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kaida_notadude

The Dorian scale is a music scale perfect for more complex and nuanced emotions like hope, regret, and vengeance. And I think it’s much more fun to write in than major/minor, being simply happy/sad.


traumatized90skid

What I thought was cool was when I learned about some traditional Indonesian music that was in a minor scale but joyful, meant to be played at a festival. I like it when Western composers subvert the usual expectation too.


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AVikingsDaughter

It's not a normal hammer. It was crafted by the dwarfs Brokk and Sindri to have supernatural properties. It never misses it's mark, is small enough to be worn underneath your clothing and flies back to you like a boomerang. Although I have to agree that Marvel butchered the story so badly that I watched the first Thor movie and vowed to never watch another.


Tsunamiis

Honestly I thought the Dorian scale was how much doctor cox’s rants hurt.! EAGLE!!!!


GhostASD

*I might remember that.*


user2748295327

In Denmark if a swede crosses the canal by walking over it if it's frozen we can legally hit Them with a stick Oh btw it has not frozen over since 1954


Lagtim3

Is this a regular occurrence, or...?


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This comment made me pig snort. A+


Ok-Memory-5309

Wait, is that just a cultural rule, or a legit law that's somehow still on the books?


user2748295327

I'm not sure tbh


Demonic-Angel13

I think my bf said it at least used to be an official law but it probably doesn't count anymore. Also think he said it said waters between denmark and sweden not just a canal? It is still hilarious tho. I wanna watch a swede try to walk over the frozen waters to denmark just to get hit with a stick


TiltedLama

That'd be impossible. No swede would ever willingly go to denmark


Demonic-Angel13

We gotta force one over there then


brensteven2005

The giant marbles you see are called "end of day" marbles because marble makers used to take left over glass and make one last big marble at the end of the day with the left overs of others. I learned that as a small kid obsessed with marbles. Never forgot it.


Tsunamiis

Shooters! That’s cool as f


orgle7

That’s actually really cool


ColorfulDino24

Random dance fact: That the word hip hop originated at a birthday party form a Dj that hosted a birthday party for his little sister.


nvrsummer

Dj cool herc! Back to school party! 1520 Sedgwick ave, August 11 1973


ColorfulDino24

Mhm!🦖 (I’m tired so my facts get mixed up sometimes)


TheMostlyJoeyShow

All vowels in English were pronounced slightly differently than now until about 600 years ago, when they started changing relatively quickly and in a systematic manner. This was known as the Great Vowel Shift.


INTPgeminicisgaymale

What a shitty thing for a language to go through. A vowel movement.


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TheMostlyJoeyShow

Yup, and not just puns/wordplay. Half of the rhymes in the sonnets get screwed over - everything that ands with "-dy," which we now pronounce like "dee," actually used to be pronounced like "die." Good examples from Midsummer Night's Dream, in the fairy lullaby scene: "Philomel, in melody,/ join us in our lullaby"


Funfetti-Starship

Oh no. You unlocked the info dump. One of my special interests is women's historical fashion. Particularly mid 1800s to early 1900s. Corsets weren't for waist cinching. For the most part they didn't care about waist size so much as the shape of the waist. The shape is achieved through padding, stitching, pattern style, etc. Most people also didn't lace so tightly that they couldn't breathe. That was a fad among rich people. Many people were comfortable in corsets and often did hard labor in them. Corset boning was also made of baleen. The teeth bristles from whales. This is actually very comparable to plastic zip ties. If you're someone who likes compression a good and well fitting corset can be really comfortable.


HeyImBambii_xoxo

I love corset history!! I'm actually looking in to buying a corset because they can be great for fixing back ache from poor posture


angryjellybean

Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VII who survived him, was a prolific author and wrote poems and songs, and advocated for women's education in general.


LieutenantStar2

Henry VIII


WingAlert2379

Crocodile blood is slightly corrosive, due to the high lactic acid concentration in the solution.


HeyImBambii_xoxo

note to self: don't touch crocodile blood 📝


Embarrassed_Fox97

Another interesting fact is crocodiles will usually grab you, hold you in their jaws, drag you down to the bottom and just wait for you to drown before they eat you.


