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What’s on the agenda today, pandas? Perhaps you’re working, doing some laundry, going for a run and calling your parents to check in on them. And while you’re being so productive, you might as well squeeze in some time for learning too!
Below, we’ve gathered a list of fun facts that have recently been shared on the Today I Learned subreddit. 5 minutes from now, you’ll have plenty more information to share with friends and family members, and you’ll know even more about the world. Keep reading to also find a conversation with Jake Olefsky, CEO of Braingle.com, and be sure to upvote the facts you’re glad to have learned today!
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#1
That Wimbledon umpires learn a vast array of swear words in many different languages in order to flag, and subsequently fine, any athlete to break the no swearing rule.
Yettichild 1 year ago
So my collection of swear words in different languages might actually come in handy?
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
There was a brilliant story from the Gentlemen’s Singles Final of 1992. It was Andre Agassi against Goran Ivanisivic. A long five setter. At some point the referee came on to the court to speak with the umpire and to give a warning to Ivanisivic. As he was Croatian, no one really could understand what he was muttering any time he played a bad shot. Apparently, an elderly couple had rang up the actual All England Club and complained about all the swearing Ivanisivic was doing on court. They too were Croatian and lived in the UK, and could understand everything he was saying!
Chez2202 1 year ago
I bought a book. Swear words along with full insults in 5 languages. Still have it now.
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BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
Robin Williams knew many curses in different languages and his director went crazy trying to prevent him to tell one or more while shooting films!
Jack Burton 1 year ago
I wish we had footage from their training, funniest language lessons ever.
Terry Fergusson 1 year ago
Seems like that's trying to be offended. If a person swears and I don't know the word, is it even a swear word at the time. The concept of swear words is just dumb.
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#2
Of Alice Kober, who helped decipher an ancient script known as Linear B. Over 20 years, she meticulously recorded her research in a collection of 180,000 index cards. The script was deciphered in 1952, shortly after her death. It remains the only Bronze Age Aegean script that is readable now.
Betsy Knox 1 year ago (edited)
It was a great intellectual feat. It is one of several bronze age scripts that have been deciphered.
Mel Colley 1 year ago
I wonder how many women who have accomplished great intellectual feats but didn't get their due?
Florence O'Grady 1 year ago
Many women have never been given their rightful place in the history books.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Wish they'd decipher Linear A. I've always wanted to know what that culture actually called themselves.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
It would be great if it turned out they called themselves Linear A! 😆
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María Hermida 1 year ago
Imagine certain tasks, like this, before computers, Excel and databases! I go crazy if I have to store three documents, and this lady had 180,000 cards, meticulously stored and organised!
Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
There was a WW2 historian who had an insane number of index cards for cross referencing purposes and had the most comprehensive database of witness statements, documents, and other evidence, unfortunately he was imprisoned and his work confiscated and destroyed because some of the evidence he found was exculpatory which meant at least some of the people the Allies were torturing confessions out of were innocent.
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CatLady 1 year ago
I was watching this dude rant about how men have done all the important things in the world, so women should be grateful. One of his biggest things was "it was men who went to the moon!" Neil Armstrong would not get into that ship until Katherine Johnston had checked all the mathematics done by the computer. Before computers were devices, "computer" was a job that many women held at NASA, to do the complex mathematics, because, you know, men couldn't be bothered with such menial work. I am glad that some of our accomplishments are coming to light.
María Hermida 1 year ago
They wouldn't even EXIST without a woman, because a woman gave birth to every single man on the planet. He should be grateful his mother carried him nine months in her womb. Who has to be grateful to whom?
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#3
Irish Supreme Court doesn't classify Subway bread as bread, but instead as cake because of its sugar content.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
but a disappointing bread experience for the rest of the world
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UndertaleLover (She/Her) 1 year ago
The real question is...why was the court talking about Subway??
Phoenix 1 year ago
https://www.tastingtable.com/1043812/the-subway-bread-controversy-explained/#:~:text=Subway%20filed%20its%20appeal%20on,really%20be%20regarded%20as%20confectionery
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
There are some Subway in France, mostly empty all the time. I just don't get it. It's like trying to introduce Pizza Hut in Napoli.
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
I wish other Americans understood it’s NOT normal to have all the sugar we do in foods and that’s why other countries are in better health
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Most commercial American bread is super sweet (especially for European tastes). Most people in Asia associate pre-sliced sandwich bread with being sweet as well because it's the American variety they are used to.
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Brent Hollett 1 year ago
In the 90s, McDonalds in Australia was being threatened with Cheeseburgers being reclassified as confectionary because they were considering removing the gherkin.
To learn more about the wonderful world of fun facts, we reached out to the CEO of Braingle.com, Jake Olefsky, who was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. "Sharing fun facts is amazing because you can surprise someone and teach them something new at the same time," he shared. "They are good conversation starters!"
We were also curious about Jake's favorite fun facts. "My favorite is the one that I have most recently learned, so it changes constantly," he revealed. "Today, I learned that a stadium-sized comet is going to whizz past the earth this week! Hopefully it won't hit us."
#4
About Deborah Sampson. She disguised herself as a man so she could join the Continental Army and fight in the Revolutionary war. She was shot twice but fearing someone would find out her secret she removed one of the balls with a penknife and carried the other bullet in her leg her whole life.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
There have been lots of women in history who have disguised their gender and fought in battle.
CatLady 1 year ago
I'm collecting information on them and going to make cross-stitch patterns of them.
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LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
And once she made bail, she would have got her own 20/20 episode.
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Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
read Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett. you'll probably enjoy it.
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#5
The name of Ishi, known as the 'last wild indian' is an adopted name. In the Yahi culture, he one cannot speak his own name until introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me".
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I was going to suggest the exact same thing
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Ella Carzana 1 year ago
It didnt 'die' it was murdered. Over centuries. There is irreparable damage that we will never know the full consequences of. I am not an indigenous person so I can't speak for them only as a white person deeply affected but what has been and still is being done to these incredible cultures all over the world. We've lost so much and continue to want to force conformity within culture. We should learn, celebrate and embrace them.
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#6
William Wrigley initially offered free baking powder as a gift for his soap but the powder turned out to be more popular. He switched to selling the powder and added sticks of gum as a gift. The gum became incredibly popular thus forcing him to switch and became the world's leading gum company.
Belladonna.dreams 1 year ago
The food that built America and other shows like it are fascinating
As for the trivia and fun facts you'll find on Braingle, Jake says it's supplied by the site's users. "Anyone can create their own trivia quiz on any topic that they are interested in," he told Bored Panda.
"Of course, we have a review process where editors fact-check each question and proofread it for errors," Jake added. "If you are an expert in some subject, please come and make a quiz on it to share with the world."
#7
A 2013 survey, involving 1,081 doctors regarding advance end-of-life directives, found that 88.3% said they would choose do-not-resuscitate or "no code" orders for themselves.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
There is a donair place near me called DNR. Every time I pass it, I think, don’t they know what that means?!
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Having seen (usually on older people) the results when CPR has been performed, I can see why. Many only lived for a few days afterwards and of those that did, they were left with significant cognitive and physical issues. My uncle agreed a DNAR with his GP at the start of covid when he was 80 with a history of cardiac problems. He ended up being admitted to hospital some months later and was found unresponsive in bed a few hours after admission. I’m eternally grateful that they didn’t have to start messing about trying to save him. I visited him in the mortuary and he looked like he had just fallen asleep.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
The stats on resuscitation are pretty grim. Once you hit the point in decline where it becomes necessary, you only have a 1 in 4 chance of success and will likely go on to live with side effects and limitations- most often resulting from lack of oxygen experienced while they attempt to bring you back. Before she passed, one of my mom's surgeons laid it all out for me.
