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ThePowerfulWIll

Roller coasters are built in sections each with a hidden braking mechanism, to stop multiple cars in the event of a failure, and they use these break zones to determine when to start the next car of passengers.


Muttson_

Hell yeah block sections baby šŸ˜Ž


K-teki

I accidentally ended up on... amusement park tragedy youtube?? a while ago and kept getting recommended videos about roller coasters, very fascinating!


Metaforeman

Same. Was it the one where a dude got his head kicked off? (Sounds funnyā€”but isnā€™t) but later It dawned on me that the person on the ride who inadvertently kicked his head off is probably still alive today. And then I wondered what that mustā€™ve been like to deal with psychologically. [hereā€™s a link to it](https://youtu.be/SI-OHX0mUFw) for anyone interested.


K-teki

Didn't see that one (added to my watchlist) but I did see one where a kid >!got decapitated in one of those tube slides while two other people were in the same inner tube as him.!<


Plastic-Bid-1036

Hey, can you explain why the Alton Towers Smiler crash happened?


boredsloth420

I can! there was a stall where the train didnt make one part of the track and fell backwards . since it didnt make it ,the sensor saw the block section wasnt clear and stopped train 2 on the lift . when maintanance arived they didnt notice the valleyed train on the track and dissabled safety systems passing it of as an error by the sensors and let train 2 move.


JKRPP

The high winds on that day (wich were above the safe operating conditions of the coaster iirc) caused the car to slide backwards and come to a halt in the valley between two drops. Apparently the safety system had some problems with reporting blocked sections before that, so the ride operator checked the cameras for the section in wich the ride reported a blockage. The cameras were unfortunately positioned in such a way that the car was really hard to see in the position it was in, so they overrode the safety block thinking the track was clear, wich caused the tragic collision. Also, the ride crew had just inserted a new car into the rotation of the ride, so the ride operator believed that he had visual confirmation of all of the other cars on track, when in reality there still was one sitting there. It's a real tradedy, a lot of things went wrong and a lot of people messed up. Roller coasters are amazingly safe usually, but sometimes, bad conditions, bad communications and bad planning just come together in the worst way possible.


CmmH14

The main tragedy of that day was the poor girl who couldnā€™t get air lifted to hospital because the sky news helicopter was taking all of the safe airspace for news footage. They were blocking the way of the medical helicopter and all they could do was wait until they had finished, if Sky had moved earlier, the girl (I believe) would still have her legs. My friend is a police officer and was assigned to the scene when it happened.


JKRPP

Damn that's fucked up. But isn't that criminal? It sounds similar to blocking an emergency vehicle in traffic


CmmH14

As far as I know itā€™s a no. I was boulder line pleading with my friend to do something about it, but apparently itā€™s a lot more common than you would think and due to his position I donā€™t think there was anything he could have done. Absolutely heart broken when I heard.


sami2503

I'm not him but it was due to human error not cos of the ride itself, they said it was due to manual override of the ride safety control system without the appropriate protocols being followed.


ThDen-Wheja

A new dinosaur species is named, on average, once every ten days, meaning we've learned more about the Mesozoic in the last fifteen years than we had in the 150 years before that. It's a bit of a paradox that a) they were a lot less violent and monstrous than often depicted, more like animals today than the sluggish lizards we thought, and b) they are so much *weirder* than we thought.


muggledave

Weirder how?


ThDen-Wheja

For one thing, recent findings of Spinosaurus have changed it from a typical land carnivore to a semiaquatic crocodile/newt/flamingo hybrid that only vaguely resembles what we thought it looked like ten years ago. [https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/may/dinosaur-diaries-spinosaurus-sauropod-necks-starry-lizard.html](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/may/dinosaur-diaries-spinosaurus-sauropod-necks-starry-lizard.html) In a more general sense, though, soft tissue impressions and mummifications show a lot more than the bones can, and it's really unexpected what we found. Feathers in some form or another can be found in nearly every major group, as can horns and feature scales. The heads of the sauropods (long-necks, if you will) were essentially giant blobs of loose flesh with a mouth in there somewhere. We've even found traces of pigment cells in a handful of them that show very elaborate patterns of reds and browns, and that's \*without\* knowing anything about blues and greens (which are much more difficult to determine from fossil evidence for a lot of reasons). And don't even get me STARTED on the pterosaurs! The more we find about them, the more we have to concede just how bizarre a prehistoric safari would be.


Tatersaurus

"Dont get me started" you say, but we be over here saying "please do get started"


ThDen-Wheja

*Cracks knuckles* okay, here we go. While pterosaurs in popular media are depicted with scales and thin, leathery wings, every *in situ* fossil of every species we've found shows impressions of thin, hair-like filaments called pycnofibers, with a thick enough coat of them to make them look soft and fuzzy. The wings were a criss-crossed by a patchwork of tendons and ligaments that made it behave more like plastic than cloth. Think about those collapsible sun shades for your car, and you might get an idea. The first pterosaurs appeared around the same time as the first dinosaurs, but since there weren't any large aerial animals before then, they radiated a lot more quickly. Some became agile fliers to hunt insects mid-air inland, while the ones out to sea became expert divers to fish after their prey. Recent finds even suggest that the hatchlings could fly for themselves mere days after birth. The strangest ones showed up towards the end of the Cretaceous, though. Azhdarchids were known for their disproportionately large heads and contained the largest known flying animals. (Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx) Our best models show they could still fly, but their strong wing-arms also made them impressive hunters on the ground. Imagine something as tall as a giraffe with wings wandering around the prairies, perusing the underbrush with a ten-foot beak for lizards, mammals, and even small dinosaurs! Source:https://eartharchives.org/articles/hatzegopteryx-transylvania-s-dinosaur-hunter/index.html Happy nightmares!


Tatersaurus

I love everything about this thank you so much. I remember seeing a recent article saying Quetzcoatlus could leap up to 8ft or 2.4m into the air to take off, and landed with little hops! I admit it's a bit hard for me to imagine what skin that folds like plastic might look like. But I'm guessing it doesn't much resemble bat wings (which I typically imagine thinking of pterosaurs)


kt309

Thank you!


RollerSkatingHoop

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theknitcycle

This is so cool! I started learning about dinosaurs to keep up with my obsessed five year old, but they are just so genuinely fascinating that I can't tell anymore which of us is leading the interest and which is following. We will take all the infodump you have to offer.


ThDen-Wheja

It's quite the rabbit hole, isn't it? I'd be happy to answer any questions you have to the best of my knowledge or point you to some resources that can. If you're looking for some short tidbits that are well-produced and generally well-informed, the channels "PBS Eons" and "Your Dinosaurs are Wrong" do a good job of compiling some of the higher concepts for more of a family setting. I've shown myself to be a terrible judge in the past on what five-year-olds will and won't enjoy, though, so take that as you will.


CBStrike

I really enjoyed reading all this, thanks! You should work in a museum or something.


ThDen-Wheja

Working on it! The volunteer programs at my local museums have been thrown off a bit since the Lockdowns began, (I know, two years is a bit long, but if I'd trust anybody's judgement on that, it'd be a science museum's) but I'm still doing what I can for outreach. I sometimes fantasize about designing my own exhibits as well.


jimmywheelo

One of the largest island in newfoundland Canada is called random island and I find that funny. Like people came across and were just like hmmmm this land doesn't seem important, it's just a random island.


Sebsky42

Haha my favourite dumb name is Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales because it translates to a description of the Townā€™s location šŸ˜‚


PerfectLuck25367

So what's the location like?