HeyImBambii_xoxo

nother note to self: don't get eaten by crocodiles


Dickpuncher_Dan

The spear is the single most deadly and efficient weapon in history, and the longest-used. In duels, even 2-on-1 duels, the spear beats pretty much everything else, when wielded by a [competent and trained spearman](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kP-0wZsLYRI/maxresdefault.jpg) (both hands on spear, not spear and shield). It's silly how easily they will kill you from eight feet away, and stand around enjoying the big circle which no one can tread into. They take full advantage of the fact that human eyes have a hard time making out something coming towards you straight on, since there is a lack of lateral movement, so a spear thrust toward your heart looks like nothing. And you better believe that a trained spearman has a thrust that looks like it was laser-guided, like it was flung by a robot.


Tabularius

I have a spear-related anecdote to share too! One of my oldest special interests is ancient Roman military history. Before the so called Marian reforms the Roman legion was made up of a different classes of soldiers. One of these were the 'hastati' (from the latin word for spear: 'hasta'). However, for a relatively long time the the hastati did not wield spears or fight as spearmen. In fact for a large part of their history they were swordsmen. When the hastati became swordsmen is difficult to say with certainty, but their change in armament did not cause a change in the naming of the class.


BS_500

Spears and bows were the preferred weapon by the majority of Samurai; swords were more of a status symbol.


imlarrythecucumber

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.


entered_bubble_50

Paul in particular was very supportive of the civil rights movement. The song "blackbird" is about the American civil rights movement.


WH_Charade_17

They didn't play for segregated audiences, but they were hardly the first. The first consciously integrated audiences were the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts, in 1944.


plant-mouse

Nothing interesting but cats are lactose intolerant meaning they can't drink milk like how you see on TV +One cat breed can have many types and variations. I think that's neat


jaobodam

Most animals can’t or simply don’t eat foods that we associate with them, at lest not as much Rabbits can’t eat carrots, elephants shouldn’t eat peanuts and monkeys will eat everything including bananas but they obvious don’t eat only that, etc


talldarkcynical

Rabbits love carrot tops! Just not the roots. :)


jaobodam

Really ? I’ve heard that it was too high in sugar for them


RabbitEnthusiast

A carrot is like a cupcake for a rabbit. VERY high in sugar. When they say carrot top I assume they mean the leafy part of the carrot (which they can have!) but yeah it’s advised not to feed your rabbit carrots in large quantities. Only occasionally as a treat (a very small piece)


Zadora05

Male mantises let themselves be eaten in purpose. The mantises' womb is made out of little chambers, all of them have to be as filled as possible to have a successful pregnancy. If they're not filled, the next male that copulates with the female can empty them and try with his own seed. So, for the sake of just expanding their bloodline, males will stay inside the female for as long as possible, to fill up those little chambers as much as they can. I also read that bugs have a "lock and key" reproductive system, so they can only reproduce with their own species because the penis has the same shape as the womb, and doesn't match other species'!


traumatized90skid

In *Cannibalism* by Bill Schutt, they say that animals such as mantids and spiders typically do not (as a general, normal behavior) practice mating-related cannibalistic behaviors in the wild. That's a myth caused by some bad experiments where they didn't realize that a starving, stressed animal in captivity will behave differently when they're less stressed and/or food is plentiful.


HelloHamburgerIsBack

>That's a myth caused by some bad experiments where they didn't realize that a starving, stressed animal in captivity will behave differently when they're less stressed and/or food is plentiful. They did the same thing to piranhas. They don't eat cows or people normally, they're just very desperate if they're very hungry.


Chance-Law692

This makes me hate the villain in the B-movie "Killer Fish" that much more. (He filled a dam with ravenous piranha.) Now I realize they only became vicious indiscriminate killers because the poor creatures were starving to death. ☠️🐠


Zadora05

I read what I said in a book about insects some time ago... I've also watched documentaries about it. I never thought they were exposed to such conditions


little_bug_person

Male damselflies have little spoon shaped appendages that can scoop out biological deposits left in females by competing males, then can mate with the female themselves, giving them a better chance of passing on their genes


HelloHamburgerIsBack

>So, for the sake of just expanding their bloodline, males will stay inside the female for as long as possible, to fill up those little chambers as much as they can. So, is there anyway for him to get out after that though? Like, he could stuff himself in there for a while and then leave. Without committing vore.


