People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones
Truth is stranger than fiction, they say. This recent Ask Reddit thread is a great example of that.
“What is a true fact so baffling, it should be false?” someone posed a question, sparking a viral thread full of random and hard-to-believe facts.
Did you know that cheetahs don’t roar? And what about the fact that we live many times closer to the last dinosaur than the first and last dinosaur did to each other?
Below we wrapped up some of the most unbelievable and mind-bending facts, so pull your seat closer.
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[Switzerland has accidentally invaded Liechtenstein thrice in the last 50 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein%E2%80%93Switzerland_relations).
* On the first time in 1976, Swiss military got lost and ended up in Liechtenstein, so the Liechtensteiners offered them drinks like proper hosts.
* On the second time in 1992, Swiss military forgot that a certain observation post was actually not in Swiss territory but in Liechtenstein territory, so they just said sorry and forgot about it.
* Then again in 2007, the Swiss army got lost and entered Liechtenstein, but eventually realized they weren't in Switzerland anymore, Toto, so they turned back. Liechtenstein didn't even know this happened till the Swiss apologized (again), to which they basically said, no problem, bro.
Takeaways: The Swiss army are bad with directions. The Liechtenstein ~~army~~ people are chill bros.
The last time Liechtenstein saw military action was in 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War, when they sent 80 troops to guard the Tyrolean border. They returned home with 81 men, having suffered no casualties and gained a new recruit en route.
Ironically, some models of the Swiss Army knife had compasses built into the scales.
That's not those the soldiers have tho, the military knives are silver with no details.
Load More Replies...I can just imagine how the third one went down. "Ehh, sir, I think we may be lost." "Well, where are you?" "I believe we may have accidentally entered Liechtenstein." "Oh for God's sake NOT AGAIN!"
Generally, a good thing. However, Lionel Richie did well to slightly rewrite the lyrics to his future hit song, "Once, twice, thrice a lady."
Load More Replies...I lived just a few Km‘s from Liechtenstein and can confirm
In case of an attack the Swiss army if from what I know anyway responsible to protect our Liechtenstein neighbors, so I wouldn't call it too much of a problem.
Strangely enough, Google Street view is not available in Lichtenstein. I wonder why?
Probably privacy laws. But there are points where Street view will work.
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Cheetahs cant roar, but they can meow like house cats.
They chirp, like birds. Many videos online of chirping cheetahs.
wild cats can either purr or roar, but none can do both due to different anatomy
Awww wouldn't it be cool if you could hug one without it eating your face off? Lol
Even if 99% of Earth's population thought you were unattractive, 76 million people would still find you attractive
If 99% think you're ugly you're probably ugly, and there's a good chance that the other 1% will agree :-)
If you only found attractive 1% of the 1%, that still means there's 760.000 potential matches.
Spread across 8 billion people and 7 continents. I hope you're willing to do a lot of flying. What about a more realistic situation. Say you live in a medium sized city of 2 million people. So 1% is still 20K people, not bad. In Europe, about 31% of adults aged 18-65 consider themselves to be single, so that still leaves you with 6.100 people. Oh, but we forgot about gender, so assuming you are not pansexual or bisexual, your dating pool is further cut in half 3.050. Except that about 23% of adults in across Europe and the US identify as gay or lesbian. So if you're straight, this isn't quite as detrimental, but if you're gay, that reduces your dating pool significantly again. Then of course, it's unlikely an 18 year old will want to date a 64 year old, so you'd have to consider the age range that you'd be comfortable dating within, and those numbers will drop significantly again. So we can be very liberal and say that your dating pool is probably around 1K people in a city of 2M
Load More Replies...About 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of the Earth’s population would find a prick like me interesting :D
Hey! You're forgetting all of your fellow Bored Pandas! We find you interesting, right guys?
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One day Mao Zedong saw a sparrow eating grain. Thinking that the sparrows were hurting China's grain supply, he and the Communist Party launched the *Four Pests Campaign*. The Chinese military and population [took out] every sparrow they could find. Embassies didn't allow the Chinese to [take out] sparrows on their property, so the Chinese banged pots and pans outside the embassies 24/7 until the sparrows died of exhaustion. Unfortunately for the Chinese, sparrows mainly eat insects, not grain. The locust population exploded and [***43 million people starved to death.***](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-four-pests-campaign-objectives-execution-failure-and-consequences.html)
There were 2 countries that declared a war on birds - and both lost it.
Maoist China has a LONG history of policies that failed due to being too extreme and ultimately idiotic. During the "Great Leap Forward" Mao encouraged farmers to ditch agriculture and start making steel in their backyards, in a bid to outperform the largest steel producer of the era, Britain. Untrained farmers were encouraged to melt their tools, collect scraps, gather wood and run their own forges: the result was an epic famine that killed 50 million, extensive deforestation leading to floods and landslides, and the only gain were million of tons of pig iron of such low quality to be completely unusable.
The situation in the late 1950s was dire, to the point of the government encouraging people to breed dogs because the dogs grow quickly and can be eaten as meat stew. Mao routinely executed dozens of people, either because he saw assassination plots behind every corner or just to get rid of the opposition. It was a proper s*itshow. Large projects were started, further taking away manpower from food production, worsening the already ongoing famine. Huge, low tech and obsolete factories were built in hard to reach places, supposedly to give them protection from "enemy" activity but in reality just making them even more inefficient. Whoever opposed these plans went on to be part of the 2,5 million people tortured and killed for opposing the revolution, or just were cut off from government-supplied resources and let to die of hunger.
Load More Replies...Something similar happened in the middle ages when a pope declared cats as animals of the devil and had them killed by the thousands. So the rodent population exploded and the plague spread like wildfire
Especially when we are talking about small birds or viruses!! It's not even people dying who is this sensitive???
Load More Replies...It was worse than that. Being unfamiliar with zoology, the Chinese killed many small birds irrespective of species. There is even a picture of a person receiving a "sparrow" bounty for handing in a dead heron. Even a decade later, a naturalist who was visiting China only saw two bird species that hadn't migrated back in from Korea or Hong Kong. He saw more bird species in two hours in Hong Kong than in two months in mainland China. And as for the simultaneous Chinese war against "rats", I shudder to think how many small mammal species were driven to extinction because of that.
Oh no I saw the word death!!! My poor virgin eyes!!! I don’t know how to go on !!!!!1
When government demands we "follow the science" before the science has spoken.
The life of Frane Selak, the luckiest unlucky man in the world:
• January 1962- Frane is riding on a train through a freezing canyon when it fell into an icy river. All 17 other passengers died while he escapes with a broken arm and hypothermia.
• 1963- On his first plane trip he was sucked out of the plane’s door and landed in a haystack, unscathed. 19 other people were killed in the crash.
• 1966- He was riding in a bus when it skidded off the road into yet another icy river. 4 passengers drowned while he only received some minor cuts and bruises.
