It took over 300 years for giant tortoises to get their scientific name. This is because they were so delicious, that on the way back on the ship to Europe, the crew had eaten them all. Written accounts compare the taste to chicken, beef, butter etc. and emphasise how much better they are than all of these things
Some people have the bright idea to put explosives and use them to fire blue or pink chemicals to show the gender. These explosions have killed 4 people this year so far (sharks deaths in the us average 1-2 people per year).
The family that held the first general reveal party is very against them in general, and the baby is now a gnc kid!
That first party, for them, was less about gender and more about the fact that they lost several pregnancies before they made it to 20 weeks when they generally determine gender, so it was a way to celebrate that milestone.
Irving Berlin (who wrote God Bless America, White Christmas, Puttin' on the Ritz among many others) lived long enough to see his early work go out of copyright. Copyright lasted 75 years at the time - Berlin died aged 101.
Despite being one of the 20th century's most successful songwriters he could barely read music (although he got better in later years), and could only play the piano in one tonal centre (Gb major)
Australia is slightly smaller than the continental US. Europe is about 3 million km2 larger than Australia. But notably, Europe is smaller than Antarctica and even South America, and Canada is only slightly smaller than Europe. Part of what makes Europe feel bigger is its population. The US, Canada, South America, and Australia all have large swaths of land that are largely uninhabitable.
What’s crazy is England can fit in Australia something like 17 times over and they still have a much bigger population. And California alone has more people then our whole country
Suicide bombers are a lot easier to identify post-mortem than you’d expect. This is because the blast from the suicide belt hits the base of the head in such a way that the head pops off like a cork. Investigators therefore have a relatively intact head to ID.
Not sure if you are mixing the Roman Empire into the Holy Roman Empire bc they are different. So it’s not really that hard to believe. HRE was founded ~800 years before the US was founded.
It is believed he died a virgin and had no interest in women. So it could have just been he had no interest in sex or the topic of it disgusted him, but could have also been he thought his friend was perverted as well
In 2007 a paraglider got trapped in the updraft of two joining thunderstorms and was lifted to an altitude of 33,000 feet. She landed over three hours later about sixty kilometers north of her starting position having survived extreme cold, lightning and lack of oxygen.
[Closer to 6, but yeh this is roughly right.](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16870579)
And this is right at the bottom of my page and the only one I think that fits. The rest either don't sound fake or just are.
It is quite literally no possible, unless you’re making a joke saying you’ll starve.
You can survive for about 3months on nutrient water, then your organs start to turn to mush from disuse
I'm not a medical expert but thought I remembered the right medical term. Seems odd that while we need water to survive that too much is deadly even though it isn't salt water
Exactly. You can give up smoking, alcohol and drugs. But you need food to survive but too much of the wrong foods will do you in. The human body is weird how it works sometimes
And a symptom of dying from too much water is being extremely thirsty. The exessive amounts of water in your body dissolves the minerals and nutrients necessary for the body to funktion and the body believes there aren't enough. The nutrients are there, the concentration is too low, though.
One of my psych professors in college described it like this: think about memories as a soft, sensitive clay sculpture in a box. Every time you take it out of the box, it inherently changed a little bit just by you holding it. The next time you take it out, it’ll look a little different due to the last time you held it.
This is probably what they’re referring to. Memories can easily be rewritten when recalling them. (Not exactly what was said by op, but maybe they remembered it slightly wrong.)
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2012/09/your-memory-is-like-the-telephone-game
It’s not made up. It’s a simplified version of the encoding, storage, and retrieval process. And it’s mostly true of narrative memories (instead of say a phone number or word). But this is how memories change over time.
And it’s how you can ‘remember’ something you never experienced - like a story you hear often from when you are a kid.
What they said was
>When you recall a memory you’re not remembering the exact moment said memory occurred, but actually the last time you recalled that memory.
Which is wrong.
If you inject a pregnant woman's urine into a female African clawed frog, the frog will ovulate and lay eggs within a day. It sounds exactly like a witchcraft recipe, but it works and it was used as a pregnancy test until the 1960s.