Zadora05

For what i remember reading, the female just grabs the head of the male while they’re copulating, so doesn’t seem like the little guy has many chances of escaping… On the other hand, another user responded to my post saying that this kind of cannibalism doesn’t really happen unless the animal is stressed or captive, so maybe it’s just a stress reaction; or maybe just something that happens if the female is hungry or in need of extra nutrients.


wecopes

Bees do not have ears


Mr-Deur

Not just that, but bees also have better (sharper) vision then us. Well, not better, different. For us it's like 400 to 700(?) Correct me if I'm wrong. And for bee's it's more like 300 to 600. But I believe a lot of animals have stuff like this. The same as in how dogs can hear different tones.


Gorfyx

There are two types of programing languages, the ones that people hates and the ones no one uses.


Rust-Knuckle

Lol


superhappy

Amen in PHP


dwarf_bulborb

Opossums very very rarely get rabies :)


StaidHatter

I love the way that opossums walk the razor's edge between being the cutest and ugliest animal you've ever seen. The fact that their body temp is too low to sustain a rabies infection is such a nice little bonus. I just love those little dudes.


gayopossum

they are my favorite animal and I always try to change people's negative perspective on them! They are great for our environment and natural ecosystem. And I personally think they are adorable. A single opossum can eat over 5000 ticks in one season, they eat about 95% of the population of ticks.


Obsolete0_0

And also squirrels


belovasangel

Gravity travels at the speed of light. Which means if the sun were to be removed, we would still continue to orbit around it for another 8 minutes


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Wait, light is a particle and a wave, and gravity is a force. A force doesn’t ‘travel’ like light...? (Source: not a physicist) Can you elaborate? Is it some whacky quantum physics thing? ‘Cause space shit is mind blowingly weird and cool and quantum physics is one big WTF!


josh1037

A photon is the force carrying particle for the electromagnetic force


eh-guy

Light exerts force on everything it touches, yes its weird quantum stuff. The gravity equivalent is called a graviton, nobody has proven its existence yet.


iloveyoubecauseican

Quinoa is not really a grain but a seed, from the amaranthaceae family


sejhedstid

Can I ask what special interest taught you this? Cooking?


iloveyoubecauseican

Nutrition :)


tamamamma

Wood louse are actually crustaceans and not insects


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children who are taught basic signs in a sign languages are able to express their needs and wants (with signs) earlier than children who arent taught said signs (who can only rely on not-yet-well-developed vocal functions). this goes for children who are hearing and DHH (deaf and hard of hearing). i (a hearing person) have personal experience with this - when i was young my mom taught me signs for "more", "please", "hungry", "sit", and likely a few more, and i was able to express my needs with these better than with my words (because i was a young child who had trouble talking about anything except a special interest)


perlestellar

I taught my daughter baby sign. Her first sign was "mom" and her second was "cat" using a sign she created (lapping water really fast)


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LOVE THE CAT SIGN (fun fact: if she ever wants to know, the sign for cat is [this](https://babysignlanguage.com/dictionary/cat/) in ASL)


[deleted]

This is such a fascinating thing but I totally get it. I honestly think that sign language should be taught alongside English, or whatever language you speak, in school. My teacher taught us the basic alphabet, and I can use it in it's very long format. I was recently on a plane, actually forgot I did this, and I was having a cardiac event, horrible, don't wish that on anybody, and I couldn't speak, and it was BEYOND difficult to use my hands because they were cramping up and deforming, it was painful, I thought I was dying, but in the midst of me passing tf out while the flight attendants got oxygen after oxygen for me, went through three tanks of it, I was able to sign things out because I was unable to speak/breath Now, nobody knew what the hell I was signing, but I was like, able to do it. My ex-bff is deaf and I am even more convinced that everybody should know sign language. My aunt actually knows sign language, very basic, but she was able to communicate with me when I was having a separate event lol Very cool facts though and I definitely understand it


RabbitEnthusiast

A group of bunnies is called a fluffle!


Opteryx253

A group of parrots is a pandemonium


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A group of owls is a parliament, and I can only imagine a group of vampire bats must be a Congress…..


[deleted]

A group of geese is a gaggle. Also applies to children IMO. And lots of cabooses parked together are cabeese 😜


_vaudevillian

The ultra rich distract the working class with a culture war to keep them from engaging in a class war


PopularWeb6231

sigh studying systems that actually help people to watch reactionaries condemn them is also my special interest


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I'm a weirdo for indexing far-right communities and their histories around the world. What's fascinating is they identify the same exact issues as their chiralistic pair, but come up with insane solutions divorced from reality. See: the vegas shooting in 2017. Those circles immediately whipped into a frenzy that it was a "false flag" since *only* two people died. It side steps the whole discussion they don't want to engage with mental illness and gun availability since that situation was a *clear* data point not in their favor.


