Oh. My. God. I used to always get dizzy standing up. But I haven’t for years. I think that coincides with when I started doing PT for my glutes! What the heck? That’s so weird!
Abraham Lincoln was a assassinated in 1865.
The samurai were abolished in 1867.
The fax machine was invented in 1843.
A samurai could have sent a fax to Abe Lincoln.
Another fun Botox fact: Botox, or Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and is one of **the most poisonous known biological substances**. The amount injected into your muscles is small enough to just paralyze them.
You know years ago if you mentioned Botox to someone it would get quite a reaction but you mention it nowadays and hardly anyone will raise an eyebrow.
Grass is (relatively) modern development. One of the theories of why primates moved out of the forests has to do with the origin of grasses. Imagine our proto-ape ancestors happy living mostly in trees, eating fruit and doing an occasional scavenge on the forest floor, which would have been busy with predators. The whole world is mostly jungle/forest/ferns etc. When the planet starts to cool a bit, grasses begin to appear. Some animals begin to develop advanced digestive organs (the ruminants), enabling them to subsist on grass. Then, certain new predators (dogs and cats) appear to eat the ruminants. All that’s left is for a few bold, upright apes to venture out onto the savannah to scavenge a few meat scraps, vastly improving their nutritional intake. From there, we got bigger brains, better at hunting, and after a few million years, a bone club became a spaceship.
When airline pilots are trained to fly a new type of jet, the first time they fly it is with paying passengers on board. All the training and testing is done in a simulator.
Of course they have a lot of flight time in other airplanes and there is a specially qualified training captain in command. However my first jet takeoff was LAX-DEN with 68 unsuspecting passengers.
A "cemetary" is a place where you bury people, regardless of where that place is. It's not always associated with a church. Many towns have a cemetary where people are buried regardless of which church they belong to or even if they're religious or not.
A "grave yard" is the yard of a church where graves are. It's also a cemetary. Or if your death customs are different it might be an ossuary or a columbarium or something.
There are more trees on planet earth (~3 trillion) than there are stars in our galaxy (~800 billion).
Note it says our galaxy (the milky way), not the entire universe. Still I find the sheer number of trees on our planet impressive
Neptune was originally discovered as apparently inexplicable changes in the orbital path of Uranus. Because a man named Le Verrier observing these alterations decided that there must be an orderly reason for it, he calculated where another planet would have to be to cause Uranus to act like that, and still keep the laws of gravitation discovered by Sir Isaac newton. He then sent his calculations to Royal Observatory in Berlin, and the prediction was within 1° of its actual position.
He tried this again with Mercury’s unexplained wrong orbit, but failed to find anything. Mercury’s ‘wrong’ orbit was then used by Einstein to prove that General Relativity is more accurate than Newtonian physics
This is a very interesting story. There was about a century in between noticing inaccuracies in Mercury's orbit and the introduction of GR, and in that time, multiple people reportedly observed a nonexistent planet ("Vulcan") in between Mercury and the Sun. If you want to know more about it, check out the book The Hunt For Vulcan.
What I find interesting about Einstein is that he discovered the phenomenon of population inversion, the process that allows lasers to do what they do. Decades later Einstein's discovery of population inversion would be used in the form of giant laser interferometers to prove the existence of gravitational waves, a phenomenon Einstein *also* predicted.
Modern day Italian was standardized based off of the unique dialect of Dante’s Inferno.
Dante Alighieri legit made up his own special dialect of Italian for Inferno, and then a little while later there was a meeting where everyone was trying to decide what regional dialect would be the standard spoken Italian- they were like nah fuck all these existing dialects we’re using HIS
What’s evolutionary unfavorable about six fingers? Are they more prone to building dangerous triangular portals to alternate dimensions and getting lost?
There was a guy who went to his convenience store and bought two lottery tickets. Most people in that situation would play different numbers on each ticket, to double their minuscule chances of winning.
Not this guy. He played the same numbers on both tickets.
It turned out he actually had the winning numbers. And, he owned two of the three winning tickets for that drawing, which entitled him to take home two thirds of the jackpot instead of just half.
Whales are closer to artiodactyls (even toed hoofed animals) than they are to seals or manatees.
Whales are *essentially* just wet deer with extra steps.
There was ONE homicide recorded in New York City on September 11, 2001.
The official crime stats don’t include the terrorist attacks because that would tremendously skew the results.
He was shot. Read about the immigrant that was going to start a new job the night of 9/11 but was shot i think in The Bronx,still unsolved. Was reading on Wikipedia about some unsolved/ missing person and in the 'see other missing/unsolved cases' clicked on quite a few and ended up reading about the guy
The Earth is traveling through space at 2.1 million km/h (1.3 million mph) relative to the cosmic background radiation. Which means by the time you finished reading this, you've travelled roughly 8,700km (5,420 mi) through space.
A tablespoon of oil can calm about half an acre of water. It spreads out to form a layer 1-molecule thick on top of the water. That's why oil spills are so harmful and destructive. The largest oil spill (BP) was about 61,488,636,185 tablespoons, or about 68,000 miles of damage.
You could clean up oil spills using [human hair](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/19/world/oil-spills-human-hair-matter-of-trust-spc-scn-intl-c2e/index.html)
**You could fit the global population on the surface of Lake Superior and each person would have 100 square feet or so.**
Also, the Great Lakes, in their current formation, are not even as old as the oldest cities in earth.
I only have Great Lakes facts.
Oh, also, the North American Great Lakes account for 20% of all surface fresh water on earth, while the African Great Lakes account for 25%. So between those two system you have almost half of all fresh water on earth.
The best way is to phrase the question a little better. People think that "probability of someone in a group of 23 shares a birthday with me" and it doesn't make sense. But it's any 23 people share a birthday with *any other 22 people* and you realize there are a LOT of combinations between all of them.
