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BrunetteTh0t , Tambako The Jaguar / Flickr Report

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information In Switzerland, it's illegal to own 1 guinea pig. They consider them social animals and require companionship, so you have to have at least two!

Final score:

263points

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Nico di anglo-solace 1 month ago

YES!!

75points

SuperHyperFunTime , Yannick Trottier Report

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Magnolia trees are so old that they predate bees by about 40 million years, and as a result are pollinated by beetles.

They are considered the first flowering plant on earth.

Final score:

245points

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David Paterson 1 month ago

For many years they were thought to be the oldest flowering plant on Earth. Now this is known to be false as the earliest flowering plants had tiny flowers.

61points

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Birds have been observed intentionally lining their nests with cigarette butts. While the nicotine in them is toxic to the birds, it's a low enough dose that it's not a significant risk to them in the short term (they don't live long enough for the long term effects to be a problem), and it k*lls parasites that may try to hide in the nest and infect the chicks.

Smaller bird species have been sighted stealing the anti-bird spikes that we put on buildings and lining their nests with them, like little palisade walls against other birds and predators. A small species like a songbird can navigate the spikes easily, but it makes it more difficult for a predator like a hawk or a rat to get to the nest.

Crows have also been observed stealing lit cigarettes from ashtrays and wafting the smoke through their feathers to k*ll parasites.

grendus , wirestock / freepik Report

Final score:

240points

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Silly-Rabbit 1 month ago

We know so little about the animals that inhabit our world. If we just stopped and appreciated all the creatures, it would hopefully sink in that animals are more intelligent/emotional than we give them credit for.

139points

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information During the great depression, FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps for young men. They planted over 2 BILLION! trees in their 7 years of existence. They also built a lot of the buildings and lodges at the national parks.

gochomoe , freepik Report

Final score:

200points

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The Cute Cat 1 month ago

This is wow in many level.. Talking about smart govt spending.. and also conserving nature..

91points

Bernd Herbert 1 month ago

Many years ago when I was much younger I thought being conservative also meant conserving nature. Currently that couldn’t be further from the truth

16points

David 1 month ago

the purpose was more just to keep unemployed men off the streets, same reason why they built all those monuments and federal buildings. The idea was get people min wage jobs to keep society going.

10points

DC 1 month ago

FDR, nowadays, would be labeled a socialist in the US. McCarthy himself couldn't be happier about the commie panic and mislabeling of everything as socialist that is even remotely aiming at, say, spreading wealth broadly. But, a society whose wealth is not widespread, is not wealthy, nor stable, nor desirable.

4points

BeesEelsAndPups 1 month ago

In Philadelphia, they built a lot of infrastructure. Particularly in Wissahickon Park.

1point

The Phantom Stranger 1 month ago

Some in Washington have proposed creating a similar agency today to help deal with unemployment and homelessness, but of course modern politicians can't agree on anything...

14points

Sky Render 1 month ago

They couldn't back then either, actually. FDR effectively had to trick congress into it, mostly by throwing so many programs at them that they ultimately approved a few just to get him to stop. You should read up on how many programs he tried to introduce some time, it's wild!

11points

geezeronthehill 1 month ago

My father lied about his age to join the CCC. For a 14 year old kid, three square meals a day sure beat starving on a northern Wisconsin farm.

13points

Francky 1 month ago

I love the national parks and the hardworking rangers who work there. God bless your hearts.

7points

cecilia kilian 1 month ago

State and National Parks are something we can all agree on (except those who want to cut funding for these treasures ). They offer so much opportunity for recreation and education. The less well-known ones are worth a look if you happen to be in the area, or want to plan an off-the beaten-path road trip. Rangers and park volunteers are friendly, helpful, and can give great tips about how to enjoy your stay.

0points

Pyla 1 month ago

Out here in the inland PNW you can still see many structures Heyburn park ranger station), bridges, etc., the legacy is quite alive. So much so regional public broadcasting has done several documentaries as well as national ones.

7points

Bookworm 1 month ago

Pennsylvania, too. When I was a kid my family used to do a state park every summer. A few of the parks are preexisting houses that DCNR got later, but pretty much everything with purpose-built cabins is a CCC build.