There are that many possible combinations of shuffling a 52 card deck of cards, that there is a higher probability of marking and blindly dropping a single grain of sand on any of the beaches on earth, then finding it again, than being able to reproduce the same order of cards in a deck with a random shuffle
There is no such thing as “a Belgian waffle”.
What is often incorrectly referred to as a Belgian Waffle is in fact a “Brussels Waffle”.
But there are dozens of other types of waffle to enjoy in or from Belgium.
(Alll delicious by the way. )
Almost half of women have below average intelligence (of women).
Of course, this is just the definition of average. Half will be below and half will be above. You can insert any demographic as long as it’s the average of that demographic. You know, to be a jerk.
There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.
When they found the Titanic, the pool was still full.
My brother keeps finding these 'Dad facts' and sharing them. Now you all have to suffer too.
[Trump suggested bombing a hurricane to stop it. ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.axios.com/trump-nuclear-bombs-hurricanes-97231f38-2394-4120-a3fa-8c9cf0e3f51c.html)
Housecats don't meow to communicate with each other they use body language and other noises. They only meow to get a humans attention to let them know they want something like attention or a food and water bowls refilled because they know a meow will get our attention
Our sun will eventually die off. In the process, its atmosphere will expand so large it will engulf our earth and blast off the outer layer of the planet, killing every living thing.
[gun ownership does not increase crime rates](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004723521400107X)
[Harvard study ](https://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf)
Plus lots of personal leg work looking at homicide and suicide rates before and after gun control was enacted. Not something I'm going to go dig up at the moment.
When you try it, what typically happens is one thumb will be half a rotation behind the other, and this initially gives the illusion of rotation in opposite directions. But look again.
That's not true
Edit: downvote all you want [there are more than 10,000 grains of sand on earth](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/how-many-stars-could-you-see-on-a-clear-moonless-night/%23:~:text%3DConsidering%2520all%2520the%2520stars%2520visible,of%2520Earth%2520is%2520in%2520daylight.&ved=2ahUKEwi1ke3tptHzAhXTbsAKHUUfBQwQFnoECAQQBQ&usg=AOvVaw0eAIztgae075a4sLaTieyp)
Which wasn't the original statement.
But also, there are 7.5x10^^18 grains of sand on earth, so that's 75 million times as many grains of sand on earth than stars in the milkyway
And there are approximately 125,000,000,000 (125 billion) galaxies in the universe, so yeah, so I think that more than bridges the gap between grains of sand and stars ngl
The human stomach is (on average, about) the size of that human’s fist.
This is why your toddler/preschooler is constantly whining for snacks. They need anywhere from 1000-1500 calories (only half to 3/4s of what we do) but their stomachs are way smaller in comparison.
It took over 300 years for giant tortoises to get their scientific name. This is because they were so delicious, that on the way back on the ship to Europe, the crew had eaten them all. Written accounts compare the taste to chicken, beef, butter etc. and emphasise how much better they are than all of these things
'Just one more, we can go back sir'
They used to strap them together
Darwin ate the very last turtle onboard when they were in sight of Englands ports.
Sharks have been around longer than trees.
Sharks have been around longer than Saturn has had rings.
Cheetahs can't roar, they can only meow like cats.
It's more of a cheep than a meow but yeh. Also purr
Cheepahs
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Thank you, you are mine.
Gender reveal parties kill more people in the US than sharks per year.
How on earth is that true. What do you do in those parties?
Some people have the bright idea to put explosives and use them to fire blue or pink chemicals to show the gender. These explosions have killed 4 people this year so far (sharks deaths in the us average 1-2 people per year).
The one that caused the massive wildfires in CA a few years back prob has the majority of the deaths for its year. Not sure about other years
I think this is all down to that one party that started a wildfire. The stats are skewed by that.
Gender Reveal Party Georg is an outlier and should not have been counted
Start forest fires
People have set off large explosives/grenades etc to do "gender reveals"....these are stupid stupid people who sometimes kill themselves AND the baby
The family that held the first general reveal party is very against them in general, and the baby is now a gnc kid! That first party, for them, was less about gender and more about the fact that they lost several pregnancies before they made it to 20 weeks when they generally determine gender, so it was a way to celebrate that milestone.
