This is both astounding and deeply sad...

I like this fact.

They even had specialist teams of researchers and restorers, specially to research the practices and techniques of the older Kingdoms and restore their monuments properly and faithfully.

Also, the can opener was invented decades after the invention of canned foods, and the lighter precedes the match by decades.

That makes me feel all cute and smol

Suvivor bias is an interesting and often scary logical error when viewed in statistics.

We do the same in Italian with redheads though. And the words to describe fruit and colour are the same. And i doubt oranges are native from England. So... i guess there's more to know to the story

The trainline to Hogwarts.

Er, how is this known? Do cats write research papers?

That's reassuring. A documentary on the 20th century stated that it would be remembered as the century that came in on horseback and left on a rocket. The 21st has shown we are only moving faster.

And will probably continue to exist longer

I remember yahoo-ing all this in 1999 as an 11 yr old with my bff 😆before google there was yahoo, remember that ?

Back in my stripper days, not saying it’s industry related but because we are a huge groups of girls, out of about 70 of us only one claimed to never have been sexually assaulted as a child. It was eye opening. We had a group discussion one day. We were close and all friends

One of my brother's friends ended up in prison for k*lling the man that assaulted him and his brothers.

Sadly true. And, folks, this is not a NEW thing. It's been happening a very long time.

And people are trying to normalize the sexualization of children it's f*****g sick and needs to stop.

I'm always shocked to discover, as an adult, how many of my schoolfriends were being abused back then. Abuse isn't uncommon never mind rare..

Just watched a documentary about Jehovah Witnesses. The amount of sexual abuse of children is mind boggling- and very little is being done about it. I hate religion.

Wtf. It doesn't seem that common. I have no faith in humanity. I'm a teenager and have never heard of anyone who was sexually assaulted as a kid.

That's terrifying.

Yea ik a lot of people who've gone through that... Their mental health now is absolutely horrible

When I worked with troubled & abused kids, it was eye opening on how many children were molested by women. Mostly their own mothers. Yet they did not receive the same prison sentences as the men.

Government agencies' statistics are often created not to inform but to frighten, thence to stir up support for more money for more initiatives of one sort or another, all of which give the impression of 'doing something' but few of which accomplish anything. Sexual abuse of any kind is a serious problem, but I'm not willing to take the CDC's word for anything at face value, particularly in light of its disgraceful incompetence during the COVID crisis. Raw numbers should always be distrusted, no matter by whom they are issued. Scary statistics are easily generated by manipulating the definitions involved. In this case, what, exactly, is being counted as sexual assault, and rape? (See #6 which can be made to 'prove' that helmets cause head injuries.) Beyond that point, it's critical to face the fact that there are too many jurisdictions where the penalties are insufficient and individual sentencing judges have been far too lenient. Shaming victims must stop and reporting must improve.

1 out of 4 I understand, but 1 out of 6 to 13 lost me.

sad

I imagine the number gets even more depressingly high if you include children with birth conditions in their own category...

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I have never had sex with anyone but my Husband!

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So sad how humans treat children! You can tell the way they toss away life, considering in utero non-human

And that's why we have coal. It's neat bc it's peat.

If all of Earth's existence were squeezed into a single day, humans would have existed for about a second. We can't even comprehend that.

Depending on which of the two countries carries out the trial, and which communities you wiped out, you probably wouldn't face death.

Everyone loses their s**t over this one, it’s not even the oldest university still in operation. That title goes to the University of Karueein, in Fez, Morocco, established in 859 AD

She was also Ptolemaic Greek. ::gives the new Cleopatra "documentary" series the side-eye::

Bjork's are beautiful, there should be more of them

There’s an answer to the meaning of life here…I’m just sure of it! Something about our interconnectedness 🙃

Yes, this is absolutely true. In fact, you can even see it as our bones changed over human evolution, becoming thinner and more delicate, particularly the skull, and particularly in subsaharan Africa and East Asia populations, which is highly correlated with increased sociability. However, we still have a ways to go, and there are still many who need our help and compassion. But I like to remind myself of this fact when I hear something that really makes me hate all of humanity for a few seconds...

“D is for dinosaur, but it’s a brand new word/ Invented in 1841, it means ‘terrible lizard’/ Spelled D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R/ Sir Richard Owen thought it up: D for dinosaur.” Isn’t it funny how little jingles you learn as a kid stick with you?

The first is from a quote by the CEO of Boeing. It's probably based on a US Bureau of Transport Statistics survey that found only 18% of people said they had ever flown on a plane. Not sure of the second, thought it was like net worth of 800k/annum.

The British did that while in India, not New Delhi.

I live in Australia and I've never heard of a horse taking anyone out. No movies, no dinner dates, nothing!

*Stares at cheese* Lo, I prophesy that I shall soon taste delicious Cheddar! *chomp* The prophecy has been fulfilled!

Yes! I believe they started off making playing cards?

*puts on aviator sunglasses* *does fingerguns* *gives someone a shoulder massage* *tells an anecdote about Delaware*

oh hell no

..How is that an advantage?