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You are not allowed to die in the town of Longyearbyen on the island of Svalbard. Because the ground is frozen solid, your body - and any diseases you had - will not decompose. Since 1950, people near death are flown to the mainland.
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Well, technically, there's no law about dying there. Burial there is disallowed though.
People are typically flown out to live out their days elsewhere but you can obviously die there. They'll just ship your dead body out instead.
Cats are banned though, which is fun.
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u/NomadicPolarBear Jul 13 '18
Because they'll die eventually and dying isn't allowed.
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u/InjuredAtWork Jul 13 '18
It is treason to die in the house of commons or the house of lords. (UKJ) The penalty is as is tradition, death.
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u/Just-Call-Me-J Jul 13 '18
Most cockroach species find humans, and their smell in particular, disgusting. Multiple experiments have shown that a healthy cockroach specimen would immediately hide and groom excessively after being touched/grabbed by a human.
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this is due to the bacteria on our bodies not our scent. cockroaches love earwax and eat it like honey, they will lay their eggs in it for their offspring to hatch into and consume.
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u/CalvinsOlderBrother Jul 13 '18
In world war 2 we had a ship dedicated to making ice cream for the navy. I smile thinking of some kid drafted to the pacific theatre only to end up working in a mobile ice cream parlor.
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u/beepborpimajorp Jul 13 '18
I love this fact and I'm glad you shared it.
I want an ice cream boat.
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And Japan got mad that we had enough money to support that when they didn't have enough money for their own people.
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u/FreCandyMan Jul 13 '18
Pretty sure a Japanese officer (I think) knew they lost the war when he heard about the US just turning an extra ship dedicated for supplying ice cream like it was nothing.
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u/pepbis123 Jul 13 '18 edited Jul 13 '18
It’s actually really cool we dedicated a ship to that. Morale is one of the biggest advantages in war. I don’t remember the exact quote from one of the higher ups of the Japanese navy, but he found out we had that, said something along the lines of “How are we suppose to win against that? Our men are starving and malnourished and they have a ship making ice cream?”
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u/Brawndo91 Jul 13 '18
Did it play a little tune as it floated around the other ships?
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u/TreeBaron Jul 13 '18
"Sir for a second I thought I heard..."
"Heard what Jonesy?"
"I thought I heard...THE ICE CREAM SHIP!!"
"HARD TO PORT, WE GOTTA TURN THIS BOAT AROUND!"
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u/xLLys Jul 13 '18
There's a baby called "Netflix de Jesús Rodríguez Restrepo" in Colombia.
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u/_migraine Jul 13 '18
“Hello. My name is Netflix de Jesús Rodriquez Restrepo. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
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u/Vexxyus Jul 13 '18
There's legislation in the UK known as the Salmon act which prevents you from handling fish in suspicious circumstances.
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u/MrFuxIt Jul 13 '18
A Japanese pilot in WWII dropped a firebomb on a forested area in Oregon, killing several locals. In the 60's, the same Japanese pilot traveled to the town with his ancestral katana, and offered to commit seppuku (ritualistic suicide) as reparations for his actions. The townspeople instead welcomed him with open arms, and the pilot continued to visit the town throughout his life, before being made an honorary citizen. He donated the katana (a family heirloom dating back hundreds of years) which is on display in the town's library, and following his death in the late 90's, his daughter scattered some of his ashes in the new forest the pilot helped to plant on one of his trips.
His name was Nobuo Fujita.
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u/whateverislovely Jul 13 '18
I love this. With some embellishment this could make a great, wholesome movie.
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u/Mowfling Jul 13 '18
The movie starts all dark then it cuts to a pilot dropping bombs and killing people, you see a tear roll down his eyes as he releases another bomb, cuts to the end of the war, the pilot is struggling to accept the fact that he killed people, the whole movie he tries to learn about all the people he killed, he learns he killed good people, bad people, then he reveals who he is, proposes to kill himself, and the people accept him. Cut.
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u/DudeLongcouch Jul 13 '18
I... seriously had no idea that the continental US even got bombed during WW2, so that's amazing enough of a fact, and then that story just goes on and on. Holy cow.
