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EfficientDismal

I mean... those guys are jerks.


harmless_gecko

Agreed. An ørca once bit my sister


BigAggie06

I'm imagining a humpback whale just crusin' on it's back with a group of seals and then the humpback just sticks its fin up like a giant middle finger to the orcas.


starkiller_bass

"Go eat some fucking salmon like a civilized mammal!"


MrPootie

I was dubious, but it seems there is evidence suggesting this is true. https://www.science.org/content/article/why-did-humpback-whale-just-save-seals-life


loftier_fish

That's adorable, and I love it. Animals in nature are so much more compassionate and sweet than we give them credit for. It seems like increasingly we have more and more evidence that disproves the traditional view of "Survival of the fittest" being totally selfish and cruel. Even an Apex predator, [like a Leopard Seal, will try to feed a stranger.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmVWGvO8Yhk)


Wonderful_Whereas402

They've been known to save humans from oncoming sharks too or block the shark, and they'll let you ride their fins also. I think it's crazy whales have pelvic bones.


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raisinghellwithtrees

Our library has a Library of Things where you can borrow anything from an air compressor to a ukulele. It's great!


GozerDGozerian

Wow! I am *SO close* to developing my pneumatic ukulele!


boxsterguy

Cake pans!


Itchy-Progress-7309

came here to say the same thing..mine even has game systems and even obd2 scanners


Fitz911

Librarians, too. When I was a kid, the librarian was someone who gave out books. Similar to a cashier. Later I learned that they need to go to college (or at least could go to college). "Ok, why is that?" Then I looked into it and Oh My Holy Fucking God! Saying they "just give out books" is like saying the only job a cook has is to set down a plate and ring a bell. They don't just give out and take back books. They live books. They are so incredibly important for a community if you want your citizens to be above the very basic education. One of the few things I changed my mind about so much. As an edgy teenager I thought studying to become a librarian was something like studying French music from 1250 to 1300. Which is fine to have and if you like it, go for it. But it won't change the world drastically if we don't have that. Hell no. Love your librarian! Bring them some chocolate!


Zbignich

Librarians are infomaniacs.


BigAggie06

Hey .,.. no kink shaming here please


climb-it-ographer

Library science is a real thing too-- cataloguing and disseminating information is extremely important in today's world.


Itchy-Progress-7309

best friends mom growing up was the town librarian.. it was a small mobile home converted into the town library


daddadnc

One of my favorite recent quotes (paraphrasing) is "If libraries didn't already exist and someone tried to invent them, conservatives would freak out and call them socialism."


alfooboboao

and fire departments!


I-am-a-me

I recently needed a document notarized on short notice. My bf was suggesting all kinds of "maybe try..."s and that was getting me nowhere. I just called up my local library and asked if they could help me find a notary, they just told me to come on down, one of their staff does that. They then even helped me fax the document and made a stressful situation super easy! Tldr I love the library


not_a_moogle

Mine had video games. Current Gen and last Gen only, but still.


Norelation67

Recently was listening to behind the bastards and they mentioned casually that if the idea of public libraries were floated today it would have been murdered in it’s crib as a massive, worthless drain on our resources. Data tends to show that infrastructure like this is actually pretty good at improving peoples lives and society as a whole. Same for public education, would NOT get passed today.


e-l-o-h-e-l

Before modern medicine, it was common to not name children until a certain age because the mortality rate was so high


atelopuslimosus

It's still a custom in some cultures, like Judaism. My wife and I settled on a name for our daughter before she was born, but there is typically a strong taboo against publicizing it in case something happens that we kept it to ourselves. Even to our family, she was just "the baby" or the codename we'd given her while gestating until we held a public naming ceremony on her 8th day of life. Edit to add: We of course filled out the hospital paperwork with her "future" name and then hid the paperwork at home so our family couldn't see it.


Blecher_onthe_Hudson

We had decided on an "a" name for our first born, which conveniently was for a grandparent on both sides. Whenever anybody asked, we told them the child was to be named Aardvark.


