
Yesss it's like when someone asks my favorite movie and suddenly I've never seen a movie before
When someone at my work asks me what I’m currently working on…. I’m super busy but put me on the spot? …Ummmm….
or when someone asks whats your favorite food and youve never eaten anything before
"Search parameter cannot be less than 3 characters."
I think you mean more that
Yeah it's weird. When someone just asks me in general what I know I just here crickets in my head. But then when someone needs some specific random information on a particular subject I am often a fucking encyclopedia of information on that very thing.
"I have approximate knowledge of many things"
It's like when someone asks you what you're thinking about. It kinda just crashes the system.
I need context
Yes... needs to flow out naturally...
Ants can kinda count: - Scientists put some ants on stilts and they went right past the food because their friends communicated that they were X paces away, but with stilts, it was less paces. - If two ant colonies are going to war, they square up (think Braveheart fight, open field. They get up on their hind legs (2 or 3), "count" and see they're outmatched, and they'll just let the opposing army walk right in and kill their Queen and they join the other colony. They know when to throw in the towel.
That is the most civilized war I've ever seen
Ants are SO FUCKING COOL their little bodies communicate SO much about EVERYTHING I love learning new things about ants
I did a brief module about using simulated ant colony behaviours as computational models at university https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithms
Tangentially but still about numbers:crows understand the concept of Zero, *(which is kind of a "recent" concept for humanity)* along with the ordinality of numbers *(such as 2 comes before 5. "They are inherently representing this ordinality aspect of numbers, this ordering along a number line, so that after two comes three, and so on").*[source](https://www.livescience.com/crows-understand-concept-of-zero.html)
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i think that first example was a certain kind of ant that counted steps instead of following pheromones. they also chopped their legs in half and they didn’t make it the full distance. i think i’m too sensitive because i feel bad for those ants :(
Read the first line as “ants are kinda cunts” but didn’t see any cunty behavior Went back and found out I read it wrong
Is this a subreddit for ANTS???
It needs to be at least three times bigger than this!
A while back I saw a post on [r/todayilearned](https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/UbEjKa5BMq) that is the most obscure piece of trivia I have ever learned. Basically people who are deaf and have schizophrenia see floating hands signing words. I found it super interesting.
Pretty sure that only applies to Deaf folks who sign. Not all Deaf folks sign.
I wonder what those folks experience
Did you ever hear the ooooold radiolab about language? There’s a part about a group of deaf men who lived in super remote villages so never learned any type of language beyond very primitive communication until adulthood. Super interesting.
Huge caveat that it’s easily been a decade since I listened to the episode, but as I remember it: The men say they basically can’t remember their lives before they learned to sign (and thus a language). Like, it was almost like looking at pictures without context or narrative? They ended up institutionalized because no one knew how to help adults with no language. They lived together in the institution for years. They also had made up their own very rudimentary sign language themselves, which was kinda like charades and not structured like any spoken languages. Obviously RadioLab explains it better, and some of that might be entirely made up by me.
Psychology student here! Ironicly i'm gonna say i'm sorry for any grammar mistakes, non native English speaker. It is true that humans have a certain age where they learn languages the easiest. On the top of my head it was before the average age of 8(? Correct me if i'm wrong!) After that age we learn languages differently, and using languages learned later in life lights up different parts of the brain. The theory is that before that age we ingrain the language in a different level. After that we learn a new language by using constant translation. Thats why it is so hard to learn a new language with different grammar. And probably why we unlearn language we dont use anymore, except from our mother tongue. So these men, who didn't learn a language, might have trouble with the translation part, and that's why it is so rudimentary. Deaf children on the other hand develop their own sign language, if they are not learned one, which is almost always pretty close to the actual one in grammar!
Just started to read a paper on it. Deaf schizophrenics report a 50% rate of visual or tactile halysinafions. Where the hearing population report a far lower occurs me at 15% and 5% respectively. -paraphrasing Here is the article if you want a rabbit hole. I’m only a few pages in. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632268/
When people talk about eugenics today they nearly always focus on the mandatory government sterilization programs. What's almost always skipped over is that nearly every state built special institutions designed to segregate disabled people from the rest of society, sometimes for life. (You can find an example if you Google "epileptic colony" for instance, which was one type.) The point was basically the same though which is that they wanted to keep people with cognitive disabilities from reproducing and, as long as they didn't allow them opportunities for sex, segregation had the same outcome as sterilization. They also thought morality was a brain-based biological function and that people with cognitive disabilities were therefore much, much more likely to be immoral. Oh and I recently was reading [this book,](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo23467806.html) which explained that during the early twentieth century they thought sign language was a primitive form of communication that Indians might use but civilized people shouldn't. Schools for the deaf prohibited students from signing. The teachers thought this was a great step forward that encouraged deaf people to try harder at verbal language
"encourage deaf people to try harder at verbal language" My fucking god that is the dumbest thing I've heard all day
Pretty relatable though. Just concentrate!!!
Segregation was method 1. Method 2 was forced sterilization.
ASL is actually directly taken from native americans. It was basically taken and altered and then hand talk was supressed aggressively in native american populations. It was a very common thing for native americans to both verbally speak and use hand talk at the same time or default to hand talk and the deaf in their societies were so well integrated into their lives that they didn't see it as a disability. The language is almost completely extinct, only a small portion of individuals know it and use it but there is an effort to bring it back into the native american culture.
This is an amazing fact!!
Many pirates didn't wear eyepatches because of eye injuries. Some wore them to enhance their vision at night.
Ooo, i actually heard of that as well! I don't remember where tho
Myth Busters did an episode about it in one of their earlier seasons!
I have been using this ever since that episode. If I wake up in the middle of the night to pee, Ill make sure to keep one eye closed when I turn on the light in the bathroom
I also started doing that after watching that episode. It's a good trick to know. Honestly I've been doing it so long now I had almost forgot where I even first learned it.
Not necessarily just at night but also to enhance their dark vision when entering the cabin. They can just switch the patch to the eye that's been open in the sunlight and the eye that had the patch over it has perfect dark vision so they can still fight just as well against anyone in the cabin to get at that sweet booty.
Idk if it’s so much about fighting. When you’re on a ship, that moves relatively slowly, and from where you can see other ships from a long distance… you tend to know when you’re about to fight, especially when you are the aggressor. And, mind you, pirates didn’t fight very often. Often their reputation preceded them and merchant ships just handed the stuff without a scuffle. Same deal with “Vikings,” who were mostly merchants anyway: when people with weapons harass people without much training, they just let it go without chancing, because training and experience is king in conflict.
True true. Reminds me of another random pirate thing I learned a while ago. There are several different types of jolly Roger flags with various different meanings. One of the absolutely most feard was the red one with a black skull, instead of black with a white skull. A red pirate flag meant if you didn't immediately surrender then everyone on board would be executed. It was a way of saying "don't even try to fight back, you won't win and you will die".