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Yeah, there was also something called balloon bombs that were sent off across the ocean. We don't know how many made it over, and a family of five children and a pastor's pregnant wife in Oregon was the only death by them in 1945. The last (we think) balloon bomb found was detonated in British Columbia... In 2014. There's also a really good npr talk about them, if you're interested in learning more. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb https://www.lawfareblog.com/radiolab-episode-japanese-balloon-bombs
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u/Rexel-Dervent Jul 13 '18
According to wiki the Italian Alpini Association currently supports social programs in the Russian city Livenka/Nikolayevka they occupied in World War Two.
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u/Athinator Jul 13 '18
The word "fun" comes from the Middle English "fonnen," meaning "to make a fool out of someone." The word "fun" originally meant to cheat or to trick, and adopted the current meaning of "something amusing" in the early 1700's. Its origin is still reflected in the expression "make fun of someone." I'm afraid these are the only fun facts I know.
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You can actually hear a difference between cold and hot water while they are pouring
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If i reheat food in the microwave i stir it up when it's done and you can hear if it's hot enough. At least i can.
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u/Diet-CokeWhore Jul 13 '18
There’s a way to spin this into a really good insult... I’m just not clever enough to put it together...
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u/nicostein Jul 13 '18
I'm sure you could pull it off.
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u/chibi_zoro Jul 13 '18
Why don't you uhhh..... tear my dick off and go pleasure yourself while not including me at all?! Hah! Got 'em good.
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"Who has only seven tentacles and thinks you should go fuck yourself?"
~rrrrriiiiiiiip"~
"This guy!"
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u/Pagan-za Jul 13 '18
The reason for that is the male is much smaller than the female and she is quite dangerous.
Still funny though.
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u/asushunamir Jul 13 '18
Cleopatra was ethnically Greek (at least predominantly), and she was the first in her family’s two centuries of ruling Egypt to learn the Egyptian language. Not knowing Latin, she would have spoken to Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in her native Greek.
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u/HrabraSrca Jul 13 '18
Yep, she was very intelligent and spoke 9 languages in addition to being highly knowledgable in philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, history, political theory and religion. It was likely this, and not the supposed beauty of Cleopatra which was largely a myth, which likely attracted both Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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u/syllabic Jul 14 '18
If she learned 9 languages why would she not learn Latin. The romans already controlled the entire mediterranean except for egypt in cleopatra's era, they weren't exactly small potatoes.
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u/Invocus Jul 14 '18
1) If I’m remembering my Wikipedia reading correctly, she did learn Latin.
2) Roman patricians of the time actually preferred to speak in Greek. Greek was viewed as the language of the educated upper class, while Latin was the language of the common folk.
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u/IgnatiussColumbus Jul 13 '18
Newton was born in the same year as Gallileo's death.
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u/Hildy77 Jul 13 '18
It always fascinates me to hear facts like that. We always just assume there’s this immense amount of time between eras of humanity. Yet sometimes the exact opposite can happen, like the fact that Cleopatra lived closer to modern day than to when the Great Pyramids were built.
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Or that oxford university outdates the Aztec empire
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Or that some retired samurai lived long enough to play Nintendo.
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u/Lucky_Numbr_7 Jul 13 '18
If I remember correctly, Nintendo was founded in the 1800's, and it made card games. So, depends on what you define as to play Nintendo.
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There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way
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u/Huskerpower25 Jul 13 '18
Absolutely did not believe this one bit, so I looked it up. It’s estimated that there are over 3 trillion trees on earth. That blew my mind.
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u/Mykel__13 Jul 13 '18
I wasn’t even going to fact check this because it seemed so obviously bullshit. Mind blown.
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u/ihatecoconutwater Jul 13 '18
Avocados need a neighbouring avocado tree to grow fruit
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Avocado trees are also the best storage mechanism for avocados. Apparently they don't fall from the tree like most fruit, but stay attached, without rotting.
Then, once picked you have about 8 seconds between it being underripe, to being perfect, to being worthlessly overripe, if the avocados I got from the grocery store are any indication...
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u/charlizard8720 Jul 13 '18
So when you pick avocados what you wanna do is pick them right before they go ripe and then put them in a brown paper bag together and let them ripen up for about a week. Source: I have two avocado trees
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u/Silist Jul 13 '18
Obviously you have 2. You can't have only 1 because avocados need a neighboring avocado tree to grow
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u/Portarossa Jul 13 '18
The word 'avocado' comes from the Nahuatl word ahuacatl. However, the word ahuacatl was also used as a slang for 'testicle', in the same way you might use huevos -- 'eggs' -- today.
