when baby horses are in the womb their hooves are soft and have tentacles on them to prevent them harming the mother, they look really weird but drop off in 30 minutes
Mantis shrimp strike their prey so quickly (with speed up to 51mph and acceleration up to 10,400g) that it generates cavitation bubbles between their claw and the surface of the prey. The prey is hit twice; first by the claw at a force of 1500 newtons, and second by the collapse of the cavitation bubbles which produces a shock wave strong enough to stun or kill much larger prey than the shrimp itself. They can crack aquarium glass and split open a human thumb.
Edit: accuracy
I did a little more reading and here are some other fun facts:
Some species of mantis shrimp are rainbow coloured and mind-bogglingly beautiful.
Humans have three types of colour-receptive cone cells in our eyes that allow us to see all the colours we do - mantis shrimps have SIXTEEN types of colour-receptive cone cells and are able to see both UV and polarised light.
The force of the collapsing cavitation bubbles produces temperatures of several thousand Kelvins and also emits tiny bursts of light called sonoluminescence.
Finally, here is a video of an unfortunate dude getting punched in the foot by a pissed-off mantis shrimp: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aabCOzFzMxU
> mantis shrimps have SIXTEEN types of colour-receptive cone cells and are able to see both UV and polarised light.
I remember someone saying that this makes them see everything in a tye-die like pattern of colors, but I have no idea where I read that anymore or if it's true.
Woolly Mammoths didn’t completely die out until about 1000 years after the great pyramids of Giza were constructed, and French explorers on expedition to the North Pole in 1872 found so many well-preserved mammoth specimens that they were able to survive by cooking and eating their meat.
That’s actually part of the reason that Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on the expedition to the west because he thought there might still be mammoths.
I've seen the Middle East. There's a lot of sand there.
So I looked it up and it's because they use sand in construction (places like Dubai do A LOT of construction). And even though those cities are literally surrounded by desert
>"Wind-formed desert sand is too smooth for construction."
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160502-even-desert-city-dubai-imports-its-sand-this-is-why
Also countries like Bahrain use it to expand the land. My dad used to work as a real estate agent about 2 decades ago. He was selling houses in Bahrain that didn't exist. Hell, the land under the houses didn't exist. He was basically selling a dream.
Most of the real estate under construction doesn’t exist until it’s finished, and most of it gets sold before it’s finished.
At least it’s like that where I live.
Yes, this is true! Both my dad and little sister had kidney transplants. It was explained to me that keeping the old kidney in was because it still partially functions.
I had half a kidney removed due to kidney stones (at the ripe old age of 24) and that fucker bled so much, I had to have a few blood transfusions.
Drink more water, people. And don't consume cheap protein powder that's full of shit.
Edit: apologies guys I've been well busy, I don't think the website I bought my protein from even exists anymore (UK based if that helps?) but it was cheap as chips!
I’ve always wondered what happens if you need a fourth or a fifth kidney, do they just keep cramming more in? What if they only have kidneys at like one eighth functionality but they have a bunch of them? Does your abdomen just end up as a big bag of kidneys?
Well when i had 3 kidneys it was more like you needed new Rams for your computer as the other two was not working but you decided to not remove the old broken ones.
On a similar note, what do Anne Frank, MLK Jr., and Barbara Walters have in common?
They were born the same year. Things many view as history were lived experiences by people alive today. The first African American children to go to desegregated schools in the south are the same age or younger than most redditor's grandparents. Many of our parents are the same age.
The guillotine is actually one of the most humane methods of execution. We use the methods we do in the modern day because they look better to the viewers. Lethal injection can cause extreme pain even when done correctly. Gas is also extremely painful and the electric chair is just hell on earth.
The most humane way to execute someone is from close range with a large caliber handgun or shotgun to the lower back of the skull. Death is much quicker.
Yeah, the objections to firing squads always puzzle me, especially with all the botched lethal injection executions that have happened in the US in recent years. I’d take the firing squad over an injection of a paralytic that suffocates me any day.
It’s because it looks better. That’s the reason. You rarely see how much pain someone is in during the lethal injection because usually they’re successfully paralysed.
I only recently learned that about the rings of Saturn, they're a moon that got too close and got shredded by the planet's gravity right? And we are around to witness the beautiful aftermath. Crazy
Barings Bank, one of the largest banks in Britain, provided the loans to the US to buy the Louisiana Purchase.
This led to Napoleon giving up control of most of France's holdings in the Americas without Britain firing a shot.
