I have 2 horrid pictures in my head: a saltlick sized block of rat posion and a rat trap big enough and powerful enough to get a horse. Just jam a haybale on the trigger tang...now i feel bad cuz i love horses even though they can be complete idiots at times. Although the idea of horses scurrying inside your walls is hilarious mental picture.
As all bees do, Japanese bees have jobs. Male bees are useless to hives (other than impregnating queens) so when a Japanese hornet infiltrates the hive nine times out of ten a male bee will be used a bait so the women can kill it. 😭
it’s about 10 minutes of torture too because while the hornet is picking at it and killing it the bees are all buzzing around it to raise the temperature around it to overheat it and essentially cook it so it’s a painful death really but go bees if it protects their hive 😭
Reminds me of a friend who loved milk. One day I asked him why he drank so much and he told me that he liked how spicy it was, but in a different way than hot food.
I truly hated to break it to him.
If it was probably good news for people who love bad news, their only truly commercially successful album, released in 2004
Which makes me feel incredibly old.
In my mind Modest Mouse is still a hip new indie band
I got the entire Star Trek the next generation DVD set from South Korea for $27. All the DVD packaging was written in Korean, but it wasn't like hundreds of dollars and it played in English and the UI was also in English. Got it off a random sale forum in like 2005ish. Seemed super sketch, but it was only $27. Got to me in like 7 days. Super dope.
The longest sentence ever printed is in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables at 823 words long. It describes the Bishop of Digne's thoughts on the nature of God.
I read the unabridged book. First four chapters were spent on this bishop. His act of kindness was a turning point for the main character, but the in depth look was a bit excessive.
When multiplying by the number 9, the sum will always add up to 9. It works up to a huge number of places.
EX: 9 x 3 = 27 ; 2 + 7 = 9
EX: 9 x 504 = 4,536 ; 4 + 5 + 3 + 6 = 18
(1 + 8 = 9)
So dorky, but I love it.
Yup, that and the fact that canned food wasn't really consumed in households, instead it was for naval voyages and army expeditions and stuff. Those people usually had an army knife or a sword or bayonet or other strong and sharp object with them already, so they didn't really need a specific tool to open the cans.
William Clark is on the Missouri state quarter for exploring the Louisiana Territory
his brother Roger Clark is on the Indiana state quarter for being a revolutionary war hero.
they are the only brothers to appear on separate forms of us currancy. both were born in Virginia
What I think you meant was everyone's noses are always in their field of view, your brain just deletes it from your perception most of the time.
Otherwise this sounds like a Jaden Smith tweet
Put 1/9899 and you'll get two digit Fibonacci numbers
Put 1/998999 and you'll get three digit Fibonacci numbers
Put 1/99989999 and you'll get four
Etc, etc
Might have actually been because the height wasn't high enough. I remember reading a fact about how cats' survival actually increased for falls above a certain height. It was because the extra time falling allowed them to reorient their body to land safely. Falls under that height didn't always give them enough time and a bad landing was more likely.
oh interesting never thought about that, not sure if that's the case with this squirrel. my dog thought he was a playtoy so, I could have gone without that.
What they mean is the squirrel can survive a fall at terminal velocity, theoretically. It has to do with their light weight.
Squirrel landed wrong and snapped it's neck.
More of the squirrel falling thing here:
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/squirrels-can-survive-fall-any-height-least-hypothetically
Whales have lice. They're bright orange and about the size of a dime. These lice spread between family members, meaning lice from one family to another may have different mutations.
Edit: removed 1337 speech.
The lever on the left hand side of a steering wheel in your car can be moved up or down to let other cars you are about to turn. Just a reminder, using this does not automatically give you right of way so please let it blink a few seconds prior to turning.
Normally it depends where the car is made. Which meant in my Japanese car I indicated at each intersection and in my ex-wife's French one I turn on the wipers at each intersection.
Asparagus makes your urine really stink, but some people are unable to smell it.
