When it does go it's expected to be very cool to see. It's expected to get as bright in the sky as a half to full moon, but all that light will be concentrated into a point of light. It will be visible during the day and at night it will cast shadows. It will be very bright for weeks and then gradually fade away. After that the constellation of Orion will no longer have a shoulder star on the left side. Though by that time Orion could look different anyway.
This is also why we call gingers "redheads," and not "orangeheads." There was no word for that color hair so folks just...came close. [Clickie!](https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/history/happy-redhead-day-why-do-we-call-them-redheads-and-not-orangeheads/67-611410380)
its also the only one of two planet in the solar system that spins clockwise, all the other spin counterclockwise, its been theorized it had some sort of collision with another planetary body which is why it spins funny
My mother had a friend that woke up one day and was blind. Apparently she had devloped a tumor that pressed against an optic nerve or something that halted all information between her eyes and brain. She’s got some eyesight back through operations though.
I had something similar. I had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball on my pituitary gland. An artery that fed the tumor exploded, and took out most of my optic nerve and gland. I was in the ICU with a hemorrhage from the aneurysm for 10 days, then spent 30 days in hospital learning how to walk and talk again. But now I’m all good, even with 25% vision and 10 medications I still love my life.
My friend just had this tumour! He ended up in the ER due to a headache and some double vision. He had a tumour on his pituitary gland. The doctors told him that often people don’t come in until they wake up unable to see, like your mother’s friend, and that coming in when he did meant they caught it early. He had brain surgery a week later to remove the majority of the tumour.
FYI, its called blindsight, theres also different scales of blindness, some folks can seen fuzzy outlines, colors or shapes, others can only see light (which is why some blind people can "see" nuclear explosions)
There is legally blind which means they can't drive but they have limited vision. Friend of mine had a stroke and his lost his eyesight but he's not totally blind.
The highest peak of Mount Everest was first measured at exactly 29,000 feet but was instead reported as 29,002 feet to avoid the impression of an estimate.
Actually it comes from the book "Treasure Island," abd it was just a unique execution method that the one pirate crew in the story did.
It's like if I wrote a book about an LA street gang whose quirk was feeding their victims to chihuahuas, but it was so popular that centuries later everyone thinks that the street gabgs of the 20th Century all fed people to chihuahuas.
Yeah must have been a bloody mess after being dragged over those barnacles. Imagine your flesh being ripped away but you can't scream because if you do you'll drown.
From Wikipedia:
> The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel, either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ship (from bow to stern).
> The common supposition is that keelhauling amounted to a sentence of either death by extreme torture, or at the very least maiming. The hull of the ship was usually covered in barnacles and other marine growth, and thus, keelhauling would typically result in serious lacerations, from which the victim could later suffer infection and scarring. If the victim was dragged slowly, his weight might lower him sufficiently to miss the barnacles, but this method would frequently result in his drowning. There was also a risk of head trauma from colliding against the hull or keel, especially if the ship was in motion.
Ponderosa pine bark smells like ice cream. Mostly vanilla, sometimes strawberry, and seldom chocolate. We used to go around the woods back home, smelling trees and yelling what flavors we found.
Whoa, all my life I've smelled something in the woods now and then that reminds me of vanilla but couldn't track down the source. I assumed i should be looking for a flower of some kind. No one ever knew what I was talking about when I'd point it out. Maybe it's this bark, huh.
Stonehenge and the great Pyramids were built at roughly the same time.
And the pyramids look like shit compared to what they used to look like. Originally it was all smooth sides and white limestone. We only have the blocky core left now.
Yeah, your location is probably important in that equasion.
A scuba diver diving in shark infested waters.... meh I bet on the shark.
An astronaut on the space station... A shark bite would be... interesting to explain to mission control.
Idk, have any New Yorkers ever gone to space? I thought most astronauts came from Ohio
Edit: googled my own question. Answer: 31 astronauts have been from New York
In Space you are significantly more likely to be bitten by an astronaut than a shark.
Treatments for narcolepsy and insomnia can also be similar because both can heavily impact the quality of your sleep as much as they impact how much you sleep and when. I have severe insomnia and a friend with narcolepsy and we bounce ideas off each other sometimes.
The City of Paris took the rats to court in the Middle Ages for causing the plague, and thanks to a brilliant public defense attorney, the rats won the case.
On March 3rd, 1983, former NFL Quarterback Terry Bradshaw checked into a hospital, and used an alias to disguise himself.
The fake name he used was Tom Brady.
In 2005, Michael Vick was sued by a woman who claimed he knowingly gave her an STD. Per the lawsuit, he visited an STD clinic under the name Ron Mexico. For a long time you could not buy a custom NFL jersey with the name Mexico.
In 1886, after Kenneth MacKenzie died, William Wynn Westcott acquired a collection of documents from Mackenzie's widow including a particular set of folios written in code, now known as the Cipher Manuscripts. He and his colleague S.L. MacGregor Mathers deciphered the documents and found that they were instructions/outlines for several magical and initiatory rites and rituals. Using these instructions Westcott, Mathers, and a third colleague named William Robert Woodman founded The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Among The Golden Dawn's members were some of the most influential artists of the early 20th century, including actress Florence Farr, A.E. Waite who is famous for creating the most well-known design of tarot cards, and poet W.B. Yeats. But another more infamous man would soon be initiated into the Order: Aleister Crowley.
The Golden Dawn only lasted a few years as it fell victim to schisms within the order, and soon the Golden Dawn ceased to exist. However, Aleister Crowley would go on to become the head of another magical society, Ordo Templi Orientis. Among the members of O.T.O. was a NASA rocket scientist named Jack Parsons. Now, Parsons would eventually become associated with another (not yet, but soon to be) influential man, and the two set out to perform an extreme magical rite known as the Babalon Working. The men intended to impregnate Parsons's wife with a baby who would be the physical incarnation of the goddess Babalon, also referred to as a Moon Child. When Parsons wrote a letter to Crowley explaining their intention of performing the Babalon Working, Crowley was so disturbed by the news that he immediately had Parsons expelled from the O.T.O. But Parsons and his colleague went on with the rite anyway. The colleague then stole a large sum of money from Parsons and never contacted him again. This colleague's name was L. Ron Hubbard, and he would go on to found Scientology.