4points

Schmebulock 1 month ago

Bring this back!

6points

Unkeptwoman 1 month ago

My Grandfather, Omer "Tarz" Rew was in the CCC. He was a stellar human being.

6points

Minecraftemery (he/him CisHet) 1 month ago

For any non-Americans here, FDR stands for Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was the 32nd(out of 46 so far) president of the USA.

5points

Deeelite 1 month ago

Our wildlife refuge in my city was built on this. Wichita mountains

2points

Jen McCartney 1 month ago

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”

1point

Sam 1 month ago

FDR was an amazing genius. There are Pulitzer Prize winning books about FDR. Worth a read. Him, Eisenhower and Churchill saved the world from dictatorship.

1point

ZuriLovesYou 1 month ago

Thank you, FDR!

1point

AwesomeLeoWife 1 month ago

Promoting more life and nature is always a good thing

1point

Jeremy Klaxon 1 month ago

FDR being...?

1point

WoodenLion 1 month ago

Franklin Delenor Roosevelt

4points

Mike F 1 month ago

And roads. There are still a handful in Detroit but most were removed or paved over.

1point

Georgy 6 days ago

Who or what is FDR?

0points

Dawnieangel76 1 month ago

In the movie Annie, the character of FDR (played by the inimitable & very missed Edward Herrmann) talked about this very thing, trying to get "Daddy" Warbucks to invest in & oversee it!

0points

Barbara Baldwin 1 month ago

My dad planted some. They're still there

0points

Lynn 1 month ago

Should consider this currently to help rebuild aging infrastructure, and after hurricane damage.

0points

Carole Martin 1 month ago

We need more FDR's, less Kamala!

0points

nancthetank 1 month ago

Do it again, government!

0points

Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 1 month ago

And now certain groups of politicians want to sell our parks to private development firms, so they can turn them into private resorts. For the rich of course.

0points

Mark Fergel 1 month ago

Wasn't his wife actually Eleanor actually a big part of this, as she pushed Conservation efforts during his presidency.

0points

Leigh 1 month ago

FDRs program built Mt. Hoods gorgeous timberline lodge. It played the overlook hotel in the shining movie.

0points

Jacob B. 1 month ago

We need to bring this back.

0points

Michael Danhauer 1 month ago

FDR tried literally everything he could think of to get the US out of the Great Depression. He created multiple (sometimes competing) agencies to solve issues. He set up the TVA to bring electricity to the rural South. In the end it took WWII and the economic boom that came with it to save the country. Here we are headed into another financial downturn of epic proportions and there's no politicians like FDR to save us this time. There's only those that work for millionaires (Democrats) and the billionaires (Republicans). There's no real working class representation in America.

0points

Alexa Saltz 1 month ago

They planted miles and miles of trees to help alleviate effects of the Dust Bowl.

0points

Robin Roper 1 month ago

CCC did a ton to help develop state and national parks.

0points

Heras buddy 1 month ago

They also built the first state parks in Florida.

0points

Dinah Brand 1 month ago

Timberline Lodge

0points

Cathy Jo Baker 1 month ago

We need this back

0points

MaximumKarmaSaint 1 month ago

I didn't know they could plant 2 infinity trees in 7 years.

0points

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information The sea produces more oxygen than trees.

MrPestana , pixabay.com Report

Final score:

187points

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ManBlob 1 month ago

*happy algae noices*

105points

writerkyle , DejaVu Designs / freepik Report

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.

Final score:

170points

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Multa Nocte 1 month ago (edited)

Is that us, fellow Pandas? 🐼

208points

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Pistachio ice cream is about 2000 years older than Chocolate or Vanilla ice cream. Persians were making ice cream as early as 500BC, often flavored with Pistachio. Chocolate and Vanilla, on the other hand, are native to the New World and wouldn't make it there for another two thousand years.

Slow_Bed259 , Lalada / Pexels Report

Final score:

165points

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Leebo13 1 month ago

I first tried it on my 40th birthday in late 2022, earlier this year one of supermarkets at my local shopping centre introduced a gelati range which included pistachio, I perpetually have a tub or two in my freezer.

