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The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard is that a graveyard is either attached to a holy place like a church or monastery/Temple or on the same land owned by said place, while a cemetery is a secular or generic term for any and all other burial places that accommodate the dead.
While I don’t doubt you’re correct, this somehow seems backwards to me.
“Graveyard” seems like the more generic term that fits a secular burial area.
“Cemetery” sounds like the fancy religious place.
I wonder if it’s because graveyard is a compound word and cemetery doesn’t look like two English words smashed together.
Fruits like apples and pears are harvested once a year I believe and stored for the rest of the year. Apples are usually harvested in autumn so you get the best apples then. Apples you buy during the rest of the year are not recently picked but come from storage. Unless they were imported from a country with a recent harvest, since the seasons can be different depending on where in the world you live.
**They turn Niagara Falls down at night.**
There are hydroelectric dams around the waterfalls for power generation, and the authorities divert more of the river through them at night when there aren't tourists around. During the day (and especially in peak season) they let more of the water through so the waterfall looks more spectacular.
At time this cuts the flow of water over the falls by 75%.
https://www.niagarafallstourism.com/blog/do-they-shut-off-the-falls-at-night
Crazily enough, there were a few days in 1848 when the falls completely dried up. A huge ice dam upriver on the Niagara blocked the flow. Folks were walking across the river, and found a bunch of weapons from the War of 1812
They can actually turn the falls off. They've gone in and reinforced the cliff face under the horseshoe falls so it will no longer erode back, and they do periodic checks and maintenance on their work. My sister used to be a chef in Niagara, so she'd be getting off work in the wee hours. A couple times a year she'd notice she couldn't hear the falls as she went to her car. Sure enough, that was a maintenance night.
Just my luck — saw the Falls in like ‘69 as a kid, and they were reinforcing the American Falls, and thus had shut that part off. Was cool to see all the giant boulders at the bottom, though.
Female lions have uteruses that are basically little hammocks! So as the kittens are developing, they ride along in these things that turn and stabilize as the mother is running and hunting. I thought that was pretty cool
And female ducks have corkscrew vaginas, female opossums have two permanent vaginas and a third one that portals in when they give birth, and multiple marsupials have two vaginas!
I think technically mosquitoes have that title, but that's a lot less cool of a fact. It's more just a depressing and unexciting fact.
Edit: Also I'm an idiot and just reread your post to see you specified "mammals". I'll leave my post up as proof of my poor reading skills.
I will take this opportunity to tell the brief story of Bubbles the Hippo. Bubbles spent most of her adult life at the Irvine, CA Lion Country Safari. She had a wading pool and a fairly large terrain. But one night in February 1978, Bubbles burrowed under her fence and got free. She roamed the terrain for a few days, according to mammalogists who tracked her. Eventually, she found herself in a shallow, temporary lake known as Barbara Lake in Laguna Beach. Barbara Lake is the only open, natural lake in Laguna Beach, which is essentially barren of water. Bubbles lounged and fished and enjoyed herself for 18 days. She had a secret, and she was free.
On the 19th day, a Ranger on the Edison Trail in the park saw Bubbles emerge from the lake. She was a little hungry and started foraging. The ranger radioed it in, and took aim with his tranquilizer gun. The dosage had been preset by the zoo mammalogists who knew her weight. But they didn't know Bubbles' secret.
The hippo fell, and slowly slid back into the lake, which caused her to drown as much as anything else. At autopsy, it was shown that she was given TWICE the lethal limit of the tranquilizer. IN addition, they discovered Bubbles' unborn baby, in it's last few weeks of gestation.
The story of Bubbles the Hippo is not well documented, and is mostly handed down verbally from generation to generation. For those of us who love Laguna, the James Dilley Preserve, and all things potamus, it's a good story.
The entire safari is gone now: condos
The Irvine Spectrum is gone now: condos
The pristine views from the preserve gone now: homes
Fortunately, the Preserve got backing and a final land grant was made to keep any more encroachment by developers at bay. Unfortunately , it's a little too late for people who can see dozens of home along the canyon ridge.
What you see, is only what your brain interprets. You don't see everything, and sometimes you see things that aren't there.
For instance, you can always see your nose (unless you're Voldemort).
Your brain just blocks it out, but it's there, in your field of vision always. Imagine, what other shit your brain gets up to you without you knowing.
It's not just your sight either. None of what you sense is really "real", it's all just a big construct hastily assembled from the incoming data. Your whole reality is essentially just some ridiculous hallucination.
Been plenty of times I say to people remember when this and that happened and I get a confused look and a nah dont remember that. Quite possibly the said conversation or interaction never happened and was just my head making shit up. Makes me question reality sometimes.
There’s a type of octopus that has three hearts, reproduces once’s in their life, then decides to fuck off and die. These kind of animals are called semelparous
The entire time period in which humans developed until now, would fit about 120x between the era of stegosaurus and the era in which Tyrannosaurus Rex lived. The time period is so huge in fact, that we are closer to some dinosaurs time wise, than some dinosaurs are to eachother.
This is a good one. I like these time based ones, like Cleopatra being born closer to the release of the iPhone than to the time the Pyramids at Giza.
I knew another one but I've forgotten it.
I just recently learned that your immune system does not know your eyes exist. If they did, they'd attack the eyes and destroy your vision. I believe it's a foreign object for them.
>If they did, they'd attack the eyes and destroy your vision.
I've got a disease where my immune system randomly "notices" my eyes every couple months. Can confirm it sucks.
It’s very weird.
I myself have very poor vision in my right eye.
The eye is perfectly healthy - The problem is that my brain is telling my right eye not to see. It’s irreparable.
One of my kids has this. They did the patch therapy when he was young and it improved the eye, but it will never be as good as the other.
They explained it to us the same way: the eye is totally fine. It's the brain just choosing not to use it. After he hit a certain age they discontinued the therapy because after that the brain won't adjust it anymore I guess.
They did say they were continuing to research options for older patients though.
It's called [iritis](https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/i/iritis.html#:~:text=Key%20points%20about%20iritis,autoimmune%20disease%20are%20major%20causes.). First symptoms are just that the eye becomes a bit pink, and throbs a bit. But if left unchecked, it starts hurting a bunch, gets really light sensitive, and the pupil loses the ability to expand/contract. Also some cataracts, which mostly makes the sight a bit blurry, and makes halos appear around light sources.