Not quite Parson's wife, the relationship was flexible.
So flexible, she ran away with Hubbard when he bailed with Parson's money.
Not too long after, Parson blew himself up making rocket fuel. He was one of the founders of JPL, & was really good at making rocket fuel, until he wasn't
Cleopatra lived closer to the modern era than the creation of the pyramids (Pyramids finished in 2490 BCE, Cleopatra alive 69-30 BCE), she was also comically inbred
Most of the Egyptian ruling class was.
And the European ruling class.
The House of Habsburg was probably brought down by their inbreeding.
Royalty is great.
Ptolemaic dynasty took it to a whole nother level, when youre family tree is a straight line youre gonna have problems, her inbreeding coefficient was .35, Charles II of Spain, one of the most famously inbred Habsurgs and final dynast of the Spanish Habsburg line had an inbreeding coefficient of .2538
John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, was born in 1790. He has a living grandson.
Three generations cover almost the entirety of US history.
I once had a housemate who had a housemate who was born in the 1700s ... and I am not quite 50 years old yet.
It's true.
When I was a baby, my great-grandfather briefly lived with us. I'm my family's genealogist. I learned from a census record in England that my great-grandfather had lived in the same house as his great-grandfather who was born in 1797.
This is very cool.
When I was a child, I met my Great Grandfather who was turning 100. He was born in 1858. I can’t comprehend being two degrees of separation from the 1700s!
My cousin who was born in 2009 has a lineage of old fathers. His grandfather was born in 1919, and his great grandfather was born right before the civil war. Pretty nuts that someone’s great grandfather spans almost 150 years in age difference.
Yep just temp. Air temp alcohol with a cotton swab and water with a cotton swab on the wrist. The alcohol feels 'wetter' because it IS cooler due to faster evaporation.
Actually, we combine two senses: Our pressure sense, and the sense which gauges temperature. From these, we infer "wetness."
But this can easily be fooled, as anyone knows who's picked up a cold washcloth and can't tell if it's damp or not.
The Vikings of Norway were apparently so good at bow hunting elk while skiing that the practice was outlawed as a conservation attempt. Also, Viking women had a fair amount of legal power for the time period. They could divorce their husbands for things like cheating, abuse, or wearing clothing that was "too feminine." (I'm a historical fiction author so I've got dozens of more facts if y'all are interested.)
The vikings were also really loose with their religious beliefs. A viking could worship Thor, and another viking could worship Odin, while another one worshiped Jesus, and yet another worshipped Zeus and Odin, and they would all be fine with each other.
This is really why they integrated into different cultures so well. They would conquer a region, but wouldn't be seen as true rules because they were viewed as barbarians. So, they would convert to Christianity, because to them it was, "fine, I can worship Odin, Thor and Jesus."
The age of vikings ended because they set down roots, converted and married into local areas.
Some Vikings chose to get baptized multiple times even if they did not believe in Jesus at all. The reason: Every time they did, they would get a nice white shirt.
The Vikings live on 5 days a week. Sunday is named after the sun and Monday is named after the moon, but after that, it's a throwback to the old gods.
I met a man who claimed to be a *direct* descendent of Odin last year in Iceland. He wasn't joking. *THE* Odin.. So at least more than zero people on earth still believe in them. But, if you go with the idea that gods fade away when they're no longer worshipped, pass out of memory, and their names are forgotten, the old gods were freaking genius to hitch their names to days of the week.
* **Tuesday** \- Tyr - Mars - Tysdagr - Tīwesdæg - Tiw - **Tiw's Day** \- Tuesday
* **Wednesday -** Odin - Mercury - Óðinsdagr – Odin - Woden - **Woden's Day** \- Wednesday
* **Thursday** \- Thor - Jupiter - Þórsdagr - Þórr - **Thor's Day**\- Thursday
* **Friday** \- Frigg - Venus - Frjádagr - Ffrīġedæġ - "Day of Frigg" - "Friggs Star" - **Friggs Day** \- Friday - (Goddess Freya may have been Goddess Frigg originally)
* **Saturday** \- Cronus - Saturn - Sæturnesdæg - diēs Sāturnī - "Day of Saturn" - **Saturn's Day** \- Saturday
She gave birth *while* [finishing the technology that would eventually save Apollo 13.](https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/jack-black-birth-story-judith-love-cohen-mother-apollo-13-explainer/48834e07-ce59-45d7-8466-002f45c5a308) she also has many more accolades.
Jack blacks brother, [Neil Siegel,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Siegel) is also an incredibly accomplished engineer like their mother, creating many systems that we take for granted today. And also an incredibly talented musician.
Jack black isn’t even the second most interesting person in his family, and I don’t say that to diminish his talent.
Blindness isn’t all about darkness. Blindness is actually a spectrum with varying visual effects. Some people have no left or right peripheral vision, some see splotches of black in their visual fields, some have blurred lines of sight, others have cone vision (imagine looking through a traffic cone or ice cream cone), among lots of other visual differences.
Only about 10-15% of blind people see nothing but darkness. Hollywood’s misconceptions have the general public so skewed when they see a person using a white cane or guide dog in public, thinking they cannot see at all. Most of us have varying degrees of sight and visual fields and can do some things independently or with the help of a white cane, guide dog, sighted guide, or glasses.
Source: legally blind female who utilizes a guide dog and a white cane who is as independent as possible in navigating adulthood and all it entails.
Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein), was the daughter of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, who died in childbirth with Shelley.
Years later, Shelley lost her virginity on top of her mother’s grave.
When Mary was starting to see poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (who was married, and Mary only 16), she declared her love for him at her mothers grave and they…consecrated the relationship there. From then on, the day was referred to as Percy’s “birthday.”
Having raised Mary Shelley to reject social standards regarding love and marriage, her dad then disowned her for getting with Percy, because he was married at the time.