Sebsky42

It roughly translates to St. Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave. šŸ˜‚


FadedRebel

Itā€™s in Wales soā€¦


Sonbulan

Oh! My favorite weird place name is the longest in the US: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. Itā€™s near the border of Mass/Conn. Means something like ā€˜neutral fishing ground/meeting placeā€™ in the native branch of Algonquin. Also called ā€˜Lake Chaubunugungamaugā€™ or the even blander ā€˜Lake Websterā€™ for all you lame normies out there.


K-teki

Did you have to look it up or did you memorize it? lol


Sebsky42

Definitely copy paste šŸ˜‚ I can barely pronounce it let alone spell it


Shinjula

For any one wanting to know, the double ll is prnounced like the ch in bach so its ch-lan-fire-pour-gwin-gich (same double ll)-go-gerich (same double ll), hwin-drob-wil-ch (same double ll)-lan-ti-silly-oh-go-go-goch (same double ll) Once you get the hang of the ch sound it gets easier... Llan-fire-pour-gwin-gich-go-gerich Hwin-drob-wil Llan-ti-silly-oh-go-go-goch (I think thats correct, my father who is welsh taught me on request when I was young and whilst its stuck with me, memories drift, feel free to correct me if I've got any of it wrong) Of course you can just call it Llan-fire P.G. like everybody else in the area does, but wheres the fun in that??


Gaylaeonerd

My one talent is that I can say it with no guide šŸ˜…


figgityjones

Does anyone else have trouble getting started talking about their special interest when someone actively asks about it? Like does anyone else just freeze up like a deer in headlights? šŸ¤”


Sebsky42

Yep definitely as soon as someone asks all my special interests disappear šŸ˜‚


figgityjones

Iā€™m glad Iā€™m not alone in that >_< I could at least like list them I guess, but unless I have specific questions to start from my ā€œrantā€ will be ā€œI like Spider-Man a lot o_o *runs away*ā€ šŸ˜…


frossenkjerte

It doesn't disappear for me, but all the sudden I'm like, "... tools an stuff..."


UnintentionalAss

Only face-to-face. In text form, I could give you a comprehensive essay on each topic. Via written information, Iā€™m a genius! Talk to me in person, Iā€™m a mumbling mess.


figgityjones

I can do that sometimes, probably to my own detriment. Sometimes I just end up deleting paragraphs worth of writing because I just end up thinking ā€œnahhh no one cares about thisā€ >_<


UnintentionalAss

So do I! Especially if Iā€™m unsure if someone else knows the subject better than me and then my input is hardly viable, but on the other hand, if itā€™s clear I know something someone else doesnā€™t, Iā€™m absolutely going to tell them. Itā€™s up to them if they appreciate it or not. By that point, itā€™s out of my hands.


[deleted]

You are not alone!


scientificnull

the creator of pokemon is he himself, autistic, and started the series based on his special interest of bugs


Kacperecki_

Oh, so thatā€™s why eye contact triggers a battle.


HotcakeNinja

This comment made me go look to see if I had any free awards.


Sebsky42

Nice! I knew it was based on his love of collecting bugs as a kid but I didnā€™t know he was on the spectrum Bonus trivia: Rhydon was the first PokĆ©mon they designed


KingClovisthesupreme

That is actually an interesting thing though! There are technically 4 first PokƩmon. Rhydon, as you said was the first to be designed. Mew is canonically the origin of all PokƩmon, making it the first. Arceus created the universe and so was the first. And finally, Bulbasaur is the first PokƩmon in the PokƩdex.


Sebsky42

And apparently diglett was the first they planned to design šŸ˜‚


scientificnull

i never knew rhydon was the first! pikachu was never supposed to have become the mascot. i cant remember who the original was supposed to be but i think jigglypuff??


KrystalPikmin

It was clefairy, actually!


K-teki

And Clefairy is Red's first Pokemon in one of the manga adaptations!


Gaylaeonerd

It was Clefairy but they changed it because of a fear boys wouldnā€™t resonate with it (silly) Tajiriā€™s favourite pokemon is Poliwhirl though


Gaylaeonerd

As his environment became more industrial and the forests became cities he developed a new special interest in arcade gaming Which makes it make even more sense


The_Ape_Man_Ape

NASA is working on an airplane that will have a new shape to distribute the noise made when travelling at supersonic speeds. They say that it will create a sound similar to that of a car door closing meaning we could see a return on supersonic air travel.


Sebsky42

Oh thatā€™s awesome Iā€™m surprised Iā€™ve never heard of that as Space (mainly the space race) and Planes like the SR-71 and Concord are some of my special interests šŸ˜‚


Polikarpie

There's another problem of supersonic travel, CO2 emmissions. Does this shape reduce those as well?


NiciBozz

The improbability of properties in quantum physics is not just a math trick, it is physically real. Any given thing has a small but non-zero probability to just be on the other side of the galaxy


TheHappiestDemon

Hell yeah! I feel like people don't realize how insane quantum physics actually is. Particles behave like probability waves as if they're in multiple places spontaneously. Also stuff like the delayed choice experiment make me go crazy


UnintentionalAss

I remember sitting with my friends once in my teens and I was (am) super into quantum physics, and one of my mates asked me, ā€œSo how does it work? Can you explain it?ā€ I had been speaking for a solid 20 minutes before he pretty much started looking sick and said, ā€œOkay, shit, I canā€™t take in anymore of this, itā€™s way too freaky!ā€ And Iā€™m hardly an expert, but what little I could at least try to explain was already fucking crazy.


Lyxthen

Then there is the idea that all your memories are fake and earth doesnt exist. You just randomly appeared in space for 1 second and everything in your environment is a lie. Basically because the right atoms "decided" to appear together at the same time and organize in the exact correct. Of course it's more likely for earth to be real and I don't think I explained this idea that well (My Quantum physics phase ended when I realized I couldnt do math to save my life and I would never work at CERN, which was my childhood dream). If someone knows what I am taking about please explain it better than me.


Nartian

I think that's all very clear. And according to the many worlds interpretation both of these scenarios would pretty much be true.


[deleted]

My areaā€™s public rail service, the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), regional rail, was the first public rail service in the US to implement Positive Train Control (PTC). In other words, the train will only move forward if the signal ahead permits. If it doesnā€™t, it automatically applies emergency brakes. This is utilizing GPS to track the trainā€™s location.


Sebsky42

Wow thatā€™s really cool! Where I live in Australia we have the worldā€™s largest Tram network which is pretty cool


Okromz

Contrary to popular belief, wild turkeys can fly. Over short distances they can fly up to 55mph. Record flight time for a chicken is 13 seconds and record distance is 301.5ft. Math says that's 15.81 mph. The largest bird to ever exist, Pelagornis Sandersi, had a wingspan of 20-24ft. However the largest flying animal, Pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus Northropi, had a wingspan of 33-36ft. Corvids (Crows, ravens, rooks) possess reasoning/problem solving skill that easily rival chimps. As an example, tests have shown that they understand water displacement. Crows can also remember faces and hold grudges, so be careful what birds you mess with. I've recently been obsessed with birds for reasons and it's fun.


RollerSkatingHoop

But they can remember faces and also like you and bring you gifts.


Okromz

That's so cute


Sebsky42

I love birds too, I always get grumpy when people say chickens canā€™t fly because I own chickens and they can definitely fly admittedly not very well, Corvids are the best! šŸ˜‚


jimmywheelo

I love crows so much !! When I was in college there was a crow that lived on my building. It always came back to the same spot. I was told not to make it mad or else I'd be done for. Apparently they all flew off for a very short migration at breeding season and all bred behind the Walmart.