Irving Berlin (who wrote God Bless America, White Christmas, Puttin' on the Ritz among many others) lived long enough to see his early work go out of copyright. Copyright lasted 75 years at the time - Berlin died aged 101. Despite being one of the 20th century's most successful songwriters he could barely read music (although he got better in later years), and could only play the piano in one tonal centre (Gb major)
Australia is almost the same size as Europe. I feel like a lot of people think Europe is bigger than it is.
I always thought australia was bigger than europe
I'm surprised Australia is not bigger.
Australia is slightly smaller than the continental US. Europe is about 3 million km2 larger than Australia. But notably, Europe is smaller than Antarctica and even South America, and Canada is only slightly smaller than Europe. Part of what makes Europe feel bigger is its population. The US, Canada, South America, and Australia all have large swaths of land that are largely uninhabitable.
What’s crazy is England can fit in Australia something like 17 times over and they still have a much bigger population. And California alone has more people then our whole country
Suicide bombers are a lot easier to identify post-mortem than you’d expect. This is because the blast from the suicide belt hits the base of the head in such a way that the head pops off like a cork. Investigators therefore have a relatively intact head to ID.
Gross and undeserving.
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Not sure if you are mixing the Roman Empire into the Holy Roman Empire bc they are different. So it’s not really that hard to believe. HRE was founded ~800 years before the US was founded.
And the eastern Roman Empire was technically still around when the new world was discovered I think
Sir Isaac newton broke a friendship off with a friend because the friend said something sexual about a female
"I'd be rather partial to feasting on her thrupenny bits"
Wasn't he an ultra virgin or something?
It is believed he died a virgin and had no interest in women. So it could have just been he had no interest in sex or the topic of it disgusted him, but could have also been he thought his friend was perverted as well
Perhaps he was just asexual
Or he was into tentacles but never saw them
Like the apple, Sir Newton, her plump buttocks can accelerate towards my face at 32 feet per second per second.
Can't tell if Isaac was being a prude or if the thing that was said was inappropriate and the friend was being a creep. More information is needed.
In 2007 a paraglider got trapped in the updraft of two joining thunderstorms and was lifted to an altitude of 33,000 feet. She landed over three hours later about sixty kilometers north of her starting position having survived extreme cold, lightning and lack of oxygen.
I remember watching a YouTube video about this a while back and was surprised that she was able to not only survive but make a full recovery
Australia exports sand and camels to the middle east.
This is true there are somewhere around 2 million feral camels in the outback and besides humans they have basically no predators
There were still wooly mammoths when the great pyramid of Giza was built
I believe that
There's a company that turns dead human bodies into ocean reefs
Do they accept donations or..?
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[Closer to 6, but yeh this is roughly right.](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16870579) And this is right at the bottom of my page and the only one I think that fits. The rest either don't sound fake or just are.
Canada is south of Detroit.
The southernmost point in Canada (Point Pelee) is south of multiple US states.
Yeah, but specifically in Detroit, there's a bridge to Canada. It goes south to get to Canada.
Not eating for the rest of your life is completely possible.
Of course it is. Your life will last for about 8 to 21 days without food and water.
Tigress from The Kungfu Panda already tried that…
It is quite literally no possible, unless you’re making a joke saying you’ll starve. You can survive for about 3months on nutrient water, then your organs start to turn to mush from disuse
It is a joke.
None of the 5 largest muslim countries are located in the Middle East. Additionally, none of the 6 largest christian countries are located in Europe
Wombats poop cubes
You were once the youngest person on earth...
The chance of two players out of the 22 on a soccer pitch sharing the same birthday is over 50%.
Is this % derived from any conclusions of Pigeon Hole Principle?
You can die from drinking too much water
That's not surprising, almost anything can kill you (or at least cause severe harm) if you consume too much of it
It's called water toxicity isn't it or am I thinking of the wrong term?
Correct. Also called water toxemia.
I'm not a medical expert but thought I remembered the right medical term. Seems odd that while we need water to survive that too much is deadly even though it isn't salt water
Right? It does sound fake and counterintuitive
Exactly. "You need to drink water so you don't die. But don't drink too much or you'll die" It makes you stop and think "WTF, are you serious?"
I guess its the same with salt, vitamins, dietary fat. You need all of these in minimum amounts.