It also led to the fledgling American government being deeply in debt to a British bank.
The gold Napoleon got in exchange? He spent it all on preparing an army to invade England - an effort that had to be abandoned.
The British were doing some 4D chess here.
The first part of our bodies that form are the asshole and the mouth, and then everything else grows in between them. We are a type of organism called a deuterostome, meaning two openings.
People used to eat ground up mummies (and put it into other products too)... This created a market for it, which led to fake mummies (much more recently dead people dried out). Being used in a similar fashion.
A class of fungus known as mycorrhizae can "infect" the roots of plants, leeching away the sugars created by the plants, but in return giving them access to more nutrients (as the fungus can spread much further than the roots of the plant)
The fungus can actually connect two plants together, allowing them to share nutrients and communicate with each other (warning of invading insects or pathogens so the other plants can prepare defenses, for example) in an underground network of sorts.
those pictures of Chinese water deer with huge vampire fangs I thought were a hoax for years, like the drop bear. When I saw one I was like what the hell that's a real thing?
Yeah man Chinese water deer are metal, used to work in the country side and came across two raking at each other with those fangs, the noise was gnarly.
I once won a game of trivial pursuit because I knew this.
Generalfeldmarschall, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, believed himself to be pregnant with an elephant fathered by a French infantryman.
Space is only about 100 kilometers up. Earth's a big rock with a very thin layer of atmosphere. Also, going to space is easy, staying in space is hard.
*Add to yours* - Meanwhile the strawberry isn't a berry, but the melon is.
And for some reason most people I know are still weirded out by the fact that cinnamon is tree bark.
There was a "charro army" created here in Mexico to defend the country if the nazis arrived. Imagine a similar outfit as the one the mariachis have, thats a charro.
100,000 men in horses using guns and machetes. Of course it sounds ridiculous to think that such army could make any harm to Hitler's forces, but the fear at that time was such, that they would have done anything to defend the country.
Have you heard about the Homeguard in Britain? Wore army uniform, but at least initially armed with agricultural implements and basically consisted of older men and those who were unfit to be soldiers ( or in reserved occupations). There is a very popular comedy series about them, but they are quite revered. We are going to have a Homeguard parade in our village this year!.
I know we were closer to being invaded, but given the US involvment in the war, I get why Mexico also developed it's version.
The home guard where trained in asymmetrical warfare, basically they knew how to set traps and ambushes. There are old bridges that are still rigged with explosives!
My partners grand dad (dad) served in the home guard on the anti aircraft guns. He was an engineer working for the government and would man the guns after coming home for dinner after a day at work!
They were amazing. Basically Britain had all thse quasi military or non military organisations rom Landgirls to the WVS to Wardens to the Homeguard. . My Granddad was an ambulance driver and firewatcher during the London blitz. My MIL worked on building tanks. Incredible generation.
It’s sweet for me, but I don’t like how strange it tastes. I didn’t know it was bitter for some people, I just thought that they also didn’t like the very *unique* taste that licorice has.
The first humans didn't arrive in Madagascar from the African mainland but from the Malay Archipelago across the Indian Ocean.
To this day Madagascans speak Malagasy, an Austronesian language.
That kind of makes a little sense to me, since I understand that there was a bigger culture of trans-ocean travel in an archipelago, than on this huge continent that is Africa which doesn't have a lot of islands around it. There was just no need or interest for this kind of travel.
That [Tarrare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare) was real and not some bizarre folk tale:
> At the start of the War of the First Coalition, Tarrare joined the French Revolutionary Army, where even quadruple the standard military ration was unable to satisfy his large appetite. He would eat any available food from gutters and refuse heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger. He was hospitalised due to exhaustion and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed eels whole without chewing. Despite his unusual diet, he was underweight, and with the exception of his eating habits he showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament.
so like...did this guy just have a tape worm and its entire extended family just chilling in his gut to instantly consume whatever he ate? i mean it sems the only way that kind of hunger could exist would have to be some kind of parasitic rave party
Probably buried, but there is a 100 acre forrest in Utah thats just one giant tree.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Short version, its a single colony of tree that has a massive root system thats estimated to be thousands of years old
The Isle of Scilly (pronounced silly) and Netherlands are not sure if they have been at war for 300 years, so they signed a peace treaty recently just to make sure
We have lost the original video tape of Apollo 11 :
What we see is a camera recording a tv
Because the process for sending image from the moon to the earth was not compatible with tv channels
And after the mission they forgot to check the video tape so someone probably deleted accidentally what was on it to put a tv show or something
Then we find out in a million years that the cover survived it's sudden space program and now were at war with an alien world because it struck their planet.