•1970- His car’s engine burst into flames while he was driving but he managed to escape before it exploded.
•1973- In yet another driving incident, his car’s engine was doused with hot oil from a broken fuel pump. This caused flames to shoot through the air vents, singing off all of his hair. He was otherwise unharmed.
•1995- He was hit by a bus but only sustained minor injuries.
•1996- To escape a head-on collision with a United-Nations truck on a mountain curve, he swerved into a guard rail that broke on impact. to save himself, he jumped out of his car’s open door and grabbed onto a tree branch as he watched his car plummet off the cliff.
Suffice to say the guy had a complicated relationship with the Grim Reaper.
Edit: Got his name wrong
Edit 2: Got the first edit wrong, turns out i was right the first time
It's simple: he's secretly a cat and has used up 7 of his 9 lives so far
Oh the grim reaper got him in the end. He died in 2016 of old age. But he also won the lottery twice and was married 5 times
Load More Replies...There are very few -if any- factual confirmation of these events outside of him winning the state lottery in 2003 (curiously omitted from this list). The train and airplane accident would definitely have been reported if real, but there is no factual news about those. The whole story is based on stories told by Selak himself before his death in 2016. Selak's son went on to clarify that his father always dreamed to be famous, and said: "After winning that jackpot, my dad, who dreamed of fame all his life, have found (and paid!) local journalist to write about amazing life, full of close encounters with death". The guy is known also by a nickname, given by his son himself: "Croatian Baron Munchausen".
Remind me to never be in the same building, car, bus, ship or plane with this guy
Coming here to say the same thing. I have no interest in being near him on any transportation. Also add trains to your list.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of that nurse who survived many ship sinkings including the titanic
The story of Violet Jessop is real and confirmed by official sources, though.
Load More Replies...If true, which I doubt, he would be very lucky since he survived all of this. Also, the one about a broken fuel pump causing hot oil to douse the engine and then cause flames to shoot through the air vents doesn't even make sense.
He also was married 5 (?) Times and won the lottery 2 days after his birthday. He spent a little but gave most of the $ away if I remember correctly
People were deliberately infected with malaria to cure their syphilis, and the man who developed this treatment - Julius Wagner-Jauregg received the nobel prize for it.
(The extremely high fevers of the malaria infections [unalived] the syphilis bacteria, then the patients were cured of the malaria using quinine.)
I sincerely think that censoring the word "killed" is going too far. At least the substitution word is imaginative.
Jack, tried to unalive his co-worker for wearing way too much perfume 😜
Load More Replies...I had malaria...it's no joke especially when it's paired with dengue fever. But after treatment, I haven't had so much as a cold since 2012.
wow imagine being traumatised by having the thought of bacteria getting unalived.
‘Unalived’ is ridiculous. It makes me think killed and dead and bought the farm. It should be, Altered living state. It’s like moving to another state to start a new job.
Well isn't most antibiotic mold ? If it sounds cringe but works, it still works right ?
i suspect this was before antibiotics were a thing?
Load More Replies...Just inject another deadly virus into their body to destroy the malaria, worked the first time
Same idea as chemotherapy -- most of that is small portions of poison, to kill the cancer more than it kills you. Malaria is far preferable to syphiiis in that there was a known and reliable treatment for it. Syph just kills you slowly, hideously, over years.
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It's pretty well known by now, but calculators today have more computing power than Apollo 11. We got to the moon with slide rulers and huge balls.
Yes and the men would have just typed in 80085 and giggled
Load More Replies...The computing power on the craft was there for control only. The calculations were all done on earth and then sent the necessary data to be entered in the onboard computers.
The Biography of Gene Krantz "failure is not an option" briefly describes the challenges of getting any computing power on Apollo at all. At the time, the smallest real computers were the size of a kitchen oven. It was a huge challenge to shrink it to a size and mass small enough to fit in a space capsule. And on top of that, there was the software struggle to fit as much useful software as possible into that small memory space.
We got to the moon for a myriad of reasons. For the sake of accuracy, however, some of those reasons were early computers and the work of Black women who had to push thru racist red tape so that a man could step forward. Or whatever. So big ovaries. Let's keep naming that.
This is slight misconception. The computers on Apollo 11 had only one function, unlike any calculator or smartphone. They are designed for multiple purposes, whereas Apol computers were single purpose.
Oxford University Predates the Aztec empire by over 200 years.
And, for fun one of my favorites:
Woolly Mammoths were still around at the time the Great Pyramids in Giza were built.
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing and creation of the iPhone than the construction of the Pyramids of Giza.
Yeah, but still - does she ever call??? Oh, no.
Load More Replies...Harvard University didn't teach Calculus for a couple of decades, because it hadn't been invented yet.
I may be wrong, but I think there was still a permanent icecap on central Scandinavia at the time the Great Pyramids in Giza were built.
Mexica, not Aztec. The Aztecs never had an empire since they were nomadic people, Mexicas weren't. Once the Aztecs settled on lake Texcoco they became Mexicas, and then they created their empire, not before.
I just read a post on /r/technicallythetruth. We’ve all kicked a pregnant woman before.
Some of those kicks were absolutely debilitating. I got that little sh*t back for a good 10 years. Then he was taller, bigger stronger, but I was faster and could dodge that nonsense. Now he’s 18, 6’3 and 220 lbs. He won’t even let me try to play fight. He just picks me up to the nearest seat, plops me down and says, “Stop it, Mom!” Lol
It's hell, isn't it? My boys just hug me until I start laughing. They still run from the wooden spoon though!
Load More Replies...A better word would have been “once.” I can see where “before” would confuse non-native English speakers, so just replace “before” with “once.”
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If every single person on the entire planet took part in a rock paper scissors contest. Where everyone paired up and played, losers were knocked out and winners stayed on etc
You would only have to win 33 times in a row to beat all 7.53 billion people on the planet
Each play reduces the number of players in half, so it's easy to understand why it wouldn't last much. 1) 7.530.000.000 2) 3.765.000.000 3) 1.882.500.000 4) 941.250.000 5) 470.625.000 6) 235.312.500 7) 117.656.250 8) 58.828.125 9) 29.414.062 10) 14.707.031 11) 7.353.515 And so on :)
I was under the impression that there would be no math.
Load More Replies...This is why I don't like exponential growth/decay word problems, the situations all have terrifying ramifications or make your brain hurt.
Einstein said that exponential growth is the most powerful force in the universe.
Load More Replies...Since the world population is increasing by about 130 every minute you would never get a winner
From 1613 and 1620 a Samurai travelled to Rome by way of Mexico. During this time, Shakespeare was still alive, Virginia had been founded for around a decade, Gallileo was accused of heresy, and Pocahantes arrived in England. He met the Pope he was made a Roman citizen. His name was Hasekura Tsunenaga, and was the last japanese person to officially visit Europe until around 1860.
