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50 Weird Facts No One Really Asked For, But They’re Pretty Neat To Know (New Facts)
When you take education and sprinkle in a healthy dose of entertainment on top, you get something special. Whether or not you’re a fan of learning like us, you’ll probably agree that adding a good hook can make history, science, psychology, and other subjects more appealing.
The ‘Weird Facts’ project is widely known on social media for sharing interesting and cool facts about the world. We’ve picked out some of the most unusual ones to share with you. You’ll find them below.
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#1
Keanu Reeves gave up $66 million in potential earnings from the Matrix sequels to boost pay for the special effects and costume teams. He also surprised his stunt performers with new Harley Davidson motorcycles on the last day of filming for The Matrix Revolutions.
Der Kommissar 9 months ago
If everyone tried to be a little like Keanu every day, the world would be a much better place.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
If I can't live next door to Keanu, I wish I could work with him. Not for the gifts, but to be near such a compassionate person.
ANGEL BABY 9 months ago
I've seen many articles where it noted him being an absolute awesome guy! 😎
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#2
On October 24, 1975, 90% of Iceland’s female population went on strike to demand equal rights. For an entire day, they refused to work, do housework, or take care of their children. In 1980, Iceland elected its first female president, who credited her victory to the impact of that significant day.
S Bow 9 months ago
One day of women striking changed course of a country. Imagine what could happen if this happened globally, say for a week.
Jules 9 months ago
I remember a line from Robin Williams - "imagine if women ruled the world, there'd be no wars, just intense negotiations once a month". I miss him
Ms.GB 9 months ago (edited)
Some studies have shown that womens testosterone levels are higher at the very beginning of our period. So if men find us to be more aggressive and easily agitated during that time, make of that what you will.
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Peter Bear 9 months ago
Meanwhile in the US, it's 44 years later, and the idiots over here would (and did) vote for a convicted felon over a woman.
Michele Garrard 9 months ago
Should have given us a better candidate. I voted for her though
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robin aldrich 9 months ago (edited)
Now... in the past few years the government both on State and Federal levels, dominated mostly by men who are CLUELESS... are stripping away all rights we gradually achieved.......
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 9 months ago
Aristophanes, ancient greek writer, wrote a theater piece called Lisistrata. Women wanted their men stop war and take more care for their families, so they proclaimed a s*x strike. Long story short, they succeded!
Anxious Tamago 9 months ago
Good think about our country, Iceland. Is that if one of us, women or men stop helping. We won't survive the winter. So is either everyone alive or no one.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Back in the early 70's, I just assumed women would go this route. You know, a Lysistrata-type protest that covered ground outside the bedroom. 50+ years later, very little has been gained and much has been lost.
#3
A family lost their dog during hurricane sandy. After searching for 1.5 years and giving up hope, they decided to adopt another dog. The adoption counselor brought in the first candidate ... and it was actually their lost dog.
Mimi M 9 months ago
https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/us/superstorm-sandy-lost-dog-reunited/index.html
Sparkle 9 months ago
when there are extreme weather events shelters generally run out of space due to lots pets so other shelters all over the country will take in those animals.
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Donna Peluda 9 months ago
This is why you should chip your dog. I've lost count of how many dogs I was able to reunite with the owners thanks to the chip.
In this day and age, when the internet and social media are so easily accessible, information can spread lightning-fast. Unfortunately, it’s not just real facts that get shared and reshared but misinformation and fake news as well. That’s why media literacy is such an important skill to develop, no matter your age: it allows you to see what’s biased, politicized, and opinionated and what’s grounded in the truth.
Verywell Mind explains that media literacy essentially lets you detect, analyze, and evaluate negative or false media messages. In other words, you can make better and more informed decisions as you start taking control of media again, allowing you to enjoy it more. Furthermore, research shows that you may become happier and healthier as a result.
#4
A boy dying of an incurable illness wanted to meet Luke Skywalker (in character). His mental state devolved to the point where he did not realize Luke was fictional. Mark Hamill agreed to dress up in character and meet the boy. He spent hours answering questions.
BrunoVI 9 months ago
A nice gesture, but hardly the best example of "80 ‘Weird Facts’ To Prove How Little We Actually Know About The World (New Pics)." I'm glad it's someone doing something decent instead of what atrocity of bad taste Kanye West's gf is wearing, but enough of the celebrity stuff, please.
Josh Gallant 9 months ago
Who cares what she is wearing. He himself is trying to sell swastika tshirts. Which is the real problem?
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CatD 9 months ago
He couldn't have shown up as someone younger than he was.
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In 2011, a Brazilian man rescued a starving penguin covered in oil on the beach near his home. The penguin stayed with him for approximately 11 months before returning to the sea. Remarkably, for at least the next five years, the penguin returned to visit the man for a few months each year.
WalterWhiteSavannah 9 months ago
The other penguins were probly wondering where the hell he kept running off to. "I gotta go see my old bud Larry, back in a few months everyone!" All the other penguins: "who the duck is Larry?!?"
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
I tried to get through My Penguin Friend, the movie that tell this story, but I found it boring. Most people enjoyed the movie, so don't go by my opinion.
#6
In ancient Athens, there was a practice known as ostracism, where once a year, the citizens could vote for the politician they disliked the most. The politician with the most votes was exiled from the city for the next 10 years.
Rosecrucian Roeth 9 months ago
This should be brought back although I don't know how you could possibly limit it to just one........ and maybe several hundred in the US
Mommy Panda 9 months ago
I'm not American, but I can definitely name one guy that desperately needs to be ostracized for life
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Stannous Flouride 9 months ago
Ignoring one of the most interesting things about this word, its etymology: The word "ostracism" comes from the ancient Greek word ostraka, which means "pottery shards". In ancient Athens, citizens used these shards as ballots to vote for or against banishing another citizen from the city.
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
There's a lot of talk about going back to the moon, and it should definitely be a manned mission.
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Analyn Lahr 9 months ago
We need this and it needs to country wide. And not just politicians. Certain stupidly rich people too.
April Pickett 9 months ago
We could do this. We could start with one, as an example. It might make the rest of them take note that they could be next.
Mel Colley 9 months ago
Where we are now only tells me that when the government gets too powerful, the people loses options.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
I like the idea of losers never being allowed to hold a political office again. But I also think we should return to tarring/feathering and being carried out on a rail. Picturing Trump in feathers right now strapped to a rail and carried far, far away.
When you get into the habit of thinking critically about the content you come across online, you are less likely to reshare something that may be false without first analyzing it. A good rule of thumb is to think about the intent of the person or organization posting the information. If something sounds too good or bad to be true, it very often might be biased, subjective, or warped to promote someone’s goals.
Because most of us are super busy with work, studying, chores, family, and all the other adult responsibilities in our lives, it’s unfeasible to double-check every single fact. So, it’s best to evaluate the reliability of the sources. All news and media sources make mistakes from time to time, but they’re not all equal. Trustworthy sources will provide references for any claims they make and will admit to any mistakes they’ve made while reporting something.
#7
The Navajo have a tradition centered around celebrating a baby's first laugh. When a baby is about three months old, family members closely observe the child for that first genuine giggle. The person who successfully makes the baby laugh for the first time is then responsible for throwing a party in celebration.
The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
It goes even deeper than that: babies aren’t really considered a person until they laugh. How do you like that, “life begins at the moment of conception,” folks?
Stannous Flouride 9 months ago
The Navajo People call themselves Dine', which means “people of the surface of the earth.” Navajo was applied by the Spanish.
#8
Margaret Mitchell’s husband said to her “For God’s sake, Peggy, can’t you write a book instead of reading thousands of them?” She went on to write “Gone with the Wind.”
Jaya 9 months ago
For God's sake, Captive, can't you write a book instead of being on BP?
Load More Replies... robin aldrich 9 months ago (edited)
So did she write Scarlett O'Hara to be an entitled b**** that I wanted to slap the c**p out of? sorry not sorry ...or was that just the movie version
Svenne O'Lotta 9 months ago
No, that was the point. She was a spoiled southern socialite from a world that didn't exist anymore. You are, however, supposed to give her a bit of grace for the personal development she goes through after the fire.
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Coffee loving panda 9 months ago (edited)
The first uncensored d**n in movie history and bored panda censured it. Frankly bored panda I can not give a D**n
The Other Guest 9 months ago
Ah, but I can give a damn!! And you can, too, if you use a non-width joiner in the word. Basically it's a space that the censor-bots see, but because the space is non-width, it doesn't affect how it appears on screen. So for example, if I place it between the a & the m, the 'bot sees "da mn" but it shows up as damn. This is the one I use: https://unicode-explorer.com/c/200D
Load More Replies... Shane S 9 months ago
I’ve heard it ends the way it does because she just got tired of writing. Not sure if that’s true or not though.
Pollywog 9 months ago
With almost two thousand pages I'd completely understand.
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Mook The Mediocre 9 months ago
Panda censors the word "d**n", which they didn't censor 85 bloody years ago.
Mook The Mediocre 9 months ago
By which I mean D, A, M, and a bloody N. D a m n Panda's insane censorship. Is its CEO Olivery Cromwell, Puritan Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland?
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 9 months ago
If your tastes run towards Black stereotypes and an uncritical appraisal and glorified version of the Antebellum South, then this is the book for you.
#9
An orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
True, but animals have a lot of time on their hands to figure things out. I had a special cat-proof fence around my yard, and I noticed a few cats circling the yard, inspecting the fence, until they finally found a weak spot.
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🇺🇦 PrincessPatton 🇺🇦 9 months ago
This is exactly why I hate when people compare t*ump to orangutans! Orangutans are beautiful, intelligent and empathetic beings who also help people. These gentle creatures don't deserve to be compared to something as awful and inhuman as a t*ump.
glowworm2 9 months ago
Well, what did you expect to happen after naming him after a fictional Chinese criminal mastermind?