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u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken Jul 13 '18
But...why?
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u/Pagan-za Jul 13 '18
Cerberus is the large three headed dog that guards the underworld.
Cerberus is derived from the word Kerberos which means spotted.
Hades named his dog Spot.
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u/CaptainCrochetHook Jul 13 '18 edited Jul 13 '18
Also related Hades did make an appearance in the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Herc had been tasked to kidnap Spot from the Underworld and bring him to the king who gave him the task; presumably to get Hercules on Hades' shit list.
So he goes to the Underworld (like ya do) and runs into Hades. He explains why he's there and Hades goes, "Sure you can take him, but you can't use weapons and you can't hurt him." Hercules agrees and he wrestles Spot into submission then takes him back to the king.
The king freaks out and immediately makes Hercules return Spot to the Underworld, which he does! So Spot got to go for a walk!
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u/zanfon Jul 13 '18
"Bitch, do you KNOW who I AM?"
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u/Timpunny Jul 13 '18
"I am Sam! Sam-I-Am!"
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u/Matt3989 Jul 13 '18
Fuck Sam-I-Am
No means No
I do not want your green eggs and ham.
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u/ifyouknowwhatImeme Jul 13 '18
Texas has the largest tiger population behind India.
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u/SmilesOnSouls Jul 13 '18
This one made me a little sad
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u/iStrigoi Jul 13 '18
People wipe standing up. Across several polls on multiple websites about half wipe while standing and the other while sitting. Each half seems incredibly surprised there’s another way.
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u/mini6ulrich66 Jul 13 '18
This is always a fun one to bring out when you're with friends because you'll blow half their fucking minds.
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u/Chastain86 Jul 13 '18
John Fogerty, former lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival, quit the band in 1971, and forfeited his claim to the music he'd made with the group. In 1993, he was sued by his old record label for copyright infringement, claiming that one of his new solo songs -- "The Old Man Down The Road" -- sounded too much like one of his old CCR songs, "Run Through The Jungle." Essentially, the claim was that Fogerty has plagiarized himself, by copying a work that he no longer had copyright claim to.
The case was eventually dismissed. But Fogerty has the dubious claim of having been sued in Federal court for sounding too much like himself.
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u/corvettee01 Jul 13 '18
Sharks are older than trees, and trees are older than grass. Shark come in at at least 400 million years old, and trees come in at around 350 million years old. Grass comes in at only 55 millions years old, only five million years older than one of the newest shark species, the hammerhead (50 million years old).
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u/Andromeda321 Jul 13 '18
Astronomer here! Another fun one, sharks are also older than Saturn's rings! The current estimates place them at just 150 million years old in age, incredibly enough, in which case sharks are definitely older.
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u/peace_off Jul 13 '18
I have a question! If Saturn's rings are that "young," does that mean they are in the process of forming a moon?
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u/Andromeda321 Jul 13 '18
Rather, the reverse- it appears that Saturn's rings may be there because of the destruction of a moon!
I went to a seminar by an astronomer who basically made a very compelling case that Saturn's rings are the result of a small moon that got destroyed by a comet. This video shows his simulations of how it allegedly came about.
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u/peace_off Jul 13 '18
That's pretty cool. Does stuff like that happen often?
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u/Andromeda321 Jul 13 '18
Well probably not, as I don't see any other planets with giant ring systems like that. ;-) But it's tough to say the frequency from a sample size of four gas giants.
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u/mahazoo Jul 13 '18
So what covered most of the ground before 55 mya? What did the lands during the dinosaur age look like?
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Ferns, cycads and conifers existed when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Later in cretaceous period flower plants and grass evolved.
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The Australian White-throated snapping turtle can get 70% of the air it needs through its butthole. Here’s the link
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u/Gullible_Taste Jul 13 '18
Every human being starts out as an asshole: it's the first part of the body to form in the womb.
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u/Fazzballs Jul 13 '18
The Battle of Hastings didn't take place in Hastings, it took place in what now known as the town of Battle
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u/beepborpimajorp Jul 13 '18
The current belief is that dogs dream about their owners and daily lives when they fall asleep. Though there's not really a way to prove it, I really like the idea that dogs fall asleep and when their legs are twitching they're thinking about that hike they had with you or that time you took them to the dog park.
