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Learn Something New With These 80 Incredible Facts From This Dedicated IG Page (New Pics)
Interview With Expert
Every new day is a chance to learn something new. It's probably impossible to see and experience everything that the world has to offer, but the internet can really help us to get to know our planet and its inhabitants better.
The Instagram page "Mind blowing facts" is like a treasure trove of interesting tidbits that might surprise even the biggest fans of trivia. Did you know that all blue-eyed people probably have one common ancestor? And have you ever heard that cat allergies might apply even to tigers and lions? Scroll down and see some interesting facts you can surprise your friends and family with the next time you see them!
To learn more about the process of researching interesting things, Bored Panda reached out to Steve Silverman, the creator of the "Useless Information" podcast. Steve has been sharing interesting, lesser-known stories from history for more than 30 years now. He kindly agreed to let us into the research and fact-checking process. Read on to also find out who would be a dream guest for his podcast!
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Susan Follum 8 months ago
Wyoming did not have enough voters to qualify for statehood so they allowed women to vote. If they relinquished the right for women to vote they could not become a state. Not about women's rights.
Queen Boudicca 8 months ago
So, instead of being progressive, they were bemoaning the fact that it may take another one hundred years to get enough *male* voters....
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Schmebulock 8 months ago
and now the five people that live there are staunchly Republican. Funny how things change.
CatD 8 months ago
Wyoming is a Red State that thinks women can't think for themselves now.
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Cydney Golden 8 months ago
And yet women's reproductive rights are now very restricted in Wyoming and getting worse.
Jason Melvil 8 months ago
The reason for this is that several women who were prostitutes and madames were successful enough to the point that they were essentially having politicians in their pocket. They were the 'musk' of their time.
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Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
Talking about finding your passion and fulfilling such an incredible meaningful purpose!! just wow
Vampiresscrow 8 months ago
I love this story and any other story that is along the same lines. We really do have some good people in this world. This makes me happy.
Binny Tutera 8 months ago
Why are there so many snide responses lately?They own the land. Not about to cut down something they spent 26 years making.
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Bored Seb 8 months ago
right wingers would be so pissed if they can not sexualised kids the way they want!
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Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
Underground beauty pageants for little girls? What? Why would a parent? HUH? Is there really such a thing and if, so, why? Never mind, I really don't want to know, anymore!!!
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
Pageants are illegal, so any pageant still held is by definition illegal/underground, with defined prison sentences and fines. It's just the law. The question is why would a parent enter a child in a not-illegal pageant before the law was enacted?
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Savannah greenleaf 7 months ago
Looks are not everything, and everyone should know this by now!
Rich Black 8 months ago
france has topless beaches for teens and tweens. the beauty pageant ban seems irrelevant
These fascinating facts come to you from the project "Untold Hidden Things." The Facebook page, titled "Facts that will blow your mind," is the most popular, with over 4.9M followers. The following for the Instagram page is a bit more modest, with 137k curious minds.
But the creators have also branched out into YouTube, with the channel "Untold Hidden Things" presenting fascinating facts and interesting, lesser-known stories in video format. The scope of the topics is wide: from recent scientific breakthroughs to the legend of the 800-million-year-old mummy.
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Mommy Panda 8 months ago
Mother Theresa was a monster who let terminally ill people suffer and die horrible deaths. I almost feel like its an insult to Dolly. She's much better.
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Marilyn Holt 8 months ago
Dolly is a serious awesome woman who uses her wealth and her fame to help others.
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Dolly has a fraction of the money that Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk have, yet she's willing to share it to improve people's lives. That's the difference between a kind human and the androids shaping our country.
Holly Herr 8 months ago
That’s the reason she’s not a billionaire, the amount of money she gives to awesome causes!
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Douglas Tucker 8 months ago
Dolly is really a gift to our world. Beautiful music, beyond generous (cash for children's books, helping with schools, and other charitable causes) attitudes and much more. Elon, Jeff and Mark, take a moment and study how people see Miss Dolly and what she tries to do for her fellow humans.
chris Cannon 8 months ago
Dolly will give your child a free book every year for their birthday until they're 10 at https://imaginationlibrary.com/check-availability/
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Major Harris 8 months ago
and she is no where as rich as certain mega billionaires that could EASILY aid and not even feel it. some one needs to bubble wrap her.
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Deborah B 8 months ago
There should be a "Stupid tourist" law as well, for people crossing barriers and going off path, and disobeying warning signs.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
from AZ, can confirm. The max liability is $2,000 per incident. But it's also important to note that that's an add-on. Driving around the barriers, in and of itself, is considered reckless driving and you'll get fined and get a license suspension even if you don't get stranded.
April Pickett 8 months ago
Every state should have this law and the "Stupid Citizen" law noted below. I said Citizen instead of Tourist because......you figure it out.
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
I think there should be more Stupid Person Laws. Like hikers who wander off trail and require emergency services. Actually, too many to list here.
#6
Angela Corvaia 8 months ago
It is AWESOME and most of the entry fees are waived for the handicapped.
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 8 months ago
It's in San Antonio TX and you can support it in lots of ways - Google it and find out!
Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
In 2010, Gordon Hartman, a housing developer in San Antonio, built the world's first theme park designed with individuals with special needs in mind. His daughter, Morgan, was his inspiration. I watched its construction, and it's grown to a huge, amazing place which welcomes guests with any disability, FREE. It's also a wonderful place for everyone else!
Dr Jimmy 03 8 months ago
Moody Gardens in Galveston, TX was built from the ground up with special needs in mind. The beach/swimming pool has a very gentle slope around its edges to make it wheelchair-accessible.
Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
That's exactly what he did. He couldn't fix the shortfalls of other parks, so he built a better one and made it affordable, too.
Load More Replies...Steve Silverman, the man behind the "Useless Information" podcast, has been researching obscure and forgotten true stories for more than 30 years. Back when he got started, there was no Internet, so the research process was quite different. It required more ingenuity and time, naturally.
"In the early days, due to the lack of online newspaper archives, most of my research was confined to books," Steve tells Bored Panda. "The main problem that I found with using books was that the authors were simply reinterpreting what they read in previous books, which resulted in stories that weren't very well-researched," he notes.
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SpiderWoman13 8 months ago
#29 - Causing a flood gets the perp LIFE; child abuse gets only 3 years? How backward and terrible.
Load More Replies... Shark Lady 8 months ago
If he was only convicted of having the images and wasn't involved in producing them or of physically taking part in the abuse himself then the sentences are generally quite low.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
Serious child abuse IMAGES. He didn't conduct the abuse, he had images of children.
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RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
There's a lot of discussions in Sweden regarding forestry, since the landowners wants to harvest trees by cutting down some trees and leaving others, but the government wants then to cut down all in an area and plant new trees
Sam Lombardo 8 months ago
I already learned the same about Finland in school. What they dont tell you is, that only one of three trees survives normally.
Kevin Hickey 8 months ago
I worked for a lumber company in the US and we would have propaganda meetings where they would tell us that they planted 20 trees for every tree they cut down. That's because they can plant twenty pines in rows in the same space where there used to be an oak tree.
Catherine Maven 8 months ago
Canada has a 2 Billion Trees Program, a commitment to planting two billion trees across the country over a decade, from 2021 to 2031 <3
Rich Black 8 months ago
how long does it take 3 saplings to grow to the biomass of a single tree? anyway, a lot of countries (including canada and the usa) are replanting harvested forests - en masse - with aerial drops of millions of "dart saplings"
#9
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 8 months ago
Adjusting for inflation $64, 000 is worth $730,00 today. Yipes!
Taylor's Ferry 8 months ago (edited)
She was on the game show after she married her husband. Her full name was Joyce Diane Bauer Brothers
Karen Menard 8 months ago
That's Dr Joyce Brothers and she was not a lady to back down on anythiing!
Rich Black 8 months ago
why didn't they want her to win? was the other contestant someone with an ascending screen career?
As time went by, Steve's research methods evolved. Now he uses books only as a secondary source. Yet he still runs into some problems here and there. "Ideally, it would be great to interview the subject of each story, but since the bulk of the stories that I share with my audience occurred prior to 1950, that is nearly impossible to do," he shares.
"So, I mostly scour the newspaper archives to pull together the articles that were printed at the time that the story occurred."
#10
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
One of my kittens, Rook, headbutts me so hard that she sometimes knocks my glasses askew XD That's her on the left - her brother, Lucanis, is the gray kitten on the right :) rook_and_l...684052.jpg 
Kombatbunni 8 months ago
My daughter’s kitty did this a lot, but he was a bit heavy so we’d get more like headbutts than bunts :)
#12
Laura Lawson 8 months ago
It was Koko's beloved cat that passed away, not a gorilla companion. Koko mourned her passing intensely. Robin Williams met Koko several times & joked that Koko liked him because he was so hairy!
Amy S 8 months ago
Koko lost both her gorilla companion, Michael, and her cat Allball (at separate times).
Load More Replies... JK 8 months ago
Yes indeed. This just shows how he was such a gifted communicator and could meet people where they were at to make them comfortable.
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#13
Upstaged75 8 months ago
If you have a swimming pool and a baby I highly recommend you do ISR (infant self rescue) training. It could save your kid's life! Too many children drown every year - it's the leading cause of death for ages 1 to 4.
Angela Corvaia 8 months ago
Napoleon was also rescued by a Newfoundland, renowned for water rescues.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 8 months ago
We were concerned that our dog, who has jealous tendencies, would get aggressive with our new granddaughter (who lives with us) when she came home for the first time. We needn't have worried - the dog just instinctively knew that this was an infant human and was no threat to her.
#15
April Pickett 8 months ago
I want a 'Ladies' Club' to be out there too. Girls at risk need the same help.
Display Name 8 months ago
Gentleman's club and ladies club mean something totally different where I'm from...
He gives us an example: "I may type in 'absurd story' or 'totally bizarre' and so on. Most of the time, I find little to nothing. Then there are days when I sit down and find several new stories in just a few hours." Steve has a spreadsheet to keep track of all the possible search terms to make the process easier. "I compare it to trying to find a needle in a haystack," he quips.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Irwin's crew actually did rescue one of the divers! Unfortunately, the second diver was already deceased from being flung against the rocks, but Irwin's crew helped recover her body. https://www.smh.com.au/world/irwin-saved-my-life-diver-20060906-gdobzs.html
Load More Replies... Gen X Feral 8 months ago
It didn't see the last episode, but I used to watch his show a lot. Every time I'd say one of these days he's gonna boop the wrong snoot. It's really sad, but what do expect handling wildlife like that?
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago (edited)
He was an infuriating idiot who harrassed wildlife for s h i t s and giggles. And his son isn't much better.
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Angela Corvaia 8 months ago
Down here in SW Florida the clams are also the gauge of water quality. Grab a couple and put them in some water and they will filter the water our in minutes. Really cool and tasty.
#18
Gadaffi Duck 8 months ago
He was just 25 years old and 6 days shy of his 26th birthday at the time.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
Were they grateful enough to give his family a pension, or were they only grateful enough to give a couple of pretty speeches?