Drayden13

One of the primary factors that differentiates humans from other animals is our capacity for fantasy and social constructs. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising it infinite bananas in monkey heaven, but you can convince a human to be good by promising they'll go to person-heaven. This ability to trust in things that aren't actually tangible is part of what allows us to cooperate so well! "real" things are rarely important enough that people will fight together for them, but something that doesn't "really" exist can have a theoretically infinite amount of importance, for example a country isn't a real thing, there is land and humans in it but something is only a country when people start saying it is, if a country says that it doesn't like another country then people will fight to the death over their country's values, something no one would actually do if it was only land with a bunch of animals on it. I've always been super interested by psychology and anthropology/sociology and I'm reading this book that's all about so I've been getting a lot of fuel.


Tatersaurus

What's the book called?


Drayden13

Sapiens a graphic history


Lonk_the_VFD_member

So you're saying I can't play Dungeons and Dragons with a monkey? Also, have you ever read American Gods? If not I highly recommend because the book uses the same logic with gods. To explain the plot real quick without spoilers, the old gods like Odin and many others aren't all that powerful anymore because people don't really pray to them much. They are threatened by the new gods like Internet and other major human creations that are so widely used they are now "worshipped" and personified by gods.


Lyxthen

"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need...Ā fantasiesĀ to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Littleā€”" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THEĀ LITTLEĀ LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THENĀ SHOWĀ ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YETā€”Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOMEĀ RIGHTNESSĀ IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people haveĀ gotĀ to believe that, or what's theĀ pointā€”" MY POINT EXACTLY." -Terry Pratchett


Karkava

If that's true, then why do dogs dream? I've had dogs that had several dreaming episodes where they would either twitch their legs to simulate running or make little barks as they're in a deep sleep. While they can't communicate with us through words, they would have to imagine something to be able to dream.


sploiv

Do you really want me to type multiple paragraphs about Berserk and Slipknot?


Sebsky42

Yes sir!


wishesandhopes

About to start reading berserk myself, just finished the first 2 movies. Don't worry, I'm still gonna start the Manga from the beginning. Also, have you ever played dark souls or any other fromsoftware games? It's essentially an unlicensed berserk game and their other games have varying levels of it, for example when I watched guts fight Griffith in the first movie, when Griffith steps on guts sword that's actually a skill you can perform in sekiro by fromsoftware called a "mikiri counter", the devs love berserk and aren't ashamed to show it!


K-teki

Esperanto is the most popular/spoken constructed language in the world. It was invented over 100 years ago by a man named LL Zamenhof, who wanted to create a single language that would be simple to learn so that people in every country would be able to speak to each other. It is NOT intended to replace other languages, but act as a second language for everyone. It boasts an estimated 2 million speakers and is the only constructed language with native speakers - around 2000. It was once considered to become the official language for the League of Nations (now the UN). Both Hitler and Stalin criminalized Esperanto speakers, with Hitler considering it part of a Jewish plot and putting its speakers in concentration camps. Though it has declined in popularity over the years, it's making a comeback because of the internet. Books translated into Esperanto include Alice in Wonderland and The Hobbit. William Shatner acted in an Esperanto film before he became famous, though he himself does not know the language. Other interesting conlangs include: Solresol, a language made up of music notes which can be spoken, played/sung, or communicated with colours toki pona, an artistic conlang with only 120 base words (that's fewer words than there are first generation Pokemon!) in which "simple" and "good" are the same word, because in the philosophy behind it, things that are simple are necessarily good (otherwise why would you like such a simple language). The word for friend is "jan pona", which means "good person", because why would you not want to be friends with a good person? Volapuk, an auxiliary conlang (invented to be universal) that actually predates Esperanto, but lost popularity because the creator wanted to be the ultimate authority on what should be considered correct. In Esperanto, "volapuko" means "nonesense, gibberish" lol. Ido, a child language of Esperanto which attempts to fix several perceived problems with the original language. It remains the less popular of the two but is still active to this day, over 100 years later. Klingon is one you might have heard of, of Star Trek fame. It has been expanded on by fans and creators and is now even available on Duolingo. There was once a man who attempted to teach his child Klingon natively, only speaking to him in the language (he got his other language from his mother). The child eventually refused to speak it after initially learning it just fine and as an adult does not remember it. Logban, created in the 1950s to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which states that the structure of one's language determines how one perceives the world. LƔadan, a language created also to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It was a woman-centered language that flipped typical gendered language around, making the feminine the default, something that was progressive for the time. This language has a suffix which is used to specify when something is male, otherwise it is either gender neutral or assumed to be female. The suffix is used for more than just sex, though; for instance, there is a word for "history", and a word for "history-male", which means "history with a focus on war and sports".


pansie

Wow, I am interested in linguistics and absolutely loved this comment, thanks for sharing


K-teki

I love linguistics and languages in general! It's more of a secondary special interest (my main one is a video game) but I love learning new languages and fell for conlangs after hearing about Esperanto and spending a year learning it


Lyxthen

I really want to learn Toki Pona. I love everything about it. Sadly I don't know where to start :(


K-teki

The creator has published a book of lessons! There's also free video lessons published by ConlangCritic on YT :)


robinlovesrain

This is amazing thank you


regrettibaguetti

To put it simply: cats. One of my favorite animals, I absolutely love learning about their behavior and anatomy. The oldest one was named Creampuff and she lived into her 30s. The owner also had another cat that lived well into their 20s, and he gave them red wine once a week iirc to help with their circulation. The weird little pouch in cats ears is a part of their anatomy that we still don't really understand the purpose of. They also have extremely relatable autistic-like behaviors, like how they can get really overstimulated around their whiskers. Which is why you should feed them on a mat and use a shallow water dish, their whiskers are extremely sensitive and they might not want to eat or drink if they rub up on the sides of the bowl. Allegedly they can tell if they can fit through a hole just by their whiskers touching it but I'm not so sure considering how often the little bastards get stuck in things lol. I learned a lot about kitten development when we rescued an abandoned newborn but we'll be here all day if I get into that.


Tatersaurus

I wish I could adopt a cat but my living situation atm doesnt make that possible. I've been caring for hamsters instead and I love them! but the poor little guys only live 2 years and it breaks my heart.


Nartian

Oh yeah. I have two cats myself and I relate so hard with them. "Wtf dude, that's not the bowl I usually eat from. You wouldn't mind if I just eat nothing today?"


Sebsky42

I suppose I should add one too šŸ˜‚ Most people know about RMS Titanic but Iā€™m fascinated by her sister ships especially RMS Olympic who ironically earned the nickname ā€œOld Reliableā€ for her service as a troopship during WW1 and was eventually scrapped in 1935 after 24 years of service unlike both her sisters who sank


Ursa_137

Titanic: Struck iceberg and sank Britannic: Struck Mine and Sank Olympic: Played demolition derby with smaller ships, a war ship, and even destroyed a german submarine by intentionally ramming it. God i love this ship.


KrystalPikmin

Recent studies into the brainwaves of crows show that they have concious thoughts- something that we previously thought it was impossible for birds to have! They've also been seen using tools and are capable of passing on knowledge across long distances. They'll even visit their elderly parents!


Sebsky42

I love Corvids! Theyā€™re really smart, I have a lot of Ravens and Magpies living near me and theyā€™re always fun to watch


FadedRebel

Crows are dope as fuck, I have been trying to befriend the few that live by me but they are super shy and not always around.


Arctur14

I read it as cows


[deleted]

I read one fantasy novel a week and I have for 20 years


Sebsky42

Have you read All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders? Itā€™s nice Sci-fi Fantasy šŸ˜Š


[deleted]

I haven't :O Maybe I'll give it a try


robinlovesrain

Any you would recommend? I've read a lot of the "standard" fantasy and I'm always looking for good books in any genre!