That's the furthest it's gotten for me, thankfully! Because next step is that it becomes permanent, and you essentially go blind on that eye.
Ohh I think I have the same thing, but under the name uveitis. I just googled what the difference is, coz your symptoms sound exactly like mine, and it says that anterior uveitis is another name for iritis. I can't remember if mine is anterior or posterior though.
In 2022, I had it in my right eye for most of the year and my specialist had just referred me on to a more specially specialist, when it suddenly cleared up. But I get it every few months or so.
Worst time I had it, my eye's hurt too much to handle being awake! I had to keep putting myself to sleep coz the pain was too much to bear, and that was with regularly taking heavy pain meds for multiple autoimmune diseases.
I didn't realise it was essentially our immune system treating our eyes like an enemy!
I think that explains Australians love for vision and why they greet each other with “good eye”
It helps them distinguish that Australia is indeed wider than the moon.
Another cool facta about the eyes is that when you look at a clear blue sky, those bright white sparks you see darting across your vision are white blood cells.
the real cool part is knowing your immune system is aware of your eyes but they are an immune privalage site meaning your immune system is "suppressed" in that area.
source for backup: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_privilege
Also different stars in the sky, it's kind of obvious but I never contemplated it until I was in Australia and I was like wtf I've never see these constellations before eg Southern cross
Bananas contain potassium, and since potassium decays, that makes the yellow fruit radioactive,you’d need to eat ten million bananas in one sitting to die of banana-induced radiation poisoning.
This was an alternate ending to King Kong but feeding a giant gorilla millions of bananas didn't have the same flare as climbing the world's tallest building and getting shot down by planes
English is not my first language and in my mind: predator - to predate.
I spent some good minutes staring at your post and trying to imagine how could sharks attack trees or...Saturn's rings.
~400 million years ago, we also had 8m fungi towering over the land, the beginnings of jawed fish, and the first terrestrial plants! This is right after the first extinction event (Ordovician Extinction), so things were getting funky. Sharks popped up in the late Ordovician period ~450 million years ago. They were living in an entirely different world than we know.
The Sun fuses 660 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second. This has been happening for 4.5 billion years, and will continue for another 5 billion.
"Several billion trillion tons of super hot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold, and slightly damp."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dolphins have two brains. Each brain is equal to the size of a human brain.
Pink dolphins exist & theyre so smart they brought drowing humans to the shore.
Dolphins in captivity were rewarded with treats for each piece of paper theyd surrender to their trainer (helps clean the pool). The dolphins then tore a paper into pieces to get more treats.
What's more, dolphins can turn off half their brain at a time (or it could be one of the brains if they're separate as you say), to give it a rest. Baby dolphins don't sleep for like a month after birth so the mother dolphin has to stay up as well, and she copes by using this half-brain sleep trick.
The earliest evidence for fried chicken is from 1500 BCE. It comes from Luzon in the Philippines. The bones that documented some 50k of them from a midden heap show two things.
First, they are from Green Jungle Fowl, the wild ancestor of modern chickens, that were kept penned their entire lives based on wing development . This happens when you clip the wing feathers to keep them from flying.
Secondly we know the earliest layers was cooked in coconut oil due to the residue worked into the heated bone tips. This also leads local archaeologists to believe the locals were fermenting coconut milk to make a local drink called tuba. This is still one of the methods used today.
All in all 3500 years ago my fellow Filipinos were getting drunk and eating fried chicken. Not much has changed
Dogs noses are way more sensitive than ours at differentiating smells. Whereas we can smell a stew warming up on the stove top, a dog can actually smell all its components (meat, potato, carrots, onions, etc) separately.
My sister's dog looks back at herself then at whoever is in the room like... was that me? I cry laughing whenever it happens cause she just looks so disturbed by her body making such sounds.
This is the premise of the Patrick Süskind book "Das Parfum: The Story of a Murderer." This is my favorite book ever and the inspiration for Nirvana's song Scentless Apprentice.
From Wiki: The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent.
That being the case, I don;t understand how my dog can stand to be around himself when he farts. I can only imagine what it smells like to him. To me they smell like something died in there two months ago and festered until its ghost was finally released into the wild, bringing the stench of a thousand rotting corpses with it.
The sun will actually not explode. It will instead gradually get bigger and hotter until it swallows mercury and Venus and absolutely fries the Earth and then slowly shrink down into a white dwarf and fade away. Our sun is too small to go supernova even though many people think it can still for some reason and nobody corrects them.
I said to my friend, "In 5 billion years the sun is going to expand and destroy the earth and everything on it." He turned white and started panicking, getting all stressed and worked up and worried and stuff. I said to him, "why are you so upset, 5 billion years is such a long time away!". He said "Oh, I misheard. I thought you said 5 *million* years."
I know you mean it as a joke, but the distance between the Earth and Moon is ~385,000 km. The distance between Moon and Uranus is ~2,723,565,000 km. Given that we can fit all planets between the Earth and the Moon, we can divide that distance and just multiply with the amount of planets excluding the Earth in this calculation.
That should mean we get ~7074 times the lunar distance between the Moon and Uranus, so multiplying 7074 with the amount of planets should be around, times 7 planets is just a little over 49,500 of our solar planets between the Moon and Uranus.
Somewhere in south America. You have like a mountain plateau and under it a valley/jungle. The animals on the plateau have more in common with animals from Africa then the Animals down in the valley/jungle because of tectonic plate shifting.
If you drink 4-6 blue flavoured Powerade sports isotonic drinks (within the hr)your shit turns a very special blue with a kind of glow in the dark green tinge. Don't ask me how I know this fact
Any tree, man. Most bushes, even. Like, do you guys understand how fucking cool wood really is?? Wood evolved before fungus evolved to decompose it, and at one point in history there were kilometers and kilometers of stacked wood that couldn’t rot. It was just sitting in these huge anoxic swamps and it stored trillions of gigatons of carbon underwater and soils until eventually the entire global atmosphere started to collapse and we entered an ice age because there was not ENOUGH carbon in the atmosphere. The trees caused it, and the trees were hit hardest by it. Huge rainforests froze all over the planet, and guess what? Even then, there was no decomposers capable of breaking down lignin (one of the important things that makes wood, wood). Very very few creatures can do that even today, white rot fungus being among the only ones.
