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People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones 2006, which doesn’t feel THAT long ago, saw the death of two colossally old tortoises. The first, Harriet, was reportedly collected by Charles Darwin when he visited the Galápagos on the HMS Beagle. She belonged to Steve Irwin at the time of her death. Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin shared a “pet.” Estimated to have lived 176 years.

The second, Adwaita, was born before the United States declared its independence from England. Think of it: just 14 years ago, there was a land creature alive that was older than our country. Just incredible.

harpo-polo , wikipedia Report

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Guild N. Stern 4 years ago

Not my country.

119points

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones November 2, 2000 was the last time all humans were on the planet together. Since then at least one person has remained on the international space station

theguy4785 , nasa Report

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Scagsy 4 years ago

What about Major Tom?

79points

I wish it was as easy to remember these facts as it was to scroll through. In reality, we do learn things every day, but not much of that information sticks with us.

But memory is a very complex function. It turns out, much of it is generated not only through recollection, but also through the emotions that are attached to it. Shahram Heshmat, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Springfield, believes that “emotion affects all the phases of memory formation.”

For example, “Attention guides our focus to select what’s most relevant for our lives and is normally associated with novelty.” And nothing focuses the mind more than a surprise which escalates emotional intensity.

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year.

Also, that same year, Betty White was already 7 years old.

Rob_Vegas , wikipedia Report

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243points

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Scagsy 4 years ago

A good year for the human race

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social-shipwreck , Matthew Dillon Report

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The oldest living tree in the world methuselah is 4851 years old

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235points

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Iapetos 4 years ago

Respect the elderly!

102points

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones That the Oxford Univeristy is older than the Aztec Empire

TheRhinoMonk , Samuel M Report

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235points

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Kit Tan 4 years ago

Oxford University established in 1096, the alliance of three city-states forming the Aztec Empire occured in 1428.

133points

Another interesting thing which escalates long-term memory is not the recollection of a fact itself, but rather the so-called mood memory. Prof. Heshmat explains that “Our current emotional state facilitates recall of experiences that had a similar emotional tone.”

For example, being in a bad mood primes us to think of and remember unpleasant moments.Having said that, most of the things we forget easily have to do with our inability to put them in our long-term memory.

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.

That's like you standing in New York and hearing a sound from San Francisc

armagoei , NASA Goddard Space Report

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martin Phiri 4 years ago

loud and deadly

54points

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones If time travel were possible, you would need a time-and-space-machine to survive the trip, otherwise when you travelled back in time, the planet would be at a different point in its rotation around the sun and our solar system would be at a different point in space as it rotates, which means you'd travel back in time and be in an empty part of space

brad-corp , Herman Rhoids Report

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Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago

Omg! I have to cancel all my plans after I read this!

150points

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The International Space station is closer to the earth than San Francisco is to L.A

BareassedM , NASA Report

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212points

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Johnny 4 years ago

You can bike from SF to LA in 42 hours, less than the typical 2 day trip to the ISS (though some have been shorter)

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Meanwhile, forcing yourself to memorize things is likely not to be very effective because our brains are not capable of making sense of dense information quickly and forming strong associations.

It's better to use super simple tricks such as visualization (imagine what you are trying to remember), repetition (boring but effective), and learning the opposite things (create associations in your head).

And never underestimate the power of understanding that which you’re learning, because you'll never be able to remember something you can’t explain yourself.

#10

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Arctic foxes can survive temperatures as low as -70 degrees Celsius

Weeneem , Tambako The Jaguar Report

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Wubbleyew 4 years ago

Look at that smug face. He knows he's tough

252points

#11

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones If an underwater bubble is collapsed by loud sound, light is produced and no one knows why

1 -Mark_YU5MAV- , AleGranholm Report

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209points

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Chyppa Homer 4 years ago

Good. So next power outage I'm gonna fart in the tub and yell at it :D

370points

#12

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Some people don’t have an inner monologue, like they literally don’t have a voice in their head.

