The three types of human tears have different chemical composition.
1. Basel…always present to lubricate the eye
2. Irritant..peeling onions or getting foreign object in eye
3. Emotional…crying because of happiness or sadness.
Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.
We’ve been quick!
Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie fame took a commercial flight to visit her daughter. We went from covered wagons to commercial aviation in a lifetime.
Well he was alive for both, the wording here makes it sound like he was actually there (which is untrue of course). A similar thing is Winston Churchill being in the cavalry and being alive for nukes.
Patients with cortical blindness (where the eyes and optic nerve are fine but the visual cortex of the brain is not) have been observed walking down hallways cluttered with obstacles and avoiding them as if they could see. When asked why they sidestepped, they couldn't give a logical reason. Just a feeling.
In the same vein, cortically blind patients were asked to guess which direction a laser pointer was moving. Vertically or horizontally. The patients guessed at a more accurate rate than random chance would allow.
That's not completely true. They've been known to be able to exist in the vacuum of space, but you wouldn't call what they're doing as "living".
"They shut down all their life processes that are going on and for all intents and purposes, it’s almost like they’re dead, but they’re in this state, they’re extremely resilient, and they’re able to ride out the sort of rough, harsh, extreme conditions."
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/water-bears-in-space/
It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
Okay. This one still blows my mind. Bend It Like Beckham is the first Western film to air on television in North Korea in 2010. Like think of all the movies prior to that and it's Bend it like Beckham that was agreed upon.
> Bend It Like Beckham is the first Western film to air on television in North Korea in 2010.
What was the first Western film to air on television in North Korea in 2009?
I knew a girl who was a lesbian who said that Bend It Like Beckham was the first film she ever watched where she fancied a woman and that was the film that made her realise at 10yrs old that she didn't like men.
If it rolls to its side it will most likely kick out and break its legs which then means game over. They need to be in an open space to be able to get up
That is fascinating... humans really fucked horses over in so many ways.
Can't get up if you're next to a wall, break a leg and you'll die, eat grass that's a bit too high in sugar and you'll die. Be 400kg heavy, have legs with the circumference of toothpicks, then be forced to jump over 2m obstacles and just pray that your legs won't shatter under your weight. Jeesh.
I cannot imagine that small, stocky and never-domesticated Przewalski horses have these problems
deep sea volcano snails. Their outer shell layer consists of iron sulphides, the middle layer is equivalent to the organic periostracum found in other gastropods, and the innermost layer is made of aragonite. They can survive water temperatures up to 750 derees F.
I'd like to tell you about two boozy space clouds:
1. A [cloud of alcohol](https://universemagazine.com/en/astronomers-felt-the-taste-and-smell-of-a-giant-cloud-of-alcohol/) 1000x the diameter of our entire solar system. It contains 400 quintillion liters of alcohol. Unfortunately it's mostly methanol, so not exactly drinkable, but still counts as alcohol.
2. [A cloud that tastes like raspberries and smells like rum](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/apr/21/space-raspberries-amino-acids-astrobiology) near the center of our galaxy. The cloud is made up of a bunch of chemicals, but one of them is ethyl formate, the chemical responsible for the flavour of raspberries, which also smells like rum.
One fascinating fact is that octopuses have three hearts. Two of the hearts pump blood to the gills, where it picks up oxygen, and the third heart pumps the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. This unique circulatory system is part of what enables octopuses to be such effective and adaptable creatures in their underwater environments.
>octopuses
Another fact I find interesting: this word is one of three accepted plurals of octopus. The others are octopi and octopodes.
Source: [‘The Many Plurals of Octopus’ - Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes)
The Hawaiian pizza was first created in Canada. The California roll has a debated origins with sushi chefs in both Los Angeles and Vancouver, B.C., claiming to have created it.
> Caesar salad is Mexican food
Invented by an Italian.
A friend of mine spent two months learning to make the perfect Caesar salad. When she felt she had it, she got in her car and did a road trip to [Caesar Cardini's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Cardini) restaurant in Mexico to see how hers compared to the original.
I think I’ve told this story on here before but I took a Greek mythology class as an elective in college with a professor who had a doctorate in classics. She was saying her mentor when she was a younger student was on some dig or something at Mycenae and they found a pot of honey. Since honey never goes bad, dude just started eating it! Putting it in his tea, on his toast, etc. Anyway, he gets about a quarter way through the pot before he thinks to empty the whole thing out and finds a mellified infant corpse.
