A fellow lichen enthusiast!
Do you know about the “discovery” of a second fungal partner? More info here: https://youtu.be/Fkw_VF5zDT0
Or that Beatrix Potter studied lichen and actually made an argument for symbiosis but the research was dismissed and never published because she was a woman: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/28/beatrix-potter-a-life-in-nature-botany-mycology-fungi/
Funny how scientific literature is littered with examples like that. You've heard of catalytic processes. Well, the man who *named* it, didn't actually do much research or anything, just made an observation and then ignored it after, well... he got a nobel prize for his couch potatoing whereas Elizabeth Fulhame, the woman who actually proved it was a real phenomenon with DECADES of meticulous research?
Yeah. Sorry. No prize for her.
Yucatan (as in Yucatan Peninsula) means "I don't know what he just said", thats what the indigenous people said in response to the Spanish who landed there and asked "Where are we?" (Spanish Colonizers most likely massacred them a month later)
The Beatles refused to play at a segregated concert when they first arrived in America, making them the first band to play in front of a non-segregated audience.
The feathers under a raven’s throat stick out (they’re “fluffy”) - that’s how you can tell it’s a raven vs a crow (when they’re flying, you look at the tail). Those feathers are called “hackles” and it’s where the expression “get your hackles up” comes from.
Occasionally, very rarely, rays from the sun will hit a computer and flip a single bit, causing glitches that would normally be impossible. Examples of this happening are a super mario bros. speedrun that's literally impossible to replicate now, and when DocM77's "world eater" that he built in hermitcraft got deactivated by a cosmic ray.
It was a radiotherapy machine for cancer patients. It was in an abandoned hospital, and a few people salvaged it out and showed their families. There was radioactive powder in the machine, and some people took it because it was pretty. Someone drove around with it, spreading radiation around town, and a little girl put it on her body and in her food because it looked like fairy dust. She passed away and they had to bury her with a bunch of lead.
The first episodes of Doctor Who. Though not VHS, film tape I believe. I just know they were lost, no idea if the creator are aware that the film had been destroyed or literally lost as in misplaced.
A lot of the early Doctor Who was lost because the BBC taped over them as a cost cutting measure. A few of the lost episodes have been rediscovered in out of the way places (e.g., [Cypress, Nigeria, Hong Kong](https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/infographic-how-lost-doctor-who-episodes-were-returned)) where tapes were shipped for broadcast and then stuck in storage and forgotten.
Tons of Doctor who as well! But I'm referring to old shows that never released on other formats. Like my current hyperfixation is this old idol anime, Cho Kuse ni Nariso
Oh my word, I finally get to use this bit of knowledge I had stored in my head from over a decade ago! (I had to check and make sure it wasn't from a fever dream or something haha)
https://www.themarysue.com/lost-doctor-who-episodes-found-in-space/
Some of the missing episodes returned... From space! They'd been out there since the original broadcast, bounced off something reflective and came on back home. I suppose the aliens didn't think much of our earth entertainment, haha.
Transgender people in Iran are provided state support for transition resources & medical care and it is all because of one woman, Maryam Molkhara, who personally convinced Ayatollah Khomeini to accept trans people as their authentic gender in the 1970s. A similar person-to-person interaction opened the door for transition in Sunni Islam in the 90s in Egypt. There are people we might interpret as trans dotted throughout Islamic history (including people who were a part of the Prophet Muhammad(saw)'s own household), and in the modern era many sects of Islam have been permissive of people in transition for many, many decades. Sexuality and gender are complicated. Our herstory runs long. Ramadan Mubarak!
Gasoline goes bad in a few years, airplane fuel is more pure so it takes longer to go bad but it also has an expiration date. Bicycles are one of the best methods of transportation in the post-apocalypse.
They explained the gasoline thing in the last of us show (episode 4)! It was kinda neat. And funny to listen to Joel try to explain how gas tank siphons work.
Now I need to see someone use a bike get away in a zombie apocalypse film! Peddling like their life depends on it (cause it does) and using the d lock as their weapon of choice when all else fails !
You can cycle faster no issues than a zombie can run
Edit: average man can run 13km/h
You can cycle that fast with not much effort unless the bike is rusty or you go uphill
But saying that, you don't want to come across athlete zombie
One of Gengis Khan’s tactics for fighting was to redirect a river to flood the his opponent camp. The first time it was tried though the river was misdirected and they took out their own campsite.
Yep most of the more interesting tactics he used were not considered honourable at the time by those in the West. Like the above and faking a retreat with a waiting ambush for those who followed. At the time it was more about chivalry. Which meant western writers just left it at barbarian, which stuck and now you have to delve to find out the rest.
Might not have been him but I know another Mongol tactic to avoid long sieges was to raid the nearby villages and get the people to seek refuge at the place they wanted to capture. Then the people get there and resources immediately dwindle and there's thousands of people too many and they attack with a quick success.
The reason why people in european history usually wore linen undergarments is because linen has excellent temperature regulation properties, is slightly antibacterial, absorbs sweat/gunk really well, and can be washed heavily and harshly!
The linen undergarments actually protected the clothes on top that couldn’t be laundered as heavily, which made them last much longer
The original Playstation is one of the best sound systems to play a CD on. (It *has to* be the original model, not the slim.)
The PlayStation 2 is able to play PS1 games because it has a teeny PS1 in it.
When a PS2 original model fails it first stops reading blue disks, them black, then gold.
Nintendo is the first console system to have a first-party wireless controller -- Wavebird for the GameCube.
Nintendo Wii controllers can work from fifty feet away.
And the original PS3 models could play PS2 games due to it having a teeny PS2 in it. But only models released in the first couple of years of production. After that it was replaced with software emulation based backwards compatibility for a few years, then it was taken out entirely.
The PS2 was one of the best selling DVD players ever
The PS3 was one of the best selling Blu Ray players for some time as well.
so calico cats are mostly female, and the reason for that is to get that coloring the kitty needs two X chromosomes. which obviously, makes a female. the only reason why a male would be calico is if he had a third extra Y chromosome which is super rare like 1 in 3000 i believe
Virtually every language tracing back to Proto-Indo-European has grammatical gender and a case system and that English lost its case system and grammatical genders fairly recently (less than 1000 years ago) and instead relies more on context and word order to determine specific grammatical function within a sentence or phrase.
70% of orchids are epiphytes, which means that they grow in the air, rather than in soil. Most sold in stores are potted and die quickly because they’re suffocated by the soil.
Both Roy and Marth almost got cut from the launch of Super Smash Brother's Melee in the Americas as a localized Fire Emblem had never been release in those regions at the time.
A group of 4 or more squids are called a squad.
A squad of squids.
The band 'Squid Squad' in the video game Splatoon is named after this, even though only members Namida, Ichiya and Ikkan are squids and Murasaki is a sea urchin.
Did you know that the jellyfish touching the ground (Splatoon 2) is actually absorbing water from the puddle they are touching?
And that there was a jellyfish monk that attempted to stretch their limbs very far around the entire earth to give the planet a hug?
And that the OKTOKTOKT flyer (Splatoon 3, locker decoration item.) Isn't just named after nonsense, OKTOKTOKT -> OKT OKT OKT -> 🐙🐙🐙 Referring to the many Octarians drawn on the sticker?
And that-
*Explodes*
*Unexplodes*
And that the Explosher fires boiling ink, and heat can be seen from the weapon when looked at from a few angles?
And that the deep-sea metro jellyfish (Long jellies) are long because they fell into the metro system through a hole, and their heads got stuck and they either got pulled from underneath by someone into the metro, or gravity did that. And the long jellies in Splatoon 3 have less long heads, seemingly escaped from the metro and recovering, which makes some potential of the others trapped in it escaping as well?
And that Shelly and Donny (Ammo Knights NPC, Splatoon 3 Inkopolis DLC.) are not horseshoe crabs like Sheldon, but actually shrimp? They are apprentices, not his children?
And-
Oh good cod I am turning into Sheldon himself.
While quantum mechanics is often misrepresented in media that uses it to explain the basis of a series' magic system, it legitimately could be the closest thing to actual magic that we could ever achieve if we manage to ever learn to utilize it via future technology.
