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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Sarah Winchester (who built the “Winchester Mystery House”) was not into the occult, wasn’t afraid of evil spirits, and didn’t think she could live forever by continuing construction of her house - or, at least there is no evidence to support that. People who knew her said she was a devout Christian and would never have anything to do with the occult. The stories about spiritualism and paranoia are for the tourists. She probably just liked having workmen around and a little activity going on at the house - she was one of the richest women in the world, so she could do as she pleased. Some who knew her said she may have done it to keep locals employed. Far from being afraid of stopping construction, one of her letters mentions that she halted construction due to excessive heat out of concern for the workmen.
It’s interesting how BS can just take the place of reality if it’s repeated often enough.

nautius_maximus1 , loc.gov Report

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Doc Moran 1 year ago

Yes this. Also, when you visit it it’s not that weird. Yes some of the angles and doors and one staircase are nonsensical, but a lot of the features were practical to accommodate her physical disabilities. I was surprised how many of the rooms were juts light, airy, and pleasant. The tourist PR spin ends up being irritating when you visit the house.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Sharks have been around longer than the rings of Saturn.

That’s right! Current estimates suggest that Saturn’s rings are about 400 million years old, while sharks evolved roughly 450 million years ago. Interestingly, that also makes sharks older than trees and grass.

Modern humans been around for about 200,000 years. Humans about 6 million. We were in a stone age for about 2.6 million years.

We were not the first to use stone tools. There was another species, probably a close cousin, that used them about 700,000 years before the first human.

Chimpanzees and some other animals are currently in a stone age.

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Triceratops were probably the last species to die out.

Grass didn't evolve until 66 million years ago (iirc) so only the last of the dinosaurs saw grass.

Tyrannosaurus and triceratops lived closer to us (65 million years) than the stegosaurus (80 million years).

I have more. I'm full of useless facts.

kingferret53 , Bruno Aguirre Report

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Firefly1617 1 year ago

Pretty sure crows are in their Stone Age :D

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) There are at least three people who were born before the Wright Brothers took their first flight at Kittyhawk who were still alive when the Mars Rover died.

When they were born, humankind was stuck on the ground. In their lifetime, they saw single person flight, then military flight, intercontinental flight, a (gasp) female pilot, commercial flights, supersonic flight, space flight, humans on the moon, a probe sent out of the solar system, a robot cruising around on an entirely different planet picking up rocks, and finally that robot had been there so long it died. All in their lifetime.

That's just crazy to me.

King0Horse , Library of Congress Report

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bananafuntime 1 year ago

that would be one hell of a diary!

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) There was a man, Angus Barbieri who didn't eat for 382 days. He was morbidly obese and lived on tea, water, soda water and coffee while visiting the hospital weekly for vitamin and electrolyte treatments. He lost close to 280 lbs and broke his fast with an egg once he met his goal weight.

SurrealEffects , noiseformind Report

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

This does not sound like the right way to go about it.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) The spotted salamander is the only vertebrate that photosynthesises.

Believe it or not but this fact gets even more interesting. The yellow spotted salamander uses photosynthesis in the embryonic stage. It does this by forming a symbiotic relationship with algae, which produces oxygen to feed the embryo as it develops and receives the embryo’s waste products and carbon dioxide. Researchers have even found algae inside the embryo’s cells!

Centuri42 , Paweł Sroka Report

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bananafuntime 1 year ago

🎶 you’ve got a friend in me 🎶

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Greater one-horned rhino or Great Indian rhinoceros population stands at around 3,700 individuals, a significant increase from around 200 remaining at the turn of the 20th century. Strict protection and management action from Indian and Nepalese authorities and their partners are responsible for bringing the species back from the brink.

The Great Indian rhinoceros is definitely a conservation success story in the making, but there are still other species of rhinoceros that are at great risk of going extinct. Only about 60 Javan and about 200 Sumatran rhinoceros are thought to exist in the wild.

SuvenPan , Sanjay ach Report

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

20th century or 21st?

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) The tongue on a woodpecker wraps around its brain as a form of soft insulation when it hammers. Then the tongue is able to extend far into the tree to retrieve bugs when it isn’t hammering.

anon , Bill Pennell Report

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NatalieC 1 year ago

One time I saved an injured woodpecker who was about to get molested by a bunch of cats. He was very sweet and polite.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Opossums are extremely unlikely to have rabies. They have a lower body temperature than most mammals and it makes them an unsuitable host for rabies.