Moral; don’t eat strange honey you find at archeological sites
The Silence of the Lambs poster / DVD cover shows a Death's Head Moth with a skull on its back.
Only that's not a skull, that's a pile of naked ladies, and is a photo taken by Salvador Dali.
The only link I could find quickly was on Pinterest, sorry.
NSFW, obviously: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/542754192565029056/
[edit] Christ, that site is cancer
Bar-tailed godwits (a type of wading bird) can shrink their internal organs to pack more fat into their body before their massive migration- at initial takeoff they’re basically a gigantic ball of fat. They need this because some fly from Alaska to Australia non-stop, in the longest continuous migration of any bird.
This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn't harmful, but actually helps preserve your grey matter.
Over time, tiny calcifications, or mineral buildups, will begin to form in the pineal gland in your brain. Scientists call these corpora arenacea, which is also known as "dream sand," but no one knows what they're used for.
If a rocketship flying through space could *continuously* accelerate at 9.8 meters per second, squared, the passengers would be able to move about just like they would on Earth—the “gravity” onboard would be like we feel it now!
See: “The Expanse”. This TV show nailed interplanetary travel. Even when they pour a drink, they account for the way matter reacts while under continuous acceleration.
And, after roughly a year at that acceleration, their rate of travel would be about 1 light-year per year, if I remember correctly, due to time dilation and physics things I don't comprehend.
The hype over televised presidential elections began in part with the Kennedy and Nixon debates. Their debates were the first and Kennedy was popular in those debates.
If you’re in Texas and travel straight south forever, you’d never reach a South American country. Might be true for Florida too but I’m too lazy to look right now.
Almost.
Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration: 1861
Joe Biden’s birth: 1942
Difference: 81 years
Joe Biden’s birth: 1942
Joe Biden’s inauguration: 2021
Difference: 79 years
He’s still ancient.
Did you know that there is a type of jellyfish that is immortal. The Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the "immortal jellyfish," is a species of jellyfish that can transform its body into a younger state through a process called transdifferentiation. This means that it can essentially revert back to its polyp stage, which is the juvenile form of a jellyfish, and then grow back into an adult again. This process can be repeated indefinitely, making the Turritopsis dohrnii theoretically immortal.
The reason conductor's use a baton is because they used to hit stick on the ground to keep beat, but a musician named Lully missed, broke his foot off, got gangrene and died. Everyone quickly found a different way.
Just to make sure I'm reading this correctly, it sounds like you're saying that a guy tried to hit the ground with a stick and missed, and he missed so badly that his entire foot broke off. Am I reading that correctly?
The chainsaw we all know was originally invented to aid in childbirth by widening the pelvis, also your pelvic bone being sawed sounds like your jeans being ripped apart.
Bruce lee is the same in real person as you see on tv and his interviews. It is not an act. He is really like that. My mom knew his wife Linda, and i went to his home once when i was a kid. He showed me some "moves" like he would do with any kid. Mind blowing now. At that time didnt realize how monumental that moment was.
Also fun: octopuses is perfectly fine as the plural of octopus. Octopi is also accepted, and therefore perfectly correct, but since the root of octopus is Greek and not Latin, octopodes is more accurate than it (other than common usage trumping all, which negates my argument here).
Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She was Greek. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, a general under Alexander the Great, who inherited Egypt after Alexander’s death and ruled as pharaoh.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not. In botanical terms, a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary, which bananas meet but strawberries do not.
Israel means "struggles with El" In Canaanite religeon, El is the fatherly old head of the pantheon, just like Zeus, or Jupiter. Yahuwa was always thought of as a storm god...rider of the clouds, wielder of thunder ect...
Point being that all Abrahamic religions, despite their claim to monotheism, were once polytheistic, and they basically chose Thor the storm god to be THE god we all love and worship as the one true god to this day.
I know that PI, in fact, actually does end and the specific number it lands on, but can't post it anywhere because it's larger than copy/paste data size limits and would take me well over 3 million years to type it out manually.
Depends on the company, if not around other math students people often enjoy hearing there’s no generic formula for a polynomial of degree 5. Remember the quadratic formula from high school? Turns out that is really convenient, and there are similar formulas to find the roots of polynomials with degree 3 and 4. Once you hit 5, good luck.
You are fantastically rare.
The DNA combination that came together to form you, is dwarfed by all the possible combinations that could have been.
The Earth, doesn't have enough time left, to produce anywhere near the total number of possible DNA variations inside of you. You are a insanely rare event in the lifespan of Earth.