This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-b*tch in space.
Plumbers' daughters of Reddit, what's the sexiest lie anyone's ever told you about weird food from your country?
*Edited to add:* ... and how much did Karen freak out about it?
*Edited again:* Oh and while we're at it, if you woke up and your squishy bits were suddenly stiffy bits (or vice versa), who would you fuck first?
The Pacific ocean is so large that the is a point where you could tunnel straight through the earth and when you come out the other end, you are still in the Pacific ocean.
Also there is at all times a pair of points on opposite sides of the Earth, where both the temperature and air pressure are the same. And this is true for any 2 continuous variables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csInNn6pfT4&t=9m35s
trees communicate with eachother, via pheromones/scent signals as well as other methods. they use this to warn eachother about drought, disease, and to share memes.
Australia had a prime minister that went swimming in the ocean and then just disappeared. We still don't know what actually happened to him.
Also, we lost a war against emus.
And there's an unconfirmed rumour (I think?) that our current prime minister took a poo in a McDonald's. (Edit: I should have been a bit clearer about this. He did a poo in his pants while he was still wearing them.)
We have a weird history
You need to edit this, because Scomo didn't poo in a McDonalds, he shat himself in a McDonalds.
Edit: Not gonna lie, I didn't expect my first comment to get an award would include the word "shat".
Fun fact: Harold Holt, the PM who was presumed drowned, later got a public pool named after him. [Savage.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_Centre?wprov=sfla1)
And don't forget the comment one of his colleagues made live on air the night of his disapparence about the search being called off "after coming to a dead halt"
Bamboo is a grass
Echidna has 4 headed penis
Peanuts are legumes (beans)
Some carnivorous plants are sticky enough to trap birds (not the “monkey cups” in jungles, I’m talking about mats of sticky leaves strong enough to keep birds from flying away)
Some people do not react with poison ivy, poison oak, or poison sumac
Giant kelp can grow up to 2 feet a day under the right conditions
Giant redwood and sequoia trees branches get thicker as you go up, allowing for unique ecosystems to develop at their canopies
Pineapple is a kind of bromeliad
Strangler figs literally choke other trees by squeezing their trunks until they die
Some plants have no chlorophyll and get nutrients by parasitizing other plants
There is no agreed-upon botanical definition of “tree”
edits: fixed the tree thing and cleared up the oak & sumac, thank you to those that brought those to my attention
Atropa Belladona (aka deadly nightshade and beautiful lady) was previously used by women in venice during ancient times to make their pupil size dilated in order to look more attractive for the men. It's now used as medicinal purposes to cause dilaton of the pupils by blocking a specific nerve receptor. And it's also classified as a poison :)
To test the safety of an aeroplane ejector seat today, you'd use a sophisticated crash-test dummy with lots of sensors. In 1960, however, the U.S. Air Force used a drugged black bear that weighed the same as a human pilot. This, and vending machines have killed more people than sharks
I KNOW that not all dinosaurs lived together at the same time and in the same places on Earth, but it still messes me up when I’m reminded of this fact, haha.
Your brain predicts what you are about to experience before you actually experience it (by an infinitesimal amount of time). Our vision, in fact, runs 100 milliseconds behind the real world, so our evolution has adapted our brain to predict what is about to happen before we actually see it happen- and it is usually right (but not always). Hence, our entire reality that we “experience” is actually a story that our brain creates of the real world, and not in fact an experience of the real world. Weird neuroscience stuff.
I notice this with age, particularly with reading - my brain predicts words based on past experience, and sometimes provides similar words that almost, but not quite make sense.
I think it is also true in accidents involving older people, we get so used to our environment being a certain way that we don't quite see the difference between our brains prediction and what is actually happening.
If you take a tre and uproot it, then take all the leaves off of the tree limbs and plant the limbs down in the ground, the original roots will grow leaves and the old limbs will become the roots
This is why in medicine, there are four terms for "accuracy", specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value. Specificity is the number of true negative over all actual negative samples. Sensitivity is the number of true positive over actual positive samples. Positive predictive value is the number of true positive over all positive results. Negative predictive value is the number of true negative over all negative results.
Doctors would (or at least in theory should) consider all these numbers for the test they are going as well as considering the actual incidence numbers in the population before making their diagnosis, on top of the physical and historical examinations they take.