Bi.Felicia 9 months ago
Whom also happened to rock quite the stylish mustache.
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 9 months ago
Look up "Ken Allen aka: Hairy Houdini," the orang escape artist. From Wikipedia: Ken Allen was born in captivity at the San Diego Zoo in 1971. In 1985, he gained worldwide attention for a series of escapes from his enclosure, which had been thought to be escape-proof. During some of his escapes, his female companions joined him. Ken Allen's ability to outwit his keepers and his docile demeanor during his escapes resulted in fame. He loved to just walk around the zoo looking at the other animals.
WonderWoman 9 months ago
Clearly Fu didn't want to be caged, maybe the zoo could have accommodated him with that
Nikolaj Christensen 9 months ago
The Librarian of Unseen University? Is that you?
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Peeka_Mimi 9 months ago
I enjoy going to the zoo, but if I'm being honest, these animals need to be set free. They don't deserve to be locked in cages.
Svenne O'Lotta 9 months ago
They kinda get killed a lot in nature unfortunately. We do have to keep a breeding program.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 9 months ago
I love the name, but he doesn't look anything like Christopher Lee.
Cornell University points out that one of the signs of an unreliable source is lots of spelling and grammar errors in the text. On the flip side, credible news sources tend to have very rigorous editing processes. (Though, how easy access to generative AI will affect this is still to be seen.)
Meanwhile, where serious claims are concerned, you should take a bit of time to cross-check the information with multiple reputable sources so you get a broader perspective on the issue, instead of sticking to just your echo chamber and reading what you want to be true. Generally speaking, diversifying your ‘diet’ of new sources is healthy.
#10
A study revealed that the 54% of American dog owners are willing to end their relationship if their dog doesn't like their partner.
TribbleThinking 9 months ago
That's an excellent point that hadn't occurred to me!
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Data1001 9 months ago
I'm sure many of you have heard the saying, "I don't trust anyone who doesn't like dogs, but I *really* don't trust anyone a dog doesn't like."
Peeka_Mimi 9 months ago
I'm single with 4 dogs and a cat. If I dated again, he better love animals. Also my dogs are great judges of character. If they don't like someone then I know I better steer clear.
April Pickett 9 months ago
As it should be. The dog is there for his human, if the dog doesn't like the partner, there's probably a character flaw that will show up later.
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
I'd hope so. I left my alcoholic partner because I was worried what might happen to my cat. (Not me, my cat.) 😔
tee-lena 9 months ago
You're free, regardless of how you got there. I'm so happy for you and your kitty
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Cecilie Hammershøy 9 months ago
I trust my dog's ability to judge people. He has never been wrong.
#11
In 1990, the high school dropout rate in Sevierville, Dolly Parton’s hometown, was over 30%. In 1991, she launched The Buddy Program, offering 7th and 8th graders $500 if they graduated. The dropout rate for those classes dropped to 6% and has generally retained that average to this day.
UKGrandad 9 months ago
This one has me confused. Am I correct in thinking that 7th. and 8th. graders are 12-14-yr-olds, and that 'dropping out' means the same in America as it does over here - leaving education? If so, how is it even legal for kids that young to just drop out of school altogether?
Rick Seiden 9 months ago
You have to be 16 to drop out. But if you wait until they are 16 to make that offer, it's too late. By offering it early, they make a commitment in their mind and are more likely to make it to graduation.
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Skywitness 9 months ago
When Queen Elisabeth died my daughter received a text from her friend about the death. It read, "The queen died." My daughter responded in horror, "Not Dolly!" Fortunately for all, it was not Dolly.
Chris Landrum 9 months ago
I will never get over Dolly writing Jolene and I will always love you, on the same day
Stannous Flouride 9 months ago
The Rethuglicant governor of Indiana wants to defund Saint Dolly's Imagination Library. It sends new books each month to enrolled children across Indiana until the age of 5. And, per most reports, it’s cost effective, too. Unfortunately, according to the same reports, it has been cut out of the current budget bill proposed by the state’s legislature. The Indy Star reported that the program “has been hailed as helping to raise Indiana’s child literacy ranking from 19th to 6th place nationwide.” The newspaper reported that Indiana was funding a 50% match of funds for the program with the United Way and community foundations financing the other 50%.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Dolly Parton should be commemorated on a US coin. Still waiting for the US to remove that POS, Jackson off the $20.
Dave Sturtz 8 months ago
You know that you have to be dead to be on US money, right?
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Kallen Kneeland 9 months ago
Warren Peece: And you don't wait until 5th grade to start teaching kids to read. Get it?
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A man named Joel Burger married a woman named Ashley King in 2015. Burger King paid for their wedding.
The couple contacted Burger King for permission to use the company's logo on their wedding favors. When the chain learned about their request, it decided to support the couple by funding their wedding and providing branded merchandise to help create "a whopper of a wedding."
Thorsten Massow 9 months ago
Just hope, they don't want to open a restaurant in their own name. BK would sue them to hell and back...
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/illinois-burger-king-wedding-sponsored-fast-food-chain/story?id=32567872
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
Compared to say jimmy buffet who has sued anyone who has used any name kinda even remotely close to any of his songs.
Content shared by ‘Weird Facts’ is something that you’ve probably stumbled upon in your social media feeds at some point in time. It’s that widespread. Though it’s far from the only project to share interesting facts online (there are tons and tons!), it is one of the most well-known ones.
On Facebook alone, the curators of the project have amassed a whopping 6.9 million followers. Meanwhile, 1.2 million people follow the ‘Weird Facts’ page on Instagram, while another 301k follow it on Threads.
#13
An off-duty nurse saved a boy's life with CPR after he was hit by a baseball bat during a Little League game. Seven years later, the boy saved her by using the Heimlich maneuver when she choked in a restaurant.
Family's_disappointment 9 months ago
Kindness costs nothing and it always finds it's way back.
#14
In 1959, Volvo invented the 3-point seat belt, then gave a free license to all other car manufacturers to use it.
The modern three-point safety belt was developed by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959, and its patent was given for free to the world. This invention has been credited with saving over a million lives globally.
Midwest Mike 9 months ago (edited)
As a Type 1 Diabetic in the USA....this comment hits hard and true!!! 36 years and those costs keep rising....But without peak Capitalism...Billionaire Companies/People might be sad....and somehow it's MY RESPONSIBILITY to keep paying for something I have no control over and the patent was sold for $1.....
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Gavin Johnson 9 months ago
Additional fact. The crash test dummies that are used to represent women and children are scaled down versions of the larger male dummies. They are anatomically incorrect and this means that seatbelts and airbags aren’t as efficient for women and children. Only in the past two years has a female dummy been developed but it’s not widely used. The positioning of seatbelts can actually be a contributing factor to injuries sustained by women. You are safer wearing one, obviously, but it’s time safety equipment was safer for all.
Julia Mckinney 9 months ago
Tell me about it, my seatbelt keeps threatening to decapitate me. I have to keep pulling it below my chest. I really need one of those things that can keep the higher part below my chest. I'm just not sure if i can get one that'll fit my seatbelt and my size.
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#15
In 1978, a researcher played the recorded calls of a deceased elephant from a hidden speaker. The elephant’s family responded by frantically searching for her and calling out in distress, with the daughter continuing to vocalize her grief for several days. Moved by their sorrow, the researcher decided never to repeat the experiment.
Kallen Kneeland 9 months ago
Now imagine the experiments the first aliens who come to Earth will devise to try to understand us!
talliloo 9 months ago
i have all my dogs cremated with their collars wrapped around them. one day i noticed they needed to be dusted and also decided to wash the leather collars. with the exception of one, my current dog didn't know the others but when i began to wash that one collar it must have sent the scent of her off because my dog ran around crying and whining looking for her. never washed a collar after that because it was heart breaking
#16
Dolphins have been known to protect humans when they’re in trouble. A California surfer was once being attacked by a shark when a group of dolphins surrounded him and escorted him safely to shore. Dolphins have similarly saved many people, and reports date back to Ancient Greece.
Libstak 9 months ago
Others are a******s and have been known to grab ankles with their teeth and pull humans deep underwater.
BrunoVI 9 months ago
Plus, they've been known to r**e humans. A lot. Robert George referenced this in a Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting for C*****e Bear. "What's the scariest combination of a d**g and a wild animal you can think of?" "Viagara Dolphin?"
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Ian Webling 9 months ago
I once read that dolphins "rescuing" people by pushing them to shore is a form of play. And they don't just push them to shore - they'll push them in any direction. Guess which ones live to tell the tale.
Ron Man 9 months ago
This isn't quite true. They don't "protect humans when they're in trouble". Dolphins attack sharks. They're not rescuing humans, they're trying to k**l sharks and sometimes there's a human who benefits from that. Usually they just k**l sharks though.
Svenne O'Lotta 9 months ago
Nah dolphins are very intelligent and known agents of chaos. Sometimes they just do random shít because they think it's fun.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Sweet stories about wild animals bring a smile to our faces, but never lose sight of the fact that they're wild animals that can turn on you.
BrownEyedPanda 9 months ago
Sharks are scared shitless of dolphins. A dolphin's nose is hard cartilage. Two or three dolphins can batter a shark to death.
CatD 9 months ago
Watch the dolphin vs great white episode of Mythbusters'. Sharks are even afraid of fake dolphins.
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Island Girl 9 months ago
Dolphins are so very sentient. When they sense a human has a bad vibe, they project sonar waves causing the person to s**t themselves. They can also gage what is in their stomach especially.
Max Fox 9 months ago
Please stop spreading this sort of sh!t. Stop making up these stories in which animals are these saintly beings who adhere to human ideas of morality and ethics, who have the magic ability sense a human's "vibe" (whatever that even means) by simply swimming next to them. Dolphins are well known a$$hats that gang bank females, sometimes to death, murder baby dolphins, sexually m****t other animals, and use other animals as chew toys for fun. So your fantasy of these animals being able to sense a "bad" human is laughable. They would likely see a human psychopath and a kindred spirit. Animals behavior is the result of natural selection, not the result of a "higher being" who tells all animals to adhere to a specific set of human morals. Animals. Are. Not. Furry. Humans.