Opossums are fascinating creatures, and not only because they have a high resistance to rabies. Scientists believe that they were around at least as far back as the extinction of the dinosaurs, and they are also the only type of marsupial native to the US.

marcusjohnston , Robert Linder Report

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Susan Teter 1 year ago (edited)

Right now I have a mama opossum and her 8 babies in my old garage. They get along with my outside cats, and the babies actually play with my cats toys! The babies have watched the cats and have learned to use the litter box! Truly intelligent creatures!!!

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) A second is called a second because it is the 2nd division of the hour by 60 (pars minuta secunda), the 1st division being a minute (pars minuta prima).

edlee98765 , Agê Barros Report

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

translating the latin: pars = part, minuta = small

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) I don't think most people know the meaning of "prodigal." They know the parable of The Prodigal Son and think it refers to someone that leaves and then has to come crawling back, but that's incorrect. "Prodigal" means to spend money lavishly or wastefully. The prodigal son was prodigal whether or not he ever went back to his father.

onlytoask , blonybadr Report

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

compare: child prodigy: child who is good at stuff. OR prodigious supply: a large supply.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Big Ben is the Bell not the clock or tower.

anon , Clever Visuals Report

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Mark Fuller 1 year ago

Is this really one of those that "barely anyone knows"? I thought it was common knowledge, at least if you're British.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) The nuke stockpile in Washington State is guarded by trained dolphins that seek out and clamp a balloon on unfamiliar divers.

Gothsalts , Rudney Uezu Report

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Matt Du 1 year ago (edited)

Preowned red balloons, that are washed out of the sewer

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Hans Zimmer was the keyboard player on "Video Killed The Radio Star"

Kryodamus , oldmach Report

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whatever 1 year ago

I'm so old I remember when MTV actually played music videos.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Gary Numan was born two weeks before Gary Oldman

steve0suprem0 , garynuman Report

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Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago

Gary Numan is the most incredible musician I've ever heard. Props to him!!

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Raindrops don’t fall in the drip shape popularly conveyed. They fall in the shape of tiny parachutes or hamburger buns.

CBGville , Inge Maria Report

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Gøøse 1 year ago

This is due to the fact that, when an object is falling, it tries to orient itself in the position with the most amount of drag. Thus, raindrops with a flat surface on the bottom have way more drag than the classic teardrop shape.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Before being born, two of the four chambers of a baby's heart are not used, they're actually bypassed!

There's no need to pump de-oxygenated blood to the lungs when in the womb, because the lungs aren't breathing air yet, and so are not supplying oxygen. All the oxygen comes from the umbilical cord.

So the two chambers responsible for sending blood to/from the lungs are (largely) bypassed.

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Huddo's sister 1 year ago

I never knew that, but now it seems obvious!

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Rabies kills around 60,000 people globally every year. To date, only 14 people worldwide have been known to recover after developing symptoms.

Rabies is as deadly as it is because it targets our central nervous system and destroys our body’s ability to perform essential functions. However, it does have a moderately long incubation period. If a bite victim is treated with the vaccine within 10 days of being bitten, they can expect to survive, but by the time symptoms appear, it’s already too late.

Johhnymaddog316 , CDC PHIL Report

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Madam Puddyfoot 1 year ago

This is why every animal- inside or out- should be vaccinated for rabies. Folks often say," My pet is indoors only", but if the pet escapes or a bat gets in the house, the risk is there. And they can transmit it to us. It is a myth that all animals with rabies act like Cujo. Many people don't realize that the only way to test for rabies in an animal is to examine brain tissue. So if a vet has to euthanize an animal that is a rabies suspect, we have to cut off the head and send it to the lab. It is exactly as gory and traumatic as you imagine.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Boanthropy is a psychological disorder in which a person believes they are a cow and try to live their life as one. Medical explanations suggest late-stage syphilis as one of the causes? Cool

j451k4 , François Germain Report

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Grazing in the meadow all day with the other gals, watching for cars. Cool.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) More pigeons have war medals than horses, dogs or mules

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Awkward Momma Panda 1 year ago

In their defense, it is rather hard to care for a horse, dog, or mule when you’re a pigeon. A great many have helped war efforts, though.

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Dense_Calligrapher36 , amirali mirhashemian Report

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) The original Red Velvet cake didn’t use food coloring. The red color was a result of a chemical reaction between vinegar and dutch cocoa powder. It also originally used Ermine Frosting, a boiled milk frosting (which is delicious)

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

I always assumed it was because it used beetroot as the ingredient.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Many species of shark have seven senses, most notably the ‘man eaters’ (I despise that term) Tiger, Bull, and Great White.

