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Multa Nocte

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You mean aluminium? 😉

Another fun fact about aluminum is that it used to be rare and expensive before some advances in chemistry. Napoleon had an aluminum dining set to show off his wealth.

And there are tons of it in every land fill.

*pure confusion reading these comments*

Asphalt is up there too I believe. 100% recyclable/reusable.

And their sand, needed for building.

All because our early intrepid colonialist explorers imported them to cross our red centre...then cut them loose. Thanks for nothing Burke and Will's. Camels are reaching plague proportions and impacting out native wildlife by sucking up already limited bush plants.

The more I learn about the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the more I realize it's a massive joke of a facade.

Australia has massive herds ofbwild camels. Imported from afghanistan to use to build telegraph line across country. Then used in ww1. Camels escaped and bred.

Yet there are still huge populations of feral camels in the outback that have to be culled. So many animals were brought to Australia because of some settler's bright ideas, but ended up being a scourge on the land.

They need to cause it'll take them so long to get out

This is so they can hide longer from predators, mostly. They're actually really fast swimmers, compared to their on-land speed capabilities (x3). They can hold it for up to 40 mins, because they can slow their heart rate. But it's usually only about 20 mins. That's long enough to hide perfectly still and quiet away from a predator, or cause the critter to get bored waiting for a sloth sized meal.

Human unborn babies can hold their breath for nine months, which is quite a feat.

Very interesting

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Aw look at his haircut, he's so cute 😍

The pony express is still up and running too. You can look at their website to see how to deliver mail with them. They're still a federally funded program

Wait but question - who exactly is receiving mail at the bottom of the Grand Canyon?

I believe almost everything is delivered to Supai by donkey.

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With or without a human?

I tried to get a gist of quantum physics because of a book I was writing. It's the most bonkers thing imaginable. Infinite respect for people who study it in-depth.

Great fact, but can we start saying "measuring by interacting a tiny bit" instead of "observing" when it's about quantum stuff? The latter is so unclear as to what happens. And it realy makes it sound like some magical effect.

It's the simulation reducing processing power for unobserved things. We need to stop looking at so many things so we don't end up crashing the universe's server.

I didn't understand a word of that, but it sounds neat.

It has nothing to do with physically observing anything. It has to do with the fact that in order to observe anything there needs to a measurement of light (protons) and it is the protons interacting with the electrons that causes the phenomenon.

Each year, the number of people killed by sharks averages only a few dozen more than the number of people killed by Saturn's rings.