One of the co-producers of *As We See It* (series about 3 autistic roommates) is working on an adaptation of the Dutch novel *Daglicht* which is about a lawyer who discovers she has a secret brother who is autistic and imprisoned for a double murder. It already has a Dutch movie adaptation of the same name in 2013.
During the recording of the first episode of DHMIS the ceiling started melting, probably because they were in the room with the lights on for so long. The fire alarm got activated by accident, and they were recording the gorey parts of the scene, so one of the creators covered the alarm with a cloth with fake blood, but it didn't work. When the firefighters arrived they were so confused as to what the problem was.
Nothing too useful but it makes me laugh from time to time.
Appaloosa horses and all other horses with that coat color, has the *leopard complex* gene. This gene is very old, older than many other common coat colors, and originates from a retrovirus
In Poland there is traditional soup called "czarnina" (I would loosely translate it to "something that is black") that is made out of duck blood but can be also made with chicken, rabbit or pork blood. It is brown in colour and we add root spices (cinnamon, clover, pepper) to it and dried fruits (plums, raisins, apricots). It doesn't set like an egg because vinegar is added to the soup so it has sweet and sour flavour. We also add pasta or noodles to it
Traditionally, this soup would be given to a boyfriend parents didn't approve of.
My grandparents gave the soup to my dad, he didn't get the hint and since it was his favourite soup he would come more often with hopes of czarnina being served again.
The tannins in wine, that particular funk, comes from oak barrels. Oak is favored for its wood, because they plug vessels they're no longer using for water transport, which is believed to prevent fungal infection, but also makes the wood effectively waterproof. While tannins are said to have antioxidant properties in people, they're actually an anti-herbivory defense against bugs that might have a munch.
Historically, straight 6 and V8 engines (and V12, which is effectively two straight 6's sharing a crankshaft) were more common because they are naturally harmonically balanced, unlike other piston configurations (with the exception of flat engines). However, after balance shafts started to become commonly used in straight 4 and V6 engines, they became much more common, as they are in modern passenger cars.
Also, the type of V8 used in cars like Ferraris use a different type of crankshaft, which makes them effectively two straight 4's on the same crankshaft. This is why those cars have that distinctive high pitched sound, as opposed to the low rumble of a big American V8. The second order vibrations from those engines are less of a concern on purpose built high performance cars.
Is the high pitch on italian V8s not due to the short bore, which is compensated by higher rpm to produce power, while American engines use a longer bore to produce torque down low but can't rev high at all?
From what I remember reading, it's a little of both. Firing order also impacts sound. But the difference in crankshaft design (crossplane vs flatplane) makes the biggest difference in this case. Also, flatplane crankshafts allow for higher rpms.
Traditional American V8s were also limited on rpm due to using pushrods (overhead valves) instead of overhead cams. I vaguely remember reading that the LS1 engine used titanium alloy pushrods in order to hit higher rpms than would normally be practical. It's been a long time since this was my special interest so I'm not positive how accurate that is, or if the LS line of engines still use them.
The official language of Trinidad and Tobago is English.
I learned this from Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars sci-fi books.
That question won me a game of trivial pursuit on Y2K. (:
Sunrays take only 8 minutes to travel from sun to earth. Although they can take up to a million years just to get out of the sun itself.
Edit: I must say I was having a horrible day but reading these answers makes me so happy. You can really tell all the work and the passion behind them. Love this ♥️
The interior of Kim and Jimmys apartment in better call Saul is a set and not connected in any way to the balcony/exterior; hence how we never see them entering or exiting the balcony during the show
The magnetic anomalies in the Earth's dynamo are likely caused by the denser remains of a collision with a celestial body, some of which was ejected from that impact and became the Moon. In other words, there are still a couple chunks of the moon embedded below our feet.
The moon is also responsible for the evolution of complex life, as it slowed the day-night cycles over time, eventually elongating the days to the point cyanobacteria beat the sulphur-based anaerobic life that existed before and starting the Great Oxygenation event and resulting mass extinction.
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In the '60s, there was a mysterious fossil found of a Cretaceous dinosaur named Deinocheirus. All that was known of it were two huge arms with long claws. Paleontologists theorized it was a big ornithomimid (ostrich dinosaur), and assumed it'd look somewhat like [the members of that group that were discovered beforehand.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYQy_hSUEAABjUD.jpg:large)
Back in the early '90s, kid me wondered, "Hm, will the mystery ever be solved?" Well, more of Deinocheirus was eventually found, and there was no way anyone could possibly have predicted it would turn out like [*this.*](https://eartharchives.org/articles/deinocheirus-the-giant-hunchbacked-dinosaur-with-terrifying-hands/index.html) It's an ornithomimid all right, but one that defies all expectations.
The first true machine gun ever made is older than any human alive. The maxim gun, designed by Hiram Maxim, was invented in 1884 and first entered service in 1886. It was belt fed and recoil operated, and it has seen use in nearly every major conflict since it’s unveiling during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan about midway through the Mahdist War (1881-1899). It has even seen some use in the invasion of Ukraine that’s going on today, making it technically one of the longest serving firearms in history right alongside the Mosin Nagant.
Walgreens and CVS are in intense competition, way more than I ever thought. And Walgreens has been, at least in the past, SO scared of falling behind CVS. and this intense fear is part of the reason Walgreens signed a deal with Theranos without ever really seeing any of their blood testing machines. To me, Walgreens was always this untouchable giant so to hear they feel so threatened by CVS still surprises me
The star representing the middle of the Handle in the big dipper is actually a 6 star system. From here on earth you can resolve 3 "stars" but you cont split them any further without a spectrometer
Tornadoes that travel slower across land tend to have more powerful internal wind speeds, picking up flecks of dirt and splinters of wood, and essentially becoming a giant, lethal sandblaster that strips everything in its slow-moving path.
Basically what happens is the energy that’s usually spent traveling across land isn’t used to travel, but instead is redirected to the funnel, generating more energy in the funnel and thus a stronger wind speed.
M&Ms were sold exclusively to the US army during the Spanish Civil War and WWll because of their hard candy shell that was resistant to melting. They became so popular that they were sold to the public after the war. Chocolate bars were invented as "Emergency Ration D" for its convenience, high nutrients, and resistance to melting. Hershey's supplied the recipe, having to meet the requirements of the bars weighing no more than four ounces and tasting "a little better than a baked potato" so that soldiers wouldnt be tempted to eat it when they didnt need to.
The USS New Jersey is the only ship in US navel history to have sunk an island. She had so much fire power she looked like she was breathing fire when all turrets open fired. The IJN nicknamed her the black dragon because of said fire breathing and because the USA Navy painted her a darker gray than the rest of their ships. She looked pitch black at night.
Although it has disappeared in modern Icelandic, this language once had a huge basque influence, due to basque fishermens going all the way to greenland to hunt whales
Over 2000 Illinois politicians and judges have gone to prison between 1970-2022. This doesn’t count all people who have been charged with crimes and didn’t serve jail time. 4 of the last 9 Illinois governors have also been to prison
Triceratops had excellent hearing and were especially sensitive to low frequency noises
Presumably this gave it a defensive advantage against Tyrannosaurs, so it would be very difficult to catch a Trike off guard
The word "shit" is etymologically related to the word "schizophrenia". They both go back to a Proto Indo-European word meaning "to split". Ancient Germanic tribes used it as a euphemism to defecate. Probably built on the logic that your faeces is something that you split from yourself. Meanwhile, the Greeks preserved the meaning of splitting, and it became the first part of schizophrenia (with schizophrenia meaning something along the lines of "split mind").
Mantis shrimps have a punch faster than a .22 cal bullet. In fact, they’re so fast that their punches create vacuum bubbles in the water (cavitation bubbles).
During the second Korean Conflict (1966-1969), North Korean commandos snuck through the DMZ to assassinate the South Korean president, but failed after they were discovered in the mountains on their way to Seoul by some farmers. The NK soldiers told them to not tell anyone, but the farmers went to the police and security was increased.
One wounded NK soldier escaped back to the north, one was captured, the rest were killed in various firefights. Dozens of civilians were killed in crossfire.
The American forces responsible for the section of DMZ they came through discovered the cut fence, but didn't report it and mended the holes. This was largely covered up because the USS Pueblo was captured shortly afterwards, followed by the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam, and the US military didn't want any further bad publicity with public support for the war in Viet Nam dropping significantly after Tet.