DublD96 , Matt Gibson Report

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205points

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Lynda Momalo 4 years ago

I can't even imagine. Those must be the people who fall asleep easily!

267points

#13

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones A woman once jumped off the 86th floor of the Empire State Building but the wind pushed her back and she fell on a ledge on the 85th floor. She survived.

reddit.com Report

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203points

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Tivoli 4 years ago

It like God ticking 'uninvite'.

119points

#14

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The fact that nobody knows that if we all see colours the same way

anime_fan77 , oh_debby Report

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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

I think about that. It's more than just how you identify a color. There are colors in the aqua family I see as blue and my husband sees as green.

115points

IncertRandomNameHere , Eugene Peretz Report

#15

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones That there are people in the world who don't like music. Not one specific type, but music as a whole.

That both blows my mind and disturbs me

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195points

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Madison Feehan 4 years ago

Hope I don't run into any of these people, because we wouldn't be vibin'!

71points

#16

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones I still can’t get over the fact that teddy roosevelt got shot and continued to give a three hour speech

stevew32 , wikipedia Report

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191points

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Hunter 4 years ago

i remember learning about that i think it went like I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose

85points

#17

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Ant biologists still don't know the maximum life span of most ant queens. They just live too long to keep track, and they're not too easy to keep in captivity. The longest one on record is like 30 years old, and there could easily be species that live longer than that

Broflake-Melter , yokohamayomama Report

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190points

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My O My 4 years ago

Are they all called Elizabeth?

169points

#18

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones There is a termite colony in the Amazon Rain Forest that is the size of Great Britain and is almost 4,000 years old. There are also hundreds of millions of termite mounds

Redditor_2017 , cell Report

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183points

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Bardhi's Dad 4 years ago

scary

37points

#19

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The U.S government has an official for a Zombie apocalypse. CONPLAN 8888 also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance was written in 2011. And just in case you think it's weird bureaucratic humor, the first line reads, 'This plan was not actually designed as a joke.'

sdsanth Report

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181points

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Wubbleyew 4 years ago

A plan for Zombies but no real plan for covid. Nice work

391points

#20

There are more trees on Earth then there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Confirmed by NASA.

Spajster Report

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Indra Servo 4 years ago

If you compared Milky Way with other galaxies, it's not that big

76points

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#21

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones A neutron star is so dense that a teaspoon of material from one would weigh around 10 million tons

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168points

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pei meow 4 years ago (edited)

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

56points

#22

If the timeline of the universe (up to now) was compressed into a year starting on new year's day, Homo sapiens would appear at 11:54 pm on December 31st

vsbobclear Report

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166points

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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 4 years ago

We really mess up a lot in less then a second.

161points

#23

Mitochondria is only passed down by mother so there's a concept of mitochondrial eve, all humans today have their mitochondrial dna derived from her

k110111 Report

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156points

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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Hold onto your hats if you're a white supremacist. The place or origin is believed to be East Africa.

238points

#24

Strawberries aren’t berries.

But bananas are

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pei meow 4 years ago

Bananaberries!

74points

My O My 4 years ago

Banerries

12points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

Nanaberries

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Zuko 3 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

1point

Maria Lomonaco 4 years ago

Berrynanas!

1point

AzKhaleesi 4 years ago

that sounds delicious

1point

Khloe Ness 4 years ago

Bananeries doo doo do do do Bananeries doo do do do

0points

MiraiJack 4 years ago

For now on, I'm only calling them Straw, those filthy wannabes.

6points

Thomas Ewing 4 years ago

Some knowledge should be kept hidden. My life is ruined, now!

4points

JuJu 4 years ago

Strawberries are nuts.

4points

Dynein 4 years ago

You are right. For anyone interested, there's comments in my comment history that explain why... the "berry" is just the swollen and sweetened lower part of the flower; the parts of the flower that usually form the fruits are the little specks on the outside. An because they have a single seed with hard outer shell, they are categorized as nuts.