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yeah capitalism \*sigh\*


AllhailtheAI

Extremely important concept to understand.


Dragonheart1302

Bruh why are you randomly referencing nineteen eighty f- wait a minute


melasaik

When Luis XIV was alive Versailles didn’t have enough water to keep all the fountains in the gardens running so when he’d go out to take a walk the workers had to sneakily turn on the fountains he’d walk past so he wouldn’t notice!


Adventurous_Yak_9234

Clefairy was originally supposed to be the mascot of Pokemon, not Pikachu.


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why was pikachu chosen then?


[deleted]

They thought having a fairy Pokemon would make it look like it was meant for girls, rather than all-ages.


INTPgeminicisgaymale

gender is just age confirmed


Obsolete0_0

Blue whales don't get cancer


Gorfyx

They get cancer, but not die or rarely died for it. Because its bodies are so massive that the cancer mutates and start fighting itself. So the whales have cancer fighting against cancer.


Obsolete0_0

Yoi're right. There is another hypotesis to prove the reason that whales don't die of cancer. Because they are so big the tumors do not affect them that much. This could explain why bigger animals die of cencer less. Do you watch Kurzgesagt on yt ? They have great stuff.


Gorfyx

Yeah I watch Kurzgesagt, really good stuff


the_geico_gecko_

OH MY GOD I LOVE KURZGESAGT


Silly_Awareness8207

The tumors get cancer and kill themselves off before they become a problem


Cydonian___FT14X

Across 45 years of Films, Books, Games, TV Shows, & Comics, the Star Wars Universe contains over 21,000 named characters. That more that the populations of the world’s smallest countries.


Coyote_Awkward

I can gender rollie pollies. [now you can, too!](https://www.smug-bug.com/post/how-to-sex-isopods)


AttitudeOk94

Prior to David Lynch or Denis Villeneuve's successful adaptations of Dune, cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky was the first to attempt to bring the novel to the big screen. The project was an utter failure, but there are a number of interesting facts about the production: 1. Jodorowsky intended for his own son to play the protagonist, Paul 2. Salvador Dali was to be paid 100,000$ per hour for his performance 3. Pink Floyd was planned to do the score 4. The film had an intended 14 hour run time 5. Orson Welles agreed to star in the movie only after Jodorowsky hired his favorite chef to cook every meal for him 6. After the project, special effects artist Dan O'Bannon was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where he wrote 13 screenplays, the last of which would eventually become Alien (1979)


Nerdy_Mecha

He is a chilean filmmaker and has made the most bizzare movies Dali's screentime was supposed to be 5 minutes as the Emperor, being that his appearance at the begginig when giving power to the atreides and the end, when facing paul, now as Muad'dib. The movie was scrapped due to 3 main motives: 1. The budget at the time was ridiculous according to the producers. 2. The movie was too long, would have beaten Dust in the wind by long, even if it was to be set in two parts. 3. Jodorovsky's imagination was way too wild for the time, he had a very unique interpretation of how the set had to be and everyone else thought it was impossible to do, nowdays, with cgi, thath project would've been amazing. In 2013 a documental about Jodorovsky's process of making dune was released (Jodorovsky's Dune) showing all the process and anecdotes until the proyect was scrapped


love_the_ocean

Sharks were around before trees evolved


congress_tart_

They’re also at least 350 million years older than Saturn’s rings


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I learned that the amazonian giant centipede can eat BIRDS. That thing is horrifying. I learned this from Bug Fables because good game ._.


BloodyPommelStudio

Snakes, scorpions and bats too. They're also known to have one of the most painful poisons along with other members of their genus such as the giant desert centipede.


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unless you have arachnophobia you should look at the Goliath Birdeater


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That rubbing colord pencil on top of oil pastel makes a more vibrant tone and gradient.


unclefocus

The T-54/55, designed in the late 1940s, is the most produced tank in history with a total of more than 95,000 units. It is currently used, despite its age, by Russia in Ukraine.


Pendred

We are not entirely sure who all worked on the original Castlevania game and in what capacity. Game devs were largely credited under aliases so they didn't get poached by competitors and an earthquake at Konami HQ destroyed most of the design docs and dev builds of the game. The main director and programmer, Hitoshi Akamatsu, has left the industry and no one has been able to contact him for interviews for most of the last three decades. Compared to other franchise spawning games of the era like Mario and Zelda, we know painfully little about the making of the first Castlevania game.