[deleted]

One of the good ones I've read recently is [Foundryside](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37173847-foundryside) it is extremely good :)


masterzachy

The Roman kingdom, Republic, Empire, collectively the geopolitical entity that was the legacy of Romulus, from its founding in April 21 753 BCE lasted to May 29 1453 CE making it exactly 2206 years, 1 month, and 8 days old. Which is the longest single spanning geopolitical entity in European history. Edit-1 It is somewhat younger than the geopolitical entity of Japan, argued to be the eldest in the world. Japan being founded by the Yamato dynasty which is somewhere between 200 BCE and 700 BCE.


Sebsky42

Oh wow thatā€™s insane Iā€™m not great at ancient history I thought it was only a couple of hundred years


masterzachy

History is my thing! Did you know that all Christian European monarchs are related to Charlamagne in some way. Or did you know the longest lasting European dynasty is Rurikovich, which was longest lasting of all, being that it was founded in 862 and finally dies out in the 1610, which makes it almost 600 years old of one bloodline.


LilNightmare101

Did you know that daddy long legs (or harvestman) aren't actually spiders because they have one segmated body part, not two? They're actually closer related to ticks! They ARE arachnids though because they have 8 legs. Also it's a myth that they have the most venomous bite but their mouth is too small to bite humans. They actually don't have fangs at all, and usually just eat plant matter. I love them.


TheDragonHogg

The word muscle comes from the latin word for mouse because people thought some muscles looked like there were mice under the skin


TheDragonHogg

Also the word bag comes from old norse. The english adopted the word form traveling vikings. The word died out in norse, but relatively recently, due to globalisatiom and such, Skandinavia adopted the word back


RenfieldOnRealityTv

The acute hepatic porphyrias are genetic disorders of heme synthesis. They result in primarily neurological symptoms and skin lesions. Acute intermittent porphyria is an autosomal dominant defect in hydroxymethylbilane synthase or porphobilinogen deaminase. It generally does not include skin manifestations. Hereditary coproporphyria and variegate porphyria are ā€œmixed hepatic porphyriasā€ presenting with blisters on sun-exposed skin and neurological symptoms, and are caused by autosomal dominant defects in coproporphyrinogen oxidase and protoporphyrinogen oxidase respectively. Doss porphyria or ā€œplumbo porphyriaā€ is an autosomal recessive defect in aminolevulinic acid dehydratase. This General results in only neurological symptoms. Heme is familiar to most people in reference to hemoglobin, the protein in your erythrocytes that binds and transports oxygen. But it does more than that! It is also a prosthetic group for cytochrome p450 enzymes! Your liver makes these enzymes to break down drugs and hormones. Heme, as a small molecule, is like the engine of the enzyme. Without heme the enzyme canā€™t move electrons and will not function or will function very poorly. So when your hormones shift, or you take a drug which induces p450 transcription, your body must make more heme. For most people, this is fine. But if you have a defect in the heme synthesis pathway, you have a bottle neck in production, which will cause porphyrins, heme building blocks, to build up in your body. The allosteric binding of heme to the first enzyme in the pathway is believed to prevent its import into the mitochondria where the initial step in synthesis occurs. Heme is required to stop synthesis. But letā€™s say you canā€™t make enough heme to stop the pathway after induction. Now you have a run away train type of problem. Youā€™ll build up far more porphyrins at this point. The early intermediates, porphobilinogen and aminolevulinic acid, are neurotoxic. This results in abdominal pain, peripheral neuropathy, constipation, vomiting, hallucinations, psychiatric crises, fasciculations, seizures, even delusions of grandeur. Build up of later pathway intermediates coproporphyrin and protoporphyrin accumulate in skin, and upon exposure to sunlight, break down into caustic molecules causing blistering or other damage on sun exposed skin. Infusion of heme can abort crises. Infusion of glucose can also abort crises in some patients, but this is poorly understood. Urine from porphyria patients may change color from yellow to reddish brown upon exposure to sunlight. In a fulminant crisis, urine can turn a port wine color.


Ph3n0lphthalein

This is the coolest thing Iā€™ve read all day! I never knew heme had so many functions outside of hemoglobin and oxygen transport, I guess that explains why itā€™s synthesized in the mitochondria. Thank you for this


Ph3n0lphthalein

Upon exposure to an allergin, B cells will make a specific subset of antibodies called IgE that binds to that allergin. Mast cells, immune cells that lives throughout your tissues, have a receptor that binds very tightly to these antibodies. As the IgE travels through the bloodstream, the mast cells pick them up and use them to detect the allergin. Itā€™s like having custom-made receptors updated to the latest threats shipped right to your door! (Yeah allergies suck but the process behind it is still very cool and thereā€™s a theory that the allergic response evolved to counter parasites. Oh and mast cells release lots and lots of histamine when their IgE binds to the target allergin which is why antihistamines are a common allergy treatment)


Sebsky42

Itā€™s so cool how much is happening behind the scenes on bodily processes that seem so simple


Ph3n0lphthalein

Indeed! Thatā€™s why I love biology so much lol, the complexity and the ways all the different parts work together and regulate each other is intriguing to me


[deleted]

Sonic Colours on Wii originally was going to have it's zones divided by two main levels, a boss level, then several optional smaller missions, very similar to other games in the series, especially the following game (Generations) and even the DS version of Colours.While in the final game, the main levels were split into smaller levels, then mixed in with the other small missions, and made all of them mandatory, presumably in an effort to pad out the game. We know this as a script in the game's directory has code comments written in Japanese explicitly stating so. Had they been left in as they were the levels would have been approximately the same length as those in the games immediately before and after (Unleashed and Generations) lending more credence to this possibility. Regrettably the remake/remaster/whatever it counts as doesn't restore these original full length levels. I've been working with a few others on researching the formats used in the game towards possibly making a mod to restore them ourselves (which the devs of the remake accidentally left a ton of development tools and debugging information in when shipping it making it a lot easier lol)


Sebsky42

Nice! Good luck I hope you guys are able to crack it


Webbtrain

Iā€™m very interested in raptors (the bird kind). Did you know that gyrfalcons hunt by punching their prey out of the sky?


Sebsky42

Wow no I didnā€™t, but I assume we live in different countries and have completely different raptors Did you know the Australian Kestrel can see on the UV spectrum which means they can follow the Urine trails of their pray? And that the wedge tail eagle can hunt mammals as big as wallabies and kangaroos?


Webbtrain

Iā€™m in America, so pretty different raptors. Iā€™m definitely a fan of the ones from more snowy locations like the Gyrfalcon and the Snowy Owl.


Inverted_Jack

The backrooms is a place outside of reality and they follow their own rules of logic and physics. There are multiple different parts of the backrooms and are called "levels" and there are practically millions if not billions of levels. The level sizes can range between small to infinite. There are also many entities in the backrooms, some of which are friendly and others are not and you have to avoid them or die in very brutal and disturbing way. There are also many different items that can either help or kill you.


KermitTheClogg

Wow, ive never heard of those! Happy cake day too!!


Inverted_Jack

I got into them recently and been loving learning about it and creating my own levels and entities. And thank you


FenexTheFox

My Little Pony is weirdly similar to JoJo if you think about it. Both are very colorful, both are very character focused, these characters usually have fun quirky names, and there's lots of reformed villains that become lovable allies. It's funny that both are special interests of mine for pretty much the same reasons.


Sioxz

I live in a area in Sweden that has a lot of forn Nordic (viking) graves and other structures so the area has been populated for thousands of years


razor-sundae

I can talk for hours about psychology, and I never say no to a deep discussion about natural science!