3points

Shelp 4 years ago

This fact is only interesting because of the flaws of the English language :D

3points

Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago

How about Barry White? Barry Manilow? Are they not Barries?

3points

ktdidit 4 years ago

that's just bananas!

3points

JuJu 4 years ago

Water melons, oranges, avocados and bell peppers are berries.

3points

Maria Rose Faith 4 years ago

And grapes

1point

Troy Bierkortte 4 years ago

Tomatoes and cucumbers are also berries.

1point

Constanze Mühlau 4 years ago

Strawberries are nuts.

1point

Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago

Then, how about Crunchberries?

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tuzdayschild 4 years ago

The best of all berries.

1point

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Seed pods?

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

So are eggplants.

0points

Chris Challis 3 years ago

tomatoes are fruits but I have never seen one in a fruit salad lol!

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Doglover45 4 years ago

bananas have radiation in them so if u ate around 245 bananas a day for seven years u wold get radiation posioning or if u ate ten million bananas

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Elizabeth Tunney 4 years ago

WUT Banananananananananananaaaaaas? BaNaNANANABERRIES? NANI?

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Dorothy Cloud 4 years ago

So, what is a strawberry?

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♡PoisonousLotus!♡ 4 years ago

Bananbries!🍌🍌

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Lynn Greyling 4 years ago

Avocado is also a berry.

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Titi Ogunnaike 4 years ago

Banaries

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Elizabeth Tunney 4 years ago

Nor are raspberries,mull berries or blackberries. They aren’t berries yet avocado and cucumber are

0points

Just Carmen 4 years ago

Wait WHAT?! 😮

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Shelby P 4 years ago

why do we care so much about arbitrary classifications?

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Sheryl Thompson 4 years ago

Bananas are a herb , related to Ginger plus the Banana " Tree " is in fact a succulent stem it doesn't contain any wood so it can't actually be classed as a " Tree " .

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GA KA 4 years ago

durian is berry too?

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Jordan Westall 4 years ago

This “unknown fact” is very well known

0points

Steve Cruz 4 years ago

Avocados and Grapes are berries.

0points

Johanne Trudeau 4 years ago

You learn something new everyday!!!

0points

Gabor Dvornik 4 years ago

Banaries)

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Ethio Abyssinia 4 years ago

😂

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Emiel Mostert 4 years ago

you are bananas

0points

Laura Mayes 4 years ago

Wow

0points

Alison Klein 4 years ago

Lol

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Neil Mcintyre 4 years ago

Bananas are a herb

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Bunny Wood 4 years ago

Not exactly. Banana's are closer to herbs than berries

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Bill Cawood 4 years ago

The fruit we call banana is botanically a berry. That has nothing to do with whether the plant is herbaceous or woody.

1point

Emily Ray Howson 4 years ago

o.o

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Parmeisan 4 years ago

Interesting that this article claims to have cooler facts than the norm, as "Except they get old fast and nobody wants to listen to another “banana is a berry,” like, ever." So what happened, article? You realized you didn't have all that much to offer after all?

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#25

The Fermi Paradox.

With the number of potentially habitable Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, it’s very strange that we haven’t detected alien signals of any kind so far.

There’s lots of theories as to why that is, but my favorite is called the great silenceDark Forest (which sounds way cooler). Basically everyone else out there is being quiet and not transmitting because they know of some danger that we are unaware of, and they don’t want it to find them. Gives me chills.

Edit: It’s interesting that most of the replies here, joking or serious, correspond to legitimate theories on the Fermi Paradox.

azermanus Report

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145points

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Scagsy 4 years ago

They may be transmitting in an entirely new form which we don't possess

88points

#26

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones That the biggest bacteria species known, Thiomargarita namibiensis, can have a maximum diameter of 0.7 millimeters, which is big enough for you to see it without a microscope.

That's insane if you consider that your average bacteria species has a diameter of 0.001 millimeters.