In addition to the traditional five, sharks also possess ampullae of lorenzini (gel-filled pores on their snout - think of the black freckles on a Great White) that detect electrical impulses such as spasmodic movement in water and ambient electrical fields, and the lateral line (a thin organ running down their sides) that acts as a magnetic detector, which allows the shark to orient itself in real time to the earth’s magnetic field, giving it a sense of direction akin to that of a bird.

Great Whites additionally are coated in denticles. Despite their smooth appearance, their skin is actually extremely rough and toothlike. Think of sandpaper on some serious steroids. A Great White bumping into you can actually peel layers off you like a potato peeler. That’s if they don’t give you a bite of course!

On to that, despite their fearsome reputation, Great Whites don’t care for humans as a food source. They need immense amounts of blubbery fat and meat like whales and seals can provide, we’re simply too lean for them to get much nutrition. Most attacks are down to either territory being defended, or simple mistaken identity. They’ve got terrible eyesight, so a human on a boogie board looks exactly like a seal from below. And, as they have no hands, biting is the only way they can be sure of something. It just sucks for us that that’s typically fatal.

Finally, if you ever get a moment, look up spy hopping. Sharks can and will pop their heads above water to get a lay of the land. It’s frightening to behold.

ReaverRogue , Wai Siew Report

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The Alchemist 1 year ago

Hate the term man eaters then go on to say "If they don't give you a bite" as if it's common, then explain it's not.

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mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago

Well, if you're close enough to a shark to touch it, there's a good chance it could bite you.

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moon_magic 1 year ago

Maybe they just give a little love nibble

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Lila Allen 6 months ago

It's not common to be bitten at all. More people are killed by cows than sharks by a large margin. Great White bites are tremendously rare

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Katy Cordeth 1 year ago

I've occasionally wondered why wetsuits tend to be black. If anything is going to make a human diver look more like a seal to a shark, it's that. Make them out of a primary colour; anything but black. You're basically cosplaying as a seal when you put a black wetsuit on and enter the water.

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LeeAnne B 1 year ago

In South Africa, more particularly on the west coast, is one of the most unique locations where Great Whites breach up out of the water when hunting seals. That's terrifying and exhilarating.

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The other-other David Wong 1 year ago

Humans have, at a minimum, 9 senses. John’s Hopkins University lays them out pretty well here and explains that there are many yet to be categorized https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/how-many-senses-do-we-have

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Joroches 1 year ago

I'd never heard anyone group those types of sharks together as "the man eaters". I wonder why you used it if you hate the term.

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HeavyMetalHeart 1 year ago

Only certain species are known to attack humans, and those ones fall within that group. So it’s reasonable to say people refer to them as man-eaters.

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Cammy Mack 1 year ago

The "man eaters" are just food for the orca...the actual top predator in the oceans.

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Ti Al 1 year ago

*opens a diet app

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

I'm doomed

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the engineer 🇺🇦 1 year ago

i find spy hopping cute. their little heads poking out just sayin "hi"

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Owen 1 year ago

If you roll a shark over they kind of get hypnotised/paralysed. It's hilarious, although I'm not sure if the shark likes it. But they hopefully don't care.

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Jeffrey Diehl Premium 1 year ago

The orcas do that to the sharks before eating their livers.

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[>.<]/ 1 year ago

Akshually... Humans have a lot more than 5 senses. Somewhere around 20 is said.

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Marek Yanchurak 1 year ago

Don't know why you've been downvoted, this is absolutely true. We have a sense of balance, a sense of pain, senses for hunger and thirst, a sense of bodily/spatial orientation. There are a variety of internal sense beyond hunger and thirst. I think a fair enumeration of our senses is, as you note, in the low 20's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 1 year ago

You contradicted yourself when you included Great Whites under 'man-eaters', and later mentioned that they avoid humans if possible. And lateral lines are used to detect vibrations in the water, not electrical/magnetic fields. that is solely the function of the Ampullae of Lorenzini.

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Michelle K 1 year ago

There are more than 500 species of sharks swimming in the world's ocean. Since 1970, shark populations have been reduced by 71%, mostly from overfishing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark#Threats_to_sharks

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Mat Hall 1 year ago

Pretty much every complex animal has more than five senses. Big deal. Pain. Hot. Cold. Balance. Proprioception. Orientation with respect to gravity. The list goes on...