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#17
In Scotland, a group of students went to a modern art gallery and left a pineapple in an empty exhibit to see if people would think it was art. When they returned four days later, not only was the pineapple still there, it had been covered with a glass case.
Cydney Golden 9 months ago
And some a****t just paid 80K for a Cheetoh that looks like a picachu.
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Trophy Husband 9 months ago
Yes, but since they were the first to do that, it was art. The problem with trying to prove that art is silly is that you create art in the process, which isn't silly (at least not usually). But my favorite is the museum that displayed a favorite rock that a kid donated.
Mimi M 9 months ago (edited)
In the 1700's pineapples were rented to display on banquet tables for the night. Those who actually purchased them could expect to pay up to 8000 dollars in today's money.
Roxy222uk 9 months ago
That's why in the UK some properties have pineapple finials carved out of the tops of stone posts at the entrance. They were a symbol of wealth.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 9 months ago
A few friends and I went to a modern art exhibit dressed in our hardcore Goth attire and makeup. We eventually had to leave because too many of the patrons thought we were a performance piece and their persistent questions were distracting us from enjoying the exhibit.
Falafal salad 9 months ago
But we can identify a cheeky c**t from a mile away.
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April Pickett 9 months ago
I love this. They should have had a hilarious time when they saw the glass case.
#18
A guinea pig named Randy broke into a female enclosure and impregnated over 100 female guinea pigs.
Upstaged75 9 months ago
Our US college professor made sure to tell us not to refer to him by his regular nickname when we visited the UK. Everyone usually called him Randy. :)
#19
In 2017, police in Frankfurt found a car belonging to a 76-year-old man who had forgotten where he parked it two decades earlier.
Data1001 9 months ago
I have recurring dreams in which I can't recall where I parked my car -- I think I've lost like 10 of them thus far, and always end up buying a new one. "Dream me" is pretty dang stupid sometimes.
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
It's a stress dream apparently. I have recurring nightmares where I'm searching for my car. Or, I'm in an international airport trying to get to my flight. Apparently it's anxiety, which made sense for me.
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Robert Trebor 9 months ago
I find it disturbing that nobody questioned this car parked in the same place for 20 years.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
Was it in an Ikea car park. My dad lost his car there twice. Both times it took him over half an hour and turned out it was on another level.
Little Bit 9 months ago
I know someone who one day was out shopping when he bumped into an old friend who suggested they go to the pub for a few drinks. He left his car (or thought he had) in a supermarket car park. The next day he went to retrieve his car only to find broken glass in the space where he thought he'd parked it so he assumed that it had been stolen. He spent the next few weeks filing police reports and making insurance claims. Then he got a call from another friend asking why his car had been in the train station car park for weeks. He then remembered that he hadn't actually parked at the supermarket but at the train station. The two car parks were next to each other.
General Anaesthesia 9 months ago
The owner reported it as stolen. "...The vehicle was found in a garage in an old industrial building that is due to be demolished...." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-forgets-park-car-finds-20-years-later-frankfurt-a8058416.html
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JayhawkJoey 9 months ago
This is my nightmare come true! I often dream I've misplaced my car and spend hours searching.
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
I once took a while to find my red car when I came out of a movie theater into parking lot with sodium vapor lights. After being puzzled for awhile I realized it was the black car that was parked really close to where thought I had parked.
#20
In 1914, a 4-year-old girl named Charlotte May Pierstorff was shipped via parcel post. Her parents found sending her this way cheaper than buying a train ticket, costing only 32 cents. Just under the 50-pound weight limit, May rode in the mail car. She had a stamp attached to her coat.
Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
Presumably she was correctly addressed, otherwise she would have ended up in the dead letter office
Multa Nocte 9 months ago (edited)
Did they send her to Russia? Why use a Russian stamp in the accompanying photo (and with a Moscow date stamp)?
Max Fox 9 months ago
Moreover, it is a Soviet stamp, and the USSR (or CCCP in Russian) did not yet exist in 1914.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 9 months ago
I understand this was a common, well maybe not common, practice at that time.
Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
This was not uncommon at one time. Why is the picture of a Russian stamp? A fairly recent one.
Panda McPandaface 9 months ago
Should have sent her with Amazon, she'd have had a *huge* box to play in on the journey.
Stannous Flouride 9 months ago
It was a very limited & short-lived event, used 7 times between 1913 & 1915 when it was outlawed.
Island Girl 9 months ago
This was really common back then. Look it up. Also, during the great depression, manufacturers began making beautiful sacks so people were able to fashion garments out of them.
#21
In 1984, a boy wrote a letter to Ronald Reagan asking for federal funds to clean his bedroom after his mother called it a “disaster area”.
Warren Peece 9 months ago
President Reagan gave the money to a millionaire and told the boy to wait and get some of the money through trickle-down economics.
Trophy Husband 9 months ago (edited)
I wrote a letter to the president once as a kid. I had the novel idea that going to school 2 days a week and staying home 5 days would revolutionize the world. I dount he read it, I got back a book on the white house and a letter from the president thanking my for taking the time to write to him. The letter had a stamped signature. My parents thought it was so cool even though they didn't like that particular president. I thought it was terrible that he didn't even hand write his reply since I hand wore my letter and I threw it all out. I wish I had kept it. I now have original signatures of 3 US presidents in certificates thanking my for community service, and I display them proudly. Well, technically I have Obama's in a frame with Trump and Biden's behind it. I don't have room for two, and I can't imagine anyone proudly displaying something Trump signed...
General Anaesthesia 9 months ago
An autopen (or signing machine) is a device used for the automatic signing of a signature. Prominent individuals may be asked to provide their signatures many times a day, such as celebrities receiving requests for autographs, or politicians signing documents and correspondence in their official capacities. Consequently, many public figures employ autopens to allow their signature to be printed on demand and without their direct involvement. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen
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Matthew Jameson 9 months ago
Reagan also called Barney Clark, the very first artificial heart recipient, right after the operation.(which in itself was incredibly asinine. "Try not to get excited in any way, just relax. Oh, the president wants to talk to you...") Clark yelled at Reagan about his social security check being late again.
Der Kommissar 9 months ago
Quotes from Chairman Ronnie; " If you've seen one redwood , you've seen them all ".
fly on the wall 9 months ago
Better than the a*s hat that is in there now; he would send you a bill and your address to Elon.
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After being denied rights to use “Another One Bites the Dust” for Rocky III, Sylvester Stallone hired Survivor to write an original song instead, which turned out to be “Eye Of The Tiger.”
Midwest Mike 9 months ago (edited)
And the "Music Video" looks like a bunch of Young Accountants out walking the streets after a Tax Prep Bender in the safest area for While People ever....
chris Cannon 9 months ago
I've been a CPA for 20 years, I've never heard the phrase "Tax Prep Bender" before. Learn something new all the time.
Load More Replies... CrunChewy McSandybutt 9 months ago
I love Another One Bites the Dust, but Eye of the Tiger was a much better song for that movie.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Huh. I never put two and two together - the lyrics tell Rocky's story.
Liz Butt 9 months ago
Apparently Trump used "We are the champions"in his campaign. Queen told him not to keep using it in his campaign but he ignored them.
SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago (edited)
I'm on a particular fan of that song but only because I'm an ex competitive swimmer. It used to be played, the first part of the song, only the intro, as we were walking up to the blocks during the finals at the larger regional galas. "Is this supposed to be an inspirational intro or one that'll make me swim faster just to get away from it?" 😄
#23
Rats can squeeze through holes or gaps the size of a quarter because their skulls are not plated together, allowing them to change the shape of their heads and fit through tiny openings. They can leap four feet sideways, fall from a height of five stories without sustaining injuries, and tread water for up to three days.
Data1001 9 months ago
And we just recently learned that 2 rats can produce over 1200 offspring in a year, and half a billion descendants in 3 years. Forget cockroaches, it's rats who will inherit the planet.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 9 months ago
Numbers alone are not the key, "Data"--cockroaches are also impervious to almost everything that could k**l rats.
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Linda Riebel 9 months ago
And a dreadful fate awaits those vicious researchers who created that "how long will it take to drown?" experiment.
Bookworm 9 months ago
It was the 50s. A lot of things went on in the name of 'science' that would be considered incredibly cruel if someone suggested them today.
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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 9 months ago
For a second my fried brain thought tread water=walking on water. How? Idk.
Debby Keir 9 months ago
How do we know they can tread water for 3 days? Did some scientist just watch them till they drowned?
Bookworm 9 months ago
Basically, yes. The worse part is that he was actually studying the psychology of hope. He put rats in a bucket of water to see how long it took them to drown - about 15 minutes - and then got another group of rats, put them in the water, and rescued them right before they drowned. He dried them off, let them rest, and then put them back in the bucket, where they were able to tread water for about 60 hours before drowning.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 9 months ago (edited)
So can mice. They can squeeze through the tiniest gaps. We've had a mouse problem here in the past and I discovered that fact. Mice aren't exactly welcome but I'd prefer them to rats!
CatD 9 months ago
TDS is the delusional MAGA belief that Trump was sent by God.
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A South African girl was kidnapped when she was two days old. Seventeen years later, she was reunited with her real family when she coincidentally started going to the same school as her younger sister. The girls formed an almost immediate friendship and had a strong resemblance. A DNA test confirmed their relation.
#25
When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”
Scott Rackley 9 months ago
Trains, bikes, airplanes, etc. Is there any method of conveyance that won't cause a uterus to fly out?
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 9 months ago
I'd get on a human-sized centrifuge if it meant my uterus would fly out, never to return.
