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I spent some time with Gene Cernan, the Apollo 17 astronaut who was the last guy to walk on the Moon. He told me two things that I couldn’t stop telling people:

1. the Earth is round in space like a ball, not flat looking like the Moon is to us. He said while looking up from the lunar surface, the Earth just hung there, like a grapefruit that he could almost grab if he just jumped high enough. Could see the weather change too.

2. because of the smaller size of the Moon, not only is it’s curve very visible, the apparent horizon is also much closer so he said there were moments where if he ran too fast or jumped too high he felt like he was going to fall off.

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John Carr 2 years ago

....and still flat-earthers

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Trees can communicate and cooperate using a network of underground mycelium. They can store excess energy in it for later use, can trade different nutrients with neighbors so their needs are met, take care of their young when they're unwell, and even warn others of a spreading disease or parasite.

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A Dasher Panda 2 years ago

And then bipedal macrofauna come by and cut vast holes in that network, dump chemicals on it, or set fire to it.

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Poultry Geist 2 years ago

I hate people

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Bacony Cakes 2 years ago

motherf*cking emus

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Trophy Husband 2 years ago

*cuts holes*

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Dave Smith 2 years ago

Humankind also does a lot of damage.

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Mary Peace 2 years ago

Triple up-vote, you deserve. We should get down on our knees (being careful not to squash little plants) and really thank those trees that give us so much.

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kevin simeon 2 years ago

As true as it is... I believe the earth will heal.. long after we are gone... and that it can’t just get destroyed right away.. it has survived phenomena way worse than humanity.

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Mike Zech 2 years ago (edited)

So you live indoors or wipe your butt? You should thank the timber industry for your sometime taken for granted conveniences.

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Robin Pickering 2 years ago

I know which movie I'd rather watch

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Max Power 2 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

In other words, fungi are good. Mycelium is threads, essentially, and it's fascinating. "Entangled Life" was a dense but fascinating read, if anyones interested.

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Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

“Fantastic Fungi” was a GREAT documentary. I saw it twice in the theater and have watched it on Netflix a couple of times as well.

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Earl Grey 2 years ago

Quaking Aspen “trees” are just stems from a single gigantic clone that has a common root system, and which lives for tens of thousands of years. See: https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Plants-and-Fungi/Quaking-Aspen

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Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Sort of like how Yellowstone’s various thermal spots are just outlets for a massive caldera that extends throughout most of the western U.S. and into the Pacific Ocean. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s eventually found that it’s in charge of the Hawaiian Islands as well.

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René Studer 2 years ago

I read that the tree giraffes like to eat from (don’t know what its called in english) is able to warn other trees in the vicinity about the animal. The giraffe would then have to find a tree that hasn’t received a warning yet for its next meal.

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Whatshername 2 years ago (edited)

Cool! So the warned tree will then run and hide? /s

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Carrie Smith 2 years ago

Acacia trees. They're very thorny, which is why giraffes have such long tongues that can wind through the thorns.

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Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Acacia, I believe

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plantsarecool 2 years ago (edited)

I just left a similar comment on on another bp post about acacia trees but anyway all plants communicate in their own way. Some using chemicals they produce, some using mycelium, some through a form of awareness at a cellular level that we don't understand yet. In the future they will look back in disbelief at how unaware we were and in horror at how we've treated them.

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Aisling Raye 2 years ago

These are fun facts to share with the one vegan at the dinner party that won't shut up about being vegan. (Not that I've done that but the specificity of that example makes it pretty clear that I am a snarky a$$hole and definitely have) - TBC I have no problem with vegans but some of them are preachy and a bit "much" much as some religious people are preachy and a bit "much." Like, dude, I respect your life choice but can ya maybe not make it your whole personality and then try to cram it down my throat? /rant

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Munchkin 2 years ago

and there's actually a tree called the hub tree which overlooks an entire group of trees

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Wistiti 2 years ago

And yet we do not think of them as sentient beings. Even though some scientist has been pushing the idea since Darwin (even Darwin with his observations didn't push as much - although apes to humans really had him in a pinch).