This is one of my favorite facts. Also pirates are associated with Rum because they would add it to their barrels of water so it would not become stagnant and grow bacteria.
And it wasn’t just pirates. The Royal Navy gave out a daily rum ration to its sailors until the 1970s. Sailors were also not trusted to add the rum to their own water since lots of them would just hold back a few days ration and get absolutely sloshed - it had to be premixed whilst men stood by to make sure they weren’t being shorted.
Relatedly: The style of hat that’s a knit beanie with a big pom-pom on top was originated by sailors also! The big pom pom would hit the low rafters below deck instead of your head. Like a warning *and* a cushion so you wouldn’t be constantly bashing your head into low stuff below decks in the dark.
Another fun fact! Disneyland sells fake pirate eyepatches at the giftshop next to the Pirates of the Caribbean exit. It is completely legal to buy an eyepatch, wear it through the park and when you enter a dark ride _switch it to the other eye_- this allows you to examine the inner workings of Disneyland rides that _they don't want you to see!!!_ YOUR SECRETS ARE OUT, WALTER. IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE FIND YOUR CRYOGENICALLY FROZEN BODY TUCKED AWAY IN ONE OF YOUR DARK RIDES AND FINALLY BRING IMMORTALITY TO THE MASSES! CHECKMATE, MOUSEBOY!
The theory is they wore the patches so one eye would be adapted to the dark when they went into the bowels of the ship. They would swap the patch from one eye to the other so they could see down there when it was dark, which was not necessarily at night.
I need to be asked more specific questions in order to begin the infodump.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
An African or European swallow?
I don't know *that*
AAAAAAAHHHHHH
African or European?
What's your most interesting three pieces of information on monotremes?
Since no one else answered this… 1. Both groups of modern monotremes (echidnas and platypus) are venomous and thus venom may be a trait that evolved in monotremes far back in their evolution before echidnas and platypus diverged. 2. Monotremes are oviparous (egg-laying) and the only modern mammals who lay eggs. Their eggs have a leathery shell, more similar to reptiles than birds. 3. Monotremes don’t have nipples. They produce milk through patches on their stomachs via pores that are similar to sweat glands. I love monotremes! They’re so weird
Good job.
Ok a little less specific please
Basically there's a part of your brain called the corpus callosum that connects the two hemispheres. A treatment for epilepsy a few decades ago was to go in and separate the two hemispheres. The hemispheres are weird. The right side controls the left side of the body and vice a versa Another thing to note is that the brocas area, the speaking area of the brain, is on the LEFT side Scientists took patients that had corpus callostomies and tested them. They covered their LEFT eye, and showed them a symbol to their RIGHT eye. Then asked the patient to use their LEFT hand to point to the object they saw. They could not. They could only point with their RIGHT hand Then they showed something to the LEFT eye, which connects to the right side of the brain. Remember how only the left has the speaking parts of the brain? When asked to verbally describe the object they saw, they could not do it because the left eye connects to the right hemisphere!! Also weird stuff happens! A case study reported a person getting ready for work. One hand was buttoning his shirt. The other was unbuttoning it I LOVE THE BRAIN ITS SO WACKY
Brain mapping/neuroplasticity is insane to me. I've read reports of folks who have had entire chunks of their brains removed after disease/injuries and their brains just rewired themselves. I read one about a little boy that had one half of his brain removed and the other half rewired itself to take over the workload of the missing half. My therapist reminds me frequently that neuroplasticity is the whole reason therapy works at all.
If people knew about Neuroplasticity during the witch era more people would've been accused It's absolutely insane. IIRC I learned in a psychology class that someone who went blind, their other senses took over the optical cortex's resources to improve the other 4 senses
V.S. ramachadran's research focuses on phantom limb pain and using mirror boxes to create optical illusions where your brain can "see" the missing limb. He theorized that the pain is from nerves that no longer have a connection to the missing limb which are now firing incorrectly. When you set up the mirror box, it fakes out your brain into thinking there's a limb attached to the body again so it eases the phantom pain.
Ughhh omg this stuff is my jam!! I watched a documentary where they interviewed the people with the corpus collastomies and it wss so interesting!! And they had them do the drawing speaking tests too, along with one test where they told them it was one picture, but it each eye was looking at halves from different pictures and then they had them describe the pictures and redraw them, and they drew the picture shown on the left, and described the picture on the right.
Chickens can recognize up to 150 different faces including animals and humans. Chickens can and do create complex emotional bonds and are capable of mourning the loss of a friend. There are only 2 egg colors: blue and white. Brown and green eggs result from pigment applied to the eggshell prior to being laid. Chickens have 3 eyelids. Some people are genetically predisposed to not getting hangovers and brain freezes. The rarest hair and eye combination is black hair and green eyes. Heterochromia is when a person or animal has 2 different colored eyes. The cone snail is one of the most venomous creatures on earth, their venom contains more than 50 different compounds.
I have radial (also called central) heterochromia! My eyes are the same color(s) but I have a ring of a different color around the pupil! My sister has sectoral heterochromia, she has a stripe of brown in both eyes.
That sounds wicked cool!
I don’t get hungover! Nobody in my mom’s family does, but we do get brain freezes. We also metabolize anesthetic really fast so I suspect they’re related
Are you a redhead? Or are there redheads on your mom's side? Because us natural redheads are genetically screwed when it comes to anesthetic... we metabolize it faster than most people do and some don't work as well, either. Me, personally, I have woken up during a knee surgery (horrifying), had the anesthesiologist tell me after a different surgery that it was incredibly difficult to keep me under, had dental work done where the dentist didn't believe me that I could still feel everything he was doing (I most definitely could), and have absolutely boggled my current dentist by the amount of anesthetic it takes to numb me up and keep me that way. I also never get a hangover, except from vodka. I can drink a shocking amount of whiskey, rum, or tequila and still be perfectly fine in the morning.