PFD 9 months ago
I looked into this a while back. Iirc the "many people" turned out to be one rural doctor who wrote some completely batshit letter to a medical journal.
Jrog 9 months ago (edited)
Exactly. And the claim as it is comes from a researcher with a feminist agenda, an impressive corporate career but irrelevant research experience in academia, and some ethical issues...
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Sylvia Hinz 9 months ago
Men sure can come up with some crazy ideas, all to keep women subservient.
Jemima Bauer 9 months ago
I fail to see the problem. I could get rid of a trickle of blood down my leg at an awkward time. No more intense cramps or giant clots.
robin aldrich 9 months ago
A lot of problems women were going through were blamed on the "wandering uterus" Theory... that's right they thought the uterus got up and wandered and that caused emotional problems for women... imagine THAT being a scientific diagnosis
Debby Keir 9 months ago
OK - so uteri are very much 'internal organs'. How come the guys didn't think their scrotums and dangly bits wouldn't fly off - far more likely.
robin aldrich 8 months ago
good point... maybe that's why a lot of men (especially young ones... keep checking that everything is still there???trhere
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Japan’s largest organized crime syndicate, the Yakuza, provided food, water, diapers, blankets, and more during both the 1995 and 2011 Japanese earthquakes, responding faster than the Japanese government.
Kira Okah 9 months ago (edited)
Groups like this do this sort of thing a lot. It's to endear themselves to people so they won't be snitched upon when doing the crime stuff.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
The Black Panther Party was not a criminal organization, but it provided meals, free healthcare clinics (incl. sickle-cell anemia testing), transportation, educational programs, clothing, and legal aid, in addition to community organization on issues like housing disparity and police brutality. Vital necessities the government failed to address or provide. The federal response was sabotaging the organization through the FBI program COINTELPRO.
PandaGoPanda 9 months ago
Especially in 1995, the very hierarchical Japanese government was paralyzed by the need to wait for instructions from the top. Plus the sheer scale of the disaster, in a region which suffers relatively few earthquakes, took everyone by surprise. The yakuza set up bento (lunchbox) production in the factories in the area and a distribution system. American students got on their bicycles and delivered bottled water to the worst-hit areas in Amagasaki and Nishinomiya before official help was nearly so organized.
Carol Palac 9 months ago
Just as the BLACK PANTHER PARTY developed and helped their community and inspired the creation of WIC - Women Infant Children -
Stannous Flouride 9 months ago
They also set up free clinics and children's breakfast programs. The oldest continuously run free clinic in the US is the Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center in Seattle. It is named for the Black Panther woman who founded it in 1970. (btw- I always include the last three words in the BPP's official name when referring to them to remind people of why they were formed: "For Self-Defense".)
Load More Replies... WonderWoman 9 months ago
Just because every once in a while they do something nice, does not negate all the horrific things they do all the other times.
#27
A 75-year-old woman took shelter from a tornado by hiding in her bathtub. The tornado ripped off the roof of her house, lifted the tub, and transported it to the woods with the uninjured woman still in it.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Bet that ride was more exhilarating than the top 10 roller coasters combined.
Cole Earnhart 9 months ago
While not impossible, I think this an urban legend that I remember hearing in the 90's. In the version I heard the tub ended up sledding downhill into the woods with the woman inside.
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 9 months ago
I've always wondered: if during a tornado you go hide into your basement but your house collapses and also the neighboring ones and the whole area is a rubble pile, how the f**k do you get out of the basement?
KittyMommy 9 months ago
You don't. Town by where I grew up at had a tavern made with brick walls. The new owners had (unknowingly) structurally weakened it doing renovations. It had a reputation for being sturdy and when a tornado struck people ran there for shelter. There were 15 people in it when it collapsed, 8 of them died
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Destini Mattocks 9 months ago
Tub water might have turned a little 'yellow' by that point!
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A study involving 80 pairs of jeans found that women's pockets are generally half the size of men's pockets for the same brand. Only 40% of women's pockets can comfortably fit an iPhone X, and just 10% can accommodate an entire hand. In contrast, 100% of men's pockets can fit both.
Manic Mama 9 months ago
When I took my 2nd daughter shopping for a dress for school formal (prom), her only criteria was that it had pockets. Found only one, and that was the dress we came home with.
Don't listen to me 9 months ago
Absolutely. I bought some nice summer weight jeans from H&M recently & didn't notice the front pockets were fake. Not cheap either. A good brand i thought. And the back pockets weren't up to much either.
Load More Replies... CrunChewy McSandybutt 9 months ago
If y'all would just listen to us, you'd know this without paying for a study.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Full pockets create bulges, hence the useless pockets. I would use fabric from mismatched sheets to enlarge these useless pockets.
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 9 months ago
One theory is it's because they can sell more purses that way
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
It's more about the way they hang on the body. Designers don't want bulky things in pockets 'spoiling' their designs.
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Panda McPandaface 9 months ago
You'd think manufacturers would have caught on to this by now. Maybe the handbag/purse thing is true.
Michelle C 9 months ago
That’s exactly why they do it. I forget when I learned that, but have never forgotten it completely!
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In 2015, researchers tested the efficiency of mosquito repellents by using Victoria’s Secret perfume, believing its floral fragrance would attract mosquitoes. Surprisingly, they found that it repelled mosquitoes better than various mosquito deterrents.
Upstaged75 9 months ago
So does Avon Skin So Soft. We used to use it as bug spray for the horses.
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
British Columbia Medical Journal agrees: "Conclusions: When tested against a placebo, both DEET (P<.0001, NNT=1) and Avon Skin So Soft (P =.0001, NNT=1) were found to provide significantly better protection, while the special mixture did not (P =.30). When tested against the special mixture, both DEET (P<.0001, NNT=1) and Avon Skin So Soft (P =.0048, NNT=2) were found to provide better protection. When DEET and Avon Skin So Soft were compared with each other, Avon Skin So Soft was found to be 85% as effective as DEET (P =.046, NNT=7)."
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Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Some research shows that "Bombshell" is effective for up to 120 minutes. Okay, fine. But does it smell better than DEET?
#30
Sir Ben Kingsley, born Krishna Bhanji, changed his name and observed an immediate increase in job offers, shifting from "We don't quite know how to place you" to "When can you start?"
Michelle C 9 months ago
That’s unfortunate. He’s a talented man regardless of what name he uses!
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
I do like the change that's been taking place these last couple of decades with actors keeping their hard to pronounce and spell names. Quite a change from the classic period of film and TV when everyone had to have a simple, generic name to make it.
Max Fox 9 months ago (edited)
Wow, after Jewish have been changing their names form the 1910s, suddenly all of you Gen-Zs need this to "prove that fact? Wow. Let me start enumerating just some of those who are still famous: Kirk Douglas (Isser Danielovitch), Lauren Bacall (Betty Persky), Mel Brooks (Melvin Kaminsky), Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), Jerry Lewis (Jerome Levitch), Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiesler), George Burns (Nathan Birenbaum), Stan Lee (Stanley Lieber), Estelle Getty (Estelle Gettleman). Joan Rivers (Joan Molinsky), and others.
#31
In 2008, Nebraska implemented a law allowing parents to drop off unwanted newborns at safe-havens. The law did not specify an age limit, resulting in nearly all of the abandoned children being over ten years old, with some as old as 17.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 9 months ago
Is newborn not a medically defined period of a child's life?
BrunoVI 9 months ago (edited)
A bit of an exaggeration. No, they were not "nearly all" over ten years old, but thirty-five of them were. But inaccurate claims in the press did say "most" were. The author of the law did not expect only newborns would be dropped off, but on seeing so many older kids, the legislature adopted a cap.
RedHairedDragon 9 months ago
I skipped over to Google and found Nebraska's government website. According to that source, 36 children were left at hospitals, none was newborn, and several of them had som kind of mental health issue. Many came from other states. If what BrunoIV wrote earlier is true, then that means that only one child was under ten. The law lead to discussions about what kind how help was offered to parents of children with mental health issues.
Sue User 9 months ago
Your kast sentence is the key. This wasnt a case if parents not wanting to deal with their kids, this highlighted the utter failure of the system. It is vad enough when your child is physically disabled but when there are mentally disabled it is realky bad. There was a case in New Jersey where a teenager killed another boy. The teenager was being s****************d, and was under the care of a phychiatrist. The cops were using him in the sting operation, which added stess. The mother had trued to commit him just days before the murder. At the trial, the prosecuter painted tge mother as negligent and said she wanted him committed because she didnt want to deal with the teenager. She was thrown out if the court for her protest and the teenager got 70 years ( he was 17 ) in prison. Everyone says " i wouod never give up my child" but sometimes having them in the care of someone who is trained to deal with the situation is better for everyone than having them stay with the parent.
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Joy Chapman 9 months ago
you just don't know, you just can't know, how heart-breaking it is to watch your beloved child suffer and be completely unable to do anything about it. I tried so many things, spent well over $100,000 (I was earning $35,000 a year as a single parent of two at the time), and almost lost what sanity I had left trying to find a way to help my son. Don't be too quick to judge.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Something tells me this has been taken out of context, and that not all these parents were negligent and cruel. This comment isn't taking into account parents who are no longer able to properly support their children due to lengthy unemployment and resulting eviction, a mental disorder, or a severe health condition. Leaving them at a safe-haven would show mercy and love.
#32
A psychology study of more than 4,000 millionaires found that people with more wealth are indeed happier in life. They also found that people who earned their wealth were happier than those who inherited it.
David Houde 9 months ago (edited)
I'd be willing to bet that you take anybody that's struggling and got them to the point where they had $10,000 in savings they would be immensely happier. Whoever said "money can't buy happiness" has never had to make a choice between having a roof over their head or food in their belly for the next month.
𝖊𝖜𝖔𝛋 9 months ago
It’s the relentless pursuit of wealth that doesn’t bring happiness, because when does it end? You’ll never be satisfied. Big difference.