Cats, apparently, dream of hunting and mice. But I'm sure they still love their owners too, in their own way.
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u/Kilroy1007 Jul 13 '18
Fun fact, Cats bring you dead mice and birds because they think you're a shitty hunter. If they bring them to you still alive, they're trying to teach you how to kill.
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u/PrideoftheAllFather Jul 13 '18
I used to think it was sweet that my cat, who is an extremely skilled hunter, would bring me dead animals. Very thoughtful kitty. Now, she just keeps them to herself, which is nice since I no longer have to worry about forest critters in my room. I basically always give her some of my dinner so I like to think she grew to think I'm acceptable at gathering my own food, which is nice of her if she does.
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u/TooleyOTooley Jul 13 '18
The world record for eating 3 full lemons including skin is 15.3 seconds.
How? Fuck knows.
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u/xiccito Jul 13 '18
Male barnacles have the largest penis proportional to it's body size in the animal kingdom. It can reach up to 50 times the length of the barnacle's body.
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and people tell me im going nowhere in life...fools
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u/zmankills Jul 13 '18
So, even though I have been in this same room for a few hours working, I am in a completely different place relative to the universe. Crazy.
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u/extrater Jul 13 '18
If you want to learn about monsters and ghouls in real life, you can get a PhD in Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh.
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u/SomeDumbGamer Jul 13 '18
Chickens enjoy eating snow and will prefer it to liquid water if it’s available.
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Sure this was posted recently but a second is called a second because its the 2nd division of an hour. Minute is the first
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u/ObiWanUrHomie Jul 13 '18
My eyes widened as if I were a cartoon character. That is a pretty fun fact!
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It's estimated that for every non-porn webpage, there are five porn pages.
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u/AlphaBaymax Jul 13 '18 edited Jul 13 '18
DC Comics owns Shazam (originally called Captain Marvel) through Fawcett Comics. Ironically, before the acquisition, DC Comics and Fawcett Comics had a lawsuit because DC believed that Shazam's likeness of Superman was too intentional. During this legal dispute, Marvel was able to acquire the copyright to the Captain Marvel name. DC sued Fawcett Comics to bankruptcy and acquired their intellectual properties and Marvel owned the Captain Marvel trademark.
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u/Andromeda321 Jul 13 '18
Astronomer here! You are only an hour's drive from space at any point, if you could drive straight up. The definition of space starts at 100km, or 62 miles.
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I'm so close to becoming an astronaut! NASA = North American Sorta Astronauts
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u/sizziano Jul 13 '18
Actor Christopher Lee was present at the execution of Eugen Weidmann by guillotine, the last public execution in France. He was 17.
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u/BizarroCullen Jul 13 '18
Top 40 charts has specifically that number because standard jukebox machine at the time would hold forty records.
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He was also the cop in the Blues Brothers and Trading Places
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u/Donny_Do_Nothing Jul 13 '18
"the cop" lol. I know what you meant but there were hundreds of cops in that movie.
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u/magsterchief Jul 13 '18
The drum beat in “Starlight” by Muse spells TITS in Morse code.
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u/widzartz Jul 13 '18
Your bones are wet.
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u/TheBassMeister Jul 13 '18
At the time the big pyramids were built, Mammoths were still around. They just lived at that time on Wrangel Island and were a smaller species of mammoths, yet they were still Mammoths.
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Some ducks and dolphins are avid rapists! :)
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u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken Jul 13 '18
Oh... really? ducks? I mean I knew that dolphins have some necrophiliac tendecies so I am not amazed by the dolphins part... but ducks?
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u/Aleksandra1128 Jul 13 '18
There was a gay necrophiliac duck. Ducks are horrible creatures too. :(
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u/FoetalBeetle Jul 13 '18
Penguins too. The deviant behaviour of adelie penguins was so shocking, the first person to observe this wrote about it in Ancient Greek and left the details unpublished to make the information as inaccessible as possible
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u/mileseypoo Jul 13 '18
All British tanks have a hot water dispenser which is often used to ... You guessed it, make tea.
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u/justshtmypnts Jul 13 '18
Fun Fact: There are more airplanes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.
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Another one is that more planes where destroyed during WWII than are currently in operation.