Cachuchotas , wikipedia. Report

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125points

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KittyComics 4 years ago

wow

26points

#27

How a computer does what it does. Blows my mind how 1's and 0's can do so much. Maybe I'm uneducated, but still mind blowing

VeryAutisticWeeb Report

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114points

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Johnny 4 years ago

The 1's and 0's aren't so amazing, binary math is easily understood -- the amazing thing to me is the timing, the fastest CPU's can reach 5Ghz, that's so fast that light can only travel around 2 inches with every CPU clock tick.

79points

#28

A pig will eat a whole human body except for the teeth

TheTommyKnockerZ Report

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114points

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pei meow 4 years ago

I don't want to know how they found that out.

184points

#29

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The way the human brain works. These cells that are powered by tiny jolts of electricity are collectively having conscious thoughts, coming up with morals and empathy and every human behavior

pigeon_q , Jerimee Richir Report

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108points

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Rissie 4 years ago

Those eyebrows.....

84points

#30

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones That Neutrinos have mass and every second of every day about a billion of them are going through every square inch of your body - but the space between your atoms is so huge there's pretty much a 0% chance they will ever hit you

ProbablyNotArcturian , Ryan Report

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107points

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Jus 4 years ago

I'm more amazed that we consist of atoms with huge spaces in between and we are still in one piece. Wow.

68points

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One million seconds = approx 12 days

One billion seconds = 32 years

One trillion seconds = 32,000 years

Seeing as people are currently throwing the word 'trillion' around a lot lately (as in pounds or dollars) this really highlights the truly massive differences between these sums.

One quadrillion seconds = 32 million years.

chippingsodbury Report

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32points

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Scagsy 4 years ago

One Month in 2020 - 64 million years

60points

#32

Every 2 years there's a convention that reunites all the cities called newcastle in any language, this convention is called Newcastles Of The World, it even has his own website

robbolla11 Report

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Brittania Douglas 4 years ago (edited)

My Choir sang at one in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. It was very interesting.

11points

#33

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Several thousand years ago, the Sahara was actually grassland with massive lakes that rivalled the Great Lakes of North America.

Also, at one point the Straight of Gibraltar was closed. This meant that the Mediterranean Sea almost completely evaporated.

hekatonkhairez , cattan2011 Report

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27points

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Iapetos 4 years ago

I dearly hope the Sahara will once blossom again.

19points

#34

There is a world war between ants

TieJe Report

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Scagsy 4 years ago

I need to know more about this

45points

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

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#35

Took more time to go from bronze swords to steel swords than steel swords to nuclear weapons and less time from nukes to melting lasers that literally MELT metal is seconds

crappy-mods Report

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25points

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Hello it Smee 4 years ago

I don't know what to do with this information, lol.

20points

#36

Ounce for ounce, bone density is stronger than steel.

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Hello it Smee 4 years ago

Another fun fact: It would creep everyone our if we make bridges out of dead people's bones.

43points

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#37

Kleopatra was born closer in time to the launch of the first iphone than to the construction of the piramids

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24points

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pei meow 4 years ago

Imagine ancient Egyptians holding iphones

15points

anartisticusername , aimee rivers Report

#38

You are outnumbered in your own body. The bacteria present in/on your body outnumber your own cells. We wouldn't even be able to survive without most of them

Medysus Report

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Malakai 4 years ago

Roughly 48% of the cells in your body are actually "you" (tissues, blood, nerves, etc), while the rest is bacteria and microorganisms that help you function!

22points

#39

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones Your brain automatically translates wtf but not lol

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Lynda Momalo 4 years ago

I'm fairly sure it's because LOL with its consonant, vowel, consonant construction reads like a word -- while WTF is clearly not a word and, what's more, has more syllables to pronounce if you say the letters instead of the words (5 vs. 3).

57points

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

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#40

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones The v2 rocket killed more people while actually making it than during ww2 when it was used. Also pepsi once had the 6th largest army/navy in the world.

lolcoren , wikipedia Report

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20points

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Kujo1d 4 years ago

Say what? Pepsi? The fight against coke is a never ending battle.