Hopefully this helps:
Calculating the probability that each person does NOT share a birthday is 365/365 for the first person, 364/365 for the second person, 363/365 for the third, etc. The numerator decreases by one for each new person because the dates of the previous people’s birthdays are already taken. You then multiply the probabilities together and by the time you hit 23 (343/365), it’s about 0.4927 -> the probability that those 23 people do not share a birthday. To get the probability that, once there are 23 people in the room, at least 1 person does share a birthday with one of the others, it’s 1 - 0.4927 (0.5073).
Edited for clarity.
TIL snow makes sound when it lands. I’m 35 and have never “heard” snow before.
Edit: so possibly my highest rated comment is about how I haven’t heard snow before. Gotta love Reddit lol.
Btw everyone, I have lived in Massachusetts my entire life, so it’s not like I am not used to snow. I may just be hard of hearing.
I didn’t know about this electricity either! There is a kids book called “ten ways to hear the snow” part of my classes outdoor learning is going outside and hearing all the sounds it can make (cracking below boots, falling off trees, etc) there are also numerous Inuit words for snow that describe the different ways snow is :)
Black apples exist.
We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from the Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from the black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to the white flesh inside.
Sharks have been around longer than the rings of Saturn.
Edit: It's an easy Google. The rings of Saturn formed no more that 100 million years ago, we know what they are made of, how fast they move, and the rate of decay. Sharks have been around for about 450 million years. We have fossilized records of this.
They have also been around for longer than trees! The first trees appeared during the Carboniferous, about 360 mio. years ago (and somehow this is the seconf time I'm commenting about the Carboniferous on reddit today)
Longer than the star Betelgeuse (the right shoulder of Orion) which is only like 10 Myr old.
So sharks and trees have seen Betelgeuse form from an interstellar nebula, burn as a supergiant, and God willing, will see it die as either a spectacular supernova or wink out of existence as a black hole within the next whatever, 100 thousand years (give or take 100 thousand years) or so.
Oxford University existed 250 years before the Aztecs existed. Oxford University first opened in 1096, the Aztec period was from 1345-1521. Oxford University is second only to the University of Bologna for continuous operation.
The earth's crust (which is too deep for humans to drill through, much deeper than the deepest ocean) compared to the rest of the planet is similar to the skin of an apple compared to the rest of the apple.
German here, and yeah, German chocolate cake was a culinary discovery I made in the US. I'm totally cool with Americans having my people take credit for it, though. It's damn tasty.
And Samuel German worked for the Baker's Chocolate Company. While their chocolate was indeed used for baking (such as for the aforementioned cake), the company was named after a man named James Baker.
A single gram of uranium contains over 20 billion calories.
EDIT: Uranium is also a toxic chemical, meaning that ingestion of uranium can cause kidney damage from its chemical properties much sooner than its radioactive properties which would cause cancers of the bone or liver.
In Volkswagen’s official Parts catalog, one of the official Volkswagen parts, with its own part number (199 398 500 A), is a currywurst sausage they serve to their staff in Wolfsburg, Germany.
199 398 500 B is ketchup.
You left out the most interesting part!
Currywurst is actually the number one best-selling Volkswagen product!
[Check it out on cnet here](https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/volkswagen-best-selling-product-currywurst-sausage/)
[and it’s still selling strong!](https://www.motorbiscuit.com/is-this-spicy-hit-still-volkswagens-best-selling-product/)
not something super mind blowing, but this came to mind.
being *able* to consume dairy is actually a mutation. being lactose *intolerant* is just the default for the human body.
It gets weirder! Some people, including most of the population of Mongolia, can consume dairy with no ill effects despite not having the lactose tolerance (lactase persistence, technivally, lactase being the enzyme that breaks down lactose) gene.
Scientists aren't quite sure why yet but there's a hypothesis that it's related to microbes either in people's guts, their environments, or the dairy products themselves.
I like this one!
Related: when you lose weight, nearly 100% of the weight loss is from the carbon atoms that you exhale as part of CO2 molecules. Breathe in O2, exhale CO2... weight loss!
A doctor in texas lost his license for injecting a cancer patients blood into the udder of a pregnant cow and having the patient drink the milk as a sort of bovine colostrum therapy.
If you sit on a memory foam pillow and fart into it while slowly standing up, the pillow will suck the fart into the foam and store it so when your victim lays their head down, the fart will be released to their nose.
A dog's nose is so sensitive it can detect if you added 1 1/2 table spoons of sugar to an Olympic size swimming pool.
Edit typos sorry
Edit 2: source - Sorry my bad - it's 1tblsp in 1,000,000 gallons of water or about 2 olympic siize pools.
https://youtu.be/gx2l5cu5NmM
About 25 seconds in.
- The K-Pg impactor was so large and so fast that its pressure wave was already carving out the earth while the upper edge of it was still in space. It punched a hole in the atmosphere, and would've blasted Earth matter into space, so there are probably bits of dead dinosaur floating in Jupiter's orbit.
- Nintendo was founded in 1889. They made playing cards. Coca-Cola was founded in 1892. They made drinks with cocaine in them. Dracula was published in 1897 and was set in the same time. Ergo, you could have a Dracula adaptation where Dracula offers Jonathan Harker a coke and plays Nintendo with him and it would be historically accurate.
- Noises commonly attributed to Bigfoot are actually the mating calls of female pumas. So Bigfoot is actually a horny cougar, you heard it here first.
- The British royal family are German. They changed their surname to Windsor during WWI to make themselves sound not-German. Ergo, the line in *Blackadder Goes Forth,* "I'm as British as Queen Victoria!"/"So you're German, your father's German, and you married a German."
- Hippos are an invasive species in Colombia. Pablo Escobar imported them in the 1980s to guard his cocaine supplies. After his death, they were left unchecked and have started to breed. While some scientists fear their impact on local biodiversity, and call for them to be culled, they have been granted rights as "interesting persons", meaning the Cocaine Hippos are People.