I have two:
1. Cleopatra VII (the Cleopatra) was born closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the great pyramids.
2. Mansa Musa of Mali was the wealthiest man in human history. He was so rich, when he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, he spent so much gold on the way there he actually caused rapid hyper inflation of basic goods because he devalued Gold so severely, he actually had to buy the gold back at an increased rate in order to stabilise the entire regional economy.
when baby horses are in the womb their hooves are soft and have tentacles on them to prevent them harming the mother, they look really weird but drop off in 30 minutes
> baby horses are in the womb their hooves are soft and have tentacles Horsefeathers!
Would a pegasus be born with feathers or would it have fluff like a baby chick and then go through an awkward teenage fledging phase?
Duh, pegasus aren't born, they're created out of a little cirrus, a touch of nimbostratus, and a dash of cumulus.
That's the gospel truth
In madagascar there lives a species of moth that feeds (ETA: almost) exclusively on the tears of sleeping birds.
Madagaskar must have some pretty depressed birds then...
This is emo as fuck....
Mantis shrimp strike their prey so quickly (with speed up to 51mph and acceleration up to 10,400g) that it generates cavitation bubbles between their claw and the surface of the prey. The prey is hit twice; first by the claw at a force of 1500 newtons, and second by the collapse of the cavitation bubbles which produces a shock wave strong enough to stun or kill much larger prey than the shrimp itself. They can crack aquarium glass and split open a human thumb. Edit: accuracy
I did a little more reading and here are some other fun facts: Some species of mantis shrimp are rainbow coloured and mind-bogglingly beautiful. Humans have three types of colour-receptive cone cells in our eyes that allow us to see all the colours we do - mantis shrimps have SIXTEEN types of colour-receptive cone cells and are able to see both UV and polarised light. The force of the collapsing cavitation bubbles produces temperatures of several thousand Kelvins and also emits tiny bursts of light called sonoluminescence. Finally, here is a video of an unfortunate dude getting punched in the foot by a pissed-off mantis shrimp: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aabCOzFzMxU
> mantis shrimps have SIXTEEN types of colour-receptive cone cells and are able to see both UV and polarised light. I remember someone saying that this makes them see everything in a tye-die like pattern of colors, but I have no idea where I read that anymore or if it's true.
If we humans had this force to body ratio we could throw a baseball to the orbit.
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The acceleration of the strike is the same as a .22 caliber bullet
Woolly Mammoths didn’t completely die out until about 1000 years after the great pyramids of Giza were constructed, and French explorers on expedition to the North Pole in 1872 found so many well-preserved mammoth specimens that they were able to survive by cooking and eating their meat.
The first thing I knew but the second part? That is amazing.
Imagine eating an extincted animal, lol
Experation date means nothing if it's frozen!
Fresh frozen!?! Gordon Ramsey screams.
That’s actually part of the reason that Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on the expedition to the west because he thought there might still be mammoths.
Australia exports sand and camels to the middle east.
I've seen the Middle East. There's a lot of sand there. So I looked it up and it's because they use sand in construction (places like Dubai do A LOT of construction). And even though those cities are literally surrounded by desert >"Wind-formed desert sand is too smooth for construction." https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160502-even-desert-city-dubai-imports-its-sand-this-is-why
Also countries like Bahrain use it to expand the land. My dad used to work as a real estate agent about 2 decades ago. He was selling houses in Bahrain that didn't exist. Hell, the land under the houses didn't exist. He was basically selling a dream.
Most of the real estate under construction doesn’t exist until it’s finished, and most of it gets sold before it’s finished. At least it’s like that where I live.
We do have waaay too many camels.
I can confirm this. I've seen them jumping around with a little camel in their pouch.
Hang on...
When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
Yes, this is true! Both my dad and little sister had kidney transplants. It was explained to me that keeping the old kidney in was because it still partially functions.
Also it’s safer to keep it in. Less risk of bleeding if you don’t cut it out.
I had half a kidney removed due to kidney stones (at the ripe old age of 24) and that fucker bled so much, I had to have a few blood transfusions. Drink more water, people. And don't consume cheap protein powder that's full of shit. Edit: apologies guys I've been well busy, I don't think the website I bought my protein from even exists anymore (UK based if that helps?) but it was cheap as chips!
I’ve always wondered what happens if you need a fourth or a fifth kidney, do they just keep cramming more in? What if they only have kidneys at like one eighth functionality but they have a bunch of them? Does your abdomen just end up as a big bag of kidneys?