25points

#41

That our galaxy and the Andromeda are going to collide a long, long time from now to form Milkdromeda!

That and that our universe will slowly die one day. There'll be no galaxies, no stars, no nebulae, nothing. It will all die out and leave noting but black holes and dwarf stars

hawkymoo Report

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pei meow 4 years ago

Milkdromeda sounds like some kind of beverage

28points

#42

Russia is bigger than Pluto!

Raptorini Report

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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 4 years ago

As in the animated dog? Of course it is.

13points

#43

The 10th president of the USA John Tyler, born in 1790 has two living grandsons

Lord-AG Report

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19points

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Lynda Momalo 4 years ago

This factoid has been floating around for many years. Anyone checked on them recently?

25points

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

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#44

Vacuum decay could completely annihilate the entire universe at any moment and we wouldn't even see it coming. One moment you're doing your thing, the next you and everything else just blips completely out of existence

kangarooninjadonuts Report

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18points

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Andres Tejeda 4 years ago

Don't give 2020 any Ideas. That sounds like the Plan for new years before going into 2021.

4points

#45

People Are Sharing Facts That Blew Their Minds And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones It took us about 70,000 years to go from stone tools to settlements

mindfeces , Gary Todd Report

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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Blame it on their attorneys.

14points

#46

A gram of uranium is roughly 20 billion calories... Mind was BLOWN!

Onesielover88 Report

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DforDorothy 4 years ago

Not ideal for diets.🤔

29points

#47

Some animal abilities are truly amazing to me.

There's a type of lizard called the axolotl that can regenerate lost limbs in a matter of months.

And there's also a jellyfish called the immortal jellyfish that is, well, immortal. When they are attacked or when they get old, they can somehow revert to when they were babies and start growing up again.

Also, some animals can live without a head. A chicken once lived 18 headless months. And a turtle (tortoise? what's the difference?) lived 1.

I_hate_traveling Report

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15points

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Wubbleyew 4 years ago

Turtle, amphibious, spend most of their time in water. Tortoise, land dwelling, doesn't swim

36points

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

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#48

France is the only country that has recorded a successful cavalry charge against boats

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Scagsy 4 years ago

Seahorses

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#49

That scientist was able to figure out what a girl looked like, where she was from and even her last meal from just a piece of chewing gum

Purple_Gosling Report

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Johnny 4 years ago

What scientist? What girl?

26points

#50

Charles Darwin is considered to be the Father of Evolution. But he never once used the word "evolution" in his masterpiece book "On the Origin of Species".

TheSquirrelWithin Report

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Dave P 4 years ago

And he plagiarized a lot of it from a different scientist

6points

#51

When something is in orbit, that essentially means it is perpetually falling

I_hate_traveling Report

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13points

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago

I heard it like the space station is non stop falling around the earth.

7points

#52

The 52 factorial story (52 factorial being the number of possible combinations of a deck of cards.

If you haven’t read this before here. It still hurts my brain every time I read it.

“This number is beyond astronomically large. I say beyond astronomically large because most numbers that we already consider to be astronomically large are mere infinitesimal fractions of this number. So, just how large is it? Let's try to wrap our puny human brains around the magnitude of this number with a fun little theoretical exercise. Start a timer that will count down the number of seconds from 52! to 0. We're going to see how much fun we can have before the timer counts down all the way.

Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years. The equatorial circumference of the Earth is 40,075,017 meters. Make sure to pack a deck of playing cards, so you can get in a few trillion hands of solitaire between steps. After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. The Pacific Ocean contains 707.6 million cubic kilometers of water. Continue until the ocean is empty. When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you’ve emptied the ocean.

Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun. Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven’t even changed. You still have 8.063e67 more seconds to go. 1 Astronomical Unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, is defined as 149,597,870.691 kilometers. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won’t do it. There are still more than 5.385e67 seconds remaining. You’re just about a third of the way done.