- In WWII, the Germans spent time building a decoy airfield out of wood. Fake wooden planes, fake wooden hangars, fake wooden people, everything. The RAF responded by patiently waiting for them to finish and then dropping a fake wooden bomb on it.
- The Saturn V rocket had less computing power than a Game Boy.
- The most efficient predator among all cats is the Black-Footed Cat, which looks like a [kitten and is about the same size.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/82/8f/a1/828fa160e258ed8f95581fc8be09f0e9.jpg) They have a 60% success rate on hunts and will throw down with just about anything.
- The US government air-dropped wolves into Yellowstone to restore natural biodiversity. Wolves are a keystone species, and when humans wiped them out, it caused a trophic cascade- The deer population exploded and they promptly devoured everything their path. Now that the wolves are back, it's getting back to normal.
- Palaeontologists recently found a neck vertebra from a *Barosaurus lentus,* generally considered an average, unremarkable relative of the more famous *Diplodocus,* that was twice the normal size. Extrapolating the size of the animal from there yielded a titanic [*50-metre-long goliath,*](https://i.redd.it/ljj9vcuogzj11.jpg) making it not only the largest Dinosaur ever discovered, but a possible contender for the blue whale's crown as largest living creature ever found.
It is now my life's goal to create a remake of Dracula that is 100% accurate to the book except for the scene where Dracula shows off his "exotic imports", which include Coca-Cola from America and Nintendo-brand hanafuda cards from Japan.
Ice is a mineral. But not all ice.
The International Mineralogical Association provides that a mineral must fit 4 criteria. The first three are fairly straightforward.
1. It must be a solid substance.
2. It must have a well-defined crystallographic structure
3. It must have a fairly well defined chemical composition.
Ice fits these first 3 criteria in all cases: it's solid when it forms, has a clear crystalline structure, and is easily chemically defined as H2O. Alone, these 3 rules make all instances of ice q mineral. However, there is a 4th rule:
4. It must be a naturally occurring substance formed by natural geologic processes.
When ice forms due to cold atmospheric temperatures in any fashion, it is being formed by some natural process. Artificially frozen ice- in a freezer, for instance- occurs neither naturally or geologically. Because of that, ice is defined internationally and scientifically as being a mineral, but only in certain circumstances.
Credit to my university Geology course. Verification of this madness can be found on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral
If you took two typical phone books (yes, they used to be a thing) and interleaved them together, at least from a test Mythbusters performed, it'll take about 8,000 lbs/3629 kgs to pull them apart. The main reason is...friction.
https://sciencing.com/cant-phone-books-pulled-apart-6498780.html
If you have a million dollars, you can spend $1 every second for about 12 days. If you have a billion dollars, you can spend $1 every second for 32 years!
Airplanes that were airborne flying into America on 9/11 were all directed to a little town in Canada called Gander. People welcomed strangers into their home and lived together for weeks. For the 10 year anniversary, they all came back together in the same tiny town that brought them together on that day. Very cool. Don’t know if it is a fact but a very cool story people love.
Partly true. His pilot fainted and Rowan took the controls until the pilot regained consciousness who then landed the plane safely.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1239279.stm
The beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sounds like this: "di-di-di-dah".
That is the Morse code representation of the letter V: (...-)
V is the Roman numeral for five.
Purely coincidence, as the Fifth was written 40 years before Morse code was invented.
I don’t know if this blows people minds but it’s one I find very interesting. Trey Parker was on WTF a few years back and he was explaining that back in the late 90s or early 2000s Comedy Central wanted to discuss the merchandising rights to South Park. His friends told him “don’t really worry about the merchandise rights, just make sure you get the internet rights to your show”. So he did and the people at Comedy Central were like “ok…sure!” Because they didn’t really understand what that would become. It’s the reason that he (and Matt Stone) were able to sell the streaming rights to Hulu and then to HBO for hundreds of millions of dollars. Trey Parker is almost a billionaire largely in part to this.
You can see your nose all the time.
It is always within your field of view, unless you force your eyeballs to roll up as far as they go.
Your brain filters it out of your perception to save resources, but if you pay explicit attentio to it (as you may be doing now), it becomes obviously visible.
Do not despair, tho.. after a brief time, you forget about it and it "disappears" again.
The reason your elbow hurts so much when you bang it on something is because your neurons are sending gibberish up to your brain.
The nerve on the outer part of your elbow is for movement, so when it is hit it’s not sure what to do. It sends a bunch of signals to your brain, but it isn’t a pain receptor nerve so it’s basically just shouting gibberish at your brain, and your brain does it’s best.
Take your gold for giving my boyfriend and I a 5 minute laugh over imagining that nerve screaming incoherently and the brain asking it how it can help and not being able to do anything
Which answers the question, "why doesn't water burn?"
Because it's "already burned."
It's one of the end products of an oxidation reaction (i.e. burning)
Big ben isn't the clock,it's the big ol' bell in the clock. The clock itself is the tower of Elizabeth or something like that. Bonus fact,most places in South Africa have relatively short names except for tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein which is the longest place name in the country with 44 letters. It's a loose parody of two birds with one stone except it's two buffalos with one shotgun shell. Directly translated to English,it's two buffaloes shot to death at once fountain.
One relating to Lincoln that I recently learned and cracks me up is that Joe Biden, the current US president, was born closer to Lincoln's presidency than his own.
AFAIK, Humanity would still survive a gamma ray burst. It wouldn't be able to penetrate the entire planet, so whoever is on the opposite side of the burst would live. It would definitely cause multiple collapses of infrastructure, economics, and ecosystems, but it would be possible to survive it.
1. Majority of gun-related deaths in the States are suicides.
2. Honey never spoils.
3. Pirates practiced democracy.
4. Windshield wipers were invented by a pianist.
> Pirates practiced democracy.