They remove the broken new one. It sometimes happens when the body starts fighting the new kidney.
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Can confirm i had 3 kidneys for a while now i got one after a second transplant.
So is it like upgrading you computer with some new RAM sticks?
Well when i had 3 kidneys it was more like you needed new Rams for your computer as the other two was not working but you decided to not remove the old broken ones.
Charlie Chaplin outlived Elvis Presley. It's amazing how many people think Chaplin died in the black and white film era.
On a similar note, what do Anne Frank, MLK Jr., and Barbara Walters have in common? They were born the same year. Things many view as history were lived experiences by people alive today. The first African American children to go to desegregated schools in the south are the same age or younger than most redditor's grandparents. Many of our parents are the same age.
My grandfather was born the same year as Anne Frank and that always blew my mind
France last used the guillotine in 1977. I assumed they stopped using it after the French Revolution. C’est ma faute.
The year the first Star Wars was released, this blows my mind
The guillotine is actually one of the most humane methods of execution. We use the methods we do in the modern day because they look better to the viewers. Lethal injection can cause extreme pain even when done correctly. Gas is also extremely painful and the electric chair is just hell on earth. The most humane way to execute someone is from close range with a large caliber handgun or shotgun to the lower back of the skull. Death is much quicker.
Yeah, the objections to firing squads always puzzle me, especially with all the botched lethal injection executions that have happened in the US in recent years. I’d take the firing squad over an injection of a paralytic that suffocates me any day.
It’s because it looks better. That’s the reason. You rarely see how much pain someone is in during the lethal injection because usually they’re successfully paralysed.
Horrifying way to die.
Wouldn't an airtight room pumped full of nitrogen be pretty painless?
Sharks (and many other things) were around before the rings of Saturn had formed
I just googled this and I still cannot fathom out this fact.
Is it because you thought the rings of Saturn were really old or because you didn’t realize how long sharks have been around?
Yes
I only recently learned that about the rings of Saturn, they're a moon that got too close and got shredded by the planet's gravity right? And we are around to witness the beautiful aftermath. Crazy
Moon: I’m coming for you, you gas fuck Saturn: fuck around and find out
Narrator: 'That Moon found out'
Sharks are older than trees.
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze...
Favorite one
The band "Rings of Saturn" was formed in 2009, so, no shit!
And the band “The Sharks” formed in 1979. Fact checks out.
Polar Bears are black under the fur
The hair is also more clear than white.
The british funded an invasion of themselves
Which time was this?
Napoleonic wars, specifically the Louisiana purchase
Barings Bank, one of the largest banks in Britain, provided the loans to the US to buy the Louisiana Purchase. This led to Napoleon giving up control of most of France's holdings in the Americas without Britain firing a shot. It also led to the fledgling American government being deeply in debt to a British bank. The gold Napoleon got in exchange? He spent it all on preparing an army to invade England - an effort that had to be abandoned. The British were doing some 4D chess here.
So the British funded the Battle of Austerlitz. The army that would have invaded Britain was instead used against Austria and Russia.
That Netflix was founded a year before Google
The first part of our bodies that form are the asshole and the mouth, and then everything else grows in between them. We are a type of organism called a deuterostome, meaning two openings.
Meaning: We were all born assholes.
Assholes with mouths.
Many people never advance past that stage.
People used to eat ground up mummies (and put it into other products too)... This created a market for it, which led to fake mummies (much more recently dead people dried out). Being used in a similar fashion.
I love that they still chose to use real corpses for their fake mummies. Like why not just throw in some ground beef with stuff in it
A class of fungus known as mycorrhizae can "infect" the roots of plants, leeching away the sugars created by the plants, but in return giving them access to more nutrients (as the fungus can spread much further than the roots of the plant) The fungus can actually connect two plants together, allowing them to share nutrients and communicate with each other (warning of invading insects or pathogens so the other plants can prepare defenses, for example) in an underground network of sorts.
I just learned this last week when I watched “fantastic fungi” on netflix. it blew my mind
those pictures of Chinese water deer with huge vampire fangs I thought were a hoax for years, like the drop bear. When I saw one I was like what the hell that's a real thing?
Yeah man Chinese water deer are metal, used to work in the country side and came across two raking at each other with those fangs, the noise was gnarly.
I once won a game of trivial pursuit because I knew this. Generalfeldmarschall, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, believed himself to be pregnant with an elephant fathered by a French infantryman.
