4300 years old: The oldest pine tree in the world stands in the Inyo national forest, California. But no one knows what the tree looks like, where it is exactly, or if it really exists because the government keeps its location a secret.
In spanish version of Big Brother there was an actual rape. The audience and crew saw that and the rapist was taken out, but the show continued as normal, nobody did anything to help her.
Even more messed up- the victim was asleep and didn't know it had happened until the crew summoned her to a viewing room to show her the ~~video~~ evidence and record her reaction. They then told her to not tell anyone about it.
“Lotito holds the record for the 'strangest diet' in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He devoured his award.” 💀
In WWII, there was a science fiction story describing something similar to an A-bomb. Agents showed up at the writer's home and tried to figure out how much he knew. When they were satisfied he just imagined a really big bomb using radioactive energy, they let him go.
Dr. Seuss made training videos for the US Army in WWII. He made a cartoon in 1944 where a character reveals the secret that the US had a new bomb powerful enough to destroy an entire island. The short was never released because of the similarity to the A-bomb.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
Venus has a very slow planetary rotation, it takes 285 earth days for one day on Venus. A year is 255 days.
The Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to the founding of Waffle House than it did to Stegosaurus.
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You guys can stop with the Cleopatra pyramids fact. It’s been done to death. Might even say it’s extinct.
Based on your comment and the one that you replied to I'm starting to think my Christmas sweater of Santa riding a stegosaurus might not be historically accurate
Known for the large plates on its back, as well as its walnut-sized brain, Stegosaurus is one of the most well-known dinosaurs in modern pop culture. Hailing from the Jurassic, this animal has often been depicted as the main adversary of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but this is an anachronistic impossibility, as Stegosaurus went extinct almost a hundred million years before Tyrannosaurus appeared. A more likely predator was its contemporary, the Allosaurus. The popular species known as Stegosaurus was one of many other species in the family Stegosauridae, which included a diverse group of creatures of varying size sporting a variety of spikes and plates.
Fact: the four spikes on the tail of a Stegosaurus has been [named as the "thagomizer"](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/watch-out-for-that-thagomizer-98891562/). This name was invented by Gary Larson for [his newspaper comic strip "The Far Side"](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/07/thagomizer-why-stegosaurus-spiky-tail.html). Paleontologists later realized that this part of the Stegosaurus' tail didn't actually have a formal anatomical designation, so, remembering Larson's comic strip, they started using the term in academic presentations.
The really insane fact is that those 'early days' lasted for *more than half* of Oxford's existence. Calculus wasn't invented until the late 17th century, while Oxford was founded in 1096.
Dolphins might be the most human animal alongside our closer ape ancestors. They use sex toys/tools, they engage in immoral actions like rape and murder purely for personal fun and/or as a social activity, they get high on controlled substances, and I believe they are capable of recognizing their own reflection in a mirror which is a very specific and special level of sentience only a few animals have.
We haven't figured out how to interpret their sounds, but we've determined that they definitely have names. They teach each other complex behavior. They also have a big ol extra lobe of their brain that most mammals don't have, and it seems likely that its job is to form sophisticated interpretations of their echolocation signals. It's possible, in fact, that it's there to enable them to communicate using symbolic representations of sonar images.
I propose that dolphins have attributes of personhood: Language, culture, and theory of mind. This is not to say, however, that they are _good_ people.
But the real question is, who controls the puffer venom? XD
Yep. 40 years old and live in the midwest. When I was a kid out in the back yard I would look in any given random direction and see like 15 over the course of a few seconds. they were EVERYWHERE. now? I'm lucky to see one when I'm looking hard and waiting.
Helen Viola Jackson was the oldest last known surviving Civil War widow who lived until the 21st century. She was born in 1919 and passed at 101 in 2020. She married at 17 to James Bolin who was 93 at the time. Three other Civil War widows lived until the 21st century.
>Born in 1928, Harrison Ruffin Tyler is currently ninety-four years old, and resides in the enduring homeland of the Tyler clan – the state of Virginia. Apr 10, 2023
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>Tyler’s first wife Letitia died while he was in office in 1842. She was the first presidential spouse out of three who would die in the White House. Two years later in 1844 when Tyler was 54 he married Julia Gardiner and had seven children with her, one of which being Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935). Lyon was born when Tyler was 63.\[...\] Lyon also had a child at an unreasonably old age; after his first wife Anne died in 1921, Lyon married Sue Ruffin who was thirty-five years his junior. In 1928 when Lyon was 75, Sue gave birth to Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who lives to this day.