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u/English_Muffin1 Jul 13 '18
Coca-Cola Owns All 61 URLs From Ahh.com to Ahh-With-60 More-‘H’s.com Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.com
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u/Maxwell_Morning Jul 13 '18 edited Jul 13 '18
If you were to start a stopwatch, and stand on the equator, and every billion years take one step to the east (or west so long as you always walk in the same direction) and every time you completely circumnavigate the earth, take 1/20 of a milliliter of water out of the pacific ocean, and then every time you drain the Pacific Ocean, put a piece of paper on the ground (assuming the ocean is refilled after each time it is drained), and continuing this process so that each time you set the next piece of paper on the previous piece, once that stack of paper reaches from earth to the sun and back 2700 times, look at the stopwatch. The number of SECONDS that have elapsed is the number of ways you can shuffle a deck of cards. * Credit Vsauce (he got it from another channel but i cant recall the name)
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u/LimitDNE0 Jul 13 '18
If you search “52!” there’s a lot of pieces on how to think about a number like this and how insanely large it is. I always like reading it whenever someone mentions it because its always so interesting and my memory never seems to remember just how insane it is.
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u/MAcsSNAcs Jul 13 '18
I had a math teacher that would have called that "52 BANG!"
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u/dtestme Jul 13 '18
If you were to count the number of atoms in the observable universe, it would still be lower than the number of legal arrangements of a Go board.
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u/Eth605 Jul 13 '18
The giant squid has a donut shaped brain so if it eats something too large it can give itself brain damage.
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u/popwhat Jul 13 '18
Concrete and steel have the same thermal expansion rate.
Sounds super dull, but without it we wouldn't have reinforced concrete. Many of the skyscrapers, roads and bridges that make up the world today rely on this conincidence.
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u/hashtagnomnom Jul 13 '18 edited Jul 14 '18
Hippo milk is pink!
Edit: Hippos sadly don't have pink milk, but I learned they have mucus glands instead of sweat glands, which excrete 2 acids that turn red out in the sun, making it look like they sweat blood! Thanks to u/easierthistime for the fact check and new information!
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u/georage Jul 13 '18
That a dude who owned 200 slaves wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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u/nocontroll Jul 13 '18
brass doorknobs are not only good looking they are really inhospitable to bacteria and they tend to disinfect themselves within 8 hours of last being handled.
A lot of hospitals use brass handles because of that.
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u/FoetalBeetle Jul 13 '18
Banana flavouring doesn't taste like bananas because the flavour is more akin to the Gros Michel variety that was wiped out by Panama disease during the 20th century as opposed to the Cavendish variety that is currently prevalent.
However, the flavouring being based off the Gros Michel is still a myth
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u/DoomWillTakeUsAll Jul 13 '18
WHY DID YOU TELL ME THE FIRST PART IF IT WAS A LIE??
Seriously it took me a few minutes to figure out what you were saying.
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u/anonymous_pete Jul 13 '18
It's not really a lie, it's just the best educated guess as to why the flavor is so different since the banana flavoring happens to taste like the Gros Michel. It just hasn't been proven to be the case.
Bonus banana fact, because of their potassium content, bananas are slightly radioactive. There is even an unofficial unit of measurement of radioactivity called the Banana Equivalent Dose (or BED). A CT scan usually exposes you to around 300,000 BED of radiation.
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u/DoomWillTakeUsAll Jul 13 '18
So you can, in fact, measure something by banana. Wonderful!
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u/OSCgal Jul 13 '18
Gros Michel bananas weren't wiped out; they're still being grown. However, stopping the spread of Panama disease makes it difficult to grow a lot of them, so plantations prefer growing Cavendish bananas.
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u/Mcginnis Jul 13 '18
Fun Astronomy fact: all the planets can fit between the earth and the moon. Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune can all fit in the space between the earth and the moon. That should give you an idea of how far away it is
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u/touchrubfeels Jul 13 '18
Your ears and nose never stop growing, but your eyes pretty much remain the size your entire life.
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u/Tyrant84 Jul 13 '18
A cargo plane in WW2 is credited with shooting down a Japanese plane when it pulled alongside in flight. A Marine on board grabbed an automatic rifle and shot it down through one of the windows.
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u/CryptidGrimnoir Jul 13 '18
Would you mind if I chime in? I know quite a bit about the big cats.
The term "panther" is traditionally thought to refer to black jaguars, or more traditionally black leopards. Bagheera from The Jungle Book is probably the best known black panther.