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der sebbl 1 year ago

Iirc the lateral line can be found on many fish species

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D Gibson 1 year ago

A baby shark variety floated ashore when we were in Hawaii one time. The skin was like high grit sandpaper. ( Yes, it was deceased.)

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Jeffrey Diehl Premium 1 year ago

Thank dog I only go ocean swimming with my pod of orcas.

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MiTmite9 1 year ago

Cool. I've only ever heard of spy hopping in relation to whales.

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Scott J 1 year ago

Great timing for this one. Yesterday, I regretfully watched the video of the Russian man getting killed by that shark in Egypt. Likely a tiger or bull shark as they're the most aggressive breeds.

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Kellie Whyte 1 year ago

Except it's not typically fatal at all. A hell of a lot more people survive shark attacks than die. There is actually a beach in Florida that actually holds the record for most shark attacks every year, but very few are fatal.

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Celeste Grant 1 year ago

This comment gets a lot of things wrong as the comments show. I think that it shows the correct information is more widely known than the commenter expected! Maybe "shark week" is popular viewing!

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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

Pretty sure they eat fish, which are lean, and not just whales. They don't generally like humans because we're not their natural prey. Not because we're too "lean." Proving this whole article is just a bunch of peoples ideas or opinions.

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Niall Mac Iomera 1 year ago

Humans have far more than 5 senses. Heat, pressure, air pressure, proprioception, hunger just of the top of my head.

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Adam King 1 year ago

No, sharks are smooth.

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BatPhace 1 year ago

Also it's not "typically fatal", people kill each other far more than sharks kill people

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Wax0nWax0ff 1 year ago

That wasn’t the point though. “It’s typically fatal [to humans when sharks bite].”

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) The girl who voiced Lilo in Lilo and Stitch also played Samara in The Ring, both released in the same year (2002).

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Ohana means YOU WILL DIE IN SEVEN DAYS!

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) the middle name of Michael J. Fox is Andrew.

DieInsel1 , realmikejfox Report

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Eva Kašu 1 year ago

You mean Jandrew?

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Concrete can set underwater.

cizzoo , uve sanchez Report

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

yes, because the reaction is silicate plus alumnium hydroxide catalysed by water to give aluminium silicate. Something like that. Point is the water is just a catalyst. It's not mud - a watery suspension of silicate particles. Mudbricks are made runny by water, and then dry out (loses the water) to the sun via evaporation, leaving the silicates in close proximity/bonded. Whereas concrete is an actual chemical reaction.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Animals and other creatures each perceive time in different ways based on their Critical flicker frequency which is almost like their minds refresh rate, dogs for example perceive time as being slower than humans do and it's perceived as a little faster by cats.

This model can be used to describe our perception of time, but most directly, it is a term that reflects how our brains process visual information. A creature’s critical flicker frequency is the threshold at which a rapidly flashing light appears to them as a steadily shining light.

TwilightArcade , Sonja Langford Report

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Helena 1 year ago

No wonder cats are always over it

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) No one has found a centipede with exactly 100 legs, because all centipedes discovered have an odd number of pairs of legs they have found centipedes with 98(49 pairs) and 102(51 pairs) but never exactly 100.

ZagreusD , Viktor Talashuk Report

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)

Centipedes can have between 15 and 177 pairs of legs depending on the species (average 35 pairs), and millipedes can have up to 200 pairs. The main differences are that centipedes have one pair of legs on each segment of their bodies- millipedes have two. Also, centipedes are voracious predators with venonous toesies that want to murder you.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) The Earth's rotation is slowing down, and we soon will have more than 24 hours in a day (well, soon, geologically speaking...).

As the Earth slows and extends the length of its days, we can consider what a “day” looks like on other planets in our solar system. The shortest is Jupiter at a zippy 10 hours and the longest is Venus at a painfully slow 5,832 hours. The closest day to hours is on Mars (25 hours).

toucanfrog , NASA Report

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

We already have more than 24 hours in a day. This is why we have to add an extra day to the calendar every 4 years on leap year.

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slytherinprolly , Benigno Hoyuela Report

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Of all the US states, Maine is the closest to Africa. Seriously look at a globe, not just that flat oval map you saw in every classroom growing up. Africa is further north than you think, and Maine is further east than you think.

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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

I'd have liked a globe picture where I could see both Maine and Africa.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) A quarter has 119 ridges.

118 on a dime.

d2the3 , Joshua Hoehne Report

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Tuesday's child 1 year ago

Imagine taking the time to count

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) The British trained seagulls to poo on the periscopes of enemy submarines before they realised seagulls can’t fly that far out to sea

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Robert T 1 year ago

We have also trained them to steal your chips at seaside resorts!