For a brief period of time, Snoop Dogg existed at the same time as Picasso
John Wayne met Wyatt Earp. This blows my mind The Wild West and Hollywood overlapped.
Load More Replies...The first fax machine was invented before Lincoln was assassinated, so hypothetically a samurai could have faxed Lincoln from Rome.
And no one from Japan visited until 1860? That Hasekura must have posted some really negative reviews!
There were irregular visits from japanese to holland. There even was a special word in japanese for the dutch studies. The first western books were dutch, and there were dictionaries japanese-dutch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Netherlands_relations
Load More Replies...He headed a diplomatic mission, however not on a national level by the Japanese Shogunate but a regional one, being sent by a provincial Daimyo (Date Masamune). This of course limited its weight and possibilities for treaties in Europe. Japan shortly afterwards began its complete isolation from the west (with very limited exceptions) until it was forced to open up in the 19th century.
The samurai were officially abolished as a caste in Japanese society during the Meiji Restoration in 1867 The first ever fax machine, the “printing telegraph”, was invented in 1843 And Abraham Lincoln was famously assassinated at Ford’s Theater in 1865 Which means There was a 22 year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
He was not even the first Japanese in Rome. Look for ‘bernardo the japanese’
We live many times closer to the last dinosaur than the first and last dinosaur did to each other.
last dinosaur? hey, BP, summon feathered dinosaur. we need to figure out if this is true or not. I thought dinosaurs evolved, grew feathers, etc etc. FEATHERED DINOSAUR, I SUMMON THEE FOR A PEACEFUL MEETING/ DISCUSSION.
There is no 'last dinosaur'. They are still living, breathing, and being born. "Birds belong to the theropod group of dinosaurs that included T. rex. Theropods are all bipedal and some of them share more bird-like features than others. " https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosaurs-heres-how-we-know/
yep. Take a look at that archaeopteryx above and then go google "Hoatzin and chicks".
Load More Replies...Last dinosaur 66 million years ago. First true bird (last common ancestor of emu and sparrow) about 130 million years ago. First true mammal (last common ancestor of platypus and human) also roughly 130 million years ago. There were primates, dinosaurs and ducks living at the same time.
And my Latin teacher in high school was old enough to speak Latin as a first language
Not dinosaurs. Not descended from dinosaurs. Less closely related to dinosaurs than a chicken.
Load More Replies...I thought Boomers were supposed to be dinosaurs. I still know a few of those (like, myself).
What about the Komodo dragon? They are still alive and actually considered a living dinosaur.
Not a dinosaur. Less closely related to dinosaurs than a chicken.
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Giant squids have a donut shaped brain so their esophagus can run through the middle. If they try to swallow too large a bite of food they can get brain damage.
When Zara comes back from her exams, we HAVE to tease her about this!
Not being a k**b, but I didn't realise that sharks actually have a *neck* as such....TIL ;)
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In the last 3,000 years, there were only 268 years in which there was no war in the world
That's wars we have modern records for. That number should be way lower. For instance, the records of Ptolemjc Egypt's wars were lost when columns were destroyed to scrub someone from history and when the library of Alexandria burned. They could have been fighting 200 Taureg precursors in the Sahara for six months and there's no records.
Yeah, I'm not sure we have a single year of world peace if we include civil wars.
Load More Replies...I did a study looking at which years had no major war in the 20th century. There were about 8 such years.
The longest war of the 20th Century was the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988.
Load More Replies...that is actually a lot more than I figured there would be. almost 10% of the last 3000 years no war. that's impressive.
Well, it's 3000 years and lots of them have no reliable records so just because no war is known during a period doesn't neccessarily mean there was none, just that no one has written it down or the scriptures were lost
Load More Replies...Define "war". I think a reasonable definition would take that number down to zero.
We think that history was so violent. It's not any different now. We just justify it differently
But I bet people fought for some ridiculous sh*t in all these peaceful years.
if sound could travel through space, the roar of the sun would be deafening even though it's 93M miles away.
EDIT: because space is a vacuum. sound can't travel though a vacuum.
EDIT AGAIN: obviously lots of other things in the universe would change, and yes, presumably other stars and planets would make noise too. we'd probably all die screaming as the earth itself imploded from the pressure of traveling so fast though a universe that WASN'T a vacuum.
LAST EDIT: YES, JESUS CHRIST RICK AND MORTY, AS HUNDREDS OF YOU HAVE POINTED OUT.
In a universe where space carried sound, or had an atmosphere, pretty much all physics would have to work differently. If life were possible at all, it too would work on far different principles than it does now. Either that or it’d be like Star Wars, which according to George Lucas actually does have a thin atmosphere in space, hence the need for aerodynamic starships, TIE fighters making that screaming sound, and characters surviving outside of their spaceships without life support.
The record for most children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. 1707–c.1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In 27 labors, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
Edit: wife name is Valentina Vassilyeva.
Had to edit to include the name of the woman who the fact was actually about!? Patriarchy is strong with this one.
Additional point that this claim was never actually proven, the photo here doesn't show the family or the woman, as photography hadn't been invented yet (the first photo in Russia ever taken was in 1839), and when researchers actually attempted to verify the claims, neither the woman nor the family could ever be located. The claims were originally made by a mayor of the town where the woman supposedly lived as an attempt to drive tourism (the claim was first published in the 1878 long after the woman supposedly died).
Load More Replies...The veracity of this claim is often disputed as there is absolutely no way to check. We don't even know any of the childrens' names. And of course the photo depicts someone else, as there were no cameras in the 18th century.
Thank you. The first picture ever was taken 1826.
Load More Replies...died and was buried with her previously deceased husband. Family friends talking at graveside : Friend 1 "so nice to see them together" Friend 2: Valentina and Feodor? Friend 1: no Valentinas legs.
All Valentina Vassilyeva ever wanted for her anniversary was Feodor Vassilyev's vasectomy...
I don't know if the story is true or not, but that poor woman looks like she's seen some s**t.
The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
It's 90 days, according to Guinness World Records. Molly and Benjamin West were born in 1996. Molly was born prematurely at 6 months, but the doctors were able to halt the delivery of Benjamin. He was delivered fully term, 3 months later.
At least they don't have to worry about sharing a birthday or fighting about who is older!
Omg imagine the poor mother Edit: read the comments and still not nice but not what I expected
Well, it wouldn't be the longest time between three twins, now would it?
One was premature, the other not. Doctors were able to stop the mother's labor before the second baby was born and the first had to go to the NICU for a few months.
Load More Replies...I hated being pregnant. Sick the whole time. Having to give birth only to go home still pregnant sounds like a nightmare to me.
Knowing that your kid will have more probabilities of keep growing inside you wouldnt that help?