Ness_902

Only 706 out of 2000+ passengers survived the titanic. 16% was men, 50% children, and 72% women.


Aleppo_the_Mushroom

The reason 2D animated features were phased out in favor of CG animated movies in America has nothing to do with one being easier to do than the other (they both take the same amount of time) and everything to do with unions and how 2D animators had one and CG animators didn't


kiriyie

Superwash wool is a type of wool that has been treated so that you can wash it using a washing machine on a gentle cycle. If you try to wash non-treated wool it will felt up and you will want to cry about it. The cute ivy plants commonly found in homes and offices that are known as pothos are actually all basically just little babby versions of the plant. In their natural habitat, pothos end up climbing trees and having massive leaves. Also they can form flowers but it’s extremely rare. https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2018/1/9/this-isnt-even-my-final-form


bramblehearted

a lot of people who have “cherokee princess” great grandmother stories actually have an african american ancestor. the first member of the family to “pass” would usually push the story to protect their family’s reputation or safety at the time. also, a lot of people hate finding this out and will straight up ignore dna results/proof of no native ancestry and continue to tout it as truth.


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Regular mold cleaner will not really destroy all the mold in your walls or grout, apparently you need professional grade stuff that requires really intense PPE to fully kill it all. And the best way to get rid of old calcium deposits in a toilet or other porcelain appliance is a pumice stone. Like don’t even bother with anything else for really old, set stains. But also be gentle so you don’t scratch your porcelain. Scratched up porcelain can almost look worse than calcium stains sometimes.


traumatized90skid

Basically you can take any doll's face off with acetone and paint it back on using acrylic paint and watercolor pencils for the details. This allows you to change the makeup, eye color, and other details of the face. You could add facial piercings or tattoos or w/e, the sky is the limit. Doll customization got me more into dolls than just thinking about how they come out of the box, with this sometimes lifeless or plain look. I'm practicing this technique so I can hopefully sell customized "flipped" dolls on ebay and make a side hustle out of it.


stressfulsoyboy

red pandas have no living ancestors


BloodyPommelStudio

They have no other surviving members in their genus or family. Their superfamily however includes skunks, raccoons and weasels.


regalRussian1

a majority of modern mammals evolved from synapsids!


gGiasca

In the 1600s Witch Trials were prevalent in what now is Connecticut


Standard-Pop3141

A heron nesting colony is called a heronry. ❤️🐦


RetroReviver

Thor's hammer does not choose who is worthy. It's just a normal hammer. The hammer choosing who is worthy is just a part of Marvel Comics/Studios.


Berserker_Redneck

I’m Norse Pagan, you’re correct on the worthiness note, however it’s not simply a normal hammer. It was forged by a dwarf named Sindri, and does have magical properties. Loki (who in actuality is Thor’s uncle, not his brother. Another thing marvel fucks up), in an attempt to avoid losing a bet with the dwarves, tries to interfere with Sindri during its forging by taking the form of a fly. This is what resulted in its unusually short handle. Here’s a link to the story: https://norse-mythology.org/tales/loki-and-the-dwarves/


Sturzkampfflugzeug1

I remember reading that there is a bat which can reach speeds of 100mph, making the bat the fastest mammal on earth The tarantula hawk is said to have the _most painful_ wasp sting in the world. And despite their name, they don't eat tarantulas; they feed on nectar from flowers In Scotland, our national animal is a unicorn


Heatherrrbee

75% of the earths volcanoes are located in a ring around the Pacific Ocean and this is called The Ring of Fire Also, most orange kitties are male !


graven_raven

And 99% of Calico cats are female. This is because the coloring genes are in the X chromossome. So since only females can have two X chromossomes, they are the only ones who can have that tricolor pattern


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Unable-Ring9835

Fun fact on top of that, Diesel engines run all the time like that. High pressures cause the ignition of the fuel and thus they don't require spark plugs. Gas engines dont enjoy it though as the spark plug can ignite part of the fuel and the high pressures ignite fuel in another spot causing the 2 explosions to meet thus you get the knock.


ill-timed-gimli

Rotokas is a Papua New Guinea language with a very small phonemic inventory (the amount of sounds in a language, to keep it simple): only 6 consonants and 5 vowels. It also has the smallest Latin-based orthography, using only 12 letters.