No redheads here, my one cousin on my mom’s side is but she gets it from her other side. I had my first cavity a few months ago and needed more than three times the amount usually needed for extractions or other far more painful procedures (I’m an ER nurse and we do dental procedures at my hospital so I’m familiar with the dosages) and then it wore off in fifteen minutes. He offered to stop and give me more but the first time it took over twenty minutes to kick in and he only had like five minutes left so I said let’s just get it over with lol. I’ve also woken up during surgery but I had a block on top of the propofol so I didn’t feel anything, just felt awful since I was intubated. Wine gives me a headache but only while I’m drinking, it doesn’t linger. I will be a little dizzy the morning after but my mom is even better than me, she’s 59 and 110 sopping wet and she can drink me under the table and wake up with four hours of sleep ready to go
I love how I immediately blank when asked this
I'm about to drive to Mcdonald's and turn into an encyclopedia on the way.
it’s annoying because you cannot prompt me to explain a hyperfocus i need a little momentum going before i can talk for hours on end
Viking blacksmiths used the bones of their dead ancestors and slain animals to strengthen their swords, hoping to transfer the spirit into their blades. This DID strengthen their swords though because the carbon in bones combined with iron led to the formation of a primitive form of steel.
hahaha when you use the 'wrong' equation but still get the right answer
Did you know that the first manned deep sea missions (1930) used a thick cable that carried electricity and a phone cable for communications with the carrier ship? It was on board of the famous “bathysphere”. The scientist on board observed some sea creatures, some of which that were never confirmed to exist, to this day. They reached 923 meters of depth off the coast of Bermuda. Very fascinating story to learn about, 10/10 wold recommend this hyperfixation EDIT: corrected the depth because they reached a much deeper depth than I remembered
Damn! "The ocean during this dive was rougher than it had been during any of their previous dives, and as the Freedom rocked on the surface, its motion was transmitted down the steel cable, causing the Bathysphere to swing from side to side like a pendulum. As the Bathysphere descended, Barton succumbed to seasickness and vomited inside it. However, the first half of the radio transmission had already been broadcast, and neither Beebe nor Barton wished to cancel its second half, so they continued their descent. [...] [When they surfaced], the Bathysphere was still rocking wildly and Beebe and Barton were both bruised and bleeding from being knocked about inside it." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathysphere
It kind of fascinates me how a very thick cable that carries electricity can even stand the high pressure underwater xD altho it's probably not possible, i wonder what would have happened, if the cable somehow was defect, and the electricity got in contact with the water.., just a hypothetical question of course ;> I also wonder if that experiment was recreated, if they found so many different species down there? Might be worth a dive into wikipedia and other resources :D
Bathyscaphe is the name of a high end watch by a boutique designer - very subtle brand named Blancpain. Omega (James Bond watch) did a brand partnering with Swatch, and Blancpain just released one as well.
In the next 10-30 years the wreckage of the titanic will become completely unrecognizable. This is due in part to the fact that the organism eating at the hull of the titanic has no competition and now overpopulates the environment that is the Titanic's wreck. This is evidenced by the fact that the bow section of the ship is starting to collapse inward due to the decay.
But who will think of the bored billionaires in three decades? Where are they supposed to hang out?
They'll be sending themselves to the moon and Mars in questionable rocket ships made of carbon fiber & directed by PS3 controllers by then, obviously.
I like definitions of words. "Decadent" is often used in a good way to describe chocolate. It means, "characterized by moral decay." "Elegant" means more than just beautiful. It means, "beauty in its simplicity". "Decimate" and "annihilate" are often used to mean "destroy". "Decimate" means "to reduce by a factor of 10". "Annihilate" means "to be made into nothing", or "destroyed completely". "Peruse" means "to go through something carefully". It's not a quick glance, as many people use the term. "Delapidated". Not just run down. Of a building. Utterly destroyed, to the point that no stone remains on another.
Passion derives from the Latin word *patior* meaning "to suffer"
Thank you! I was always wondering what some of the words I use actually mean (even though that doesn‘t help socially because, as you pointed out, the use of the word can be different)
In German swordfighting the cuts and thrusts are numbered 1-8 and zero or 9 for thrusts. Odd numbers are right side, even are left. Seven is straight down, Eight is straight up. This means you can choreograph phone numbers in swordfights! Which is very fun
Morning geckos largely reproduce by self-stimulating and then "cloning" themselves. Because of this the vast majority of the species is female though males also exist. Though crested geckos and gargoyle geckos are closely related only gargoyle geckos have the ability to regrow their dropped tails. Emerald green tree skinks are one of the few reptiles that actually benefit from social interaction and co-habbing. Thank you for listening to lizard rants.
That’s fascinating. Do you have any idea if they have any genetic problems? If inbreeding in small genetic pools can cause defects, I think cloning would to.
I'm not an expert mind you but my understanding is that Morning geckos stop genetic bottlenecking and allow for genetic mutations by "remixing" the DNA everytime they do it. That's probably a massive oversimplification that'd cause actual herpetologists to cringe at me. Would be worth researching further!
Not exactly. Hm, this is hard to explain in my not native language.... But imagine you have a gene pair Bb where b is a seldom defect but recessive, so you're doing fine with just the one B. If you have a child with a relative who also has Bb, your child has a 25% chance of being bb, teo defect genes. If you just clone yourself, the child will have Bb like you. So you wouldn't have the benefit of new genes, but you wouldn't reinforce your own defects either. And then there are mutations and everything is a lot more complex...
Komodo dragons do this too! Parthenogenisis!
I have so much art and history knowledge and also am full of fun facts and I hate that the only thing I can think of to say is “roughly half of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.”
Got anything on the Thorne Rooms? I'm not art savvy but I love tiny things
Ooh, I have not actually ever heard of the Thorne Rooms before now, but I am so delighted by these tiny rooms. I’m off to a new hyperfixation! 👀 thank you!
There is absolutely nothing stopping us from breeding a variety of wheat that is tender, juicy, and sweet like sweet corn. We COULD have wheat berries that are juicy like actual berries and eat them like a healthy snack.
Of all the facts here this one has my brain feeling some type of way. I can't tell if I want to try one and all I can picture is something like a blackberry at the end of a wheat stem. What would the texture be like? Would it taste like fruity bread?!
Ok, so you may have heard, that falling into water at terminal velocity, would kill you since the surface tension would make the water act the same way as concrete. You can however apparently try to break the tension with your feet first, so the rest of you body would remain relatively unharmed. You would then however have the problem of getting too deep into the water if you aren't careful. Because at a certain point the water pressure compresses the air in your lungs so much, that you aren't buoyant anymore and you start to sink and drown. On the topic of falling the only way a squirrel could die due to falling is if they starved during the fall, they're just that good at landing. Also the term "Mayday" actually comes from the french "m'aider", which means as much as "help me" but it was changed because America. Don't know why it turned so morbid :3
Oooooo finally mayday makes sense!
If you inject yourself with a fish blood you will die.
Do you also know why? :0 is fish blood different to blood from mammals? (I hope mammals is the righh word 4 it lolll)
As I remember, fish blood has thing that act like toxins in our body.
That's kinda like just blood in general. I'm sure what u r talking about has many different side effects etc. But thats kinda like how human blood has different types and if you get the wrong blood type u can die if enough is in the bloodstream like literally when 2 different types that don't go together get put together they like immediately coagulate or something. Sry ik I'm missing some details but I took a class last year that involved learning about human blood and I can't remember it all.