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Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
Do you ever wonder if you were in his position, would you have driven the train away?
Rich Black 8 months ago
would this be during the mexican revolution? or the government suppression of their dissidents in the "Acayucan rebellion"?
Some stories, of course, sound so unbelievable a person might even doubt that they're true. But Steven takes pride in his fact-checking abilities. "To verify these stories, I first research the stories as fully as possible. Then, I print everything out on paper, place the articles in date order, and read through the stories in the sequence in which they were originally covered in the press."
#19
alaina66 8 months ago
Actually...the Earth belongs to no one. We are just guests on this lovely ball of grass, dirt & water....
HardBoiledBlonde 8 months ago
Nonetheless, the US Constitution should be updated. It was created to be changed and evolved,
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Ruthie R 8 months ago
That's a good idea until people like Trump get control of it, in which case I shudder to think what sort of "updates" he'd introduce - "This will be the final US constitution since I'm making my family the rulers of Trumpania."
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago (edited)
If that happens, the people of the USA could learn a thing or two from England, such as the appropriate way of dealing with out of control autocratic rulers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England#Trial. Unfortunately, a long period of bloody civil war seems to be necessary before you get to the head chopping off phase. Sorry about that. 😁😉
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Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
He was really on to something bright, there! 💡 As time passes, the earth and all of humanity are continuously ever-changing.
Karen Menard 8 months ago
The assumption that we die in 19 years is a little scary. These days the living generation could include everyone still alive after 18 years of life up to and including the centenarians. Roe vs Wade was fought by us and we won and so it belonged to all women until the Supreme Court stabbed us all in the back with their lobbyists and Good Time Charlies.
Rich Black 8 months ago
Jefferson apparently was unfamiliar with the part of the constitution which provides for new amendments at any time . . .
DC 8 months ago
Imagine stuff of daily use being treated like some constitutions. "Unchangable", but the most defended - in their words defended - part is an amandment already. Yes, dense, but not untypical of a certain sort of humans. Imagine, how you clog the Autobahn with horse and carriage, imagine how you refuse to use velcro or snap-buttons because everything, in earlier times, was tied by some sort of lace, ... imagine keeping an election system that is adapted to pre-telegraph speed of communications, just because that makes you appear even more patrioticer in front of people who willfully ignore the fallout of this dysadaptation, ... just imagine how the world would look if more people sticked to old stuff just because. Clinge to the past, makes the present suck.
Kevin Hickey 8 months ago
Actually heard a politician say that we shouldn't be allowed to change the Constitution, especially the 2nd Amendment. Apparently, she was unaware of the meaning of "amendment".
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#21
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 8 months ago
I KNOW!!! - There's a movie in there! (ok, prolly a bad one, but still)
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Louisa Spoke 8 months ago
As a child I would pick up drunk bees and put them up and away on a branch to stop them from being trodden on when they had wobbly boots on.
Rich Black 8 months ago
these are undoubtedly imports from temperate climates, brought over to ramp up industrial scale honey production? add them to cats, rabbits, cane toads, foxes, camels, donkeys, water buffalo . . .
"As I am doing so, I write down any questions that I may have, after which I go back and do further research to see if I can find the answers," he goes on. "Once I am satisfied that I have all of the information that I need, I will sit down to write the story. If I feel that my research is incomplete, I will set the story aside and work on a different topic."
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Taylor's Ferry 8 months ago
Learned of this process from the tv series THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
JB 8 months ago
I learned of this working in museums because I'm a neeeeeeerd!
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Tucker Cahooter 8 months ago
I wanted to do that with a vase that had shattered into 56 pieces but decided it wasn't worth the effort
Chuck 8 months ago
You have dishonored the ancient art of kintsugi. You know what you must do.
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tee-lena 8 months ago
I use this as a metaphor for picking oneself up after breaking down. Works great in disability discussions
The Majestic Opossum 6 months ago
Fall Out Boy has a great song called The Kintsugi Kid, that is about this. It's beautiful ❤️
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PeepPeep the duck 8 months ago (edited)
Aparently the purring has ultra sound healing effects too, Aparently. But I remember always feeling better when my cats purred on my tummy when it was feeling sick (my tummy).
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Heck yeah, I have four cats, that's four-thirds reduced risk!! XD (joking)
Pandora 8 months ago
However, speaking from experience, you chances of dying by being tripped over by said cat skyrockets!
Danielle 8 months ago
My cat absolutely loves beginning the walk downstairs at my side then crossing to the other side of me as we descend. What is important is that he can get a good angle to take the corner at the bottom, what is not important is my bones.
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Caroline Nagel 8 months ago
I happen to have the only cat in the world that will give me a heart attack or a stroke one day. I love her to bits but sometimes I wish I could stick her behind the wallpaper (a good Dutch expression: 'achter het behang plakken' meant for unruly children). She's a Tortie...
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
They also developed mobile eyebrows just for us! Dogs are great!
zatrisha 8 months ago
I think the cheeky look, where you can see a little white in the eyes, is also only for us humans.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 8 months ago
Yeah, well one of my kittens intentionally does naughty stuff she's not supposed to in order to get my attention. She knows exactly what she's doing too. :)
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
My cat does that, and, bonus, she isn't noisy and smelly like a dog.
Throughout his many years of research, Steve hasn't had to make any notable corrections to his published stories. "Occasionally, I will find additional information long after I have written a story, so I then will place the addendum on my website." One example was the story "The Woman with the X-Ray Camera," which he updated seven years after it first came out.
#25
Upstaged75 8 months ago
I don't really get going until it's dark outside. My family jokes that I'm a vampire. I'm just wired differently.