[https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-does-asparagus-make-your-pee-smell](https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-does-asparagus-make-your-pee-smell)
Generally, mammalian herbivores and omnivores can’t lick their own butt, but carnivores can. I think it‘s the larger and/or more rigid ribcage to protect the longer digestive tract needed to breakdown down plant fibers.
The English word "robe" for a garment comes from the word "rob" because in the Middle Ages, clothing was a popular type of loot to steal from people because it was so valuable (having all been made by hand).
Yep. Be glad you're not Charles Osborne, who once fell and hit his head and started hiccupping afterwards. It lasted the next 68 years of his life, and he can confirm it was exactly as uncomfortable as you'd imagine and more.
It turns out he damaged the one small part of his brain that inhibits the hiccup reflex.
Think about this for a moment.
Why does there need to be a part in our brains that says No Hiccups? Why is Yes Hiccups Always the default?
Why would it ever make sense to design it this way?
Science time.
The simple answer is that it doesn't. Our bodies are just badly designed.
It's just that Yes Hiccups came first, so when Yes Hiccups stopped being good for us, bodies like ours had to come up with something to switch it off, and they did.
Yes Hiccups continues to be good for all the fish alive on Earth today, who need to constantly swallow water, close their throat and push water through their gills to breathe. And that circuit's always gonna be on, because of course it is.
Our side of the family though, about 360 million years ago our ancestors took our fishy bodies and started living less in the water and more on land. A lot about our fishy bodies got broken or wired backwards or pushed to its limit as our ancestors adapted to their new land environments and stretched our fish shapes into all the animal shapes that we have today, including the thinking, upright-walking, arms-having shapes that you and I have.
And pretty much everything about the ways that our bodies suck, from back and knee pain to hiccups, hernias and sleep apnea, bear the obvious and tragic legacy of what was once a perfectly sensible shape for a fish.
So the next time you get hiccups, don't worry. It's just your body forgetting for a moment that it's not supposed to be a fish anymore.
Biblical Jesus is a compilation of Gods and Goddesses who were worshipped before him, most Notably, Sumerian Gods, including Inanna, who was executed, dead for 3 days, and resurrected.
Most of the Torah is also a compilation of older Mesopotamian stories and laws, notably Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish. Further proof in the text is that some stories come in pairs either woven together ( Gen 1-2, Gen 37) or not (Gen 19 & Judges 19).
Before you dpwnvote, this is part of the the Documentary Hypothesis and is accepted in most academic circles. You just dont hear about it at sunday school.
I THINK that's right but I can't remember the whole thing for that one. I've definitely heard that before I just can't remember if it was the Brits or another Allied during the war.
The short myth was in part due to quoting his height in feet and inches. And just like a gallon is a different size in the US so too were feet and inches different sizes in France and the UK.
In the old French system he was 5 foot 2 inches, where an inch measured 2.7 centimeters, or 1.063 inches in the Imperial (as used in US, Myanmar and Liberia)
He was about 5 foot 6 inches in imperial units, about normal for France of the time
The daughter of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz (judy garland) married the son of the Tin Man (jack haley) from the same movie. In spanish we have a word for that "consuegro/a", that means the father/mother in law of your daughter/son
The very first time MTV played the music video for Duran Duran's "The Reflex" the chyron at the beginning said, "The Refex." By the time the ending chyron appeared, they had fixed the title.
That is far from accepted as fact. If it happens, it's very conditional.
If you were to try and replicate it, the cold water would freeze before the hot.
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37665
A group of buzzards/vultures feeding on a carcass is called a Wake.
A group of buzzards/vultures soaring up in a thermal column of air is called a Kettle.
A group of buzzards/vultures roosting is called a committee.
goats are turned on by lesbian porn. so if you have 2 goats you're trying to get to mate, and they're not doing so, turn some lesbian porn on, and it'll get them in the mood
The Greek word for "summer" just means "good weather", which I guess is only obscure to people who don't speak Greek xD
In Dutch, we have the sound 'ui' which I cannot explain for the life of me and I don't think exists in any other language. Most foreigners end up pronouncing it as "oi" or "aw".