57points

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information How old the Appalachian Mountains really are:

They are older than trees, bones (including all dinosaurs), and the splitting of Pangaea -- so part of the mountain range is in Scotland.

The layering on the mountains looks "wrong" at some points because the tops of the mountains have eroded down & "new" geological forces have caused parts that weren't the top to rise above that...so the valleys of the current mountains may actually be the top of the original Appalachian Mountains.

Psychological_Try559 , Flickr Report

Final score:

158points

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Tempest 1 month ago

🎶 Life is old there, older than the trees 🎶

106points

SnazzyTyler , wirestock / freepik Report

#10

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Cows have best friends!! you know how wee see them group all the time but they still has this their very best of friends for them. if they would sperate they'll get stressed about it. they really have this strong bond.

Final score:

146points

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Jaguarundi 1 month ago

Horses and most herd or pack animals have "besties".

82points

toolatealreadyfapped , bearfotos / freepik Report

#11

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information A million seconds is about 11.5 days.

A billion seconds is over 31 **YEARS**.

Think about that when you consider the wealth of a millionaire vs a billionaire.

Final score:

144points

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JoinMeZoe 1 month ago

we get to live to see around 2 207 520 000 seconds, if anyone was wondering.

38points

lusty_kittyxo , Archives New Zealand / flickr Report

#12

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.

Final score:

138points

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Ivona 1 month ago

They were 18 when it started and got drafted.

56points

Kineticwizzy , wirestock / Freepik Report

#13

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information There are bears in super rural parts of Russia that are addicted to huffing fuel meant for the power generators, and there's nothing the locals can do about it, because when the locals try and take away the fuel from the bears it doesn't go well.

Final score:

132points

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The Phantom Stranger 1 month ago

Bears can also get drunk from eating rotten apples. Maybe that means they have a genetic disposition towards addiction.

65points

#14

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information The last execution by guillotine in France was the same year Star Wars hit theaters, 1977.

kjm16216 , Johann Jaritz Report

Final score:

130points

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Nico di anglo-solace 1 month ago

French accent: Hey wanna go to the execution then go see that new movie.......uh....Star wars they call it

52points

RealBowsHaveRecurves , Thomas Bannenberg / Pexels Report

#15

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Chloroplasts are the organelles responsible for photosynthesis.

A sea slug called the emerald elysia, which has a transparent body, steals chloroplasts from algae and packs them into its own cells.

The chloroplasts continue to photosynthesize, providing the slug with ~80% of the total calories it will consume over its life.

Final score:

127points

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Nadine Debard 1 month ago

It's not light bulb but lightslug.

27points

Spirit4ward , Racool_studio / freepik Report

#16

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Italy didn’t have widespread use of the tomato until the 1700s and the pasta sauces we think of being a core of their cuisine didn’t exist until the 19th century.

Flurb4:
It’s amazing how many New World plants are central to what we think of as “classic” Old World ethnic or regional cuisines — tomatoes in Italy and around the Mediterranean, potatoes in Ireland, chilis all across South and East Asia.

Final score:

123points

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Pernille 1 month ago

I sometimes feel the need to know what we ate before we got potatoes and tomatoes. The answer for most of western Europe is cabbage, porridge, bread, and lots of meat. Sauces were sometimes made with plums, plums was probably the fruit we used much like tomatoes are used today.

37points

Outrageous-Ninja-572 , Amanda / Flickr Report

#17

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information We need a steady supply of horseshoe crab blood to run our modern medical system. Their blood contains compounds that detect miniscule amounts of harmful bacteria, otherwise IV drugs wouldn't be safe.

Final score:

120points

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Isobel Stevens 1 month ago

And horseshoe car blood farms look like a dystopian nightmare.

70points

Jack-of-Hearts-7 , wirestock / Freepik Report

#18

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information The Deepest part of the ocean *isn't* the abyss. It's called The Hadalpelagic Zone. It encompasses the bottoms of trenches and sea floor caverns.

And we know frighteningly little about it.

The Challenger Deep is only the deepest *known* part of the ocean. There's almost certainly points in the ocean that are much deeper.

Final score:

116points

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TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago

Working under a lot of pressure isn't easy

63points

ProbablyABore , nensuria / freepik Report

#19

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Every glass of water you drink is almost 100% guaranteed to have at least one water molecule that was also drank by dinosaurs.