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DC 2 years ago

Reactions and consciousness aren't the same. There is no brain-like structure of any complexity close to being able to be really sentient. Usually, sentient plants are only brought up in discussions with people trying to justify eating meat, which tramples on the interest of well-known and doubtlessly proven sentient beings, which then is countered by a halfheartedly-humorous rant about how we ignore plants' feelings (which, in the end, is even more of a point against meat, as a lot more plants are to be used there than if fed to humans directly). Also, reactions of trees to their surrounding have to work with limited means, compared to beetles and the like ... immobility pretty much prevents them from requiring any neuronalesque processes that are too complex - they can only answer chemically. But, that is besides - it still is fascinating. Plants, trees in particular, are cool anyway.

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Jim Wamsley 2 years ago

Well discussed in the book 'Finding the Mother Tree' by Suzanne Simard

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Josy Bannon 2 years ago

Thanks, very interesting! I looked it up and will definitely read it.

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Lovin' Life 2 years ago (edited)

Now this is very interesting. I love to sit and read under trees. I love nature and often wonder what they do other than just survive and be being beautiful. Eye opening. I want to learn more now.

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Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Redwood trees are the oldest and tallest trees on earth.

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Bobbie Meyers 2 years ago

Yes, watch Secret Life Of Plants.

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Crochet lady 2 years ago

We had 2 150" trees (out of very many) come crashing down last July. There was no wind, no storm. Just the scariest, loudest crashing I've ever heard in my life. It shook me to the core. They came inches away from hitting our house, where we were sitting. It was so loud neighbors from 3 doors down came rushing to see what happened. It makes my heart sad every time I look out into my yard and see the gaping holes they left. Arborist said one tree was diseased & brought the other tree down when it fell on it. You wouldn't think you could miss trees but I do.

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Birgit Sommer 2 years ago

and they also stay out of each other's hairs (crowns never touch)

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Seonie 2 years ago

David Attenborough's new BBC documentary Green Planet touched on things like this. I loved it

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Mary Peace 2 years ago

I'm watching the last part of that on BBC at the moment. About how scientists are helping the plants that are threatened.

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

ENTS ARE REAL?!

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D K 2 years ago

This reminds me of a fascinating docu on Netflix about fungi

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Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Fantastic Fungi. I saw it twice in the theater and have watched it twice on Netflix. I learn something new every time.

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Eveline 2 years ago

Like in Avatar. 😍

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Kayden Rodriguez 2 years ago

homicide is the answer

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Dave Chapman 2 years ago

It also has been found, that the Entire Earth could be connected by fungi that is found in the soil, that might have formed a network that stretches around the Planet! Fungi are the reason that our Planet is habitable and many believe that different fungi could possibly be the cure for almost all Human diseases! Fungi can also break down oil spills and turn hazardous waste into harmless matter. We haven't even scratched the surface of what fungi can do for us, it's truly an amazing life form!

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kevin simeon 2 years ago

I understand your point... but if you want humans to totally avoid nature... we will not be here anyway... so intentionally or not, we're all guilty.. some people only take it too far.

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Marylu Horkowitz 2 years ago

Richard Powers' Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Overstory" is worth reading

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Peter Ledoux 2 years ago

I believe.

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SCamp 2 years ago

Universal healthcare, who would have thought?

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Kanuli 2 years ago

Can all tree do that, and will some rival?

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Aqsa Azam 2 years ago

There was a whole Tumblr post on this

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Ramirez rachael 2 years ago

This is awesome and how could anyone think anything different. Trees being bros

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Mosheh Wolf 2 years ago

That is a very human-biased view of the world. Since trees are familiar and visible, not to mention that trees have been anthropomorphized, we assume that they are the ones who are the central ones to this relationship. It is just as likely that the mycelium are farming the trees for the sugar that he trees produce, and are spreading the nutrients to optimize the growth of the trees. Damage to one of "their" trees would cause the mycelium to activate the defense systems of the rest of "their" trees. Since fungi were around long before trees, my scenario is more likely, than the "trees talk, using fungi" Just-So-Story.

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bigfoot 2 years ago

and build spaceships and life objects with their minds

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Mary Peace 2 years ago

I think they don't build spaceships because they don't need them. It would be like the fish with a bicycle.

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Stephen Smith 2 years ago

Yes I've seen the Avatar film also.