Fenchurch 1 year ago (edited)
I was recently asked by my vet if I wanted them to try and resuscitate my cat. She was going in for a scan, but apparently it's now good practise to ask before hand if there's any risk of death, as there is with any sedation. Knowing what I know about how horrific resuscitation is for humans, I said no. She was fine and came round from sedation.
Duane Ringlein 1 year ago
I was a Respiratory Therapist for over 20 years working mostly critical care, I have seen families make tough decisions, I don't want mine to go through that, so have made myself a DNR rather than put them through it.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Well it depends A LOT of the context. DNR for advanced disease and cancers or brain damages should just be common sense. But if i have a heart attack please try your best.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
DNR isn't the same as "do nothing." If you have a heart attack (that is not the same thing as cardiac arrest, btw), and you have a DNR they will do everything unless your heart stops beating or if you revoke consent.
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Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago
Many years ago I had a person I know who had been undergoing prolonged cancer treatment. And she had signed a dnr. With her doctor. And at the time this event happened she was in remission. She had an anaphylactic reaction to I don't remember what. And actually stopped breathing. And they resuscitated her. She screamed at the doctor afterwards for violating her wishes and the doctor looked at her straight in the face and said what you had was treatable it was an acute event and I made a decision you're alive make live with it or something along that line. Dnrs are good but interestingly enough in many places you have to revoke them to have certain procedures done. If you're in the or they're going to revive you. So it's something to think about and in the US instead of a DNR which you probably want is what it's called an advanced directive
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
There are lots of exceptions under a DNR, such as no compressions, no cardioversion, no vasopressors, no intubation, etc. The exact laws vary by location but you can have some without the others. In the ICU, I see a lot of patients that won't allow compressions or cardioversion but will allow vasopressors or intubation.
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Mabelbabel 1 year ago
The only time CPR works is if you die in the right way, for example, if you have ventricular fibrillation, CPR with a defibrillator might get your heart back into normal rhythm. But if you're dying of sepsis, cancer, or a stroke and are found collapsed, CPR won't work. Agreeing to a "do not resuscitate' order does not mean "do not treat." It means that your treatment will carry on as required, but if you're found collapsed, there won't be active resuscitation attempts. An advance directive is more complicated-that specifies what treatment you would want in specific circumstances. For example, you might decide that if you had a stroke and are unable to communicate, bathe or toilet yourself and need carers 24/7, you might decide that isn't tolerable for you, so having an AD saying that you don't want treatment if you get pneumonia or other infection.
#8
That the "dumb" in dumbbells originally meant "mute". A "dumb" bell was a contraption used to train church bell ringers in the fine art of bell ringing without annoying the entire neighborhood. Later, because of the similarities in shape, the name was applied to certain exercise equipment.
David Wallin 1 year ago
It's a fairly recent development that the phrase "deaf and mute" replaced (for obvious reasons) "deaf and dumb."
MakeupMama68 1 year ago
I remember when I learned about Helen Keller as a child she was referred to as “blind, deaf and dumb” in the book.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
So, you're saying it has nothing to do with the grunting meatheads who ruin everyone's gym experience. Huh.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
You also use dumbbells in dog training for obedience (obedience the skill, not obedience as in being obedient)
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago
I always wonderd why that exercise equipment was named dumbbells, TIL
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
Homie's mind is gonna blow when he connects this to "deaf, blind, and dumb".
#9
About 100,000 people died each year in India due to the collapse of vulture populations. Vultures were crucial to the ecosystem & their near extinction due to accidental poisoning extended the presence of animal carcasses in the local environment, increasing rabies & reducing water quality.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
How important the clean up crew is often only shows when they are missing
mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago
Vultures are so important to the ecosystem. They can eat sick corpses because their stomach acid is so strong, preventing other animals from getting sick.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
The vulture eats between its meals And that's the reason why He very, very, rarely feels As well as you or I His eye is dull, his head his bald His neck is growing thinner Oh! What a lesson for us all To only eat at dinner! By Hilarie Belloc
Dingooo 1 year ago
It had something to do with drugs they were giving cows to keep them alive or for pain or something.
Babs Ishkabibble 1 year ago
Wow! I just read all about that. I had no idea! Populations are still slowly recovering!
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
We have turkey vultures up here in New England that I consider a sign of Spring. Fun fact: Turkey vultures will projectile vomit (partially digested rotten meat and stomach acids) in self-defense, so it's best not to approach within 15ft of these wonderful creatures.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Why we only find out importance of certain species to global ecosystem when they are extinct? Mankind is the real plague to this planet, the only obsolete specimen.
AnkleByter 1 year ago
It isn't that we don't know or have this information readily available. It's that people ignore it, find it useless, generally don't care, until it affects them (or someone they deem "important" starts talking about it).
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They used the drug called Diclofenac on farm animals and when vultures fed on their carcasses they intoxicated themselves. Diclofenac is a very common drug in Europe (everyone knows at least one of the brand names) and you can find it many rivers and lakes where it damages the ecosystem. The problem is that when used in humans the substance will be be excreted through urine and will eventually end up in the environment
Jake also says it's important to be a lifelong learner "because it keeps your brain in shape, so you can stay sharp as you age."
"It also makes you a more interesting person to be around, so you'll make more friends. Just remain curious and try to learn something new every day," he added. "Come to Braingle.com to take a trivia quiz on a wide range of topics, or create your own quiz on anything that you are interested in."
#10
There is a excerpt from John Adam's diary where he describes the time he had to share a tiny bed with Benjamin Franklin and, instead of sleeping, they had an argument about whether to keep the windows open or closed. Franklin eventually won the argument when Adams got too tired and fell asleep.
John 1 year ago
This is funny to me because in the musical, 1776, Benjamin Franklin sings a song with the line, "somebody open up a window!"
Gémeaux jumeaux 1 year ago
Omg, my first thought, exactly! "Sit down, John!"
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LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
Of course he wanted the window closed. Look what the humidity did to his hair.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Open. It's got to go below 15 degrees before I close my bedroom window. It's better to sleep in a cool room. And no, my heat is not on during the night.
#11
That 55% of YA readers are actually adults.
UndertaleLover (She/Her) 1 year ago
A lot of adults also watch Bluey, so I can't say I'm surprised.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Because sometimes you want to read a story with a more optimistic view. The adult books tend to have a depressing end. You just want to read something fun.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
What do you mean? There's libraries full of it!
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Young adult is like 15-18 - so just past the tween and early teen stage and old enough to have an adult conversation but still young enough to enjoy pretend and childlike fantasy still
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I spend so much of my time on here looking up abbreviations these days...does nobody use words?
TechPanda 1 year ago
I thought I was the only one! Had to scroll through the comments to figure out what the hell "YA" was. Everything is not an abbreviation, it's hard and annoying to keep up, and I'm not even an old boomer dude.
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Cathy Mcgee 1 year ago
We adult long time readers of good SF Fantasy have been totally disappointed with the flooding of the genre by wishy washy watered down regurgitated themes in the name of YA fiction. A marketing bandwagon flooded by publishers using second rate writers. Young adults deserve better too.