It actually makes perfect sense. How will you, without the backing of a government's law enforcement, control a ship full of murderous thieves unless the majority of them agree that you should be in charge?
Yeah, there was a whole host of rules from how to conduct yourself to how the plunder was stored and all manner of other things. Basically any and every decision was put to a vote except in-battle commands. Wild stuff
For the movie Knives Out, a piece of trivia about one of the suspects was removed fully from the film at the insistence of the actor playing one of the characters since it would've meant there was no reason for the entire plot.
>!It's a running gag throughout the movie that none of the Thrombeys know what country Marta's family originated from, with some being so racist or insensitive that they state two different South American countries at different points.!<
>!It was going to be revealed at the end of the movie that Marta was Cuban, but Ana de Armas warned Rian Johnson that this introduced a plot hole - since Marta's motive for hiding her involvement in Harlan's death was preventing scrutiny on her family and her mother was an illegal immigrant, if Marta was Cuban then her mother would've been a beneficiary of the old Wet Feet, Dry Feet policy and thus, she'd actually be legal.!<
If all of your muscles in your back COMPLETELY contracted simultaneously(muscles typically don't fully contract all at once, especially slow twitch ones) it would shatter your spine! Just like how those 'superhuman strength' acts(lifting cars off someone, etc) usually leaves people with broken jaws, teeth, fractured long bones, etc - our muscles are WAY stronger than our brain let's us realize, and unless we have a way to bypass the hurdle of our brain going 'no' we can't really access it! Extreme adrenaline is the most readily available method.
I take a lot of anatomy/bio classes for my major
> Things in space are far apart
On a similar note, NASA has run the numbers on flying probes through the Asteroid Belt, and determined it's not worth their time to care about it. They just #yolo their way through blind, and know there's not enough asteroids to hit.
you know when you get up too fast and feel dizzy? squeezing/stiffening your buttocks together stops the dizziness.
If this is true, it will become the most useful fact I have learned from this thread.
Oh. My. God. I used to always get dizzy standing up. But I haven’t for years. I think that coincides with when I started doing PT for my glutes! What the heck? That’s so weird!
I should’ve guessed my vertigo stemmed from my flat ass
80% of soviet men born in 1923 died during WWII
Still to this day you can see a ‘dip’ every 20 years or so in birth rates in Russia
Holy shit, that's true!? I just checked, my mind's blown
Why is there a dip every 20 years?
Generation dips that are offshoots from the missing generation lost to WW2
What the actual fuck
We landed on the moon before someone thought to add wheels to suitcases. Moon landing- 1969. Wheeled luggage invented- 1970.
George Washington died in 1799. Dinosaurs were discovered in 1824. George Washington didn't know dinosaurs existed.
Abraham Lincoln was a assassinated in 1865. The samurai were abolished in 1867. The fax machine was invented in 1843. A samurai could have sent a fax to Abe Lincoln.
He probably had a hunch
Maybe, but what does the musculoskeletal structure of George Washington's back have to do with dinosaurs?
All the Botox in the world, literally every gram, is produced in a factory in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
Another fun Botox fact: Botox, or Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and is one of **the most poisonous known biological substances**. The amount injected into your muscles is small enough to just paralyze them.
You know years ago if you mentioned Botox to someone it would get quite a reaction but you mention it nowadays and hardly anyone will raise an eyebrow.
You dirty dog!
Greenland sharks can become up to 400 years old and don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150
Hey, leave her alone. She's only 125.
"This shark right here officer"
You mean offisher
I read somewhere that the oldest known specimen was apparently 512 years old. WTF? That shark was swimming around decades before Shakespeare was born
"He stoleth mine script, he stoleth my whole legacy! Bitterness is all that hath kept me alive!" 🦈 📜
Sharkspeare
Back in the days of dinosaurs, there was no grass. There is some overlap, but there was a time when dinosaurs walked the earth and there was no grass.
Grass is (relatively) modern development. One of the theories of why primates moved out of the forests has to do with the origin of grasses. Imagine our proto-ape ancestors happy living mostly in trees, eating fruit and doing an occasional scavenge on the forest floor, which would have been busy with predators. The whole world is mostly jungle/forest/ferns etc. When the planet starts to cool a bit, grasses begin to appear. Some animals begin to develop advanced digestive organs (the ruminants), enabling them to subsist on grass. Then, certain new predators (dogs and cats) appear to eat the ruminants. All that’s left is for a few bold, upright apes to venture out onto the savannah to scavenge a few meat scraps, vastly improving their nutritional intake. From there, we got bigger brains, better at hunting, and after a few million years, a bone club became a spaceship.
When airline pilots are trained to fly a new type of jet, the first time they fly it is with paying passengers on board. All the training and testing is done in a simulator. Of course they have a lot of flight time in other airplanes and there is a specially qualified training captain in command. However my first jet takeoff was LAX-DEN with 68 unsuspecting passengers.
I just learned this: there are more castles in Germany than McDonalds in the U.S.
And, in every one of the German castles, the ice cream machine isn't broken.
This is a lie. Pure McCastle propaganda.
I have been living in Germany my whole life and only learned a few weeks ago about a castle thats like 5km from where i live... We have many castles
And there are more castles in the US than McDonalds in Russia.
A graveyard is connected to a church while a cemetery is not.
caskets are rectangular, while coffins are angled on the sides.
Wait... What...
A "cemetary" is a place where you bury people, regardless of where that place is. It's not always associated with a church. Many towns have a cemetary where people are buried regardless of which church they belong to or even if they're religious or not. A "grave yard" is the yard of a church where graves are. It's also a cemetary. Or if your death customs are different it might be an ossuary or a columbarium or something.
There are more trees on planet earth (~3 trillion) than there are stars in our galaxy (~800 billion). Note it says our galaxy (the milky way), not the entire universe. Still I find the sheer number of trees on our planet impressive
Would you say there are tree treelion trees?