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Lizz Lor 2 years ago

I was just going to say...they made a documentary on this called Avatar 😛

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Robyn 2 years ago

no, it's true you egotistical twatt I call you this because you have (OBVIOUSLY) done no research or used a bad site.....

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World The time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast, there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive.

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John Baker 2 years ago

There are human fossils while humans still exist, and we haven't been here anywhere near as long as the dinosaurs were. Also, there's more time between Allosaurus and T. rex than between T. rex and humans.

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Whales will grow up singing a specific song based on where they were born, but they’ll learn verses of other songs from whales they encounter throughout their lives!

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LuckyL 2 years ago

Except for this one really lonely whale that's singing on a different frequency

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World Hippos sweat sunscreen. They produce "sweat" made of one red and one orange pigment. The red pigment contains an antibiotic, while the orange absorbs UV rays.

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John Carr 2 years ago

This is why there are no hippos in Ireland.....we never see the sun

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World Some forms of anaesthesia don’t numb you to pain- they make you forget that you felt it.

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Láďa Durchánek 2 years ago

I didn’t want to know this.

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World The knowledge that the atoms of our bodies contain elements only forged in the center of stars, and that such stars upon death blow the elements via supernova across the universe and into our very existence. We are made of star dust.

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago

Scientists know virtually nothing about dark matter and dark energy, which make up about 95% of the universe. So, we basically know nothing about the stuff that makes up 95% of our reality! Talking about being kept in the dark!

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World I recently read about the Split-Brain experiments. There is a procedure for severe epilepsy that involves cutting the connecting nerves of the two brain hemispheres, resulting in the two hemispheres being unable to communicate with each other. The experiment shows that both halves can answer questions independently of each other, have seperate opinions/preferences, form memories independantly. Basically suggesting that there are two minds in the brain. That just blows my mind(s).

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Klingsor 2 years ago

Quite an upbeat description of hemispherectomy. My 10 yo daughter suffers from a rare and severe form of epilepsy. There is no cure and the prognosis is that her condition will gradually worsen. When her quality of life becomes catastrophic enough, the only thing left is to have a hemispherectomy. In almost all cases the procedure will lead to severy cognitive disablility and partial paralysis.

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Caterpillars basically dissolve into liquid in the cocoon. The only thing left are the so called ‘imaginal discs’, groups of cells that contain all the information and the mechanism to turn that soup into the various body parts of a butterfly (the same applies for other insects).

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Who Panda 420 2 years ago

Like the primordial soup that started life on Earth

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World If the entirety of the Earth’s history were compressed down to a single day, humans of any sort wouldn’t appear until the last second before midnight.

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DUN DUN 2 years ago

The extent of destruction we puny hoomans have caused in such a short span of time is unbelievable

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World That there is a species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii, that can become young again when damaged or stressed. So they become young again. So they are immortal. Just an addition, the tardigrades. They can survive the vacuum of space.

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Kanuli 2 years ago

Immortal is not invincible though ;) There are sponges aswell, which just don’t age.

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#13

A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

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Rai Grant 2 years ago

Which is why billionaires are ridiculous. Simply can not spend that money, hence their messing around with rockets, I suppose.

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World The size of animals still blows my mind. You can read about how a manta ray is 23 feet long and 3 tons but it doesn’t really hit you until you realize that’s heavier than most cars.

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New Prometheus 2 years ago

Humans have hunted most of the megafauna into extinction. We have hard time coexisting with big animals.

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World When you lose weight it leaves on your breath.

So when people lose 100 lbs/ 50 kg, they have exhaled that much carbon.

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BAN CAPITAL LETTERS 2 years ago

*starts exhaling aggressively*

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World An object has every color except the one you think it has, because its the only color that doesn't get absorbed.

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AmmoniteCat 2 years ago

Great. Now I'm suspiciously staring at everything on my desk and telling those inanimate objects, "Reveal your true forms, you chameleons!"

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#17

If some sort of super-advanced alien species on a planet 80 million light years away from Earth built a high-tech telescope that let them see objects on the Earth's surface, they would be seeing dinosaurs right now.

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

And also if there were aliens 5 billion light years away and they detected our signals we would be long gone by then. Those aliens would arrive at a scorched empty planet without any life

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#18

Sharks are older than trees, also, trees almost destroyed all land life on earth as there use to be nothing that could decompose them, so dead trees covered the ground and killed all other vegetation. Only once fungus evolved did trees start decomposing.