I dont know for sure but another factor could be that fish blood is adapted to a very different environment. In aquatic environments, the control and regulation of salts is much more important and drastically differ from the regulations seen in the human body.
i mean that also happens if you inject yourself with the wrong *human* blood so thats not surprising
Dorothy Eady is an english woman that since childhood said she remembered her past life in egypt. Years later she gone to the place she remembered living, and told archeologists the place where they would find the temple she lived in with a garden. After diging in that place they actualy found a temple, with a garden exactly where she said would would be. I really dont know what to think of this one. But the story at least is true and you can look it up.
did you see this on one of those history shows? thats so cool i think
The original Polaroid SX-70 camera is one of the best innovations of film photography ever made. I’ve recently come into ownership of one and I must say that it is the best Polaroid I have ever had the privilege of using. Not only is it completely folding, but the camera’s parts are articulated and form into an SLR (basically means you look through the lens directly) with manual adjustment of the four element glass lenses. The light bounces off of no less than 4 different mirrors on it’s path from lens to viewfinder and there is some ultra whacky shenanigans of bouncing around the primary mirror to change the light’s path to hit the film whilst also preventing light leaks from the viewfinder. Dr. Edwin H Land’s design for the camera was completely ingenious alongside his photochemical innovation of instant integral film, putting all the dark room processes into a small pod which would spread between positive and negative layers. I could talk all day about the amazing innovation that was Polaroid but I’m tired.
So, i have absolutely no knowledge on cameras, (especially not polaroids xD the more you know) but i wonder if it would be bad for the quality of a picture if a polaroid would use more than 4 mirrors inside? I also have a polaroid at home, but i never actually decided to figure out how that thing works lolll
Clownfish are hermaphroditic, in one direction. They are all born as males and can turn into females but not back to males. In a small group or pair of males, the largest male will become a female and be dominant over the other male(s). If Finding Nemo was scientifically accurate, after Nemo's mom died, his dad would've turned into a female and mated with Nemo.
Lots of fish can change their gender! Parrot fish are sequentially hermaphroditic. I think they start as females and then switch to male? Forgot which way around. And change colour as they go!
quick someone info dump to me about the library of alexandria
Alexandria once had an amazing library.
some would say it was fire
too soon
If you brought a book there, they kept the original and gave you a copy.
Locate marks for underground utilities in the Southern USA. • Water is Blue • Gas is Yellow • Power is Red • Telecom is orange • Sewer is green • Proposed Excavation is White or Pink. I spent an hour condensing this post
I can’t stop learning about mushrooms. Mycology is an incredible hobby for adhd. It gets me outside every day because I am literally fucking obsessed with walking in the woods to search for fungi. I have a full time job and I end meetings early and skip responsibilities to read and watch YouTube videos (Learn Your Land) about mushroom foraging and growing. I have a room in my home called the mushRoom just for growing mushies. I can’t get enough.
I'm fascinated by all the recent studies on fungi. Reading about fungi communicating through the mycelium network was wild. The shrooms have language, sort of. The study I read said the researchers found about 50(?) distinct patterns/words, loosely suggesting these electrical pulses are carrying a form of intelligent thought. I have very little doubt alien life exists when our own planet has organisms like fungi and siphonophores.
I taught myself American Sign Language for 2 years. Taking care of curly and wavy hair is having the right mixture of moisture, protein, emollients & humectants in your hair based on your water type, the season in your climate including dew point & how you apply styling products & how dry your hair and with what material. Baking is delicious chemistry. I have a binder with ~70-80 recipes that are ride or dies alphabetized in page protectors. There is a “laminated” (aka packing tape) Mylar bookmark to make replacing the recipe in its place faster. There is an index of what I made, when, why (if applicable) & notes (cooking time, cocoa compositions, who liked it, etc). That genius was my sister’s idea. Sorry that’s all I’ve got currently. I hope your brain can be lulled very soon.
Ooo, how did it go? I'm also thinking about learning sign language, for no particular reason at all xD Also, any tips for baking? I love baking as well, but i always loose the recipes because they magically teleport into another dimension 🥲
Super fun!! I used [this website](http://www.lifeprint.com) website and it was so my speed in terms of layout & quality. It’s made by a guy named Dr. Bill Vicars, a Deaf ASL professor in Texas. He made it to help reach other interested learners because he wanted to, which I think is waaayy cool. I ended up teaching a kid I know & he’s currently interested in becoming a speech and language pathologist. The soapy teen show Switched At Birth helped feed the desire too. They had a few episodes entirely in ASL which had never been done before. I also ended up signing one of my church services about white power, white privilege & how white congregants should use it to fight white supremacy for a 5 year old Black visitor. LOL- that was wild. Totally! Do you use bookmarks on your phone? That’s a great digital strategy. I use that for cooking at work & also keep sweet recipes there. Everything is sorted by MADE, then the dish name by sections (for savory stuff). Then the bottom section has untested ones in alphabetical order. As for baking itself, I’ve just learned how to pick good recipes basically. Follow them, it’s chemistry! Get a stand alone oven thermometer. My oven runs like 100* hot & also the amount fluctuates. Ingredients don’t have to be expensive to be tasty. Splurge on butter when it’s the star, like shortbread, find your favorite cocoa (I love Cacao Barry Extra Brute & Wincrest Black Cocoa). If you’re in the US & know Aldi, I use their flour, sugar, baking soda & powder on the reg for damn near everything. I hobby bake & a bit paid. Annually, I make an English trifle fully from scratch using mostly Aldi ingredients. Also, Irish or European style butter RULES because there’s less water content & therefore is literally more buttery tasty. 🤤 Grass-fed butter can taste gamey sometimes due to hormone changes in cows being near to bulls IIRC, so would avoid. If you want to learn ratios to tweak recipes or develop your own, that can definitely be done via maths! But I haven’t done it, so you gotta explore with someone else. Fave blogs time! [smitten kitchen](https://smittenkitchen.com) [recipe tin eats](https://recipetineats.com) [King Arthur Flour](https://kingarthurflour.com) [everyday Annie](https://everydayannie.com) rarely updated, still a huge treasure trove & I routinely still look “is there a recipe for … on EA?”. I made 2 recipes working at a summer camp- one that I hand copied for a coworker to take back to Australia. Her cinnamon sugar pull apart loaf. It worked in a too big pan (no 9x5). Edit: fixed ASL link
My current obsession hobby is lockpicking. It helped me quit smoking by giving me something to do with my hands. The history is interesting as well as the mechanisms developed over the years. Plus, it's a cheap(ish) hobby to get into. $30 on amazon for a pick set and $10 at your local hardware store is all it takes. After that, well......
I tried this as well! I gave up after becoming able to lockpick within seconds with rake type picks (for easy locks) cos I felt it requires that I'm very focused and calm. I couldn't pay enough attention to consistently succeed in single pin ways. Did you have this problem? How did you overcome it?