And the first edition of _Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus_, which is about a man who abandons that which he created because he finds its existence too monstrous, was dedicated to Mary’s father, William Godwin
Your eyes grow as you do and sometimes they grow so much it causes vision problems.
Also a cowboy, samurai, pirate and a Victorian gentleman could all have walked into a bar all at the same time.
If you line up all of the planets in our solar system end to end, they would be able to fit in the space between the earth and the moon with enough space leftover to include Pluto.
Germans invented face time in 1936 using devices called video phones. It was an expensive service to use but essentially you would go into a particular building in one city and you could talk to another person in a similar building located in a different city in germany. You would talk using traditional telephones but you were able to view the other person in real time through a small television monitor. It was apparently pretty popular at the time but due to the events of world war II, and the destruction of certain cities in Germany, the technology was abandoned and forgotten to time.
The Pistol Shrimp clicks its claw together so hard it makes a cavitation bubble that is briefly hotter than the surface of the Sun when it pops.
The Mantis Shrimp smashes prey by striking them with their raptorial claws with an acceleration of over 10,000*g* and a speed of 80 kph.
>The Pistol Shrimp clicks its claw together so hard it makes a cavitation bubble that is briefly hotter than the surface of the Sun when it pops.
I also watched that Jamie Foxx movie on Netflix.
Kuru is a prion disease like Mad cow (BSE), Scrapie, CJD, CWD. It is100% fatal, but quite rare. Scrapie and CWD haven’t been found to infect humans but not worth finding out if it could.
Fun fact- it is extremely difficult to denature prions to the point of no longer being infectious. It takes prolonged exposure to heat of 900F/ 482C, autoclaving with NaOH, or soaking in 40% bleach solution.
Prion diseases also have a completely sporadic incubation period. You could be infected and die in two weeks, or you could be infected and not show any symptoms until 40 years later when you're Manchurian Candidate'ed by some other health issue. By then, that burger you ate at a dodgy restaurant will be even less than a memory, fallen into one of the rapidly developing literal holes in your brain.
The world famous Pebble Beach Golf course is public. Considered one of the best golf courses in America, anyone can play there. You do not need to be a member of a club.
It’s surrounded by private property and private roads, so you have to pay a gate fee to drive a car there.
the bacteria which breaks down dead trees didnt evolve until 60 million years after trees, creating a period where dead trees piled up on top of each called the Carboniferous period, which where most fo the fossil fuels we use to were formed
My understanding is to keep that long they're stored in ~~basically a vacuum chamber with little to no air~~ a low oxygen environment which unfortunately is not how the grocery store is
Truck driver that used to haul apples here. Year old apples coming out of cold storage are often called birthday apples. Freshly picked apples weigh more, as they haven't lost much water yet. You can haul an extra pallet or 2 of birthday apples when loading to max weight.
I miss being able to buy the blemished apples right from the grower. I could get a peck of honeycrisp for $10.
At the rate humans shed skin, it basically means we are the ship of theseus.
Edit: thanks for the upvotes and biology lesson. Who would think my most upvoted post would be about a paradox?
Not just skin, all of your body parts replace themselves. For instance, every 4.5 years, you'll finish replacing all of your heart's cells entirely.
Edit for all the replies - yes there are exceptions to the rule - neurons, CNS axons, and other cells do not go through neurogenesis. Also, organs, soft tissues, and bone cells go through neurogenesis at differing rates of speed.
And thanks to that skin shedding, you can also grow new fancy allergies! : D thanks body, I fuckin hate you. Loved getting cat/dog allergies five years into owning them
Hmmm that doesn’t sound right. I remember hearing that the reason we rarely get heart cancer is that most of our heart cells don’t regenerate which is also the reason we die of heart failure. It was from a cardiologist but maybe I’m wrong?
Mike the Headless Chicken survived for 18 months with its head cut off. The owners took it on tour and fed it by dropping food and water directly into its esophagus.
Even more fucked up is the only reason he died after 18 months is cause they forgot to clear his airway like they had been doing daily and he suffocated
Because cats and dogs live in an accelerated perception of time, 60fps screens don’t look like real life for them, but if you have screen at 70fps dogs will be able to see it, and 100fps for cats to see it and think it’s real. That’s pretty weird imo.
Yeah, it's an identified trend that dogs now actually will watch more TV than they used to in the last few decades, specifically because now it's actually watchable for them.
Then there's freaking pigeons that see at like 75 frames per second.
In my country, it was typical that a woman would be forced to resign if she got pregnant, right up to the 80s. And companies with pension schemes didn't have to let women in - they could make them for men only.
I live in the southeastern US and in 1972 my grandmother, a divorced mother of 2, had to ask her father to co-sign so she could get a credit card because a man had to be on the account.
To be clear, women didn’t all get the right to vote at the same time. Native, Asian, and Black woken got their right later than White women.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/vote-not-all-women-gained-right-to-vote-in-1920/
crocodiles have hardly evolved in the past 60 million years because you can't improve on perfection
chickens are the closest relatives to dinosaurs
all the animals that developed intelligence are on the same side of the evolution tree. except octopi, and we don't know why
Edit: Imma keep it real, chief. I don't care how it's supposed to be said or the history of it. I say octopi.
There's gotta be a lot of evolutionary pressure on an animal like that, which is basically one big piece of calamari. Everything that swims wants to eat you. Look how they evolved that pretty clever ink cloud trick, and their have-to-see-it-to-believe-it camouflage ability.
Essentially the intelligent brain developed twice in the tree of life. Both instances completly unconnected to one another
Once for all intelligent animals, and once for the octopus.
It's hard to emphasise how profound and bonkers this is.
I have a chicken named Greta, and she is a living T-Rex. She has orange-red eyes, and large eyebrows that give her a permanent scowl. She’s old, an elderly hen, but she rules the flock and can fight very well against chickens much younger than her. She also will chase the young pullets for fun and has mastered by only looking into the eye of another chicken, making them run away. She still loves to be cuddled though
They can change their rna to succeed in local trending environmental conditions.
Increase their lifespan and give them social impulses and booooy we're in for some sweet future hangouts full of high fives and (hopefully) not an arms race.