It’s called a pound sign because it evolved from the character℔ as the short-hand writing for the letters L & B, the short form we still used today for a pound. The letters stood for Libra Pondo, meaning the weight of a pound.
Edit/added after: also why the British currency (pound) symbol if a fancy L
In 1898, a group of white supremacists and former Confederates overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina. The destroyed several black owned businesses, murdered many people, and ran out the Republican and black politicians. This is the only successful coup in the United States.
That moving the mouse helps a stuck Windows application, you're not crazy. Opening the Task Manager also helps.
User interactions take priority over, almost, all others on a PC. By moving a window around you're forcing the computer to reprioritize, is many cases, this will help make what you were waiting on respond.
To see this in action, open Task Manager and watch your CPU and memory statistics, set the graph to "logical cores." Then wiggle and jiggle that mouse. Watch those processes jump around.
Pigeons sing in [5/4](https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/27931/) and [17/8](https://freesound.org/people/squashy555/sounds/319512/) time signature.
That a piece of flint or chert that has been broken into a sharp blade is able to be sharper than stainless steel. This is due to the crystal structure vs the alloy structure of the metal.
The slightly protruding bump at the top of your tibia is called the tibial tuberosity. One of the few things I remember from college 30 years ago and totally useless.
Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body.
I wonder if that makes them fall in love more often.
Horses and rats are easy to poison because they can’t vomit.
I have 2 horrid pictures in my head: a saltlick sized block of rat posion and a rat trap big enough and powerful enough to get a horse. Just jam a haybale on the trigger tang...now i feel bad cuz i love horses even though they can be complete idiots at times. Although the idea of horses scurrying inside your walls is hilarious mental picture.
I very clearly remember a horse vomiting on my sister when we were kids, so wtf actually happened?
Two drunk guys in a horse suit.
Isn't it always?
As all bees do, Japanese bees have jobs. Male bees are useless to hives (other than impregnating queens) so when a Japanese hornet infiltrates the hive nine times out of ten a male bee will be used a bait so the women can kill it. 😭
Absolute Savages
it’s about 10 minutes of torture too because while the hornet is picking at it and killing it the bees are all buzzing around it to raise the temperature around it to overheat it and essentially cook it so it’s a painful death really but go bees if it protects their hive 😭
I read on how invasive those darn hornet's are!/ Go lady bees and thanks for the sacrifice little dudes
A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is
Raspberries are also not bananas
I meant berries but my statement is true
I am not a raspberry.
Prove it!
Am I a raspberry?
Im allergic to raspberries :( but i love raspberries.... why cant i be allergic to something i hate or meh about?
Reminds me of a friend who loved milk. One day I asked him why he drank so much and he told me that he liked how spicy it was, but in a different way than hot food. I truly hated to break it to him.
I like bananas, because they have no bones.
Wait where do you get boneless bananas?
[“Was dog a doughnut?” by Cat Stevens](https://open.spotify.com/track/3b2LZsSNbPKDBNiuCXOivE?si=mPSyEJyQTrSzZ4LB5-AzAA)
Wow! 🤣
(The more you know shooting star animation plays)
This is the best obscure fact
Source?
Hyaenas may *LOOK* like dogs, but they are feliforms, most closely related to mongooses, meerkats, and true cats.
I actually won a radio call-in show about twenty years ago for knowing this. I won a modest mouse CD and a 6 pack of Pepsi.
If it was probably good news for people who love bad news, their only truly commercially successful album, released in 2004 Which makes me feel incredibly old. In my mind Modest Mouse is still a hip new indie band
I mean was it the good Modest Mouse album?
It was the one with “Float On.” Is that the good one?
Trick question, they're all good. That's my favorite though.