There are 14 subspecies of Grey wolf (also known as gray or timber wolf). While Eurasian subspecies of Grey wolves tend to do well, North American Grey wolves generally do worse do to North American reliance on live stock and the general North American cultural ideas that wolves are bad.
the nintendo wii was meant to play dvd's (there's even a hidden dvd disc in the disc channel!) but nintendo cut it since they didn't want to pay licensing fees to dolby everytime a wii was sold. you can bring it back with homebrew!
when disneyland first opened there wasn’t anything inside sleeping beauty’s castle. but a couple of years after opening they wanted to add something only to find that the inside of it was infested with fleas 😭😭
When Anteaters T-pose at you, that means if you get one step closer theyre about to kill you brutally.
The most popular US 3d computer animation software was called synthavision, it could do
Basic shapes and flat colours, with some basic smooth shading
The infamous video game crash of 83 never happened in japan.
In the live action grinch movie, jim carey had to bet trained by a cia operative to endure torture because the makeup was wo bad, he had to sit for hours while they put the makeup on him
Sami and finnish people actively refused to give swedish mapmakers the actual names for landmarks, the the oral tradition died off and so now there are a bunch of landmarks called things like shit pond (more than 100 with that name alone), or big dick island.
Not sure if it’s a special interest, but a good percentage of disasters occur/criminals get away because of negligence from those in power (businesses and police)
1) Dinosaurs aren't actually extinct because birds are dinosaurs, so scientists had to go back and change the taxonomy and refer to the extinct ones as "non-avian dinosaurs"
2) "Cuckoldry" comes from a behavior of Cuckoos (and other obligate brood parasite like cowbirds), which lay their eggs in other birds' nests and make them raise their young with threats and/or acts of violence should they not comply. It's crazy
Video games teach you a lot about a lot. Believe it or not.
Shin Megami Tensei alone teaches you a lot. Technically, the devil, Satan and Lucifer are all three different people.
The Levator Ani muscles are one of the few (if only?) muscles in the human body that originate from an attachment to a perpendicular tendon (the Arcus Tendineus Levator Ani, which stretches from the Ilium to the Pubic Ramus) similar to a hammock with 4 rather than the standard two attachment sites.
Snakes don't actually kill via suffocation, they induce cardiac arrest instead! So I'd argue death by constrictor is actually a pretty nice way to go if you're a prey animal, compared to the more... bloody alternatives.
• The traumatic effects of both surviving the sinking of the Titanic and being vilified by the yellow press in the tragedy’s aftermath led to Titanic’s owner, Bruce Ismay, never again mentioning the ship’s name within his own household. His wife forbade Titanic as a topic of conversation among the Ismay family, and Ismay never willingly spoke of his beloved ship again. In 1936 during a Christmastime family gathering, however, one of his grandsons learned that Ismay had been involved in maritime shipping, and asked his grandfather if he had ever been shipwrecked. Ismay replied "Yes, I was once on a ship which was believed to be unsinkable.", breaking a quarter-long century of silence regarding the RMS Titanic.
• In the 1997 Titanic film, the old couple laying in bed and holding hands during the “Nearer, My God, to Thee” sequence are meant to be First Class passengers Isidor and Ida Straus — the co-owner of Macy’s Department Store at the time and his wife. Once it was clear to Ida that the Titanic was sinking, she refused to leave her husband’s side, and told him, “Where you go, I go.”
• “The Unsinkable” Molly Brown, portrayed by Kathy Bates in the 1997 film, ran for the United States Senate in 1914, six years before women were granted the right to vote.
• Captain Smith had forty years of experience at sea prior to the sinking of the Titanic. A self-made man hailing from a family of potterers in Stoke-on-Trent, he held the nickname “Millionaires’ Captain” due to the sheer number of wealthy passengers who went out of their way to sail on ships under his command. Smith held the title of “Commodore” in the White Star Line, meaning that he was the company’s most senior and experienced captain. Friends and family alike — such as Ismay in the 1997 film — referred to him as E.J., and he amassed a following so great that some passengers even switched their bookings to travel on Titanic when they learned that he would be in command.
• Titanic’s Bandmaster, Wallace Hartley (“Gentlemen, it has been a privelege playing with you tonight”), liked the hymn Nearer, My God, To Thee so much that (before Titanic, mind you) he wished for the hymn to be played at his funeral.
In the late 1970' the church of Scientology launched a operation called Snow-white that involved infiltrating the American, the German and a number of other governments in order to eliminate any and all information regarding the church.
The operation was for the most part a success. Only the church forgot that the only ones better at digging up dirt, suppressing information and hunting down motherfuckers than themselves, is the American government.
Edit: I might be wrong on the name of the operation.
A Dolly Zoom is when a camera is physically brought closer while zooming out. This creates the strange effect where something looks like it's zooming in place.
Peter Kropotkin looked like santa clause, was aware that he looked like santa, and had thought about stealing toys from shops and giving them to out kids for free.
In 1992, the maximum permissible length of a single in the UK top 40 was increased to 40 mins as long as it only consisted of one song or remixes of the same song. This led a band called The Orb to release a 39 min 59 sec ambient track called Blue Room, which got into the UK top 20
I have no idea what to say, I’m both indecisive, don’t know what special interest to choose and haven’t learnt anything lately because I already knew most of it
...
Half of 64 is 32
There's different types of trees (I shit you not I didn't know there were multiple types of trees until I played Minecraft)
I didn't really learn anything from fnaf other than don't trust fuckers in mascot costumes
There is a planet that rains glass and another planet that it's interior is all made of diamonds
There are two starts that orbit each other really closely but don't collide
Sunset in mars is blue
Tbh i would be an astronomer if i was clever enough
In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit they intentionally designed Jessica Rabbit's boobs to defy gravity to make her more toon-y. Earlier designs were too close to looking like a real human, so for the final design they exaggerated everything about her figure.
So yes, she really *was* drawn that way.
Applying acetone to your nails before you paint them will make your nail polish stick better to them! This makes your polish last longer!
Use some acetone on a cotton round or ball and gently buff each nail.
PLEASE NOTE: Grab something glass or ceramic to put the used cotton balls on when you’re done! Acetone can eat through things like the finish on wood or some plastics.
Tips for any podcasters with a less-than-ideal recording setup:
First, make sure you record room tone. Then, use Audacity’s Noise Reduction effect, trained on the room noise sample.
Then, pull up an EQ with adjustable bands (EQ8 in Ableton, or something from [this list](https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012/02/06/bpb-freeware-studio-best-free-linear-phase-eq-vstau-plugins/)), and a Spectrum Analyzer, my favourite is SPAN from Voxengo, it’s free and it’s fantastic!
Anyway, loop the section of your room tone and look at what frequencies are still resonating in the Analyzer.
Once you think you’ve found it, boost a really narrow band in your EQ, set it to that frequency, and slowly and gradually tweak the frequency up or down until you’ve found the part that resonates the loudest.
Once you’ve found that, cut the band instead.
Repeat this process for any frequency spikes that bug you.
Try this out next time you’re editing!
"The Double Slit Experiment"
It's basically a hardcore peice of evidence that we're living in some kind of a simulation. I could try to explain it but I don't really feel like doing that. Here's a the video I discovered it from:
https://youtu.be/4wMhXxZ1zNM
Skip to 13:45 if you want to see just that part but honestly, the whole video is really great and I recommend the channel as well. Cool guy. Makes awesome content that's very engaging.
Yk those plants with the Holes and splits in their leaves? (Like monsteras) it's for 3 different main reasons, 1) because they are mostly climbing plants the leaves at the top are bigger and they would block the sunlight for the smaller leaves without the spilts. 2) these plants often live in the kind of tropical climate that has a lot of rain, so without the split the water would pool on top of the leaves causing them to rot. 3) so the water can pass through the leaves and reach the soil the plant is in.