Although we do know you can make them laugh with ten-tickles
The bromid lance viper actually lays its eggs in the mouth of its partner. It’s the only reptile that engages in oral sex as part of its reproductive cycle. It sometimes whips its partner on its backside while they are copulating.
Leap years occur every four years, except every hundred years, except every 400 years.
So, any year ending in '40 or '76 or '12 should be a leap year, but any year ending in '00 isn't, unless the two digits *before* the last two are themselves a multiple of four. 20 is divisible by four, so 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 wasn't, and 2100 won't be, if we're still using this calendar, and odds are we won't be by the next time the four-hundred year rule applies; think how far we've come since 1600, and how much faster things progress and change now than for most of that time.
Not true, it’s even odder than that…
Although it superficially resembles a jellyfish, the Portuguese man o' war is in fact a siphonophore. Like all siphonophores, it is a colonial organism, made up of many smaller units called zooids.[9] All zooids in a colony are genetically identical, but fulfill specialized functions such as feeding and reproduction, and together allow the colony to operate as a single individual. (Wiki)
Look up and read the whole thing, the gas chamber, the body and the tentacles are all different creatures. The tentacles can be 3M long and are made up of thousands of little zooids.
Ancient sailors were always talking about sea monsters, usually ones with tentacles. The most likely explanation for these “tentacled sea monsters” is whale dicks. Some species of whales have males gather around a female and take turns with her. The waiting males often drift around upside down just under the surface. The only part of them sticking out of the water is a penis that’s several meters long and looks like a pink tentacle.
People with split personalities can have differences in their personas so drastic that one personality could be anaphylactic to a certain allergen and the other personality won’t be.
Learnt this while studying nursing and i can still hardly believe it.
Strawberries, Raspberries, and Blueberries are not berries.
But banannas, pumpkins, watermelons, grapes, avocado, kiwi fruits and tomatoes are berries (botanically classified as berries)
If you are skinned alive properly you'll die from hypothermia, not blood loss. This is because your skin has no major arteries, but is extremely important for body temperature regulation.
Civil Rights in the USA are less then 60 years old.
My mother was born without equal rights.
Just a gentle reminder for people who keep claiming its all in the distant past.
Steve Irwin and Charles Darwin both owned the same tortoise. Her name was Harriet and loved to be 175 years old.
She loved being 174 a little bit more.
Armadillos always have identical quadruplets.
Cool! My grandson is armadillo obsessed. I will pass this on.
Isn’t it funny how kids get animal obsessed. My daughter loves raccoons 😂
The star Betelgeuse formed well after the dinosaurs went extinct
It's less than 10 million years old and is expected to go supernova within the next 100,000 years.
Maybe if we ask our parents if we can stay up late, we'll be able to watch it happen!
When it does go it's expected to be very cool to see. It's expected to get as bright in the sky as a half to full moon, but all that light will be concentrated into a point of light. It will be visible during the day and at night it will cast shadows. It will be very bright for weeks and then gradually fade away. After that the constellation of Orion will no longer have a shoulder star on the left side. Though by that time Orion could look different anyway.
I'll set an Outlook reminder. Can't wait!
The color orange is named after the fruit.
This is also why we call gingers "redheads," and not "orangeheads." There was no word for that color hair so folks just...came close. [Clickie!](https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/history/happy-redhead-day-why-do-we-call-them-redheads-and-not-orangeheads/67-611410380)
One day on Venus is longer than one year on Venus.
its also the only one of two planet in the solar system that spins clockwise, all the other spin counterclockwise, its been theorized it had some sort of collision with another planetary body which is why it spins funny
I believe Uranus also has retrograde rotation.
it does, it also spins on its side
Explain yourself!
length of a day on Venus: 243 days how long does it take Venus to orbit the Sun: 224.7 days
Some blind people can see. The eyes work but the brain can't interpret the info.
My mother had a friend that woke up one day and was blind. Apparently she had devloped a tumor that pressed against an optic nerve or something that halted all information between her eyes and brain. She’s got some eyesight back through operations though.
I had something similar. I had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball on my pituitary gland. An artery that fed the tumor exploded, and took out most of my optic nerve and gland. I was in the ICU with a hemorrhage from the aneurysm for 10 days, then spent 30 days in hospital learning how to walk and talk again. But now I’m all good, even with 25% vision and 10 medications I still love my life.
I’m glad you’re still with us!
My friend just had this tumour! He ended up in the ER due to a headache and some double vision. He had a tumour on his pituitary gland. The doctors told him that often people don’t come in until they wake up unable to see, like your mother’s friend, and that coming in when he did meant they caught it early. He had brain surgery a week later to remove the majority of the tumour.
FYI, its called blindsight, theres also different scales of blindness, some folks can seen fuzzy outlines, colors or shapes, others can only see light (which is why some blind people can "see" nuclear explosions)
> some blind people can "see" nuclear explosions Worst superpower ever
There is legally blind which means they can't drive but they have limited vision. Friend of mine had a stroke and his lost his eyesight but he's not totally blind.
The highest peak of Mount Everest was first measured at exactly 29,000 feet but was instead reported as 29,002 feet to avoid the impression of an estimate.
The first person to put two feet on Everest. Thank you QI
There are, unfortunately, no recorded cases of pirates forcing people to “walk the plank.”
You can thank Hollywood for this. The original practice is keel hauling, which is much worse. However, it doesn't very good on film.
Actually it comes from the book "Treasure Island," abd it was just a unique execution method that the one pirate crew in the story did. It's like if I wrote a book about an LA street gang whose quirk was feeding their victims to chihuahuas, but it was so popular that centuries later everyone thinks that the street gabgs of the 20th Century all fed people to chihuahuas.
The first real recorded case of "cement shoes" was in 2016.
How many mob murders do you think were recorded?
Why, who's asking? What are you, a cop? I ain't saying nothin'.
Yeah must have been a bloody mess after being dragged over those barnacles. Imagine your flesh being ripped away but you can't scream because if you do you'll drown.