Robin Roper 8 months ago
My as I'm reading this and my husband has been hard asleep for 2 hours.
#26
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Same with all herd animals. A single horse is a nervous, sad horse.
Pernille 8 months ago
In Danmark it is illegal to keep a horse on its own. I've even seen paddock with a sign saying that one horse is out being ridden, and to please not call the police.
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alaina66 8 months ago
This has happened to my cats who had buddies and partners. The other would die of a broken heart.....:(
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I had a German Shepherd and a gray cat who grew up together when I was a teenager (I adopted them a month apart from each other.) The GSD died when they were both 12. The cat was absolutely heartbroken and started to waste away before my eyes. She had been an outdoors cat (at my mother's insistence) for her whole life, but I brought her indoors and worked hard at becoming her new best friend - we were both grieving for Ember, our dog, after all. It took a lot of work - as I was heartbroken over losing my heart-dog as well - but Wintressia lived another 6 years as my best girl and died two months shy of her 20th birthday. But I think she still missed Ember for every minute of those 6 years. I hope they reunited on the other side of the Bridge. win_socks_...b8e5db.jpg 
Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
Even moo cows have bestie friends 🐄 🐄All the happiest of moo cows, anyways...
Liz Siemens 8 months ago
Ugh there is a lone horse near my place… in always see it just standing there and it looks so sad :(
#27
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
They're a subspecies of Canis lupus, so they can interbreed with "normal" wolves if given the opportunity - though they are genetically distinct from "inland" gray wolves, and are often morphologically much smaller (65-90lbs) than a typical "inland" gray wolf (80-150lbs.)
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
Sea wolves are incredible :) I was camping on the beach once and woke up in the middle of the night. It was low tide and a full moon and we could see a few sea wolves looking for snacks down by the water, one of my favourite memories. I love BC.
person (i think) 8 months ago (edited)
“Travel miles” = swim [for] miles. (Edit: replaced bracket)
Rich Black 8 months ago
why don't they move closer to the beach, instead of travelling miles daily? is there more to this story?
On April 1st, Steve published the 237th episode of his podcast. He has covered so many interesting events and written about so many fascinating people that it's probably hard to pick one that would make a dream guest. Still, for Steve, it's the 1970s rock star Peter Frampton. The particular story that fascinates Steven is how Frampton magically recovered his most prized guitar after a plane crash.
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angelmomoffour62 8 months ago
I agree my dogs does this too sometimes but it's mixed with being stubborn. When I cry he licks the tears off my cherk....
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
Oh yes. If they don't their mini roasts, or available bacon, the guilt is laid onto me with a trowel. The poor starving creatures barely have the strength to move.
#29
Blue Bunny of Happiness 8 months ago
Serious question. So if you get a Guinea pig, does that mean you have them forever? One of a pair dies and you have to replace them with another and so on? I mean, that’s why I’ve had rabbits for the past 20 odd years and will no doubt continue to do so for the next 20 years (and also because they are adorable even if they do destroy your house)….
Julie Rogers 8 months ago
I'm a guinea pig owner. One way we deal with this is that you can foster a homeless guinea pig when you'd otherwise be down to just one. Or if the last pig is a senior and was seriously bonded to the pig that died, it's considered ok to let them be your only pig as long as you give them extra attention. Trying to bond a senior pig after they lose their buddy can be more traumatic than being alone.
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Angela Corvaia 8 months ago
I think they have the same law for horses, not sure but I thought they had to have companions.
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Bored Seb 8 months ago
There's an amazing documentary about how wolves changed Yellowstone National Park
Upstaged75 8 months ago
There's also one about how they can change rivers. Very cool.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 8 months ago
That's why Colorado is trying so hard to bring back our wolves ... :(
Rich Black 8 months ago
that's a polite way of saying that wolves cull vast quantities of grazing animals, allowing vegetation to regrow
"I had heard him tell a story on TV years ago about how his prized guitar, along with all of his tour equipment, was destroyed in an airplane crash," Steve recounts the story. "Amazingly, the guitar somehow survived and was returned to him many years later, after which he had it restored."
"The story fits perfectly with all of the other stories that I tell, but I've never sought out an interview with him, mainly because my podcast is so very far removed from the music industry," Steve tells us.
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Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 8 months ago
we could build houses for ALL the homeless
Load More Replies... Chris Grace 8 months ago
Some used ostracons to wipe their behinds, and thus further soiling the name written on it
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Tucker Cahooter 8 months ago
I thought that would be a given. Who really wants to get up of their own volition?
Brian Droste 8 months ago
I don't think I can lay in bed all day. I would need to.get up and do something even though I wouldn't feel like it. So I believe I am not a clinomania.
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SpiderWoman13 8 months ago (edited)
You know what else that's wrong? The perp caught abusing kids - #7 - got only 3 months; this one causing a flood got life. Money should not matter more than children's rights.
Load More Replies... Kit Black 8 months ago (edited)
Scott grew up in Quincy, Illinois. By his twenties, he had a criminal record and had served time in six prisons. While most of these arrests were for burglary, they also included two for arson. In 1982, he burned down his elementary school, Webster Elementary School in Quincy. In 1988, he burned down a garage and set several other fires, getting him a sentence of seven years in prison. By 1993, Scott was out of prison on parole for the 1988 fire... Dude picked a really creative way of deciding he wanted to stay back in prison...
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
An interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_(criminal)
RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
So he was convicted, but several people involved in the trial had personal gains from having it be deemed man made rather than natural causes?