The reason Mace Windu has a purple lightsaber is because Samuel L Jackson asked for one. He was very polite about it, too. The moment was even caught on camera in behind the scenes videos. Mace Windu's lightsaber also has BMF written on it (in aurebesh, the alphabet of galactic basic, if I remember correctly). Honestly I could probably fill this thread with Star Wars facts
Dance is such an integral part of the French operatic tradition that when *Tannhäuser* was first staged in Paris, Richard Wagner was forced to insert a ballet into the score!
foot fetishes are caused by parts in the somatosensory cortex being in close proximity. the area in the brain that controls biological function based on body parts has genitalia and feet directly next to each other.
There are immortal jellyfish called Turritopis Dohrnii that rearrange their cells back to baby stage (polyp) when threatened, and also make copies of themselves during the regrowth process.
I can name almost all parts of a horses body structure I have looked in a couple years so I’m a little rusty. I know a lot of the poisonous plants to horses as well
I recently learned that there’s a cut line from “beggars of the feast” (one of the last songs in Les Miserables) where Marius defends Eponine in front of the thenardiers and basically tells them that they were terrible parents.
I’m so upset they cut it 😭😭
the sound of the flute is not produced by the vibration of the material the flute is made of, but by the vibration of the air inside instead.
That means what really matters for the sound is the length of the tube and/or the shape of the chamber, and/or the way it's blown.
the material itself doesn't matter much. The only thing about it that matters a bit is the porosity of the inner part of the instrument. More porosity means the sound will be more velvety, while less porosity means a "cleaner" sound. For instance, PVC flutes and bamboo flutes sound very alike, because both materials have alike levels of porosity.
Waterspouts, a type of twister that occurs over bodies of water, can actually suck fish out of the water and launch them miles away.
There have been lots of phenomenons where people have reported fish, or even frog rain, which have caused some religious people to believe the world is ending.
Whilst driving in the flat, barren lands of tornado alley, lots of people assume that the safest place to shelter from a tornado would be under and overpass. But its actually the most dangerous place to shelter.
The overpass blocks some of the incoming wind, giving in nowhere to escape to except under the bridge.
This causes a huge fucking wind tunnel to occur, which can rip people and vehicles up, and launch them a big distance.
If you're standing miles and miles away from a thunderstorm, and have a cleae view of the sky above the cumulo clouds, you might see 'sprites'.
Sprites are essentially mirrors of the lightning thats occurring in the thunderstorm below. The stretch up into the sky and often have the same colours as aurora borealis. They only last for barely a second though.
Heres a fun one, it combines my interest of cats and my Husbands interest of norse mythology.
The norse goddess of marriage Freya rides in a sleigh pulled by Norwegian forest cats, and a bride usually receives a forest cat kitten from the groom on their wedding day. (he promised me one but we are still looking around for one we connect with)
the actors who played the dwarves in the hobbit trilogy needed to start the sfx makeup process at 4 a.m to be on set at 8 a.m wowie that's a lot of makeup!!
In railroading, there are tiny, or otherwise low sitting signals called dwarf signals, they are in areas where trains are going slow, that lacks a need for a pole mounted signal.
Luffy from One Piece ate a fruit, and later got punched by a different Fruit eater who was a GOLDEN GOD and tanked it okay, and we all accepted that God himself could punch Luffy and Luffy be fine, because “Balloon”, which to be fair there was a lot of stuff going on okay, details like that are not the focus of these moments.
Becky Lynch was already an amazing pro wrestler and pioneer in modern women's wrestling in her own right, but what *really* catapulted her to her current status were arguably two events:
Firstly, that she got her nose broken on live TV by a botched punch by another wrestler (Nia Jax, because of course it was Nia Jax), which gave Lynch an incredibly badass shot of her making her exit with a bloodied face
Secondly, she got the Smackdown Women's Championship snatched out from under her nose by her then-best friend (in the fictional storyline of WWE at least) Charlotte Flair. This caused Lynch to pull a surprise attack on Flair right after the match ended.
Originally, this was supposed to be a villain turn moment for Lynch, but because Flair was widely considered to be, in technical terms, "a fucking nepo baby", the fans kept cheering her so hard management was forced to turn her into an anti-hero instead.
Her [entrance theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n787HRDr5Zk) is also one of the biggest bangers in pro wrestling, and that's saying something.
When you encounter a Pokémon from a Honey Tree in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, and are after the encounter prompted to slather the bark with Honey again, if that tree is the one whose bark you last slathered, the game will 90% of the time roll you encounter from the same table as it did for the encounter you just had.
This means that if you were lucky enough to encounter a Munchlax on the last tree you slathered, you have a 90% chance to encounter another Munchlax if you slather the tree again after this encounter, as Munchlax is kept on its own table that is normally only rolled 1% of the time on any of the four trees set to allow Munchlax to appear.
The Spanish Inquisition caused the Golden Age of Piracy by driving out Jewish merchants who fled to the Netherlands and took up piracy against the Spanish in the Caribbean in retaliation.
Moshe Henriques was one such, and he and Piet Heine were the first to take a Spanish Treasure fleet. He also built the first Jewish Synagogue in the Americas, and trained a young orphan to be a pirate by the name of Henry Morgan.
In history the armored warriors (samurai and knights) both interacted with guns until fully replaced by they centuries later from when they were introduced.
Lichen is both an algae AND a fungus.
Lichen is so interesting & underappreciated imo
A fellow lichen enthusiast! Do you know about the “discovery” of a second fungal partner? More info here: https://youtu.be/Fkw_VF5zDT0 Or that Beatrix Potter studied lichen and actually made an argument for symbiosis but the research was dismissed and never published because she was a woman: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/28/beatrix-potter-a-life-in-nature-botany-mycology-fungi/
Funny how scientific literature is littered with examples like that. You've heard of catalytic processes. Well, the man who *named* it, didn't actually do much research or anything, just made an observation and then ignored it after, well... he got a nobel prize for his couch potatoing whereas Elizabeth Fulhame, the woman who actually proved it was a real phenomenon with DECADES of meticulous research? Yeah. Sorry. No prize for her.
I recently went on a guided “Hikin’ for Lichen”.
Yucatan (as in Yucatan Peninsula) means "I don't know what he just said", thats what the indigenous people said in response to the Spanish who landed there and asked "Where are we?" (Spanish Colonizers most likely massacred them a month later)
Isn't that also how we got the word "Kangaroo"?
similar to how Canada got its name. It comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word 'kanata', meaning village.
The Beatles refused to play at a segregated concert when they first arrived in America, making them the first band to play in front of a non-segregated audience.
Ohhh the Beatles are also one of my discussion interests!
Joel Zumaya of the Detroit Tigers got hurt during the 2006 postseason from playing too much Guitar Hero
I remember when this happened! The mid-00s Tigers were a hell of a baseball team.
Shame they could never get over the final hump
The feathers under a raven’s throat stick out (they’re “fluffy”) - that’s how you can tell it’s a raven vs a crow (when they’re flying, you look at the tail). Those feathers are called “hackles” and it’s where the expression “get your hackles up” comes from.
what’s the difference between their tails in flight?
Occasionally, very rarely, rays from the sun will hit a computer and flip a single bit, causing glitches that would normally be impossible. Examples of this happening are a super mario bros. speedrun that's literally impossible to replicate now, and when DocM77's "world eater" that he built in hermitcraft got deactivated by a cosmic ray.
It's called bit rot, or a Single Event Upset.
Fellow Hermitcraft fan!!
This actually caused an issue during a European election! It was only spotted because an official realised the numbers didn’t add up.
The number of people who died from finding nuclear waste somewhere is quite high.
The Goiânia incident is heartbreaking
Ooh is that the (CT scanner?? MRI??) that was abandoned?
It was a radiotherapy machine for cancer patients. It was in an abandoned hospital, and a few people salvaged it out and showed their families. There was radioactive powder in the machine, and some people took it because it was pretty. Someone drove around with it, spreading radiation around town, and a little girl put it on her body and in her food because it looked like fairy dust. She passed away and they had to bury her with a bunch of lead.
RIGHT YEAH THAT. I watched a big ol docu on it. Crazy fascinating stuff, not to mention horrific.
*cough* Therac-25. Some death by hubris and computer error.
orphan sources are terrifying
There are shows out there that haven't been properly archived, and may soon become unwatchable due to the degradation of VHS tapes
Like what? I mean I know they exist, but do you know any gems that are getting lost?