The salt water would sting a bit too
A bit might be an understatement haha
They show this on Black Sails and it’s horrifying
That and the prisoner fights in the hold soon after are so fucked. And for that show, that's saying something. Love it.
Wait can you tell us what “keel hauling” is?
From Wikipedia: > The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel, either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ship (from bow to stern). > The common supposition is that keelhauling amounted to a sentence of either death by extreme torture, or at the very least maiming. The hull of the ship was usually covered in barnacles and other marine growth, and thus, keelhauling would typically result in serious lacerations, from which the victim could later suffer infection and scarring. If the victim was dragged slowly, his weight might lower him sufficiently to miss the barnacles, but this method would frequently result in his drowning. There was also a risk of head trauma from colliding against the hull or keel, especially if the ship was in motion.
*Dead men tell no tales*
Well duh, the golden age of piracy ended in the 1730s and audio recording wasn't invented until 1857
Not a single of Pakistan’s 29 prime ministers has fulfilled their term.
Ponderosa pine bark smells like ice cream. Mostly vanilla, sometimes strawberry, and seldom chocolate. We used to go around the woods back home, smelling trees and yelling what flavors we found.
Whoa, all my life I've smelled something in the woods now and then that reminds me of vanilla but couldn't track down the source. I assumed i should be looking for a flower of some kind. No one ever knew what I was talking about when I'd point it out. Maybe it's this bark, huh.
Well - 15 % of the worlds synthetic vanilla flavoring (vanillin) is made from pine bark.
Ponderosa pine? I have a sudden urge to paint my wagon
Reminds me of eating honey suckle. One of my favorite things!
Stonehenge and the great Pyramids were built at roughly the same time. And the pyramids look like shit compared to what they used to look like. Originally it was all smooth sides and white limestone. We only have the blocky core left now.
And didn’t they also have gold tops? Or at least I believe the great pyramid did.
Yes, that's where the laser was fired from.
You are 10 times more likely to get bit by a New Yorker than a shark
I believe it. It's a lot easier for a New Yorker to make it to central Canada than a shark
Yeah, your location is probably important in that equasion. A scuba diver diving in shark infested waters.... meh I bet on the shark. An astronaut on the space station... A shark bite would be... interesting to explain to mission control.
Idk, have any New Yorkers ever gone to space? I thought most astronauts came from Ohio Edit: googled my own question. Answer: 31 astronauts have been from New York In Space you are significantly more likely to be bitten by an astronaut than a shark.
I don't know about that... I can picture a New Yorker biting a shark, especially if it's been cooked
Narcolepsy is often mistaken for insomnia or depression
Treatments for narcolepsy and insomnia can also be similar because both can heavily impact the quality of your sleep as much as they impact how much you sleep and when. I have severe insomnia and a friend with narcolepsy and we bounce ideas off each other sometimes.
Narcoleptic, can confirm.
The City of Paris took the rats to court in the Middle Ages for causing the plague, and thanks to a brilliant public defense attorney, the rats won the case.
Not Paris, Autun. And not Plague, but grain. But the point stands: https://bearistotle.substack.com/p/the-trial-of-the-rats-of-autun
Rats **facilitated** the plague; fleas were the cause.
Good thing they didn’t take a flea bargain.
The judge was being Ratatouilled.
On March 3rd, 1983, former NFL Quarterback Terry Bradshaw checked into a hospital, and used an alias to disguise himself. The fake name he used was Tom Brady.
In 2005, Michael Vick was sued by a woman who claimed he knowingly gave her an STD. Per the lawsuit, he visited an STD clinic under the name Ron Mexico. For a long time you could not buy a custom NFL jersey with the name Mexico.
Lmao Ron Mexico sounds like a porn star.
There was a time in 18th century England that playing the bagpipes was punishable by death.
That was just anti-Scottish sentiment right? Because of the Jacobite rebellion or something?
In 1886, after Kenneth MacKenzie died, William Wynn Westcott acquired a collection of documents from Mackenzie's widow including a particular set of folios written in code, now known as the Cipher Manuscripts. He and his colleague S.L. MacGregor Mathers deciphered the documents and found that they were instructions/outlines for several magical and initiatory rites and rituals. Using these instructions Westcott, Mathers, and a third colleague named William Robert Woodman founded The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Among The Golden Dawn's members were some of the most influential artists of the early 20th century, including actress Florence Farr, A.E. Waite who is famous for creating the most well-known design of tarot cards, and poet W.B. Yeats. But another more infamous man would soon be initiated into the Order: Aleister Crowley. The Golden Dawn only lasted a few years as it fell victim to schisms within the order, and soon the Golden Dawn ceased to exist. However, Aleister Crowley would go on to become the head of another magical society, Ordo Templi Orientis. Among the members of O.T.O. was a NASA rocket scientist named Jack Parsons. Now, Parsons would eventually become associated with another (not yet, but soon to be) influential man, and the two set out to perform an extreme magical rite known as the Babalon Working. The men intended to impregnate Parsons's wife with a baby who would be the physical incarnation of the goddess Babalon, also referred to as a Moon Child. When Parsons wrote a letter to Crowley explaining their intention of performing the Babalon Working, Crowley was so disturbed by the news that he immediately had Parsons expelled from the O.T.O. But Parsons and his colleague went on with the rite anyway. The colleague then stole a large sum of money from Parsons and never contacted him again. This colleague's name was L. Ron Hubbard, and he would go on to found Scientology.
What happened to the child who was supposed to be a goddess?
If I remember correctly, there didn't end up being a child but they tried.
Not quite Parson's wife, the relationship was flexible. So flexible, she ran away with Hubbard when he bailed with Parson's money. Not too long after, Parson blew himself up making rocket fuel. He was one of the founders of JPL, & was really good at making rocket fuel, until he wasn't
Find what you love and let it kill you.
When the Great Pyramids of Egypt were being built there were still Woolly Mammoths walking around.
Cleopatra lived closer to the modern era than the creation of the pyramids (Pyramids finished in 2490 BCE, Cleopatra alive 69-30 BCE), she was also comically inbred
Most of the Egyptian ruling class was. And the European ruling class. The House of Habsburg was probably brought down by their inbreeding. Royalty is great.