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Trophy Husband 9 months ago
I'm willing to be a guinea pig and test this... I've worked for a living and been in debt my whole adult life. Someone give me $20 million, I'll retire and in 20 years we can see if I'm happier for it ..
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
To me that sounds like a discussion to have with a therapist. I feel good about doing a good job at work and making my customers happy, but I'd have felt just as good about having a few million or more fall into my lap and quitting work.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
People say money is the root of all evil. The quote is, the *love* of money is the root of all evil.
CatD 9 months ago
Unfortunately we have a lot of those evíl roots in the White House now.
Load More Replies... Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
How dispiriting it would be to be in the control group for that study
The Other Guest 9 months ago
Money may not buy happiness, but it can alleviate a lot of unhappiness.
Peter Bear 9 months ago
It's not that money brings happiness. It's that not having money means being constantly miserable.
Cydney Golden 9 months ago (edited)
When you don't need to worry about basic needs you can pursue happiness. Another reason the gop is against helping those in need. Happy people would never vote for them.
Liz Butt 9 months ago
If people stopped buying the next thing in IPhones and other tech garbage, stopped buying things on their credit card and actually bought things with their own money, people would have money in their pockets. Obviously not talking to those who can't afford to put food on the table or the next rental payment, or utility bill. Those who really are in need. Cut up your credit cards. You don't need all that s**t. You need a roof over your head, food on the table and clothes on your back. My husband and myself have never ever had a credit card. We have a debit card. If I want something, I will use my own money. I'm not making someone else rich with my money.
CatD 9 months ago
I have a 4 year old $99 android tablet, 3 year old $50 android phone and have paid off all but one of my credit cards. You don't need new stuff if the old still works.
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A hiker was lost on a mountain for 24 hours and ignored calls, texts, and voicemail messages from rescuer teams because he didn’t recognize the phone number.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 9 months ago
If he was "lost" with a working cell phone, then he wasn't actually lost at all.
PFD 9 months ago
From what I can make out, he got lost for a while then had to spend the night on the mountain because it got dark, but was fine & made it down in the morning ok. It seems it just hadn't occurred to him that people would have noticed & been worried that he was late, so when his phone rang he just thought "another spam caller as always" not "rescue services".
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Bob Brooce 9 months ago
Even without knowing the real story, it should be obvious to anyone clever enough to think about it that he apparently also didn't answer any calls from numbers he did recognize, and he didn't make a call about being lost or in trouble. Like lots of hikers, he didn't get out of the woods as early as he planned, but didn't feel that he was in danger or that he needed outside resources to be used to assist him. *None* of the articles I've seen have enough information, but apparently somebody knew where he was going and expected him back by nightfall, but there's nothing to indicate that he told anyone they should call authorities before the time he was out of the woods the following morning. FWIW, I'm pretty good about making sure somebody knows where I've gone, and giving them 3 times. The earliest time is the latest I expect to be back, the next is when it's reasonable to start worrying, and the last is when to start making phone calls. There has to be some compromise between the pos
Faelwolf 9 months ago
Former search and rescue volunteer. You'd be surprised at the lengths some people would go to, to avoid rescuers. Mostly out of sense of embarrassment or refusal to acknowledge that they need help. I was a tracker, I was brought in to hunt them like fugitives hiding in the woods. lol Best one was the guy who walked into our base camp and offered to help look for himself without realizing it! :)
Peeka_Mimi 9 months ago
That happened in Colorado. I'm guessing he didn't want to waste his battery on "I called to remind you of your car's extended warranty" calls.
Analyn Lahr 9 months ago
"I'm lost in the woods. I better not answer this strange number..." Did he call for help with said cellphone? And wouldn't they have told him, "we'll call you back from such and such number "?
PFD 9 months ago
He didn't call for help because he knew he was fine. It was other people who called because he was late. I think it was like a hikers' equivalent of staying out all night after missing the last bus, then having your parents blow a fuse because they thought you must be dead in an alley somewhere.
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The appendix does have a purpose. It stores samples of good bacteria so they can repopulate your digestive system in case they are wiped out entirely by diseases such as diarrhea.
Catlady6000 9 months ago (edited)
There seems to be a correlation between removal of the appendix and IBS. Guess how I found that out. Just to clarify, it's not known if appendectomy actually causes IBS, but it often follows the surgery. Mine started a year later on the anniversary.
Debby Keir 9 months ago
There is some evidence that IBS *can* be related to having had food poisoning within a few months of the start of symptoms. I believe there was a study of people who had reported outbreaks to Public Health, were followed up and an unusually bigger percentage started to exhibit symptoms where they'd had no issues before.
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Roxy222uk 9 months ago
I've never believed in vestigial organs. If they served no purpose at all then we're expending energy growing and maintaining it for no reason. Even men's nipples can be useful: if mum is not around then the baby can be soothed with a male n****e in the same way that Western societies use dummies (pacifiers).
Laura Sloan 9 months ago
IBS is not just diarrhea!!! My life is ruined because of this horrific disease !!!!!!!! Perhaps do some reseach before making a comment on something you obviously know nothing about !!!
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
Maybe when you get past the anger stage you'll be able to read about it and also understand what you've read.
Load More Replies... El Cucuy 9 months ago
I had to google it, but actually it is considered a disease.
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You can hire a “coffin confessor” in Australia, who will gatecrash your funeral and reveal all your secrets to your loved ones.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
I'm taking all my secrets to the grave with me - as well as the TV's remote.
Norm Gilmore 9 months ago
I've read one of his books. Funny/tragic... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-U5DvaVtk 58477869-6...4bd5aa.jpg 
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 9 months ago
During the funeral of an old man I knew, the priest summed up his life, talking about his first wife who had died giving birth to their baby girl who also died. Only his second wife and very few relatives knew that. The children he had from her didn't know either, they were both adults and had no idea. The priest didn't know that it was a secret
beryl_m_green 9 months ago
Reminds me of the 'Speaker for the Dead' from Orson Scott Card's Ender series
#36
A 60-year old truck driver sued the Tokyo hospital where he was born after discovering that he was accidentally switched with another newborn in 1953. He ended up with a poor single mother while the other baby grew up to own a real estate company under his rich biological parents.
Trophy Husband 9 months ago
And still maintained it was genetics and not family that made him successful I bet...
Diane H 9 months ago
If you are raised by a Rich Family, you already have a head start.
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#37
A man secretly outsourced his job to China, spent his time at work surfing the internet and watching cat videos, and made hundreds of thousands of dollars before being caught and fired.
It turned out that the work done in China was of high quality; the employee’s code was clean, well-written, and submitted on time. In fact, his performance reviews consistently recognized him as the top developer in the building, quarter after quarter.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
Anomalous activity on VPN logs. The company had a VPN set up for WFH jobs, they noticed that someone was accessing it from Shenyang, China using the employee's credentials.
Load More Replies... Thorsten Massow 9 months ago
Why did they fire him? In any modern capitalist company, he would have been promoted to CEO, responsible for outsourcing all other jobs too, so the company could save on millions of wages. /s
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
In any modern capitalist company they would have recognized him as a wasteful impediment between the company and the Chinese people doing the actual work.
Load More Replies... Liz Butt 9 months ago
They should have kept him on if he was bring high quality work. Who cares how it's done. It's done.
Trillian 9 months ago
To be honest I would hate to have nothing to do all day but yet have to be present somewhere. Time doesn't pass. I'd be bored out of my mind.
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
What kind of cat video-hating psychopath are you?
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 9 months ago
I couldn't spend 8-10 hours a day behaving like George Costanza. It's too boring, and it's more fatiguing than manual labor.
Uncle Schmickle 9 months ago
I don't see anything wrong with it, if the company was making money, the employee was doing his job well, and had the brains to outsource it.
#38
Even though they don't have wings, spiders can fly for hundreds of miles (across entire oceans) on long strands of silk using Earth's electric fields; it's called "ballooning." Spiders have been found two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.
Sally Moen 9 months ago
Read an illustrated version of the book Charlotte's Web by EB White for a look at what these parachuting spiders look like. Also, it's a good story
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
Wind may determine where they go, but their silk becomes charged and gets the process started.
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#39
While filming ‘Tokyo Drift,’ the crew was unable to obtain a permit for a scene. They filmed it anyway, and the studio hired someone to pose as the director to take the blame and spend a night in jail.
Eugenia 🇮🇹🤌 9 months ago
As Machiavelli said, apologising is easier than asking for permission
Max Fox 9 months ago
Please properly attribute these sayings. Machiavelli never said this. The person who popularized this was Admiral Grace Hopper "it is better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission".
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 9 months ago
If the cops weren't so d**n lazy a lot more people probably would have gone to jail.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPCtqe-zjw4
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Men process other men's voices with the part of the brain that processes simple sounds such as car engines and machinery, but they process female voices with the part of the brain that processes music.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
And because they are at different parts of audio range, you can be deaf to one voice and not the other. My dad is deaf on lower ranges, without external assistance he can't hear most men speak.
Manic Mama 9 months ago
Me too. It's called reverse-slope hearing loss, and is very uncommon.
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Yogi's mom 9 months ago
My dad could only hear me, because my voice was pitched lower than my mom's and sister's
Neb 8 months ago
Usually, when I am listening to music, I am not actively thinking about the lyrics and trying to understand them. It is more to "easy to listen"
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 9 months ago
And yet some men only hear an engine-like drone when a woman is speaking.
#41
A couple in Japan divorces and remarries every three years to take turns using their family’s names, as they cannot agree on which last name to use.
Jaymi Leigh 9 months ago
Do they have to divorce? Can’t their just legally change their names?
PandaGoPanda 9 months ago
Unfortunately not. Despite numerous court challenges in recent years, the courts have upheld the current family law which requires married couples (and everyone else on the same family register) to have the same surname. I know two couples who held big wedding receptions but never actually registered the marriage legally because neither wanted to change their surname.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 9 months ago
I know another couple who couldn't agree on the names they would be called by. She didn't think she should be called "Ugly", and he didn't think he should be called "Moron".