Load More Replies... Rich Black 8 months ago
wikipedia says it was excessive rain, caused by the eruption of Mount Pinatube (phlippines) the year before, not some guy just wanting to party. both explanations sound somewhat dubious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993
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nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Conversely, getting hit by a hurricane can make you anxious and unhappy.
Robin Roper 8 months ago
Same as having frequent tornadoes which occur mostly very far from oceans.
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April Pickett 8 months ago
I love the sound of the ocean, but I'd prefer to live uphill from a lake or river. After Helene, it would have to be on the higher side of a mountain or hill, with a Humvee in the garage.
Gracie Mae 8 months ago
on the other hand, a 7-day view of it, up close & personal because Hurricane Milton flooded your property...not so much
Liz Downing 8 months ago
My "happy place" at work was the bridge over a little stream a few steps from my office.
Rich Black 8 months ago
this may be why so many homeless people keep going to los angeles . . .
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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
I like the story the that writer Guy de Maupassant so hated the tower, that he regularly ate in tower's restaurant, because it was the only place in Paris where he could eat without having to look at it.
Chewie Baron 8 months ago
That was his name! I knew the story but couldn’t remember his name.
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Binny Tutera 8 months ago
Kinda crazy to think it was built to be temporary, but was so well done it has lasted this long. Things really were built better years ago.
Rich Black 8 months ago
they calculated the "safe lifespan" of the iron used at only 20 years. how safe do you feel about it after nearly 150?
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Robin Roper 8 months ago
Far too many high schools start far too early. It's a shame education is run for efficiency and not for optimal learning.
Tim Douglass 8 months ago
While they were building a new High School my school district started High School at 5:30 AM.
Aussi Panda 8 months ago
Wow, all the comments about the early start times amaze me! In Australia, school starts between 8.30 & 9 and finishes around 3, I think it’s slightly different in every state
Only Me 8 months ago
In NZ most schools start at 9 am. Even then, that's too early. I think 10 or 11 would be better. Some teachers may also prefer that.
Load More Replies... Display Name 8 months ago
I like this, if we keep putting it off one hour later, we can put it off forever!
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
The school bus would leave at 7.15am and arrive, if you were lucky, in time for high school to start at 9am. Didn't arrive home any earlier than 4.45pm. Rural Australia = no high schools within a decent distance. Absolutely hated and loathed it. PS high school in Australia is Year 7 through to Year 12.
Janos Schumacher 8 months ago
In middle school, I think my oldest started at about 7AM. I got her on the bus at 6:30. It was silly. I started at 7:15 when I was a kid. I got on the bus at 6:20am. Why the hell does school start so early. Why can't school be 9-5 or 9-3:30 or something that aligns with parent's schedules. What is the point of dragging your kid out of bed at 5AM so they can shower and get ready to get to the bus stop by 6:15? It makes no sense.
st4x2gt974 8 months ago
Sure but you’re also getting out an hour later, pushing everything else you do after school to a later time, including bedtime. At least that’s what I’ve experienced moving from the US to Spain w/ my kids.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
There’s no rule that says your kids have to stay up an hour later just because they got out of school at 3pm instead of 2pm lol
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Uncle Schmickle 8 months ago
My high school ( in the 60s ) started at 08.50 and finished at 16.00. Good hours. Early classes are a terrible waste of everyone's time. Very little learning happens.
Rich Black 8 months ago
so can getting up one hour earlier. and going to bed one hour earlier. what's your point?
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Gracie Mae 8 months ago
I actually just tried this for the first time t a chain restaurant. It wasn't bad, but I'm guessing it could've been better at a better quality restaurant
Rich Black 8 months ago
okay, but what idiot came up with sardines? and corn? and snails . . .
Janos Schumacher 8 months ago
Good pineapple and Canadian bacon pizza is excellent. Especially if you get it with Jalapenos. It has to be Canadian bacon. Not normal bacon. Not ham. It has to be what we call Canadian bacon in MN which is pretty much British style bacon but without the tail. So I guess it's really just port loin. Still, it can be made good. There was a place up on the Iron Range that made really good pineapple pizza. Poor Gary's I think the name was. I really liked it back when I was a kid. Haven't had a pineapple pizza worth a d**n since about '91. Still, I keep trying to find a good one.
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Lousha 8 months ago
But then... If you're told to bring your ESP, you'd already know you're being fired, and you would need the support THEN, not whem you're officially told some time later at a meeting.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
IIRC, the guy who hired the clown didn’t actually know he was being fired, he was just told he had an upcoming meeting about his performance and had a sneaking suspicion he was being terminated, so he hired the clown just in case.
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Sonia Ceacero 6 months ago
Good idea. We should all learn not to take these kinds of bad moments so seriously.
PeepPeep the duck 8 months ago
I wish I knew this was a thing, I had a corporate job last year and that’s how they did it too 😂
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David Houde 8 months ago
I guess it's been proven that men will almost always p**s on something if it's there. I'm seeing more and more urinals that have something to aim for. I've seen a bunch of sea shells painted on for some reason.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
I'm a woman so I have no idea, but is it really that hard to hit the bowl? Or are some men just lazy? ;)
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Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
The idea dates back to the 19th century - originally it was a bee not a fly because Latin for "bee" is "apis". The pun was intended. I really dislike the "fly" targets - makes me feel that the place isn't kept properly clean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinal_target
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 8 months ago
They were doing this in 1969 when I was there on a trip. Worked for me!
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Ruth Watry 8 months ago
Although most people with the blue eyed mutation have this common ancestor, some have a different mutation, meaning that they are not related.
Rich Black 8 months ago
how did they become the master race so quickly? this sounds fishy . . .
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
It's another mutation occured later, and not so common as blue eyes.