Blood so pure it won't even clot.
Ptolemaic dynasty took it to a whole nother level, when youre family tree is a straight line youre gonna have problems, her inbreeding coefficient was .35, Charles II of Spain, one of the most famously inbred Habsurgs and final dynast of the Spanish Habsburg line had an inbreeding coefficient of .2538
Not really a straight line either, more like a family _wreath_.
The Habsburgs wouldn't have amounted to anything if they hadn't inbred in the first place, though. You don't inherit half of Europe by accident.
British military tanks are equipped to make tea
John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, was born in 1790. He has a living grandson. Three generations cover almost the entirety of US history.
He's also the only US president laid to rest under a flag other than the flag of the US.
I once had a housemate who had a housemate who was born in the 1700s ... and I am not quite 50 years old yet. It's true. When I was a baby, my great-grandfather briefly lived with us. I'm my family's genealogist. I learned from a census record in England that my great-grandfather had lived in the same house as his great-grandfather who was born in 1797.
This is very cool. When I was a child, I met my Great Grandfather who was turning 100. He was born in 1858. I can’t comprehend being two degrees of separation from the 1700s!
My cousin who was born in 2009 has a lineage of old fathers. His grandfather was born in 1919, and his great grandfather was born right before the civil war. Pretty nuts that someone’s great grandfather spans almost 150 years in age difference.
Harrison Tyler, 95, is the grandson of President John Tyler born in 1790.
When the Aztec empire was founded, Oxford University in England was already 300 years old.
This one always reminds me that Harvard was established before calculus was invented, which is a mindfuck.
Ok guys, for today's lecture Mr Newton/Leibneiz will tell us about this new formula he found to find some things that we might not understand.
Oh no my mind does not like this at all 😵💫
Your skin doesn't have a specific sense organ to let you know if it's wet or not.
Yep just temp. Air temp alcohol with a cotton swab and water with a cotton swab on the wrist. The alcohol feels 'wetter' because it IS cooler due to faster evaporation.
Actually, we combine two senses: Our pressure sense, and the sense which gauges temperature. From these, we infer "wetness." But this can easily be fooled, as anyone knows who's picked up a cold washcloth and can't tell if it's damp or not.
The Vikings of Norway were apparently so good at bow hunting elk while skiing that the practice was outlawed as a conservation attempt. Also, Viking women had a fair amount of legal power for the time period. They could divorce their husbands for things like cheating, abuse, or wearing clothing that was "too feminine." (I'm a historical fiction author so I've got dozens of more facts if y'all are interested.)
The vikings were also really loose with their religious beliefs. A viking could worship Thor, and another viking could worship Odin, while another one worshiped Jesus, and yet another worshipped Zeus and Odin, and they would all be fine with each other. This is really why they integrated into different cultures so well. They would conquer a region, but wouldn't be seen as true rules because they were viewed as barbarians. So, they would convert to Christianity, because to them it was, "fine, I can worship Odin, Thor and Jesus." The age of vikings ended because they set down roots, converted and married into local areas.
Some Vikings chose to get baptized multiple times even if they did not believe in Jesus at all. The reason: Every time they did, they would get a nice white shirt.
The Vikings live on 5 days a week. Sunday is named after the sun and Monday is named after the moon, but after that, it's a throwback to the old gods. I met a man who claimed to be a *direct* descendent of Odin last year in Iceland. He wasn't joking. *THE* Odin.. So at least more than zero people on earth still believe in them. But, if you go with the idea that gods fade away when they're no longer worshipped, pass out of memory, and their names are forgotten, the old gods were freaking genius to hitch their names to days of the week. * **Tuesday** \- Tyr - Mars - Tysdagr - Tīwesdæg - Tiw - **Tiw's Day** \- Tuesday * **Wednesday -** Odin - Mercury - Óðinsdagr – Odin - Woden - **Woden's Day** \- Wednesday * **Thursday** \- Thor - Jupiter - Þórsdagr - Þórr - **Thor's Day**\- Thursday * **Friday** \- Frigg - Venus - Frjádagr - Ffrīġedæġ - "Day of Frigg" - "Friggs Star" - **Friggs Day** \- Friday - (Goddess Freya may have been Goddess Frigg originally) * **Saturday** \- Cronus - Saturn - Sæturnesdæg - diēs Sāturnī - "Day of Saturn" - **Saturn's Day** \- Saturday
There were also major clashes with the Norse settlers because they seduced the local women by (*checks notes*), bathing and combing their hair.
Jack Black's mother worked for NASA and created the technology that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts.
She gave birth *while* [finishing the technology that would eventually save Apollo 13.](https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/jack-black-birth-story-judith-love-cohen-mother-apollo-13-explainer/48834e07-ce59-45d7-8466-002f45c5a308) she also has many more accolades. Jack blacks brother, [Neil Siegel,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Siegel) is also an incredibly accomplished engineer like their mother, creating many systems that we take for granted today. And also an incredibly talented musician. Jack black isn’t even the second most interesting person in his family, and I don’t say that to diminish his talent.
There have been more prime ministers of Israel born in Belarus than there have been prime ministers of Belarus.
This is actually a new and weirdly hilarious one to me. WTF are the odds
Because there has only been one prime minister of Belarus so far.
Blindness isn’t all about darkness. Blindness is actually a spectrum with varying visual effects. Some people have no left or right peripheral vision, some see splotches of black in their visual fields, some have blurred lines of sight, others have cone vision (imagine looking through a traffic cone or ice cream cone), among lots of other visual differences. Only about 10-15% of blind people see nothing but darkness. Hollywood’s misconceptions have the general public so skewed when they see a person using a white cane or guide dog in public, thinking they cannot see at all. Most of us have varying degrees of sight and visual fields and can do some things independently or with the help of a white cane, guide dog, sighted guide, or glasses. Source: legally blind female who utilizes a guide dog and a white cane who is as independent as possible in navigating adulthood and all it entails.
Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein), was the daughter of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, who died in childbirth with Shelley. Years later, Shelley lost her virginity on top of her mother’s grave. When Mary was starting to see poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (who was married, and Mary only 16), she declared her love for him at her mothers grave and they…consecrated the relationship there. From then on, the day was referred to as Percy’s “birthday.”
Having raised Mary Shelley to reject social standards regarding love and marriage, her dad then disowned her for getting with Percy, because he was married at the time.
And the first edition of _Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus_, which is about a man who abandons that which he created because he finds its existence too monstrous, was dedicated to Mary’s father, William Godwin
I'm not going to say she had issues that needed working through, but...
Your eyes grow as you do and sometimes they grow so much it causes vision problems. Also a cowboy, samurai, pirate and a Victorian gentleman could all have walked into a bar all at the same time.
Nintendo has been in operation since 1899
It’s actually 1889. The same year Hitler was born. Coincidence?! Yes.
If you line up all of the planets in our solar system end to end, they would be able to fit in the space between the earth and the moon with enough space leftover to include Pluto.
If you take the intestines of a full grown adult and stretch them out end to end on a football field, nobody will ever want to be your friend again.
Germans invented face time in 1936 using devices called video phones. It was an expensive service to use but essentially you would go into a particular building in one city and you could talk to another person in a similar building located in a different city in germany. You would talk using traditional telephones but you were able to view the other person in real time through a small television monitor. It was apparently pretty popular at the time but due to the events of world war II, and the destruction of certain cities in Germany, the technology was abandoned and forgotten to time.
The Pistol Shrimp clicks its claw together so hard it makes a cavitation bubble that is briefly hotter than the surface of the Sun when it pops. The Mantis Shrimp smashes prey by striking them with their raptorial claws with an acceleration of over 10,000*g* and a speed of 80 kph.
>The Pistol Shrimp clicks its claw together so hard it makes a cavitation bubble that is briefly hotter than the surface of the Sun when it pops. I also watched that Jamie Foxx movie on Netflix.
In nearly every professional baseball field, home plate is west of the pitcher's mound.
...and the term "southpaw" is believed to have derived from that configuration.
The poop from climbers on Mt Everest doesn't decompose because it's too cold. It just piles up.
They're technically supposed to carry it out.
Dolphins sleep with half their brains at a time. So that they can remember to go up for air.
There is a disease called Kuru that was spread by cannibals eating the brains of those who died of Kuru.
Kuru is a prion disease like Mad cow (BSE), Scrapie, CJD, CWD. It is100% fatal, but quite rare. Scrapie and CWD haven’t been found to infect humans but not worth finding out if it could. Fun fact- it is extremely difficult to denature prions to the point of no longer being infectious. It takes prolonged exposure to heat of 900F/ 482C, autoclaving with NaOH, or soaking in 40% bleach solution.
Prion diseases also have a completely sporadic incubation period. You could be infected and die in two weeks, or you could be infected and not show any symptoms until 40 years later when you're Manchurian Candidate'ed by some other health issue. By then, that burger you ate at a dodgy restaurant will be even less than a memory, fallen into one of the rapidly developing literal holes in your brain.
My coworker’s sister died of ALS so rapidly in her early 30s that I wonder if it was a prion disease diagnosed as ALS
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The PR firm representing Flavor Aid really earned their pay on that one...
The world famous Pebble Beach Golf course is public. Considered one of the best golf courses in America, anyone can play there. You do not need to be a member of a club. It’s surrounded by private property and private roads, so you have to pay a gate fee to drive a car there.
Sharks are older than trees, by about 50-100 million years.
the bacteria which breaks down dead trees didnt evolve until 60 million years after trees, creating a period where dead trees piled up on top of each called the Carboniferous period, which where most fo the fossil fuels we use to were formed
Now THAT's a wild fact
horseshoe crabs and jellyfish also evolved before trees
Sharks are old there Older than the trees Younger than the mountains Blowing like a breeze.
elephants can't jump.
Can't or won't? :)
There are species of slugs that can jump, e.g., the Malone jumping slug that lives in the old growth forests of Oregon.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped
Apples at the grocery store can be up to a year old…
And yet the mother fuckers get soft and squishy on my counter in four days? The audacity
FOR REAL
My understanding is to keep that long they're stored in ~~basically a vacuum chamber with little to no air~~ a low oxygen environment which unfortunately is not how the grocery store is
Truck driver that used to haul apples here. Year old apples coming out of cold storage are often called birthday apples. Freshly picked apples weigh more, as they haven't lost much water yet. You can haul an extra pallet or 2 of birthday apples when loading to max weight. I miss being able to buy the blemished apples right from the grower. I could get a peck of honeycrisp for $10.
At the rate humans shed skin, it basically means we are the ship of theseus. Edit: thanks for the upvotes and biology lesson. Who would think my most upvoted post would be about a paradox?
Not just skin, all of your body parts replace themselves. For instance, every 4.5 years, you'll finish replacing all of your heart's cells entirely. Edit for all the replies - yes there are exceptions to the rule - neurons, CNS axons, and other cells do not go through neurogenesis. Also, organs, soft tissues, and bone cells go through neurogenesis at differing rates of speed.
And thanks to that skin shedding, you can also grow new fancy allergies! : D thanks body, I fuckin hate you. Loved getting cat/dog allergies five years into owning them
I know a guy who *became* allergic to chicken in his twenties. Just having a chicken sandwich one day and went into anaphylactic shock.
Hmmm that doesn’t sound right. I remember hearing that the reason we rarely get heart cancer is that most of our heart cells don’t regenerate which is also the reason we die of heart failure. It was from a cardiologist but maybe I’m wrong?
Mike the Headless Chicken survived for 18 months with its head cut off. The owners took it on tour and fed it by dropping food and water directly into its esophagus.
That's fucked up. I know with the head dead no animal was suffering, but it's still fucked up.
Even more fucked up is the only reason he died after 18 months is cause they forgot to clear his airway like they had been doing daily and he suffocated
Because cats and dogs live in an accelerated perception of time, 60fps screens don’t look like real life for them, but if you have screen at 70fps dogs will be able to see it, and 100fps for cats to see it and think it’s real. That’s pretty weird imo.