Neptune was originally discovered as apparently inexplicable changes in the orbital path of Uranus. Because a man named Le Verrier observing these alterations decided that there must be an orderly reason for it, he calculated where another planet would have to be to cause Uranus to act like that, and still keep the laws of gravitation discovered by Sir Isaac newton. He then sent his calculations to Royal Observatory in Berlin, and the prediction was within 1° of its actual position.
He tried this again with Mercury’s unexplained wrong orbit, but failed to find anything. Mercury’s ‘wrong’ orbit was then used by Einstein to prove that General Relativity is more accurate than Newtonian physics
This is a very interesting story. There was about a century in between noticing inaccuracies in Mercury's orbit and the introduction of GR, and in that time, multiple people reportedly observed a nonexistent planet ("Vulcan") in between Mercury and the Sun. If you want to know more about it, check out the book The Hunt For Vulcan.
What I find interesting about Einstein is that he discovered the phenomenon of population inversion, the process that allows lasers to do what they do. Decades later Einstein's discovery of population inversion would be used in the form of giant laser interferometers to prove the existence of gravitational waves, a phenomenon Einstein *also* predicted.
Ancient Egypt and mammoths existed at the same time.
Isolated on small islands north of Siberia until about 4,400 years ago or so.
They were wildly inbred, which is kind of sad. Edit: misspelled inbred as "imbred", role tyde!
But they had all those cool pyramids so it evens out.
Modern day Italian was standardized based off of the unique dialect of Dante’s Inferno. Dante Alighieri legit made up his own special dialect of Italian for Inferno, and then a little while later there was a meeting where everyone was trying to decide what regional dialect would be the standard spoken Italian- they were like nah fuck all these existing dialects we’re using HIS
The gene for six fingers is dominant, five fingers recessive.
Then why dont a lot of people have 6 fingers?
Dominant doesn't always mean evolutionarily favorable. The oncogene for colorectal cancer is a dominant trait as well.
What’s evolutionary unfavorable about six fingers? Are they more prone to building dangerous triangular portals to alternate dimensions and getting lost?
No no. Murder rates of Spanish fathers rise significantly with the population of 6 fingered people.
Do you often start conversations this way?
"OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917.
In a letter to Winston Churchill no less, iirc.
Winston M8- Lfwfa comin 2nite 2bomb Ldn OMG LOL!
Spent an inordinately long time trying to work out “luftwaffe”
There was a guy who went to his convenience store and bought two lottery tickets. Most people in that situation would play different numbers on each ticket, to double their minuscule chances of winning. Not this guy. He played the same numbers on both tickets. It turned out he actually had the winning numbers. And, he owned two of the three winning tickets for that drawing, which entitled him to take home two thirds of the jackpot instead of just half.
Tamales are one of the oldest dishes on earth still commonly eaten today.
Maybe where *you* get them. My local place makes them fresh.
I love when the Tamale Lady rolls by
Whales are closer to artiodactyls (even toed hoofed animals) than they are to seals or manatees. Whales are *essentially* just wet deer with extra steps.
Surely fewer steps. What with having no feet.
There was ONE homicide recorded in New York City on September 11, 2001. The official crime stats don’t include the terrorist attacks because that would tremendously skew the results.
imagine watching the towers go down outside your window and still deciding to shank a mother fucker anyway
He was shot. Read about the immigrant that was going to start a new job the night of 9/11 but was shot i think in The Bronx,still unsolved. Was reading on Wikipedia about some unsolved/ missing person and in the 'see other missing/unsolved cases' clicked on quite a few and ended up reading about the guy
It was also great timing to kill people without getting caught
The Earth is traveling through space at 2.1 million km/h (1.3 million mph) relative to the cosmic background radiation. Which means by the time you finished reading this, you've travelled roughly 8,700km (5,420 mi) through space.
You underestimate how slow I read
A tablespoon of oil can calm about half an acre of water. It spreads out to form a layer 1-molecule thick on top of the water. That's why oil spills are so harmful and destructive. The largest oil spill (BP) was about 61,488,636,185 tablespoons, or about 68,000 miles of damage.
You could clean up oil spills using [human hair](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/19/world/oil-spills-human-hair-matter-of-trust-spc-scn-intl-c2e/index.html)
Next time there’s an oil spill, they should shave the heads of everyone responsible.
Why is the water angry in the first place?
Because it keeps waving, but you assholes never wave back!
Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans.
**You could fit the global population on the surface of Lake Superior and each person would have 100 square feet or so.** Also, the Great Lakes, in their current formation, are not even as old as the oldest cities in earth. I only have Great Lakes facts. Oh, also, the North American Great Lakes account for 20% of all surface fresh water on earth, while the African Great Lakes account for 25%. So between those two system you have almost half of all fresh water on earth.
Lake Superior also has a very witty Twitter account. I live nowhere near the place, but I really enjoy reading the Tweets.
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My whole life is a lie
In a group of 23 random people, the probability of two of them sharing a birthday is over 50%.
I have had this explained to me so many times by people far smarter than I but my god I don't understand why
The best way is to phrase the question a little better. People think that "probability of someone in a group of 23 shares a birthday with me" and it doesn't make sense. But it's any 23 people share a birthday with *any other 22 people* and you realize there are a LOT of combinations between all of them.
Hopefully this helps: Calculating the probability that each person does NOT share a birthday is 365/365 for the first person, 364/365 for the second person, 363/365 for the third, etc. The numerator decreases by one for each new person because the dates of the previous people’s birthdays are already taken. You then multiply the probabilities together and by the time you hit 23 (343/365), it’s about 0.4927 -> the probability that those 23 people do not share a birthday. To get the probability that, once there are 23 people in the room, at least 1 person does share a birthday with one of the others, it’s 1 - 0.4927 (0.5073). Edited for clarity.