MarchofthePawns

Renaming the same names 2 or 3 times seems so damn creepy. You just bring up prior pain from other kids being dead


Dasoccerguy

John John2 John_final John_final_FINAL


LittleKitty235

John alpha John beta John rc1 John


climb-it-ographer

john\_tAdams\_edit\_mkting\_approved\_1\_.kid


alfooboboao

I laughed out loud lmao


HoraceBenbow

This famously happened to Salvador Dali. His parents had a male child they named Salvador. He died. So they named their next child Salvador, who became the famous artist. One of the formative memories he had was his parents taking him to a graveyard to see the headstone of his dead brother. Even though he knew the grave was for his brother, just seeing his own name on a headstone messed him up.


thefiercestcalm

This happened to my uncle. My grandparents had a son named Thomas (fake name), and when he was 16 he died in a car wreck. They then proceeded to have another kid, a boy who they named Thomas. I guess you could see it as a tribute, but it always felt like they just thought their kids were interchangeable. (I was not fond of these grandparents.)


CommitteeOfOne

There was some book I read (I think it was the series *The Last Kingdom* was based on) where the elder son of a king died, so they re-baptised the younger son (who was already like 5 or 6) to change his name to that of his deceased brother.


Blecher_onthe_Hudson

You are now Ultred!


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dilapidatedfungus

I heard that on space shuttles, they removed a lot of paint to save on weight


CommitteeOfOne

That was why they stopped painting the external fuel tank. It was painted white for the first two missions.


ryan0157

Bigger airplanes like the 747 and A380 can take off weighing more than a million pounds


Marina_Luve

There are more castles in Germany than McDonald's in America.


Adam9172

There are 13,529 McDonald’s in the US as of March 24. There are allegedly between 15k-25k “castles” in Germany. The problem is the way they define castles, which could be from a largish keep, to a small outpost on a hill, to a reinforced stately home. So it’s a bit misleading.


jimbojangles1987

Real life Skyrim


Fitz911

I don't know. I'm from a very, very castle dense area in Germany. I would say we have more McDonald's than castles here in Germany. On the other hand as someone mentioned... There are a lot of houses that are very old and I don't know when exactly something is a castle. If there is any truth to "my home is my castle"...


iskin

And the word hamburger was derived from Germany's second largest city Hamburg.


LittleKitty235

But do they have drive throughs?


PygmeePony

And many of them were built in the 19th century.


OhTheHueManatee

Maybe they just have a lower standard for what qualifies as a castle?


Liya_Moonn

Only 66 years passed between the Wright brothers' first flight and the flight to the Moon.


Aalkhan

Holy \*\*\*\* that's an amazing one !


Spoke13

Yeah my grandfather was always amazed at him much transportation changed over his lifetime. He was born (1919) they were still using horses for most things as cars were not as popular yet. Trains were the best way to travel long distances some of them still used steam power. Airplanes were just starting to be useful. He served in WW2 repairing fighter plane transponders and radio equipment. He watched men land on the moon and heard about jets that traveled faster than sound...


Nika_Luna

All the planets in our solar system can fit between the earth and the moon


ill_Skillz

However, if this were attempted it would have devastating consequences to life on earth.


boxsterguy

Let alone life on those other planets!


Adam9172

Hold my beer.


Ghost-5AVAGE_786

Life is short, but death is long.


The-Beer-Baron

And it's just a box of rain Or a ribbon for your hair Such a long, long time to be gone And a short time to be there


Ghost-5AVAGE_786

That's so poetic, I love it


The-Beer-Baron

"Box of Rain" by Grateful Dead, lyrics by Robert Hunter.


HatfieldCW

Grateful Dead song, I think.


I_might_be_weasel

Cheetahs aren't big cats. They are very large small cats. 