There was a Japanese military soldier in the woods in the Philippines who had kept working on surveillance for 30 years since the end of the second world war without knowing the Japanese Empire surrendered.
Here are more facts like this..
[https://factink.blogspot.com/2024/06/13-mind-boggling-world-war-ii-facts.html](https://factink.blogspot.com/2024/06/13-mind-boggling-world-war-ii-facts.html)
The three types of human tears have different chemical composition. 1. Basel…always present to lubricate the eye 2. Irritant..peeling onions or getting foreign object in eye 3. Emotional…crying because of happiness or sadness.
Surely there's a special category for my manly tears at the end of Terminator 2?
Molten metal?
That scene gets me every time...👍
What about pain?
That would be sadness.
Sorrow tears taste different. More piquant, zesty…
Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan. We’ve been quick!
Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie fame took a commercial flight to visit her daughter. We went from covered wagons to commercial aviation in a lifetime.
That’s Wilder than the post you’re replying to!
Well he was alive for both, the wording here makes it sound like he was actually there (which is untrue of course). A similar thing is Winston Churchill being in the cavalry and being alive for nukes.
That's awesome!
Patients with cortical blindness (where the eyes and optic nerve are fine but the visual cortex of the brain is not) have been observed walking down hallways cluttered with obstacles and avoiding them as if they could see. When asked why they sidestepped, they couldn't give a logical reason. Just a feeling. In the same vein, cortically blind patients were asked to guess which direction a laser pointer was moving. Vertically or horizontally. The patients guessed at a more accurate rate than random chance would allow.
Twister was the first movie released on DVD
And one of the last released on HD-DVD.
No way....I'm old as dirt then. I remember the whole switch to DVD and them being so expensive.
And to add on to this, Detroit Rock City was the first movie to go to DVD before going to VHS.
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The fingerprints of koalas are nearly identical to human beings.
I did not know that.
There's a possibility that some Koala fingerprints are recorded in crime reports as a result.
I think that koala fucking did it.
Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of reproducing asexually
How?
I'm not sure, but I've been told it involves garlic bread
Just tell one to go fuck itself.
[The komodo dragon is the world's largest living lizard.](https://youtu.be/gnGvKZOmDTw?si=zMGKc1Oie58s_sev)
If you are 25, about 1/3 of the entire world's population that was alive at your birth, have died.
What about 43?
At least 1/3
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun, and giraffes are 30 times more likely to be struck by lightning than humans.
Pretty much contains 1.21 jigawatts as well.
Unfortunately we don’t know when or where it’s going to strike!
Oh god, I don't know how they found me... The Libyans... Run for it, Marty!
Than the **surface** of the sun. It gets hotter as you go toward the center.
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That's not completely true. They've been known to be able to exist in the vacuum of space, but you wouldn't call what they're doing as "living". "They shut down all their life processes that are going on and for all intents and purposes, it’s almost like they’re dead, but they’re in this state, they’re extremely resilient, and they’re able to ride out the sort of rough, harsh, extreme conditions." https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/water-bears-in-space/
It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
Woah! I didn't know what a tardigrade was. I searched it up and it looks cool!
Aren't they also called Water Bears?
Yes
Okay. This one still blows my mind. Bend It Like Beckham is the first Western film to air on television in North Korea in 2010. Like think of all the movies prior to that and it's Bend it like Beckham that was agreed upon.
> Bend It Like Beckham is the first Western film to air on television in North Korea in 2010. What was the first Western film to air on television in North Korea in 2009?
Is Bend it Like Beckham a good movie?
Only if you can bend it like Beckham
It's fun, though I wouldn't call it good
I knew a girl who was a lesbian who said that Bend It Like Beckham was the first film she ever watched where she fancied a woman and that was the film that made her realise at 10yrs old that she didn't like men.
If a horse lays down next to a wall, it won’t be able to get up, you’d have to physically move it away so that it could move to stand up again.
Sometimes it's easier to move the wall
Well there’s definitely less chances of being kicked by a wall that’s for sure
This question gets asked multiple times a week and this is the first time I’ve ever seen this fact! Super interesting
Correct. A horse being “cast” in its stall is very dangerous for this reason.
But why? Can't it roll over to its side, then get up? Will it just die if nobody helps it, like a sheep stuck on its back?