Load More Replies... JK 8 months ago
This probably needs better fact checking. Cheddar Man is dated to ~8100 BC (10000 years ago) he had the marker to have had blue blue/green eyes. His ancestry is directly linked to the Middle East (where the Black Sea is) but he is unlikely to have been the "single common ancestor", blue eyes didn't start from him, so blue eyes must predate him by quite a lot
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago (edited)
I don’t think they’re referring to Cheddar Man :)
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Ange Marsden 8 months ago
That ancestor was black skinned. And genetically we're all related to everyone born before 1000AD.
Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago (edited)
Genetically we're all related to everyone living in any time. And a few chimpanzees.
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Aussi Panda 8 months ago (edited)
When I was a kid I thought lions & tigers came from the same place (Africa) because they were always mentioned together
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Edda Kamphues 8 months ago
I'm not sure about people out there, but I'm not petting lions and tigers on a daily basis.
Glix Drap 8 months ago
You might think it's the fur you are alergic too, but it's not - it's the cat's saliva (or a protein in it). The same is true for dogs, but interestingly not rabbits.
chris Cannon 8 months ago (edited)
According to the Mayo Clinic, "Pet allergy is an allergic reaction to proteins found in an animal's skin cells, saliva or urine." So, it's not just saliva, but mostly the dander that causes the allergic reaction. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pet-allergy/symptoms-causes/syc-20352192
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Pencil 8 months ago
Or any pattern on any animal. Even animals that appear identical, when examined closely, like fingerprints, there are differences.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 8 months ago
i don't think the FBI's tiger database actually supports this theory yet.
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Only Me 8 months ago
And the 1 am, and 5 am ... May as well just sleep on the loo
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JK 8 months ago
You gotta be kidding me? The older I get the *more* i retain water! Loving the puffy cankles!
CatD 8 months ago
You shouldn't though. You might want to get your heart checked.
Load More Replies... Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
I noticed that! But I'm sure the hot flashes have something to do with it as well.
Jayeff Vee 8 months ago
I beg to differ. At 70, I am capable of retaining vast amounts of water, mostly in my legs and ankles.
Bored Birgit 8 months ago
I always thought older people are less thirsty and do not drink enough.
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Phred 8 months ago
What? I don't know... AAAAAAAAHHHHhhhhhhh! (And if you get the reference, chances are you're either very old or a computer sysadmin. I'm both.)
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Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
Space alcohol. Just when I thought nothing could surprise me anymore.
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Susan Reid Smith 8 months ago
That explains a lot. I'm a wimp with other things so this only follows that trend.
Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
I've always said that I really don't like eating food that hurts! My go-to excuse every time I refuse to eat anybody's home grown mystery 🌶️ peppers.
April Pickett 8 months ago
I have to agree with this statement. I won't eat anything that impedes the enjoyment of the rest of my dinner.
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 8 months ago
As I have aged, my sensitivity to spicy hot has increased. Food that were comfortably hot for my taste are now way too hot. This happened to my mother as well. Wonder what caused this.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago (edited)
I was just saying this to my mom! I grew up loving spicy foods. I still put hot sauce on almost everything. Every meal I cook has something spicy in it. But it’s been hurting more and more lately as I get older 🥲 I’ve even started getting “medium” heat sauces instead of “hot.” I wonder what causes it too, because I would have assumed that our tolerance would go up as we get older
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UKGrandad 8 months ago (edited)
Cold water is denser than warm water. When the cold water current running south from the Arctic north enters the strait it flows over a drop-off (underwater cliff). Because it meets warmer water at this point the cold water sinks, creating an underwater waterfall.
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Foxglove🇮🇪 8 months ago
Although undersea overflows are usually not considered "waterfalls", the Denmark Strait overflow would be tallest waterfall in the world, with water falling over 3.5 km (2.2 mi); this descent is over three times the height of Angel Falls, the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall over land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_Strait_overflow
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alaina66 8 months ago
How can you possibly escape by not doing any property damage or a*****t?
Deborah B 8 months ago
Copy a key? Climb a fence? Smuggle yourself out in laudry? Abscond from an open prison?
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Scott Rackley 8 months ago
the components of all water are billions of years old
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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
I read somewhere. Probably on BP: Water companies don't produce water. They produce plastic.
Susan Reid Smith 8 months ago
This is why I will give leftover bits of bottled water to our plants but not our animals. Before I get scolded for using bottled water we use it on our back trips exploring ghost towns.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
There are some places where the only drinkable water is bottled. I think it's not a sin to drink bottled water as long as one does what one can to recycle the bottle!
Load More Replies... FreeTheUnicorn 8 months ago
This is true for nearly all consumables that can be stored at room temperature.
JL 8 months ago
Now that we've cleared that up, can someone explain why bottles of windshield washer fluid have tamper proof seals?
Catherine Burgin 8 months ago
How to freak someone out; tell them that any water that they drink is 100% recycled dinosaur wee.
Rich Black 8 months ago
apparently all water in the universe was created shortly after the big bang. the hydrocarbons used to make plastic bottles were only created about 3 billion years ago, when the earth developed an oxygen atmosphere
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🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
That's so interesting, especially since the French have the viager system, which means "for life". It sounds like they've really thought it out from all angles!
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AnnaB 8 months ago
I was taught to drive in a VW beetle with a stick shift. My current car is the first NON-stick car I've ever owned. And I'm 71.
A girl 8 months ago
I can drive a manual but it impedes drinking my coffee, managing my cigarette, changing the radio, and fiddling with the windows. The world is safer with me in an automatic.
JK 8 months ago
Seriously? When I was in high school, Rachel, my co-pilot and I had a system down where the driver could take a bong hit while the passenger shifted gears. Go ahead and down vote me, the 1980s were a dangerous time.