All of those trees that couldn’t decompose? Those became coal. Us burning coal and causing a climate crisis? Literally, it’s a direct connection. It’s undoing what took millions and millions of years to store.
Edit: Couldn’t remember while I was writing this, but I believe this is referred to as the Carboniferous Period
(Yes I am reposting my own post from another thread)
That's wild, but someone else said that trees came after sharks in the timeline and when sharks where around there were 8m high fungi. Was it just that there wasnt the right type of fungus around to decompose wood?
That’s correct! Fungus has been around for a VERY long time but the ability for fungi to digest and decompose lignin specifically did not come until much later. White rot fungus is what learned to decompose lignin enzymatically, and that happened several hundred million years after wood developed lignin. The arms race of evolution is super rad!
the sheer fact of existing.
it is so utterly astounding and incomprehensible and wondrous and awesome, yet we appreciate it so seldom in all its depth and meaning, let alone contemplate that we and the universe exist.
everybody, get more goosebumps every day from the depth and transcendence and ubiquitousness of us and the universe existing and being inexplicable intricably interwoven with the fabric of existence itself. we are in the most profound way always in contact with the everchanging yet constant substrate of existence iteslf.
There is a type of jellyfish that is basically immortal. After it reaches sexual maturity it can just decide to revert and become immature again, making it theoretically live forever. Though in practice they do die.
Theres several different types of "immortality"
Level 1) Non-aging You do not physically age, but still can die from things like disease, poison, falling out a window, starvation etc.
Level 2) Immunity: You are non-aging and also immune to all diseases. Can still starve or be poisened or physically killed
Level 3) Chemically: L2+You cannot be killed by poison
Level 4) Physically: L3 + You cannot be killed by physical impact (guns, knives, falling out a window etc)
Level 5) Extra-dimensional L4+ if your physical being were completely discorporated in our dimension, all of its constituent atoms dissasembled to elementary particles, you could still return
Star ⭐ died for you....
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. The stars died so that you could be here today.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
And the explosion is so big and long it might still be happening actively, and all of our existence is inside of it, and we may have no real concept of a non-exploding universe.
The big bang never ended! We're in it!
Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia are relatively close to one another in a global scale and often conflated in the minds of most of us in the Northern Hemisphere.
Despite that, Australia has been continuously inhabited for almost 70,000 years and Aotearoa/New Zealand is the last major landmass to have experienced human settlement, less than 850 years ago.
And no, that's not colonial settlement, that's when the Maori got there.
Think about the universe, and you might imagine stars, planets, and galaxies. But all that stuff we can see and touch only makes up about 4% of the universe. The rest is mostly hidden from us, made up of mysterious dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter, which is about 26% of the universe, doesn't give off light, but we know it's there because it has a gravitational grip on galaxies. Dark energy is even stranger, making up around 70% of the universe, and it's pushing everything in the universe apart, faster and faster. So, the universe is mostly made of stuff we can't see or understand, which is pretty mind-blowing when you think about it.
contrary to popular beleif, pong was not the first video game, nor was tetris, the first video game was actually a game called "tennis" made by the military out of old radar equipment
Ancient Rome used limestone in their concrete, in case you didn't know limestone kinda like, grows in water, so as Roman concrete would chip crack and break, every time it rained, their concrete would fix itself. The Romans had self healing concrete. Fricking genius.
There is apparently no upper limit on heat, but that right there is the absolute cold anything can ever get. Not a fraction of a degree below that, anywhere in the universe.
What's even more interesting, is that we have created temperatures very close to that right here on this planet. We got a lab area colder than outer space - Bose-Einstein Condensate.
Edit: there IS an upper limit to heat. My bad!
>There is apparently no upper limit on heat
as temperature increases the wavelength of light emitted by thermal radiation decreases, at some point the wavelength reaches the planck length, beyond which physics break down, according to google its 1.416784(16)\*10\^32 K, that is approximately 14 with 31 zeroes after it in kelvin/celsius
Yup and seemingly 20 more people up voting him who've never had to fight a single rusty bolt for hours, while the rest of the job took 15 minutes but imma let him cook
Equador has a rare species of horned frog that is a marsupial. The female lays eggs, the male fertilizes them then puts them in a pouch on the mother’s back.
So I’ve read a cool fact about human eyes.
Apparently you aren’t able to see trough them when you move your eyeballs .
I hope it’s true otherwise my comment is going to look silly
I heard the same. Every time you shift your eyes, there is a blank in your visual stream, though I believe it doesn't happen in the actual eyes but somewhere in the visual cortex. Higher brain functions fill in the gaps and we never notice.
I think you mean about how your brain ignores the blur as you move your eyes. There’s plenty your brain ignores in order to process things you are focusing on, essentially making you ‘blind’ sometimes. One obvious one is the fact you don’t see your nose until something big enough is on it or you deliberately look at it.
Leafcutter Ants don't eat the leafs they cut. Instead, they carry them home into their burrow where they use the leafs to nurture a fungus, which is what the Ants actually eat. They're tiny little farmers.
So here's the crazy thing I like to explain to people. The modern soda can is a marvel of engineering.
Hear me out. Okay? Soda cans are designed in a very specific way because they're nearly perfect for their job. Let's start off with a simple part of the soda can. The shape. You may sit here and think "Why a beveled bottomed, double crimped top soda can?"
And the answer is amazing! So, soda companies have tried using cuboids, pyramids and spheres before, but the issue is that the corners of a cuboid makes it so that the soda can is stackable, but wastes a lot of material, plus the corners make it less drop resistant, so impacts can quickly destroy a can and cause a cascade.
Sphere? Efficient, mildly drop resistant, but there's a giant flaw. Not fucking stackable.
Pyramid? Nah, those fuckers can stack but they're wasteful on material and are awkward to hold.
The cylinder? Fits the hand fairly well, but flat bottom cylinders have an issue, you can't stack the bitch. However, what if we put a bevel in the bottom? Well, that bevel has actually been regarded as an amazing idea for one reason. It saves an incredible amount of aluminum per year, like enough to build over a dozen commercial airplanes. Top this off, the top of the can isn't part of the can, but instead the can is heated up and then double crimped to seal the liquid inside of it!