Fenchurch 1 year ago
Yup, with fantasy too, give me a Diana Wynne Jones YA book over almost any of the current crop of fantasy books
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María Hermida 1 year ago
What's the meaning of YA? Pleeeeeeaaaaase, write the actual words. Many people here are non-native English speakers, from a lot of different countries, and it's really annoying.
Fenchurch 1 year ago
I almost exclusively read YA fiction. Deals with interesting topics without the need to include voyeuristic misogynistic descriptions of women's bodies, dead or alive that a lot of the so called adult books go for!
María Hermida 1 year ago
I think there are only two kinds of books: good books and bad books. If it's well written and the story is coherent, all the other "labels" are irrelevant.
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Many people hear voices and music in white noise. This is known as auditory pareidolia or “musical ear syndrome.”
María Hermida 1 year ago
Yes,the nose is strange,and there's no eye. It's weird
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Data1001 1 year ago
Yes, and if I concentrate on a perceived pattern that I hear in the white noise, it can start to develop into more complex rhythms, and often melodies. My theory is that just because others can't hear these things, doesn't mean they're not actually there. Haha.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
It’s because your brain tries to fill in the “gaps” of white noise, and it ends up sounding like music
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Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
I hear music that isn't playing. It started in my 20s & I genuinely had no idea it wasn't something everyone experienced until very recently. Usually classical or very heavy metal and I don't typically listen to either one.
Lauren S 1 year ago
I don’t know when mine started but I’ll hear various songs. Sometimes I don’t recognize them well enough so I have to wait until it gets to the chorus to trigger than memory. They can often be songs I swear I don’t know the words too. Figure that one out!
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Barong 1 year ago
Not so much from white noise but sometime if the shower is running I think might hear someone saying something from another room. I just carry on and wait and see if anyone repeats or tries to get my attention to see if it’s real or mistaking shower drain noises.
Pandapoo 1 year ago
I also hear strange things when in the shower. I think it’s from water in the pipes, but can’t help thinking of Psycho.
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Astro 1 year ago
I hear music when the fan’s on, from the white noise it produces! I don’t mind it though
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CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I read something about this awhile ago in regards to ghost hunting and the first reported instance of “hearing” ghostly voices in audiotape static. IIRC, the guy who made the recordings was Norwegian and spoke multiple languages - he only “heard” voices in the languages he spoke. It makes sense, because our brains are adapted to find patterns. It also reminds me of people claiming they can hear satanic messages in heavy metal songs played backwards. I had to listen to this once in high school (went to a catholic school - ugh) and all I could hear was garbled English because, y’know, it was being played backwards.
#13
The USA federal witness protection program has a 100% success rate for those who follow their guidelines.
The other-other David Wong 1 year ago
And if they “lose” you they just claim that you didn’t follow their guidelines;)
MR 1 year ago
Part of their guidelines is to not get found out and/or die. So by it's nature, you lose your life and you violate guidelines.
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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Would you mind posting this list of guidelines? Because I can’t find it.
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According to USA Federal Witness Protection: USA Federal Witness Protection is doing a great job. 100% science.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
Is one of their guidelines to wear ill-fitting ski masks in the summer, surrounded by super obvious people in suits? Because it seems like that would be a pretty big give away for anyone looking for you
Phil 1 year ago
So this picture, in addition to being from the 1980s, so of a witness being brought to a courthouse. Some court buildings (particularly old ones) won't have a covered entrance. Hence the mask.
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Angelshark 1 year ago
Who's reporting those success rates, and who's fact checking them? Asking for a friend.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
There's an older TV show called In Plain Sight that follows 2 marshals who supervise people in witness protection. It's a really interesting topic that not many ever even think about. I can't imagine having to leave everything I knew and start somewhere else as a completely different person.
BabaBizzle 1 year ago
Who I met in Vegas many years ago. He didn’t seem to care he was out and about in a casino and letting everyone know his name.
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#14
That birds can get divorced. Over 90% of avian species form socially monogamous pair bonds, but they may end the bonds by 're-mating' with a different partner after so-called 'divorce'. Divorce rate increases with male promiscuity and migration distance.
UndertaleLover (She/Her) 1 year ago
So humans aren't the only ones...I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad about this.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I had a goose as a kid that ditched her goose man (who was sitting on her eggs at the time) and flew off with another goose man. He never recovered properly but made a great dad
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
Oh, this gets VERY funny. THIS isn't just wikipedia; I actually studied this. Often the divorce is caused by infidelity. "Wealthy" birds will keep mistresses, but the wives will divorce them if they find out. It gets SO hard not to anthropomorphize birds when you study them. So here's the driving factor of which animals are monogamous: investment in children. The more valuable children are, the more monogamy is favored.
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
Ever see 2 birds arguing, or a bird nagging another? That's a pair. It's rather comical. Married couples are no different in the animal kingdom.
The Idaho Potato 1 year ago (edited)
I like birds. The state bird of Idaho is the mountain bluebird. They're cute.
Gémeaux jumeaux 1 year ago
I guess the bird attorneys are the ones who really profit when dividing up all those nest eggs
#15
Horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Which is funny because I know several Americans who act like they invented horses from scratch. Yellowstone culture is real.
Sugar Shack 1 year ago
Good lord. Nobody thinks that. Are horses a big part of some American cultures? Sure. Also sad how many upvotes your comment got and how many downvotes I will likely get :-)
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Barong 1 year ago (edited)
In the arid west there is lots of uproar about the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) capturing to reduce herd sizes of feral horses on public lands. I say feral because these horses are not related to the original mustangs or to the horses brought by the Spaniards. They are or the descendants of horses turned loose or escaped from their former owners. These places have little water and food as it is and the horses are by far the largest herbivores out there, they have no predators, and out compete the smaller animals. Not to mention they tear up the soil reducing growth of plants in a very delicate desert ecosystem. Sadly the horses are to numerous and resources to scares to sustain their populations. Yes there were horses 10,000 years ago that but the native horses at that time like Haringtonhippus francisci were only 4-5 ft tall. The climate and ecosystems were different 10,000 years ago. There were less humans. Rounding up the wild hoses and perhaps spay and neutering are the best feasible solutions to keep some herds at healthy numbers
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Bureau of Land Management, for anyone wondering.
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PFD 1 year ago
It's actually something of a controversy. There are Native historical traditions saying there were horses before the Spanish arrival, and some argue that the conventional history mentioned by the OP is wrong (and a result of erasure of Native American culture). Presumably there's no archaeological evidence to support the Native oral histories, however.
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Bill Underwood 1 year ago
Cortes brought 17 horses to Yucatan, Mexico, in 1519, pre-dating the couple dozen horses abandoned in the vicinity of Mississippi by De Soto by over 20 years. I wrote a book about it: Unbroken, Bill K. Underwood
Jack Burton 1 year ago (edited)
And native americans had quite an instant live story with horses. That's crazy to think about all these people meeting a new animal and then became so close to them.
Bryn 1 year ago
In this day and age, wild and feral are considered the same thing, at least in North America
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#16
The first and last fatalities of building the Hoover Dam were a father and his son. They died on the same day, 14 years apart.
#17
Of the 5 known assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth II, the one that came closest to succeeding was attempted by a 17-year-old New Zealander, who shot at her with a .22 calibre rifle, but missed so badly that nobody even realised shots were fired.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
I know people have a lot of strong opinions on the monarchy but I think QE2 was a boss & was always impressed by her quiet fortitude.