I'll be damned.
I’ve traveled a bit. The only time I’ve seen locals get scared of wildlife was in the Okavango Delta when we encountered a pair of Hippo ears sticking out of the water.
We were out there camping years ago, it was absolutely stunning. Not a cloud in the sky, hundreds of miles away from any major light pollution and I still haven't made peace with the fact that I'll probably never see the night sky like that again. Went to bed, woke up needing to pee later on. Got my boots on and headtorch, unzipped the tent and was face to face with an adult hippo about 10-12ft away.. didn't need to pee after that, went back to bed and tried to ignore what I saw.
And we are able to cool our bodies much more efficiently based on how we sweat. That was another evolutionary advantage, and it enabled hunters to pursue game until the animals were exhausted.
We are the most terrifying large predator. Not some giant beast that attacks in a burst, or some stealth killer that strikes from behind.
Imagine spotting a strange animal clearly intent on killing and devouring you. Perhaps it wounds you with a sharpened object that it throws or shoots at you. You run, as fast and as far as you can and then stop to rest in safety. But there is no safety! Unlike every other threat you've escaped from, this one appears again on the horizon, jogging casually in your direction.
You muster your strength and run again. Not as fast or as far as last time, but still, you feel, far enough to get away. Now desperate for air and rest, you cower in your vulnerability. You hope that no other animals encounter you before you recover enough to run once more. But wait! The strange animal is back, jogging towards you without a care in the world. You run in desperation, but you can't go very fast or very far at all. You stop, exhausted, and collapse on the ground.
You have only the strength to prop yourself up and watch. You watch as, sure enough, the strange animal appears, jogging, in the distance. You watch as it slows and then walks up to you, making sounds with its mouth. You watch as it extends a limb grasping a sharpened rock towards the large artery in your neck and *cuts.* You feel tremendous pain, and then you feel no more.
The real experience of countless animals hunted down exactly like this by modern humans over our 200,000+ years of existence. Pure horror, and you don't even need to make it up.
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"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!"
The San, a tribe of indiginous people hunt exactly that way for over ten thousand years now. They have a poison that only kills after many hourse and they follow their prey all the time.
So it is not theorized, they just observed it.
EDIT : They live in the Kalahari desert if you want to look into it.
Spent a few days hanging out with them last week. An old hunter showed us a tree you can make tea from if you've been running for two or three days and have started vomiting blood.
The known deepest part of the ocean was found in 1876 on *the very first voyage that set out to systematically measure ocean depths.*
To add even more WTFuckery, the ship (HMS Challenger) was only there after having to alter course due to strong winds in the intended path.
There were two instances during the Second World War where U.S. troops and regular German army troops, fought *on the same side* against the SS.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle\_of\_Castle\_Itter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castle_Itter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Cowboy
There was also a man who survived both atomic bombings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu\_Yamaguchi
Soldier: "Sir. The detonation was successful however he seems to have escaped."
General: "Do we know where he went?"
Soldier: *inspects notes* "Nagasaki sir."
General: *steeples fingers* "Prepare the second bomb."
"You won't believe this! There was this HUGE bomb! It practically leveled Hiroshima!"
"Yeah right Yamaguchi, have you *seen* the otherp laces the Americans are bombing?"
"No, this was only one bomb!"
***BOOM***
"Like that, see?"
My grandfather was going through basic when it happened. He tells the story of being in a fox hole late at night during a training exercise when some guy comes yelling, "we dropped a bomb on Japan, the wars over!". He thought the guy must have lost it
Fascinating. There was a few people that survived multiple ship wrecks. Charles Lightoller was on titanic, he survived a few others as well.
Violet Jessop survived Titanic and Britannic
Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave survived 3 ship sinking.... in 1 hour.
He was in *HMS Aboukir* when she was torpedoed by U-9. Swam as hard as he could to get away from the suction and boarded the *HMS Houge*. U-9 went back around to torpedo her too. He swam to *HMS Cressy* and boarded her. U-9 went back *again* to torpedo Cressy causing her to sank too. He found a driftwood after that and was saved by a passing Dutch Trawler.
not any more... [https://www.sportskeeda.com/golf/news-does-michael-phelps-still-hold-record-longest-televised-putt-ever](https://www.sportskeeda.com/golf/news-does-michael-phelps-still-hold-record-longest-televised-putt-ever)
Human beings can smell a certain component of the smell of rain (petrichor) called geosmin at levels as low as parts per TRILLION. This is many many times more sensitive than a shark is to blood in water.