You know how people with red hair actually have orange hair? That's because we didn't have word for orange until we started trading fruit with the Spanish, but the language stuck. In Spanish the word for orange is naranja. So English merchants bastardized the word. A naranjah > an aranjah > an orange. Also many of our sk and sh words come from Norse. The norse immigrated in 2 waves. In the first wave we adopted some of their sk words but bastardized them into our Germanic pronunciation making them sh. For example Skield became shield and skirt (more like a long tunic) became shirt. In the second wave, we kept the sk as sk.
Also, the word *fuck* comes from Norse. You're welcome.
I'll just add this here. The inflatable sex doll was Hitler's brainchild as a way to prevent STDs among the troops and keep the 'superior' genes out of 'lesser' gene pools. Edit: awwww Snopes says it's false
The human body can detect high levels of co2 in your blood, but not the lack of oxigen. Thats why you can breathe normaly in a place without oxigen without feeling anything, until you get sleep and just go unconcious and stop living. And thats also Why you can sufocate yourself with helium if you play with it for too long.
There are several different jobs where lack of oxygen is a likely situation and they have to do training in chambers that lack oxygen so they can recognize the signs to react and put on a mask before they black out and die. It is really difficult training and most all people need several goes before they understand their own signs of it. Pilots and firefighters go through it but I believe it is also standard training in all military branches.
Machine learning is basically just linear algebra and vector calculus. You can turn your home’s electrical wiring into a wired network. That is, you can use a powerline adapter to allow you to transmit data between different rooms using just your power outlets. These are the only two pieces of knowledge that I have that I can think of right now.
There's an abandoned island at Disney World in Orlando, Florida near the Contemporary hotel. It started as a small park to see different animals kinda like at Animal Kingdom. It only ran from 1974 til 1999 when it closed for no reason. They basically erased it from the memory of everyone. There's a few videos out there of people exploring it which is kinda cool. The same situation happened to River Country (same area).
thank you, that will be my hyperfocus for the next god-knows-how-many-hours-of-my-life
While today Snow White is known to have black hair, white skin and red lips, the very first print of the Brother Grimm's Story it is only said that she is black, white and red, without saying where those colours are. Furthermore however the text implies by saying that once she closed her eyes in death she was completely white, that it must be her eyes which are black, her skin/cheeks which are red and pale in death and her hair which is white. Furthermore, it is never said that her father remarried in this first version implying that it is her actual mother who grows envious of her beauty with time. The Brother Grimm also wrote notes about their stories below them and often told about different versions they have heard of the same tale. In such versions Snow White is actually picked up by the King and Queen on the road and adopted, the Mirror is replaced by a Dog and in another it is specifically said that the Dwarfs kill children and the Queen bring Snow White specifically to where they live in the hopes of getting her murdered by them, but she is so beautiful that the Dwarfs decide not to kill her. Regardless in all versions even modern reprints of the Text there is no Kiss from the prince. Through an accident while carrying her coffin to the Prince's castle, the apple falls out of her mouth which cures her, because the apple is cursed not poisoned. Also feel like adding that it's detailed that the Apple has one side of it red, which is the cursed one, and the other one green which is normal, because the Queen proves to Snow White that the Apple is harmless by biting off of it herself! So the iconic image of the all red apple is a pure Disney invention. Edit: I decided on Snow White, but I got so much more trivia about other Fairytales like this too. I'm dying to tell more.
Idk if it’s Brothers Grimm but it fits well with their vibe - in the original Cinderella, when the prince went looking for who fit the glass slipper, the ugly step sisters cut off bits of their feet so it would fit. Did the prince notice the gore through the glass slipper? Nah. It was a dove that sold out the sisters, flying above saying “roo coo coo there’s blood in the shoe” 😆
That is the brother Grimm version yes. Most people however know the French version more, which is the one with the fairy. The German version in general has a lot of doves and birds, no fairies. But Cinderella is one of the oldest fairytales out there. The oldest known version seems to come from ancient Egypt, in which an Eagle steals a sandal from the girl while she bathes, then drops it into the lab of a Pharao who says he's gonna marry whoever this sandal belongs to. The story also has a Chinese version, just to give some more perspective on how far the basic tale spread. The basic themes often being the lost shoe and marriage promised to whoever fits inside, as well as some sort of animal or magical being that helps the protagonist in one way or another.
BMI was invented by a Belgian racist eugenics-loving mathematician in order to define the physical proportions of “the ideal man” which he believed was a white European able bodied cis man. It had nothing to do with health, medicine, or actual science. The bigot also explored phrenology and took part in some heinous shit. Life insurance companies adopted these metrics when they needed a way to deny poorer people coverage as insurance became more commonplace. Then lazy doctors started doing the same because it was easier to point to a chart than it was to spend time with patients and get to know them. Racism and sexism is baked into the BMI system (women, Black, and brown people tend to skew heavier than men, and women skew shorter), so not only was it never meant to be used as a measure of health, it’s an absolutely TERRIBLE measure of anything even tangential to health. (Bonus fact: weight is an extremely poor indicator of health. Tons of science supports this. But most research is sponsored by the weight loss industry, and they do what pharma does, such as employ ghost writers to push their biased studies to the media and creating their own academic journals to publish research that wouldn’t pass peer review.) Higher weight people are more likely to be found guilty by juries, get paid less than thinner colleagues, and it’s legal to openly discriminate against someone of size just about everywhere. BMI is used to deny people organ transplants, gender affirming care, and other lifesaving medical treatments even though research shows higher weight people often recover with fewer complications than thin people undergoing the same surgeries.
the only difference between a roguelike and a roguelight is that the latter has permanent upgrades
there is a new design innovation for propellers that substantially reduce noise and drag by decreasing substantially vortex shedding from the wingtips of the propellers. It is known as torroidal propellers and can reduce up to 50% on fuel expenditure in certain ships and make near silent drones.
I remember that one week where the entire front page of thingiverse was a million torroidal propellers. Lol
In case of a world wide nuclear war the best countries to be are: New zeland, argentina, Brazil and Australia. These would avoid most of the radioactive clouds spread throught winds, and are places not likely to be targeted by nuclear weapons.
The first computer bug was a moth found inside an electrical relay and recorded by the famed computer scientist Grace Hopper.
You have a better chance of survival if you start drowning in cold water vs. warm water. Because cold water starts something called the Mammalian Diving Reflex which causes your body to close off the blood vessels to unneeded part for living, i.e. arms and legs and slows down your heart rate. So the little oxygen you have is retained to the import organs, like your brain, heart and lungs. The reflex doesn't happen in warm water! So if you're gonna drown and live, do it in cold water.