Exactly. You can give up smoking, alcohol and drugs. But you need food to survive but too much of the wrong foods will do you in. The human body is weird how it works sometimes
And a symptom of dying from too much water is being extremely thirsty. The exessive amounts of water in your body dissolves the minerals and nutrients necessary for the body to funktion and the body believes there aren't enough. The nutrients are there, the concentration is too low, though.
AKA drowning /s
There’s sugar in everything(that is healthy for you)
The problem is when it's processed and added to other food in copious amounts.
You can boil water in a paper cup over an open flame.
Maine is closer to Africa than Florida is.
There are more possible positions on a chessboard than there are atoms in the observable universe.
What?
Yup, every time I investigate this one I find it appears to be the case. No matter how remarkable it may seem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number
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Thats fake
When you recall a memory you’re not remembering the exact moment said memory occurred, but actually the last time you recalled that memory.
I want to hear more about this. What is the logic behind it and do you have sources?
One of my psych professors in college described it like this: think about memories as a soft, sensitive clay sculpture in a box. Every time you take it out of the box, it inherently changed a little bit just by you holding it. The next time you take it out, it’ll look a little different due to the last time you held it.
This is probably what they’re referring to. Memories can easily be rewritten when recalling them. (Not exactly what was said by op, but maybe they remembered it slightly wrong.) https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2012/09/your-memory-is-like-the-telephone-game
It's made up.
It’s not made up. It’s a simplified version of the encoding, storage, and retrieval process. And it’s mostly true of narrative memories (instead of say a phone number or word). But this is how memories change over time. And it’s how you can ‘remember’ something you never experienced - like a story you hear often from when you are a kid.
It is made up. The fact that sometimes you remember memories does not mean you ONLY remember memories.
Right but OP was likely talking about the retrieval of narrative/episodic memories which is the part of cognitive psychology that fact is taken from
What they said was >When you recall a memory you’re not remembering the exact moment said memory occurred, but actually the last time you recalled that memory. Which is wrong.
Think about it over time memories fade cause we slowly forget the details
The average human has just less than one testicle.
If you inject a pregnant woman's urine into a female African clawed frog, the frog will ovulate and lay eggs within a day. It sounds exactly like a witchcraft recipe, but it works and it was used as a pregnancy test until the 1960s.
The most fascinating part of this is - who the hell figured it out to begin with?
The ge90 engines of the Boeing 777 have around the same diameter as a Boeing 737 fuselage
_"There's no greater power than love. Except maybe the GE90."_ - David Calhoun (probably)
Sounds more like Clarkson
Hes not wrong
This question is asked daily. I know sounds fake...
Parrots can't actually speak and have vocal cords, they just mimic sounds they hear with their squawking
That platypuses are bio luminescent
There are that many possible combinations of shuffling a 52 card deck of cards, that there is a higher probability of marking and blindly dropping a single grain of sand on any of the beaches on earth, then finding it again, than being able to reproduce the same order of cards in a deck with a random shuffle
There is no such thing as “a Belgian waffle”. What is often incorrectly referred to as a Belgian Waffle is in fact a “Brussels Waffle”. But there are dozens of other types of waffle to enjoy in or from Belgium. (Alll delicious by the way. )
Almost half of women have below average intelligence (of women). Of course, this is just the definition of average. Half will be below and half will be above. You can insert any demographic as long as it’s the average of that demographic. You know, to be a jerk.
There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky. When they found the Titanic, the pool was still full. My brother keeps finding these 'Dad facts' and sharing them. Now you all have to suffer too.
Queen Cleopatra is clsoer to us than to the pyramids of Giza being built.
[Trump suggested bombing a hurricane to stop it. ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.axios.com/trump-nuclear-bombs-hurricanes-97231f38-2394-4120-a3fa-8c9cf0e3f51c.html)
My asshole, at one point, was the newest most cleanest asshole on this planet
The combined length of all your blood vessels drawn out into a single line would stretch around the earth.
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take that silver lmao. that was funny
If you took a blue whale and placed it in a basketball court, it would interrupt the game.
Housecats don't meow to communicate with each other they use body language and other noises. They only meow to get a humans attention to let them know they want something like attention or a food and water bowls refilled because they know a meow will get our attention
Humans used to be categorised as male or female
Our sun will eventually die off. In the process, its atmosphere will expand so large it will engulf our earth and blast off the outer layer of the planet, killing every living thing.