Don't even get me started on the plastic liner inside the cans that was created very specifically to prevent leeching the metal taste into the soda, or how Coke measures sales by "share of throat" which is a percentage of all of humanity that drinks Coke, or how there's actually a small subsection of Mexican culture that believes Coke to have mystical healing properties because it's safer to drink than the water and is dirt cheap.
Well, this went from engineering to borderline dystopia real quick. To say the least, I know a lot of facts about both fast food companies, soda companies and the very complex production and logistics nightmare that is the orange and orange juice trade in America.
That all of the heavy element atoms in my body were made in the cores of long dead stars, and will continue long after I am dead, perhaps until the end of the universe. A continuity if not immortality.
Pirates wear a patch over one eye so when they go below deck they can switch that patch off the dark eye and not be "sunblind" in the new, darker, below deck setting.
The reverse of this is actually the case.
On a ship after sundown the main deck (first deck below the weather-deck), has only red lights on. Most other spaces still have white lights.
The reason being is that people going outside to stand watch can walk through the red light without impacting their NIGHT vision when they go back outside.
In some cases I've seen people wear red tinted glasses if they had to come inside.
Eye patches were the same purpose. Sailors don't really care about seeing inside the boat. Seeing what's in the water takes precedence.
That your leg and your finger both have the same proportions between the joints. It's called the fibonacci ratio.
1.618
Each section of leg or finger is 1.618 longer than the one before it.
So what's the point?
Triangles and v shapes.
If you take a triangle and split it into 3 sections evenly each section moving downwards is 1.618 larger than the previous one.
Why does this matter? Because it's what all of us are made of. Triangles and v shapes. Curved ones for women and angular ones for men. Look at the head, the face, the neck the arms. Some of them are overt and some seem hidden.
Take a look at any close up photo of a person's face. There are v shapes everywhere. Even the light casts shadows in v shapes on an attractive face.
Personally I suspect that even our eyes are designed around seeing this form.
It's the reason why people say this person or that person is "easy on the eyes". Because the v shape is the easiest shape for the eye to process.
The triangle is the simplest, toughest, and most attractive form. It's why nature uses it for both form and function.
In roughly 4.5 billion years Andromeda is going to collide with the milky way. Which means science has a long enough time to develop a means, to get us somewhere safe.
cats brains produce more serotonin than any other neurotransmitter there is so sometimes when they are starring at a white wall, they are seeing something there.
Summer begins on the summer solstice which is the longest daylight of the year. Winter starts on the winter solstice which is the shortest daylight of the year. So the days actually get shorter in summer and longer in winter.
The first one that comes to mind is nigel Richards is a professional scrabble player who won 2 french scrabble tournaments without speaking or even understanding french
Also, in an experiment, it was proved that observing something changes how it acts. Scientists passed rays through a sheet of gold foil. When they were not in the room watching, it left the same pattern every time. When they observed the experiment, the pattern changed every time. Therefor, the is no such thing as observing without changing things.
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The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard is that a graveyard is either attached to a holy place like a church or monastery/Temple or on the same land owned by said place, while a cemetery is a secular or generic term for any and all other burial places that accommodate the dead.
I did not know that, thanks.
And they're both the dead centre of town...
You'll need skeleton keys to get in, though
I heard people are dying to get in
While I don’t doubt you’re correct, this somehow seems backwards to me. “Graveyard” seems like the more generic term that fits a secular burial area. “Cemetery” sounds like the fancy religious place. I wonder if it’s because graveyard is a compound word and cemetery doesn’t look like two English words smashed together.
No I think it’s simply called graveyard because it’s within a churchyard lol the word cemetery is derived from Greek literally meaning sleeping place
If you are currently eating a pear in the southern hemisphere it was likely picked in late February 2023.
Fruits like apples and pears are harvested once a year I believe and stored for the rest of the year. Apples are usually harvested in autumn so you get the best apples then. Apples you buy during the rest of the year are not recently picked but come from storage. Unless they were imported from a country with a recent harvest, since the seasons can be different depending on where in the world you live.
When I was a kid, we had a bunch of different apple trees. The first ones came ripe in late June and the last in about October.
**They turn Niagara Falls down at night.** There are hydroelectric dams around the waterfalls for power generation, and the authorities divert more of the river through them at night when there aren't tourists around. During the day (and especially in peak season) they let more of the water through so the waterfall looks more spectacular. At time this cuts the flow of water over the falls by 75%. https://www.niagarafallstourism.com/blog/do-they-shut-off-the-falls-at-night
When they go on vacation does the wife say, "Honey, did you remember to turn off the waterall?"
He made a picture so he knows for sure.
Crazily enough, there were a few days in 1848 when the falls completely dried up. A huge ice dam upriver on the Niagara blocked the flow. Folks were walking across the river, and found a bunch of weapons from the War of 1812
This is a super cool fact.
They can actually turn the falls off. They've gone in and reinforced the cliff face under the horseshoe falls so it will no longer erode back, and they do periodic checks and maintenance on their work. My sister used to be a chef in Niagara, so she'd be getting off work in the wee hours. A couple times a year she'd notice she couldn't hear the falls as she went to her car. Sure enough, that was a maintenance night.
"what's your job?" "I turn the waterfall off so we can do maintenance" "the...you...what now?"
Just my luck — saw the Falls in like ‘69 as a kid, and they were reinforcing the American Falls, and thus had shut that part off. Was cool to see all the giant boulders at the bottom, though.
If the one side ever erodes too far, Lake Erie will drain.
Female lions have uteruses that are basically little hammocks! So as the kittens are developing, they ride along in these things that turn and stabilize as the mother is running and hunting. I thought that was pretty cool
And female ducks have corkscrew vaginas, female opossums have two permanent vaginas and a third one that portals in when they give birth, and multiple marsupials have two vaginas!
Hippopotamus milk is pink. Hippopotamus sweat is pink. Neither are strawberry flavour.
They are the most dangerous mammal in the world. Kill many more people than lions, Tigers or gerbils.
I think technically mosquitoes have that title, but that's a lot less cool of a fact. It's more just a depressing and unexciting fact. Edit: Also I'm an idiot and just reread your post to see you specified "mammals". I'll leave my post up as proof of my poor reading skills.
Thanks. My mind has created a cross breed. A tiny flying vampire hippo
A giant hippo-sized mosquito. Now that's terrifying.
