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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious In mid-2000s Kagoshima, Japan, an alarming rise in power blackouts was traced back to crows who were building their nests on top of electric poles. The power company formed a “Crow Patrol” in order to seek and destroy the crows’ nests. The crows responsed by building thousands of dummy nests as decoys.

The war is ongoing.

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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 months ago

Well, I guess we all know who is going to win this war, don't mess with crows

133points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Not mind-blowing but worth sharing: There are more libraries in the US than there are Starbucks.

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Ronald Robin 4 months ago

Ngl i thought there were more starbucks

65points

Sir-Viette , Islands in the Sea 2002, NOAA/OER Report

Seeking to delve deeper into how curiosity correlates with learning, Bored Panda got in touch with Dr. Diane Hamilton, who pointed out that such a link is found not only in humans.

“Curiosity, a fundamental aspect of learning and knowledge, is not exclusive to humans,” she said in a recent interview. “The Max Planck Institute introduced the term ‘curiosity gene’ based on researching a songbird. Imagine a bird that lacks curiosity. It may fly around a bush, searching for berries, but if it doesn't venture to explore other bushes, it will perish once the berries are depleted. Curiosity not only facilitates learning and knowledge, but also triggers a sense of reward in our brains, thanks to the release of dopamine.”

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious The weirdest animal in the world is the jellyfish called the Portuguese Man ‘o War (also called a bluebottle in Australia).

It gives birth via a process called “budding”, where a new animal just sort of pops off a random place on the jelly. But it doesn’t give birth to whole other jellyfish. It gives birth to many different types of animal-like creatures called “zooids”. They live on the bottom of the jelly, live independently from each other, but can’t survive without the others.

For instance, there’s a zooid that can digest fish, but can’t catch them. There’s a tentacle zooid that can catch fish, but can’t digest them. There are also several other zooids like that. Scientists have been scratching their heads about how to classify this creature, and are calling it a colony rather than an animal.

And that leads to an interesting question. What is the organism? Is it the zooid, because it moves around independently, but can’t really survive very long on its own? Or is it the whole jellyfish, in which case the zooids are a bit like organs, except for the fact that they might go for a walk occasionally?

And if you say that the whole jellyfish is the organism, maybe bees aren’t an organism either, but a beehive is?

That’s the problem with classification systems. As soon as you make one, along comes some weird example that makes you have to start again.

Final score:

201points

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Jennik 4 months ago

This probably doesn't count as an incredible fact that people don't know, but is a whole more relevant if you are at the beach: DON'T TOUCH THEM! We had this drilled into us as kids. The sting isn't usually deadly but it is extremely painful and can make you very unwell.

85points

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#5

30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Otters have pouches in their sides they keep their favourite rocks in for smashing open clams. It's not just simians that use tools.

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186points

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Uncanny 4 months ago

Even otters have pockets. Not us women, tho! Where are we supposed to keep our clam smashing rocks? In our bra? 😉

225points

Whiskey_Warchild , Anne Marie Peterson/Flickr Report

The author of Cracking the Curiosity Code noted that we’re not equally curious throughout our entire lives. “We are born with high levels of curiosity that peak around five and then diminish dramatically as we grow older,” she told Bored Panda.

“That same peak and drop happens to creativity as well. In his incredible TED talk about whether schools kill creativity, Sir Ken Robinson acknowledged that we have created an educational system that educates people out of their competencies. To fulfill 19th-century industrial job requirements, we created a hierarchy in education where math and science were at the top, and creative thinking was at the bottom. As education rewarded top-tiered skills like math and science more often, the system became about creating more academics, which in turn undervalued undergraduate degrees. This then caused more and more top-tiered skilled degrees to be made. Not surprisingly, such a system has harmed curiosity and creativity, which are fundamental for innovation.”

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Lake Superior. on that lake is an island called Isle Royale. on that island is a lake. on that lake is an island. on that island is a pond, and on that pond is boulder. that boulder is the largest island on the largest pond on the largest island on the largest lake on the largest island on the largest lake in the world (by surface area).

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185points

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Jennik 4 months ago

Sounds like the story: "In the dark, dark, wood, there's a dark, dark house. And in the dark, dark house...."

63points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Switzerland, the country of neutrality, has unintentionally invaded its neighbor Liechtenstein 3-5 times…1968-2007.

3/4 times Liechtenstein didn’t know of it until Switzerland apologized.

The 1/4 was that one time Switzerland fired a missile and caused a forest fire, reparations were paid.

After one incident, the Liechtensteiners reportedly offered drinks to the Swiss soldiers.

A Liechtenstein spokesman said, "It's not like they invaded with attack helicopters".