Load More Replies...Many odd twin stories - different races, different yrs/decades and different states, etc
A morbidly obese person can survive with absolute starvation without any sickness or feeling ill (under close control). There have been studies since 60's, there is a patient in 1973 who went under a 382 day starvation diet for therapuetic purposes under close control with only vitamin and mineral supplements and water intake without protein, carbohydrate or fat intake (no food at all). Dropped from 207 kg to 88kg and maintained it. After a follow up check-up 5 years later, the patient was 96 kilograms, stabilized. Prolonged fasting had no ill effects. If anybody is curious about the article, the pubmed ID is: PMC2495396.
Edit: fixed autocorrect
Under close control. I guess that’s the key. Don’t try this at home.
Yes. This person was given water and supplements. Carefully balanced supplements that would provide exactly what their body needed to keep functioning without food.
Load More Replies...A dangerous idea to spread around cos I bet loads of people would skip the "under close control" part and starve themselves thinking they could do the same. Control of calorie intake and exercise is a healthier and safer option imho. I could be totally wrong though, as I'm not a doctor.
People still do that without seing that post, I really doubt it's going to change anything
Load More Replies...That was one source. I don't think starvation is a good idea for weight loss, and I guarantee you people are going to look over the parts where they got supplements.
I wonder what damage was done to their liver during this time. Rapid weight loss can cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and lead to permanent liver damage, often requiring a transplant.
Just to be clear, if you do that without supervision you will die under 30 days like everybody else, your weight doesn't matter. That should definitely be added.
Yes, but did the person have the will to live? Because believe it or not that's relevant. I'm all for people being healthy but whoever submitted themselves to that study deserves a hug and some serious therapy.
This is not a good suggestion and all I can think about is people with eds
Don't get any ideas! This was done under a doctor's care! You would die in about 3 weeks if you did this on your own!
There is nothing in my life that I would categorize as being under close control.
An eyewitness to Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theater told his story on national television.
EDIT: Based on suggestions below, I’m proposing a new version of this factoid which makes it sound even crazier (but still factually true)...
An eyewitness to Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theater appeared as a contestant on a nationally televised game show with Lucille Ball
Not only that, but you can watch the episode on YouTube. It's called What's My Line. (I love 1950s and 60s television). The witness was of course a very young boy when he saw the assassination.
Not "What's My Line?" but "I've Got a Secret." Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM5EVnDi9Lc
Nope, the tv programme was called What's My Line. I've Got A Secret was one of the segments of the show
Load More Replies...There was a contestant on What's My Line with the most boring job ever. Hand wrapping copper line around a spool to make a telephone voice coil. Once you get up to speed nothing else matters. Nothing.
A 500 lb. cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear named Wojtek was enlisted and served in the Polish army during WWII. "Private Wojtek" helped the Polish win the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino, and was even promoted to corporal. Following the war, he retired in Scotland.
He carried ammunition and got an official rank because pets weren't allowed on british ships
Happy to say there is a statue to him in my home city. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/soldier-bear-statue
"Following the war, he retired in Scotland." - where he took up golf????
There's a memorial statue of Wojtek in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh.
Man the poor bear.. Endangering their health and life at every turn.
If I remember correctly, the poor thing died when he was 20 years old due to the obvious effects of alcohol and cigarettes on his body. Rest in peace, Private Wojtek.
21, which is on the lower end of average for the species. Edit: Also, he's been promoted to corporal. The bear out ranks you recruit.
Load More Replies...Why did he leave Poland for Scotland or Is that what all army bears do when they retire?
His unit was stationed there at the end of the war. The rightful Polish government in exile they were loyal to wasn't given back control of Poland until the Fall of the Soviet Union.
Load More Replies...If you took every civilian-owned firearm in the US and laid them side-by-side, you would have a giant belt of guns long enough to go completely around the moon. After going completely around the moon, you would still have enough guns left over to equip every soldier in the world with two guns.
Why would we want to encircle the moon with guns? I say encircle the moon with mousie toys and sofas to bat them under.
honestly it depends where you live. If someone lives in a highly crime-ridden section of the city, where the police take a long time to respond to anything, legally owning a firearm could be the difference between life and death.
If you took every gun in the world and and laid them side by side on the moon the earth would be a better place. Edit: Nevermind, they would just use knifes and rocks.
I mean some will try, but knifes and rocks have a lot worse damage to effort ratio and a much lower range.
Load More Replies...The moon has rights too. It can own a gun belt for protection! Don't infringe on his/hers rights! It's in the Amendments. Look it up!
I am an American... and even I don't understand our opposition to the metric system. I mean what is this? We are now using the belt of the moon and double the world's army's as a measurement?
This doesn't seem correct. Unless the number of civilian owned guns in the US has doubled since 2017. In 2017, there were an estimated 393M privately owned guns in the US. The distance to the moon is around 384M meters. Assuming that one gun would be on average 1m long, which is probably on the high side, they would just reach the moon, but certainly not all the way back. That being said, it's still a shitload of guns that you don't really need.
Nah, until your own government betrays you. Ask Germany. And Turkey. And China, and Albania.
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Stalin, Hitler, and Freud all lived in Vienna at the same time.
Edit: And as others have pointed out (including a source further down), Tito and Trotsky were also there.
They all walked into a bar and the bartender goes, “Vat is zis? Some kind of joke?”
Worst episode of "Friends" ever - The One With All the Dictators.
Only four people have been to the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ocean. One of those people is James Cameron, the director of Titanic.
When claustrophobia, acrophobia, and thalassophobia collide.
Load More Replies...I think a lot of people have been to the Challenger Deep, it's just that only 4 ever came back
I wish I had the money to see the Titanic shipwreck before it complete disappears...
And he also found seven sets of keys and fourteen remote control devices
Here on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, USA, there is a Under Sea Naval Museum with a retired sub on display that has been to Challenger Deep. There was a rescue sub next to it that was also impressive.
That man gave us Terminator 2. Despite the fact that Arnold has barely aged and Linda Hamilton looks like a grandma - I'm on board for a really well-thought out Terminator 3 with Linda. I'll even write it. James, you listening?
It's not hard to double check this: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceandepth.html Challenger Deep is the deepest part of the ocean. Although technically it is part of the Mariana Trench so...
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Giraffes eat bones.
Well most herbivores will eat meat if the opportunity presents itself. Herbivores "mostly feed on plants" by definition. The deer at a park I used to visit really loved sausages. If given the opportunity to steal food they'd go for the sausages first and then whatever salads/veggies we had.
Load More Replies..."Giraffe are the tallest herbivores in the world and feed of a variety of plant species. They are not carnivorous! However, when nutrients are lacking in their normal daily diets, and they become nutritionally stressed, they will eat bone to get phosphorous and calcium their bodies require." https://www.wildlifeact.com/blog/why-do-giraffe-chew-bones/
Some stupid a*****e imported mountain goats to the Olympics hoping for shootin' fun; there is no salt easily available so the goats attack and lick the sweat from hikers (killed at least one)
So that's why their necks are so long, every time they eat a bone it's added
To get calcium for their huge bones. They have the same amount of vertebrae in their necks as we do.