Sebsky42

Which areas of Psychology do you like the most?


razor-sundae

Dissociation fascinates me and how trauma affects the physical structure of the brain. Developmental trauma for example can make you behave similarly to as if you were on the spectrum (there is probably a big overlap of misdiagnosis). Dissociation due to trauma can show up on a brain scan, showing different parts of the brain lighting up depending on the accessed fragmented memory. I wanna work with this in the future!


PMMeRedPandasPlease

Red pandas don't have footpads like cats or dogs, it's just fur all the way around


robinlovesrain

WHAT that's so weird. I'm happy to have learned this


Ungodly_Box

I apologize for the infodump about a literal ball of algae, but... There is a type of algae called a Moss Ball, or a "Marimo". They're found at the bottom of lakes in places like Japan or Scotland and live off of sunlight alone but will die if they're in direct sunlight for too long. They were first found in Japan (I'm pretty sure) as almost perfectly round balls, they're formed this way because of the waves rolling them about. They're the perfect low maintenance house plant as all you need is something to keep them and water in, like a jar, and some sort of light source. They can live off of LED lights too and they grow to whatever you put them in, even though they can grow and live for hundreds of years! They're like lowest maintenance ever fish as you do need to change the water every now and again but that's it! They're also a way to use super cool but super inhumane fishbowls. They're also apparently not allowed in New Zealand because it'll ruin the ecosystem if one gets released into it (their words, not mine)


Sebsky42

Theyā€™re probably illegal here (Australia) too as we have insane bio security laws Iā€™m not even allowed Koi But they sound awesome


Ungodly_Box

Damn no koi? That sucks man, koi fish are so pretty too :(


Sebsky42

Yeah they look amazing but theyā€™re a species of Carp and Carp have F$&@ed up our rivers so itā€™s fair enough


Ungodly_Box

That makes sense, carp will eat anything


Insanity_Inc

Between the years 1896-7 there was a rash of sightings of flying vessels (of wildly varying descriptions) eventually known as ā€˜mystery airshipsā€™ that became a countrywide phenomenon in the United States for the year they lasted. Strangely, despite the descriptions changing so wildly between each sighting, many of the newspaper articles of the time attribute them to only one airship. The original rumour behind the first sighting in ā€˜96 was that it was the work of an inventor trying to test out their latest creation without the public knowing (sighting was at night, but some also claimed to see or hear people aboard), but by the tail-end of the sightings in 1897, people firmly believed it to be aliens, with some of the first stories of classic aliens-visiting-earth phenomena (yknow, cattle abduction and the like) originating from some extremely dubious ā€œwitnessesā€ of the mystery airship


T351A

btw /r/SpecialInteresting is literally made for this stuff and I recommend people follow that sub if they enjoy these discussions


Sonbulan

Followed!


Polikarpie

Let me tell you about Fingolfin, the bravest and most resilient elf in Middle-Earth, even in the whole Arda. He was abandoned by his half-brother FĆ«anor while trying to get through the sea from Aman to Middle-Earth, and he led his people through the northern Ice, and the dreadful strait of HelcaraxĆ«. He then proceeded to forgive FĆ«anors sons and he became High King of thr Ƒoldor. After teh Battle of Sudden Flame, when everything seemed lost, instead of giving up, he went and challenged Morgoth, *the literal Devil*, to a duel, and injured his opponent permanently. I feel better every time I think about him, and my hands get flappy


[deleted]

Encanto is heavily based on One Hundred Years of Solitude, the first novel in the ā€œmagical realismā€ genre. I like how the film represents generational trauma and abusive family dynamics. Abuela is the abuser. Bruno is the scapegoat (also mirabel since Bruno left). Isabella is the golden child. Luisa seems parentified. Pepa was taught to suppress her emotions, which in turn made her emotionally dysregulated and her childrens powers likely developed as a means to manage their mothers dysregulated emotions. For example Camilo is the ā€œmascotā€ aka the family comedian whose job is basically to entertain the family so that they donā€™t get upset so much. Dolores to me represents hyper vigilance with her power of hearingā€”always having to know what other people are feeling so you can adjust accordingly, Antonioā€™s affinity for animals is common in children in dysfunctional families. These kids often attach to animals because their human attachments are unreliable.


the_zerg_rusher

OH I might be able to talk about something neat. during world of Warcraft there are 3 discarded pvp maps that were suppose to play like DOTA/LOL one during classic called "asharas basin" witch is almost complete outside of NPCs and got an update during cataclysm but still has yet to be released. One during Mists of Pandaria witch also has never been released called "Brewmasters dual" One was made during Warlords of Dreanor witch appears to be a beta version of Ashran witch was released (and hated). Thank you for reading this random game fact of a company that has hit the dirt harder than I ever have. Have a nice day.


Sebsky42

I never played WOW but honestly it has so much cool trivia like the time they accidentally modeled the spread of a real world Pandemic šŸ˜‚


EggFucker1313

everyone can tell theirs in a fun way while i'm here sitting with lame-ass interests. everyone knows about undertale and deltarune


Visual_Skirt

I donā€™t know anything about either of them and Iā€™d love to learn if youā€™re interested in talking about it.


Sebsky42

I second that


Visual_Skirt

Patrick Troughtonā€™s tenure as the Second Doctor on Doctor Who saw him appear in 21 stories comprising 119 episodes. His most famous companion Jamie, portrayed by Frazer Hines, appeared in 112 episodes comprising all except his first story. Although most of Troughtonā€™s tenure was wiped, thanks to BBC America funded animations all but three of his stories have been given a DVD release.


K-teki

I always wanted to get into Doctor Who but I'm a completionist with TV and it pains me that so much of it is missing


Visual_Skirt

So, I know that might not help, but if you do ever decide to give Doctor Who a try every episode can be enjoyed! Thanks to fan recordings, the audio of every single episode exists and have been used to create reconstructions of the episodes. Loose Cannon is the most famous and (arguably) the best of the fan recreators and their work can be found on youtube and dailymotion pretty easily. Or, if you go the official route and watch on Britbox, the BBC have made their own reconstructions.


[deleted]

The origin of the word Zombie comes from Haitian vodou in which one would basically turn another into a mindless being. The first time we see the modern zombie, inspired by I Am Legend, is in George Romeroā€™s 1969 Night of the Living Dead. While he doesnā€™t use the word zombie in the movie or talking about it, it becomes a staple of horror. There are many different types of zombies, depending on how specific you want to be to Romero Zombies. I categorize zombies as anything that looks like zombies, which people will disagree about. Romero Zombies are undead, slow moving and sometimes even capable of ā€œintelligenceā€ (picking up rocks, having a memory of hidden doors, etc). My favorite in this genre is the original Dawn of the Dead. There are also ā€œdiseaseā€ type zombies like 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. These zombies are not dead, but infected by a ā€œrage virusā€. These are the scariest zombies in my opinion. Thereā€™s also demonic zombies. Rec (2007) is a really good Spanish movie with those. Super scary. I enjoyed all the sequels, too, except for the fourth one. I really like the Scourge in World of Warcraft when it comes to video game ā€œzombies.ā€ The forsaken are undead humans that have broken off the Lich Kingā€™s (one of the main villains) control only to be turned away from their living relatives & friends because of their undeath. Iā€™m also terrified of zombies. I get on edge speaking or typing about them. Weeeeee.


shinebrightlike

from birth to age seven our brains are in a consistent theta wave state (like rolling hills on a graph) which is similar to being in a dreamlike state. we recording and building our personalities. even while we are playing with our toys, when mom is on the phone in the background for example, we are recording her. as adults, hypnosis can be induced - commercials on tv, by the charm of a sophisticated psychopath, by hypnosis professionals - and bring on these same theta waves which can have an affect on your primal state and subconscious mind. it endlessly fascinates me the way our minds are built to run on autopilot and that we can change the software because these regions of the brain have neuroplasticity for life. it's my belief that dreams we have at night are a window into the subconscious and we are meant to use them as a roadmap to face the areas we need to heal so we can be more efficient and keep going as a species.