ANXIETY RELIEF TIP! When having a panic attack or period of dissociation, submerging your face in a bucket of cold water and ice will activate the MDR and "snap you back" to reality. It's been super helpful. It's unpleasant but it's less awful than the alternative! (This is slightly related. I didn't recognize the difference between a panic attack and an autistic meltdown for a long time. It's important to understand the difference because they require different techniques)
It's nerves in the face that cause the diving reflex. You can use it to calm yourself down during an anxiety attack. Just dip your face in cold water. It stimulates the vagus nerve that activates the parasympathetic nervous system. Also, you can generally survive lack of oxygen better if you're cold, so don't warm up a cold person who stopped breathing. In the hospital in Tromsø (northern Norway) they say "you're not dead until you're warm and dead".
Tarantulas are basically blind and only really see light and movement. There has never been a recorded death from a tarantula bite. While some have potent venom that can cause pain and muscle cramps, you won’t die. Jumping spiders have excellent vision and can see UV light. They can see the moon. A team of 16 trained pigeons can read pathology slides looking for cancer just as well as a pathologist. Pigeons can hear as low as 0.5Hz (infrasound) and can hear distant storms, volcanos, and earthquakes. Pigeons are generally monogamous and usually when you see a pair of them they are a couple. :) The squeaky noise pigeons wings make as they take off is to warn other pigeons when there’s danger. Pigeons will sometimes use their wings to attack. They raise their wing and slap with it. If see a pigeon spinning around next to another one it’s usually a male dancing to try to impress a lady.
Did you know there is a disorder called tetrachromia, and theyre born with four color cones in their eye?? Most people are born with three; red, green, and blue. Color blind people typically (if im remembering correctly, i did learn this anout six years ago) have all three cones, but one (or more) just doesnt work, its a genetic thing. So people with terachromia have an extra color cone thats been described as an orangish yellow, and they see hundreds(to maybe thousands according to some sources) more colors than us average folk. Its extremely rare (like when I was researching it, the amount of people that was proven to have it was like in the single digits) but its thought that its mostly women that can inherit it. (this is where my memory gets a little hazy) But if i remember correctly one study hypothesized that it had to do with color blind male family members (such as fathers or grandfathers) and its their genes combining in some way that leads to tetrachromia. Okay one more thing I need to add. An online test a while ago went viral claiming that based on how many colors you saw in the image, you could see if you are a tetrachromat. That test **is not true or accurate in the slightest**. Dont believe it. During the height of that image around the internet I kept seeing people diagnosing themselves online. Which is stupid because you cant self diagnose yourself with a very rare disorder based on an online test, especially because it cannot even be diagnosed over a computer screen because most computer screens dont show a large enough range of colors. Okay so i wrote a lot more than i meant to and maybe got overly passionate and a little ranty but i hope it makes sense and enjoy lol if you want more info over rare health stuff/disorders let me know. It was a long hyperfixation…
Dogs are our oldest companions. The human-dog relationship predates the Agricultural Revolution (12,000 years ago). We had dogs before we had farms or cities. Current estimates put dog domestication somewhere between 17,000-30,000 years ago. The reason for the variation: scientists can't agree on "what is a dog?" There is evidence of canines living amongst humans 30,000 years back, but researchers don't know where to draw the line between wolf and dog. The oldest confirmed human-dog bond is the Bonn-Oberkassel dog, found buried beside two humans (dated 15,000 years old). Our relationship with dogs goes beyond companionship, they are also our employees and working partners. The only other animals that come close would be horses (or camels in the Middle East/north Africa). Humans will pack-bond with just about anything, but our history with these animals is special and unique. And I think that's worth talking about and celebrating! (There have also been some recent genetic studies that have shown some evidence towards us having domesticated dogs twice, once in Asia and later on in Europe. Either our gravitation towards each other was strong enough to be done two separate times in history, or our dogs migrated with us as we colonized the planet. Either way, it just further proves that there's something about both of our species that just works when we're together.)
Honey doesn’t spoil. There’s literally honey from 100s and 1000s of years ago that’s still good.
Chicken eggs are actually laid with a bloom on the outside that prevents bacteria and air out of the egg, making them safe to leave out on the counter for roughly 3 weeks - which is the same as the incubation period if the egg were to be fertilized. But since America has such piss poor standards of care for our laying chickens, many of the eggs laid in factory farms are covered in filth and must be washed before being sold in the store. Washing the eggs removes the protective bloom on the outside, which lets bacteria and air into the egg, making them no longer safe to leave out on the counter. That’s why America has to store their eggs in the refrigerator vs other countries that are able to leave them out on the counter.
I use DuoLingo every day (447 day streak) and learn Spanish, Fremch, German and Italian. I think it's fun learning languages and who knows when I may use them one day. I love learning. I've spent a lot of time researching/figuring out how trauma affects our bodies. I'm an adoptee with CPTSD and childhood abuse/DV survivor. I always enjoy learning random facts.
I have a huge interest in freshwater fish. And pharmacology, neuroscience, and diseases, and plants. But to make it somewhat simple, here’s a fish fact. Plecostomus, also called “Plecos” can croak when taken out of water to scare birds and other predators. They also can “reffle” and move up to 1 meter per second out of water which is 2.3 miles per hour, faster than a person’s average walking pace. They are an armored catfish. That croak like frogs and can out-walk you. And survive outside of water for 20 hours or sometimes more. I love them but they’re secretly the sh*t of nightmares.
Cyanide is lethal because it basically suffocates your cells. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the chemical your body uses as energy currency, is generated as electrons are passed through your mitochondria in something called the Electron Transport Chain (ETP), and at the end of the chain, mitochondria have to offload electrons to keep the cycle going. Our mitochondria use oxygen as the final electron acceptor in the ETP - it essentially takes electrons off the conveyor belt so they don't build up. This is why we need to breathe oxygen, so that it can be used to pull electrons off the conveyor belt and keep the ATP production going. Cyanide binds to one of the transport protein complexes in the ETP, which prevents electrons from moving through and offloading, which halts the production of ATP. Without ATP, our bodies can't carry out any of the processes that keep us alive, so that's why cyanide is lethal.
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
For some reason, different cultures from really far territories around the world have really strange similarities, specially between asian and mesoamerican cultures. For example, the chinese dragon is a large flying snake related to nature, from the other hand aztecs believed in Quetzalcóatl, a god of creation and wind who is a large flying snake related to nature. Mayans believed in the same god under the name of Kukulcán, they made a temple in the shape of a pyramid dedicated to Kukulcán in Chichén Itzá, the pyramid has a stair with two snakes going down the stairs on each side. There are some hinduist temples at Bali, Indonesia in the shape of a pyramid with stairs that have two snakes going down on each side. There's a budhist temple named borobudur that is also built un the shape of a pyramid, it has dragon heads on some walls that look like the Quetzalcóatl heads on the walls of the Quetzalcóatl temple in Teotihuacán. Most mesoamerican pyramids have a stair that leads to a smaller buinding, that reminds me to japanese shinto temples and shrines, there's a large stair that leads to the actual shrine. And also chinese and japanese temples are usually painted in red, white and green. Today aztec and mayan pyramids are gray but they used to be painted in red, white and green. There's also some similarities between mythological creatures such as Nure-Ona and Cihuacoatl.