To pass the remaining time, start shuffling your deck of cards. Every billion years deal yourself a 5-card poker hand. Each time you get a royal flush, buy yourself a lottery ticket. A royal flush occurs in one out of every 649,740 hands. If that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going and when you’ve filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest. Now empty the canyon and start all over again. When you’ve leveled Mt. Everest, look at the timer, you still have 5.364e67 seconds remaining. Mt. Everest weighs about 357 trillion pounds. You barely made a dent. If you were to repeat this 255 times, you would still be looking at 3.024e64 seconds. The timer would finally reach zero sometime during your 256th attempt. “

Zarzak_TZ Report

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DforDorothy 4 years ago

The statement 'it hurts my brain' is indeed true in this case.I admire the person who had a brain capacity and time to come up with this way of explaining this, but I doubt that there are many people who can comprehend this.

23points

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

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#53

I recently got my cat some catnip treats and as I was googling what to buy, I found that catnip actually works as an insect repellent. In fact, catnip is 10X more republican than DEET!

jaycentpants Report

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13points

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Lynda Momalo 4 years ago

More REPUBLICAN? Maybe you're trying to say repellent? (Which Republicans generally are anyway.)

38points

#54

A concept more than a fact but how the whole body functions. Like, even just your heart beating in order to get blood round your body, let alone everything else working in sync. And most of it is done without us even noticing. It's no wonder some are flawed.

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13points

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NoodleBear 4 years ago

Is it just me or did anyone else struggle with reading this?

12points

#55

There used to be nine different species of humans.
At least that is...

Homo Sapiens (aka us)

Homo Neanderthalensis

Homo Floresiensis (sometimes called Hobbits)

Denisovans

Homo Erectus

Homo Habilis

Homo Heidelbergensis

Homo Rudolfensis

Homo Rhodesiensis

Homo Ergaster

Those are all the members of the Homo family I can think of right know. However it is important to remeber that there are almost certainly some that I forgot to mention and there might be some that we haven't discovert yet. Furthermore it is surprisingly difficult to find out if the groups I've listed are distinct species or different groups of the same species (the fact that our definition of species is kinda arbitrary doesn't help). This is actually a surprisingly interesting topic I would recommend you look into.

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sabocat 4 years ago

There was a time when Sapiens and Neanderthals lived side by side. Both human, but one more developed than the other. There is proof of interaction like trade, bullying and sex. That moment in time would be one of my time travelling destinations.

13points

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#56

A now-closed cave in Utah still holds the body of a man who died in 2009

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Hello it Smee 4 years ago

He was cave exploring with his family and got wedged in and couldn't be removed. Very sad way to go.

23points

#57

There are about 100 times as many cells in a human body than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy

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Scagsy 4 years ago

And none of them support intelligent life

16points

#58

How MASSIVE the solar system is compared to Earth. Not even regarding any other part of space, just the solar system. It's insane.

There's this website that shows the entire solar system lengthwise - If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - take the time to read everything in it while you scroll through and just take in the massive expansiveness of space

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Nathan Seddon 4 years ago

You can fit all the planets in the solar system in the gap between the earth and the moon.

12points

#59

The biggest thunderbolt ever recorded in the universe was 150 000 Ly long. Our galaxy the milky way is 100 000 Ly long. And it came from a blasar which is a frikinn insanely big blackhole : M87. And yes this is the black hole we took in photo. It is way way bigger than our milky way's super massive one

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Johnny 4 years ago

Is it really a thunderbolt if it's in the vacuum of space where it makes no sound? Seems like it'd be more accurately labeled a lightning bolt.

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Dynein 4 years ago

I already wrote this in a comment above, but I'm kinda worried it'll get lost in all the other comments and never be read... The most mind-blowing fact I can think of is from university (animal physiology lecture, topic visual sense). There's a small experiment that shows you how crazy much your visual input is curated before it ever reaches your consciousness, in a way not other experiment ever made that clear to me: Take a flashlight, point it sideways at your eye (as in, hold it by the side of your head and point it at the nose so you eye is hit sideways), then wave it about. Then sit in stunned silence. The sensory cells don't actually detect light as such, but a CHANGE from dark to light, so cells behind blood vessels never report anything. Until you wave a light about from sideways, that is... (my other favorite weird fact from that lecture is that "penis fencing" is an actual zoological term. Flatworm mating.)