PandaGoPanda 9 months ago
if by mutual consent, you just sign the documents and hand them in at the city office. So yeah, it's free.
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EJN 9 months ago
It sounds simple in the post but it is not. In Japan, it is still mandatory for women to take the surname of the husband. (unless the wife is a foreigner). Her name is then entered into his family registry. (if you are a foreigner, you are a side note because you cannot be entered in the registry which is for Japanese nationals) If divorced, her name returns to her original name and her registry once again is her family's. A man who marries a woman and takes the name of her family is referred to as an adopted son. In that case, the wife's name is her original name and both she and her husband are entered in her family's registry. His surname is changed. It is complicated...
Cecilie Hammershøy 9 months ago
My husband and I came up with this compromise: My name: My first name - his last name - my last name His name: his first name - my last name - his last name
Roxy222uk 9 months ago
And then two people both with hyphenated names marry each other, and so on down the generations. There really are aristocratic families in the UK that have ended up with eight or more surnames hyphenated together because both families had status and influence.
Load More Replies... Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 9 months ago
Just hyphonate it or combine them somehow if ur desperate on sharing, surely? This seems really difficult
Sean Of The Spiders 9 months ago
That won't really work in Japan as they will have their Hanko with their name on it for legal documents and signatures. Due to the family names mainly being in Kanji, I don't think it can be done in that way.
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A nurse wanted to know if her farts were contaminating equipment in the lab. The doctor and a microbiologist tested the hypothesis by having a colleague fart clothed then naked onto two Petri dishes. The conclusion was that clothing acts as a filter, but naked farts can cause contamination.
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
Makes sense considering how humans can spread contaminates via sneezing, coughing, and other bodily releases.
Science Nerd 9 months ago
I hope they still followed lab safety protocols and wore safety glasses and lab coats.
Data1001 9 months ago
Well, I mean, when you smell a fart, you're actually inhaling atoms of the other person's fecal matter, so this isn't surprising.
PFD 9 months ago
Except you're suggesting precisely the reverse conclusion. The research found the clothing *does* prevent contamination - even though you can still smell the fart. (COVID anti-maskers used the smell-a-fart argument in that way as an argument against the efficacy of masking and were wrong for the same reason.)
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In India, a woman filed a lawsuit against her husband for showing more affection and care towards their cat than towards her.
Petra Peitsch 9 months ago
It's okay, just don't marry any of those people
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Thee8thsense 9 months ago
If his cat looked anything like the one in the photo, who wouldn't fall in love with such a cutie patootie!?
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
That's a ballsy move. A major problem in India since 1993, bride burning accounts for around 2,500 deaths per year in the country.
CatD 9 months ago
And men in India will still throw acid on women who reject them. Sounds like women aren't very safe in India either.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 9 months ago
Well dand, my cousin should have done this with her now ex. As she said he loved the dog more than her.
#44
In 1995, a man robbed a bank with lemon juice on his face. He believed that because lemon juice can be used as invisible ink, it would make his face invisible on camera. He tested this method by applying juice to his face and taking a photograph with a Polaroid camera. Since he was absent from the resulting image, he trusted that the method was effective. Detectives believed his absence in the photograph could be attributed to a faulty film.
Katie The Bug 9 months ago
"Faulty film" is generous. I bet he pointed the camera the wrong way.
Tom Brincefield 9 months ago
He had to look through the viewfinder to frame the picture correctly.
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Confused Capybara 9 months ago
One gem from this story is that he was very confused when arrested, repeatedly exclaiming "But I used the juice!"
CrunChewy McSandybutt 9 months ago
If anyone is interested, here is the Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Greater_Pittsburgh_bank_robberies
PFD 9 months ago
If those were the greater ones, I hate to think what strategies the lesser Pittsburgh robbers used.
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 9 months ago
There is *absolutely* nothing weird about somebody doing something really stupid.
#45
There was a man so dedicated to April Fools' Day that he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire, fooling the local public and the Coast Guard into thinking the volcano was active.
Michael Largey 9 months ago (edited)
Glad to be doubly pedantic, but he was an American, so it's actually spelled @-s-s-h-o-l-e
Load More Replies... LooseSeal's $10 Banana 9 months ago
Geez, can't even burn a huge pile of tires to incite a public panic anymore. Buncha snowflakes 🙄
BrunoVI 9 months ago
Have a thumb's up just for the sort of sarcasm that won't get appreciated around here.
Load More Replies... Bravia Kimyi 9 months ago
More dumb than funny. What if the fire grew out of control? What about the environment? Burning tires can’t be good for the environment. Imagine how worried the locals were.
Lee Gilliland 9 months ago
This was back in the '70s when we didn't know about global warming.
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OpheliaPoe 9 months ago
This was done with the extinct volcanoes on the western horizon of Albuquerque as well: https://www.nps.gov/petr/planyourvisit/petrhistory.htm
#46
Shakira was removed from her school choir because her music teacher believed she could not sing and thought she 'sounded like a goat.'
Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
According to her nanny and her brother Billy.
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robin aldrich 9 months ago
The first time I saw her was an appearance, I think, on an award show and she sang in her native language so I didn't understand a word she was saying, but her voice was actually pretty and sounded nothing like the songs that ended up being popular
#47
The actors who played brother and sister on "Dexter" began dating, fell in love, got engaged, got married, and got divorced, all while continuing to play brother and sister on TV.
#48
During the construction of the Egyptian pyramids, each worker received a daily ration of four to five liters of beer, which provided both nutrition and refreshment and was crucial for the pyramids’ construction.
Jack Hannon 9 months ago
Ancient beer was low alcohol and flat. Nutritious, but more or less like (insert US beer joke here)
Science Nerd 9 months ago
I once spoke at a conference and met with my co-presenters the night before. The German ordered Coors light and the Aussie Bud Light. I had a Munich Dunkel. 🤷
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#49
In 2021, Italian artist Salvatore Garau sold an invisible sculpture for £13,000 ($18,000), providing the buyer with a certificate of authenticity to confirm its existence.
Liz Butt 9 months ago
"There's one born every minute" to clarify. And he was absolutely spot on.
Load More Replies... UncleJon_TheMadScientist 9 months ago
Gee wiz a different spin on the old story, "the emporers new clothes"
Trisec Tebeakesse 9 months ago
Guy's been dead for over a hundred years, but PT Barnum is still correct.
Gracie Mae 8 months ago
perfect example of someone with more money than brains...
Load More Replies... Gracie Mae 9 months ago
and did you know that if you say "gullible" very, very slowly, it sounds like "oranges?"
Erik Biesemeier 9 months ago
Not surprising; so much art is just for money laundering, and the certificates are the actual store of value, so you may as well skip the actual art.
#50
A guy made a fictional restaurant the #1 restaurant in London by using trip advisor and fake reviews. He then set up tables in his yard and served microwaved food. The customers gave excellent feedback.
The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
Humans are incredibly easily influenced by popularity, even if it is manufactured
Riley Quinn 9 months ago
We are not the superior species. We are not the superior species. We are not the superior species.
Roxy222uk 9 months ago
I can say that this is actually true. He started by just messing around on Trip Advisor, putting up fake reviews for a fake restaurant, until it ended up the number one recommended restaurant on the site. More and more people were desperate to eat there, so he eventually decided to go in for a penny in for a pound, and actually function as one.
#51
In 2013, a dog named Killian saved a baby boy from an ab*sive babysitter. He alerted his owners by growling and standing between the baby and the sitter whenever she was there. Suspicious, the parents left an iPhone under the sofa recording audio. The sitter was later convicted on what they heard.
#52
In 1948, a farmer named Cecil George Harris got trapped under his own tractor & carved a will into the tractor’s fender. It read, “In case I die in this mess I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo. Harris.” He did die, and the message was accepted in court. It has served as a precedent ever since for cases of holographic wills.
#53
A software company hid a $1,000 prize deep within its Terms of Service to test if anyone actually read them. After five months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally inquired about the prize.
Data1001 9 months ago
You can just copy/paste them into an AI chat, and ask it to summarize the TOS & look for any unusual sections.
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A study has shown that male robins make the best bird husbands because they can predict what their mates want to eat. Even if they did not see what the females ate last, they can still provide exactly what their partners desire. Additionally, male robins are monogamous.
#55
In 2012, an 11-year-old boy disappeared while shopping with his mom. He managed to make his way to an airport and passed through five security checks without a passport or boarding pass by following a family. As a result, he was able to board a flight from Manchester to Rome alone. He was discovered after takeoff.
Luke Branwen 9 months ago
In that case I can kinda see why the kid would want to run away.
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#56
Research shows that dogs make more facial expressions when humans are looking at them. The phenomenon of “puppy-dog eyes” is indeed real.
Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
Dogs have muscles in their eyebrows that let them do that. And they know how to use them, LOL.
#57
Hugh Jackman was unaware that wolverines are real animals; he mistakenly studied wolves while preparing for the iconic superhero role.
Mark Savoie 9 months ago
There are no wolverines in Australia. Being a teacher doesn't mean you automatically know everything.
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In Churchill, Canada, many locals leave their cars unlocked in case someone needs to make a quick escape from the polar bears in the area.
#59
The average woman overpacks her suitcase by about double. A study of 2,000 women showed they need an average of 34 clothing items for a week-long trip but will pack 60 "just in case."
Warren Peece 9 months ago
I just spend the week wearing whatever I happened to have on when I went to the airport.
Jack Hannon 9 months ago
To be fair... At the end of any week, you wore what was needed, Casual, sporty, formal, etc. But if you had to guess what you WOULD need, you might bring casual sporty and formal, because you don;t know... It's not that "women" over pack, it's that people who like to dress for the occasion who have to guess, will try to cover all the bases...