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Splash Bach 2 years ago

The trees that couldn't be decomposed turned into coal. No new coal has formed since the fungus evolved to break down the dead trees

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'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World If you put 1 of every animal in a bag and then pick one out you have a 1/5 chance in picking a beetle.

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Who Panda 420 2 years ago

I hope I get George Harrison!

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#20

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World Voyager 1 has been traveling >30,000 mph for 43 years and it's only 20 light hours away.

ruined-on-the-day , NASA Report

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The Cute Cat 2 years ago

Wow.. That is very far

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#21

The Cathedral Effect. If you work in a room with low ceilings, you will stay a bit more focused and be better at detailed, analytical work. If in a room with high ceilings, you will be more open and creative.

This can be simulated by wearing a brimmed hat if you’d want to hammer away at say data entry or data analysis.

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Hannah Edwards 2 years ago

* sits in cathedral entering data, wearing big hat.

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#22

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World There are some Ice Age animals that are so perfectly preserved in permafrost that scientists have been able to find them still with all their soft tissue, hair, and organs. They even found a couple mammoths that still had liquid blood in them and I remember one scientist even tasting the mammoth meat.

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Otter 2 years ago

" ... and he awarded himself the title of 'Heroic Slayer of Inedible Monstrosities'."

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#23

A recently discovered vine can mimic nearby artificial plants, modifying the size, shape and colour of its leaves to match them. The only plausible explanation is that plants can see.

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Auntriarch 2 years ago

Which vine

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#24

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World Exponential power.

Fold a “big sheet” of paper - that is 0.1 mm thick - 50 times and the height of stack is over 20 times the distance earth to moon. Thank you.

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

You can theoretically do this but you cant fold a piece of paper mroe than 7 times. Fun fact: if you were to fold a piece of papper 300 times you will end up with a book that has more pages that atoms in the observable universe

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#25

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World There are no photos of the present.

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coraline jones 2 years ago

are you sure? Untitled-6...61cc71.jpg

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#26

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World Slime molds don’t have brains or nervous systems but some how retain information and use it to make decisions. Even more crazy is that they can fuse with another individual and share the information.

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

In fact, they are so intelligent that they can quickly get through mazes. They have a sort of awareness that doesn’t allow them to get stuck at dead-ends.

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#27

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World Dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy from where we are now.

nolesein , Dave Catchpole Report

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

a long time ago within the galaxy, far far away...

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#28

Both the absolute hottest and absolute coldest temperatures ever recorded in the known universe were achieved here on Earth.

The hottest temperature ever physically recorded in the known universe was when scientists at CERN used the Large Hadron Collider to collide lead ions. This produced a temperature flash of 5.5 trillion degrees celsius.

That’s 5,500,000,000,000°C. Convert to Fahrenheit, and you get this:

(5.5e+12°C × 9/5) + 32 = 9.9e+12°F

For the record, the current temperature at the core of our sun is around 15 million degrees celsius. 15,000,000°C. That’s 350,000x less intense than the flash produced by the lead ion particle collisions. That temperature, even if minuscule and fleeting in size and duration, was actually created here on Earth, in a lab. Let that sink in.

The coldest temperature ever recorded in the known universe was achieved relatively recently by a group of German researchers who achieved a nearly incomprehensible feat of 38 trillionths of a degree above -273.15°C, or more commonly known as Absolute 0° Kelvin. They did this by dropping magnetized gas down a nearly 400 foot tower in order to study a 5th state of matter; Bose-Einstein Condensate. For the record, weird s**t starts to happen near absolute 0°K. Example? Light turns into a liquid you can pour into a glass.

The coldest place we have recorded data from within our observable universe is the Boomerang Nebula, hovering nearly an entire degree (kelvin) above absolute zero. Still unfathomably cold.

So while we are still essentially infinity away from achieving Planck Temperature (the staggeringly high temperature of beyond decillions of degrees celsius in which conventional physics breaks down and we enter a whole new realm of theoretics) we are extremely, extremely close to achieving absolute 0°K here on Earth.