South Korea kept VHS as a format for new releases until 2010
I got the entire Star Trek the next generation DVD set from South Korea for $27. All the DVD packaging was written in Korean, but it wasn't like hundreds of dollars and it played in English and the UI was also in English. Got it off a random sale forum in like 2005ish. Seemed super sketch, but it was only $27. Got to me in like 7 days. Super dope.
More people died at Peenemünde during the production of the V-2 rocket than were killed by it as a weapon of war.
The longest sentence ever printed is in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables at 823 words long. It describes the Bishop of Digne's thoughts on the nature of God.
That asshole once spent 4 pages describing a sock. Between him and Dante Allegheri, I could strangle two of the Romance languages
>That asshole once spent 4 pages describing a sock. What a great sentence lmao
Very descriptive for only eight words.
I read the unabridged book. First four chapters were spent on this bishop. His act of kindness was a turning point for the main character, but the in depth look was a bit excessive.
IIRC Victor Hugo was paid by the word.
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upsetting to me that a minute isn't called a prime/prima with this logic...
English is something else
Mine is that during Pangea the Scottish highlands and Appalachian mountains where the same range
Also the hills in morocco
And the Scandinavian mountains … plus Bohemian Highlands
When you blush, your stomach lining blushes as well.
How the hell was this discovered?
Mid surgery the surgeon must have complimented the patient's stomach
Is that an appendix in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
That is fun
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Yup. she looks to have died pretty young
Beavers mate for life
When multiplying by the number 9, the sum will always add up to 9. It works up to a huge number of places. EX: 9 x 3 = 27 ; 2 + 7 = 9 EX: 9 x 504 = 4,536 ; 4 + 5 + 3 + 6 = 18 (1 + 8 = 9) So dorky, but I love it.
This is weird. I just did 5 or so random numbers and they all worked.
If a transposition error is made (two digits swapped around), the difference will always be divisible by 9.
Hello, fellow accountant
Hitler was almost named Adolf Schicklgruber.
Thank goodness for that. "That's our Schicklgruber" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
That sounds a lot more German
He’s Austrian though
I also started watching that thing on Netflix (though I got bored and switched pretty early in)
[from a friend currently living in South korea] North korea frequently sends over balloons of poop to annoy south korea
It's a real shit show!
The can opener was invented 80 years after the can
FYI That's because cans were huge and made of very thick metal for a long time.
Yup, that and the fact that canned food wasn't really consumed in households, instead it was for naval voyages and army expeditions and stuff. Those people usually had an army knife or a sword or bayonet or other strong and sharp object with them already, so they didn't really need a specific tool to open the cans.
It takes about 24 cats to make a fur coat.
Nonsense. They don't have thumbs; they couldn't operate the sewing machine
What about dalmatian puppies?
Roughly 101, according to this documentary I once saw.
That's pretty cruella
Hmm considering what id call a puppy is roughly the size of a large adult cat id say about 24 +- 3 puppies
Uncopyrightable is the longest word (in English at least) that you can write or type without repeating a letter.
I bet I couldn't write it on paper without repeating a letter though
Coca-Cola was originally green.
There are 336 dimples in a regulation golf ball
William Clark is on the Missouri state quarter for exploring the Louisiana Territory his brother Roger Clark is on the Indiana state quarter for being a revolutionary war hero. they are the only brothers to appear on separate forms of us currancy. both were born in Virginia
You can actually see your nose
What I think you meant was everyone's noses are always in their field of view, your brain just deletes it from your perception most of the time. Otherwise this sounds like a Jaden Smith tweet
Yes, I meant that :)
Put 1/9899 and you'll get two digit Fibonacci numbers Put 1/998999 and you'll get three digit Fibonacci numbers Put 1/99989999 and you'll get four Etc, etc
I love this fact. Explanation [here](https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2015/07/08/why-does-this-fraction-generate-the-fibonacci-numbers-in-order/)!