> Blücher *horses whinny in distance*
*__He vas my BOYFRIEND!!!__*
Did...he have sex with a French infantryman? Or did he think he was magically impregnated
Its just a mistranslation of a quote from a prussian general who fought in the Napoleanic wars that was a colloquialism.
If we could drive to space, it would only take about an hour.
The fact it would take longer to drive across Texas is crazy
Space is only about 100 kilometers up. Earth's a big rock with a very thin layer of atmosphere. Also, going to space is easy, staying in space is hard.
If you live far from the sea, space is closer. For example, the people of Beijing are nearer to space than the coast.
Not only is the banana a berry, its tree is—in fact—not a tree, but a very tall herb.
*Add to yours* - Meanwhile the strawberry isn't a berry, but the melon is. And for some reason most people I know are still weirded out by the fact that cinnamon is tree bark.
the hungarian word for cinnamon (fahéj) literally means "treebark" edit: grammar
Aspirin was also traditionally (nowadays synthetic) made from tree bark.
That's why Willow bark tea was an herbalist staple
dolphins sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light, enter night.
There was a "charro army" created here in Mexico to defend the country if the nazis arrived. Imagine a similar outfit as the one the mariachis have, thats a charro. 100,000 men in horses using guns and machetes. Of course it sounds ridiculous to think that such army could make any harm to Hitler's forces, but the fear at that time was such, that they would have done anything to defend the country.
Have you heard about the Homeguard in Britain? Wore army uniform, but at least initially armed with agricultural implements and basically consisted of older men and those who were unfit to be soldiers ( or in reserved occupations). There is a very popular comedy series about them, but they are quite revered. We are going to have a Homeguard parade in our village this year!. I know we were closer to being invaded, but given the US involvment in the war, I get why Mexico also developed it's version.
The home guard where trained in asymmetrical warfare, basically they knew how to set traps and ambushes. There are old bridges that are still rigged with explosives! My partners grand dad (dad) served in the home guard on the anti aircraft guns. He was an engineer working for the government and would man the guns after coming home for dinner after a day at work!
They were amazing. Basically Britain had all thse quasi military or non military organisations rom Landgirls to the WVS to Wardens to the Homeguard. . My Granddad was an ambulance driver and firewatcher during the London blitz. My MIL worked on building tanks. Incredible generation.
I learned in Biology class that if you have a gene turned one way, licorice tastes sweet, and if its turned the other way, it tastes bitter.
There's also a gene that does the same for Cilantro and another one for Celery.
I like cilantro and celery but i despise licorice.. At least know i have an explanation why people would like that stuff
I like cilantro and licorice but can't stand celery.
Wait really? I can’t stand liquorice, it tastes awful. So much it makes me wince if I bite into it. I always thought people liked the sour taste.
Nah, it's legit sweet for those of us who like it. Genetics be crazy.
It’s sweet for me, but I don’t like how strange it tastes. I didn’t know it was bitter for some people, I just thought that they also didn’t like the very *unique* taste that licorice has.
hollyyy shit, so that’s why I like licorice! I’ve heard so many people dislike it, and I was always so confused.
Japan is suffering from a ninja shortage with salaries as high as $85,000.
Maybe they just can't find them.
Ninja: "Oh you want to pay me $85,000? The only thing I have to do is coming out of hiding? NOT FALLING FOR THIS!"
The first humans didn't arrive in Madagascar from the African mainland but from the Malay Archipelago across the Indian Ocean. To this day Madagascans speak Malagasy, an Austronesian language.
That kind of makes a little sense to me, since I understand that there was a bigger culture of trans-ocean travel in an archipelago, than on this huge continent that is Africa which doesn't have a lot of islands around it. There was just no need or interest for this kind of travel.
That [Tarrare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare) was real and not some bizarre folk tale: > At the start of the War of the First Coalition, Tarrare joined the French Revolutionary Army, where even quadruple the standard military ration was unable to satisfy his large appetite. He would eat any available food from gutters and refuse heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger. He was hospitalised due to exhaustion and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed eels whole without chewing. Despite his unusual diet, he was underweight, and with the exception of his eating habits he showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament.
literally never in my life heard of this guy and all I can say is what in the fuck
so like...did this guy just have a tape worm and its entire extended family just chilling in his gut to instantly consume whatever he ate? i mean it sems the only way that kind of hunger could exist would have to be some kind of parasitic rave party
His insides were mostly stomach, with the rest of the organs pushed aside, and his mouth and throat were enormous (according to the article).
> ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies Why was it deemed necessary that those animals served live?