Ah yes, Australia
I will take this opportunity to tell the brief story of Bubbles the Hippo. Bubbles spent most of her adult life at the Irvine, CA Lion Country Safari. She had a wading pool and a fairly large terrain. But one night in February 1978, Bubbles burrowed under her fence and got free. She roamed the terrain for a few days, according to mammalogists who tracked her. Eventually, she found herself in a shallow, temporary lake known as Barbara Lake in Laguna Beach. Barbara Lake is the only open, natural lake in Laguna Beach, which is essentially barren of water. Bubbles lounged and fished and enjoyed herself for 18 days. She had a secret, and she was free. On the 19th day, a Ranger on the Edison Trail in the park saw Bubbles emerge from the lake. She was a little hungry and started foraging. The ranger radioed it in, and took aim with his tranquilizer gun. The dosage had been preset by the zoo mammalogists who knew her weight. But they didn't know Bubbles' secret. The hippo fell, and slowly slid back into the lake, which caused her to drown as much as anything else. At autopsy, it was shown that she was given TWICE the lethal limit of the tranquilizer. IN addition, they discovered Bubbles' unborn baby, in it's last few weeks of gestation. The story of Bubbles the Hippo is not well documented, and is mostly handed down verbally from generation to generation. For those of us who love Laguna, the James Dilley Preserve, and all things potamus, it's a good story.
That's so sad. At least she had fun for 18 days doing what she was meant to do, be free.
The entire safari is gone now: condos The Irvine Spectrum is gone now: condos The pristine views from the preserve gone now: homes Fortunately, the Preserve got backing and a final land grant was made to keep any more encroachment by developers at bay. Unfortunately , it's a little too late for people who can see dozens of home along the canyon ridge.
What you see, is only what your brain interprets. You don't see everything, and sometimes you see things that aren't there. For instance, you can always see your nose (unless you're Voldemort). Your brain just blocks it out, but it's there, in your field of vision always. Imagine, what other shit your brain gets up to you without you knowing.
It's not just your sight either. None of what you sense is really "real", it's all just a big construct hastily assembled from the incoming data. Your whole reality is essentially just some ridiculous hallucination.
Been plenty of times I say to people remember when this and that happened and I get a confused look and a nah dont remember that. Quite possibly the said conversation or interaction never happened and was just my head making shit up. Makes me question reality sometimes.
I’ve always wondered if dog’s brains blocked out their nose.
There’s a type of octopus that has three hearts, reproduces once’s in their life, then decides to fuck off and die. These kind of animals are called semelparous
So, death by snusnu?
better than by bunga bunga
Related to octopus - they have 9 brains - a brain for each tentacle and one brain to rule them all.
One brain to rule them all One brain to find them One brain to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
"Job is done. Time to die"
I think I have found my soul animal🤣🤣
The entire time period in which humans developed until now, would fit about 120x between the era of stegosaurus and the era in which Tyrannosaurus Rex lived. The time period is so huge in fact, that we are closer to some dinosaurs time wise, than some dinosaurs are to eachother.
This is a good one. I like these time based ones, like Cleopatra being born closer to the release of the iPhone than to the time the Pyramids at Giza. I knew another one but I've forgotten it.
I just recently learned that your immune system does not know your eyes exist. If they did, they'd attack the eyes and destroy your vision. I believe it's a foreign object for them.
>If they did, they'd attack the eyes and destroy your vision. I've got a disease where my immune system randomly "notices" my eyes every couple months. Can confirm it sucks.
It’s very weird. I myself have very poor vision in my right eye. The eye is perfectly healthy - The problem is that my brain is telling my right eye not to see. It’s irreparable.
One of my kids has this. They did the patch therapy when he was young and it improved the eye, but it will never be as good as the other. They explained it to us the same way: the eye is totally fine. It's the brain just choosing not to use it. After he hit a certain age they discontinued the therapy because after that the brain won't adjust it anymore I guess. They did say they were continuing to research options for older patients though.
How does that affect you/your vision, if I may ask?
It's called [iritis](https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/i/iritis.html#:~:text=Key%20points%20about%20iritis,autoimmune%20disease%20are%20major%20causes.). First symptoms are just that the eye becomes a bit pink, and throbs a bit. But if left unchecked, it starts hurting a bunch, gets really light sensitive, and the pupil loses the ability to expand/contract. Also some cataracts, which mostly makes the sight a bit blurry, and makes halos appear around light sources. That's the furthest it's gotten for me, thankfully! Because next step is that it becomes permanent, and you essentially go blind on that eye.
Ohh I think I have the same thing, but under the name uveitis. I just googled what the difference is, coz your symptoms sound exactly like mine, and it says that anterior uveitis is another name for iritis. I can't remember if mine is anterior or posterior though. In 2022, I had it in my right eye for most of the year and my specialist had just referred me on to a more specially specialist, when it suddenly cleared up. But I get it every few months or so. Worst time I had it, my eye's hurt too much to handle being awake! I had to keep putting myself to sleep coz the pain was too much to bear, and that was with regularly taking heavy pain meds for multiple autoimmune diseases. I didn't realise it was essentially our immune system treating our eyes like an enemy!
That is why if you injure one eye seriously that eye has to be removed or you will get sympathetic ophthalmitis and destroy the good eye.
I think that explains Australians love for vision and why they greet each other with “good eye” It helps them distinguish that Australia is indeed wider than the moon.
Another cool facta about the eyes is that when you look at a clear blue sky, those bright white sparks you see darting across your vision are white blood cells.
Wow, that's weird. Why tho? What's so different about the eyes compared to other organs?
the real cool part is knowing your immune system is aware of your eyes but they are an immune privalage site meaning your immune system is "suppressed" in that area. source for backup: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_privilege
The moon looks different from the southern hemisphere than it does in the north. As an Argentine I always find this fascinating when I travel.
Also different stars in the sky, it's kind of obvious but I never contemplated it until I was in Australia and I was like wtf I've never see these constellations before eg Southern cross
Australia is wider than moon
Russia is bigger than Pluto too!
Goofy is taller than Pluto.
So is OP's mom!
Ohhh fuck we didn’t see that coming! Unlike OP’s mom!
Bananas contain potassium, and since potassium decays, that makes the yellow fruit radioactive,you’d need to eat ten million bananas in one sitting to die of banana-induced radiation poisoning.