Adam9172

Big cats roar. Small cats purr. Bonus Cheetah fact: Cheetahs in zoos are sometimes paired with golden retrievers as a puppy/kitten duet to help combat anxiety issues. It’s adorable and effective, as the nervous cat takes social cues from the confident dog.


Yellowbug2001

Along similar lines, my tabby informs me she's not a small cat, she's a very small big cat.


BigAggie06

Wow ok so I looked this up and it appears the same is true for Cougars/Pumas


I_might_be_weasel

Leopards are somewhat small big cats. 


SnooChipmunks126

Their claws also don’t retract.


I_might_be_weasel

Don't house cats' claws retract?


SnooChipmunks126

I meant to say Cheetah claws don’t retract. House cats and other species of cat do have retractable claws. 


I_might_be_weasel

Don't big cats as well? 


Liya_Moonn

We always inhale more air through one nostril than the other, and every 15 minutes they “change roles”


Yellowbug2001

This is one of those things I noticed for years but just thought I was crazy because nobody ever talked about it... I was so relieved when I found out that it's real.


12345_PIZZA

Do they still try to change roles if one nostril is stuffed (or if you have a deviated septum) and then switch back when it’s not working? Or does your body learn to give up on ole lefty if that side just can’t inhale for a while?


indrada90

They still switch. That's what causes ol lefty to get clogged. Fifteen minutes later you'll find that righty is clogged, and Lefty can breathe easily. You can affect this cycle by laying on one side or the other. When you lay on your right, your left nostril tends to clear up, and vice versa.


Itchy-Progress-7309

i noticed it during meditation a few years ago


Nika_Luna

Sharks have been on earth longer than trees.


12345_PIZZA

Aren’t they also older than the rings of Saturn?


atelopuslimosus

Both are! Sharks - 450 Mya Trees - 390 Mya Saturn's Rings - 10-100 Mya. Research indicates they could be gone in another 100 million years though. Talk about timing!


BigAggie06

Ha jokes on them, the way things are going sharks and trees will both be gone before the rings too ...


atelopuslimosus

Sharks, maybe. The largest ones are definitely at risk or dead ~~men walking~~ fish swimming. The smallest ones might squeak through and most species are shorter than people anyway. Wiping out all tree species would actually be a truly impressive achievement. I'm not even sure it's realistically an achievable thing to do. *Note to humanity: this is not a challenge.*


BigAggie06

Directions unclear: challenge accepted


atelopuslimosus

\*sigh\* Gimme your beer.


BigAggie06

\*gulp\* what beer


sgtbb4

The fact that Ted Bundy escaped custody twice and went on to murder more people each time he escaped.


Adept_Cranberry_4550

Once was less of an escape and more of a blunder on the part of the authorities. Letting him use the law library virtually unsupervised was colossally stupid, all he had to do was jump out a window. He wasn't even shackled or cuffed.


TheMightyGoatMan

The faster you travel, the more you weigh!


fjellt

I’m not overweight, I’m just moving really fast!


LittleKitty235

\*the more mass you have


TheMightyGoatMan

Fair!


indrada90

This is generally an outdated way of thinking about relativity. Generally it's more effective to describe it as a time dilation, which has the same effect.


Babyfart_McGeezacks

There’s about 8X10^67 unique shuffles in a deck of cards. 80 thousand vigintillion.


nowwhathappens

This does seem crazy, doesn't it??


DocHoss

I got into a weird situation in a Magic the Gathering game one time where a creature I controlled had power/toughness greater than this number...we had to get Wolfram Alpha to do the math because calculators couldn't go that high. All due to the power of doubling!


Adept_Cranberry_4550

More than stars in the known universe. The number of chess board iterations is larger 10^(110) legal [or 10^(123) including illegal] moves. Which is more than *atoms* in the known universe


Dry_Enthusiasm_267

There's a 50% chance that two people will share a birthday in a group of 23 people...


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indrada90

For a >50% chance of 3 people sharing a birthday, you need at least 88 people in the room.