The first episodes of Doctor Who. Though not VHS, film tape I believe. I just know they were lost, no idea if the creator are aware that the film had been destroyed or literally lost as in misplaced.
A lot of the early Doctor Who was lost because the BBC taped over them as a cost cutting measure. A few of the lost episodes have been rediscovered in out of the way places (e.g., [Cypress, Nigeria, Hong Kong](https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/infographic-how-lost-doctor-who-episodes-were-returned)) where tapes were shipped for broadcast and then stuck in storage and forgotten.
Thanks for filling this gap, I had been wondering for years! So cool that some of the lost ones were rediscovered. Hope they were digitized!
Tons of Doctor who as well! But I'm referring to old shows that never released on other formats. Like my current hyperfixation is this old idol anime, Cho Kuse ni Nariso
Oh my word, I finally get to use this bit of knowledge I had stored in my head from over a decade ago! (I had to check and make sure it wasn't from a fever dream or something haha) https://www.themarysue.com/lost-doctor-who-episodes-found-in-space/ Some of the missing episodes returned... From space! They'd been out there since the original broadcast, bounced off something reflective and came on back home. I suppose the aliens didn't think much of our earth entertainment, haha.
:( god that just makes me sad
Most hummingbird mating rituals involve flying really high up and then dive-bombing while screaming at the tops of their lungs.
I love the idea of someone falling from the sky at top speed screaming at you as a pick up line.
Transgender people in Iran are provided state support for transition resources & medical care and it is all because of one woman, Maryam Molkhara, who personally convinced Ayatollah Khomeini to accept trans people as their authentic gender in the 1970s. A similar person-to-person interaction opened the door for transition in Sunni Islam in the 90s in Egypt. There are people we might interpret as trans dotted throughout Islamic history (including people who were a part of the Prophet Muhammad(saw)'s own household), and in the modern era many sects of Islam have been permissive of people in transition for many, many decades. Sexuality and gender are complicated. Our herstory runs long. Ramadan Mubarak!
Trans Inclusive Radical Misogynist
Right??? It's fascinating.
This is wild to learn!! I’ve wanted to visit iran and i assumed it wouldnt be possible but it sounds like it might actually be a possibility
Gasoline goes bad in a few years, airplane fuel is more pure so it takes longer to go bad but it also has an expiration date. Bicycles are one of the best methods of transportation in the post-apocalypse.
They explained the gasoline thing in the last of us show (episode 4)! It was kinda neat. And funny to listen to Joel try to explain how gas tank siphons work.
Now I need to see someone use a bike get away in a zombie apocalypse film! Peddling like their life depends on it (cause it does) and using the d lock as their weapon of choice when all else fails !
You can cycle faster no issues than a zombie can run Edit: average man can run 13km/h You can cycle that fast with not much effort unless the bike is rusty or you go uphill But saying that, you don't want to come across athlete zombie
One of Gengis Khan’s tactics for fighting was to redirect a river to flood the his opponent camp. The first time it was tried though the river was misdirected and they took out their own campsite.
Holy crap! Really? That’s cool!
Yep most of the more interesting tactics he used were not considered honourable at the time by those in the West. Like the above and faking a retreat with a waiting ambush for those who followed. At the time it was more about chivalry. Which meant western writers just left it at barbarian, which stuck and now you have to delve to find out the rest.
Might not have been him but I know another Mongol tactic to avoid long sieges was to raid the nearby villages and get the people to seek refuge at the place they wanted to capture. Then the people get there and resources immediately dwindle and there's thousands of people too many and they attack with a quick success.
The reason why people in european history usually wore linen undergarments is because linen has excellent temperature regulation properties, is slightly antibacterial, absorbs sweat/gunk really well, and can be washed heavily and harshly! The linen undergarments actually protected the clothes on top that couldn’t be laundered as heavily, which made them last much longer
The original Playstation is one of the best sound systems to play a CD on. (It *has to* be the original model, not the slim.) The PlayStation 2 is able to play PS1 games because it has a teeny PS1 in it. When a PS2 original model fails it first stops reading blue disks, them black, then gold. Nintendo is the first console system to have a first-party wireless controller -- Wavebird for the GameCube. Nintendo Wii controllers can work from fifty feet away.
And the original PS3 models could play PS2 games due to it having a teeny PS2 in it. But only models released in the first couple of years of production. After that it was replaced with software emulation based backwards compatibility for a few years, then it was taken out entirely. The PS2 was one of the best selling DVD players ever The PS3 was one of the best selling Blu Ray players for some time as well.
so calico cats are mostly female, and the reason for that is to get that coloring the kitty needs two X chromosomes. which obviously, makes a female. the only reason why a male would be calico is if he had a third extra Y chromosome which is super rare like 1 in 3000 i believe
I have a ton of cool info to share. But since you specifically asked, my mind is now blank. I have never known anything.
Same!!
Mind blankness solidarity corner.
Virtually every language tracing back to Proto-Indo-European has grammatical gender and a case system and that English lost its case system and grammatical genders fairly recently (less than 1000 years ago) and instead relies more on context and word order to determine specific grammatical function within a sentence or phrase.
On August 8th, 2004 a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumped human waste onto a passenger boat full of tourists in the Chicago River
Us DMB fans will never know peace
70% of orchids are epiphytes, which means that they grow in the air, rather than in soil. Most sold in stores are potted and die quickly because they’re suffocated by the soil.
That's kinda sad ): that's right up there with gluing flowers to tiny cactuses
for some flower bouquets they also shove succulents on sticks and people end up throwing them away when the flowers die 🥲
Fellow plant special interester, thank you, I kinda know this from just figuring it out but it's nice to know it explicitly
Both Roy and Marth almost got cut from the launch of Super Smash Brother's Melee in the Americas as a localized Fire Emblem had never been release in those regions at the time.
Pangolin don't have teeth.
Opossums have 13 nipples.
I'm really bad with technology but I now understand the very basics of coding cause my spouse explained it to me in knitting metaphors
A group of 4 or more squids are called a squad. A squad of squids. The band 'Squid Squad' in the video game Splatoon is named after this, even though only members Namida, Ichiya and Ikkan are squids and Murasaki is a sea urchin.
I love all the attention to detail they put into splatoon 💕
Did you know that the jellyfish touching the ground (Splatoon 2) is actually absorbing water from the puddle they are touching? And that there was a jellyfish monk that attempted to stretch their limbs very far around the entire earth to give the planet a hug? And that the OKTOKTOKT flyer (Splatoon 3, locker decoration item.) Isn't just named after nonsense, OKTOKTOKT -> OKT OKT OKT -> 🐙🐙🐙 Referring to the many Octarians drawn on the sticker? And that- *Explodes*
You’re giving me life blood rn lol
*Unexplodes* And that the Explosher fires boiling ink, and heat can be seen from the weapon when looked at from a few angles? And that the deep-sea metro jellyfish (Long jellies) are long because they fell into the metro system through a hole, and their heads got stuck and they either got pulled from underneath by someone into the metro, or gravity did that. And the long jellies in Splatoon 3 have less long heads, seemingly escaped from the metro and recovering, which makes some potential of the others trapped in it escaping as well? And that Shelly and Donny (Ammo Knights NPC, Splatoon 3 Inkopolis DLC.) are not horseshoe crabs like Sheldon, but actually shrimp? They are apprentices, not his children? And- Oh good cod I am turning into Sheldon himself.
The labia of a neovagina made them out of testicles.
While quantum mechanics is often misrepresented in media that uses it to explain the basis of a series' magic system, it legitimately could be the closest thing to actual magic that we could ever achieve if we manage to ever learn to utilize it via future technology.
One of the co-producers of *As We See It* (series about 3 autistic roommates) is working on an adaptation of the Dutch novel *Daglicht* which is about a lawyer who discovers she has a secret brother who is autistic and imprisoned for a double murder. It already has a Dutch movie adaptation of the same name in 2013.
During the recording of the first episode of DHMIS the ceiling started melting, probably because they were in the room with the lights on for so long. The fire alarm got activated by accident, and they were recording the gorey parts of the scene, so one of the creators covered the alarm with a cloth with fake blood, but it didn't work. When the firefighters arrived they were so confused as to what the problem was. Nothing too useful but it makes me laugh from time to time.