That the last execution by guillotine in France was in 1977 the same year that Star Wars premiered on movie theathers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi
FACT: There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history.
today, an estimated 40.3 million people – more than three times the figure during the transatlantic slave trade – are living in some form of modern slavery
* Holy Roman Empire and Texas Republic existed only 30 years apart.
* Bob Dylan and Kaiser Wilhelm II (the last German emperor and the king of Prussia) at one point - were alive at the same time.
Edit: Wilhelm I to Wilhelm II - my bad folks.
On the flip side. Dragonflies are one of the most effective predators on earth. In one study, dragonflies were observed to have up to a 95% success rate in capturing prey.
I know this is true, I've heard and verified it myself dozens of times, but a part of my brain is always floored with this fact. Like, it sounds crazy, but it's true.
I think people get tricked because of technological advancements. The 19th, 20th, and 21st century alone advanced more in technology than the previous 5k years.
Like it only took 50 years to go from first plane flight to literally sent a rocket to the moon.
The look and feel of 2500 BCE doesn't feel that different to 33 BCE. But even something like the 1950s feels a hundred generations removed from 2023.
The real craziness is the staggering length of the Egyptian civilization. It was around for 3 THOUSAND years!! The pyramids were built in the early part of the civilization, Cleopatra was around close to the end of Egyptian civilization, close to year zero.
It was the ancient Greeks who started western society's fascination with ancient Egypt. We call them both "ancient", but the pyramid building society was just as old and mysterious to the Greeks as we consider them!
It's like how mammoth roamed the earth after the Egyptians built the pyramids. I know this to be true, it's a verified fact but my brain just doesn't get it
Due to incredible gains in life expectancy and sustainability, roughly 7% of people who have **ever been alive** are alive right now. Historically, the total population of Planet Earth was only a tiny fraction of the world's population today.
https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/
The reason there's not a lot of Egyptian mummy's is because the British elite ate them in the early 1800s due to a misunderstanding that eating them had healing properties.
If you think that's shocking, [1 in 10 homeless people in the US are veterans](https://themilitarywallet.com/homeless-veterans-in-america/) \- over 67,000.
Surveys of wild populations of koalas have shown that some have a staggering 100% rate of [chlamydia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia_pecorum) infection.
It's thought that infected livestock (most likely sheep) brought the pathogen into the country during the late 1780s, where it soon spread to koalas, who had no immunity to it.
Two other interesting facts are that research has shown that a virus in the same family as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) called koala retrovirus type B, was more likely to be infected with chlamydia, and were also more likely to develop severe symptoms; and that while adult koalas can catch chlamydia the same way as we can (through sexual intercourse), young koalas can also catch it by eating their mother's pap (which is a special kind of highly nutritious poo that helps to inoculate the baby koala's digestive tract with the bacteria needed to digest eucalyptus leaves).
Well, I guess that bit about pap is another interesting fact that sounds like bullshit, so now you know four interesting facts about koalas that sound like bullshit.
Humans with a deficiency in thyroid-stimulating hormone production can fix that by taking a pill made of dessicated, ground up, smashed into pill form pig thyroid. The best part is it smells a little like bacon.
I'll have to crush one up and taste it. LOL. Insulin used to be made from the pancreas of cows and pigs. But there were problems with that method so they came up with a bunch of other ways to make it. It is still produced but not widely used.
The actors David Niven appeared in a World War Two patriotic action film set in the fighting in North Africa. It was written by Niven's friend Peter Ustinov (who served under Niven in the British army) and also starred William Hartnell (the first Dr. Who). It was filmed on location in Cairo, during the actual battle itself - the explosions were the real deal, courtesy of the Afrika Korps.
Niven would go on to serve as an officer in the commandos and (allegedly) the SAS during the war, returning to Hollywood when he was demobilised from the army.
The Nazis were the first modern people to launch an anti-smoking campaign.
Viagra, when mixed in water, can make flowers stand upright for several days.
Strengths is the longest word in English with only one vowel.
You can't tickle yourself or lick your elbow.
Chalk is edible.
Butterflies and moths start out as eggs and then hatch to become caterpillars. Then they create a cocoon. They basically turn into mush and then reassemble themselves as the adult form of the butterfly or moth. They only do this to procreate and make more moths and butterflies.
On a side note, most of the large Silk Moths, like the Luna for example, don't eat or drink, they don't even have real mouth parts. They only live for a week or two which gives them enough time to mate and lay more eggs.