Squirrels cannot die from falling. From any height. Unless the height is so high they starve on the way down.
Man a squirrel fell out of a tree and broke it's neck in our driveway when I was a kid. Are we sure this is true?
That squirrel was assassinated first and *then* pushed.
He *knew* something.
Might have actually been because the height wasn't high enough. I remember reading a fact about how cats' survival actually increased for falls above a certain height. It was because the extra time falling allowed them to reorient their body to land safely. Falls under that height didn't always give them enough time and a bad landing was more likely.
oh interesting never thought about that, not sure if that's the case with this squirrel. my dog thought he was a playtoy so, I could have gone without that.
What they mean is the squirrel can survive a fall at terminal velocity, theoretically. It has to do with their light weight. Squirrel landed wrong and snapped it's neck. More of the squirrel falling thing here: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/squirrels-can-survive-fall-any-height-least-hypothetically
They can't die from the inertia from the impact
Did.... did someone chuck one out of an airplane?
Are you going to check?
The Odyssey and Eminem’s “The Way I Am” have a similar lyrical meters
Whales have lice. They're bright orange and about the size of a dime. These lice spread between family members, meaning lice from one family to another may have different mutations. Edit: removed 1337 speech.
The lever on the left hand side of a steering wheel in your car can be moved up or down to let other cars you are about to turn. Just a reminder, using this does not automatically give you right of way so please let it blink a few seconds prior to turning.
I dont think my BMW comes with one. Thats too bad.
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Normally it depends where the car is made. Which meant in my Japanese car I indicated at each intersection and in my ex-wife's French one I turn on the wipers at each intersection.
Birds can't taste capsaicin. This isn't very obscure, but it means that you can feed chickens a bunch of peppers, and they will lay spicy eggs.
It also means you can use chilli powder to prevent squirrels/rats from stealing from your bird feeders.
If the spicy egg bit was true we'd have seen spicy eggs on one of those hot sauce shows
There are hot sauce... shows?
I know of one: [Hot Ones.](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAzrgbu8gEMIIK3r4Se1dOZWSZzUSadfZ)
It’s true that they can’t taste capsaicin but it does not make the eggs spicy
Asparagus makes your urine really stink, but some people are unable to smell it. [https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-does-asparagus-make-your-pee-smell](https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-does-asparagus-make-your-pee-smell)
Generally, mammalian herbivores and omnivores can’t lick their own butt, but carnivores can. I think it‘s the larger and/or more rigid ribcage to protect the longer digestive tract needed to breakdown down plant fibers.
The English word "robe" for a garment comes from the word "rob" because in the Middle Ages, clothing was a popular type of loot to steal from people because it was so valuable (having all been made by hand).
In his 19 year career, Shaquille O’ Neal only ever made one 3 pointer.
Hiccups are your body temporarily forgetting that it's not a fish.
No. With me it's my body begging me to stop cramming pizza into my face.
Wait , is this legitimately the mystery to hiccups?
Yep. Be glad you're not Charles Osborne, who once fell and hit his head and started hiccupping afterwards. It lasted the next 68 years of his life, and he can confirm it was exactly as uncomfortable as you'd imagine and more. It turns out he damaged the one small part of his brain that inhibits the hiccup reflex. Think about this for a moment. Why does there need to be a part in our brains that says No Hiccups? Why is Yes Hiccups Always the default? Why would it ever make sense to design it this way? Science time. The simple answer is that it doesn't. Our bodies are just badly designed. It's just that Yes Hiccups came first, so when Yes Hiccups stopped being good for us, bodies like ours had to come up with something to switch it off, and they did. Yes Hiccups continues to be good for all the fish alive on Earth today, who need to constantly swallow water, close their throat and push water through their gills to breathe. And that circuit's always gonna be on, because of course it is. Our side of the family though, about 360 million years ago our ancestors took our fishy bodies and started living less in the water and more on land. A lot about our fishy bodies got broken or wired backwards or pushed to its limit as our ancestors adapted to their new land environments and stretched our fish shapes into all the animal shapes that we have today, including the thinking, upright-walking, arms-having shapes that you and I have. And pretty much everything about the ways that our bodies suck, from back and knee pain to hiccups, hernias and sleep apnea, bear the obvious and tragic legacy of what was once a perfectly sensible shape for a fish. So the next time you get hiccups, don't worry. It's just your body forgetting for a moment that it's not supposed to be a fish anymore.