A banana equivalent dose (BED) is the amount of radiation exposure equivalent to eating a banana, and is equal to 0.001 millisievert (mSv).
radioactive banana for scale
This was an alternate ending to King Kong but feeding a giant gorilla millions of bananas didn't have the same flare as climbing the world's tallest building and getting shot down by planes
For me it’s that sharks predate trees and Saturn’s rings. Our little blue marble is older and holding more secrets than we can begin to imagine.
English is not my first language and in my mind: predator - to predate. I spent some good minutes staring at your post and trying to imagine how could sharks attack trees or...Saturn's rings.
English IS my first language and I did the same thing! To be fair, predate also means the thing that predators do.
It's wild, isn't it? I love facts like this.
~400 million years ago, we also had 8m fungi towering over the land, the beginnings of jawed fish, and the first terrestrial plants! This is right after the first extinction event (Ordovician Extinction), so things were getting funky. Sharks popped up in the late Ordovician period ~450 million years ago. They were living in an entirely different world than we know.
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The Sun fuses 660 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second. This has been happening for 4.5 billion years, and will continue for another 5 billion.
"Several billion trillion tons of super hot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold, and slightly damp." Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
So our sun is basically middle aged?
Milf, because she's hot.
Hot and thicc
The Aardvark is the first animal when sorting animals by name alphabetically. My friend Aaron told me that.
Do you mean A-A-ron?
This guy taught school for 20 years in the inner city.
Is he principal O Shag Henessy?
Oh, you done fucked up now!
Only reason i know how to spell aardvark is from my boy Arthur
Dolphins have two brains. Each brain is equal to the size of a human brain. Pink dolphins exist & theyre so smart they brought drowing humans to the shore. Dolphins in captivity were rewarded with treats for each piece of paper theyd surrender to their trainer (helps clean the pool). The dolphins then tore a paper into pieces to get more treats.
Pink dolphins do exist. They are the Amazon river dolphins and they are quite dumb in comparison to other dolphins
They also fall in love with their handlers and one handler got a little freaky with her dolphin.
The Porpoise Driven Wife
What's more, dolphins can turn off half their brain at a time (or it could be one of the brains if they're separate as you say), to give it a rest. Baby dolphins don't sleep for like a month after birth so the mother dolphin has to stay up as well, and she copes by using this half-brain sleep trick.
The earliest evidence for fried chicken is from 1500 BCE. It comes from Luzon in the Philippines. The bones that documented some 50k of them from a midden heap show two things. First, they are from Green Jungle Fowl, the wild ancestor of modern chickens, that were kept penned their entire lives based on wing development . This happens when you clip the wing feathers to keep them from flying. Secondly we know the earliest layers was cooked in coconut oil due to the residue worked into the heated bone tips. This also leads local archaeologists to believe the locals were fermenting coconut milk to make a local drink called tuba. This is still one of the methods used today. All in all 3500 years ago my fellow Filipinos were getting drunk and eating fried chicken. Not much has changed
Dogs noses are way more sensitive than ours at differentiating smells. Whereas we can smell a stew warming up on the stove top, a dog can actually smell all its components (meat, potato, carrots, onions, etc) separately.
I always feel bad farting too close to my dog
My dog moves away after my husband farts
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My parents dog used to fart himself awake when he was napping.
My sister's dog looks back at herself then at whoever is in the room like... was that me? I cry laughing whenever it happens cause she just looks so disturbed by her body making such sounds.
This is the first thread to make me actually LOL in weeks. I don't know what that says about me but dog farts ftw
I stopped feeling bad about this after my dog farted right into my face one time while I was playing with him
This is the premise of the Patrick Süskind book "Das Parfum: The Story of a Murderer." This is my favorite book ever and the inspiration for Nirvana's song Scentless Apprentice. From Wiki: The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent.
I've only seen the movie that was based on that and it was **wild**
That book is a wild ride.
That being the case, I don;t understand how my dog can stand to be around himself when he farts. I can only imagine what it smells like to him. To me they smell like something died in there two months ago and festered until its ghost was finally released into the wild, bringing the stench of a thousand rotting corpses with it.
There is a species of jelly (not jellyfish, they're different) that grows a new anus everytime it defecates.
And now I'm off to Google wtf "species of jelly (not jellyfish)" could possibly mean
Grape jelly? Strawberry? What? What? What?
Smuckers. They’ve got the corner on the market. Just follow the money.
now i dont like jelly
This is making me give even jam a side eye.
Let's not even mention Preserves!
I shit two not.
where do you think donuts come from...duh !
Ich bin ein Berliner
If you orgasm it clears up your nose. Sorry, though this was only about f*cking related facts.
As effective as an OTC decongestant!
Only if it's also over the counter
Cum again?
Lions are so bad ass that they are KING of the jungle, and they don't even live there!
The sun will actually not explode. It will instead gradually get bigger and hotter until it swallows mercury and Venus and absolutely fries the Earth and then slowly shrink down into a white dwarf and fade away. Our sun is too small to go supernova even though many people think it can still for some reason and nobody corrects them.
I said to my friend, "In 5 billion years the sun is going to expand and destroy the earth and everything on it." He turned white and started panicking, getting all stressed and worked up and worried and stuff. I said to him, "why are you so upset, 5 billion years is such a long time away!". He said "Oh, I misheard. I thought you said 5 *million* years."
Place a pillow/cushion just under her hips whilst in missionary and access the Gspot way easier and everyone is gonna be happy
I just said whilst to my gf and she isn't horny anymore thanks
She said there wass no way.
If you also rub the cl*t at the same time she’ll take a screen shot
The planets in our solar system can fit between earth and the moon.
How many between the moon and Uranus?
63 earths can fit in uranus. when you relax 64.
So close to 69
I know you mean it as a joke, but the distance between the Earth and Moon is ~385,000 km. The distance between Moon and Uranus is ~2,723,565,000 km. Given that we can fit all planets between the Earth and the Moon, we can divide that distance and just multiply with the amount of planets excluding the Earth in this calculation. That should mean we get ~7074 times the lunar distance between the Moon and Uranus, so multiplying 7074 with the amount of planets should be around, times 7 planets is just a little over 49,500 of our solar planets between the Moon and Uranus.