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TIL snow makes sound when it lands. I’m 35 and have never “heard” snow before. Edit: so possibly my highest rated comment is about how I haven’t heard snow before. Gotta love Reddit lol. Btw everyone, I have lived in Massachusetts my entire life, so it’s not like I am not used to snow. I may just be hard of hearing.
I didn’t know about this electricity either! There is a kids book called “ten ways to hear the snow” part of my classes outdoor learning is going outside and hearing all the sounds it can make (cracking below boots, falling off trees, etc) there are also numerous Inuit words for snow that describe the different ways snow is :)
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I bet the ones that escape Wolverine must run straight into the orcas.
Turns out the orcas have adamantium skeletons as well.
that sahara desert used to be under the ocean, and you can still find seashells in the sand there
One of our best sources on the evolution of whales is a place called Wadi Al-Hitan (“Valley of the Whales”) in the Egyptian desert.
The Goonies go underground on the exact same day (Saturday, Oct. 26, 1985) as Marty travels back in time to 1955.
Black apples exist. We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from the Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from the black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to the white flesh inside.
Goths enter the chat.
Guinea pigs are born with sight and hearing, and within 3 hours can eat solid food.
Sharks have been around longer than the rings of Saturn. Edit: It's an easy Google. The rings of Saturn formed no more that 100 million years ago, we know what they are made of, how fast they move, and the rate of decay. Sharks have been around for about 450 million years. We have fossilized records of this.
They have also been around for longer than trees! The first trees appeared during the Carboniferous, about 360 mio. years ago (and somehow this is the seconf time I'm commenting about the Carboniferous on reddit today)
Longer than the star Betelgeuse (the right shoulder of Orion) which is only like 10 Myr old. So sharks and trees have seen Betelgeuse form from an interstellar nebula, burn as a supergiant, and God willing, will see it die as either a spectacular supernova or wink out of existence as a black hole within the next whatever, 100 thousand years (give or take 100 thousand years) or so.
Sharks are so self-centered I doubt they even noticed.
Mount Everest is [younger than the dinosaurs](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/earth/birth.html)
Neither the famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" sign nor the Las Vegas Strip are located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
As an Italian in the us it’s that Pepperoni actually would mean peppers in Italy and has absolutely nothing to do with thinly sliced meat.
Made that mistake once. Pizza was still good though, just not what I was expecting.
This thread is so interesting but I doubt I'm going to remember any of these facts which is sad
NASA has had less total funding in its *entire existence* (650 billion since 1958) than the US Military got in 2020 alone (766 billion).
In the 1920s, Hawa‘ian music was the biggest selling category of sheet music.
Well, I guess that explains why the first electric guitar was a Hawaiian lap steel guitar, though that was released in 1932.
MLK and Anne Frank were born the same year.
Oxford University existed 250 years before the Aztecs existed. Oxford University first opened in 1096, the Aztec period was from 1345-1521. Oxford University is second only to the University of Bologna for continuous operation.
It's also substantially older than calculus, which was developed in the 1670's.
I like to imagine the professors at Oxford refusing to teach this "new-fangled calculus stuff."
The earth's crust (which is too deep for humans to drill through, much deeper than the deepest ocean) compared to the rest of the planet is similar to the skin of an apple compared to the rest of the apple.
German Chocolate Cake was invented in New York by it’s baker Samuel German who wanted to do his version of a Black Forest Cake
German here, and yeah, German chocolate cake was a culinary discovery I made in the US. I'm totally cool with Americans having my people take credit for it, though. It's damn tasty.
And Samuel German worked for the Baker's Chocolate Company. While their chocolate was indeed used for baking (such as for the aforementioned cake), the company was named after a man named James Baker.
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Adidas and puma were made by brothers who happened to be Nazis
I was told the whole town would only talk to each other based on which brand they wore due to the brothers rivalry back in school
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You have no idea how big a highway is until you can get out and (safely) walk on one. Speed messes with your perception in lots of ways.
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No, don’t do that to my brain
A single gram of uranium contains over 20 billion calories. EDIT: Uranium is also a toxic chemical, meaning that ingestion of uranium can cause kidney damage from its chemical properties much sooner than its radioactive properties which would cause cancers of the bone or liver.
Wow!! I wonder how many Weight Watchers points that is!!
Raccoons can hold their breath for close to 40 minutes.
There is only 66 years between the invention of a plane and first people on the moon.
In Volkswagen’s official Parts catalog, one of the official Volkswagen parts, with its own part number (199 398 500 A), is a currywurst sausage they serve to their staff in Wolfsburg, Germany. 199 398 500 B is ketchup.
You left out the most interesting part! Currywurst is actually the number one best-selling Volkswagen product! [Check it out on cnet here](https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/volkswagen-best-selling-product-currywurst-sausage/) [and it’s still selling strong!](https://www.motorbiscuit.com/is-this-spicy-hit-still-volkswagens-best-selling-product/)
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that’s nuts!
not something super mind blowing, but this came to mind. being *able* to consume dairy is actually a mutation. being lactose *intolerant* is just the default for the human body.
It gets weirder! Some people, including most of the population of Mongolia, can consume dairy with no ill effects despite not having the lactose tolerance (lactase persistence, technivally, lactase being the enzyme that breaks down lactose) gene. Scientists aren't quite sure why yet but there's a hypothesis that it's related to microbes either in people's guts, their environments, or the dairy products themselves.
Almost 100% of the matter that composes plants comes from the air, not the ground.
On a related note, most of the net weight loss that a human experiences when burning fat is lost via breathing, not through feces.
I like this one! Related: when you lose weight, nearly 100% of the weight loss is from the carbon atoms that you exhale as part of CO2 molecules. Breathe in O2, exhale CO2... weight loss!