Fynne 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah she was cool, no doubt about that Edit: Yes, I am aware of all the racist and controversial things she did, I didn’t mention those to avoid being downvoted. My point is that she was still pretty cool despite some questionable behavior
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Jennik 1 year ago
The guy who shot at her didn't have a high enough vantage point to take proper aim, nor was his rifle powerful enough for the distance anyway. He was obviously someone with issues - he told the police he was in charge of an armed group, which was completely delusional. He went on to commit several armed robberies plus a murder and later committed suicide while in prison.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
I like the one when a man (who didnt want to kill her) got into her bedroom and had a chat before arrested.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago (edited)
People have tried to assassinate the Queen of England?? Five times??
Mabelbabel 1 year ago
There was one attempt at the Changing of the Guard ceremony in 1981. The Queen was leading the procession riding side-saddle when 6 shots were fired (it turned out to be a starter pistol). Her horse was startled, but she got him settled. Prince Phillip was riding just behind her, and he rode up to check on her, but she told him to go back to his position and just carried on with the procession. One of the guards was the first person to reach the gunman-people think the guardsmen are just ceremonial, but they're highly trained active soldiers.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I'm anti-monarchy, but not to the extent I'd back an assassination attempt.
Jeffrey Diehl 1 year ago
Fun fact: QE2 served in her country's military longer than Donald Trump, his children, and their in-laws combined.
#18
That due to very poor consumer reviews and negative media attention in 2014, Haribo discontinued sugar free gummy bears. The gummy bears contained maltitol, a sugar alcohol that is not fully digestible and that ferments in the gut. It can cause increased flatulence, loose stools, and diarrhea.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Like, sobbing on your bed, rolling around, can't breathe comedy gold.
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María Hermida 1 year ago
To be honest, there was a warning on the bag. You are not supposed to eat more than a certain number, and the people who had "problems" had eaten the whole bag.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
Also entertaining, chips that contained olestra warned "may cause a**l leakage." The chips were Doritos called WOW! Apt.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
OMG, BP just censored a word used on bags of chips for children! It was meant to say a. . .n. . . . . .a. . . .l. Lordy BP, if it's ok on Doritos, it's ok for BP.
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Just Another Girl 1 year ago
https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-comments-sugarfree-haribo-gummies/
InfiniteZeek 1 year ago
Would you kindly provide a link to said reviews for a fellow panda?
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Featherytoad 1 year ago
I love salted peanuts and raisins mixed together, like a trail mix. I had the same experience. I filled up a whole cereal bowl full of this mix and just ate them with a spoon. I didn't even need dinner, that's how much I ate. About 11 p.m., it was on. I think it's the fatty oils.
#19
North American porcupines love salt and are known to eat backpackers’ road salt-covered boots left outside tents.
Kat 1 year ago
When I first read that all I saw was “North American porcupines love salt and eat backpackers” lol had to read it twice 😂
Clown fish 1 year ago
Lol I read that to. Was like oh ok salty backpackers shouldn't go near porcupine
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I accidentally left food in a bag outside my tent when I was on a camp in high school. We had been warned to keep food in the tent, but I didn't realise I still had scroggin in there. Woke up in the middle of the nigh to a wombat sitting against the side of the tent, on top of me, trying to get to the food. I had to get my tentmate and a teacher to try and scare it away!
Holly Marley 1 year ago
They will also eat the rubber hoses in cars and snowmobiles because the rubber smells and and tastes salty to them. In Alaska, you have to watch out for the hungry porcupines trying to ruin your ride.
Matthew Currie 1 year ago
Many years ago I had a garage with no door. They got in and chewed on the undercoating and tires of my car. As a snack they occasionally took bites of my bicycle tires, my wheelbarrow, and the garage itself. Nasty critters!
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I always put my boots in a grocery bag and brought them inside the tent. Didn't have to worry about debris inside or destruction of boots outside.
Mickie Shea 1 year ago
When that happens just grab “Porcy’s tail and sling him away.Be very quick.
Christel Nellemann 1 year ago
I saw charlie chaplin cooking and eating his boots in that old movie 😁
#20
Over 98% of Korean households have a special kimchi fridge
Sexual Harassment Panda 1 year ago
According to Google: They're specially designed to keep different kinds of kimchi at optimal temperatures and humidities without mixing their unique flavors and odors.
Amanda Rose 1 year ago
Oh no. Note to self: don't show this to dad. My dad makes his own kimchi and I can guarantee that he would ask for this for Christmas if we had the room for it.
SCamp 1 year ago (edited)
Totally get this. We always have a plastic jar of kimchi in the fridge but you have to keep the lid on properly. Just got back from overseas to find the lid not properly screwed on. Stinks out the whole fridge. I mean, I love kimchi, but I don’t want the leftover chocolate cake smelling like it
A Nelson 1 year ago
My dad and his wife, she's Korean and yes they have a separate fridge. It's quite pungent and will over take every thing. But even neater is that the kimichi that she makes has been in her family for generations!
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Maybe they do but just don’t have this fridge in their house?
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
I just made my first ever batch of kimchi, so if it turns out I like it....
Rahb in Oz 1 year ago
I have a special bin just for kimchi. It is kept outside for obvious reasons, although the neighbours do not approve.
#21
Grasshopper are nearly 200 million years older than grass.
Birgit Sommer 1 year ago
Maybe back then the ground was covered in moss or another carpet plant. I tried googling it but found no answer. So I asked ChatGTP: The statement "grasshoppers are older than grass" refers to the evolutionary timeline. Grasshoppers belong to the order Orthoptera, and their ancestors likely existed before the evolution of true grasses. The first grasses appeared during the Late Cretaceous period, around 66 million years ago. Before the emergence of grasses, the environment was dominated by different types of vegetation. The early ancestors of grasshoppers would have fed on a variety of plants and vegetation that were present in their habitats at that time. This could include non-grass plants, ferns, and other vegetation that existed before the widespread establishment of grasslands. It's important to note that the term "grasshopper" is used to refer to a group of insects, and their evolutionary history spans a long period during which the Earth's flora and fauna underwent significant
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
I find it fascinating how recently evolved grass is. Prior to the evolution of grass, what's now grasslands would be largely desert, because grass chiefly grows where other plants don't because it's too dry or the growing season is too short. Yet while there are indications early grasses may have evolved 120 million years ago, they didn't become widespread until only 40 million years ago. To put in perspective, dinosaurs lived between 230 million and 65 million years ago (not counting birds).
Anthony Nizza 1 year ago
Me either. Growing up we heard them all summer. And tree frogs in the spring and crickets starting about August. I hear none of those now. It's sad.
Load More Replies... Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
Note some areas call grasshoppers locusts and some areas call cicadas locusts so the word locust is a bit ambiguous.
#22
That WHAM-O's Slip N' Slide is not supposed to be used by persons over the age of 12. There have been rare instances (and lawsuits) of adults breaking their necks while using it and in 1993, the U.S. CPSC warned that the slide might cause permanent spinal cord injury to teens and adults.
Sexual Harassment Panda 1 year ago (edited)
Gee, who would have thought throwing yourself on the ground at a dead run could cause spinal cord and neck injuries? 🤔
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Well, if you've ever seen American football you know how little we care for our spines.