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

However due to quantum mechanics we cant go to 0k since when measuring a particle we cant know how fast it is and where it is at the same time. If we get an atom to 0k then we would know how fast it was going= 0 and where it was which isnt allowed in this universe

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#29

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World You can fit all the planets (Pluto included) between the Earth & Moon.

AnxiousIndicator , TyrannoFan Report

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coraline jones 2 years ago (edited)

Planets are actually really far from each other! Here is what they look like to-scale: https://bit.ly/3BGl5Hr

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#30

Giraffe necks are actually too short to reach the ground, so they have to splay their legs in order to drink water.

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Monday 2 years ago

It's odd to hear "giraffe necks" and "short" in the same sentence.

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#31

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World The astronauts on the ISS aren't floating around because of lack of gravity, far from it. They are in constant free fall, falling over the horizon of earth. Being pulled by gravity towards the earth.

SwingDancerStrahd , NASA Report

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C. Wade 2 years ago

And if you were to oversimplify: things orbit a planet because they go around the planet at the same speed as they fall towards it.

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#32

Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the great pyramids.

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago

The oldest known beer jug is over 5400 years old. Archeologists discovered ceramic vessels from 3400 B.C. still sticky with beer residue. 1800 B.C.’s “Hymn to Ninkasi" is an ode to the Sumerian beer goddess. No warrior/beer helmets have been unearthed yet.

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#33

If 2 pieces of the same type of metal touch in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck together. Space welding (cold welding).

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Hannah Edwards 2 years ago

Are they still stuck together if they come back into atmosphere?

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#34

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World If all the DNA in the average person was stretched out in a single line, it could reach from Earth to the Sun and back 248 times.

MagicalMonarchOfMo , BBC Report

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Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

It wouldn't bode well for that person however

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#35

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World With the help of quantum tunneling, there is a 1 in 5.2^61 chance that the molecules in your hand and table would miss each other when slamming it, making your hand go through the table.

Macury , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

1:520,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (hope I did the zeros right)

42points

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#36

Cold or coldness doesn't really exist, as in, it is not a thing. But hot or hotness does exist and is a thing..

Cold is merely the word we use to describe the absence of heat. While heat is actually an energy that is present.

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ToGo 2 years ago (edited)

"Oh my, better pop on a scarf, the absence of heat is very present today!". "Don't use the hot tap when brushing your teeth - use the absence of heat tap!".

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#37

Most other planets cannot experience a full solar eclipse. The ratio of the size of the moon and sun just happens to be the same as the ratio of the distance of the moon and sun from earth.

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Chich 2 years ago

The moon is slowly moving away from Earth so one day solar eclispes will no longer be possible

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

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#38

When the pyramids were built, there were still some Woolly Mammoths roaming the earth.

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Who Panda 420 2 years ago

So that's how they got the stones up there they used mammoths. I knew it wasn't aliens. (Sarcasm)

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#39

Ice doesn't cool your water, the water heats up your ice. Energy transfers one way.

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Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

High to low, baby.

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#40

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World Approximately 99.85% of all the mass in the solar system is concentrated in The Sun.

Public_Breath6890 , NASA Report

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DUN DUN 2 years ago

And that is why it is able to hold together all the planets in their orbits

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#41

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean.

cafeum , 647264 Report

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Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

Water is so small, but it’s properties really are incredible

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#42

Without the development of genuinely sci-fi travel technology like wormholes or hyperspace (which may not even be possible) 99.99+% of the universe will be forever locked off from us. Because of cosmic expansion, the various galactic clusters are moving away from our local cluster faster than we could ever catch up to them.

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Scagsy 2 years ago

It would appear that, having seen what we have done to our own planet, the entire universe is trying to get as far away from us as possible.

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

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#43

The Wow! signal came from a planet/bit in space 17,000 light years away. It emitted a signal 30x stronger than anything we can make today. It lasted for an entire 71 seconds, was on 1444Hz (frequency of hydrogen, most abundant thing in the universe) and we couldn't find the signal again after pointing to the same spot.

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Aqsa Azam 2 years ago

I have read aa theory somewhere that it was just the signal of Earth forming or something like that travelling around the universe and reaching us in some signal form. Basically, it was a past signal from the time Earth was forming. So cool!