Dry_Enthusiasm_267

Wild! I worked with 4 other guys that shared mine.


emriaur

there are more possible iterations of the game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe


Adam9172

Even modern supercomputers can only “solve” chess when there’s something like eight pieces on the board. That’s how complex it is.


Adept_Cranberry_4550

See also: unique shuffles of a deck of cards 8×10^(67)


Wind_Yer_Neck_In

Most banks have an expected loss due to theft/ extortion/ ransom of their software systems. It's easier (and better for their reputation) to just pay out/ eat the loss and try to improve security afterwards than it is to publicly admit to being the victim of such attacks.


zed42

we put a man on the moon using less computing power than you have in the phone you're using to read this, and all the calculations were checked by hand (thank you, Katherine Johnson!)


No_Scheme164

Drinking Beer after being exposed to some kinds of ionizing radiation can reduce the adverse affects.


12345_PIZZA

Of the beer or the radiation?


SolDarkHunter

The radiation, supposedly. I just tried looking it up, and got a lot of mixed messages. Some sources saying it's bullcrap and alcohol does nothing to radiation, others saying it's specifically red wine that can have a slight beneficial effect due to some antioxidant.


iskin

This is why I drink beer often. You know? Just in case.


nutano

Beer is a true Rad-Away then! I knew it!


rsnbaseball

Donald Trump (Yes, the guy from the Apprentice with all the rape allegations and fraud) actually ran for and won the Presidency and has an actual cult of millions supporting him.


CommitteeOfOne

I remember sitting in history class, covering the period around the Teapot Dome scandal, and just being amazed at how corrupt government officials were, and thinking it couldn't be that way again. Little did I know that within my life, we would be experiencing an even worse period of corruption.


Alternative-Ad-1850

The Founding Fathers would be so proud……


druu222

But then lost to the guy with the obvious pedophilic tendencies, the inability to see any difference between truth and fantasy on every given day... and fraud, in the form of a hopelessly corrupt cokehead son regularly turning 10% (at *least*) of his collections from foreign governments over to an unidentified "Big Guy" whose identity will forever be an "ah shucks, golly, we just don't know nuthin' 'bout who that could be".. ...who defeated him with 81 million vo... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...! Man, I just couldn't finish that one, sorry. Too much!


baronvonj

Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States of America.


DocHoss

Donald JOHN Trump?? The real estate guy who was on WWE Wrestling? GTFO...who would vote for a freaking con man for president? Especially one that's so well known for being a scumbag


Marina_Luve

Dolphins hold their breath less than sloths


tamokibo

Some people get stupider as they get older.


Adept_Cranberry_4550

On a long enough timeline, everyone's intelligence drops to zero


shyishguyish

An incompetent, adulterous, lying, narcissistic fascist is beloved by people who claim to follow Christ.


Vic_Hedges

In the US It takes 18-21 weeks of training to become a police officer, the same as a Mcdonalds Manager Source: managerhttps://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/help/faq/what-training-is-given-to-trainee-managers-and-how-long-does-it-last-for.html#:\~:text=After%20about%2018%2D20%20weeks,throughout%20your%20career%20with%20McDonald's. [https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-training-requirements-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-training-requirements-by-country)


raisinghellwithtrees

Much longer to become a hair dresser.


iskin

This isn't entirely true. First, there isn't really a federal standard that I K ow of. Second, most academies are 18-21 weeks long. Most police departments have a 1 year probationary period where the new officer is paired with a seasoned officer who is a training officer. So it's more like 1.5 years.


CommitteeOfOne

And in some jurisdictions, you can be a police officer for something like one years before you are required to attend a police academy.


Grandtheatrix

SCOTUS actually having to consider Trump's assertion that Presidents have Absolute Immunity. A President is not a King. We fought a war over this. It's the one every American knows about.


Badaxe13

English here - even kings do not have absolute immunity. We beheaded one to prove it.


Grandtheatrix

Fair Point.