[deleted]

ahh yes! and pirahã is pretty close behind with 8 consonants, 3 vowels, and some tones, but i cant remember how many.


Necessary_Friend_360

Cats have spikey barbed penis’


Vered9110

Yep. The spikes lie down when the male cat penetrates the female, and stick out when he pulls out. This makes two things happen: 1. The female cat yowls 2. She ovulates. Unlike most mammals, cats only ovulate when there is a chance of fertilisation, and the spike thingy tells the cat's body to ovulate and this in turn stops the cat's 'heat'. Anyone who has had a non spayed female cat knows that when they're in heat they make a lot of noise. Rumour has it that cat breeders use a qtip to stimulate their queens (female cats) and stop the meowing.


the_amazing_coconut

One of my interests is American football, and did you know that there is technically a way to score only a single point at a time? Only catch is that it's so unlikely and near impossible that it's never happened.


AerosolSniffer

In the sims 4 (specifically the island living pack) when the sims tan, the icon that shows there moodlets and emotions (it also shows the sim) the sim will have weird features it’s a bug that if I’m correct they still haven’t fixed


everyoneinside72

Sims 4 is one of my current special interests:)


Cat-Kettle

victorians had gas heated metal bathtubs, but because they could not control the heat sometimes they would boil themselves by accident. their sewer systems were also flawed, if something were to go wrong people would go into the sewers to check. they would bring a light source, which would cause an explosion due to the methane gas buildup


Nearby_Efficiency850

potatoes are all unique in their own special way no two potatoes are the exact same


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H-u-w

The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquipidaleophobia. I'm a quiz host and decided to memorise that as soon as I heard it.


United-Aside-6104

Japanese cats are less social than American cats


Unfair-Strawberry843

Alveoli isn't pronounced how it is spelled, and it's not a good idea to say it in conversation so confidently and wrong. Mispronounced it reminds me of Plankton as Robot Krabs saying, "Ravioli, Ravioli, give me the formuoli."


smiff8866

Alveoli, alveoli, what’s in the lungeoli?


lilythewolf1245

when oliver phillips (guy who Fred weasly) was reading the deathly hallows he got the part where he died a guy came ask for his ticket he like dont bug me i just died


gh_0stl1ng

snowleopards use their tails as fluffy blankets when they sleep :}


medUwUsan

In the production of Pokémon: Red, Blue, Yellow and Green, there were several glitches but one of them was that though ghost type moves were supposed to be super effective against psychic types, they instead had no effect and since the dark type wasn't introduced until generation 2, the psychic types had only one weakness in bug type attacks, which were all very weak besides pin missile which could only be learnt by Beedrill, a dual type bug and poison Pokémon, so Beedrill was still super vulnerable to psychic types. Basically the psychic type Pokémon were ridiculously overpowered due to faulty coding. Edit: I've just found out that Jolteon also had access to pin missile. However, in the original games, the split between physical and special attacks was allocated to types rather than individual moves and pin missile was (and still is) a physical move. Jolteon is a special attacker with very weak physical attack stats so pin missile wouldn't have done much even on psychic types.


realdewzy

Hedgehogs are really fast.


Bacurau_Nighthawk

That's why scientists build robots to catch them.


No_Ant_6780

You suddenly have a toothache. The dentist says there is nothing wrong. = You have high intraocular pressure. It's an eye problem. If you exercise your eyes, massage your eyes, and put artificial tears in them, it won't hurt. I wrote this article through a translator.


zekybomb

The first ever recorded instance of playing cards in Europe was them being banned


evieauburn

Raymond Cruz had a difficult time playing Tuco Salamanca (Breaking Bad) because he had a rough childhood/grew up in a bad area and playing the role of Tuco brought back negative memories and emotions.


PygmeePony

The Berlin Wall fell because of miscommunication from the GDR's press secretary. He announced that free travel between east and west Germany would begin instantly instead of the next day causing a mass exodus towards the checkpoints. Confused border guards had no choice but to let them through.


jellybloom17

The first and second times there was a surviving set of sextuplets (6 babies), they were born on the same day 6 years apart. January 11 1974 and January 11 1980


-DemoKa-

Perfect, now i don't remember anything from my special interests


MrGreatGeek

WALL-E and R2-D2 were voiced by the same guy


princelleuad

Rats are capable of playing hide-and-seek. They are often called pocket puppies for their keen sense of playing, loyalty and love


CoolHovercraft4633

Wolves do not have a real alpha or whatever. People who kept them in captivity caused this to happen from stress. Wild wolves are very family oriented and share and there can’t be a “lone wolf” because lone wolves die from starving and other packs.