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165points

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BoredPossum 4 months ago

"Invaded". Liechtenstein is really small. You can walk through it is an hour. The invasion was a soldier accidentally walking there or something.

66points

#8

30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious The Amazon River is over 4,000 miles long and doesn't have any bridges that cross it.

rredline , Dennis Jarvis/Flickr Report

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162points

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Jack Burton 4 months ago (edited)

So 6500 km... That's the distance between Paris and New Delhi. Quite amazing.

69points

“To better understand this impact, look at its effect on children,” Dr. Hamilton continued. “As part of his work with NASA, Professor George Land created an assessment to test for creativity and studied children to view how their levels changed. He found that 98% of children were creative geniuses at age five. By age ten, that number fell to 30%. By age 15, that figure dropped to 12%; by age 31, only 2% were creative geniuses.

“Curiosity is important throughout all stages of our existence. Unfortunately, when our levels drop in adulthood, that can limit us and lead us into jobs we don't love or choices that feel safe rather than rewarding.”

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Squirrels can’t find 80% of the nuts they hide.

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159points

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Rizzo 4 months ago

They aren't losing nuts - they are planting trees. :)

18points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious The earliest known public museum dates to circa 530 BCE and it had archeological Mesopotamian artifacts on display.

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151points

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Sava Hax 4 months ago

I'd love to visit that. 😍

30points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious In Turkey (the country) turkey meat is called "Hindi" (India).

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139points

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The danish woman 4 months ago

And in Denmark we call "danish" (the pastry) for "wienerbrød" (bread fom Vienna 😉

83points

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“Reading about interesting things is great for our curiosity,” the expert said, discussing how browsing random fascinating facts like the ones on this list can affect one’s curiosity. “Sometimes, we don't know what we don't know, and reading a fun fact can spark the desire to dig deeper. It makes us want to learn more.”

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Shirley Temple led an extremely successful life as a diplomat after her childhood acting career. She was present in Czechoslovakia when the Soviet's cracked down on them (as in, she seen people killed). Later after the fall of the USSR, she was the head of establishing diplomatic relations between the US and Czechoslovakia.

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119points

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PattyK 4 months ago

… she saw people …

61points

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#13

30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Trees communicate.

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117points

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David Paterson 4 months ago

Trees communicate in at least two ways. One is by releasing chemicals (terpenes) into the air that other trees can smell. A second way is by touching roots, and sending chemical signals through the root contact point. There may be a third way, direct contact between branches.

70points

kimtenisqueen , Karolina Kaboompics/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious You have a holey face. Your sinuses are big empty cavities in your skull. The maxillary sinus is the biggest. It’s just under your eye (under the cheek bones) and I swear you could fit 3 grapes in each one.

Except for when they are full of snot.

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107points

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kelsischloe1986 4 months ago

Please excuse me while I go see if I can shove 3 grapes up my maxillary sinus hole. Worst case scenario, I fail the objective. Best case scenario, I get to eat grapes, the ones I didn't stick up my nose hole of course. :-) Lol!

24points

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According to Dr. Hamilton, curiosity is the spark to all that organizations want to achieve regarding innovation, engagement, and everything that makes people productive. “When we learn, we find out where we are the best fit in our jobs, and that aligns us with better careers.

“The real trick is determining what inhibits our curiosity,” she said, suggesting that the Curiosity Code Index assessment is a great way to do that. “Like DiSC or other personality tests, it only takes around 10 minutes to find out the things that have held us back from learning and exploring. More importantly, it offers insights into overcoming those factors that have stopped us from developing our curiosity.”

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Modern postural yoga-- the type and style predominantly practiced in Western countries-- is about 100 years old. It was invented in India by Indians and is derived mostly from British calisthenics and Swedish gymnastics. It was *specifically marketed to affluent westerners by Indians* as a superior form of spiritual and physical exercise. It's working as designed for its target market.

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105points

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ॐBoyGanesh 4 months ago

Asanas, the physical postures or “exercise” part of yoga, have been around for a very long time. Specific sequences and the naming of these postures is more recent, but still based on a practice that prexists tue western version.

34points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Chicago "The Windy City" is known for political wind not regular wind.

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99points

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PattyK 4 months ago

Political hot air, you mean.

71points

LowReputation , GEORGE DESIPRIS/Pexels Report

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Sharks predate trees.

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97points

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BoredPossum 4 months ago

Well, they ARE predators.

168points

Lvivalentine , MART PRODUCTION/Pexels Report

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious The brain is the only organ that named itself.

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94points

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Sava Hax 4 months ago

How about the tongue?