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The other-other David Wong 1 year ago
I used one in my 30’s and pulled some stomach muscles. It was totally my fault.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Nowadays they come with a raft you use to slide on instead of just your body.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
That's good, now the rocks in the yard won't tear your a*s up
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago (edited)
I knew somebody who did this. He was about 25 at the time. He broke his neck and became a quadriplegic.
TheNewJenBrady 1 year ago
I broke my wrist on a slip n slide when I was in my 20's. It was while I was at work. Unusual workers comp claim lol
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
There's a reason waterslide parks (reputable ones, anyway) say "FEET FIRST ONLY".
#23
That famed scientist George Washington Carver had a respiratory infection in his youth which him with an unusually high pitched voice that “startled all who met him.”
MontanaMariner 1 year ago
Incredible guy. Invented and patented several things that we us today. The most popular being peanut butter.
Robin Roper 1 year ago
Carver only developed a version of peanut butter. The development of Peanut Butter is credited to the Incas. I live in NC, USA, where a lot of peanuts are grown and this unimportant peanut fact I learned many years ago has stuck.
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David 1 year ago
he also was born a slave and his owner traded him as a child for a horse to a man who taught carver how to read and do math, essentially a sale for a horse led to one of the greatest inventors
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
Kind of, but slavery was outlawed shortly after he was born. He was actually kidnapped and his ransom was paid by a $300 race horse by Moses Carver, who raised him and taught him how to read and write.
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The man invented a type of plastic out of SOYBEANS. A bunch of cars were made that contained this type of plastic. Seriously, why are we not using more soybean plastic today? No petroleum in them, but in fairness, some are not biodegradable. Here's an article about Ford's "soybean car" that mentions George Washington Carver NOT ONE TIME: https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/soy-bean-car/ And here's an article that does explain Carver's role: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean_car
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago (edited)
I had to write an essay about him last year, he was an amazing guy and developed hundreds of inventions so that foods like peanuts didn't get wasted, he was the first African American to get a bachelor of science degree, showed the benefits of crop rotations, and worked with former slaves in south to help them get back on their feet and showed people how to run their own commercial farming business. Super awesome guy.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
So was Lincoln’s. He used that high pitch to reach the outer edges of crowds when he spoke in public.
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Richard Graham 1 year ago
Here is his voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECbxllNsDmc&ab_channel=Children%27sMediaArchive
#24
That camouflage clothing is illegal for civilians in several countries.
Edward Loopyderm 1 year ago
It's illegal here in Barbados, even if it's a pink and white bikini with a "disruptive pattern". Hoping they change that soon as the Minister responsible has acknowledged that the law as written is ridiculous.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I was in the US Air Force at the time we switched from the solid green to the camouflage uniform. When we started wearing the new uniforms, we were no longer allowed to wear camouflage civilian clothing on base.
Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
In the USA it amuses me that people swagger around in camouflage when they have no real business being in it. They’re not military, they’re not hunters—what are they wearing it for, to hide from their spouses? Their grandmas? “You can’t see me, grandma, so you can’t feed me that ribbon candy!”
#25
Until 2001 workers at Disneyland had to wear "communal underwear" while in character because normal undies would bunch up and become visible. After several outbreaks of pubic lice, the performers got the Teamsters Union involved and Disney finally agreed to employees wearing their own underpants.
Emma B B 1 year ago
I think I would have preferred to go commando rather than wear 'communal under crackers'!
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Aparently they checked socks and undies etc which is even more disturbing
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Red Panda 1 year ago
Anyone else wondering which Disney character caused the crabs outbreak? 🤔
Barong 1 year ago
Ariel, the little mermaid. And it was probably Sebastian down there.
Load More Replies... Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
This is so on par for Disney *said snidely while watching Lilo & Stitch for the 64763th time*
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
The f**k? Why wouldn't you just issue one or two private pairs of underwear in that style to each relevant performer?
Raisin_Girl 1 year ago (edited)
Apparently they were expected to wear their own underwear UNDER the communal garments, but no one got that memo.
Victoria 1 year ago
That suit is probably hot enough already without adding more clothing layers, I'm guessing.
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Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
Ya know, proper laundry, bleach, and an autoclave would make them good as new.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
Washed or not, I don't even wear my own undies if they accidentally get placed in a family member's clean pile and worn by them. They can keep those undies when that happens.
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From the 1950s to 1970s, attempts were made at running bus services between London and India. The trip took about 50 days, cost about $100, and buses are said to have included private bunks and even a kitchen.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
We went on a school trip from North Yorkshire to Brno in the Czech Republic in the mid-90s. Also a pretty brutal experience, especially the rough-as-a-badger's a*s overnight North Sea ferry crossing. I was the only one who wasn't throwing up, so I had to look after the rest of the group, including the teachers. Then it was on to the bus again to drive all the way across Europe to be welcome in the early morning light with people bearing vodka and pickled peppers (for some reason). All I can say is we were bonded for life after that.
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Whitney Keen 1 year ago
Took a bus across the US. Was 3 days and 3 nights. Not sure i could do it again
J. Maxx 1 year ago
Yep. I took a NASTY Greyhound from Cali to floriduh. Took three days and it was gross. S****y diapers rolling around the bus with other garbage, nasty folks blowing-up the bathroom, throw-up in the aisle. And on top of it, halfway through, we had to wait over an hour at a gross bus terminal cause the next driver was at home and would not come to do his part of the route until his basketball game was over! Got to floriduh with edema in both damn legs.
Load More Replies... Jack Burton 1 year ago
One of my worst bus trip was from Nice to Madrid, i can't even imagine a long trip like this.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I guess this became a lot easier once the channel tunnel was built.
Jay Cee 1 year ago
1964 we travelled from London to San Sebastian in Spain - about 600 mile in a straight line. We went coach from London Victoria to Lydd Airport in Kent. flew to Middlekerke airport in Belgium, coach to Ostend, coach to Blois in France where we stayed overnight, back on the coach next day down to Bordeaux where we had lunch. Picked up a Spanish coach which got us into San Sebastian early evening of the second day.
#27
The Old London Bridge was crowded with houses and shops, some of them reaching up to 6 storeys in height.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
The reason being was tax. You could avoid this tax if the building was on a bridge over water.
Bobby 1 year ago
And to my fellow Americans who have an image in their head of the London Bridge, that's probably actually the tower bridge. At least that was the case for me and my friends when we were in London and saw it
Jay Cee 1 year ago
In all of my 73 years living in London I've only ever seen Tower Bridge up once - been caught in the traffic jams though. The one time I DID see it was from London Bridge. Masses of people stood. watched and took photos. When it closed down and people started to disperse one tiny Japanese lady arrived and started to take photos, just too late. . . . timing is everything!
Load More Replies... Victoria 1 year ago
It fell down before I could take a picture. So I made a famous nursery rhyme out of it...
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muntherqia 1 year ago
Google Old London bridge buildings and there are lots of different pictures. Can't insert.
PFD 1 year ago
Different bridge. Yes, that's the London Bridge before the current one, but it's a later one than the medieval one that had buildings on it.
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Americans have a distinctive lean and it’s one of the first things the CIA trains operatives to fix.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
And we’re poised to go full fascist next year
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Jenn Smith 1 year ago
Hence, the charming phrase in American workplaces: " if you have time to lean, you have time to clean" We probably lean so much because our bodies hurt. Y'all know USA gives zero f***s about health and well being for regular citizens
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Especially when you work somewhere that you're not allowed to sit down for your entire shift. When I worked at Petsmart I was constantly leaning on walls or shelves or whatever I could find to take the pressure off my feet!