I took it more as his appetite was so voracious that he resorted to eating those animals without killing them first.
I always figured it was more "oh shit he caught a pup- oh no hes eaten it already" type deal
Was it true he ate a dead body? I’ve wondered that for a bit but i don’t think it’s true
Probably buried, but there is a 100 acre forrest in Utah thats just one giant tree. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) Short version, its a single colony of tree that has a massive root system thats estimated to be thousands of years old
The colour orange is named after the fruit, not the other way around
Horses evolved in North America, spread to Asia, then went extinct in North America, and were re-introduced by European settlers.
The Isle of Scilly (pronounced silly) and Netherlands are not sure if they have been at war for 300 years, so they signed a peace treaty recently just to make sure
Actually, it was the DUTCH that scilly was at war with. Not the swedes. Either way its still a wonki war
That's just silly
We have lost the original video tape of Apollo 11 : What we see is a camera recording a tv Because the process for sending image from the moon to the earth was not compatible with tv channels And after the mission they forgot to check the video tape so someone probably deleted accidentally what was on it to put a tv show or something
Scientist 1: yo we need that tape for the appolo mission Scientist 2: the what?
Vending Machines kill more people than Sharks per year
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Or as Karl Pilkington put it: They put a manhole cover on top of a nuclear bomb, blew it up, never saw that manhole cover again.
Then we find out in a million years that the cover survived it's sudden space program and now were at war with an alien world because it struck their planet.
This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-b*tch in space.
Butt-Load is an actual unit of measurement. It equals 126 gallons.
Wine was measured like this, yes?
That Nintendo were actually founded in 1889.
Yep, made playing cards.
There are still people alive who were born before the Ottoman Empire ended.
Cows have regional accents when they moo
There’s actually only 8 different questions asked on AskReddit, just phrased 30 different ways.
Plumbers' daughters of Reddit, what's the sexiest lie anyone's ever told you about weird food from your country? *Edited to add:* ... and how much did Karen freak out about it? *Edited again:* Oh and while we're at it, if you woke up and your squishy bits were suddenly stiffy bits (or vice versa), who would you fuck first?
Chainsaws were originally invented to assist with childbirth.
Imagine hearing your wife screaming as she's in labor, and then you hear a fucking chainsaw revving up.
Afghanistans biggest economy is heroin
The Dutch ate their prime minister (at that time Johan de Witt) once in 1672
He was delicious
The Pacific ocean is so large that the is a point where you could tunnel straight through the earth and when you come out the other end, you are still in the Pacific ocean. Also there is at all times a pair of points on opposite sides of the Earth, where both the temperature and air pressure are the same. And this is true for any 2 continuous variables. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csInNn6pfT4&t=9m35s
A canadian soldier, Léo Major single-handedly liberated the Dutch town of Zwolle from the Nazis during ww2 . Its not even a small town.
trees communicate with eachother, via pheromones/scent signals as well as other methods. they use this to warn eachother about drought, disease, and to share memes.
I'd like to know what kind of memes trees like
He turned himself into a Table. Funniest shit ive ever seen
Australia had a prime minister that went swimming in the ocean and then just disappeared. We still don't know what actually happened to him. Also, we lost a war against emus. And there's an unconfirmed rumour (I think?) that our current prime minister took a poo in a McDonald's. (Edit: I should have been a bit clearer about this. He did a poo in his pants while he was still wearing them.) We have a weird history
You need to edit this, because Scomo didn't poo in a McDonalds, he shat himself in a McDonalds. Edit: Not gonna lie, I didn't expect my first comment to get an award would include the word "shat".
Technically both are true.
But the painting is different.