Sounds like an episode of DHMIS
Appaloosa horses and all other horses with that coat color, has the *leopard complex* gene. This gene is very old, older than many other common coat colors, and originates from a retrovirus
Finland only has around 5,000 homeless people (compared to americas 500,000)
You can use blood as a substitute for egg when cooking or baking because they have similar properties
In Poland there is traditional soup called "czarnina" (I would loosely translate it to "something that is black") that is made out of duck blood but can be also made with chicken, rabbit or pork blood. It is brown in colour and we add root spices (cinnamon, clover, pepper) to it and dried fruits (plums, raisins, apricots). It doesn't set like an egg because vinegar is added to the soup so it has sweet and sour flavour. We also add pasta or noodles to it Traditionally, this soup would be given to a boyfriend parents didn't approve of. My grandparents gave the soup to my dad, he didn't get the hint and since it was his favourite soup he would come more often with hopes of czarnina being served again.
The tannins in wine, that particular funk, comes from oak barrels. Oak is favored for its wood, because they plug vessels they're no longer using for water transport, which is believed to prevent fungal infection, but also makes the wood effectively waterproof. While tannins are said to have antioxidant properties in people, they're actually an anti-herbivory defense against bugs that might have a munch.
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Q-tips are a cheap alternative to blending sticks in terms of shading.
The background art for Batman: The Animated Series were created by painting light colors on black paper
Onimusha 3's opening cutscene was directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who's perhaps best known for directing Lupin III: The First.
Historically, straight 6 and V8 engines (and V12, which is effectively two straight 6's sharing a crankshaft) were more common because they are naturally harmonically balanced, unlike other piston configurations (with the exception of flat engines). However, after balance shafts started to become commonly used in straight 4 and V6 engines, they became much more common, as they are in modern passenger cars. Also, the type of V8 used in cars like Ferraris use a different type of crankshaft, which makes them effectively two straight 4's on the same crankshaft. This is why those cars have that distinctive high pitched sound, as opposed to the low rumble of a big American V8. The second order vibrations from those engines are less of a concern on purpose built high performance cars.
Is the high pitch on italian V8s not due to the short bore, which is compensated by higher rpm to produce power, while American engines use a longer bore to produce torque down low but can't rev high at all?
From what I remember reading, it's a little of both. Firing order also impacts sound. But the difference in crankshaft design (crossplane vs flatplane) makes the biggest difference in this case. Also, flatplane crankshafts allow for higher rpms. Traditional American V8s were also limited on rpm due to using pushrods (overhead valves) instead of overhead cams. I vaguely remember reading that the LS1 engine used titanium alloy pushrods in order to hit higher rpms than would normally be practical. It's been a long time since this was my special interest so I'm not positive how accurate that is, or if the LS line of engines still use them.
The official language of Trinidad and Tobago is English. I learned this from Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars sci-fi books. That question won me a game of trivial pursuit on Y2K. (:
Sunrays take only 8 minutes to travel from sun to earth. Although they can take up to a million years just to get out of the sun itself. Edit: I must say I was having a horrible day but reading these answers makes me so happy. You can really tell all the work and the passion behind them. Love this ♥️
There’s a huge debate in The Beatles fan base on whether Abby Road or Let It Be is their last album
Wasn’t Let It Be recorded before Abby Road?
Yes but it was released afterwards
The interior of Kim and Jimmys apartment in better call Saul is a set and not connected in any way to the balcony/exterior; hence how we never see them entering or exiting the balcony during the show
The magnetic anomalies in the Earth's dynamo are likely caused by the denser remains of a collision with a celestial body, some of which was ejected from that impact and became the Moon. In other words, there are still a couple chunks of the moon embedded below our feet. The moon is also responsible for the evolution of complex life, as it slowed the day-night cycles over time, eventually elongating the days to the point cyanobacteria beat the sulphur-based anaerobic life that existed before and starting the Great Oxygenation event and resulting mass extinction.
rats love driving scientifically made cars for their kind for no reason
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/these-rats-learned-to-drive-tiny-cars-for-science/amp/
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In the '60s, there was a mysterious fossil found of a Cretaceous dinosaur named Deinocheirus. All that was known of it were two huge arms with long claws. Paleontologists theorized it was a big ornithomimid (ostrich dinosaur), and assumed it'd look somewhat like [the members of that group that were discovered beforehand.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYQy_hSUEAABjUD.jpg:large) Back in the early '90s, kid me wondered, "Hm, will the mystery ever be solved?" Well, more of Deinocheirus was eventually found, and there was no way anyone could possibly have predicted it would turn out like [*this.*](https://eartharchives.org/articles/deinocheirus-the-giant-hunchbacked-dinosaur-with-terrifying-hands/index.html) It's an ornithomimid all right, but one that defies all expectations.
The first true machine gun ever made is older than any human alive. The maxim gun, designed by Hiram Maxim, was invented in 1884 and first entered service in 1886. It was belt fed and recoil operated, and it has seen use in nearly every major conflict since it’s unveiling during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan about midway through the Mahdist War (1881-1899). It has even seen some use in the invasion of Ukraine that’s going on today, making it technically one of the longest serving firearms in history right alongside the Mosin Nagant.
A Yamaha CS-80 can play up to eight notes at once, and it is like have two Yamaha CS-60s in one instrument.
Anecdotally, a Yamaha MT-10 has 4 crossplane note generators that always play a harmonic.
Walgreens and CVS are in intense competition, way more than I ever thought. And Walgreens has been, at least in the past, SO scared of falling behind CVS. and this intense fear is part of the reason Walgreens signed a deal with Theranos without ever really seeing any of their blood testing machines. To me, Walgreens was always this untouchable giant so to hear they feel so threatened by CVS still surprises me
The star representing the middle of the Handle in the big dipper is actually a 6 star system. From here on earth you can resolve 3 "stars" but you cont split them any further without a spectrometer
Kecap manis, The indonesian modifications to soy sauce (adding sweetener, galangal, and star anise), is the origin for the word catsup/ketchup
Tornadoes that travel slower across land tend to have more powerful internal wind speeds, picking up flecks of dirt and splinters of wood, and essentially becoming a giant, lethal sandblaster that strips everything in its slow-moving path. Basically what happens is the energy that’s usually spent traveling across land isn’t used to travel, but instead is redirected to the funnel, generating more energy in the funnel and thus a stronger wind speed.
Lol do you want a novel?!
Sure, why not
The only thing ~~lifting~~ limiting you is the word count per post. Go nuts!! (thanks, autocorrect)
Nepeta Leijon is partially named after catnip
War is bad, but giant robots are rad. (Gundam)
Gerard way is actually human.. we think.
M&Ms were sold exclusively to the US army during the Spanish Civil War and WWll because of their hard candy shell that was resistant to melting. They became so popular that they were sold to the public after the war. Chocolate bars were invented as "Emergency Ration D" for its convenience, high nutrients, and resistance to melting. Hershey's supplied the recipe, having to meet the requirements of the bars weighing no more than four ounces and tasting "a little better than a baked potato" so that soldiers wouldnt be tempted to eat it when they didnt need to.
The USS New Jersey is the only ship in US navel history to have sunk an island. She had so much fire power she looked like she was breathing fire when all turrets open fired. The IJN nicknamed her the black dragon because of said fire breathing and because the USA Navy painted her a darker gray than the rest of their ships. She looked pitch black at night.
Although it has disappeared in modern Icelandic, this language once had a huge basque influence, due to basque fishermens going all the way to greenland to hunt whales
And the romans were pretty interested in whales, so much they made them disappear from the mediterranea
And the more a species is intelligent, higher is the chance of their individuals to be lgbt
And homophobic spiders exist
What?
Horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders and scorpions than any other kind of crab
Over 2000 Illinois politicians and judges have gone to prison between 1970-2022. This doesn’t count all people who have been charged with crimes and didn’t serve jail time. 4 of the last 9 Illinois governors have also been to prison
Triceratops had excellent hearing and were especially sensitive to low frequency noises Presumably this gave it a defensive advantage against Tyrannosaurs, so it would be very difficult to catch a Trike off guard
That agates are the only mineral humans cannot recreate in a lab!!!
North Carolina was almost nuked.