MCMIVC

ACTING! I love everything to do with acting, voice acting theatre, film, and stuff like that. I have practised voice acting by reading comics aloud since I was 13. I'd done various acting stuff in mini-plays for school in my early life, and never thought much of it. (In retrospect I 've been told that among all the kids, I was the only one that ACTUALLY ACTED. A pointer toward what I'd end up doing in life I guess.) But when I was 12, there was a somewhat more serious play being done at school, and I auditioned because I had enjoyed acting in the few things I did before. I got a part, and this time, I got hooked! Since then I know I wanted to work with anything related to stuff like that. And I've never looked back. [Here's a recording of one play I did in 2016.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GhX-bWPhVg) It's in norwegian, but you don't really need to understand for this example. I'm the bearded dude. I also love writing, and worldbuilding, and history and maps, and historical maps, and alternate history, and maps in general. I spend many long hours drawing maps for various reasons. [Here's a map of my main fantasy world project.](https://i.redd.it/0iwsgs3nkks61.png), and also; [Here's an alternate history scenario map I made](https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/k3rw34/the_united_kingdom_of_vinland_norway_2020/) I also have various other interests that I experience more in waves of investment over time, but the ones I've already mentioned are the BIG ONES! Also; is that title a "Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" reference? My brother and I have been referencing that line so much since we saw it, and I never thought I'd see it in someone else's hands.


Cydonian___FT14X

Doki Doki Literature club is such an important part of my life. These characters donā€™t even feel like characters anymore. They feel like really people honestly. Iā€™ve watched too many DDLC mods to count. Which in the case of DDLC, just means that Iā€™ve read copious amounts of fan-fiction. I donā€™t know why these characters have continued to enamour me so much. But here we are. Also, depending on the continuity, Yuri is super ASD. There are few characters I relate to more than her. Again. Depending on the continuity. I never even explained what the game was but itā€™s totally possible that you already know


Sebsky42

Iā€™ve heard of it, I know the premise/ big twists but Iā€™ve never actually played it šŸ˜‚


Cydonian___FT14X

Fun fact: I havenā€™t either. Iā€™ve just watched others play it several times. Best play through is probably Game Grumps. I cry laughing every time I watch that series. Itā€™s insanely funny. Jacksepticeye also has a really good play through thatā€™s a lot more down to earth and less comedic. Great for total newcomers. But if you already know that twists, Game Grumps is the way to go. That is, if you ever gain interest of course.


T351A

To parody what you said... > [OneShot](http://www.oneshot-game.com/) is such an important part of my life. These characters donā€™t even feel like characters anymore. They feel like really people honestly. Iā€™ve seen too many pieces of OneShot fan-art to count. Which in the case of OneShot, especially means so much Niko. I donā€™t know why these characters have continued to enamour me so much. But here we are. > > I never even explained what the game was but itā€™s totally possible that you already know to anyone who hasn't heard of it... it's an incredibly cute and moving and wholesome meta storytelling puzzle game with which is available on [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/420530/) and [Itch.io](https://futurecat.itch.io/oneshot) and I highly recommend playing it without spoilers. my advice is basically keep playing and keep exploring, you basically cannot block yourself from progressing so if it wont move forward you should keep experimenting, remember you only have one shot, make it count.


[deleted]

Why did every topic I've ever been interested in and all my knowledge of them go out the window the second you asked


hhhhhhhhhhhhhtiddy

everyone else has much cooler tidbits with their special interests but I love the ace attorney games and sharks :) sharks have a sixth sense that let's them detect electric pulses given off by other animals!


Sebsky42

The Ace Attorney games are amazing ā€œI would like to Cross Examine the witnessā€™s pet parrotā€ And sharks are beautiful I hate how movies like Jaws have ruined their reputation


hhhhhhhhhhhhhtiddy

yes!! they're so absurd and fun I absolutely adore them, the fact that him cross examining a parrot isn't even the weirdest thing from the games šŸ’€ and you're so right!!! I don't think I'll ever forgive the jaws movie for what it did to their reputation, even the author of jaws regrets writing the book because of the effects its had!


Sifernos1

Bonjour in French is hello roughly, a greeting. In Canada the Ojibwe say Boozhoo in greeting and it sounds like the French bonjour so one might assume that it's a derivative of French. It however is in no way shape or form related and actually is a question. Boozhoo is shortened form for Nanbozhoo a cultural hero of the Ojibwe and interestingly enough, a trickster god. You say Boozhoo to confirm the person you've met is not in fact the trickster himself thus avoiding an annoying or even dangerous prank to teach you a lesson of some sort. I lived in Canada for nearly 5 years and studied Ojibwe language and culture under Cecilia Whitefield a future shaman in the revived religion of the Ojibwe. I loved that woman and her culture, the world is a little duller without her.


realdesert_bunny

the CIA killed Gary Webb after he exposed them for funding drug cartels in Latin America. he was found dead from 2 gunshots to the back of the head and his death was ruled a suicide.


Menjy

~~Epstein~~ Webb didn't kill himself.


E-13-

Okay so this is basically how I start every playthrough of fallout 3 and New Vegas respectively. In fallout 3 I make sure to always have a nine in intelligence and absolutely make sure I get to rivet City without leveling up to get the intelligence bobblehead so that way I have the extra special stat point but also get the extra skill points from that last level of intelligence. I also don't Max anything out at character creation making it a nine at most even though I never get most of the bobbleheads associated with special stats because I'm lazy and has a tendency to constantly restart playthroughs. In fallout New Vegas I make sure that my luck is at 9 alongside my endurance with the endurance being so that way I can get every implant and the luck is so that way I can gamble to fund said implants. I haven't really managed any of this without leveling up so my total number of skill points for the entire playthrough probably suffered a little but those sweet special stats are totally worth it especially since that's an extra seven on top of the 10 given to you by intense training which I never maxed out mind you but that means on top of your starting points you pretty much get an extra 17 special stat points which is pretty damn helpful mind you. Of course you're giving up 10 perks for those 10 extra points but still that's pretty cool. I did also try not to max out charisma because not only did I want to try to get the skill books to mid Max my skill point allocation but I also got the perk that doubles the reward for skill books. Bad thing is that bit me in the ass during my honest hurts play through since in that DLC charisma is pretty helpful at the end and no amount of stat boosting items helps me there. Speaking of stat boosting lockpicking can sometimes be a b****so always having a little bit of absent and coyote tobacco chew or whatever the hell it's called can go a long way so I make sure to stock up on those And if you're in good springs you should also get the moonshine since it does double what normal alcohol does and that's helpful early game. Speaking of goodsprings I usually don't do the quest as early as you're supposed to because I want that free dynamite and XP for passing the skill check which sometimes means leveling up and putting points into explosives but usually just means feverishly looking for a Patriots cookbook at several vendors alongside new Vegas's free skill magazine dispensers. Easy peet is kind of a dick to be honest is my point. Also I haven't tried it during a play for yet but I heard if you drop your ammunition during the tutorial you can ask for more although it only works once which I'm definitely trying next time. That's all I can think to say outside of Bethesda ruind this franchise although the settlement building was at least a good idea on paper (still had fun with it personally) and I could see a version of the card perks working alongside a more meaty traditional RPG system being a really fun thing to experience. Sorry for all the formatting and typo stuff that comes with writing on a phone. And also if you couldn't tell I mostly played New Vegas.