If it rolls to its side it will most likely kick out and break its legs which then means game over. They need to be in an open space to be able to get up
That is fascinating... humans really fucked horses over in so many ways. Can't get up if you're next to a wall, break a leg and you'll die, eat grass that's a bit too high in sugar and you'll die. Be 400kg heavy, have legs with the circumference of toothpicks, then be forced to jump over 2m obstacles and just pray that your legs won't shatter under your weight. Jeesh. I cannot imagine that small, stocky and never-domesticated Przewalski horses have these problems
Less than 1% of the entire worlds population has seen a polar bear in the wild. I am one of them.
You are a polar bear in the wild?
They are, I saw them
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It's skeletons all the way down.
deep sea volcano snails. Their outer shell layer consists of iron sulphides, the middle layer is equivalent to the organic periostracum found in other gastropods, and the innermost layer is made of aragonite. They can survive water temperatures up to 750 derees F.
If you type "askew" in the Google search bar, the search results on your screen will be displayed literally askew
And searching “do a barrel roll” will make the page literally do a barrel roll
2/3 of the world’s eggplant comes from New Jersey.
NJ is called the Garden State for a reason. Produces a lot of tomatoes as well.
I'd like to tell you about two boozy space clouds: 1. A [cloud of alcohol](https://universemagazine.com/en/astronomers-felt-the-taste-and-smell-of-a-giant-cloud-of-alcohol/) 1000x the diameter of our entire solar system. It contains 400 quintillion liters of alcohol. Unfortunately it's mostly methanol, so not exactly drinkable, but still counts as alcohol. 2. [A cloud that tastes like raspberries and smells like rum](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/apr/21/space-raspberries-amino-acids-astrobiology) near the center of our galaxy. The cloud is made up of a bunch of chemicals, but one of them is ethyl formate, the chemical responsible for the flavour of raspberries, which also smells like rum.
As a species, sharks are older than trees, and both are older than the rings of Saturn.
This is my favorite oddball fact. So wild.
One fascinating fact is that octopuses have three hearts. Two of the hearts pump blood to the gills, where it picks up oxygen, and the third heart pumps the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. This unique circulatory system is part of what enables octopuses to be such effective and adaptable creatures in their underwater environments.
>octopuses Another fact I find interesting: this word is one of three accepted plurals of octopus. The others are octopi and octopodes. Source: [‘The Many Plurals of Octopus’ - Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes)
octopussy
Lobsters are blue blooded, live 200 years, and they fuck a lot. Yeah, I aped this from The Lobster.
Caesar salad is Mexican food.
Chicken tikka masala is Scottish.
The Hawaiian pizza was first created in Canada. The California roll has a debated origins with sushi chefs in both Los Angeles and Vancouver, B.C., claiming to have created it.
German Chocolate cake is American. This is fun.
The wet burrito was invented in Michigan
American cheese is...fucking terrible
Yeah I'm Mexican and I get confused every time I see Cesar salad in an Italian restaurant
I mean, kinda. An Italian immigrant with a few restaurants in San Diego invented it at his Tijuana location
> Caesar salad is Mexican food Invented by an Italian. A friend of mine spent two months learning to make the perfect Caesar salad. When she felt she had it, she got in her car and did a road trip to [Caesar Cardini's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Cardini) restaurant in Mexico to see how hers compared to the original.
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.
Star Wars came out the same year that the guillotine was last used.
Relative to its size, the barnacle has the largest penis in the world
My wife left me for a barnacle. She said he really brought her out of her shell. Can’t blame her. But she did get crabs from him, so, there’s that.
*second largest
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I think I’ve told this story on here before but I took a Greek mythology class as an elective in college with a professor who had a doctorate in classics. She was saying her mentor when she was a younger student was on some dig or something at Mycenae and they found a pot of honey. Since honey never goes bad, dude just started eating it! Putting it in his tea, on his toast, etc. Anyway, he gets about a quarter way through the pot before he thinks to empty the whole thing out and finds a mellified infant corpse. Moral; don’t eat strange honey you find at archeological sites
Too bad a lot of honey in stores is not 100% honey
The Silence of the Lambs poster / DVD cover shows a Death's Head Moth with a skull on its back. Only that's not a skull, that's a pile of naked ladies, and is a photo taken by Salvador Dali. The only link I could find quickly was on Pinterest, sorry. NSFW, obviously: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/542754192565029056/ [edit] Christ, that site is cancer
Same design/pose used for the cover for "the descent"
The woolly mammoths were still around when the Great Pyramid of Giza was being built.
France's longest land border is with Brazil. (Because of French Guiana.)