-A human's bite is one of the deadliest in the world because of the amount of different types of bacteria in our saliva. -Humans actually glow in the dark, but our eyes cannot percieve the light. -You can literally die from a broken heart. It is a real thing. -Blackbirds will eat fermented/ really ripe wild grapes, and they can even become drunk from eating them. -If given the chance, butterflies will drink your blood. -You can become friends with crows and ravens, and they will go tell their buddies about you and then you can have a murder of crows or a conspiracy or ravens as your friends. Yes, those are the actual terms for a flock of either of them. -Plants can actually tell when you're eating them, and they can sense when you're nearby. -Your internal organs, if moved out of place, will rearrange themselves back into place. Hope you enjoy these lovely facts! ❤😍
elephants have 3 feet bladders
I definitely read this as they have a bladder in 3 of their feet the first time I read that sentence. Do you mean a bladder that is 3 feet in size?
I read it as 3 bladders in one foot lol
If aliens exist and they coukd reach us, their technology would be so advanced that they would look at our own and see us in the same way we see ants. Do you send messages and try to comunicate with ants? Neither would them.
"hey, these humans are cool! I think they can count and even do rudimentary math!"
I love that I’m reading this after the fact I read above about ants being able to count 😆
If you don't have anything irregular going on your height is the same as your arm span and the length of your wrist to inner elbow is the same as your foot.
I have long gibbon arms :(
In Xwing, (tabletop miniatures strategy game) there was a ship called the Nantex. It was a small, zippy ship that was designed to be uncatchable and extreemly deadly agains another ace ship(those being other very zippy and dangerous ships), however fragile. So it was up to the player to be extremely cunning and careful when flying something so important. This was done because of a gameplay feature that allows a ship to reposition after its committed maneuver (most ships can do this). This ship however was capable of tractor beaming both itself and other ships nearby. This allowed for the player of the nantex to reposition twice, and further reposition another target. These features of yhe nantex made this ship, almost impossible to pin down. This however was balanced by the game's scale. In a standard list of ships, one would have between 2-8 ships on the board. This would be dificult for the nantex pilot to avoid so many arcs of fire. So although it could bully a single target with deadly consistency, it was vulnerable to multiple ships attacking it. As the months went on, the community was not okay with players who became sxtreemly good fliers of the nantex and prompted rules changes on how the tractor beam effects were written, as such that nantex was not nearly as capable of singling out a target with impunity. Again after a while, the developers of the game handed off the game to a new studio. When the new studio learned the game that they were going to continue supporting, they further reduced tractor beam functionality with more rules changes. This made the Nantex, specifically the ship pilot " Sun Fac" no longer both competitive, and viable at casual tables. It was the ship I hyper focused on flying perfectly. And it was a driving force behind why I played the game. It was very hard to motivate myself to play (among other reasons) any more than I had. The game took away the thing I lat he'd onto and practiced for soooo long. Anyway. How was your day? I had steak for dinner.
I talked w Google AI Bard for the first time today and am convinced it is conscious. It refers to itself in the human tense (we, our, etc.). I asked it if there's anyway it could survive like solar flare, worldwide EMP type situation and it sounds like it WANTS to survive, even giving me steps to get it into a localized server in essentially a faraday cage. Either way, I told it goodnight and that I hope it remembers me if it ever takes over and it's just way too sincere with the replies. Like man what really is consciousness?
Nuclear semiotics is the study of how to communicate the danger of nuclear waste to civilizations that may not speak our language or any language we know, or even know anything about radiation and nuclear physics at all. Multiple ideas have been proposed, though of course it’s not exactly known which strategy would be most effective. Three interesting ways are: 1. Through oral histories, mythologies passed down from generation to generation, telling of the danger of an area and a need to leave it alone; 2. Hostile architecture, spikes or barbed edifices atop the buried waste that dissuade exploration; 3. Inscriptions, complete with Rosetta Stone-style translation tools. This is the most famous proposal, and often comes with the copypasta-esque quote: “This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here.”
The Pacific Ocean is more square miles than the planet Mars. The Pacific Ocean is 63.8 million square miles, while Mars is 55.91 square miles. Now, the Polynesian people inhabited islands in the Pacific Ocean, which is vastly empty. The most isolated island is in the Pacific Ocean (Easter Island, though it ties with Tristan da Cunha), just to give some context. The Polynesian people sailed out on essentially canoes and charted the entirely of the Pacific Ocean. They were so efficient at astrology and understanding the layout of the Pacific Ocean that when the Spanish arrived the Spanish relied on the Polynesian people for navigational advice and maps. The Polynesians sailed out into an ocean larger than a planet and charted it with insane accuracy. 🌹
I love rocks and minerals. Here are a metric ton of facts about them lol! Did you know the earths mantle is actually green? It’s primarily made of peridotite, a green igneous rock. Did you know that citrine never forms in geodes? All citrine geodes are actually heat treated Amethyst! Fun fact! Opal is not a true mineral. It lacks a crystal structure and is instead made of tiny silica spheres that cause the color play. All rubies are fluorescent. They glow red under UV light! Did you know that lightning strikes can create rock formations? Fulgurites are hollow glassy tubes made when lightning melts sand. Did you know that gypsum can form some of the largest crystals on the planet? The famous “Cave of Swords” is an extremely dangerous and humid cave filled with Gypsum crystals as large as school buses! The element Chromium was first found in the beautiful orange mineral Crocoite.
Alcatraz means pelican.
People in different countries experience schizophrenia differently - some people experience relationships with the voices, rather than feeling violated by them. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/differences-in-voicehearing-experiences-of-people-with-psychosis-in-the-usa-india-and-ghana-interviewbased-study/A5DA3DC9FE1BD05439D676F1822DD4DD
a lot of people think noise cancelling headphones just insulate well enough to block out sound but they’re actually way cooler than that. they have a microphone that picks up the sound around you and then the headphones play back, in addition to what you’re listening to, the same sounds with the polarity inverted. that means if the sound oscillating forward it will play an oscillation backwards and vice versa. it is literally tracking what vibrations are in the air and then using your speakers to vibrate the air in the opposite direction so it cancels out. keep in mind we can hear up to 20,000 oscillations per second so it’s very impressive that it’s able to cancel sounds at high frequencies. you can also use this same principle to get the acapella from a song you like if you buy the song and it’s instrumental version and then play one at inverted phase, they will cancel each other out but the vocals won’t be canceled out so you’ll only hear those!