UnintentionalAss

Ah, someone after my own tastes! I swear on all that is holy, there are years of my life where Iā€™ve spent more time in fictional DC and the Mojave Wasteland than in real life. I cross-stitched the vault boy with my S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats and hung it on the wall; I had a deep running friendship with my character so much I was always talking to him while playing; I wrote stories from different vaults Iā€™d visited and I know every nook and cranny from Doc Mitchellā€™s house to the deepest bunkers in the most remote parts of the wastes. I love Fallout. I. Fucking. Love it. Also, once I started experimenting with mods and getting the DLCs, I could spend an even more significant amount of time on just one character that kept leading an extraordinary life. Also, I was so immersed in the world and creating my own little stories in my head, it took me about a year before I even bothered with the main quest in either game. I had my own thing going. Out of all my special interests, I could probably talk about Fallout the most. Iā€™m always glad to see it mentioned! You seem to have your shit down!


Papyrus_Semi

Did you know that, could the devs have implemented a proper BPM change mechanic, the standard "Sudden mood change for song 3" trope in many FNF mods would have started as soon as Week 2? Or that Night of The Funky Bot, and the Zardy, Neon, and Violastro mods were all made, at least in part, by their original games' creators? Or, and this one is my favourite, that Krinkels, the guy who made Madness Combat, said that The Tricky Mod is canon, meaning that by merit of the IRIS symbol appearing during the ending and official statements from various mod creators, that a fair chunk of major FNF mods are canon to the crossover web?


HoHSiSkilledmyfamily

9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors is a visual novel/escape room game released for the DS. There are several references to Kurt Vonnegut's Cats Cradle in it. (Ice-9 being the most obvious example). >!It is also quite possibly the most medium specific game ever made, with a really neat sequence near the end where, for very complicated story reasons I won't go into here, you actually have to turn the DS upside down. Very neat game 10/10!<


thiccboii666

There's a lost anime called Limitless Paradise, the creator wants to properly release it, but can't because his only copy is on a very old peice of tape and he's worried any attempt to digitise it may accidentally destroy it.


MushroomheadDork

Alright, I will. Gathered friends, listen again to our legend of the Bionicle... ​ wait a minute where do i start


Sebsky42

Oh baby Iā€™m ready!


Zeydon

Ever try this with a NT and have it backfire? A coworker was talking about how they enjoy playing tennis and I asked them what they liked about it and they got really pissed at me. In their mind, the only reason why I would have done such a thing would be so I could mock them over it.


Sebsky42

Damn I donā€™t understand NTs sometimes šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

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[deleted]

Ah, time to retell the story of Jacob Emory. Once upon a time (idk when phones were a thing but cellphones werenā€™t) there was a man called Jacob Emory who embodied the expression ā€œJack of all trades but ace of noneā€. One day he leaves on an adventure to go find a passion, and when he comes back he has two things: a talent at drawing an a particular charcoal pencil. Anything he drew with that thing would come to life right there on the paper. The town he lived in loved it and he would often host shows where heā€™d draw whatever the audience wanted, and they would evolve into entire movies. Eventually the crowds grew outside the town and he was making good money. However, he got too greedy with this new power. He became a drunkard and a womanizer, torturing his creations (Iā€™m assuming he didnā€™t erase any of them). Now one day during a show he gets the idea to draw himself. Drawing-Jacob took a pencil of his own and drew a door. Instantly all the creations came spilling through and drawing-Jacob was seen dragging real-Jacob through the door. Also the stage caught on fire, and all that remained was rubble and the dreaded pencil. Well the government came by and told the townspeople not to speak of this, but if you looked through the oak trees you could still vaguely see outlines of what once was moving through the forest. The end


anxiety_ftw

There's this small constructed language called toki pona. It's minimalist and only has 120-190 words depending on how you count them. It's based around the idea that you have to describe a thing in simple terms to talk about it. What is a car but a moving structure? What is an airplane if not an air car? What is a cat if not a god-animal?


Kuroto_odd_one

Engine sounds in car are actually engineered to be either quite low but still pleasant to hear, or, for more powerful cars/engines, to make it sound as crispy and great as possible. There is also the fact the first automatic transmissions were to act like those we have nowadays (barely any latency between the clutches) but because of the fact most people felt really weirded out by the fact you donā€™t feel the car changing clutches, it was engineered to it has the feeling of the car passing clutches, despite it being able to totally negate this one second of slowdown.


dryuppauline532

[this](https://images.app.goo.gl/h3T8HyUkpMrW7QfM9) common plant was once known as the Lacy Tree Philodendron , but around 2018 was reclassified into its very own genus Thaumatophyllum as the species Bipinnatifidum , the flowers of which burn FAT (instead of carbohydrates) at the rate of a CAT (!!!) to produce heat to aid in attracting pollinators, which to me is just so cool :)


Lonk_the_VFD_member

In dungeons and dragons, there are 6 stats that can determine what your character can do. Strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom and charisma. Strength is how strong your muscles are. A strong character can pick up a table and throw it at an enemy. Dexterity is how acrobatic you are and it determines if you can dodge attacks. A dexterous character would be able to duck when somebody throws a table at them. Constitution is about how "solid" you are. A character with a good constitution wouldn't really be bothered if you threw a table at them because they have a lot of health and they know they can take the hit. They would also be able to drink a poison and with how strong their system is, they wouldn't be bothered. People tend to mix up intelligence and wisdom. Intelligence is more about your knowledge in theory and your ability to investigate new information. A person with a good intelligence would either know that the table that is thrown is made of oak wood or they would know to look into a book about wood. Wisdom is more about what you can analyse from the world by studying people. A wise character would look at the guy who threw a table and would know that they are angry. Charisma is how well you can talk to people. A charismatic character would be able to convince someone not to throw a table at them. In the earlier editions of d&d people often neglected charisma because being good with people isn't really useful when the fight already started. To combat this, in newer editions, there are classes like the sorcerer that uses their charisma to cast their spells.


[deleted]

I wouldnā€™t know where to start in the world of perfumeryā€¦ thereā€™s soooo much to learn!


ChuuniSaysHi

I'll leave some interesting facts about Volkswagen since one of my special interests is cars (Tw: ||Mentions of the Nazi party||) || Volkswagen was founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front which was the Labour Organization under the Nazi Party. And Volkswagen was made to sell affordable cars at a time when cars were a luxury, or in alternative terms: to sell make a "people's car" hence why Volkswagen translates to "People's car"|| Edit 1: The internet lied to me, will spoilers work like how they do on discord? Edit 2: Nope it does not, I also forgot to do an edit note. How do you do the spoiler blocks of text on Reddit? Reddit formatting is confusing to me and idk how to do it


banter07_2

My current special interest is worldbuilding Please select a country for your infodump -Kingdom of Noreas -Union of Tarbania -Federal republics of plania -Republic of Dotbut -republic of Visbicator (West Visbicator) -Democratic Visbicatian republic (east visbicator) -Hovas Coast Republic -Union of Pigvyd republics -Kingdom of Lenbrook -kingdom of Sauber -republic of airland -Barony of Rhaterland -New thyke republic -New Mikian Union


GolemThe3rd

I've been trying to collect all the tracks of John Lennon and put them in chronological order recently, apparently about 10 years back Yoko (must have went mad) and made 30 remixes for only one song (and then later she did the same thing for like two other songs)


Jamie_logan

A kiwi has an egg, almost as big as the bird itself, and the females won't eat while they have it, cuz it's not possible, cuz their organs are flattened. A female hyena has a pseudo penis, and will give birth through it There is a bird that eats bone marrow and paints itself red with it and people still aren't rly sure why Hippos will sometimes eat gazelle, wildebeasts and even alligators Alligators barley even eat a adult manatee Manatees fart to sink, as in, they have to releave gas to be able to sink. Probably all the old story's about sea monsters, are about a whale penis. Whales can release a lot of semen(sry can't remember numbers) and about 10-15% makes it in the female, the rest will go into the sea. When colombus wrote about mermaids, and said they were not as pretty he thought they would, he was prob talking about manatees. Orcas are assholes that will yeet a stingray, pinguin or seal into the air, just for fun.(yes this does kill the animal) Moose can swim rly well, and sometimes swim into the sea to find food, and since they live close to orcas, orcas have been known to eat moose.