When Mt Everest was first measured it was exactly 29,000 feet. It was reported as 29,002 because exactly 29,000 was not believable.
Hm, adding onto the number in order to make it seem better, reminds me of something...
Not, the extra two feet was added to make it seem like a more accurate measurement. It wasn't to make it appear bigger.
Load More Replies...If Trump owned Mt Everest (god forbid) he'd claim it's at least 35,000 ft.
The phrase "plastic surgery" has nothing to do with the material. Plastic surgery as a field predates the development of plastics by 70 years. The two terms simply share a Greek word root meaning "sculpted" or "reshaped".
If that has the same meaning as it does in English, plastic surgery doesn't necessarily mean it's about aesthetics. My husband's hand was sewn up by a plastic surgeon after an accident. Sometimes you need that level of attention to detail - they restorn form and function after illness, accident or violent incidents.
Load More Replies...If it makes you feel better, do it: when it makes you look worse, stop.
Why, it's almost the substance is named for its ability to be melted and molded easily.
Ireland was a net exporter of food during the great potato famine.
Which is why the aristocracy should be destroyed (it was primarily English aristocracy that decreed that exporting food would be better than feeding the Irish population !!)
Load More Replies...Started as a famine but ended as a state sponsored genocide due to England's refusal to help.
Load More Replies...Food was available if you left the Catholic Church and joined the Church of England. The Irish referred to it as "taking the soup".
Even crazier, Ireland's population has never recovered from the famine. Ireland's population in 1841 was estimated at between 8.4 and 8.5 million people. Today it stands at around 5 million. Screenshot...13-png.jpg
Partly due to a lot of people emmigrating to the US to escape the famine..
Load More Replies...Few famines are natural. There's a reason why the Bible associates them with war, rather than drought. War, then famine, then pestilence. Life expectancy in the U.S. actually GREW during the Dust Bowl, the worst drought in history to strike North America. (There was a prehistoric megadrought that lasted four centuries from 900 to 1300 AD.)
Because England literally wanted to kill every Irish person so they exported the food creating the famine.
That's not really true. The English didn't do enough in my estimation, but they weren't solely responsible. Wealthy Catholic landlords continued to export food to Germany and France, rather than provide surplus food to their impoverished tenant farmers. This has as much to do about class as it does about English colonialism. The rich are happy to let the poor die, if it means not sacrificing their own comfort or convenience.
Load More Replies...Only for one year of it. Granted, they weren't giving that food to anyone, only selling it. They only started giving food at the end, and only if they converted from Catholicism.
If you earned $1 every second, it would take 2,921 years to have more money than Bill Gates.
If you made $50,000 a day, 365 days a year, from the time they were building pyramids in Ancient Egypt to now, you would only have about 70% of Elon Musk's wealth. Edit: 40%, thank you RafCo. His net worth is constantly changing though, that figure will change eventually
Curious panda does the math. The pyramids were started in the year 2550 BC plus/minus, so that's about 1.669.145 days. At $50.000/day, that's $83.457.250.000, or basically $83,5 billion dollars. Google says Elon's net worth is $202 billion. SO WOW. So how much would you need to make per day? Roughly $121.000 per day for the last 4573 years. Dude has too much money.
Load More Replies...that is so sad, how much money many people have. no one needs that much money to live. especially when so much of the world could use it to provide food and clean water to those who don't have either.
What if - under these (above) circumstances - I gave 50 cents away for every dollar I earned?
Even though he does not need it, Bill did not qualify for the maximum Social Security payments (the formula for determining payments is complicated)
And with all that wealth, you still date Amber fckn Heard.......
There were more planes destroyed in World War II than there are (currently intact) planes on Earth today
They were easier to produce and maintain back than, nowadays they are full of electronic systems, carry jet engines and cost a few millions. The numbers of operated planes during World War 2 looks comically ridiculous compared to current times. Edit: I forgot effectiveness - a modern plane can do much more in comparison and doesn't have to soley rely on numbers, the expected casualities are also way lower nowadays. (A wing of 12 planes had an average loss rate of 3-4 planes in the pacific)
They weren't just easier to produce; all the auto makers (at least in the US) re-tooled their factories and produced planes during the war instead of cars.
Load More Replies...And damn lot of them served in 311th RAF squadron. The craziest part is that this squadron was offered to change from night bombers to coast guard, but they refused, because they wanted to hit Germans hard. Their unofficial motto was "we don't swerve", because, well, they wanted to do as much damage as possible. They wanted to liberate their country and paid hefty price for that, they suffered more than 50% loses, but they also received 989 Czechoslovakian war crosses, 761 Czechoslovakian medals for valour and over 150 other medals. In three years, that is about 630 medal per year or ~1.7 per day.
There are more planes in the oceans than submarines in the sky.
fake news sorry. Current number of planes in USA is over 230 000. Number destroyed just USA and Germany is about 100k. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/12/22/fact-check-world-war-ii-more-than-100-000-planes-were-destroyed/8911260002/
soviet planes were also a major factor, going at 106,400, and there were also many british and japanese planes that were destroyed.
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To scale, the distance between a nucleus and orbiting electron is 16 times longer than the distance between the Sun and Pluto.
Missing a critical piece of information which, in being absent, robs this of meaning: "scale" relative to what?
Someone mentioned bananas as scale and I think they might be right on this one 🤔😆
Load More Replies...As most atoms are empty space, and everything is made of atoms, nothing around you is actually there.
GPS satellites have to compensate for time dilation, because time runs at a different rate in orbit.
It has to do with the fact that time passes slower with more gravity and vice versa
actually, it is the immense speed. (i think, i am really tired now but the relativistic speeds actually almost cancel out with the gravity.
Load More Replies...Like at work where you say "What a Monday! Glad that's over." Then you notice it's only 8:45 am.
I still find it amazing that Einstein was able to predict the effect of gravitational potential on time dilation directly from special relativity. Amazing because gravity is acceleration and, for accelerated frames of reference, general relatively is usually required.
there is no universally accepted definition of "vegetable."
it's a cultural and culinary term, and varies from place to place.
"Technically speaking, a fruit is a plant's developed ovary that comes from a flower and contains one or multiple seeds. The term vegetable is much broader—it refers to any part of a plant that's used for food, including the roots, tubers, stems, and leaves."
The trick is that the technical definition of a "fruit" is useless. In addition to tomatoes, most nuts, green beans, olives, peas, pumpkins, Avocados, okra, squash, cucumbers, peppers and corn are all fruits. Peanuts, on the other hand, are NOT fruit, as neither are rhubarb, figs, strawberries, pineapples, pears, apples, blackberries, etc. (Some of these are often called "accessory fruits" and considered "fruits" even by botanists in certain contexts. But they are not developed from ovaries.)