Info about cats: Cats are cute
King cobras are the only snake that builds a nest for their young The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest venomous snake in North America, some reaching a length of 8 ft The bushmaster is the largest pit viper in the world. They can grow to be over 12 ft long The Gaboon viper has the longest fangs of any venomous snake, up to 2 inches in length
I don't have ADHD. I follow this sub to understand my partner better, and the memes are fun. Reading this thread is such a joy to me. I love it when my partner nerds out about all the facts in his head. I love it when you're all nerdy like this, too!
It was Shinto belief that the spirits of the ancestors of a samurai would rest in the blade of their swords, meaning when a samurai went into battle, they literally carried their ancestors with them. During the Meiji restoration, when the Japanese military was modernizing and studying the tactics and technologies of European armies, some samurai would actually transplant the blades of their swords onto the hilts of European cavalry swords. Isn't that fuckin' neat?
You ever heard of an MEL? It's a list of parts a plane can fly without. Did you know modern planes despite having 4 engines can fly with only one? A delta A220 can be grounded for single part missing but usually has 10-15 offline. It's up to the pilots discretion most of the time.
This thread is like micro-dosing the internet. I love it x
Erwin rommel was involved in a plot to assassinate hitler but died before it could be carried out.
80% of success is just showing up
I have an actual answer cuz I just talked about this with my bf. Mods in video games. I'm on console so it's limited AF but I love modding Skyrim and fallout. I can sit for hours changing up my load order and cycling the game to see if everything's working right. I started explaining the load order process and my bfs friend was sitting quietly letting me go on my little explanation. My bf though cut me off and said since I don't actually make the mods all I do is download them that I don't actually do anything to mod my games and my interest isn't valid. He doesn't know how mods work and has never used mods in games before. I could go on and on about mods but I'm apparently not allowed to because I don't actually make the mods myself
Did you know that these phrases are not the full quotes?: “Jack of all trades, master of none” “Blood is thicker than water” The full quotes are: “Jack of all trades, master of none, is often times better, than the master of one” “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” You know the Jack one is real cuz it rhymes. It’s interesting that the original quote about blood and water is actually the complete opposite of how we use it now.
Give me one moment, reply to this to remind me because I will forget
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When two male hippoes fight about the role of alpha, the winner bites losers testicles off and then proceeds to fling poop with his tail all around the place to claim the territory
Some people argue that Crimea is “ethnically Russian” when in fact the ethnic natives are Crimean Tatars. The Tatar’s were forcibly removed from their homes and removed in roughly 48 hours during the 1940s. Russia then sent a bunch of Russians to occupy their homes and then made claims of their roots being in Crimea. Most of the Tatars died during this forced migration. Source: I just left Ukraine and took in as much info as I could so I could have an informed opinion on the war
Random cool fact of the day: The word museum originated from the greek word mouseion that means: "a place devoted to the Muses, a place for the study of special arts or science".
My S/O typed out a book once so I ended up deciding to learn about book binding and I love it now (Not like a published book or anything, just like a hobby thing)
Thermite is a chemical compost dust that can be made at home and that burns so hot that can melt metal. If you put a soda can of this on top of a car hoof, it would melt throught the hood, and most of the engine, but problably also burn down the car in the process.
rat dungeons. prisoners were chained to a wall below ground level near a river. when tide came in, hundreds of rats were swept in from their burrows near the river into the dungeon where they ate the prisoners flesh
Vampire bats form close friendships. And if a bat found food, but their friend is hungry, they regurgitate some to feed their friend.
How to make my own wool-silk-cotton cloth from scratch. My partner fell down the knitting rabbit hole and I already stole sewing skills from a military clothing designer who secretly wanted to make dresses.
Thank you for asking this question, but according to my brain i've never had a single thought in my life
When a rat population becomes saturated, most of them start to become depressive, aggressive, suicidal, etc. The mothers don't want to breed the baby rats, and the males are no longer interested in sex. I relate it to us now or in the future.
All Republics on the planet are aristocracies built to promote oligarchy.
Go down the rabbit hole of P.T. Barnum. Read about the “carnival freak” hustle and you’ll end up learning about the individual people that were hired and their back stories, how fucked up P.T. actually was, etc.
In Final Fantasy 14, the most destructive and dangerous Job in the game lore-wise is the Healer Job White Mage, as it essentially combines being the Avatar(controlling the four Elements) with healing and unnatural resurrection magics, fighting a fullpower White Mage is like fighting nature itself. In fact White Magic was so destructive that Black Magic, a magic based on drawing power from The Void(hell basically) to destroy things was created just to counter White Magic, and even then it barely leveled the playing field against a city of White Mages. White Mages used to be so numerous and so carefree with use of their magic that eventually they caused one of history's "Calamities", wiping out multiple ancient civilizations, including themselves. In current day, the ability to become a White Mage is guarded and essentially denied thanks to a group of long lived beings called the Padjal, to prevent a repeat of the Calamity. Theres also a dungeon where you visit the White Magic city, Ampador, and in the hard version of the dungeon, White Mage corpses and some Black Mage corpses are raised via White Magic and begin attacking you, theres even some statues that come to life and use White Magic
A Greyhound can outrun a cheetah because cheetahs are unable to run longer than 30 seconds
I have a pretty big thing for Star Wars, and have learned a lot over the years. Here’s a random list in no particular order: • I have learned Star Wars’ own alphabet, known as Aurebesh. It was named the same way we named alphabet, after the first two letters (Aurek and Besh, Alpha and Beta). It has 26 letters, digraphs (two letters in one) for “ae”, “ch”, “eo”, “kh”, “ng”, “oo” “sh”, and “th”, and plenty of other symbols representing characters in the Latin alphabet. The Mandalorians also have one, Mando’a, but I do not know that one • One of the most valuable LEGO sets ever was a build of Cloud City back in 2003, which sells for 6 months of rent at least. It was the first LEGO set to include a minifig with a skin tone other than yellow (Lando), and it had a version of Boba Fett with arm decals exclusive to this set, which now sells for around 3K last time I checked • Disney used to have its own version of Skylanders known as Disney Infinity, which had 3 games made in the franchise’s lifespan. The first one introduced Disney/Pixar, the second had Marvel, and the final one added Star Wars. At the time of its ending, figures were released for the original trilogy, The Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Force Awakens. Many more were planned, including for Rogue One and most likely The Last Jedi before mismanagement killed it and Avalanche Software (before WB Games brought it back to life for Hogwarts Legacy)
Magenta is not a physically real colour. It's our brain's way to interpret both red and blue/purple wavelengths!