44points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious When you put a bumper sticker or decal on, spray a couple sprays of diluted soapy water or simple green on the surface of the car first, then put the sticker down…. And you can slide it around until it’s even and centered. Use a credit card to squeegee the moisture out from underneath, pat dry, and leave it alone. It’ll adhere as it dries.

No more crooked stickers.

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93points

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Wills mom 4 months ago

This is called the "wet method." I use it all them time when applying vinyl to some projects.

31points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Solar eclipses are a completely random quirk of arbitrary factors.

The sun is roughly 400x bigger than the moon. The sun is also roughly 400x further away from earth than the moon.

Nothing created or enforces that ratio. It’s just a random happenstance that from our view, on the surface of this planet, the sun and moon seem roughly the same size, and can perfectly overlap.

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87points

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Ash 4 months ago

Planet Earth is so much freaking fun.

32points

#21

30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious The chainsaw was invented as a tool to aid in childbirth. Rotating blades to get through the pelvic bone…..

WeThePeeps2020 , Sabine Salfer Report

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86points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

Look up Symphysiotomy on Wikipedia and the feel free to be horrified that people actually did that.

37points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious A compressed spring weighs more than when the same spring is at rest. The stored potential energy of the compressed spring makes it heavier.

Really puts e = mc^2 into perspective.

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84points

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T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago (edited)

So if a weeping angel touched a spring they could live off it and not need to send humans into the past? Where's the Doctor? We should inform him forthwith!

46points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Each (human) cell in your body has over 2m (6ft) of DNA in it.

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81points

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Pamelot 4 months ago

Whoa!

11points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious The emotion you feel when realizing, that the people around you are complex human beings like yourself with emotions, memories and "someone inside there", is called Sonder.

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80points

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BoredPossum 4 months ago

Often present when drunk.

20points

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious People aren’t persuaded to change their views with facts and this his been studied and proven.

ETA there’s a YouTube video on the BrainCraft channel about this. It was put up in the last day or so if anyone is curious..

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73points

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cerinamroth 4 months ago

It has been shown that the best way to try and change someone's mind is to empathise with their reason for feeling the way they do. So, for example, with a couple I know who turned out to be antivaxxers (I had no idea before the pandemic!), I sympathised with their underlying fears (loss of control, excessive fear for their child's health - understandable since they had nearly lost him at birth) and then changed the subject. When I brought up my own stance on vaccines later, they were able to listen. Only by doing that and giving time for the information to sink in where they are not under scrutiny were they able to come around to vaccinating their kid against other childhood illnesses (admittedly not Covid).

77points

Data1001 4 months ago

Yep. Facts won't change minds of those who have dug in deep. Only an emotional appeal will.

8points

Salty_Sasquatch 4 months ago

Not quite the same thing, but I'm a receptionist for a local branch of a security company. I've had the occasional person call to complain about something and be very upset, often repeating themselves several times. The best way to calm them down is to say to them how frustrating that must have been, and I'm so sorry that happened to you, etc, repeating as necessary.

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Mike m 4 months ago (edited)

People don't like to be attacked. I've changed my view on things usually whem I'm alone and can review information from both sides in my own time and space. I also don't have an agenda though, something a lot of people have. I'm not trying to push an agenda but i do call out lies when i see it. We all need to make our own decisions but to do that we need the truth. Only one major news network just recently paid out $787m for lies but some people don't care. They have an agenda.

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Becca Cliff 4 months ago

That's kindness, to listen and empathize.

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Mike F 4 months ago

Still mixing bleach with their OJ in the morning?

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Jeremy James 4 months ago

The only thing we know that works for certain is to be visited in the night by three spirits.

17points

Salty_Sasquatch 4 months ago

🤣🤣🤣

3points

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago

MAGA is proof that facts don't matter.

7points

kelsischloe1986 4 months ago

Not sure that they think facts don't matter. More so they indulge in alternative facts and made up facts and outright lie about the facts sometimes.

8points

Sava Hax 4 months ago

You know who else? EVERYONE. It's not just Trump. You're equally biased as the right.

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Patricia Smith 4 months ago

A part of changing someone's ideas may have to do with affirmation. Someone alluded to that before. We all want to be listened to and be really heard. Our feelings, thoughts and strong beliefs go to the heart of who we are. Our very heart. Affirmation does this. You don't have to agree with who you're talking with but you have to actively repeat what they say to you in ways that make them know you understand where they're coming from. It works for both their understanding and yours. Then when you later express your ideas, your spouse or friends or colleagues are more inclined to listen. Maybe even be persuaded. It takes effort but people who feel valued are more likely to change ideas and actions.

4points

Stephanie A Mutti 4 months ago

The amount of control our amygdala has over us is amazing. We THINK we are thinking but we are feeling with words.