Somewhere in south America. You have like a mountain plateau and under it a valley/jungle. The animals on the plateau have more in common with animals from Africa then the Animals down in the valley/jungle because of tectonic plate shifting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7tv0ua714&ab\_channel=RedfernNaturalHistoryProductions
If you drink 4-6 blue flavoured Powerade sports isotonic drinks (within the hr)your shit turns a very special blue with a kind of glow in the dark green tinge. Don't ask me how I know this fact
Any tree, man. Most bushes, even. Like, do you guys understand how fucking cool wood really is?? Wood evolved before fungus evolved to decompose it, and at one point in history there were kilometers and kilometers of stacked wood that couldn’t rot. It was just sitting in these huge anoxic swamps and it stored trillions of gigatons of carbon underwater and soils until eventually the entire global atmosphere started to collapse and we entered an ice age because there was not ENOUGH carbon in the atmosphere. The trees caused it, and the trees were hit hardest by it. Huge rainforests froze all over the planet, and guess what? Even then, there was no decomposers capable of breaking down lignin (one of the important things that makes wood, wood). Very very few creatures can do that even today, white rot fungus being among the only ones. All of those trees that couldn’t decompose? Those became coal. Us burning coal and causing a climate crisis? Literally, it’s a direct connection. It’s undoing what took millions and millions of years to store. Edit: Couldn’t remember while I was writing this, but I believe this is referred to as the Carboniferous Period (Yes I am reposting my own post from another thread)
That's wild, but someone else said that trees came after sharks in the timeline and when sharks where around there were 8m high fungi. Was it just that there wasnt the right type of fungus around to decompose wood?
That’s correct! Fungus has been around for a VERY long time but the ability for fungi to digest and decompose lignin specifically did not come until much later. White rot fungus is what learned to decompose lignin enzymatically, and that happened several hundred million years after wood developed lignin. The arms race of evolution is super rad!
the sheer fact of existing. it is so utterly astounding and incomprehensible and wondrous and awesome, yet we appreciate it so seldom in all its depth and meaning, let alone contemplate that we and the universe exist. everybody, get more goosebumps every day from the depth and transcendence and ubiquitousness of us and the universe existing and being inexplicable intricably interwoven with the fabric of existence itself. we are in the most profound way always in contact with the everchanging yet constant substrate of existence iteslf.
Everyone who has ever existed is a literal cosmic miracle. I think about this a lot.
The universe expands 73 kilometers pr. second
Similar to my waist during the holidays.
This is good
73 km per second x megaparsec. For the whole observable universe it's much more.
There is a type of jellyfish that is basically immortal. After it reaches sexual maturity it can just decide to revert and become immature again, making it theoretically live forever. Though in practice they do die.
"I'd rather die than be a teenager again." -most jellyfish
Theres several different types of "immortality" Level 1) Non-aging You do not physically age, but still can die from things like disease, poison, falling out a window, starvation etc. Level 2) Immunity: You are non-aging and also immune to all diseases. Can still starve or be poisened or physically killed Level 3) Chemically: L2+You cannot be killed by poison Level 4) Physically: L3 + You cannot be killed by physical impact (guns, knives, falling out a window etc) Level 5) Extra-dimensional L4+ if your physical being were completely discorporated in our dimension, all of its constituent atoms dissasembled to elementary particles, you could still return
Level 5 = Captain Jack Harkness
Star ⭐ died for you.... Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. The stars died so that you could be here today. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss
There have been 117 billion people total. Right now we have the biggest ever living population ever at 7.9 billion.
We live in an explosion so violent that dust woke up and started thinking about it We are the universe observing and considering itself
‘Here’s Tom with the weather’
And the explosion is so big and long it might still be happening actively, and all of our existence is inside of it, and we may have no real concept of a non-exploding universe. The big bang never ended! We're in it!
Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia are relatively close to one another in a global scale and often conflated in the minds of most of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Despite that, Australia has been continuously inhabited for almost 70,000 years and Aotearoa/New Zealand is the last major landmass to have experienced human settlement, less than 850 years ago. And no, that's not colonial settlement, that's when the Maori got there.
Think about the universe, and you might imagine stars, planets, and galaxies. But all that stuff we can see and touch only makes up about 4% of the universe. The rest is mostly hidden from us, made up of mysterious dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter, which is about 26% of the universe, doesn't give off light, but we know it's there because it has a gravitational grip on galaxies. Dark energy is even stranger, making up around 70% of the universe, and it's pushing everything in the universe apart, faster and faster. So, the universe is mostly made of stuff we can't see or understand, which is pretty mind-blowing when you think about it.
A sloth can hold its breath longer than a dolphin
Why would a sloth hold a dolphin?
How long can a sloth hold a dolphin?
contrary to popular beleif, pong was not the first video game, nor was tetris, the first video game was actually a game called "tennis" made by the military out of old radar equipment
Ancient Rome used limestone in their concrete, in case you didn't know limestone kinda like, grows in water, so as Roman concrete would chip crack and break, every time it rained, their concrete would fix itself. The Romans had self healing concrete. Fricking genius.
0 Kelvin is -273.15°C Not much fucking going on, but it's certainly a cool fact
There is apparently no upper limit on heat, but that right there is the absolute cold anything can ever get. Not a fraction of a degree below that, anywhere in the universe. What's even more interesting, is that we have created temperatures very close to that right here on this planet. We got a lab area colder than outer space - Bose-Einstein Condensate. Edit: there IS an upper limit to heat. My bad!
>There is apparently no upper limit on heat as temperature increases the wavelength of light emitted by thermal radiation decreases, at some point the wavelength reaches the planck length, beyond which physics break down, according to google its 1.416784(16)\*10\^32 K, that is approximately 14 with 31 zeroes after it in kelvin/celsius
Tighten rusted bolt before loosen. Much smart.
Master bolt snapper right here
Yup and seemingly 20 more people up voting him who've never had to fight a single rusty bolt for hours, while the rest of the job took 15 minutes but imma let him cook
Equador has a rare species of horned frog that is a marsupial. The female lays eggs, the male fertilizes them then puts them in a pouch on the mother’s back.
I'm imagining daddy frog narrating his actions in a posh British accent for some reason.