Load More Replies...Fruit vs vegetable is a myth : you can be one (carrot), both (tomatoes) or neither (grain).
Yes. A common definition is that fruit is mainly eaten raw and vegetable is mainly eaten cooked. Tomatoes fit in both categories.
Load More Replies...Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, common sense is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
i know what a vegetable is, I pushed one down the stairs the other day.
It's because it comes from the word vegetation. It's technically just a plant you can eat. And to further confuse the conversation, labeling something a fruit depends on whether you categorize it culinarily or botanically. One of my favorite grammar conundrums. :)
There is an extremely rare condition called "Stone Man Syndrome", it causes any, smallest damage done to tissue to regrow into a bone, speaking briefly. People affected by this sickness slowly turn into living statues as they get older
At some point in their lives they have to make a choice to either be in a seated position for the rest of their life or a standing position for the rest of their life. I watched a documentary years ago where a lady argued that seated was better since she can easily use a wheelchair to get around, whereas a gentleman argued that standing was better since he could still comfortably lie down in bed. Horrifying disease.
i saw a video on it. it is worse than it sounds. you could wake up after a good night's sleep and find your arm not moving anymore.
I remember watching a documentary where the man had to decide if he wanted to be solidified standing or sitting. It was a heartbreaking scene.
At least if you're stuck "sitting" you can sleep on your side.
There used to be a radioactive energy drink called "Radithor" that was in the US market for a decade from 1918-1928. Some of the more prominent users had to be buried in lead coffins.
I had to check this fact before I believed it. Wikipedia says Eben Byers, a long time user, died of cancer. The cancer may or may not have been caused by the drink. But probably was. Byers was buried in a lead lined coffin.
i don't know about the first part. radium is very similar to calcium, so the body absorbs it pretty quickly, and it decays into radon, and takes the structure of the bones with it.
Load More Replies...Jesus. I wonder if their bodies decayed the same way a normal body would. And if maggots eventually had access to the corpse, have they suffered mutation?
One person's body began to disintegrate while they were alive. To the point thier jaw fell off. The bodies probably decayed much faster.
Load More Replies...If this interests you, may I recommend Radium Girls, the true story of girls who made watches and other military things with radium powder that "glowed". Many of them developed loose teeth/jaw bones or much worse. It was decades before they had their day in court and finally shut down the radium corporation. Fascinating, heart breaking story
"was advertised as "A Cure for the Living Dead" as well as "Perpetual Sunshine". Both quite accurate I suppose.
There are more trees on the earth than stars in the Milky Way.
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you've probably made an entirely unique order, as compared to every other shuffle in history.
im pretty sure the first one is not gonna be true soon...😥
most estimates put the number of trees to around 3 trillion
Load More Replies...the shuffle thing depends on how you shuffle, and even so this is likely wrong, as you have a finite number of positions. But most magicians can tell you that if you correctly shuffle a deck of cards 7 times, the cards will be in their original positions.
It sounds absurd but it's true. The number of possible combinations of a deck of cards is 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's 67 zeros if you're wondering.
Load More Replies...when? only a few hundred million ya there were no trees (if i'm correct, i don't really read much about dinosaurs and that stuff)
There was this french guy named Tarrare in the late 1700s that could eat ANYTHING, in any amount. He was able to eat a quarter of a cow on one day and ate dinner for 15 for one meal when he was being tested. He was even able to swallow an entire eel, with bones included, without hesitating. When he went to the militar service, they used him as message transport, but after being captured he went back and tried to find a cure. In the hospital where he was staying, he was suspected of eating a baby so they kicked him out. He was average weight and when he died a few years later they could see inside his stomach just by opening his mouth. Here’s a video which explains it on better detail: https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc
I just heard about this guy the other day. A newborn baby went missing in the hospital where he was staying. He was suspected. They also found him in the morgue several times eating morgue things…🤢
Load More Replies...I know about this guy and my family doesn’t believe me that he’s real
Taser is actually an acronym for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle." T.A.S.E.R.
Interesting. I assumed it was a backronym using "laser" as the model.
Yeah, that stood for 'Lomas A. Smith's Electric Rifle.'
Load More Replies...Wiki says, "Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the first Taser in 1969.[9] By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named TASER, using a loose acronym of the title of the book Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, a book written by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Victor Appleton and featuring Cover's childhood hero, Tom Swift."
And “LASER” is actually “ light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”
If Earth was a basketball, to scale the moon would be a tennis ball. It would orbit around 7.5 meters away, which is a lot farther than most people think.
If the nucleus of a hydrogen atom was a tennis ball, to scale the electron would orbit at about 2500 meters away. There is no ball small enough to compare to how small electrons would still be at this scale.
7.5 meters = 42.135 bananas, 2500 meters = 14044.944 bananas
Load More Replies...Wow, it's more surprising to me that the moon is that large. I guess that's what happens when your early concepts of the solar system are shipped by the book "The Little Prince", heh.
You are closer to being a millionaire than Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos.
How to tell if a billionaire is having a bad day if they say: "I feel like a million bucks!"
Not if you mean by multiplying, not adding. Then I would be infinitely away from being a military.
In terms of numerical value, sure, but it's a whole lot easier to lose billions than to make millions.
If you're launching from Earth, the most difficult place to reach in the solar system is the sun. The reason for this is that to fly directly into the sun you need to first launch from Earth, and then remove all of your orbital velocity around the sun. Anything less will just put you into a different orbit around the sun rather than directly into it. The amount of power required for that to do it directly is basically impossible currently. As an alternative you could, for relatively little power, fly all the way out to Pluto distance, slow down much less, and then fall back into the sun. The trade off being the travel time is now about 90 years. There are other in between paths that will could get you there for different balances of energy and time but all of them are tougher than getting basically anywhere else in the solar system with an equivalent balance. There's a mission currently traveling to study the sun, the Parker Solar Probe, it won't be flying directly in, but plans to make the closest passes than any probe ever has. It's going to make seven passes by Venus to shed speed so it can get closer and closer to the sun. The full flight time is planned as just less than 7 years. As of this post they are 1 week shy of a year in.
I would strongly suggest not flying into the sun. I understand it's a wee bit warm there.
Old post. Parker Solar Probe is now getting on for five years in and has already done at least one close approach. Closest solar approach is scheduled for 2025.
We could just wait for the sun to come to us when it becomes a red giant (...in 5 billion years...)
If a spacecraft left the Earth and braked its motion such that it fell towards the Sun with no other gravitational effects, it would still take over six months to arrive. The amount of braking required would be ludicrous and un-launchable.
Also the sun is a giant ball of burning gas, so y'know that would also complicate things.
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a distress signal. It's the smell of the grass releasing chemicals to save itself from injury.