That was informative and fun to read, thank you!
I like how you wrote that, it was great! haha
Thanks! I didn't write it though, I just plagiarized it from myself :)
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In the context of this question, "now" should be spelled "know". 😂
Biblical Jesus is a compilation of Gods and Goddesses who were worshipped before him, most Notably, Sumerian Gods, including Inanna, who was executed, dead for 3 days, and resurrected.
Gonna leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism
Most of the Torah is also a compilation of older Mesopotamian stories and laws, notably Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish. Further proof in the text is that some stories come in pairs either woven together ( Gen 1-2, Gen 37) or not (Gen 19 & Judges 19). Before you dpwnvote, this is part of the the Documentary Hypothesis and is accepted in most academic circles. You just dont hear about it at sunday school.
The longest English word used to be antidisestablishmentarianism but now it's # Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The Germans consider that a short word
I know that’s a lung disease
Which leaves you short of breath. So have fun telling people what you've been diagnosed with.
A very specific variant of black lung caused by extremely fine volcanic silica dust particles slicing your lungs up internally, more or less.
Napoleón was 5’7 which is pretty short today but in the 1700s-1800s this was pretty average for a man
The short myth originated because one of the requirements to be his personal bodyguard was to be 6’
Also the English are brilliant at propaganda. They're the ones who started the short myth.
Didn’t they also come up with carrots improving eyesight because they didn’t want the Germans to know they had radar technology?
I THINK that's right but I can't remember the whole thing for that one. I've definitely heard that before I just can't remember if it was the Brits or another Allied during the war.
No. People figured carrots improved eyesight because they noticed how rare it was to see a rabbit with glasses.
Ah makes sense I didn’t know that
The short myth was in part due to quoting his height in feet and inches. And just like a gallon is a different size in the US so too were feet and inches different sizes in France and the UK. In the old French system he was 5 foot 2 inches, where an inch measured 2.7 centimeters, or 1.063 inches in the Imperial (as used in US, Myanmar and Liberia) He was about 5 foot 6 inches in imperial units, about normal for France of the time
How the hell is 5'7" short? If anything, that's average height. Short is like 5'1"
The daughter of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz (judy garland) married the son of the Tin Man (jack haley) from the same movie. In spanish we have a word for that "consuegro/a", that means the father/mother in law of your daughter/son
If I tell you it won't be obscure anymore.
The very first time MTV played the music video for Duran Duran's "The Reflex" the chyron at the beginning said, "The Refex." By the time the ending chyron appeared, they had fixed the title.
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is known as the Mpemba effect, this phenomenon is still not fully understood.
That is far from accepted as fact. If it happens, it's very conditional. If you were to try and replicate it, the cold water would freeze before the hot. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37665
A group of buzzards/vultures feeding on a carcass is called a Wake. A group of buzzards/vultures soaring up in a thermal column of air is called a Kettle. A group of buzzards/vultures roosting is called a committee.
goats are turned on by lesbian porn. so if you have 2 goats you're trying to get to mate, and they're not doing so, turn some lesbian porn on, and it'll get them in the mood
I didn't even know goats had porn, let alone lesbian porn
Their porn is the GOAT
I... don't believe you.
> goats are turned on by lesbian porn Tom Brady and Michael Jordan respond, "well who isn't?"
Wombats poop is cube-shaped
I knew that
The singer songwriter John Denver lost two toes on his right foot in a lawn mowing accident when he was a teenager.