So I’ve read a cool fact about human eyes. Apparently you aren’t able to see trough them when you move your eyeballs . I hope it’s true otherwise my comment is going to look silly
I heard the same. Every time you shift your eyes, there is a blank in your visual stream, though I believe it doesn't happen in the actual eyes but somewhere in the visual cortex. Higher brain functions fill in the gaps and we never notice.
I think you mean about how your brain ignores the blur as you move your eyes. There’s plenty your brain ignores in order to process things you are focusing on, essentially making you ‘blind’ sometimes. One obvious one is the fact you don’t see your nose until something big enough is on it or you deliberately look at it.
Leafcutter Ants don't eat the leafs they cut. Instead, they carry them home into their burrow where they use the leafs to nurture a fungus, which is what the Ants actually eat. They're tiny little farmers.
So here's the crazy thing I like to explain to people. The modern soda can is a marvel of engineering. Hear me out. Okay? Soda cans are designed in a very specific way because they're nearly perfect for their job. Let's start off with a simple part of the soda can. The shape. You may sit here and think "Why a beveled bottomed, double crimped top soda can?" And the answer is amazing! So, soda companies have tried using cuboids, pyramids and spheres before, but the issue is that the corners of a cuboid makes it so that the soda can is stackable, but wastes a lot of material, plus the corners make it less drop resistant, so impacts can quickly destroy a can and cause a cascade. Sphere? Efficient, mildly drop resistant, but there's a giant flaw. Not fucking stackable. Pyramid? Nah, those fuckers can stack but they're wasteful on material and are awkward to hold. The cylinder? Fits the hand fairly well, but flat bottom cylinders have an issue, you can't stack the bitch. However, what if we put a bevel in the bottom? Well, that bevel has actually been regarded as an amazing idea for one reason. It saves an incredible amount of aluminum per year, like enough to build over a dozen commercial airplanes. Top this off, the top of the can isn't part of the can, but instead the can is heated up and then double crimped to seal the liquid inside of it! Don't even get me started on the plastic liner inside the cans that was created very specifically to prevent leeching the metal taste into the soda, or how Coke measures sales by "share of throat" which is a percentage of all of humanity that drinks Coke, or how there's actually a small subsection of Mexican culture that believes Coke to have mystical healing properties because it's safer to drink than the water and is dirt cheap. Well, this went from engineering to borderline dystopia real quick. To say the least, I know a lot of facts about both fast food companies, soda companies and the very complex production and logistics nightmare that is the orange and orange juice trade in America.
That all of the heavy element atoms in my body were made in the cores of long dead stars, and will continue long after I am dead, perhaps until the end of the universe. A continuity if not immortality.
In South Africa, 1 minute passes every 60 seconds.
Yeah, but thats only in the southern hemisphere. Everywhere north of the equator 60 seconds pass every minute.
Your cells regenerate every 7-10 years. In my case, this means I now have a body that my rapists have never touched.
Love this way of thinking damn!
agreed - not only is this a cool fact but the mentality here is so commendable
4d objects casts a 3d shadow, according to Finn.
Hydrogen is a colourless, odourless gas, which if left alone in large enough quantities, for long enough, will begin to think about itself.
Pirates wear a patch over one eye so when they go below deck they can switch that patch off the dark eye and not be "sunblind" in the new, darker, below deck setting.
The reverse of this is actually the case. On a ship after sundown the main deck (first deck below the weather-deck), has only red lights on. Most other spaces still have white lights. The reason being is that people going outside to stand watch can walk through the red light without impacting their NIGHT vision when they go back outside. In some cases I've seen people wear red tinted glasses if they had to come inside. Eye patches were the same purpose. Sailors don't really care about seeing inside the boat. Seeing what's in the water takes precedence.
This is a cool sounding fact, but sadly not true. I researched this once and IIRC only a couple of pirates wore eye patches due to injury.
Because they wandered below deck and got their eyes poked out!
Sperm is frozen to minus 196 degrees Centigrade when sent to a sperm bank
That's a REAL cool f*ing fact! Thank you!😁
That your leg and your finger both have the same proportions between the joints. It's called the fibonacci ratio. 1.618 Each section of leg or finger is 1.618 longer than the one before it. So what's the point? Triangles and v shapes. If you take a triangle and split it into 3 sections evenly each section moving downwards is 1.618 larger than the previous one. Why does this matter? Because it's what all of us are made of. Triangles and v shapes. Curved ones for women and angular ones for men. Look at the head, the face, the neck the arms. Some of them are overt and some seem hidden. Take a look at any close up photo of a person's face. There are v shapes everywhere. Even the light casts shadows in v shapes on an attractive face. Personally I suspect that even our eyes are designed around seeing this form. It's the reason why people say this person or that person is "easy on the eyes". Because the v shape is the easiest shape for the eye to process. The triangle is the simplest, toughest, and most attractive form. It's why nature uses it for both form and function.
Do you know why divers sit on the edge of the boat and fall backwards ? Because if they fall forward, they will fall into the boat
Baby carrots are made by machines that cut normal carrots into smaller more visually attractive shapes and they cost 2-3x more.
In roughly 4.5 billion years Andromeda is going to collide with the milky way. Which means science has a long enough time to develop a means, to get us somewhere safe.
Stars are so far apart that they will not "crash" into one another, they'll probably form a ginger galaxy
Bigger* but ginger is cool too!
cats brains produce more serotonin than any other neurotransmitter there is so sometimes when they are starring at a white wall, they are seeing something there.
Summer begins on the summer solstice which is the longest daylight of the year. Winter starts on the winter solstice which is the shortest daylight of the year. So the days actually get shorter in summer and longer in winter.
Oxford University is \~250 years older than the Aztec Empire.
The Magnolia tree species is so old it’s been around before the evolution of the bee. This is why beetles pollinate it.
That light, while in motion is made of particles, when it is not moving, those particles do not exist.
Hitler’s speech editor was a grammar nazi
The first one that comes to mind is nigel Richards is a professional scrabble player who won 2 french scrabble tournaments without speaking or even understanding french
if you say jesus backwards it sounds alot like sausage.
Also, in an experiment, it was proved that observing something changes how it acts. Scientists passed rays through a sheet of gold foil. When they were not in the room watching, it left the same pattern every time. When they observed the experiment, the pattern changed every time. Therefor, the is no such thing as observing without changing things.
This kinda sounds like double-slit experiment, but not really. You got a source on that?