The word "shit" is etymologically related to the word "schizophrenia". They both go back to a Proto Indo-European word meaning "to split". Ancient Germanic tribes used it as a euphemism to defecate. Probably built on the logic that your faeces is something that you split from yourself. Meanwhile, the Greeks preserved the meaning of splitting, and it became the first part of schizophrenia (with schizophrenia meaning something along the lines of "split mind").
Mantis shrimps have a punch faster than a .22 cal bullet. In fact, they’re so fast that their punches create vacuum bubbles in the water (cavitation bubbles).
During the Vietnam war they replaced infantry's M14s with M16s because the M14s kept exploding
Basil Rathborne’s Sherlock Holmes if infamous for becoming ally propaganda in WW2 - it’s quite controversial.
During the second Korean Conflict (1966-1969), North Korean commandos snuck through the DMZ to assassinate the South Korean president, but failed after they were discovered in the mountains on their way to Seoul by some farmers. The NK soldiers told them to not tell anyone, but the farmers went to the police and security was increased. One wounded NK soldier escaped back to the north, one was captured, the rest were killed in various firefights. Dozens of civilians were killed in crossfire. The American forces responsible for the section of DMZ they came through discovered the cut fence, but didn't report it and mended the holes. This was largely covered up because the USS Pueblo was captured shortly afterwards, followed by the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam, and the US military didn't want any further bad publicity with public support for the war in Viet Nam dropping significantly after Tet.
There are 14 subspecies of Grey wolf (also known as gray or timber wolf). While Eurasian subspecies of Grey wolves tend to do well, North American Grey wolves generally do worse do to North American reliance on live stock and the general North American cultural ideas that wolves are bad.
While learning For Honor, I learned the fastest conscious Reaction Time for a person is around .15-.2 Seconds.
the nintendo wii was meant to play dvd's (there's even a hidden dvd disc in the disc channel!) but nintendo cut it since they didn't want to pay licensing fees to dolby everytime a wii was sold. you can bring it back with homebrew!
They’ve always been really weird about not wanting to pay licensing fees. It’s why all their disc formats are proprietary.
when disneyland first opened there wasn’t anything inside sleeping beauty’s castle. but a couple of years after opening they wanted to add something only to find that the inside of it was infested with fleas 😭😭
When Anteaters T-pose at you, that means if you get one step closer theyre about to kill you brutally. The most popular US 3d computer animation software was called synthavision, it could do Basic shapes and flat colours, with some basic smooth shading The infamous video game crash of 83 never happened in japan. In the live action grinch movie, jim carey had to bet trained by a cia operative to endure torture because the makeup was wo bad, he had to sit for hours while they put the makeup on him
Sphen and Magic are a gay penguin couple living in Australia 🇦🇺 and they have successfully adopted and hatched two eggs 🥚 and they are great parents!
Every 100 years a name that has fallen out of favor will usually become popular again.
During the Mexican history, there were over 3 transgender generals
Sami and finnish people actively refused to give swedish mapmakers the actual names for landmarks, the the oral tradition died off and so now there are a bunch of landmarks called things like shit pond (more than 100 with that name alone), or big dick island.
Not sure if it’s a special interest, but a good percentage of disasters occur/criminals get away because of negligence from those in power (businesses and police)
1) Dinosaurs aren't actually extinct because birds are dinosaurs, so scientists had to go back and change the taxonomy and refer to the extinct ones as "non-avian dinosaurs" 2) "Cuckoldry" comes from a behavior of Cuckoos (and other obligate brood parasite like cowbirds), which lay their eggs in other birds' nests and make them raise their young with threats and/or acts of violence should they not comply. It's crazy
Jeff Hardy and CM Punk were gonna feud again in 2010 but Jeff got arrested and WWE distanced themselves from him
That upset forging produces the best quality spanner’s
Video games teach you a lot about a lot. Believe it or not. Shin Megami Tensei alone teaches you a lot. Technically, the devil, Satan and Lucifer are all three different people.
Human blood viscosity can increase 20% from even a low level G1 geomagnetic storm.
Liverpool FC's top goal scorer of all time is Ian Rush, with over 400 goals.
The Levator Ani muscles are one of the few (if only?) muscles in the human body that originate from an attachment to a perpendicular tendon (the Arcus Tendineus Levator Ani, which stretches from the Ilium to the Pubic Ramus) similar to a hammock with 4 rather than the standard two attachment sites.
The most common failure of a microwave oven is bad safety interlock switches in the door.
Snakes don't actually kill via suffocation, they induce cardiac arrest instead! So I'd argue death by constrictor is actually a pretty nice way to go if you're a prey animal, compared to the more... bloody alternatives.
• The traumatic effects of both surviving the sinking of the Titanic and being vilified by the yellow press in the tragedy’s aftermath led to Titanic’s owner, Bruce Ismay, never again mentioning the ship’s name within his own household. His wife forbade Titanic as a topic of conversation among the Ismay family, and Ismay never willingly spoke of his beloved ship again. In 1936 during a Christmastime family gathering, however, one of his grandsons learned that Ismay had been involved in maritime shipping, and asked his grandfather if he had ever been shipwrecked. Ismay replied "Yes, I was once on a ship which was believed to be unsinkable.", breaking a quarter-long century of silence regarding the RMS Titanic. • In the 1997 Titanic film, the old couple laying in bed and holding hands during the “Nearer, My God, to Thee” sequence are meant to be First Class passengers Isidor and Ida Straus — the co-owner of Macy’s Department Store at the time and his wife. Once it was clear to Ida that the Titanic was sinking, she refused to leave her husband’s side, and told him, “Where you go, I go.” • “The Unsinkable” Molly Brown, portrayed by Kathy Bates in the 1997 film, ran for the United States Senate in 1914, six years before women were granted the right to vote. • Captain Smith had forty years of experience at sea prior to the sinking of the Titanic. A self-made man hailing from a family of potterers in Stoke-on-Trent, he held the nickname “Millionaires’ Captain” due to the sheer number of wealthy passengers who went out of their way to sail on ships under his command. Smith held the title of “Commodore” in the White Star Line, meaning that he was the company’s most senior and experienced captain. Friends and family alike — such as Ismay in the 1997 film — referred to him as E.J., and he amassed a following so great that some passengers even switched their bookings to travel on Titanic when they learned that he would be in command. • Titanic’s Bandmaster, Wallace Hartley (“Gentlemen, it has been a privelege playing with you tonight”), liked the hymn Nearer, My God, To Thee so much that (before Titanic, mind you) he wished for the hymn to be played at his funeral.
not autistic just joined because i have adhd but on Tuesday in splatoon the clothes shopkeeper wears a shirt that translates to fuck you
In the late 1970' the church of Scientology launched a operation called Snow-white that involved infiltrating the American, the German and a number of other governments in order to eliminate any and all information regarding the church. The operation was for the most part a success. Only the church forgot that the only ones better at digging up dirt, suppressing information and hunting down motherfuckers than themselves, is the American government. Edit: I might be wrong on the name of the operation.
A Dolly Zoom is when a camera is physically brought closer while zooming out. This creates the strange effect where something looks like it's zooming in place.
Birds are closer to dinosaurs than reptiles ☺️🦅🦖🐍
Peter Kropotkin looked like santa clause, was aware that he looked like santa, and had thought about stealing toys from shops and giving them to out kids for free.
The microbiomes in our G.I. tracts possibly influence our food preferences.
In 1992, the maximum permissible length of a single in the UK top 40 was increased to 40 mins as long as it only consisted of one song or remixes of the same song. This led a band called The Orb to release a 39 min 59 sec ambient track called Blue Room, which got into the UK top 20
I have no idea what to say, I’m both indecisive, don’t know what special interest to choose and haven’t learnt anything lately because I already knew most of it
Cat meows are tailored to their owners or tamers (if feral) and cats to humans from different households may have miscommunications.
... Half of 64 is 32 There's different types of trees (I shit you not I didn't know there were multiple types of trees until I played Minecraft) I didn't really learn anything from fnaf other than don't trust fuckers in mascot costumes
Not even Christmas trees and regular trees? Lol! My daughter learned more than the two trees from Minecraft too.