Load More Replies... Babs Ishkabibble 1 year ago
A lean? Does that mean a physical trait or a predilection for something? Sheesh.
David MacLuna 1 year ago
I googled it, and it's not "a distinctive lean", but the tendency to lean on things when standing still - like leaning against a doorframe ora counter.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
I read an article about that, one of the things was that americans tend to have one leg forward when leaning on things while europeans tend to have both feet next to each other
Sarajpez 1 year ago (edited)
I did too, and just got a bunch of results on purple drank.
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European here, can you help me understand this "lean" information ? Do americans dont stand still ?
Panda Kicki 1 year ago (edited)
If they stand still they lean on every possible surface. It Is fun picking out US tourists that way. Not sure why they do it but it is SO common.
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#29
That there are over two dozen universities in the U.S. that have their own nuclear reactors.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
I thought some of these were football teams with "University" in their names
Lotekguy 1 year ago
You're being narrow minded. Don't forget about basketball.
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ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Yup! Particularly nuclear stress testing in EP or interventional cardiology, which is how I learned of their prevalence. (My hubby is an EP doc)
Load More Replies... Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
I would expect a University with "nuclear" in the name to have nuclear power but the others are a real surprise!
Halestorm 1 year ago
I’m an NCSU student! NCSU was apparently the first college to even have a reactor, and that reactor is actually the reason that the nuclear engineering majors aren’t on the same campus as all the other engineering majors. The reactor is right in the middle of campus (a class of mine is actually in the building), and when NCSU grew, and they decided to move the engineers to a separate campus, they decided (probably wisely) that moving the reactor wasn’t a good plan. It’s kinda cool to be this close to one, though!
David Paterson 1 year ago
I had no idea! And I know a bit about nuclear reactors. I wonder how many universities in Europe have their own nuclear reactor? At least six.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Don't know about others, but in Finland there was one in Espoo, but it was decommissioned because it was so outdated. Lappeenranta is in the process of getting a new one though.
Load More Replies... CanadianDimes 1 year ago
The university of Alberta in Edmonton has one. That’s the only Canadian one I know of (I’m sure some of the other big ones must as well)
2bwhctmvgn 1 year ago
Me, too. The NCSU reactor is in the middle of the most populated area of the old part of campus, within a block or so of the main retail/restaurant area that students use.
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#30
That the world’s largest kidney stone, removed from a patient in Sri Lanka, weighed 1.67 lbs (757.5g) and broke 2 world records.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
As an E.R nurse for 18 years i have taken care of kidney stone pain each day of my career. And usually it's the size of a sand microscopic piece. And people were having a very bad time.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
It broke two world records; heaviest kidney stone and most painful pee.
#31
That Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth. Saturn’s moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to Cassini data.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
Surprised B.P., ExxonMobil & Nestlé haven't found a way to monetize this. I'm sure they're working on it.
SCP 4666 1 year ago
Titan be like: You want my carbs? Come and get'em - but I`m too far awaahaay 🤪
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Oil is basically nothing more than carbon that become liquid under pressure - it's possible to create synthetic oil, but that requires more energy than the oil itself would provide. It's only "fossil" fuel because the carbon here on Earth came from animals
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Lotekguy 1 year ago
They'll lobby for NASA to build a flexible pipeline that accounts for rotation factors.
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Caroline Driver 1 year ago
But it would probably cost more in fuel to get there and back with a load, lol!
#32
There's a rare disorder called Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, turning people's skin into tree-like bark with wart growths due to HPV. Also known as "Tree Man Illness," the disorder is inherited when an individual inherits one copy, from each parent, of a defective gene.
María Hermida 1 year ago
Why aren't they operated on BEFORE the things become huge? I saw about a man from India who had these growths in his hands and feet, huge ones, and the operation took like twelve hours or so. Instead of waiting, why don't doctors operate on these people earlier? Is there a medical reason or it's due to lack of a proper health system, hospitals, etc?
Happy Homemaker 1 year ago
Doctors did multiple surgeries on one Palestinian man. The growths come back over time. Doctors expect that in the future they will have to remove more growths that will end up returning. They show up on your chest, neck, face, hands and feet. It’s been discovered that if they can remove the root, they could get rid of the entire thing. https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/what-is-human-tree-disease
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Astro 1 year ago
I was curious too so I googled it: “Amputation is a nonstarter that would create more problems," Chernofsky said, explaining that if the patient's hands were cut off, the patient would likely continue to have severe pain from nerves severed in the amputation process. And the skin condition would continue to affect the rest of a patient's body, he said.
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#33
That the Beijing Weather Modification Office were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics were free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.
Pyla 1 year ago
Donald Sutherland is in the video. She was ahead of trance with that song
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
The technology does work. It's been banned or discontinued in several countries. In at least one case due to complaints about flooding.
Pond Lady 1 year ago
If this science exists why do we have areas in severe drought and others with floods?? Why can't clouds be forced to rain over forest fires?
2x4b523p 1 year ago (edited)
We can make existing clouds rain by shooting silver iodide rods into them, we don’t have technology to create clouds out of thin air or change their trajectory.
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#34
Alexander Hamilton was the first major American politician publicly involved in a sex scandal. He had an affair with 23-year-old Maria Reynolds, whose husband was aware of the infidelity and likely orchestrated the whole thing to regularly extort blackmail money from Hamilton.
Bookworm (she/her) 1 year ago
Have you ever seen somebody ruin their own life?
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Birgit Sommer 1 year ago (edited)
And now the US is about to vote in a convicted sex offender as a president for the second time. Things have changed in terrifying ways.
barn owls ️ 1 year ago
the reynolds pamphlet. have your read this? alexander hamilton had a torrid affair and he wrote it down right there! HIGHLIGHTS!
3 Trash Pandas (She/They) 1 year ago
“The charge against me is a connection with one James reynolds, for purposes of improper speculation. My real crime is an amorous connection with his wife, for a considerable time, with his knowing consent” DAMN
Load More Replies... 3 Trash Pandas (She/They) 1 year ago
No! No! Say no to this! (I wish I could say that was the last time, I said that last time, it became a pastime. A month into this endeavor I received a letter from a Mr. James Reynolds, even better. It said: “dear sir I hope this letter find in good health and in a prosperous position to put wealth in the pockets of people like me down on their luck, you see that was my wife you decided to” fuuuuu-)
Gold Medal? 🥇 🤞🤞 1 year ago
How do I say no to this? I don’t wanna say no to this. Poor Eliza.
#35
That when Charles Guiteau bought the gun he would use to assassinate President Garfield, he chose one with a more expensive ivory handle, thinking it would look better in a museum. Though the gun was given to the Smithsonian, it has since been lost.
3 Otters 🦦 1 year ago
He and all those like home should have their name list and just be known as twenty alpha numeric identifiers. So they get no notoriety or remembrance.
MarieTDr 1 year ago
I notice my local newspaper doesn't give shooters more than necessary publicity. No names, etc.
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GrowingThruConcrete 1 year ago
The guys put it in a bank security box in Galveston until they stopped paying for the storage in around 2014. I have no idea what happened to it after that.