Final score:

114points

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Nadine Debard 1 month ago

Dino pee!!

59points

Kindergeschichten , Don Sniegowski / flickr Report

#20

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information There's a type of jellyfish that's immortal. The Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the "immortal jellyfish," can transform its body into a younger state through a process called transdifferentiation, essentially making it immortal.

Final score:

112points

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JoinMeZoe 1 month ago (edited)

They can still die from diseases and stuff tho

32points

#21

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Mammoths were alive during the construction of the Great Pyramid.

Also if you put it on a timeline, Cleopatra and Ceaser are closer to today than to the construction of the Great Pyramid.

Picards-Flute , Tracy O Report

Final score:

110points

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 month ago

Note: the mammoths were on an Aleutian Island; they weren't widespread anymore.

58points

JeanLucPicardAND , Марио Брвић Report

#22

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Gavrilo Princip tried to k*ll Archduke Franz Ferdinand during a parade through the streets of Sarajevo, but could not get close enough to the motorcade because of security. Later in the day, after the parade had been over for hours, Princip retreated sullenly to a small sandwich shop elsewhere in the city, when suddenly and completely out of the f*****g blue, Franz Ferdinand *just happened* to roll past him on his way back from a speech after taking an unscheduled detour down the same street as the sandwich shop. Princip walked right up to the car and shot the Archduke at point-blank range, k*lling him, which started World War I -- the deadliest conflict in human history up to that point.

Final score:

109points

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BrunoVI 1 month ago (edited)

Horrifying fact: World War One was far, far, far, far from the deadliest conflict in human history up to that point. World War One killed about 15 million people, or 30 million people if you consider those who died from effects of World War One, including the "Spanish" Flu. (But I don't think it's reasonable to count those as "war dead," whereas I do think it's reasonable to count deliberate famines, like the Ukranian Holomodor, or even famines caused by suppression of dissent, like in Maoist China or British Ireland.) The Taiping Rebellion in China saw 30 million people killed. The Mongol invasions saw 57 million people killed. By comparison, the Crusades saw about 1 million die. The Lushan Rebellion and Three Kingdoms War, also in China, also saw way more people than World War One killed. The Black Death was caused by Germ Warfare by Muslim invaders of the Seige of Caffa, and could have killed 200 million people.

81points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#23

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information When Betelgeuse goes supernova (if it hasn't already and we don't know yet) it will be visible in the day for roughly a year, and several more years we'll see it at night. That said, the prediction of 'when' by scientists is somewhere between today and 100,000 years from now. Odds are, none of us will see it.

throwaway_moose Report

Final score:

107points

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Barbara Wilcock 1 month ago

Does Michael keaton know

81points

RunDifferent2004 , wirestock / freepik Report

#24

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information There are currently more chickens than all other birds combined on this lovely planet.

Final score:

106points

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 month ago

And we are biding our time... *sharpens talons*

85points

#25

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Chimpanzees share more DNA in common with humans than they do with any other primate.

ecodrew , pixabay.com Report

Final score:

106points

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 month ago

Better be a feathered dino and share DNA with a velociraptor. It had much more style 😎

28points

#26

1/120 humans alive today are slaves paid nothing for their work. This doesn't include low wage slaves such as US prisoners. There are more slaves today than any other point in history.

LurkAndLoiter Report

Final score:

98points

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iseefractals 1 month ago

Overall message is correct, specifics are not. There are estimated to be 44 million people living in slavery today 1/186, while the entire 400 odd years of transatlantic slave trade impacted 15 million people (12-12.8 of which were africans) and only 388,000 of which ended up in the colonies/united states, with the majority of slaves today being in the middle east, india, china, north korea and spread across Africa. Everyone should be a little more concerned with the here and now, not the over and done with.

86points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#27

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Earth’s core is as hot as the Sun’s surface.

Front_Economist_2612 , freepik Report

Final score:

97points

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Tucker Cahooter 1 month ago

Guess I won't try and touch it then

41points

#28

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Australia is wider across than the moon.