5points

#44

That you can never physically touch anything. Basically the negative force from the electron cloud around atoms repels every other atom in existence. When we try to touch something, what we’re actually feeling is the resistance from the atoms in that object. For all practical purposes, this is touch, but in reality we can never feel anything but various forms of resistance.

Cute-Fly1601 Report

Final score:

26points

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Skara Brae 2 years ago

Some resistances feel pretty good, though.

31points

MagicalMonarchOfMo Report

#45

Reindeer eyes, normally brown, turn bright blue in winter to see in low-light conditions.

Final score:

25points

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Mohammad Ammar 2 years ago

Could this be why blue eyes evolved in Europe?

9points

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

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#46

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World T-rex lived 66million-ish years ago. Stegosaurus lived 155million-ish years ago. The gap between rex and stego is 16million-ish greater than between rex and present day.

APotatoPancake , ScottRobertAnselmo Report

Final score:

24points

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Mimi La Souris 2 years ago (edited)

Fantasia lied to me ?!? disney, i hate you

11points

#47

A speck of dust is halfway between the size of the sun and an atom.

crusttysack Report

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24points

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Ray Martin 2 years ago

A "speck of dust" is not really a reliable measurement.

14points

#48

When you sleep, your brain is consolidating memories and throwing out duplicate information, which is the reason why time appears to be speeding up. If you want to slow down and enjoy life, feed your brain new information and don’t do the same stuff every day.

ThinkRichGrowRich Report

Final score:

24points

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Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

Isn't that the same way you keep yourself from getting early onset Alzheimer's?

5points

#49

Solids and liquids don't burn. Only their vapours and gases. That's why you can't just throw a huge log on the fire and have it burn, you need to haul its temperature up until the surface starts pyrolysis and turning into a gas, which then burns.

postitsam Report

Final score:

23points

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IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 2 years ago

Jihana, there is no need to be rude just because you are lacking a few brain cells.

6points

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

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#50

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World The human body has at least 150 billion neurons.

FancyCrab77 , ColiN00B Report

Final score:

22points

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jon gilbertson 2 years ago

politicians included?

24points

#51

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World A teratoma is a tumor that can grow hair, teeth and eyes.

wolverine_553 , Hellerhoff Report

Final score:

22points

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KitFrey 2 years ago

Terror-tumour

26points

#52

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World How much empty space there is in atoms. Like how the f**k I'm a solid object, I'll never understand.

boyvsfood2 , maxpixel Report

Final score:

21points

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That nerd Zoe 2 years ago

So no, again, officer, I did not punch that child.

20points

#53

There are actually blood vessels obstructing light from reaching certain areas in your eye, effectively creating a shadow. Your brain filters this out and essentially fills in the gaps so you don’t actually see this spiderweb-like network of black lines. However, you can visualise them by shining a light at a diagonal into your eye (not directly!) and gently wiggling it about. This means your brain doesn’t have enough time to filter it out and you see this spiderweb like network of blood vessels!

echnical instructions to clarify the actions involved. I find it easier to see this effect in a dark environment, so the contrast of the black shadow against the light is higher. You want to be staring straight ahead and shining the light into your pupil at a 45 degree angle from the side directed at your nose at about 10-20 cm away from them. Phone light will do great and have it on the dimmest setting if possible. Then wiggle the light in gentle 1 cm movements side to side. Keep this up for about a second at least and you should see them. Hope this clears it up a bit!

ANonWhoMouse Report

Final score:

21points

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Kataroni 2 years ago

Oh wow. It's like when you take those eye photos at the eye doctors

2points

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

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#54

The strongest known acid is called Fluroantimonic Acid and it is made by combining a solution of two different ions in various quantities. Without going too crazy into the scientific details, the part that blows my mind is that at certain ratios of the two ingredients you can get an acid that is 1 QUADRILLION TIME STRONGER THAN 100% PURE SULFURIC ACID.

At acidity levels like this pH fails to even be a useful metric, as the pH of any solution would certainly be less than 0. Additionally, it is so acidic that it can force carbon atoms to have 5 bonds instead of 4, breaking one of the fundamental principles of organic chemistry.

papiculo_dodicessimo Report

Final score:

21points

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Skara Brae 2 years ago

What do you keep it in?

16points

#55

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World Your head can live for up to 15 seconds without your body.