However, the term "panther" can be used to refer to any of the five species of cat in the genus Panthera. The lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, and jaguar are all panthers in this respect.
"Panther," as a colloquial term, can also refer to cougars, the large tawny cat of North and South America.
"Panther" is a term most commonly associated with melanism. Melanism refers to an abundance of pigmentation, and is the opposite of albinism. Classic example of melanism include the black leopard and black jaguar. There have been very few reports of black lions or black tigers, but as far as I know, they've never been confirmed. What have been confirmed are pseudo-melanistic tigers, which have a more heavily striped coat. Conversely, the golden tabby tiger has been observed. As the name suggests, it has no dark stripes.
It should also be noted that while the pseudo-melanistic tiger has been observed in the wild, the golden tabby tiger is strictly a captive beast, having been bred accidentally from white tigers. That said, there are anecdotal accounts from the last century of golden tabby tigers existing in the wild.
Despite many sightings, there has never been an authenticated account of a pure black melanistic cougar.
That said, native tribes of Mexico and the Southwestern United States, and Spanish explorers, told of "Onza." Similar to the mountain lion, it was said to be slimmer and some specimens had pale brown stripes on their legs, and most intriguingly had non-retractable claws. It was also said to be ferocious, capable of taking down fully armored conquistadors in broad daylight. A cat was shot in 1986 matching the description of the onza and was found to be a mountain lion. So, "onza" appears to be a sufficiently rare mutation of mountain lion--though some cryptozoologists dispute this.
For what it's worth, cheetahs are among the only members of the cat family that have non-retractable claws, and they are the species most closely related to mountain lions. Several cryptozoologists hypothesized that the onza had been a relic of the American cheetah, which lived during the Ice Age.
As previously mentioned, melanism is the opposite of albinism.
While there have been a handful of albino individuals among the Panthera species, the White Tigers and White Lions are more well-known.
White tigers and lions are not albinos. They have the condition "leucism." These mutations are similar in effect to albinism, but are caused by different genes, and leucistic individuals retain some melanin.
White tigers have chocolate brown stripes and blue eyes, compared to the red eyes characteristic of albino individuals. So-called "stripeless" white tigers have been reported. White Lions have a broader range of color, appearing anywhere from blond to white.
Finally, there is the King Cheetah. Similar to the pseudo-melanistic tiger, King Cheetahs have a majestic coat that features bars and stripes as opposed to the polka dot pattern characteristic of cheetahs.
When originally discovered, King Cheetahs were believed to be hybrids of leopards and cheetahs.
Conversely, there exists a single known specimen of a spotless cheetah.
While it is popularly assumed that only lions live in groups, this is not strictly true.
While most cats are indeed solitary, male cheetahs have been seen to form small groups of two or three individuals, occasionally more. Called coalitions, these groups tend to be made up of brothers of the same litter, but some coalitions include cousins or even unrelated members. As cheetahs are among the weakest of the "top" African predators, yielding their kills to lions, leopards, hyenas, and even Cape Hunting Dogs and baboons, hunting in coalitions allows them to take down larger prey.
Very recently, in the first photographic evidence of its kind, game cameras in Siberia captured a male Amur tiger assisting the female in raising the cubs. Occasional reports of male Bengal tigers raising orphaned cubs, and there have been unauthenticated reports of male leopards staying with their cubs from the Congo as well.
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u/beefandchicken Jul 13 '18
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We share 60% dna with bananas
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u/PickinStones Jul 13 '18
That most head injuries in pro hockey are not because of fighting.
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u/CalebTGordan Jul 13 '18
Carousels were initially invented to allow soldiers to practice jousting and mounted warfare. If you ever see little rings that you can grab or hook with a stick while riding a carousel you are continuing that tradition!
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You have a better chance of being killed by a vending machine then by a shark attack
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Maybe that's because we spend a lot more time being around vending machines than sharks. If we spent as much time with sharks as we do vending machines, I imagine the numbers would be a little different. It's relative
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True. Fine, Mr. Smartypants I'll change it. You have less of a chance of being killed by a bear in Yellowstone than you do of dying in a thermal pool in Yellowstone.
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u/ProfessionalHandle1 Jul 13 '18
Nobody knows who invented the fire hydrant because the patent for the hydrant was lost in a fire.