More people died making the V2 rockets during WW2 than were [unalived] by them
[unalived] killed, murdered, death, sent to meet thy maker, kicked the bucket, is no more, has ceased to be, bereft of life, rest in peace
'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
Load More Replies...You know, there is the word perished if killed makes people clutch their pearls and gasp in horror.
Showing giant burning penis of destruction : okay Stating their goal: censoring
Forced labour being the main reason. That the british reported back false hit confirmations to the launch positions did a big part in preventing effective strikes.
In chess there are over 9 million variations after just 3 moves each. 288 billion different possible positions after 4 moves each. In a complete game there are more possible positions than there are electrons in the observable universe.
"I looked forward in time. I saw 14,000,605 possible moves." "How many were good ones?" "None of them.".
Uh oh, zugzwang. (Unless it’s for your opponent, in which case, yay)
Load More Replies...depends on the current game, and how well you can bluff you opponent into thinking that you actually know what you're doing and it isn't a bad move at all
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There is no good metric for 'the number of languages on earth'. This is mostly because linguists cannot agree on what constitutes a new language and what constitutes a dialect of an existing language.
The best current metric of how many languages exist is the number of translations of the Christian bible.
I'm pretty sure that's not considered the best metric except by Christian missionaries.
they saying is right now the best way to find out abotu how many laguages there are in the world is by figuring how many translations of the christian bible because that is the msot translated book.
Load More Replies...As of September 2022 all of the Bible has been translated into 724 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,617 languages, and smaller portions of the Bible have been translated into 1,248 other languages according to Wycliffe Global Alliance. - Wikipedia
Load More Replies...What about the languages of all of the people who are not Christian and don't want a bible?
Not wanting a bible doesn't stop people translating it into your language and trying to use it to change your mind
Load More Replies...Mandarin and Cantonese are very different but still both considered “Chinese”, with many speakers of one not being able to understand the other. Meanwhile Swedish and Dutch are very similar and written the same, so speakers of one can understand the majority of what the other is saying, but they are considered different because of geography.
The problem with the word "language", is there isn't a great way to distinguish it from a dialect. So how different exactly are Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian? Are they just dialects of the same Nordic language, or are they mutually intelligible languages? In Spain, there are recognized national languages like Gallego, but the truth isn't so simple, as you move around the country the languages shifts, and at what point do you say this romance dialect is its own distinct language? This is more complicated still in places like India and Africa where language densities get really high, and moving from village to village you may see differences which make the languages difficult to separate. Even major languages like Arabic, see this. When I studied Arabic in the Middle East, I could not understand the Arabic spoken by Moroccans at all. Was it a dialect, or another language? The linguist Max Weinreich once quipped a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
Trust me on this ; if you travel within a 40 mile circumference in the Northern part of the UK, you will find 10 entirely different dialects, many of which are impenetrable (unless you are drunk). Some of these different dialects are as close as 5 miles away, and occasionally (especially in Sunderland) are the result of interbreeding ;0)))
17 inch pizza is bigger then 2 12 inch pizzas
Saddam Hussein was an erotic romance novelist in his spare time as the dictator of Iraq. [Sauce](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_novels)
And Osama Bin Laden played Counter-Strike. Good chance you beat him if you had the game before he died.
You can fit every planet between the earth and moon, including all the gas giants. But if you lined up all of Jeff Bezos’s money from end to end, it wouldn’t fit between the Earth and moon. It could go to the moon and back 34 times. Jeff bezos has enough money to make a ladder to the moon. And to make it out of money.
Should really specify that "Every planet" means, every planet in our solar system.
Nintendo was founded in 1889.
They had a really hard time finding an outlet, but with supreme patience they waited until the electrical grid was invented.
Ah, yes, those Victorian consoles were all the rage lol. (Yes, yes, I know they made like, trading cards or something or the like back then)
They started making playing cards, until that went out of style. Then, they were a taxi service, rice makers, and then microwave manufacturers. Then, they turned to toys. They only had one successful toy, which was the Ultra Hand. Finally, they turned to making video games, starting with the original Donkey Kong.
I picture a bunch of old timey Japanese guys literally hunting ducks.
Fusajiro Yamauchi started the company, and he originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. The company grew and developed.
Wasn't there a pornography connection in early Nintendo?
Load More Replies...Mitsubishi, the car company was founded in 1870 by Yataro Iwasaki, who descended from a clan of warrior samurai. Unfortunately, one of his ancestors sold off the family's samurai status to pay off gambling debts.
According to a quick search, Nintendo originally produced Hanafuda playing cards, then later did toys and games
Nintendo has banked so much money, that they could run a deficit of over $250 Million every year and still survive until 2052.
Sharks evolved before trees did.
My ancestors remember the good old days when humanity was not around, and tell stories of when sharks did not have to work to fund the plastic removals from the ocean.
A black widow spiders web is 12 times the tensile strength of steel!
And its bite can cause priapism (an erection that won't subside easily)
Death with Priapism and Bruce Willis movies have something in common: Die Hard
Load More Replies...Mythbusters Junior confirmed that spider silk has slightly more than twice the tensile strength of steel.
If a web were constructed with pencil thick webbing, it would be able to stop a 747 mid-flight
spider silk is used in rifle scopes. there is nothing thinner or stronger available.
In 1000 BC, a war was cancelled due to rain. Edit: Wooo first silver! Thank you stranger!
As a student of military history, I have no idea what almost war this person is talking about. Many battles were postponed due to inclement weather. But I suppose if the war never happened... I wouldn't necessarily be aware of it. My brain keeps going to the Battle of Rain, but that was named after a town in Bavaria, not the weather phenomenon. And it was a battle in the 30 Years War, which would have been in the mid 17th century between the Swedish Germans and the Holy Roman Empire via the Catholic League of States. And was a protestant vs catholic religious contest. Around 1000 BC the big conflicts in recorded history were in Egypt/Mesopotamia, India, and China. So maybe around something to do with those guys.
In a perfect world, war would have been cancelled due to the rain ("Too umid for war"), good weather ("Too nice to kill people") and gray, bored weather ("Nah, I don't fell like it today"). In a perfect world...
Mike the Headless Chicken lived without a head for 18 months. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198390
The farmer was killing his chickens by removing the heads but left enough of the brain stem for Mike to survive. Has his own website, . https://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/mike/page/history
I think Fruita, Colorado, still holds "Mike the headless chicken day" every may?
If you shrink down our sun to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way galaxy would be equal to the size of the continental United States! Space is huge!
okay, fine. Diameter of Sun is 1,4*(10^9)m, pretty big. The diameter of a white blood cell is about 13,5(10*-5)m, pretty small. The ratio of the difference is 10^14, big difference. The Milky Way is 105700 light years, or roughly 10^18 km (super big). So 10^18 divided by 10^14 is 10^4 km. Or 10.000 km. The widest part of the continental US is nearly 4.700 km. So actually the Milky Way is more than twice as large as the United States at these scales.