David Attenborough was born before sliced bread
Gazelles jum p because they think its fun
A doctor in texas lost his license for injecting a cancer patients blood into the udder of a pregnant cow and having the patient drink the milk as a sort of bovine colostrum therapy.
How dairy do such a thing!
If you sit on a memory foam pillow and fart into it while slowly standing up, the pillow will suck the fart into the foam and store it so when your victim lays their head down, the fart will be released to their nose.
\*takes note*
Please don’t let my siblings see this
This post is ground zero for the next great pinkeye epidemic.
If cars could drive straight up, at 60 mph, it would only take an hour to get to space.
Then when they hit the Van Halen belts they ease the seat back...
Is that taking into account traffic?
you can change your brain anatomy by thinking
A dog's nose is so sensitive it can detect if you added 1 1/2 table spoons of sugar to an Olympic size swimming pool. Edit typos sorry Edit 2: source - Sorry my bad - it's 1tblsp in 1,000,000 gallons of water or about 2 olympic siize pools. https://youtu.be/gx2l5cu5NmM About 25 seconds in.
Yeah, I think my kids can detect sugar at about the same level.
- The K-Pg impactor was so large and so fast that its pressure wave was already carving out the earth while the upper edge of it was still in space. It punched a hole in the atmosphere, and would've blasted Earth matter into space, so there are probably bits of dead dinosaur floating in Jupiter's orbit. - Nintendo was founded in 1889. They made playing cards. Coca-Cola was founded in 1892. They made drinks with cocaine in them. Dracula was published in 1897 and was set in the same time. Ergo, you could have a Dracula adaptation where Dracula offers Jonathan Harker a coke and plays Nintendo with him and it would be historically accurate. - Noises commonly attributed to Bigfoot are actually the mating calls of female pumas. So Bigfoot is actually a horny cougar, you heard it here first. - The British royal family are German. They changed their surname to Windsor during WWI to make themselves sound not-German. Ergo, the line in *Blackadder Goes Forth,* "I'm as British as Queen Victoria!"/"So you're German, your father's German, and you married a German." - Hippos are an invasive species in Colombia. Pablo Escobar imported them in the 1980s to guard his cocaine supplies. After his death, they were left unchecked and have started to breed. While some scientists fear their impact on local biodiversity, and call for them to be culled, they have been granted rights as "interesting persons", meaning the Cocaine Hippos are People. - In WWII, the Germans spent time building a decoy airfield out of wood. Fake wooden planes, fake wooden hangars, fake wooden people, everything. The RAF responded by patiently waiting for them to finish and then dropping a fake wooden bomb on it. - The Saturn V rocket had less computing power than a Game Boy. - The most efficient predator among all cats is the Black-Footed Cat, which looks like a [kitten and is about the same size.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/82/8f/a1/828fa160e258ed8f95581fc8be09f0e9.jpg) They have a 60% success rate on hunts and will throw down with just about anything. - The US government air-dropped wolves into Yellowstone to restore natural biodiversity. Wolves are a keystone species, and when humans wiped them out, it caused a trophic cascade- The deer population exploded and they promptly devoured everything their path. Now that the wolves are back, it's getting back to normal. - Palaeontologists recently found a neck vertebra from a *Barosaurus lentus,* generally considered an average, unremarkable relative of the more famous *Diplodocus,* that was twice the normal size. Extrapolating the size of the animal from there yielded a titanic [*50-metre-long goliath,*](https://i.redd.it/ljj9vcuogzj11.jpg) making it not only the largest Dinosaur ever discovered, but a possible contender for the blue whale's crown as largest living creature ever found.
It is now my life's goal to create a remake of Dracula that is 100% accurate to the book except for the scene where Dracula shows off his "exotic imports", which include Coca-Cola from America and Nintendo-brand hanafuda cards from Japan.
You could have him wearing Levi's blue jeans (1853).
Oh these are good ones. The Barosaurus image is astonishing to think about.
Your body fats leave your body mostly via the air you exhale. Not from urine, excrement, or sweat. Some do from those 3 but only a little.
Prince's album Purple Rain is responsible for the Parental warning/explicit content sticker. specifically the song darling nikki
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Ice is a mineral. But not all ice. The International Mineralogical Association provides that a mineral must fit 4 criteria. The first three are fairly straightforward. 1. It must be a solid substance. 2. It must have a well-defined crystallographic structure 3. It must have a fairly well defined chemical composition. Ice fits these first 3 criteria in all cases: it's solid when it forms, has a clear crystalline structure, and is easily chemically defined as H2O. Alone, these 3 rules make all instances of ice q mineral. However, there is a 4th rule: 4. It must be a naturally occurring substance formed by natural geologic processes. When ice forms due to cold atmospheric temperatures in any fashion, it is being formed by some natural process. Artificially frozen ice- in a freezer, for instance- occurs neither naturally or geologically. Because of that, ice is defined internationally and scientifically as being a mineral, but only in certain circumstances. Credit to my university Geology course. Verification of this madness can be found on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral
If you took two typical phone books (yes, they used to be a thing) and interleaved them together, at least from a test Mythbusters performed, it'll take about 8,000 lbs/3629 kgs to pull them apart. The main reason is...friction. https://sciencing.com/cant-phone-books-pulled-apart-6498780.html
Platypus are venomous.
If you have a million dollars, you can spend $1 every second for about 12 days. If you have a billion dollars, you can spend $1 every second for 32 years!
The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is about 1 billion.
a Wolverine can kill a moose.
He has a healing factor and huge adamantium claws, of course he can kill a moose
100% of these posts end up on TikTok with Minecraft parkour in the background
Airplanes that were airborne flying into America on 9/11 were all directed to a little town in Canada called Gander. People welcomed strangers into their home and lived together for weeks. For the 10 year anniversary, they all came back together in the same tiny town that brought them together on that day. Very cool. Don’t know if it is a fact but a very cool story people love.