Sally Moen 9 months ago
Bring enough underwear for each day you'll be gone from home, only take what clothes you are wearing, then buy clothes at destination from local thrift stores.
Charlotte Jones 9 months ago
I spent a month in Italy with just a carry on and a backpack. As a woman I have learned to pack light
#60
In 2014, a three-year-old girl survived 11 days in the Siberian forest infested with bears and wolves with only her dog for company. She ate wild berries and drank from a river, curling up next to her dog for warmth. She was saved when her dog went back to her village and guided rescuers to her.
R W 9 months ago
The forest was not 'infested, that's where they live. Just as sharks do not infest the ocean. Imagine a news story describing a town 'infested' with humans.
#61
A sheep once jumped off a cliff in Turkey, and 1,500 other sheep followed. Only about 450 died because the others fell onto a soft pile of wool or other sheep.
#62
Andreas Mihavecz, an Austrian man, holds the record of surviving the longest without any food or liquids. He was taken into custody and forgotten in his cell for 18 days by three police officers. Each of them thought that the two others had already freed Mihavecz. As his cell lay in the basement, nobody could hear his screams. He lost 24 kg (53 pounds) of weight.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 9 months ago
Is 18 days without liquids even possible. I've always heard 3 days without water was a death sentence.
Array Index Out of Bounds 9 months ago
This picture is not related to this story. In fact, this is the picture of the guy who typed the numbers 1 to 1,000,000. These are the pages it took.
Bored Seagull 9 months ago
A fine of approximately €2000 each. Mihavecz himself was later awarded a compensation of approximately €50000.
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XenoMurph 9 months ago
That's the transcript of his cries for help during those 18 days.
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#63
A Roman merchant who sold fake jewels to the empress was sentenced to face a lion in the arena. However, when the gate finally opened, a chicken walked out instead. Emperor Gallienus proclaimed, “He practiced deceit, and then it was practiced on him.” The Emperor allowed the jeweler to go home.
Hidalgo 9 months ago
Rome had a fair few sane emperors, a lot of mediocre ones, and some insane ones.
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#64
For April Fools Day in 1998, Burger King took out a full-page ad in USA Today introducing a Whopper designed especially for lefties. The new burger would contain the same ingredients as the original but rotated 180º. Thousands of customers swarmed BK restaurants requesting the "lefty" Whopper.
Thorsten Massow 9 months ago
And rightfully so. Always remember 50% of the population has an IQ below 100!
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Nicky 9 months ago
Next April 1, I want the news to report that Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Big Gulp of America to thank a corporate donor.
Kallen Kneeland 9 months ago
That's brilliant - I hope we can make it happen!
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#65
A waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her colleagues for their share. Then she was sued by the man who tipped her the ticket. Then, she was kidnapped by her ex-husband and shot him in the chest. Then she went to court against the Tax department.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
This is why you don't have to have your identity made public when you win the lottery in Australia. Too many dickheads out there. We also don't have tax on winnings.
#66
The person who invented the stop sign, the pedestrian crosswalk, the traffic circle, the one-way street, the taxi stand, and the pedestrian safety islands, William Phelps Eno, never learned how to drive.
Dan Holden 9 months ago
Surely something so simple could have been independently invented in two different places, at two different times.
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#67
When he was 37, actor Jack Nicholson found that his sister was actually his mother.
Jack Nicholson grew up believing his mother was actually his sister. His mom, June, was 17 years old and unmarried when she gave birth to him. Her parents agreed to raise Jack as their own child with June acting as his sister. Reporters from Time magazine revealed this to Jack in 1974.
Hidalgo 9 months ago
Things like this happened quite a lot before records were standardized and stored electronically
Load More Replies... Trophy Husband 9 months ago
I understand why they did it, but surely by 18 they should have told him?
Data1001 9 months ago (edited)
Pretty much the exact same thing happened to crooner Bobby Darin ("Mack the Knife", "Splish Splash", etc.). It wasn't until 1968 that Bobby learned that the woman who had raised him was his grandmother, not his mother as he thought, and learned that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother
#68
In the middle ages, people thought farting in jars and sniffing them would help prevent death.
In the past, doctors believed that the plague was transmitted through harmful air vapors, and they thought that a foul-smelling substance could help neutralize the contamination. As a result, some locals began storing their farts in jars, just in case they needed a quick whiff to combat the situation.
Upstaged75 9 months ago
Didn't some Camgirl do this too? She made a fortune selling them to incels.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
Thought that was jars of her bath water, if I remember reports at the time. Unless I am thinking of reports on a different streamer.
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BrunoVI 9 months ago
True story: A monster-sized Karen at the school my wife taught at was so worked up about coronavirus. She heard you can detect when someone has it by the smell of their poop. So she would follow other teachers into the bathroom and demand to smell their poop to make sure they weren't affected. Doing so exposed her to the virus expelled in the farts and poops into the air.
Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
Pity I wasn't around during the Middle Ages. My farts would have quickly disabused them of that idea
#69
A 12-year-old French boy faked his own kidnapping, lying to police that he was taken by a cheek-scarred villain, all so that he wouldn’t have to go to the dentist.
#70
In 2011, an Australian bartender found an ATM glitch that allowed him to withdraw way beyond his account balance. In a bender that lasted some five months, he spent around $1.6 million of the bank's money. He threw lavish parties, chartered private jets, and paid off his friends' university fees. Later, he felt guilt and turned himself to the police.
Kalikima 9 months ago
That last line kills me.. I wouldn't have felt guilty for one second, and sure as hėll wouldn't turn myself in..
#71
Ancient Egyptians performed a pregnancy test where potentially pregnant women would urinate on barley and wheat seeds. If the plants grew, it indicated pregnancy: barley suggested a boy, while wheat indicated a girl. Later studies have shown that urine from pregnant women resulted in plant growth 70% of the time, while urine from non-pregnant women did not.
Catlady6000 9 months ago (edited)
Did they also test the boy/girl hypothesis? It would interesting to find out if the baby's hormones effected which plant grew
#72
Research across various primate species, including humans, indicates that adult females are more sensitive to grossness, which helps them protect against disease and infection.
Chicken Nugget 9 months ago
That makes sense, since adult females have to consider unborn children as well
#73
Christmas used to be illegal in Massachusetts. After 1681, Christmas was no longer a crime, but was completely taboo. Anyone caught making merry or singing carols was prosecuted for disturbing the peace. It remained taboo until 1870, when the federal government made it a national holiday.
Hidalgo 9 months ago
tbf Xmas in 17th Century England was a drunkards dream.
Load More Replies... Josh Gallant 9 months ago
Now there is very little merry-making or carols. Just surly shoppers mass consuming artificially inflated goods to appear more well off than they are. Yay capitalism!
#74
In Japan, over 5,000 safes washed away by the tsunami caused by the 2011 earthquake were handed over to the police by citizens, and over 3 billion yen (£29m) in cash was returned to their owners, along with other valuables.
Data1001 9 months ago
I know a tsunami is powerful, but I'm surprised that safes were swept away. I guess I tend to think of them as being almost as heavy as a boulder.
Thorsten Massow 9 months ago
They are heavy as a boulder, but even boulders can be washed away by tsunamis or other catastrophic water events. Just look up videos of different floods... (like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MRwKZ4thGM )
Load More Replies... Panda McPandaface 9 months ago
Maybe they just couldn't get the safes open.
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An Australian guy named Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes. He somehow survived. To celebrate his survival, he bought a scratch card & won a $27,000 car. The media/news asked him to re-enact the scratch card moment so he bought another card & won a $250,000 jackpot.
#76
Three bird species in Australia deliberately help spread wildfires so they can find prey more easily.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 9 months ago
The black kite, the whistling kite and the brown falcon.
#77
Every Christmas since 1952, the US Air Force has airdropped gifts over the islands of Micronesia, making it the oldest ongoing Department of Defense mission and the longest-running humanitarian airlift in the world.
The Chronic Insomniac 9 months ago
Trump and Elon will most certainly get rid of that. Can't have the USA spreading good will or cheer or anything of the sort, now can we?
Regina Holt 9 months ago
It says "US Air Force", I think that is military, not private charity.
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The record for most babies born to one woman is 69. Mrs. Vassilyeva, from Russia gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
Trophy Husband 9 months ago
If she did more 69, maybe she wouldn't have done the deed so much...... I'll see myself out...
Delicate Fcuking Flower 9 months ago
You saw the opportunity and you took it and I commend you for it, sir
Load More Replies... Jay Scales 9 months ago
When she died, her husband produced another 18 kids with his 2nd wife.... :O
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#79
In 2010, a man in England was arrested for recording his neighbor’s noisy dogs and replaying the noise at full volume over the neighbor’s fence.
Upstaged75 9 months ago
Well that's total BS. They should have arrested the person with the noisy dogs!
Kira Okah 9 months ago (edited)
The woman's dog was barking at him directly when he was harassing her. The man had been harassing the neighbour for a long time and had been arrested multiple times for his harassment. The recording of the dog barking at him after he purposely antagonised it by harassing its owner was played for days in a row, and finally ended at 3am. He was playing it to further antagonise the dog so that he could get the dog taken away as part of his harassment campaign, and is what finally got her a restraining order against his harassment. He also antagonised the neighbourhood constantly by playing loud music at all hours and hurling abuse at them too.
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#80
During the Apollo 13 mission, Jack Swigert realized he hadn’t filed his tax return. NASA contacted the IRS, which granted him a deadline extension since he was considered “out of the country.”
#81
Dropping a lit cigarette into a pool of petrol does not trigger a fire, as depicted in movies. Researchers attempted to ignite petrol with a cigarette over 2,000 times and were unsuccessful every time.