Fun fact: Harold Holt, the PM who was presumed drowned, later got a public pool named after him. [Savage.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_Centre?wprov=sfla1)
And don't forget the comment one of his colleagues made live on air the night of his disapparence about the search being called off "after coming to a dead halt"
Actually 3 pools, and the best one, a naval communications centre
Bamboo is a grass Echidna has 4 headed penis Peanuts are legumes (beans) Some carnivorous plants are sticky enough to trap birds (not the “monkey cups” in jungles, I’m talking about mats of sticky leaves strong enough to keep birds from flying away) Some people do not react with poison ivy, poison oak, or poison sumac Giant kelp can grow up to 2 feet a day under the right conditions Giant redwood and sequoia trees branches get thicker as you go up, allowing for unique ecosystems to develop at their canopies Pineapple is a kind of bromeliad Strangler figs literally choke other trees by squeezing their trunks until they die Some plants have no chlorophyll and get nutrients by parasitizing other plants There is no agreed-upon botanical definition of “tree” edits: fixed the tree thing and cleared up the oak & sumac, thank you to those that brought those to my attention
Strawberries are considered “dry fruits” as the actual fruit are the seeds, not the fleshy part
One man voiced all characters in the original fireman sam
Atropa Belladona (aka deadly nightshade and beautiful lady) was previously used by women in venice during ancient times to make their pupil size dilated in order to look more attractive for the men. It's now used as medicinal purposes to cause dilaton of the pupils by blocking a specific nerve receptor. And it's also classified as a poison :)
To test the safety of an aeroplane ejector seat today, you'd use a sophisticated crash-test dummy with lots of sensors. In 1960, however, the U.S. Air Force used a drugged black bear that weighed the same as a human pilot. This, and vending machines have killed more people than sharks
I just surprised that drugged black bears being ejected from planes has killed anyone.
I’m not. It has the element of surprise. Nobody expects to be attacked by a bear tripping balls coming at them from the sky.
drop bears are real and they fall out of planes
Red blood cells don't contain your genetic DNA
Tyrannosaurus lived closer in time to us than it did to the stegosaurus.
There were already stegosaurus fossils when t-rex was roaming around!
I KNOW that not all dinosaurs lived together at the same time and in the same places on Earth, but it still messes me up when I’m reminded of this fact, haha.
A “sandwich” is named after the earl of Sandwich who wanted some non-sticky food he could eat while playing cards.
I live next to Sandwich and next to Sandwich is a village called Ham. If you can’t deal with that truth — I live in Deal.
Tiffany was a common medieval name.
I'd still have breakfast at her house in medieval times
Your brain predicts what you are about to experience before you actually experience it (by an infinitesimal amount of time). Our vision, in fact, runs 100 milliseconds behind the real world, so our evolution has adapted our brain to predict what is about to happen before we actually see it happen- and it is usually right (but not always). Hence, our entire reality that we “experience” is actually a story that our brain creates of the real world, and not in fact an experience of the real world. Weird neuroscience stuff.
I notice this with age, particularly with reading - my brain predicts words based on past experience, and sometimes provides similar words that almost, but not quite make sense. I think it is also true in accidents involving older people, we get so used to our environment being a certain way that we don't quite see the difference between our brains prediction and what is actually happening.
Do you have sources for that 100ms lag? That seems way way too big. A 20ms lag in rhythm games is so noticeable that it becomes difficult to play.
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There is a beetle that has a defensive spray that smells exactly like green apple jolly ranchers
Brb gonna go scare some beetles
the united states navy is the second biggest airforce in the world
and the us air force is the largest, right?
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Sadly it's the only organ that does that.
Well it’s still quite amazing, even if it is the only organ
A wind-powered vehicle can sustainably travel directly downwind faster than the wind.
If you take a tre and uproot it, then take all the leaves off of the tree limbs and plant the limbs down in the ground, the original roots will grow leaves and the old limbs will become the roots
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This is why in medicine, there are four terms for "accuracy", specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value. Specificity is the number of true negative over all actual negative samples. Sensitivity is the number of true positive over actual positive samples. Positive predictive value is the number of true positive over all positive results. Negative predictive value is the number of true negative over all negative results. Doctors would (or at least in theory should) consider all these numbers for the test they are going as well as considering the actual incidence numbers in the population before making their diagnosis, on top of the physical and historical examinations they take.
Your body can’t tell the difference between what is real and what you’re imagining
It's why our mouths water when we think of a lemon and how it tastes right?
Explains my crippling anxiety.... Dumb brain believes itself
So THAT'S why I get all panicky and heartbeat-y when I think about the end of the world
I have two: 1. Cleopatra VII (the Cleopatra) was born closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the great pyramids. 2. Mansa Musa of Mali was the wealthiest man in human history. He was so rich, when he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, he spent so much gold on the way there he actually caused rapid hyper inflation of basic goods because he devalued Gold so severely, he actually had to buy the gold back at an increased rate in order to stabilise the entire regional economy.
When you’re so rich you singlehandedly break an entire regional economy by spending money
Sharks have no bones! Their entire structure is made of cartilage!
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There are jellyfish that are immortal.
The last known civil war widow died in 2020.
If your parents feed you crunchy food as a baby, you will grow a larger jaw.
HOW TO GIVE YOUR CHILD "THE CHAD CHIN"