The Greek word for "summer" just means "good weather", which I guess is only obscure to people who don't speak Greek xD In Dutch, we have the sound 'ui' which I cannot explain for the life of me and I don't think exists in any other language. Most foreigners end up pronouncing it as "oi" or "aw".
You can fit a light bulb up your butthole
That's brightened my evening!!
It can brighten your butthole too!
How do you know that
They also break easily as my doctor will testify
"Either this guy's got a light bulb up his butt or his colon has a great idea."
You first.
What about a Mason jar?
That too! "The butthole! Nature's pocket™️ "
You're breathing manually....right....now
Next, you're blinking manually....right....now
You…
Now you are conscious of your tongue
The pound sign or “hashtag” is also called an octothorp.
It’s called a pound sign because it evolved from the character℔ as the short-hand writing for the letters L & B, the short form we still used today for a pound. The letters stood for Libra Pondo, meaning the weight of a pound. Edit/added after: also why the British currency (pound) symbol if a fancy L
That may be more interesting than the octothorp bit. I wonder if any music majors can tell us why it’s used as a sharp on sheet music.
When you get new glasses, always take a picture of the inside arm. All the measurements are there. Helpful in an emergency situation.
In 1898, a group of white supremacists and former Confederates overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina. The destroyed several black owned businesses, murdered many people, and ran out the Republican and black politicians. This is the only successful coup in the United States.
Your bellybutton is your original mouth.
Love this. Never occurred to me.
Sutter's Fort in Sacramento used to have the silverware from the Donner Party in their museum display, along with photos and a doll. Yay, late 70s?
You mean right now?
That moving the mouse helps a stuck Windows application, you're not crazy. Opening the Task Manager also helps. User interactions take priority over, almost, all others on a PC. By moving a window around you're forcing the computer to reprioritize, is many cases, this will help make what you were waiting on respond. To see this in action, open Task Manager and watch your CPU and memory statistics, set the graph to "logical cores." Then wiggle and jiggle that mouse. Watch those processes jump around.
Sharks evolved before trees.
Nevada has more mountain ranges than any of the other American states
Screeched is the longest one-syllable word in English
Pigeons sing in [5/4](https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/27931/) and [17/8](https://freesound.org/people/squashy555/sounds/319512/) time signature.
That a piece of flint or chert that has been broken into a sharp blade is able to be sharper than stainless steel. This is due to the crystal structure vs the alloy structure of the metal.
The slightly protruding bump at the top of your tibia is called the tibial tuberosity. One of the few things I remember from college 30 years ago and totally useless.
Tuberculosis is called tuberculosis because of the tuber shape
Useful to me, currently recovering from a tibial tubercle osteotomy. Thanks!
And the ischial tuberosities are your bum bones!
How many of these facts are fact checked? A lot of them are quite interesting but I don't have the energy to fact check all of them.
The guy who plays Cameron in Modern Family is close friends with none other than Brock Lesnar.
Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body. I wonder if that makes them fall in love more often.
Koalas carry Chlamydia.
Koalas have fingerprints almost identical to human fingerprints. So much so that they could taint crime scenes.
r/ObscureKnowledge
There are more planes in the ocean than ships in the sky.
Silicone geese fly farther than ballistics gel geese when fired out of a 20 foot long air cannon
The bone that holds a whale’s penis erect is called the baculum
Razor Ramon has been in more Royal Rumbles (1) than Scott Hall (0).
The weak force only interacts with particles with left handed spin (or anti particles with right handed spin)
Sharks pee out of their skin and lobsters pee out of their faces
In the entire 3,977 miles, there are no bridges built across the Amazon River.
At the time of the French Revolution the majority of people in France did not speak French.
Typewriter is the longest English word that can be made with one line of a qwerty keyboard.
Australia is wider than the moon.
All crisps (chips for the Americans among you) expire on a saturday