Janet Ryan 1 year ago
Y’all have to see the Nathan hale presentation of his story it’s hilarious
#36
That China, by a large margin, consumes the most salt per citizen.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Leave your boots out and a camera and find out 😝
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David 1 year ago
what do you think the MS in MSG stands for? have you seen how much real chinese food uses of that stuff. That is a ton of sodium
Andrew 1 year ago
China's lifespan is pretty long because the elderly are respected, they eat lots of vegetables, and people do lots of physical activity. But salt consumption is definitely lowering it. My extended family is Chinese and they consume a scary amount of sodium. . . no wonder they all had eye bags, high blood pressure, and were prone to bone injuries
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
Does this include salt used in industrial processing (food and non food) and to melt road ice?
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
And, over the past 30 years, hypertension has substantially increased. At least a quarter of all Chinese adults are effected.
MontanaMariner 1 year ago
If actual Chinese food is anything like America Chinese food, that's alot of salt.
#37
Sigmund Freud dissected hundreds of eels in search of the male sex organs. He had to concede failure in his first major published research paper, and turned to other issues in frustration.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 1 year ago
This guy cared waaay too much about genitals.
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Zelda Sterling 1 year ago
I have a master's degree in psychology. I have never heard any psychology professor refer to him as a hero. He is lectured about in a historical sense, but nothing really outside of that.
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David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
According to https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/news/entry/sigmund-and-his-eels Freud found his first male European eel in dissection number 400. The first 399 dissections were all females.
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robin aldrich 1 year ago
And by other issues, you mean deciding that all women's problems were a result of penis envy.
#38
That Tex-Mex has surpassed Italian as the most popular food genre in the United States.
Keil Oberlander 1 year ago
Ironic granted the xenophobia of immigrants either from Mexico or coming through Mexico. “Love their food! Hate them.”
HurlWurk 1 year ago
To be fair, tex mex doesn't taste like any real Mexican food I have ever had
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Bananaramamama 1 year ago
I love the xenophobic comments...most Americans of my generation don't oppose immigrants and in fact the "melting pot" was a strong source of pride. However immigration and illegal immigration are different. It's also amazing how outsiders hear about a small sect of radicals battling over the Texas border get bent when I recall seeing dead children of migrant boats washed up on European beaches.
Lady Gypsy Rain 1 year ago
I think it's interesting to look at more regional data over that of the country as a whole. So many large and heavily populated areas really skew the curve on this. I also love to see how the areas that heavily prefer ethnically diverse foods are also some of the most racist and xenophobic areas of the country. Revealing so much hypocrisy in attitudes towards other cultures. These areas don't seem to have any issue hiring these other ethnic people for things like house keeping, food preparation, kid watching (and practically to the point of parenting) and yard work, not to mention farming and day laboring. But God forbid we actually allow them to step foot on American soil. Call hypocrisy and racism/sexism/xenophobia out. (and the worst numbers I've ever seen was while living in and all over the bible belt as I still do, Go figure)
Mickie Shea 1 year ago
That’s cause Tex-Mex tastes better, Have never, ever, heard of Italian fast food.
Calvin Girvin 1 year ago
We have 7 restruants in my town (in West Texas) and six of them are Tex-Mex.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
makes sense because the chef hat is on the upper half of America but Mexico and Texas are being shown. I don't think it was intentional. Also you guys do realize that the editors don't make the pictures, right? How many free pictures of America in a chef hat do you really think are on the internet?
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About Kitty Fisher, who was famous for simply for being famous. In one incident, she fell off her horse while riding and exposed herself. Broadsheets & prints mocked her, but she seized the attention for herself by having her portrait painted by England's most prominent painter.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
The entire Kardashian/Jenner Klan have mastered this.
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Birgit Sommer 1 year ago
Negative attention is attention too if you juice it right. Just look at today's politicians.
Caroline Driver 1 year ago
And suddenly Lucy Locket lost her pocket makes some kind of sense. But now I'm wondering who Lucy Locket was?
Mickie Shea 1 year ago
I don’t think anyone can be famous for just being famous. Silly, never happen in todays world.
#40
That the Rambo lunchbox by Thermos in 1985 marked the end of the metal lunchbox era. Manufacturers switched to making lunchboxes with plastic because it was cheaper and because a group of mothers in Florida complained that metal lunchboxes were being used by children as weapons.
Phoenix 1 year ago
Of course the children using lunchboxes as weapons were in Florida.
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Barong 1 year ago
You can still get metal ones. My son had a KISS metal lunch box in 1st grade which was a couple years ago. It was truly Metal.
Lauren S 1 year ago (edited)
My son has a Pokémon one. It’s actually a collector’s box but we use it as a lunch box. It never even occurred to me about a potential weapon. But I can say it took some doing to have my little guy stop swinging his metal water bottle around. He wasn’t ever trying to hit any one of course, but he has absolutely nailed me before by accident. Just little kid playful but oblivious. He’s really a sweet boy.
Load More Replies... Maisey Myles 1 year ago
Especially in Florida. Even more dangerous if it has a banned book in it
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Veggie Sticks 1 year ago
my problem with metal lunch boxes was always that i would drop them and they would eventually dent so much that they wouldn't close
Laura Mortensen 1 year ago
I did get hit over the eyebrow in elementary school by a metal lunchbox and had to get stitches, so it did happen.
Jennik 1 year ago
Is this an American thing? Going to school in NZ in the seventies we all had plastic lunchboxes. Most had a push-down clip lid and had one large compartment for your sandwich and two smaller ones for a biscuit and a piece of fruit. They came in lots of colours so all the kids in a family could have their own special coloured lunchbox.
My O My 1 year ago
I jealous! German school in the 90s we had the cheap plastic "all in one". That way your salami sandwich tastes like apple which taste like your sandwich and all with crumbs of your now soggy crackers - not to forget the slight plasticy aroma on everything
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Kevin Hickey 1 year ago
Florida Logic: If ya give them kids guns, they'll stop usin the lunchboxes as weapons!! Yee hah!!
#41
About "Cool Japan", a Japanese government initiative since 2010 that aims to promote Japan's attractiveness abroad. It does this by focusing on the aspects of Japanese culture that non-Japanese people find "cool" such as anime, games, cuisine etc.
Delta Dawn 1 year ago
I’m just saying why don’t we have vending machines for everything yet??? Let’s import that stat.
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
Do we really need vending machines for used girl's underwear, because Japan has that.
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Miki 1 year ago
Exactly. They are VERY nice to foreigners, but this country if f****d up internally.
Load More Replies... Dan Flo 1 year ago
They already have ninjas. Why do they need to rubb it in that they have so many other cool stuff? What are we Swedes suppoused to compeete with apart from vikings? IKEA and ABBA? 😔
Eevi 1 year ago
Hey. You guys also robbed us last year at Eurovision, so... :'D #bitterfinnhere
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I'd love a kimono. I know the Japanese are usually flattered when gaijin wear kimono, so I wouldn't worry about cultural appropriation. I'm only worried that the damn things are so expensive!
BrownTabby 1 year ago
Japanese people *in Japan* are flattered. Japanese-Americans, etc. point out the irony of the fact that when white people wear a kimono it’s considered cool but when Japanese-Americans do it they get told “you’re in America, dress American!”
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 1 year ago
My Filipino husband disagrees. If I, a Jew, can live in Germany, he can find Japan cool.
Load More Replies... PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
They won me over at 3 😂 the random Japanese people in restaurants who’d look after me while dad cooked left a hard imprint
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
The Japanese flag is basically a pie chart showing how much of Japan is Japan.