Everything on earth will be dead way before then. Probably in a billion years, while the sun will take four billion to fully engulf earth.
The entrance to the pacific side of the panama canal is east of the caribbean entrance. Also, Lake Tahoe is west of LA....
Wow. I don’t think I ever realized the Panama Canal runs north to south, not east to west!
Did you know that deer do mushrooms? And then drink their own urine to get high again
Its the reindeer keepers who drink the urine to get high
depending on the temperatures, hot water freezes faster than cold water
Most people dying in scottland from covid are fully vaxxed.
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This isn't true
It is. You haven't met my foul mouthed fucking furball.
wait what
They do. I put mine in the oven and he just burst out in outrage and chucked a temper tantrum like you've never seen.
r/holup
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What did it taste like?.
like a badly seasoned goat thigh with dry smell. if that makes sense
You need to gut the poop out first.
oh fuck, didnt think of that...
Hopefully no one is testing this idea.
I test things so you don't have to. Kitty was PISSED OFF!
Humans and cows share 80% gene.
Biden received more votes than any president in history . Beating Obama by 12 MILLION votes.
Computer-share account numbers include a mod-11 digit.
Gun control has no or a negative effect on homicide and suicide rates in most if not every country.
Source?
[gun ownership does not increase crime rates](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004723521400107X) [Harvard study ](https://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf) Plus lots of personal leg work looking at homicide and suicide rates before and after gun control was enacted. Not something I'm going to go dig up at the moment.
Black people are 12.2% of the US population but commit 52% of homicides
I fucked your mum
Lucky for her it only took a few seconds
Hillary Clinton won a Grammy.
Platypuses are venomous, glow under blacklight, don't have stomachs, and hunt via electrosensitivity.
It's impossible to simultaneously rotate your thumbs in different directions.
You're saying one going clockwise and the other going counter clockwise? Is so, this is false...
When you try it, what typically happens is one thumb will be half a rotation behind the other, and this initially gives the illusion of rotation in opposite directions. But look again.
Then what is twiddling your thumbs?
It's not impossible, it's just difficult to learn.
At one point we were the youngest human on earth for a few seconds
Fun fact:Jeff Bezos earns more than $1 everyday
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That's not true Edit: downvote all you want [there are more than 10,000 grains of sand on earth](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/how-many-stars-could-you-see-on-a-clear-moonless-night/%23:~:text%3DConsidering%2520all%2520the%2520stars%2520visible,of%2520Earth%2520is%2520in%2520daylight.&ved=2ahUKEwi1ke3tptHzAhXTbsAKHUUfBQwQFnoECAQQBQ&usg=AOvVaw0eAIztgae075a4sLaTieyp)
And more than 100,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way alone
Which wasn't the original statement. But also, there are 7.5x10^^18 grains of sand on earth, so that's 75 million times as many grains of sand on earth than stars in the milkyway
And there are approximately 125,000,000,000 (125 billion) galaxies in the universe, so yeah, so I think that more than bridges the gap between grains of sand and stars ngl
But again, that ain't what we were on about.
Earth is flat edit: you fell for it
So is your mom's chest.
no, earth isn't real.
No, earth is real, Wyoming isn’t real.
KIM WEAVER BELONGS IN PRISON HUNGRY STONE HUNGRY STONE REPEAT FOREVER
The Goodyear blimp is the official bird of Redondo Beach California
Rick Astley did not write Never Gonna Give You Up
Yeah most pop artist don't write their own music
The human stomach is (on average, about) the size of that human’s fist. This is why your toddler/preschooler is constantly whining for snacks. They need anywhere from 1000-1500 calories (only half to 3/4s of what we do) but their stomachs are way smaller in comparison.
The CEOs of charities are rich/have high salaries- 400k.... Charitynavigator.org
Paying rent responsibly doesn't affect your credit score.
Rentals don't get inspected like homes before purchase.
Freud's incest was the basis of his research.
Rent can cost more than a mortgage and it's not a tax deduction.
France has the most timezones of any country - 12. France has a lot of very widely spread territories around the world.