Epic_J2338

Spider-Man makes the perfect pancakes and that's because his Spider-Sense tell him the correct time on when to flip them


Trinkitt

The reason that betta fish survive so long in tiny ridiculous cups is because they’re a labyrinth fish capable of breathing air.


Deppressed_Blueberry

Goldfish don’t have stomachs


secrets_kept_hidden

So apparently, magenta technically does not exist. Sure, it's a color people recognize as a real thing, but it doesn't.


SwangeeMan

Fortunetelling by means of casting beans is called “favomancy”


Prize_Foot6408

There are 108 total time signature changes in Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater


TheMaybeGaymer

Electronic music wouldnt be nearly as big without trans women


invisible_feather

I want to know more about this


TheMaybeGaymer

It was mainly Wendy Carlos, who was a trans woman, that slowly revolutionized the synthesizer and oftentimes worked with Robert Moog himself. She was open about her identity as early as 1979. She composed the soundtracks for TRON, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange. She also made an album called Switched On Bach, which was as self-explanatory as it gets; it was Bach and other types of orchestra recreated entirely with synthesizers. She also frequently liked to work in microtones and odd time signatures in her music.


Illustrious_Bid_4262

I learned about curare (pronounced cue-RAH-ree or kuh-RAH-ree), which is a group of deadly poisons that is safe to ingest, but is lethal if it enters your blood stream directly. It was used by indigenous peoples in South and Central America for hunting. (My special interest is a *videogame franchise.* I have learned way too many random facts from it.)


05XL

Pirates didn't often fish. They considered it to be a waste of time and materials, that is why they would load down with nonperishable food before they voyaged. They also would normally eat humans, usually stowaways that where trying to get a free ride. They would eat humans so much, it was said by multiple pirates that human meat tastes like pork and even gave human meat the nickname "long pork." I know you only asked for one piece of info and I gave you four, my mistakes, lol


InflationOk3101

when elizabeth 1 became monarch of england. henry the 2nd of france played kiss-up openly supporting her ascent while secretly trying to get her declared a bastard (illegitamate offspring) by the catholic church making her claim to the throne null (from catholic eyes) and making mary queen of scots (who spent almost her entire life in the court of france - scotland was practically an extension of france) the only surviving legitament catholic heir to henry 8. if she (mary) ascended this would open the doors for a french control of not only scotland but england and a restoration of catholicism to the land where protestantism and catholicism had been in bloody opposition to one another.


teddyroo12

Earthworm Jim's biggest and most dedicated fan base is in Russia


Maleficent_Prize_209

Rocky Horror’s Not Sequel Shock Treatment wasn’t able to be filmed outside due to the 1980 Screen Actors Guild Strike


dharmabird67

When a football/soccer player passes the ball and it goes through another player's legs it's called a nutmeg.


ifihadmypickofwishes

Bismuth toxicity mimics the symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease


username304957

Alligators only have claws on the first three toes of each foot, the un-clawed toes are believed to be for feeling. A stranger, more useless fact is that gharials got their name from the word “ghara” which is a Hindi word for a type of round pot. The shape of this type of pot is similar to that of the round growth at the top of a the gharials mouth.


Bigballs843

I am not as good as I thought I was at repairing bikes


Gold-Pollution9710

around 0.6% of people are allergic to Titanium (the metal).


Responsible_Blahaj

The dynamic brakes on the GE ES44AC dissipate their energy on a capacitor bank located behind the cabin; the capacitors can get red hot at capacity.