PuddlePaddles , freepik Report

Final score:

92points

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Barbara Wilcock 1 month ago

How many gigantic spiders on the moon ?

69points

#29

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information About 25% of people on earth don't know their birthday because they're from countries that don't have birth certificates. That's why about 14% of immigrants to the U.S. list January 1 as their birthday - because they had to make one up.

Dragmom , freepik Report

Final score:

90points

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Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago

60 Minutes did an outstanding piece on a former slave family who now owns the plantation their ancestors were on. My wife could not understand how they(slaves) could not know their lineage. She got "woke" on this that day. And be sure to calmly explain what "woke" means using this example. Or the Tulsa "riots". Woke does not mean subservient, it means being aware of what has transpired and to be mindful to ensure there is no repeat.

110points

#30

The most common cause of death in pregnant women is homicide by their male partners.

TerribleLunch2265 Report

Final score:

88points

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Multa Nocte 1 month ago

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32points

baby-CutyLove_0912 Report

#31

You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away. Now that's some serious love!

Final score:

83points

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Ace 1 month ago

Detectable, and only with the right detectors. It's at a frequency not audible to the human ear.

63points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#32

We don't know how much coastline there is on Earth.

It's called "The Coastline Paradox". Coastlines are fractal. Sure, we can look at a broad scale map, but miss all the tiny variations, sometimes mere ft or centimeters. These add up to huge numbers. Measuring the length of a coastline is tricky because the result depends on how detailed your measurement is. Imagine walking along the shore with a ruler: if you use a big ruler, you'll skip over small curves and bumps, giving you a shorter measurement. But if you use a smaller ruler, you can measure all the little details, and the coastline will seem much longer. Plus, it's always changing. Erosion, cliff collapse, water levels rising, volcanic events adding or removing it.

ImprovementFar5054 Report

Final score:

82points

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Sleestak 1 month ago

I'd just like a general idea

28points

suroorshiv , University Libraries / flickr Report

#33

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Saudi Arabia imports sand.
Bonus fact: they also import camels.

Final score:

78points

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JB 1 month ago (edited)

Context: construction sand, as desert sand is terrible for concrete production.

89points

Aduro95 , Juan Felipe Ramírez / Pexels Report

#34

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Screech owls will sometimes bring live sankes into their nests with their chicks nesting inside. Probably because the tiny snakes will eat parasites, although the chicks do sometimes eat the snakes.

Final score:

76points

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Multa Nocte 1 month ago

That is a beautiful bird.

29points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#35

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

CozyFenn , Kevin M. Gill Report

Final score:

76points

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Leebo13 1 month ago

Another weird fact about Venus is that it has a hotter climate than Mercury because of its atmosphere.

34points

#36

We ground up most of the ancient Egyptian mummies into powder to paint with or…eat.

SuperHyperFunTime:
The Victorians were a fucking savage bunch.

Faust_8 Report

Final score:

75points

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Doctor Strange 1 month ago

Actually many of them were used as fuel instead of coal for trains.

29points

#37

There is also a shark (greenland shark, i think) that lives like 500 years; so there are sharks alive today that were alive before America became a country.

dwc29 Report

Final score:

75points

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Shrek 1 month ago

You are also more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark 🤨

95points

#38

Honey never spoils; researchers discovered edible honey in the pyramids.

CosmicBabexo Report

Final score:

72points

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Pyla 1 month ago

Bee barf forevah!

45points

#39

Caterpillars essentially liquify themselves, before turning into butterflies, in a process called larval ecdysis.

SnooChipmunks126 Report

Final score:

69points

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Pandemonium 1 month ago

They (you know, They) did a study where they trained caterpillars to be scared of some stimulus like a stink or a light pattern, and then tested the resulting butterflies after metamorphosis and saw the fear remained, so concluded that somewhere in that goo the memory persisted.

61points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#40

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bombs.

Syscrush:
Related: nuclear bombs were invented before the compound bow.

sylviawiese , pickpik Report

Final score:

68points

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Pyla 1 month ago

That makes sense, it correlates across a lot of tech. We walked since species inception until someone swung a leg over a horse, we rode a much shorter period of time henceforth, but rode for millennia longer than we drove in vehicles with zero equines attached to the front.

12points