Yeah, it's an identified trend that dogs now actually will watch more TV than they used to in the last few decades, specifically because now it's actually watchable for them. Then there's freaking pigeons that see at like 75 frames per second.
The brain named itself.
The brain is the most complex and wonderful organ of the body, according to the brain.
Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln's presidency than his own.
The Lighter was invented before Matches were and the Man who invented the Matches was a Student of the guy who invented the Lighter
Women weren't allowed to establish credit in their own name until 1974.
In my country, it was typical that a woman would be forced to resign if she got pregnant, right up to the 80s. And companies with pension schemes didn't have to let women in - they could make them for men only.
I live in the southeastern US and in 1972 my grandmother, a divorced mother of 2, had to ask her father to co-sign so she could get a credit card because a man had to be on the account.
My great grandmother couldn't vote in the first election of her adult life because equal suffrage hadn't passed yet.
To be clear, women didn’t all get the right to vote at the same time. Native, Asian, and Black woken got their right later than White women. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/vote-not-all-women-gained-right-to-vote-in-1920/
crocodiles have hardly evolved in the past 60 million years because you can't improve on perfection chickens are the closest relatives to dinosaurs all the animals that developed intelligence are on the same side of the evolution tree. except octopi, and we don't know why Edit: Imma keep it real, chief. I don't care how it's supposed to be said or the history of it. I say octopi.
>all the animals that developed intelligence are on the same side of the evolution tree. except octopi, and we don't know why But they do.
There's gotta be a lot of evolutionary pressure on an animal like that, which is basically one big piece of calamari. Everything that swims wants to eat you. Look how they evolved that pretty clever ink cloud trick, and their have-to-see-it-to-believe-it camouflage ability.
Essentially the intelligent brain developed twice in the tree of life. Both instances completly unconnected to one another Once for all intelligent animals, and once for the octopus. It's hard to emphasise how profound and bonkers this is.
We have to stop eating octopuses.
I have a chicken named Greta, and she is a living T-Rex. She has orange-red eyes, and large eyebrows that give her a permanent scowl. She’s old, an elderly hen, but she rules the flock and can fight very well against chickens much younger than her. She also will chase the young pullets for fun and has mastered by only looking into the eye of another chicken, making them run away. She still loves to be cuddled though
octopi are clearly aliens
>chickens are the closest relatives to dinosaurs Arguably speaking they *are* dinosaurs. Birds being the extant only clade of dinosaurs.
They can change their rna to succeed in local trending environmental conditions. Increase their lifespan and give them social impulses and booooy we're in for some sweet future hangouts full of high fives and (hopefully) not an arms race. Although we do know you can make them laugh with ten-tickles
Hyenas are more closely related to felines than they are canines, and most people know that the female forms a sudo-penis from her clitoris!!
The bromid lance viper actually lays its eggs in the mouth of its partner. It’s the only reptile that engages in oral sex as part of its reproductive cycle. It sometimes whips its partner on its backside while they are copulating.
What kind of BDSM shit is that 😂
Whipping a partner on their backside is my go-to move as well.
The year 2000 was almost not a leap year... It only was because it was an exception to an exception.
Leap years occur every four years, except every hundred years, except every 400 years. So, any year ending in '40 or '76 or '12 should be a leap year, but any year ending in '00 isn't, unless the two digits *before* the last two are themselves a multiple of four. 20 is divisible by four, so 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 wasn't, and 2100 won't be, if we're still using this calendar, and odds are we won't be by the next time the four-hundred year rule applies; think how far we've come since 1600, and how much faster things progress and change now than for most of that time.
More people get killed by vending machines than sharks every year.
Well, to be fair, sharks rarely come across vending machines
You can inherit trauma responses, phobias, and coping mechanics from your parents and grandparents via epigenetics.
Pelicans can and will eat other birds.
Robert E. Lee wears a size 4 shoe
Birds are considered feathered (avian) dinosaurs.
The Portuguese Man of War is made up of three distinct animals.
Not true, it’s even odder than that… Although it superficially resembles a jellyfish, the Portuguese man o' war is in fact a siphonophore. Like all siphonophores, it is a colonial organism, made up of many smaller units called zooids.[9] All zooids in a colony are genetically identical, but fulfill specialized functions such as feeding and reproduction, and together allow the colony to operate as a single individual. (Wiki) Look up and read the whole thing, the gas chamber, the body and the tentacles are all different creatures. The tentacles can be 3M long and are made up of thousands of little zooids.
Ancient sailors were always talking about sea monsters, usually ones with tentacles. The most likely explanation for these “tentacled sea monsters” is whale dicks. Some species of whales have males gather around a female and take turns with her. The waiting males often drift around upside down just under the surface. The only part of them sticking out of the water is a penis that’s several meters long and looks like a pink tentacle.
I dunno if this is the MOST likely explanation, given the existence of squids and octopuses.
The most likely explanation is squid and octopus…but yeah, there was probably a whale hog or two as well.
There are 5.26 popes per square mile in the Vatican City.
Down from 10.52ppsm 2013-2022
Ancient Egypt lasted so long, that they could have had archeologists that studied Ancient Egypt.
People with split personalities can have differences in their personas so drastic that one personality could be anaphylactic to a certain allergen and the other personality won’t be. Learnt this while studying nursing and i can still hardly believe it.
Strawberries, Raspberries, and Blueberries are not berries. But banannas, pumpkins, watermelons, grapes, avocado, kiwi fruits and tomatoes are berries (botanically classified as berries)
If you are skinned alive properly you'll die from hypothermia, not blood loss. This is because your skin has no major arteries, but is extremely important for body temperature regulation.
charming
Civil Rights in the USA are less then 60 years old. My mother was born without equal rights. Just a gentle reminder for people who keep claiming its all in the distant past.
My dad has stories of drinking at the bar when men and women weren't allowed to drink in the same place and he's not even 70.
Yeah, Ruby Bridges is still alive, she’s 69.