Jx3c2 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

21points

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jon gilbertson 2 years ago

who tested that?!

22points

#56

The Cosmic Horizon - there's vast swathes of space we will never be able to see or know anything about as space is expanding faster than the speed of light.

AllarielleX Report

Final score:

20points

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Scagsy 2 years ago

A shower thought I had recently: If space is expanding so fast, and if we can never know the edge of it, perhaps we cannot see that this 'space' is accelerating towards a huge, all-encompassing astral wall. When it arrives at this wall, will it burst through or will it bounce back towards us? And if it does return towards us, is it still expanding or will it be receding like a spent wave and will it affect the passage of time like a black hole does? Note: I have shower thoughts about other less interesting things too, like getting a puppy, and whether it will like my wife or me better. Comments on either are most welcome, of course.

20points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#57

The average cloud weighs about 1 million pounds. It just floats because it is less dense than the air below it.

J-Jizzy Report

Final score:

20points

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

I’ve always imagined that touching a cloud would feel like touching intensely damp and freezing cold dense fog.

5points

#58

If the distance between earth and the sun were the thickness of a dime, the next closest star would be ten miles away.

carton_heart Report

Final score:

18points

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

And also, if the milky way were the size of the united states then the sun would be the size of a white blood cell

10points

MagicalMonarchOfMo , Kristóf Sass-Kovan Report

#59

'What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?': People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World There are about four times as many unique ways to shuffle a standard deck of playing cards as there are atoms in the Milky Way.

Final score:

17points

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Jason Pabst 2 years ago

Ways to shuffle cards 8×10^67 Atoms in the galaxy 2.4 × 10^67

10points

#60

A hummingbird beats its wings 12 times a second.

MagicForestComics Report

Final score:

17points

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Scagsy 2 years ago (edited)

A (gone too soon, aged 44) friend of mine used to play in a football team that I coached. Before each match, I would explain our set pieces; free kicks, corners etc. and give each player a specific role to play during the match. At the end of my 'teamtalk' I would ask if there were any questions and every week, my mate would say; 'What's the average wingspeed of a Hummingbird?' And now I know!

12points

#61

Our galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy and will meet in about 4.5 billion years. Due to the vastness of the space between the contents of these galaxies, it's unlikely any stars/planets will actually hit each other.

NervousSquid Report

Final score:

17points

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

The night sky would glow because of the gas clouds colliding and creating new stars. The name of the galaxy that will form after the collsion is milkdromeda

10points

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#62

When you look up into the sky everything you see is in the past.

ignorpicus Report

Final score:

17points

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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago

When you look at the tip of your own nose it's in the past. Everything you can see is.

13points

#63

When you decide to you move hand (as an example) the signal will already be half way down you arm by the time you have consciously decided to do it. There are two explanations. Something other that your conscious mind decided to move your hand or your conscious mind sent the signal around 20 milliseconds backwards in time.

OverHaze Report

Final score:

16points

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Rai Grant 2 years ago

I like that when we, for example, touch something hot, our nerves send the signal to our brain that we are burned, but before it reaches our brain, the reaction to pull away has already been sent to our limb to pull away due to the junctions in our spines

15points

#64

All of life can be tracked back to a (or several depending on who you ask) continuous billion plus year chemical reaction.

seanotron_efflux Report

Final score:

14points

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Scagsy 2 years ago

I'm fairly sure that it doesn't matter who I ask, I will still not have a clue what they are talking about.

11points

#65

All matter literally gives off light, but we can only see a sliver of that spectrum (although we do have tools to help us see other spectrums.)

Our bodies give off infrared, and are basically glowing in that portion of the spectrum similar to how iron glows to our normal vision when it’s heated. Something that sees a different spectrum than us might not see hot iron as glowing at the same temperatures we see iron glow at.

MadgoonOfficial Report

Final score:

12points

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

The whole universe glows in infrared. If you had infrared vision you would be blinded by the amount of heat in the universe

7points

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Who Panda 420 2 years ago (edited)

I actually learn more from the comments by my fellow pandas than I learn from the posting. Thanks for all the tidbits

32points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Same! :-)

9points

Susie Elle 2 years ago

I've got an uninteresting scientific fact; jays (that used to be quite uncommon where I live) are excellent sound mimics, which was proven to me by the fact that me and a bunch of neighbours this morning spent an hour looking for the dying cat we could all hear screaming that turned out to be a mf jay sitting in the top of a tree >:(

24points

WoodenLion 2 years ago

me & a buddy ran through stickers and briars through a field once to 'save' a woman screaming "help!" - it was peacocks.