4points

Kathy 4 months ago

This especially applies to people who believe what they are told to believe by figures of "authority" because challenging authorities on anything that has been presented as "fact" is politically incorrect. Science is all about continually questioning science, but many people would rather hold onto what has been presented as scientific dogma no matter what. Banning scientific discussion on sensitive topics in the name of "science" is ironic because challenging science is how you do science.,

2points

General Anaesthesia 4 months ago

It depends on who is doing the challenging: scientists challenging each other is how you do science. As Isaac Asimov said: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

11points

SCamp 4 months ago

So that explains Trump

2points

Tamra 4 months ago

That explains Trump Republicans, really. They call themselves the party of "law and order", but are supporting a convicted felon. 😂

0points

Lesbitarian Lady Premium 4 months ago

Guess that explains the followers of the orange felon

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HolyDiver 4 months ago

Too many people confuse 'Facts' with Statistics or opinions. Statistics can be manipulated along with polling and surveys. Opinions... well, we all know about those. Also, what someone may deem factual today, may actually change after gaining more information/technology.

1point

Ashley Lynne 4 months ago

100% but only people that understand that will change their minds and that is few

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Anya Beboop 4 months ago

I disagree to a point but should watch the video I guess.

1point

ॐBoyGanesh 4 months ago

In addition to our denial of death, Ernest Becker is responsible for introducing this concept in 1973.

1point

Donae Sommerfeld Lugo 4 months ago (edited)

I believe this. Despite all facts and information, there are people who still think Trump is a good human being and not the mentally deranged thing that he is.

0points

Becca Cliff 4 months ago

But so many do not know how to use reason and logic and will believe foolish conspiracy theories. Gullible people are dangerous.

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brittany 4 months ago

the show adam ruins everything also covers this in one of his episodes.

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Scott Rackley 4 months ago

"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired" - Jonathan Swift, 1721 We've known this for a while.

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Strahd Ivarius 4 months ago

I am pretty sure this is wrong, no need to see a video to infirm my beliefs...

0points

Sava Hax 4 months ago

No, cognitive dissonance makes quick work of that.

0points

Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 4 months ago

Of course, it also doesn't help if the facts provided are nonsense, like half of this list.

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Infinitely more planes in the ocean than locomotives in the sky.

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69points

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Ash 4 months ago

Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.

50points

#27

30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Nike has warranties on their shoes. If yours remains in the tread life and within the warranty date, you just make a claim and they’ll give you a voucher for new shoes and paid postage to send the old ones back.

Target will also take any Cat and Jack clothes back for an exchange as your kids grow.

Brake pads only need to be bought once for the life of a car. They are then warranty exchanged as you wear them out.

Clearly, I’m a dad.

DuckFlat , JD Danny/Pexels Report

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67points

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Ace 4 months ago

At least one of these - the brake pads, is completely untrue. Anyone getting "free" replacements has signed up for a lifetime servicing contract or similar. They're treated as 'consumables', just like wiper blades and tyres, and indeed many other components including some engine parts that have a defined life span.

86points

im_the_real_dad , NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Arizona State University/Carnegie Institution of Washington Report

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30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious Most of the time, the closest planet to Earth is Mercury. Actually, most of the time Mercury is the closest planet to all of the other planets, too. Even Pluto.

If you don't believe it, try a quick experiment. Take four cookies (or other small objects) and line them up on a table in front of you, perpendicular to your body. The closest cookie represents Earth. The next cookie is Venus, then Mercury, then the farthest cookie is the Sun. Obviously, Venus is closest to Earth in this configuration.

Now move Venus and Mercury in their "orbits" 90 degrees to the right (or left, it doesn't matter) of the Sun. Measure the distance from Earth to Mercury and Venus. Mercury is now closest to Earth.

Move Venus and Mercury another 90 degrees and Mercury is obviously closer, even without measuring, but measure it if you want to.

Move Venus and Mercury another 90 degrees and you'll have the mirror image of the first 90 degrees configuration. Measure it if you want to. Mercury is still closest to Earth.

You have to move Venus and Mercury closer to the Earth before you get to a point where they are the same distance from Earth. It works like this for all the planets.

Venus and Mercury and don't revolve together like this in real life. They revolve at different speeds. But over thousands or millions of years, it all averages out.

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66points

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Mimi La Souris 4 months ago

you lost me at "cookies"

92points

#29

30 Interesting Facts To Intrigue The Ever-Curious You only need 39 digits of pi to calculate the radius of the universe to the width of a single atom.

It sounds BS but it's true. For the average engineer or scientist you'll never need more than 3.141.

TBBT-Joel , Pixabay/Pexels Report

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65points

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Ace 4 months ago

3.142

42points