Bar-tailed godwits (a type of wading bird) can shrink their internal organs to pack more fat into their body before their massive migration- at initial takeoff they’re basically a gigantic ball of fat. They need this because some fly from Alaska to Australia non-stop, in the longest continuous migration of any bird.
Viggo broke his toe when he kicked the helmet
I haven't seen the LOTR movies. Are they worth watching? I've heard good things about them, but idk which movies are good.
Yes, they are 100% worth watching.
Thanks!
Skip the Hobbit movies
Read the book!
Read The Hobbit, skip the movies. Read LotR, then watch the movies. Skip pretty much everything else
Well if it helps, fellowship of the ring (the first one) is considered #9 on IMDB’s top 250 movies of all time.
More prestigious, according to some, it's #1 on MasqueOfTheRedDice's movies of all time. Well worth a watch or 20.
There has only ever been one European nation that provided military aid to an African country undergoing colonial invasion: Nazi Germany.
Not true. Russia gave guns and artillery to Ethiopia during the first Italian invasion of Ethiopia, where they defeated Italy at Adwa.
Toronto is south of Portland.
If you go south from Detroit you will end up in Canada
Reno is farther west than LA.
I'll be damned. Fuck if it isn't.
Yup, and Alaska is the US's most northern, Western, AND Eastern state, since the Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian.
New York City is south of Rome, Italy.
Your brain is constantly eating itself.
That is very surprising.
This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn't harmful, but actually helps preserve your grey matter.
Over time, tiny calcifications, or mineral buildups, will begin to form in the pineal gland in your brain. Scientists call these corpora arenacea, which is also known as "dream sand," but no one knows what they're used for.
Felix the cat was on the first tv broadcast
If a rocketship flying through space could *continuously* accelerate at 9.8 meters per second, squared, the passengers would be able to move about just like they would on Earth—the “gravity” onboard would be like we feel it now!
See: “The Expanse”. This TV show nailed interplanetary travel. Even when they pour a drink, they account for the way matter reacts while under continuous acceleration.
Only if the "floor" was perpendicular to the axis of travel
I mean, it would be, whether or not they designed it as a floor 😁
And this observation is one step away from recognizing why gravity causes time dilation!
And, after roughly a year at that acceleration, their rate of travel would be about 1 light-year per year, if I remember correctly, due to time dilation and physics things I don't comprehend.
Not only that, a person in that ship could traverse a galaxy in their lifetime due to relativistic effects.
The hype over televised presidential elections began in part with the Kennedy and Nixon debates. Their debates were the first and Kennedy was popular in those debates.
Honey never spoils
If you’re in Texas and travel straight south forever, you’d never reach a South American country. Might be true for Florida too but I’m too lazy to look right now.
If you're in New Orleans and travel straight south, you'll reach the Galápagos Islands.
If you are in a room of 19 people, there is a >50% chance two people share the same birthday
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater and JFK was assassinated in a Ford Lincoln.
And… Booth ran from a theater and was caught in a warehouse; Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Two weeks before he was assassinated, Lincoln was in Monroe, Maryland; two weeks before he was assassinated, Kennedy was in Marilyn Monroe.
HA!
A tobacco barn and a textbook warehouse, a play theatre ("Our American Cousin") and a movie theater ("War is Hell").
Both had vice Presidents named Johnson.
Both were succeeded by a Johnson...
Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency than to his own.
Almost. Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration: 1861 Joe Biden’s birth: 1942 Difference: 81 years Joe Biden’s birth: 1942 Joe Biden’s inauguration: 2021 Difference: 79 years He’s still ancient.
I amended it. If you count from end of presidency and not beginning the numbers work out
Okay that one got to me
Did you know that there is a type of jellyfish that is immortal. The Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the "immortal jellyfish," is a species of jellyfish that can transform its body into a younger state through a process called transdifferentiation. This means that it can essentially revert back to its polyp stage, which is the juvenile form of a jellyfish, and then grow back into an adult again. This process can be repeated indefinitely, making the Turritopsis dohrnii theoretically immortal.
The reason conductor's use a baton is because they used to hit stick on the ground to keep beat, but a musician named Lully missed, broke his foot off, got gangrene and died. Everyone quickly found a different way.
Just to make sure I'm reading this correctly, it sounds like you're saying that a guy tried to hit the ground with a stick and missed, and he missed so badly that his entire foot broke off. Am I reading that correctly?
Jesus, Lully must have been using a pretty big and sharp stick.
And a very poorly connected foot
And standing on an abnormally evasive patch of ground
Lully wasn’t fucking around
The clitoris has over 8000 nerve endings and is the only organ built exclusively for pleasure.