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Krd 8 months ago
It's so insane how people treat driving manual as a religion. Unless you are racing, driving a manual is pointless, and in the modern era it's actually less fuel efficient.
JK 8 months ago
Disagree. Older manuals you could coast for quite a while if you know how to maximize your drive. Plus, if you are on a winding road and/or elevations, a manual gives you so much more control. Same with snow or rainy conditions.
Load More Replies... tameson 8 months ago
My parents insisted we learn on a manual. I didn't own an automatic until 1990. And we insisted that our daughter learn on a manual.
Offbeat Quinoa 8 months ago
My parents did that to me too lol. My first car was a manual (forced on me - every kid in my family got that car when they got their licenses). I got rid of it as fast as I could. I just find automatic so much more enjoyable. I don’t want to fk around with shifting gears, I just want to enjoy the drive
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st4x2gt974 8 months ago
This is why I never regret swatting the heck out of those bastards, often stating this statistic as I do, lol
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Robin Roper 8 months ago
He had Lewy Body Dementia which has a high correlation with depression and has a life expectancy of 5 to 8 years. He did not know he had Lewy Body so most likely didn't know why he was depressed.
Load More Replies... Laura Lawson 8 months ago
That's because we learn early how to mask our depression with humour so we don't make others uncomfortable.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
Exactly, and there's two kinds of making others not uncomfortable with depression: being humorous, or avoiding people (I'm definitely the second one)
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
A lot of comedy is in some way about pain. And when you know, you know.
Edda Kamphues 8 months ago
It's so true. It's a stage persona, not an authentic personality trait.
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geezeronthehill 8 months ago
My hometown lake. The waters are dark brown, stained by tannin from the bogs up north.
Ace 8 months ago
Conjures up a delightful image of Yorkshiremen carrying buckets from the privy and dumping them all into a big pond.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
When it gets to year 25, whoosh, he's back to year 18.
Load More Replies... Data1001 8 months ago
I find factoids like this ridiculous. "This movie was wrong because it referenced something that didn't happen until a few years after it was set!" I mean, unless he's talking about playing a Playstation game or something very anachronistic, who cares? Close enough for a dramatization. It's like those people who say, "Look! When he first takes the drink from the glass, it's almost empty, but seconds later, you can see the level of water in the glass is 2 inches higher!" Just relax and enjoy the movie, nerds. 😄 (I'm a nerd, too, so I can say that, lol.)
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
I care, because a movie having obvious errors ruins the immersion in the story
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Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)
I tried to pull that joke on my left-handed nephew when he was 5 years old. Apparently he's smarter than all the people who fell for it.
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Nyati 8 months ago
they are so deadly because there poison has to work extremely fast killing birds almost instantly.
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Pferdchen 8 months ago (edited)
Ilha da Queimada Grande. Coincidentally, I saw a segment on this island on "Secrets of the Jungle" on the Science Channel just yesterday! p.s. - the Golden Lancehead is endangered due to poaching. A specimen can sell for 10 to 12 thousand dollars. Legally, only scientists and the military are allowed on the island.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
At one snake per square metre in 430,000 square metres, they don't sound that endangered.
#57
wowbagger 8 months ago
That's why getting sweet revenge on your enemies is a form of self-care
Ace 8 months ago (edited)
Quite the opposite, I'd have thought. The desire for revenge is surely the very definition of bearing a grudge.
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Bret Sander 8 months ago
There's a Buddhist saying, hate is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to become sick.
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st4x2gt974 8 months ago
Obvious. Having extremely high standards is a recipe for failure and disappointment
Tim Douglass 8 months ago
Especially if you are *bad* perfectionist, who never actually manages to get anything close to perfect. DAMHIK
#59
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Oxytocin is released when you stare into your dog's eyes. Except my dog's eyes are mostly covered by cataracts.
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st4x2gt974 8 months ago
They also scroll a warning against eating sugary/unhealthy foods every time a commercial advertises one. Highly effective imo
Ace 8 months ago (edited)
Illegal? I highly doubt that it's anything anyone ever had to make a law against. Sounds more like an American extrapolating from the fact that we simply do not do that in Europe.
cecilia kilian 8 months ago
Article L. 3232-9.18 January, 2017, includes drinks with artificial sweeteners, milk, fruit and vegetable juices.
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April Pickett 8 months ago
Isn't that what most islands are? The top of a mountain or a volcano?
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cecilia kilian 8 months ago
And the people protecting them, being able to educate you about them, and studying them are currently being fired by f-elon and his doge minions!
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
So I should advise my 80-year-old mother to grow some facial hair? XD She's often quite worried about her appearance as she gets older...
Robin Roper 8 months ago
So those who grow facial hair so their don't look so "baby faced" are actually hurting themselves in the long run; sort of ironic.
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Gingersnap In Iowa 8 months ago
It's a real thing. I basically live in a huge cornfield called Iowa.
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Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Guess I'm in luck then. Or maybe genetics have something to do with it. My paternal grandmother passed at 100, my mom at 96. I'm only 70 so we'll see how things go, LOL.
Robin Roper 8 months ago
My dad is 98 and many think he's 80; hope I'm there with him one day.
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April Pickett 8 months ago
What is it called when you drive from your house in the city's neighborhoods to your job downtown and don't remember how you got there?
JP Doyle 8 months ago
In effect our brains edit out the short term memory of the boring distances. This happens a lot for people who have traveled the same long route multiple times.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
That used to happen to me almost every day driving home from university. Pay attention. Get on the Beltway. Whoa, that's my exit right there. And that's on a congested road.