Sally Moen 9 months ago
At a first aid & safety certification class I took at a local fire department, the firefighters lit a shallow pan of gasoline (outside) on fire to show us how to extinguish a fire using a fire extinguisher. They showed that you aim for the base of the fire to starve the fire of fuel. You put out the source of the flames. So starting a fire would work by using the source, which in a pool of gasoline (petrol) would be the vapor of gas. Like how lighters work, by igniting the vapor of butane or whatever they have.
#82
There are more kangaroos in Australia than there are people, at 50 million compared to about 25 million. Australians are encouraged to eat more kangaroo meat as a way of controlling the growing numbers.
Dan Holden 9 months ago
How does it compare to pork? I love eating all sorts of meats, but I never fail to be disappointed by bacon that isn't from a pig.
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Huddo's sister 9 months ago
It's pretty nice too. There are also places that serve camel meat for the same reason, but not as common.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
It's really iron rich and I've heard people call it gamey (I've never eaten game meat). I like it, but not in large quantities.
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Every year during the last weekend of August, redheads from all over the world flock to the Netherlands for the Redhead Days International Festival. It was founded by a blonde.
Don't listen to me 9 months ago
I thought thst was an Irish festival. Iteland certainly has one.
#84
Nike had conditions before giving Michael Jordan a record contract: Either be rookie of the year, or average 20 points per game, or be an all-star, or sell $4 mill worth of shoes in a year. Jordan was rookie of the year, scored 28.2 points per game, named all-star, and Nike sold $100 mill of shoes in 1984-85.
#85
In 2013, a prisoner in Sweden escaped prison just two days before he was due to be released from prison because he had a toothache and wanted to see a dentist. He broke out, visited the dentist, and then turned himself back in. As a result, he received an additional day added to his month-long sentence as punishment.
Midwest Mike 9 months ago
As an American. I can say this makes 100% sense in the United States. Prison or not....
#86
In 2016, a rat broke into an ATM in India and ate $19,000 worth of cash.
Police say at least one rat slipped through a hole in the back of an ATM in northeastern India and started eating. By the time it finished, more than US$19,000 in bills were shredded.
#87
In 2013, an American woman lost all her teeth due to fluoride poisoning from tea. She'd been having a pitcher of ice tea made with 100-150 tea bags every day for 17 years.
Trophy Husband 9 months ago
150 tea bags for a single pitcher? Why not just eat the tea leaves, it might be less bitter!!
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
CBS News: "A 47-year-old Detroit woman is recovering after an extreme a*******n to tea. Henry Ford Hospital Bone & Mineral Research Head Sudhaker Rao says the patient drank the equivalent of 100 cups of tea a day for 17 years. He says she lost all her teeth and doctors at first thought she had cancer, but as it turned out, she was suffering from a fluoride o******e. "Among the beverages that contain fluoride, tea actually contains the highest amount of fluoride, however, it is a small quantity in each bag so we don't drink that many. So if you overflow your system ... the kidney is unable to excrete this load of fluoride from this many bags of tea," said Rao."
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Hidden words censored by BP are A D D I C T I O N and O V E R D O S E.
Load More Replies... Data1001 9 months ago
In more positive news about tea, I read this past week that tea can extract dangerous metals from water. Certain types of teabags were best at this (cellulose, or paper ones being best, while nylon or plastic ones were not good at the metal extraction). Apparently (as I recall), the metals bond with the tea leaves. The amount of metals removed from the water is not meaningful enough to save someone's life, most likely, but I found it rather interesting, nonetheless.
Francesca Annoni 9 months ago
And the caffeine amount? There are 50 mg of caffeine for a teabag ..150 bags can cause you an heart attack .https://www.tetley.co.uk/frequently-asked-questions#:~:text=A%20cup%20of%20tea%20typically,highest%20and%20then%20gradually%20diminishes.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
Tea leaves themselves do. 1 teabag contains little, 150 teabags at once is a different story.
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#88
In Japan, some restaurants and tourist attractions charge higher prices for foreign tourists compared to locals to manage increased demand without overburdening local residents.
John Dilligaf 9 months ago
I'm pretty sure most tourist spots charge the tourists more for stuff than they charge the locals.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
Just like Donald Trump charged higher rents to black tenants of his buildings.
Catlady6000 9 months ago (edited)
Actually not the same. Tourists are temporary at most and not in genuine need. A renter is looking for at least semi-permanent shelter, which is a need. The Japanese way is fair to me, I'm coming to your area, using resources and causing minor disruptions at best, just for my own enjoyment, not aneed. I don't mind paying a bit extra.
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#89
A man lost in the woods chopped down power poles so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
Couldn't he have just followed the power lines to whatever location they were supplying electricity to?
Kira Okah 9 months ago (edited)
How would he know which direction was civilisation and which was deeper into the wilderness? He could go miles without ever seeing a road, and might have to climb impassable terrain.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 9 months ago
Was out in a boat and hit a storm in Saskatchewan, lost his methods of communication, an axe in Saskatchewan is a good idea.
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In Germany and some other countries, it is considered human nature to want to escape from a prison, and it is considered as a violation of the right to freedom, so escape is not penalized in itself.
Kalikima 9 months ago
That explains the dude that escaped and then turned himself back in after he saw the dentist..
Thorsten Massow 9 months ago
Except Germany is not Sweden. In Germany he could not have gotten additional punishment.
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In February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.
Michael Largey 9 months ago (edited)
Soon it will be the librarians getting arrested for making "woke " books available.
Kallen Kneeland 9 months ago
Sadly, I think MAGA world thinks that would be a good thing.
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A family in China adopted what they thought was a dog and raised it for two years, only to find out it was an Asiatic black bear. They reportedly couldn’t figure out why the dog kept growing. It turns out that sort of mix-up happens fairly often.
Regina Holt 9 months ago
Is there a dog that looks enough like a bear that these folks thought the bear actually was a dog? This happens fairly often? Huh. Interesting.
Sanjana 9 months ago
the cubs really do resemble puppies! ODEGD4WVOZ...781bcc.jpg 
#93
A French convict used nectarines painted to resemble grenades to escape from prison in a helicopter piloted by his wife, who had taken flight lessons solely for this escape.
#94
Guns 'N Roses once went on tour with a car that broke down, so they hitchhiked to the gig, ate raw onions from a field along the way, made it to Seattle for the gig, and when they finished, the owner refused to pay them. They responded by trying and failing to burn the club down.
#95
December 5th is Krampusnacht or "Krampus Night" when men dressed as Krampus drink alcohol, run through the streets, and chase delinquent children around and hit them with sticks. Many anthropologists believe the tradition is pre-Christian and goes back to pagan mythology.
Thorsten Massow 9 months ago
In parts of southern catholic Germany, Krampus is nowadays an assistent to St. Nicklas, who's day is December 6th.
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There are 10 million more women than men in Russia.
Analyn Lahr 9 months ago
Then why don't they revolt, overpower the men and take over the country?
Jaya 9 months ago
Because 10 million is only 7% of the population. 77 million women isn't nearly enough to overpower 67 million men.
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In 2015, a woman who tied the knot with herself revealed that she had cheated on herself with a man, who was also married to himself.
Robert Cosgrove 9 months ago
Sneaked one in there. Bored Panda not too good on British swear words ?
Load More Replies... Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 9 months ago (edited)
Its not cheating if everyone consented... maybe it could be considered a foursome tho actually thinking about it no. Its somehow a non monogamous relationship with only 2 people though. Insane
Jaya 9 months ago
So you're saying she's in an open marriage with herself, lol. I love that!
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A teen who had a diet of French fries, Pringles, white bread, and an occasional slice of ham or sausage was found to have severe vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition. As a result, he developed blind spots in the center of his vision. It is stated that his sight loss is permanent.
#99
The creator of the Budweiser beer started a tradition where a couple of drops of the beer were put onto the tongue of each first-born son before he even tasted his mother's milk.
Paul Donahue 9 months ago
Feeding a newborn water should be criminal. Helloooo from Wisconsin! But yeah, that's messed up.
#100
Only about 1% of the artifacts in the British Museum are displayed to the public at any given time. The remaining 99% are kept in the museum’s extensive archives, mainly accessible to researchers and scholars. These hidden treasures include items of significant historical, cultural, and artistic value, many of which have never been seen by the public.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
Coincidently, one percent is also the portion of its collection that was acquired legitimately.
Mark Savoie 9 months ago
Coincidentally, 99% of their collection would have been destroyed by war or t*******m ìf they had not removed to the British Museum.
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#101
A report found that the free weights at the gym have 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.
#102
In 1979, the Italian punk band Skiantos brought a kitchen, a table, a TV, and a fridge on stage at a music festival. They boiled some spaghetti and then ate it without playing any music.
#103
In 2016, a man stole $5 million from his workplace as an accounting department manager over the course of 7 years and spent $1 million of it on a single mobile video game, Game of War. Outside of that, he spent it on cars, furniture, and sports tickets.
Bravia Kimyi 9 months ago
Spending $1M on a video game isn’t already “wasting”?
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Abraham Lincoln grew his famous beard after an 11 year old girl told him "All the ladies like whiskers".
#105
Tom Cruise divorced all three of his ex-wives when they turned 33 (Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes), and each is 11 years younger than the last.
Surly Scot 9 months ago
The divorce with Mimi was amicable, Nicole was blindsided, and Katie fled in the middle of the night with their daughter. His next relationship will end like a Russian Opera.
Midwest Mike 9 months ago
Don't forget the poor dental work he has. Google "Tom Cruise The Outsiders Teeth" to see his true teeth. Then Google "Tom Cruise Center Tooth" to see what terrible dental work he got to fix his horrible teeth...that made it worse. You can't unsee it. The center of your tooth should NOT line up with your nose...
#106
In Denmark, if you are unmarried at 25, you'll get cinnamon thrown all over you on your birthday.
Kira Okah 9 months ago
Supposedly something about spice merchants typially being bachelors because they travelled so much. It's an excuse to play harmless pranks on your loved ones really.
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Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
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