#42
That Otto Von Bismarck managed a posthumous snub of Wilhelm II, by having his own sarcophagus inscribed with the words, “A loyal German servant of Emperor Wilhelm I”.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Good man, he introduced social insurances to the german state in 1883 and despite political-left believe was against german colonies in Africa
Chrissie Anit 1 year ago
Bismarck was by no means just "a good man". He has to be seen in an ambiguous light at best. Yes, he united Germany - but only after three wars carefully provoked by him. Yes, he introduces the social security system - but only to quell workers' protests against anti-socialist measures. Yes, he was against colonies for Germany - but he was OK with Germans taking colonies as "protectorates". He was not against colonies because he thought they were inhumane, but because they would be detrimental to Germany's stability. He was NOT political-left, he was conservative, a monarchist and anti-democratic and persecuted people when they were, in his eyes, enemies of the state. In his eyes = Social Democrats, the Catholics etc. He was anti-Semitic.
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Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
Bismarck was a smart smart guy... Basically did what he wanted despite the Emperor's objections and was so successful in his schemes and plans that even his rivals were forced to applaud his efforts...
Michael Largey 1 year ago
You rarely say good things about the guy who fired you - either before death or after.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
The Bismarck Mausoleum on the edge of the Sachsenwald near Hamburg is a lovely place to be buried.
#43
During his Flight School basketball camp in 2016, Michael Jordan was challenged by Chris Paul to a shooting drill where if Jordan missed three shots, the campers would all receive free Air Jordans. Jordan accepted and made every shot.
Emma B B 1 year ago
He seems like a pretty decent guy, so I suspect they all got Jordan's anyway...
MR 1 year ago
He's... not really known for being a "decent guy." I don't think he's evil, per se, but once he got his he hasn't exactly looked back to make sure others got chances to follow.
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
MJ's donations amount all along his life is insane. But don't challenge him about getting buckets !!! There is the video on YT. Childs hope he will miss but even old MJ is quite a great shooter.
Jill Bussey 1 year ago
It's nice to see a photo of Michael Jordan that focuses on his smile and not his height.
#44
The psychiatrist Henry Cotton would sometimes extract all of a patient's teeth as he believed infected teeth to be the cause of psychiatric disorders. If that didn't work, he'd remove testicles, ovaries, gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, cervixes and colons.
Victoria 1 year ago
I remember that the dude who advocated frontol lobotomy as a cure-all for all kinds of psychiatric illness got a Nobel Prize.
Marie Clear 1 year ago
He brought his "patients" on a world tour to show how being lobotomized made formerly difficult patients much calmer. Then one of them shot him.
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Rivka Ostroff 1 year ago
He removed some of his own teeth and much or all of the teeth of his wife and children (at least one of them committed suicide)
Michael Largey 1 year ago
All of his patients would have been helped much more by removing Henry Cotton.
Rivka Ostroff 1 year ago
He would also remove uninfected teeth as a preventative measure. He did this to his own family
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#45
That pro bowling balls have specially shaped "weight blocks" inside them to change how the ball curves.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago (edited)
I worked at a bowling alley in high school and college. The bowling ball reps, Fab, Columbia, etc, would come in and show us how to drill the balls. We had a full pro shop setup, hand measuring jig, real nice. Basically, you can make the ball custom to the swing of the customer by offsetting the finger, thumb, and side weights to make the ball do exactly what the customer wants it to do, when he wants it to do it on the lane. I was really cool when you drilled it perfect. We kept notes on every one we did for future use.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
I guess because all the pro bowlers use similar balls. It's not as if an amateur would enter a pro event.
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That among all civilian jobs in in the US, workers spend on average more than 60% of their workday standing.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Same, hospitality 🍺 🍲 the toilet, if I can make it, if I’m not busy is the most luxurious 3 mins of my life 😂
Load More Replies... Jenn Smith 1 year ago
That American " lean"..been worked so hard and long even standing is hard and painful
Dan Flo 1 year ago
I do that out of choice as an engineer, because sitting too much makes my back hurt. Just make sure to have a good surface to stand on, or have good shoes. And keep moving, because your body isnt designed to be still.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Not if you have bad feet/flat feet. No matter what I tried nothing really worked that well for me. I have flat feet.
Load More Replies... Jerry Diplo 1 year ago
Am I the only one who can’t figure out which profession’s workers are the subject of this post? Or are “workers” intended to be a category of civilian job holders that I’m just missing?
Mickie Shea 1 year ago
Now being a retired kind of guy, I spend a good 60% sitting 30% napping and 10% looking for treats.
#47
The NASA plans to decomission the ISS by 2031, via controlled re-entry on the pacific ocean.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
Not if you fish it out of the ocean and relaunch it (and yourself!) into space
Load More Replies... Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
I wonder how toxic some of the stuff is and how much of a fish kill they expect.
Verena 1 year ago
Most likely they will try to dump it in this special remote spot in the ocean. Whatever lives there will get pretty annoyed.
Load More Replies... Russell Bowman 1 year ago
Yeah, that worked so well with SkyLab ... ended up in the Australia outback due to a four-percent calculation error. And that was only 78 thousand Kilos
Adrian 1 year ago
Yeah, with the ISS it would make more sense to deorbit in sections. NASA already screwed up once before with metric v imperial units. It would be a bummer if it landed in NYC or LA.
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Why not give it to the space aliens? They could use it as a vacation cabin.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
That is still being debated. They may, instead, boost it up into the junkyard region and abandon it there.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
Is it because it is becoming dated and would be easier to scrap the old completely and put a new one up there?
Joshua David 10 months ago (edited)
I just qiit working somewhere after a year of 10 hour days with 0 lunch or brakes amd has also forgot to do payroll 5 times, then venmo'ing one week under the table to keep it off the next pay period due to overtime avoidance. Us here. Yes the labor board has been notified. Hopefully the cheeto doesn't dissolve that department too.
#48
That "The Iodine State" was South Carolina's nickname in the 1930s and even on license plates, in an effort to promote the state's vegetables as having more healthy iodine than other other state's vegetables.
UndertaleLover (She/Her) 1 year ago
Durant Ashmore. He doesn't have much to do with this, he just wrote an article about why South Carolina was called the Iodine state. (ghttps://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2017/03/06/iodine-state/98800944/)
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Delta Dawn 1 year ago
I mean that’s actually potentially healthy, unlike most everything else South Carolina is known for
#49
George Washington prevented a military coup over unpaid back wages by putting on a pair of glasses to read a letter from Congress, explaining he was "almost blind in the service of my country.” Moved to tears, his officers compromised.
Niki A 1 year ago
Actually, there are several accounts corroborating this. It was done gently and calmly because he wanted to guilt-trip them, not cause an argument. The idea was to remind them that the soldiers would rebel and to remind them of everyone's contribution.
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Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
The US has a history of not paying it's soldiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army https://nypost.com/2024/01/10/news/va-ripped-for-reimbursing-migrant-treatment-as-veterans-wait/ https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/veteran-needs-vs-illegal-alien-costs
Janine Hunt-Jackson 1 year ago
Yup, this is true. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newburgh_Conspiracy
#50
Former NBA Star Dwight Howard Ate 5,500 Calories in Candy Every Day for a Decade. Howard was consuming the amount of sugar equivalent to 24 chocolate bars every day.
FreeDragon 1 year ago
BP, What's With All The Capitals? Are we just copy/pasting stuff without editing now?
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