LillieMean 8 months ago
I've experienced the same thing on my walking trips. Suddenly I'm 17 kilometers away from home because my mind went hiking without me.
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st4x2gt974 8 months ago
Makes sense. Cruise ships have thousands of passengers and a high percentage are seniors. If passing away on a flight is common enough, I imagine someone dies probably every voyage they take.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
My wife had a stroke on our last cruise, and yes there was a morgue available. Fortunately, she didn't need it. We were in port and she got treatment in a hospital for her stroke less than 90 minutes after it happened. Full recovery. (Her sister, on a different cruise, was not so fortunate.)
Load More Replies... Blue Bunny of Happiness 8 months ago
Yup, dated a communications officer on one for a bit. He had to arrange for undertakers to meet the ship at port on most cruises.
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Zaach 8 months ago
What the heck is it with buying water? Why is Fiji Water worth transporting 10,855 km or 6,745 miles to the US
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
Because it being from Fiji somehow makes it better
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I don't drink Dasani. And I look at the source on the label of the water I buy.
Susan Reid Smith 8 months ago
Dasani is a coca-cola product. It is better we buy that than any Nestle product.
Load More Replies... Display Name 8 months ago
Back home our city tap water was and consistently still is considered the #1 best tasting tap water in the US. Proud of that fact. Someone thought it was a good idea to literally sell bottled tap water in the city. Yeah, for a while you could buy bottled city tap water at the store...
jasper 8 months ago
I wish it was like that where I live. Ours tastes like too much chlorine and other stuff. We have to run it thru a filter before it's drinkable.
Load More Replies... Billo66 8 months ago
My friend works at a local water bottler. They fill bottles for 17 different brands from Evian to Great Value. It's a nice big filter but it's still all from the same tap. The only change is the bottle and price.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
That's common knowledge. I believe the Pepsi one is, as well (Dasani is a Coca-Cola product).
Patrick H 8 months ago
It is not banned in the UK. It was withdrawn voluntarily and never reintroduced.
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Phantom Phoenix 8 months ago
In my nearest city, I'm sure they're configured for the maximum inconvenience of the majority of motorists
Ace 8 months ago
In a lot of European cities they are configured to maximise the flow of trams and buses, often at the expense of motorists. There are sensors in the road so the tram driver can press a button to make the lights change to red for the road traffic. There are many other measures also designed to discourage folk from driving in favour of public transport or cycling.
Load More Replies... st4x2gt974 8 months ago
I’ve memorized which lights take forever and at certain times of day. Also there are large circular detectors in the road in front of many traffic lights which signal a light to turn green when driven over them.
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General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
After committing a crime? "You're a ten, I'll look for a five to cuff."
Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
Causation or just correlation? Rich people are less likely to get arrested, and they have the money to make themselves pretty.
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Robin Roper 8 months ago
Antarctica and Iceland are the only two places on Earth that don't have mosquitoes. Of course with global warming, this will probably change soon.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
No, I'm pretty sure we know that 6 of the continents have mosquitoes and wasps and one of them doesn't, because it's cold
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
That's because all of the wasps are in New Zealand. Believe me, I know.
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ToGo 8 months ago
I'm extremely tired, so maybe I'm not absorbing this correctly, but is it saying only dogs look us in the eyes? It's true, my dogs do, but all of my cats look me in the eyes as well. In fact, we enjoy the odd staring contest that often results in me going to get them food or snacks because I'm a total sucker. Most of my cats do scoot off when they get a fright but one of them definitely runs to me wanting picked up when she's scared.
Anne Reid 8 months ago (edited)
When my cat has a bad dream, she’ll wake up and run to me for cuddles. Both of my cats love to stare at me and exchange slow blinks…usually when standing on my chest and leaning into my face.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
Yep, that one apostrophe made me doubt the credibility of the entire paragraph. Punctuation matters!
Load More Replies... Billo66 8 months ago
When mine is too playful and won't come when I call him I lie down. He comes to see if I'm ok :) falls for it every time. My cat is just waiting to eat me.
CatD 8 months ago
If it's that or the cat starved, I'd rather they eat me.
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Chewie Baron 8 months ago
No, it is true. The amount of trees on Earth is in the trillions. Stars in the Milky Way is in the millions.
Load More Replies... Bored Seb 8 months ago (edited)
trees is one of the rarest thing in the solar system. There are more diamonds (total mass) than trees in the solar system
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Phantom Phoenix 8 months ago
Fascinating Fact: Apparently just stating the name of a thing constitutes a Fascinating Fact. Mind-blowing!
Robert Millar 8 months ago
Duck& drake goose & gander, cob & pen, dog & vixen, sow & boar. Surely all birds, animals etc. have complimentary names?
cecilia kilian 8 months ago
A male rabbit is a buck and a female is a doe. Male dogs are just dogs,, except in breeding situations, where they are sires or studs. As for female dogs, I have to explain to my students that b-word and b1Thcy originally meant being bad-tempered because that is how mama dogs act when they have a new litter, and are very protective.
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st4x2gt974 8 months ago
BP readers love these posts. Don’t listen to the haters that always cross examine every minute detail. More of this - less of the AITA posts, please!!! We could all fill our brains with knowledge instead of negativity rn
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
But is it worth filling our brains with bite-sized pieces of trivia that are not fact-checked and often misleading?
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BP readers love these posts. Don’t listen to the haters that always cross examine every minute detail. More of this - less of the AITA posts, please!!! We could all fill our brains with knowledge instead of negativity rn
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
But is it worth filling our brains with bite-sized pieces of trivia that are not fact-checked and often misleading?
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