What about men's nipples?
Men's nipples only have a few hundred nerve endings. Nowhere near as sensitive as the clitoris.
Turtles can breath through their butt
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wtf?
You can pee out your belly button if your urachus doesn’t degenerate
The Coptic language unlike any other modern language comes from ancient Egyptian, not Greek, Latin, Aramic, or Hebrew.
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
That a blind man with Alzheimer's forgot that he's blind and got partially recovered from blindness. Just... wow.
The chainsaw we all know was originally invented to aid in childbirth by widening the pelvis, also your pelvic bone being sawed sounds like your jeans being ripped apart.
Nifty
Bruce lee is the same in real person as you see on tv and his interviews. It is not an act. He is really like that. My mom knew his wife Linda, and i went to his home once when i was a kid. He showed me some "moves" like he would do with any kid. Mind blowing now. At that time didnt realize how monumental that moment was.
Octopuses have three hearts—perfect for loving sushi lovers three times as much.
Also fun: octopuses is perfectly fine as the plural of octopus. Octopi is also accepted, and therefore perfectly correct, but since the root of octopus is Greek and not Latin, octopodes is more accurate than it (other than common usage trumping all, which negates my argument here).
Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She was Greek. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, a general under Alexander the Great, who inherited Egypt after Alexander’s death and ruled as pharaoh.
It is illegal to have six or more sex toys in Texas.
The last civil war widow died in 2012. She was still collecting civil war benefits until then!
It only takes around 300 extra calories to sustain a pregnancy adequately.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not. In botanical terms, a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary, which bananas meet but strawberries do not.
Ducks have nine-inch-long corkscrew penises: https://youtu.be/6k01DIVDJlY?si=-s6VJYq3fA618cf5
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
bananas and humans have 60% similar genes to each other
Cows have best friends and get stressed when they're separated – turns out, they’re just like us
I am part of the 22% of America that is an only child.
Only 22%? TV makes it seem more common than that.
I could not believe that number when I heard it. Thought it would be higher.
Israel means "struggles with El" In Canaanite religeon, El is the fatherly old head of the pantheon, just like Zeus, or Jupiter. Yahuwa was always thought of as a storm god...rider of the clouds, wielder of thunder ect... Point being that all Abrahamic religions, despite their claim to monotheism, were once polytheistic, and they basically chose Thor the storm god to be THE god we all love and worship as the one true god to this day.
Bush and Regan negotiated to keep Americans hostage in Iran so they could win the election
Snakes have 2 penises
The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896 – talk about a quick disagreement!
Three presidents, all Founding Fathers—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe—died on July 4
Americans eat roughly 150 million hot dogs every 4th of July.
Adolf Hitler's half-nephew was in the US Navy during WW2 and after.
If you remove all the salt from the oceans and distribute it evenly on land, that salt layer will be nearly 500 feet thick.
The guy who made Chuck E Cheese’s also made Atari.
Unlike most other animals, axolotls can regrow entire limbs, parts of their spinal cord, heart, and other organs.
The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion of the iron on hot days.
I know that PI, in fact, actually does end and the specific number it lands on, but can't post it anywhere because it's larger than copy/paste data size limits and would take me well over 3 million years to type it out manually.
Today's population size makes up 6.5% of the total number of people ever born.
the average person is an Indian woman named Muhammad
Elephants have two knees and two elbows
Depends on the company, if not around other math students people often enjoy hearing there’s no generic formula for a polynomial of degree 5. Remember the quadratic formula from high school? Turns out that is really convenient, and there are similar formulas to find the roots of polynomials with degree 3 and 4. Once you hit 5, good luck.
Cats kill dolphins in my country. [source](https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/diseases/toxoplasmosis-and-hectors-and-maui-dolphin/)
You are fantastically rare. The DNA combination that came together to form you, is dwarfed by all the possible combinations that could have been. The Earth, doesn't have enough time left, to produce anywhere near the total number of possible DNA variations inside of you. You are a insanely rare event in the lifespan of Earth.
Reno NV is further west than Los Angeles
There was a Japanese military soldier in the woods in the Philippines who had kept working on surveillance for 30 years since the end of the second world war without knowing the Japanese Empire surrendered. Here are more facts like this.. [https://factink.blogspot.com/2024/06/13-mind-boggling-world-war-ii-facts.html](https://factink.blogspot.com/2024/06/13-mind-boggling-world-war-ii-facts.html)
Fun fact this question will be asked again a few months.