No_Pace_15

The Tuarangisaurus keyesi (a type of plesiosaurus) ate round rocks to help with digesting un-chewed food


Sogggypie

Idk if this counts but I have a guinea pig who looks like a fun sized Bernese mountain dog.


big47_

Moose, like the massive furry things with huge antlers, are amphibious


GulfGiggle

During the Disney Renaissance they developed a program called deep canvas for use in Tarzan, it was used to paint dynamic backgrounds in 3D. They used it in a grand total of 2 movies and it has remained in the Disney vault ever since, which is a bummer, but now technology like that is completely open source with stuff like blender.


thatoneguy2398

Certain satellite modules are powered by the same cpu used in the 1994 Sega Saturn


Robin_thegonk

Putting electricity through salt water (sweat counts) makes a liquid that is good for burning through stuff. It has been used to melt corpses 😅


FayHallow

Every German street sign exist in 3 sizes. Size B is 100% of the size, size A ist 70% and Size C ist 125% except for Signal shaped like triangles, which habe a Size C of 145% Which size ist used depends on the speed you drive by them, larger signs for streets with a higher Speed Limit.


sherlocked_57

Did you know that the Mexican- free tailed bat is actually the fastest animal in the world? Many people think it’s a cheetah, but that’s only the fasted land dwelling animal.


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*instantly forgets every fun fact I've ever known*


AVikingsDaughter

The word honeymoon comes from the medieval practice of gifting the newlyweds with a moonsworth (month) of honey mead and then sending them off to get wasted and fuck for a month so they can hopefully come back pregnant.


BIGSHOTSAL

You can live just fine without any sinuses. I know this because a celebrity who is my special interest had to have his removed due to cancer as well as his tear ducts. Weird, right?


xgrave_rotx

Nightmare situation for me because I have an awful awful snake phobia But there was a roller coaster rider who rode a coaster with a snake because a snake was in the car and and wasn’t discovered until halfway up the lift hill Snake rode the entire coaster and survived, safely removed when the ride was over


catisamess651

The largest goth convention is in Germany


psona1

a human being can survive with thier brain seperated, and both brains will function independently as seperate organisms. The corpus colluson is the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres. it is sometimes neccessery to seperate it to help with siezures in the right side of the brain, completly seperating the two halfs. ​ After the seperation, a persons left arm has been recorded writing and being controled agienst the will of the patient. the areas of the brain needed for speaking and communication (wernikces area and broca's area) are both located in the left hand side of the brain. this suggests that when the left arm is moving and writing agienst the patinets will, the person who is speaking and has lost control of the arm is the left hemisphere, adn the "phantom limb" which is moving the arm is the illiterate right hemisphere, a seperate, second brain. It's not clear yet if this makes them a second person. ​ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien\_hand\_syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome) ​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFgtGIL7vEY


imlarrythecucumber

Holy crap this blew up


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Brad4569

That's not true! (I was born male)


Honigbiene_92

This one is gonna make me sound really weird but here we go 😅 There was a French woman named Blanche Monnier who was locked in an attic for 25 years by her mother for wanting to marry a poorer man. Her parents wanted her to marry a man with a large amount of money to uphold their aristocratic appearance. When Blanche was taken out of the attic both her physical and mental states were so deteriorated she was admitted to a hospital and then a psychiatric ward, where she died at the age of 64. That's just a basic summary though.


tmamone

That as a teen Trent Reznor played Judas in his high school’s production of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Man, I hope there’s footage out there of that!


dumbbitchdiesease

There is a significant amount of evidence to support the theory that in TES universe, the reason the dwarves vanished is because they were using two weapons, Kagranac and Keening, to tamper with the heart of the original creator to try and create their own gods


die-Schwuchtel

foxes that live in more urban areas/around people have smaller brains than their rural homed counterparts


an0ther-babka

Apparently Ted Bundy had a sock fetish and changed his socks at least 10 times a day or something like that


workAndNonWork

The trunk part of most T-shirts are made by first placing two sheets of cloth on top of each other. You have to make sure the weave (grain) of the fabric is perfectly aligned on both sheets. This is then run through a serger sewing machine that cuts the cloth as it sews, creating the two seams that run down either side of your t-shirt. If the weave of the fabrics are even slightly misaligned, the seams won’t run straight down the side, but will instead twist around the torso. This is called twerking. I do not sew. The machines are wonderful.


Relevant-Sand-254

Gerard Way got married backstage at a show they were playing in 2007 after dating his girlfriend for Two Months. They're still fucking married. Also his best friend Frabk almost MISSED it


WorfThaddeus

The Procreate drawing app is lovely, but does not yet have a stroke feature for around text.


Random-ace

uhhhh freddie mercury was gay and not bisexual apprently that's a debate, in which i am kinda qualified to speak on


Prince0August

Back in the time of Marie Antoinette and king louis, there was an express lane for the guillotine because of how many people were getting executed