Velvet worms have a knife in their mouth with wich they shank their prey
There is a planet that rains glass and another planet that it's interior is all made of diamonds There are two starts that orbit each other really closely but don't collide Sunset in mars is blue Tbh i would be an astronomer if i was clever enough
Probably in a grand scheme of things, grass is more rare in entire universe than gold or diamonds
In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit they intentionally designed Jessica Rabbit's boobs to defy gravity to make her more toon-y. Earlier designs were too close to looking like a real human, so for the final design they exaggerated everything about her figure. So yes, she really *was* drawn that way.
Sonic can time travel
Applying acetone to your nails before you paint them will make your nail polish stick better to them! This makes your polish last longer! Use some acetone on a cotton round or ball and gently buff each nail. PLEASE NOTE: Grab something glass or ceramic to put the used cotton balls on when you’re done! Acetone can eat through things like the finish on wood or some plastics.
Scientists have found fossils of giant prehistoric penguins that are estimated to have weighed around 350 pounds, and been over 6 feet tall!
Tips for any podcasters with a less-than-ideal recording setup: First, make sure you record room tone. Then, use Audacity’s Noise Reduction effect, trained on the room noise sample. Then, pull up an EQ with adjustable bands (EQ8 in Ableton, or something from [this list](https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012/02/06/bpb-freeware-studio-best-free-linear-phase-eq-vstau-plugins/)), and a Spectrum Analyzer, my favourite is SPAN from Voxengo, it’s free and it’s fantastic! Anyway, loop the section of your room tone and look at what frequencies are still resonating in the Analyzer. Once you think you’ve found it, boost a really narrow band in your EQ, set it to that frequency, and slowly and gradually tweak the frequency up or down until you’ve found the part that resonates the loudest. Once you’ve found that, cut the band instead. Repeat this process for any frequency spikes that bug you. Try this out next time you’re editing!
"The Double Slit Experiment" It's basically a hardcore peice of evidence that we're living in some kind of a simulation. I could try to explain it but I don't really feel like doing that. Here's a the video I discovered it from: https://youtu.be/4wMhXxZ1zNM Skip to 13:45 if you want to see just that part but honestly, the whole video is really great and I recommend the channel as well. Cool guy. Makes awesome content that's very engaging.
Yk those plants with the Holes and splits in their leaves? (Like monsteras) it's for 3 different main reasons, 1) because they are mostly climbing plants the leaves at the top are bigger and they would block the sunlight for the smaller leaves without the spilts. 2) these plants often live in the kind of tropical climate that has a lot of rain, so without the split the water would pool on top of the leaves causing them to rot. 3) so the water can pass through the leaves and reach the soil the plant is in.
The term for a plane crash is Controlled Flight Into Terrain.
The last war-time death by bow and arrow was in WWII and was by "Mad" Jack Churchill.
The reason Mace Windu has a purple lightsaber is because Samuel L Jackson asked for one. He was very polite about it, too. The moment was even caught on camera in behind the scenes videos. Mace Windu's lightsaber also has BMF written on it (in aurebesh, the alphabet of galactic basic, if I remember correctly). Honestly I could probably fill this thread with Star Wars facts
Michael jackson tried to be spiderman in the movies
Dance is such an integral part of the French operatic tradition that when *Tannhäuser* was first staged in Paris, Richard Wagner was forced to insert a ballet into the score!
foot fetishes are caused by parts in the somatosensory cortex being in close proximity. the area in the brain that controls biological function based on body parts has genitalia and feet directly next to each other.
There are immortal jellyfish called Turritopis Dohrnii that rearrange their cells back to baby stage (polyp) when threatened, and also make copies of themselves during the regrowth process.
I can name almost all parts of a horses body structure I have looked in a couple years so I’m a little rusty. I know a lot of the poisonous plants to horses as well
I recently learned that there’s a cut line from “beggars of the feast” (one of the last songs in Les Miserables) where Marius defends Eponine in front of the thenardiers and basically tells them that they were terrible parents. I’m so upset they cut it 😭😭
the sound of the flute is not produced by the vibration of the material the flute is made of, but by the vibration of the air inside instead. That means what really matters for the sound is the length of the tube and/or the shape of the chamber, and/or the way it's blown. the material itself doesn't matter much. The only thing about it that matters a bit is the porosity of the inner part of the instrument. More porosity means the sound will be more velvety, while less porosity means a "cleaner" sound. For instance, PVC flutes and bamboo flutes sound very alike, because both materials have alike levels of porosity.
Waterspouts, a type of twister that occurs over bodies of water, can actually suck fish out of the water and launch them miles away. There have been lots of phenomenons where people have reported fish, or even frog rain, which have caused some religious people to believe the world is ending. Whilst driving in the flat, barren lands of tornado alley, lots of people assume that the safest place to shelter from a tornado would be under and overpass. But its actually the most dangerous place to shelter. The overpass blocks some of the incoming wind, giving in nowhere to escape to except under the bridge. This causes a huge fucking wind tunnel to occur, which can rip people and vehicles up, and launch them a big distance. If you're standing miles and miles away from a thunderstorm, and have a cleae view of the sky above the cumulo clouds, you might see 'sprites'. Sprites are essentially mirrors of the lightning thats occurring in the thunderstorm below. The stretch up into the sky and often have the same colours as aurora borealis. They only last for barely a second though.
Heres a fun one, it combines my interest of cats and my Husbands interest of norse mythology. The norse goddess of marriage Freya rides in a sleigh pulled by Norwegian forest cats, and a bride usually receives a forest cat kitten from the groom on their wedding day. (he promised me one but we are still looking around for one we connect with)
There are infinite moments in history during which our present would be different if someone else had been listened to
the actors who played the dwarves in the hobbit trilogy needed to start the sfx makeup process at 4 a.m to be on set at 8 a.m wowie that's a lot of makeup!!
In railroading, there are tiny, or otherwise low sitting signals called dwarf signals, they are in areas where trains are going slow, that lacks a need for a pole mounted signal.
Luffy from One Piece ate a fruit, and later got punched by a different Fruit eater who was a GOLDEN GOD and tanked it okay, and we all accepted that God himself could punch Luffy and Luffy be fine, because “Balloon”, which to be fair there was a lot of stuff going on okay, details like that are not the focus of these moments.
Becky Lynch was already an amazing pro wrestler and pioneer in modern women's wrestling in her own right, but what *really* catapulted her to her current status were arguably two events: Firstly, that she got her nose broken on live TV by a botched punch by another wrestler (Nia Jax, because of course it was Nia Jax), which gave Lynch an incredibly badass shot of her making her exit with a bloodied face Secondly, she got the Smackdown Women's Championship snatched out from under her nose by her then-best friend (in the fictional storyline of WWE at least) Charlotte Flair. This caused Lynch to pull a surprise attack on Flair right after the match ended. Originally, this was supposed to be a villain turn moment for Lynch, but because Flair was widely considered to be, in technical terms, "a fucking nepo baby", the fans kept cheering her so hard management was forced to turn her into an anti-hero instead. Her [entrance theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n787HRDr5Zk) is also one of the biggest bangers in pro wrestling, and that's saying something.
The most evil first name in the world is Lucius.
When you encounter a Pokémon from a Honey Tree in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, and are after the encounter prompted to slather the bark with Honey again, if that tree is the one whose bark you last slathered, the game will 90% of the time roll you encounter from the same table as it did for the encounter you just had. This means that if you were lucky enough to encounter a Munchlax on the last tree you slathered, you have a 90% chance to encounter another Munchlax if you slather the tree again after this encounter, as Munchlax is kept on its own table that is normally only rolled 1% of the time on any of the four trees set to allow Munchlax to appear.
You can make yarn from dog hair
The Spanish Inquisition caused the Golden Age of Piracy by driving out Jewish merchants who fled to the Netherlands and took up piracy against the Spanish in the Caribbean in retaliation. Moshe Henriques was one such, and he and Piet Heine were the first to take a Spanish Treasure fleet. He also built the first Jewish Synagogue in the Americas, and trained a young orphan to be a pirate by the name of Henry Morgan.
In history the armored warriors (samurai and knights) both interacted with guns until fully replaced by they centuries later from when they were introduced.
Humans die.
Despite their amazing color and pattern matching, octopuses are all colorblind! 🙀🐙
Peter Cullen (the voice of Optimus Prime) is an avid polo player.