8points

Chich 2 years ago

In the cold death version of the universe where everything just gets further and further apart and energy ebbs away, this entire 'bright' phase with stars and galaxies etc is so brief as to be almost unmeasurable. "Forever and ever" is actually a nasty curse to wish on someone.

14points

Cheri Aline Sydney 2 years ago

This, Chich, brings passive aggression to a whole other level!

5points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

Aluminum is an excellent heat sink, so putting a piece of frozen meat on a heavy aluminum cookie sheet will cause it to defrost much faster than a piece of meat lying on your counter. It acts like its sucking out the cold, but it's really conducting the heat of the air into the vacant energy of the meat

11points

Jane Doe 2 years ago

I wondered how that "magic defrosting tray" worked. thanks.

1point

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Borborygmi. It's a real thing. The noise your abdomen makes (technically, your lower GI tract) as it digests food ---- the noise of gas and liquid and matter moving merrily along. (One hopes, anyway.)

4points

KitFrey 2 years ago

Wow

2points

T J 2 years ago

Reading this post shows me just how little I know. But then again my field of knowledge is history something we are always repeating

1point

Lovin' Life 2 years ago

I am so confused by many of these. My brain hurts! Hell who knows, I may not even have one.

1point

Mary Peace 2 years ago

Obviously you're thinking about stuff, and that's good. Don't worry about feeling confused, lots of us are with you on that. Lots of these facts just boggled my mind as well.

0points

Jo Choto 2 years ago

Why do I get so distressed by some of these facts? It shouldn't bother me that there are more card shuffles than atoms, or more water atoms in a teaspoon, than teaspoons of water in the ocean, but it does. I think my brain gets troubled by things that are too big or too small for me to actually experience and observe.

1point

Izzy Curer 2 years ago

Polyphobia

2points

MetaMaxNL 2 years ago

There is an genetic difference between believers and non believers.. the god-gene..

0points

Ozoramaka Theresa 2 years ago

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Don't Look 2 years ago

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Who Panda 420 2 years ago

As I stated above sometimes I learn more from the comments of other people on here than I do from the original posts. And even if not some things are really really funny which makes it worth reading. This is a posting site so if you don't like to read posts or you don't like to post this might not be the right site.

8points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago

You don't like learning?

5points

Cheri Aline Sydney 2 years ago

Don't Look, you just don't recognize a good time when you see one... You know, people just enjoying interacting with each other....

4points

Becky Samuel 2 years ago

Your comment is the definition of irony.

3points

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Who Panda 420 2 years ago (edited)

I actually learn more from the comments by my fellow pandas than I learn from the posting. Thanks for all the tidbits

32points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Same! :-)

9points

Susie Elle 2 years ago

24points

WoodenLion 2 years ago

me & a buddy ran through stickers and briars through a field once to 'save' a woman screaming "help!" - it was peacocks.

8points

Chich 2 years ago

14points

Cheri Aline Sydney 2 years ago

This, Chich, brings passive aggression to a whole other level!

5points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

11points

Jane Doe 2 years ago

I wondered how that "magic defrosting tray" worked. thanks.

1point

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

4points

KitFrey 2 years ago

Wow

2points

T J 2 years ago

Reading this post shows me just how little I know. But then again my field of knowledge is history something we are always repeating

1point

Lovin' Life 2 years ago

I am so confused by many of these. My brain hurts! Hell who knows, I may not even have one.

1point

Mary Peace 2 years ago

Obviously you're thinking about stuff, and that's good. Don't worry about feeling confused, lots of us are with you on that. Lots of these facts just boggled my mind as well.

0points

Jo Choto 2 years ago

1point

Izzy Curer 2 years ago

Polyphobia

2points

MetaMaxNL 2 years ago

There is an genetic difference between believers and non believers.. the god-gene..

0points

Ozoramaka Theresa 2 years ago

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Who Panda 420 2 years ago

8points