19points

Esca Sav 4 years ago

I tried it out, it's so weird O-o. There's another cool thing worth mentioning is that everything we see is in the past. It takes time for light to travel from our eye to an object and then back while also processing the image so even if that time is minimal, we only see what has already been. Same with sound. When someone speaks, it takes time for the sound the travel so we never really hear a person speak in the present, but what they said in the past. AND this includes interactions. There is a concept of space-time where each person, wherever they are standing, is their own form of "present." When I am speaking and looking at someone right in front of them, I am actually communicating with their past selves, not the present. The only way for us to be in the same "present" is when we hug :3 (amongst other touchy interactions)

8points

Jordan Westall 4 years ago

TL:DR

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kate h 4 years ago

What happens? Did not work for me so I guess I did something wrong.

0points

Helene 4 years ago

Had to try this out immediately, pretty awesome!

0points

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago

Pretty sure penis fencing is snails, not flatworms.

0points

Daria Z 4 years ago

That's pretty cool!

0points

MrTree1779 4 years ago

There are 7.5 Billion humans on earth. -- But there are 24 Billion CHICKENS. -- This is a magnitude larger than all other birds on Earth, combined. -- This is also enough for every two people to own 7 chickens.

12points

Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago

Whoo-hoo! Deep-fry mine in oil with batter!

4points

Mimi777 4 years ago

I love these types of articles.

11points

Jack O'reilly 4 years ago

The total weight of ants in the world adds up to the total weight of humans...

6points

Steve Ewing 4 years ago

How long did it take you to count those suckers Jack?

3points

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

More of this type of stuff!

2points

Kate 4 years ago

A photon released the moment light was created would take the entire age of the universe to reach your eye, but for the photon, it is instantaneous.

2points

Marnie 4 years ago

Loved this post!

1point

Matteo Durasevic 4 years ago

You made the world so much better by telling everyone this

1point

Jo Choto 4 years ago

It's a fabulous universe.

1point

Richard Davis 4 years ago

I’m amazed the math works this way. If you wrapped a belt around the equator, how much length would you need to add so the belt would be 12 inches off the ground for you to crawl underneath? The answer is 6 feet would need to be added, yes just 6 feet. 25,000 miles around and only 6 feet make that big a difference.

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MrTree1779 4 years ago

The Universe is 10 ^ 26 meters in diameter. Atoms are 10 ^ -15 meters in diameter. -- Quarks are 10 ^ -19 meters. Humans are just a bit closer to the size of atoms and their components, than we are to the size of the Universe. -- We're really not that consequential after all, but we do kinda straddle the middle point between atoms and the Universe, size-wise.

1point

Vaibhav Sikka 4 years ago

Loved it. Good for a 4am read.

0points

somnomania 4 years ago

i'm disappointed the factoid about nintendo's origins in the 1800s isn't on here, for shame, boredpanda

0points

foxncat 4 years ago

Fun Fact: Fairies Didn't Always have wings.

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Ben Steinberg 4 years ago

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Dynein 4 years ago

19points

Esca Sav 4 years ago

8points

Jordan Westall 4 years ago

TL:DR

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kate h 4 years ago

What happens? Did not work for me so I guess I did something wrong.

0points

Helene 4 years ago

Had to try this out immediately, pretty awesome!

0points

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago

Pretty sure penis fencing is snails, not flatworms.

0points

Daria Z 4 years ago

That's pretty cool!

0points

MrTree1779 4 years ago

12points

Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago

Whoo-hoo! Deep-fry mine in oil with batter!

4points

Mimi777 4 years ago

I love these types of articles.

11points

Jack O'reilly 4 years ago

The total weight of ants in the world adds up to the total weight of humans...

6points

Steve Ewing 4 years ago

How long did it take you to count those suckers Jack?

3points