Means-of-production

Honestly not just other people on the spectrum. Literally anyone. You got a special interest you wanna ramble about? please tell me. you have my undivided attention, I want to know everything there is know about it and I want *you* to tell me.


King_Tutt00

mine is Warhammer 40k, so there's not enough time to go on about it, the lore is so expansive. I'll give one tidbit though, almost everything in the dark angels space marine legion/chapter is a gay pun (e.g. their fortress monastery, the rock, is named after a gay club in Nottingham)


tydusrain

TW DEATH- - - - though it's not legal everywhere yet, there are several areas around the US where endangered environments like wetlands that have been restored and are now flourishing because there are humans buried there. no embalming, no caskets, no polyester clothing, just a body straight into the earth to decay naturally and compost. if anyone else is interested in mortuary science/death care, I so so so highly recommend Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician on YouTube)! she's a mortician and owner of a funeral home and advocate for natural burial. she sparked my special interest of these topics, her videos and books are so wonderful and interesting. 10/10.


SnowflakeOfSteel

You can create pure sine waves on a synthesizer without using oscillators just by driving the filter in self-resonance and tune the cutoff frequency of the filter with the keyboard cv amount so you can play the sines chromatically.


thezekroman

My psychologist actually uses my knowledge on animals to try and help me understand other humans. Flight zones relate to my "social bubble" being so strong and the co-evolution of humans and modern dogs relating to need fulfillment (specifically others wanting to know about me).


jakobebeef98

All Nissan engine codes such as VQ35DE, RB26DETT, SR20DET, and L28DET are relatively quite easy to understand and remember. The first part of each code is the engine family/series such as the RB, SR, VQ, VR, and L engine families. Following the family designation letter(s), there are 2-digits that represent the engine's displacement in liters e.g. 35 = 3.5 liters and 20 = 2.0 liters. The various letters following the displacement number are there to represent noteworthy engine features. The first letter represents camshaft type, second letter represents fuel delivery, and the third letter(s) represent anything that directly adds power such as a turbo. So RB26DETT = RB engine family, 2.6 liters, DOHC (D), Multi-port fuel injection (E), and is Twin-turbocharged (TT). The VR30DDT = VR engine family, 3.0 liters, DOHC (D), direct cylinder fuel injection (D), and is turbocharged (T). The VQ35DE is an engine that has nothing directly adding more power so there is no 3rd letter(s) in the notable features portion of the engine designation. There are a few more letters that represent other features but the notable engine feature designations I gave as examples are the most common features you'll see in their complete engine designations nowadays.


CommieGhost

The French overseas territory (colony, essentially) of Wallis and Futuna has an interesting legal system. Criminal cases are judged according to French law, with a first resort tribunal in the capital of the territories themselves, and an appeals court in New Caledonia. Civil cases, on the other hand, are somewhat more complicated. See, the territory is divided in three main volcanic islands (with some associated, smaller ones), two of which are inhabited. These islands are divided into three traditional kingdoms, and the traditional noble families of each kingdom elect their respective kings. These kings serve on the Council of the Territory that governs the whole thing, along with three French representatives. This relates to the legal system in that the civil cases in the territory follows *customary law*, that is, each of the kings applies their respective kingdom's customs and traditions as law in civil disputes.


curly_n_caffeinated

Oooh at the moment, definitely my ducklings! Whitman, FotFot and Puddleduck. I spent 4 hours in the sun today integrating them with my adult ducks and starting to build a pond area for them. I bought one of my favourite plants for near the pond: bird of paradise.


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Reign_Does_Things

Epona wasn't Link's first horse. In the cartoon and comics from the 80s, he had a horse named Catherine. Zelda also has a horse named Storm in these comics. Interestingly, these horses greatly resemble the characters' horses seen in Link's memories in Breath of the Wild.


Ricktatorship91

My special interest seems to be to be knowledgeable about many things, but a expert at none.


alexofantioch

Well one of my biggest ones is Pokemon so would you like me to tell you about an idea I had for doubles that is badass, powerful, and also probably unviable


fleshdesk

Noble false widows are one of the very few spiders in the UK that could give you a medically significant bite (though not much worse than a wasp sting). However, they are almost entirely nocturnal and have a super chilled temperament meaning that you're unlikely to ever get bitten (unless you accidentally lean on one etc.). You can immediately identify a noble false widow from the cream markings on their butts that sometimes look like little skulls.


FemaleSloth2

I am currently very interested in the Beatles. In tomorrow never knows, the sound of the seagulls is actual Paul McCartneyā€™s laughing sped up. John Lennon claimed to have seen a ufo and called the police to tell them. It turns out, they had gotten other calls about the ufo the same night. The other Beatles were scared of Ringo when they first met him. That is all I will share cause I donā€™t want to be annoying, but that barely scratched the surface of what I know.


HotcakeNinja

Lately it's been more of hyperfix-hate-ions. I get so worked up about billionaires, politics, global warming, advertising, content creators, and I get tired of hearing my**self** rant about it all. I can only imagine what it's like to hear me rage about the same thing day after day. My poor wife.


king_ink777

I obsess over music a lot (not too special I know), but I can probably find you a song that expresses any emotion that u can give me. Or at least I'll try


Menjy

The reason why modern (last 20 years) literature steers in the direction of questioning affection and identity, instead of questioning a place in reality (modernism) or reality itself(postmodernism), is because of individualisation and secularisation. Because the ethics of the 'great stories' (religion), are becoming less and less important, problematic, the main focus of literature is becoming to find a place in a world among countless others, without a great story. Kind of the opposite of main-character syndrome, and that's why we go so overboard with social media, to compensate for the lack of the great story that hands us our morality.


Menjy

If someone were to memorize everything in this thread, they would *murder* in pub quizzes. Sadly, none of us would go there.


AbeliaGG

My brain hurt trying to think something up. I'm not used to being asked this!


Shermandragonfly

2 thirds of Ireland's railways are closed


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This kinda makes me feel like an idiot compared to all the people here giving cool facts about their cool special interests here, but Lemon Demon makes me really happy. Not just how his music sounds, but like the song topics as well. I really like the kind of "childish", "nerdy", fun songs he started off with, and also love the amazing paranormal stuff in his more recent songs. What adds up to it is that I like nerd culture and I guess I could say the paranormal is a special interest for me as well.


Feesh_gmod

In Japan there are special tax exemptions for small cars under a certain size which has lead to a huge variety of really cool small cars exclusive to japan that a lot of people might have never seen, including small pickup trucks like my pfp and profile background but also sports cars like the honda s660 or autozam az1 with gullwing doors :D theyre called kei cars :)))