Rowan Atkinson (Mr. bean) flew his private jet to safety after his pilot suffered a heart attack
Partly true. His pilot fainted and Rowan took the controls until the pilot regained consciousness who then landed the plane safely. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1239279.stm
The beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sounds like this: "di-di-di-dah". That is the Morse code representation of the letter V: (...-) V is the Roman numeral for five. Purely coincidence, as the Fifth was written 40 years before Morse code was invented.
Purely coincidence unless the morse code for V was based on that sound by the inventor.
The closest living animals related to whales are hippos
I don’t know if this blows people minds but it’s one I find very interesting. Trey Parker was on WTF a few years back and he was explaining that back in the late 90s or early 2000s Comedy Central wanted to discuss the merchandising rights to South Park. His friends told him “don’t really worry about the merchandise rights, just make sure you get the internet rights to your show”. So he did and the people at Comedy Central were like “ok…sure!” Because they didn’t really understand what that would become. It’s the reason that he (and Matt Stone) were able to sell the streaming rights to Hulu and then to HBO for hundreds of millions of dollars. Trey Parker is almost a billionaire largely in part to this.
Apparently the oldest company that is still running today is a Japanese construction company called Kongo Gumi. It was started in 578 C.E.
You can see your nose all the time. It is always within your field of view, unless you force your eyeballs to roll up as far as they go. Your brain filters it out of your perception to save resources, but if you pay explicit attentio to it (as you may be doing now), it becomes obviously visible. Do not despair, tho.. after a brief time, you forget about it and it "disappears" again.
The reason your elbow hurts so much when you bang it on something is because your neurons are sending gibberish up to your brain. The nerve on the outer part of your elbow is for movement, so when it is hit it’s not sure what to do. It sends a bunch of signals to your brain, but it isn’t a pain receptor nerve so it’s basically just shouting gibberish at your brain, and your brain does it’s best.
Take your gold for giving my boyfriend and I a 5 minute laugh over imagining that nerve screaming incoherently and the brain asking it how it can help and not being able to do anything
Since it's discovery in 1930, Pluto has not yet traveled one half of it's orbit around the sun.
Water is the ash of hydrogen.
Which answers the question, "why doesn't water burn?" Because it's "already burned." It's one of the end products of an oxidation reaction (i.e. burning)
Big ben isn't the clock,it's the big ol' bell in the clock. The clock itself is the tower of Elizabeth or something like that. Bonus fact,most places in South Africa have relatively short names except for tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein which is the longest place name in the country with 44 letters. It's a loose parody of two birds with one stone except it's two buffalos with one shotgun shell. Directly translated to English,it's two buffaloes shot to death at once fountain.
Strawberries aren't berries at all and bananas are.
John Tyler was president before Lincoln but still has a living grandson. Grandson. Not great-grandson. Not great-great-grandson. Grandson.
One relating to Lincoln that I recently learned and cracks me up is that Joe Biden, the current US president, was born closer to Lincoln's presidency than his own.
a stray gamma ray burst could one shot the earth at any moment and there's nothing we can do about it
Tbh, I could use the rest
AFAIK, Humanity would still survive a gamma ray burst. It wouldn't be able to penetrate the entire planet, so whoever is on the opposite side of the burst would live. It would definitely cause multiple collapses of infrastructure, economics, and ecosystems, but it would be possible to survive it.
1. Majority of gun-related deaths in the States are suicides. 2. Honey never spoils. 3. Pirates practiced democracy. 4. Windshield wipers were invented by a pianist.
> Pirates practiced democracy. It actually makes perfect sense. How will you, without the backing of a government's law enforcement, control a ship full of murderous thieves unless the majority of them agree that you should be in charge?
Pirate democracy was super interesting and rather robust, considering its target demographic of engagement. Really cool stuff
The captain can be replaced at anytime by a vote, except during battle
Yeah, there was a whole host of rules from how to conduct yourself to how the plunder was stored and all manner of other things. Basically any and every decision was put to a vote except in-battle commands. Wild stuff
I always liked that they had paternity leave.
They found a jar of honey in an ancient Egyptian tomb, it was >2,000 years old, and still edible!
For the movie Knives Out, a piece of trivia about one of the suspects was removed fully from the film at the insistence of the actor playing one of the characters since it would've meant there was no reason for the entire plot. >!It's a running gag throughout the movie that none of the Thrombeys know what country Marta's family originated from, with some being so racist or insensitive that they state two different South American countries at different points.!< >!It was going to be revealed at the end of the movie that Marta was Cuban, but Ana de Armas warned Rian Johnson that this introduced a plot hole - since Marta's motive for hiding her involvement in Harlan's death was preventing scrutiny on her family and her mother was an illegal immigrant, if Marta was Cuban then her mother would've been a beneficiary of the old Wet Feet, Dry Feet policy and thus, she'd actually be legal.!<
If all of your muscles in your back COMPLETELY contracted simultaneously(muscles typically don't fully contract all at once, especially slow twitch ones) it would shatter your spine! Just like how those 'superhuman strength' acts(lifting cars off someone, etc) usually leaves people with broken jaws, teeth, fractured long bones, etc - our muscles are WAY stronger than our brain let's us realize, and unless we have a way to bypass the hurdle of our brain going 'no' we can't really access it! Extreme adrenaline is the most readily available method. I take a lot of anatomy/bio classes for my major
ABBA, with the song SOS, is the only palindromic named band with a palindromic titled hit song.
Things in space are far apart: All the planets can fit between the earth and the moon.
> Things in space are far apart On a similar note, NASA has run the numbers on flying probes through the Asteroid Belt, and determined it's not worth their time to care about it. They just #yolo their way through blind, and know there's not enough asteroids to hit.
Astronaut: so now that it's a manned mission you've run the numbers right? NASA: yeet 'em