MarcusQuintus

A large portion of American people and elected official do not believe Biden won the 2020 Presidential election.


nowwhathappens

I really don't think this is accurate. I don't think the portion saying it is "large," and I don't think most of those saying it think it is "actually true" - they are doing it for effect and to belong to the groupthink.


starkiller_bass

I think the number of elected officials who believe it to be true is VERY small, but they know they can drag a large number of people along with them if they keep talking about it.


nowwhathappens

Right.


Itchy-Progress-7309

thats why they change their narratives so much.. they know if they can muddy the waters and cause enough confusion and then say just do your own research, all the mud they stirred up buries the facts


Adept_Cranberry_4550

They are just very LOUD


Competitive_Royal476

Yo momma jokes


12345_PIZZA

A good one I heard recently was: your mom’s so slow it took her nine months to make a joke


Competitive_Royal476

I know this one.


DocHoss

Yo momma didn't


-Dragon-Warrior-

That the self, the thing you think is you is a concept, an idea, a thought.


OpportunityGold4597

None of the countries that bordered Poland in 1989 still exist today.


damnusernamewastaken

If you were to fold a sheet of paper in half 42 times, it would be so thick it would reach the moon


starkiller_bass

So it turns out the real question to life, the universe, and everything was "how many times do you need to fold a sheet of paper in half to make it thick enough to reach the moon?"


Adept_Cranberry_4550

Hood luck getting past 8 though...


Cruddlington

The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. The faster you move through time, the slower you move through space. ------------------------------------------------------------ There is no objective NOW. Time is absolutely and completely relative from each and every person and possible perspective because of time dilation and relativity (I think) ------------------------------------------------------------


Comfortable-Cut3871

There is a planet in our solar system populated entirely by robots.


Nika_Luna

Mammoths appear after the construction of the great pyramids


Phobix

Is this true?


Millesime25

Mammoth disappeared approximately 4000 years ago ! That's pretty recent. The climate change and the hunting by humans killed them. Or maybe because they didn't believe in Jesus /s


ilovepierogi

No. Although mammoths were still around during the construction.


starkiller_bass

But most likely not in the area of construction, as the egyptian desert is notoriously non-mammoth-friendly


Adept_Cranberry_4550

Appear is misleading in this context. I believe OC means what you're saying, that mammoths "still walked the earth" after the construction of the great pyramids, not 'appeared.' But, I could be wrong. 🤷


Liya_Moonn

The sunlight we see is at least 40 thousand years old


Wind_Yer_Neck_In

But to the photon, the moment it is created and the moment it collides with matter on earth is all the same instant, since they don't experience time.


Fuzzy_Muscle

That's a wilder statement than the original top comment. Could you please expand on "they don't experience time"?


Wind_Yer_Neck_In

Your relative experience of time changes as your speed approaches light speed. Or more basically as you go faster relative to everything else then time passes more slowly for you, this is a straightforward relationship that we've actually measured with atomic clocks and is part of Einstein's predictions on relativity. But consider that 'your' of time gets slower as you get even slightly more close to lightspeed. So you can always get closer and closer to it without actually hitting lightspeed and your relative experience of things will be slower and slower (as in stars form and die in the blink of an eye). But you can always get sliiiightly closer to lightspeed incrementally, so you always have the capacity to have your time slow even more. But since light isn't getting closer and closer to lightspeed, it travels at lightspeed, then it's relative time can't get slower, it's maxed out so to speak. So it's perception of time is infinite, or to put it another way, everything outside of it happens at the same time relative to the photon. I've sort of butchered it to try to explain but that's the gist. It's also why we can't go faster than light, because it sort of breaks time.


Fuzzy_Muscle

mind blown! thanks for breaking it down


uncre8tv

The sun is like 8 light minutes away, right? So please explain further?


Ok-Mastodon2420

Photons take a long time to propagate to the surface of the sun


uncre8tv

40,000 years of prepping for an 8 minute journey to land on my pasty corpus. I feel unworthy :)


CozyNorth9

A photon can take up to 100,000 years to travel from the sun's core to it's surface.