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#32

A couple interesting science facts that lead to in interesting likely somewhat obscure fact about an old kitchen appliance. (Although I did learn this from a YouTube video which currently has 1.6M views, so at least that many other people probably know it)

When you cook something in boiling water, is always cooks at the boiling temperature of water no matter how long it's in there. Once water begins to boil any additional heat you apply goes to converting the water to steam. You can't actually get it any hotter. The hotter you make the fire the faster it boils off, but the liquid water never gets above 212F at sea level.

If you heat a magnetic metal up it will eventually lose its magnetism. If it's an actual magnet, you just permanently un-magnet-ed it. If it's a normal piece of metal though it will just lose the ability to stick to a magnet and that property will return when it cools down. The exact temperature this happens at varies depending on the metal.

Combine these facts together and you can make a nearly perfect automatic rice cooker. Basically you take metal pot and put the appropriate ratio of rice and water in it and set it in the cooker. The cooker has a heating element of a known wattage that heats up and boils the water. The pot will sit right at the boiling temperature of water as long as liquid water remains because the water will be absorbing all the excess energy to turn to steam. As long as you followed directions the amount of time that water will take to boil off is very predictable with the fixed heating element. That will be the appropriate time to cook the matching amount of rice. Once the water has boiled off the pot will quickly begin to heat up. Unchecked this would quickly burn and ruin the rice. However, under the metal pot of the cooker is a button that is being pulled down by a spring but is held against the pot by magnetism from an attached permanent magnet. The button is made from a metal that loses its magnetism just above the boiling point of water. Once all the water boils off the pot starts to heat up and quickly demags the button which gets pulled by the spring and automatically turns off the heat. Perfectly cooked rice through physics.

EDIT: [The video I mentioned](https://youtu.be/RSTNhvDGbYI)

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Robert T 1 year ago

If you are heating a pot from below, then the surface of the pot will be higher than the boiling point of water and so will any food that is contact with it. This is why cooks use a Bain-Marie to control the temperature. A bowl sits over a pan of water. The water can only reach 100C (as described above) and so the bottom of the bowl can only reach 100C and no more.

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Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Pill bugs are crustaceans, like crabs or lobsters, that’s why they are always in the dampest places.

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Woodlice. Pillbugs is the american term.

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#34

Being in a “higher tax bracket” does not make your take home pay less. That’s not how taxes work.

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Nupraptor 1 year ago

This should help explain it: Entreprene...0b552e.jpg

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The poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley is based off a statue brought from eygpt by the French, and passed onto the British. The very same statue is in the British museum on full display.

Another cool fact about that statue is all the damage done to it was done *after* it was discovered. They just had such a hard time moving it.

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Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago

I met a traveler from an antique lad, who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert”.

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#36

The Jews were expelled from Spain in the 1400s. No Jewish children were born again in Spain until 1966.

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Dave Van Beurden 1 year ago

1492 to be exact. The fall of Granada, marking the ending of the Reconquista, thus providing the money for Columbus to sail. And the Alhambra decree, expelling all Jews or making them convert to Christianity.

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an old school mini is the size of a blue whale's heart. And you can fit humans in its arteries. It's big.

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bananafuntime 1 year ago

🐳

5points

#38

Since 1969, there have been more Popes (5) than head coaches of the Pittsburgh Steelers (3).

Marco_Escuandola Report

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16points

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WonderWoman 1 year ago

Since 1969 there have been more Popes (5) than marriages I have had (1)

11points

#39

Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) The same computer software used for the CGI in jurassic park was used to make the sprites for donkey kong country

placeholderNull , ak077 Report

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14points

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Orion Red 1 year ago (edited)

Didn't south Park buy it?

3points

#40

Someone Asks People To Share Facts That “Barely Anyone Knows”, And They Deliver (30 Answers) Sara Josepha Hale is the reason for the myth and celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States. She asked President Lincoln in 1863 to champion a holiday that would bring families together in the wake of the U.S. Civil War. The goal was to get people back in each others company to celebrate the nation. She then helped perpetuate a myth of "The First Thanksgiving" to remind the country of how the colonists persevered with the help of indigenous peoples. Seven years later, other Federal Holidays would officially be recognized throughout the country.

LDexter , Richard's Free Library Report

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11points

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Burnt Bagel 1 year ago

My god people…look and actually research the roots of most Judeo-Christian holidays and they are masquerades for ancient, more paganistic celebrations. Does anybody read history anymore?

7points