Horses can't vomit.
All herbivores lack the ability to vomit. (Regurgitation is not vomit.)
Stab their eardrums until they are deaf or unalived.
Load More Replies...Reportedly, rats can't either. This is why rat poison is so effective.
You see your nose all the time, but your brain just ignoring it.
A lot! It filters out unwanted background noise or smells - that is why you are able to get "used" to certain smells if you can't avoid them
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The Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to us than it did the Stegosaurus.
And had athe best vision of any terrestrial animal till date.
If you line up all the Stegosauruses that ever lived they would be closer to Bill Gates’ money when compared to how many dollar bills we can wrap around the Pyramid’s of Giza to their moon & from the distance to the sun at the time the Wooly Mammoths lived … & Jeff Bezos for scale.
When it comes to T-rexes, it's the closeness in distance I'd worry about, not time.
The youngest mother to give birth became pregnant at 4 years old.
Poor girl, her name was Lina Medina and her son thought she was his older sister until he became 10
Lina Medina likely suffered from a condition called "precocious puberty" that causes kids to go through puberty much too early. They believe it must have been a relative that abused her but never found out who, possibly since she was too young to understand what had happened.
"apparently it was her father that, um, used her" -Lavi Berko (this is not my comment this is someone elses)
Load More Replies...When a woman with breast implants is cremated, the implants will melt into "goo." It drips to the bottom of the furnace, and needs to be cleaned up once cooled.
Doubtful. Most polymers, including silicon, burn at about 270°C and auto-ignite at 450-500°C. The cremation temperatures are above twice that, and for quite a long time. Only metals and some ceramics can survive those temperatures.
Only one way to see if it’s true (grabs lighter fluid and a map to the Kardashian estate)
Load More Replies...I literally watched a one topic at a time vid and he found this out in that vid. I love ot <3
You mean you think someone should rip open a woman's dead body with a knife to remove the pads before cremating her?
Load More Replies...Actually this depends on the type of cremation. Most modern flame cremations will completely incinerate the implants.
President John Tyler, born in 1790, has two living grandsons.
I think one is still alive. Harrison Ruffin Tyler
Load More Replies...I thought I knew American history but didn’t even know there was a President John Tyler
There's lots of examples of this sort of thing. Before pensions, or the welfare state, an old man might marry a young woman. The idea was she would look after him in his old age, and then inherit his land/house after his death. This arrangement sometimes resulted in children. .... Irene Triplett (1930-2020) was the last recipient of an American Civil War pension. She was born when her father was 84. She had cognitive impairments , and this enabler her to have a pension as 'the helpless child of a Civil War soldier'. Irene was also the last child of a US Civil War soldier.
My oldest grandfather was born in 1894, We'll see how deep into this century I can get. I doubt I'll see the 22nd century (I'd be 125).
The USA is the third most populated nation on earth. If you were able to add one billion people to the US population today, it would still be the third most populated nation on earth.
well yes, china and india are each 1.4bn or thereabouts, and usa is about 350m.
Idk who gave you the random downvote, but here's an upvote.[profanity]downvote gremlins
Load More Replies...1 billion seconds is about 31 years
1 million seconds is 11.5 days. 1 second is about 1 second.
That doesn't sound right. No way is a second just a second. I think 1 second has to be about 3.4 seconds! /j
Load More Replies...Your head ages faster than your feet
My head asked my feet about it, but they were silent and just walked away.
That explains why I'm bald, but have a little hair still growing on my toes
We live closer to the lifetime of Cleopatra than she did to the building of the Great Pyramids.
And Cleopatra lived closer to Woolly Mammoths than iPhones I guess.
If you could fold a piece of printer paper in half 103 times it would be the width of the observable universe.
I've done the maths. a standard piece of paper is around 0.102mm thick. Doubled up with each fold, according to OP the observable universe is 1,034,402,889,786,235,191,624,309.82 Km wide. Or in words: one septillion, thirty four sextillion, four hundred two quintillion, eight hundred eighty nine quadrillion, seven hundred eighty six trillion, two hundred thirty five billion, one hundred ninety one million, six hundred twenty four thousand, three hundred nine. Point Eight Two.
The world record for cutting a paper in half, then folding it in half, and cutting it again, repeat etc, is only 7
mythbusters debunked this. it only works on a certain size. I belive they were able to fold it 13 times or so
Load More Replies...And would be more than 10.000 times smaller than an atom of my math is correct.
Sense of smell is molecular, meaning that molecules of what you are smelling are actually inside of your body as a result of smelling them. Think about that the next time you enter a public restroom.
That's a common misconception but it's FALSE. Only some molecules or elements are volatile enough to be odorous. They should be light enough and able to evaporate, hygroscopic and hydrosoluble so they could bind to the nasal receptors, but not too volatile or they will pass through the mucous membrane. In a "public restroom" you won't smell excrements' particles: you would smell part of the sulphur content common in feces, maybe urea and other similar ammonia-based compounds, but mostly the organic compounds produced by decay of metabolic aminoacids, the most common being a compound called "skatole", an apparently innocuous methilic compound, made only of Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen. So, you are breathing stuff that you are normally breathing, just arranged in an unpleasant way.
By the same token with a different slant; looking at the Moon means you are seeing photons that touched the surface of the Moon less than 2 seconds before.
Want another "believe it or not" factoid. There is only one other place in the solar system where you can find an ocean of liquid salt water the same size as Earth's. It's Pluto.
Pluto might have life as it’s also got the organic compounds necessary. Also, I know that many people know this by now but Pluto has a heart on its surface and I just can’t get over it
Load More Replies...There were about three facts in this list that haven't been on every flipping list on Reddit or BP. This site should be called Lazy Panda. But it IS getting boring.
Why are there always so many repetitions in these lists? This annoys me every time. Just make them shorter.
well a lot of the time it's people voting while you're in the middle of reading, which changes the order of the posts and sometimes makes them show up twice. you can check if it's a real repetition or just a glitch by comparing the comments for both
Load More Replies...Want another "believe it or not" factoid. There is only one other place in the solar system where you can find an ocean of liquid salt water the same size as Earth's. It's Pluto.
Pluto might have life as it’s also got the organic compounds necessary. Also, I know that many people know this by now but Pluto has a heart on its surface and I just can’t get over it
Load More Replies...There were about three facts in this list that haven't been on every flipping list on Reddit or BP. This site should be called Lazy Panda. But it IS getting boring.
Why are there always so many repetitions in these lists? This annoys me every time. Just make them shorter.
well a lot of the time it's people voting while you're in the middle of reading, which changes the order of the posts and sometimes makes them show up twice. you can check if it's a real repetition or just a glitch by comparing the comments for both
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