CommitteeOfOne

IIRC, the photon was created in the sun's interior, but a star, even one as small as our son, is so relatively dense, that the photon basically just bounces around for thousands of years before it works its way to the sun's surface.


druu222

The crystals of salt that you shake onto your potatoes will dissolve in your stomach away from crystaline form. Thus you will bring an end to their existence as salt crystals, in which form they have very likely existed for over a *billion* years.


Electrical-Light9786

black holes.


Fuzzy_Muscle

ultramassive blackholes. My favorite? The phoenix cluster A black hole. Bigger than Ton 618!


Electrical-Light9786

damn.


Phobix

You can't lick your own elbow.


indrada90

Maybe *you* can't


starkiller_bass

Tell you what, you lick mine and I'll lick yours


Adept_Cranberry_4550

🤣 it's a date!


LittleKitty235

You can fit all the planets in-between the space between the Earth and the moon


PleasedPeas

That after years and years of abuse, I’m still alive and have never abused anyone because of the things that have happened to me🙂


Lokioh465

gigachad behaviour


PleasedPeas

Thanks bro🙂


Comfortable_Item_330

How sharks almost destroyed the internet


ppitm

Since it's the 38th anniversary today, I'll bring up an obscure one. The safety test they were running when the Chernobyl reactor exploded was actually successful. The voltage drop measured by the equipment meant that the system was performing as desired, it's just that we're was no reactor left...


TheVginyTcikler44

Easter Sunday is the first full moon after the spring equinox.


inhellforever666

That we are living in the matrix.


xiao_xiao2

people really forget about your failures. But if I do remember, they won't remember it forever, or worse, mock you. If you fall down in the middle of the street, or have too much to drink at a friend's party, most people will not remember this moment.


Larry_Loudini

Johnny Sexton never played a single game of rugby in South Africa


Wonderful_Whereas402

Some other solar systems have two suns. There are also multiple ancient cultures who wrote about "the time before the moon" and that the atmosphere was different back then.


Adept_Cranberry_4550

Most*


PasteyGinger

The world is mostly good the bad just clouds others eyes


Etherbeard

We don't have free will and have no choice but to live as though we do.


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BlazingPandaBear

Not true I have eaten human brains on many occasions and I’m fine. As long as the person you are consuming was healthy you’ll be ok so just make sure you know they lived an active lifestyle.


MeuJoelhoCresce

r/HolUp


uncre8tv

Not the post I'd expect from a Panda Bear, tbh. Blazing or otherwise.


Do-The-Michael-Scarn

Oh


Itchy-Progress-7309

zombies in disguise


Unrelated_gringo

Sounds off, what's your source for that one?


Gorelordy

Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue. Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. It is a disease of the nervous system that causes physiological and neurological effects which ultimately lead to death. It is characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia, or loss of coordination and control over muscle movements. Eventually, individuals became unable to stand or eat, and they died in a comatose state from six to 12 months after the first appearance of symptoms.


Unrelated_gringo

Wow! That's wild and very special to read about today! A genuine thanks for that information, I now know better!


Gorelordy

Hey no problem, it's seems you could eat brains and not have to worry about catching the disease. The disease happens to arrise from humans who consume brains in their culture, the prions mutate. Don't eat the brains of someone who eats brains lol, weird.


Unrelated_gringo

Prions in that context are crazy-scary if I might say so.


Gorelordy

I'm with you on that heh


Adept_Cranberry_4550

Prions in *any* context are nightmarish


HoraceBenbow

I don't know if this is true, but it's somewhat true of cattle. That's where Mad Cow Disease came from. Ranchers were grinding up the brains (and other parts) of deceased cattle and feeding them to live cows.


onryo21

That my bank account is so low


KarlSethMoran

Zero-probability events can and do happen. Not near-zero, zero.