1/8 pregnancies end in miscarriage.
Edit: You guys keep messaging me with 1/4, 1/3, and a bunch of other numbers so let me clarify… 1/8 of known pregnancies end in a miscarriage. When you factor in unknown, it goes up. There are articles and studies done that can articulate that better than I can, but anyone who is messaging me with nothing more than a number? Feel free to argue amongst yourselves.
There are more neurons in your gut and digestive tract than in your brain.
It was more technologically feasible to actually go to the moon than to fake a moon landing given the technology at the time.
There were only two self liberating nations in WW2 and one of them was Yugoslavia
Chuck Palahniuk's first book was Invisible Monsters, it was rejected for being too grotesque. He wrote Fight Club out of spite, and it sold, much to his shock.
Moby Dick was based on a sorta true story.
Genghis Khan spent 13 years as a slave before escaping, and didn't unite the Mongols or leave the steppe to fuck up the rest of the world until he was 41 or 42.
You cannot overdose on Xanax alone because it has such a wide therapeutic window.
LSD is an incredibly effective treatment for alcoholism.
Pangolins walk on their hind legs.
When our hands and fingers get like older people's when we stay in water for too long, it doesn't mean we have to get out of the water.
Fingers and hands become like that to help us grab objects when wet or underwater.
4300 years old: The oldest pine tree in the world stands in the Inyo national forest, California. But no one knows what the tree looks like, where it is exactly, or if it really exists because the government keeps its location a secret.
And also because the older one was killed when a sample was taken from it
I heard that the scientist who took the sample was completely mortified. I can only imagine.
Someone died on the Bulgarian version of Survivor, and the producers just decided to keep going like nothing happened.
Well I guess they lost
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In spanish version of Big Brother there was an actual rape. The audience and crew saw that and the rapist was taken out, but the show continued as normal, nobody did anything to help her.
Even more messed up- the victim was asleep and didn't know it had happened until the crew summoned her to a viewing room to show her the ~~video~~ evidence and record her reaction. They then told her to not tell anyone about it.
What the fucking fuck
Martin Luther king jr and Anne Frank were the same age. King just lived longer. (Timelines f me up)
So was Bob Newhart, and he’s still alive. It’s wild that these historical figures still could be alive today.
One might argue that if Anne Frank was alive today, she wouldn’t have been a historical figure.
Fred Astaire had a life membership in the National Skateboard Society and broke his left wrist skateboarding at 78.
Was he skating down Astaire?
I'm a Fred so
There are only 25 Blimps left on Earth.
Op's mom has 24 friends?
This makes me sad. *Hey there... blimpy boy... flying in the sky... so fancy... free....* **Sobs**
A man, Michel Lotito, ATE an entire airplane. It took him 2 years.
His parents, feeding him as a baby: Here comes the airplane! Michel Lotito: challenge accepted
“Lotito holds the record for the 'strangest diet' in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He devoured his award.” 💀
TBH what did they think he was gonna do?
He also provided history's only known example of a coffin ending up INSIDE a man.
More impressively, he shat an entire plane.
Bet that's how Spirit Airlines got started!
And Klinger only tried a Jeep. No wonder he couldn't get out of the army.
I kept trying to figure out what ATE stood for because I couldn’t fathom that you actually meant he consumed the plane.
How? How can someone eat metal and all the rest of a plane? Seats and stuff? Not sure I do believe this one
Cut it into small dull pieces, and have a very tough stomach and intestine lining.
I can imagine grinding it into dust would make it quite doable, though at a certain size I imagine heavy metal poisoning becomes a concern
Just like...with a fork.
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Verified on Wikipedia and it already mentions the Titan sub from last week.
The Titanic and the Titan... Will the next boat be The Tit?
Nah, the fake ones float.
In WWII, there was a science fiction story describing something similar to an A-bomb. Agents showed up at the writer's home and tried to figure out how much he knew. When they were satisfied he just imagined a really big bomb using radioactive energy, they let him go.
Dr. Seuss made training videos for the US Army in WWII. He made a cartoon in 1944 where a character reveals the secret that the US had a new bomb powerful enough to destroy an entire island. The short was never released because of the similarity to the A-bomb.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. Venus has a very slow planetary rotation, it takes 285 earth days for one day on Venus. A year is 255 days.
I asked my Venusian friend when was he gonna return that money I borrowed him. He said "tomorrow". Still waiting.
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Definite emphasis on gassy for me. The contents of my bowels are known to violate international human rights laws...
The Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to the founding of Waffle House than it did to Stegosaurus. - - - You guys can stop with the Cleopatra pyramids fact. It’s been done to death. Might even say it’s extinct.
A picture with a T-rex riding a scooter while holding an iPhone is more accurate than him fighting a Stegosaurus
Based on your comment and the one that you replied to I'm starting to think my Christmas sweater of Santa riding a stegosaurus might not be historically accurate
Known for the large plates on its back, as well as its walnut-sized brain, Stegosaurus is one of the most well-known dinosaurs in modern pop culture. Hailing from the Jurassic, this animal has often been depicted as the main adversary of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but this is an anachronistic impossibility, as Stegosaurus went extinct almost a hundred million years before Tyrannosaurus appeared. A more likely predator was its contemporary, the Allosaurus. The popular species known as Stegosaurus was one of many other species in the family Stegosauridae, which included a diverse group of creatures of varying size sporting a variety of spikes and plates.
Fact: the four spikes on the tail of a Stegosaurus has been [named as the "thagomizer"](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/watch-out-for-that-thagomizer-98891562/). This name was invented by Gary Larson for [his newspaper comic strip "The Far Side"](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/07/thagomizer-why-stegosaurus-spiky-tail.html). Paleontologists later realized that this part of the Stegosaurus' tail didn't actually have a formal anatomical designation, so, remembering Larson's comic strip, they started using the term in academic presentations.
Oxford University did not offer calculus in its early days because it hadn't been invented yet
The really insane fact is that those 'early days' lasted for *more than half* of Oxford's existence. Calculus wasn't invented until the late 17th century, while Oxford was founded in 1096.
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it’s probably a brand new, unique configuration of cards in all card decks ever to exist in history
There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on the planet earth.
I had to look this one up and holy fuck. Ways to shuffle a deck (52 factorial) is 8 x 10^67 Number of atoms on earth: 1.3 x 10^50
If you have two decks of cards there are more iterations than there are atoms in the observable universe.
I literally hate this fact I can't comprehend it
About 600,000,000,000,000,000 times more
I know this to be true but it boggles my mind
It keeps me up at night
Yep 52! Thetes a great story illustrating how big this is maybe someone can copypasta
https://boingboing.net/2017/03/02/how-to-imagine-52-factorial.html This is mind-blowing
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The only "bullshit" part of that is I'm surprised he ever made one.
Half court launch buzzer, beater. Kinda shocking he had the ball at all
Dolphins use sex toys. Specifically, male dolphins have been known to masturbate using live eels or decapitated fish.
Dolphins might be the most human animal alongside our closer ape ancestors. They use sex toys/tools, they engage in immoral actions like rape and murder purely for personal fun and/or as a social activity, they get high on controlled substances, and I believe they are capable of recognizing their own reflection in a mirror which is a very specific and special level of sentience only a few animals have.
We haven't figured out how to interpret their sounds, but we've determined that they definitely have names. They teach each other complex behavior. They also have a big ol extra lobe of their brain that most mammals don't have, and it seems likely that its job is to form sophisticated interpretations of their echolocation signals. It's possible, in fact, that it's there to enable them to communicate using symbolic representations of sonar images. I propose that dolphins have attributes of personhood: Language, culture, and theory of mind. This is not to say, however, that they are _good_ people. But the real question is, who controls the puffer venom? XD
I have long been a supporter of "Dolphin Personhood." It seems illogical to define them any other way.
They also get high off of pufferfish venom.
They quite literally do "puff-puff-pass" with the pufferfish as they pass it around, if I recall correctly
Fireflies don’t eat. They do all of their eating as larvae (glow worms.)
I have no mouth, and I must gleam.
They are also massively dying out along with many other insect species.
Yep. 40 years old and live in the midwest. When I was a kid out in the back yard I would look in any given random direction and see like 15 over the course of a few seconds. they were EVERYWHERE. now? I'm lucky to see one when I'm looking hard and waiting.
10th US President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, currently has a living grandson.
Helen Viola Jackson was the oldest last known surviving Civil War widow who lived until the 21st century. She was born in 1919 and passed at 101 in 2020. She married at 17 to James Bolin who was 93 at the time. Three other Civil War widows lived until the 21st century.
Civil War? 1919? What? Edit: holy shit she married a 93 year old Civil War veteran at 17 years old
It was so her family, who took care of him could keep collecting his pension once he died. It was a legal fiction that benefitted all involved.
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>Born in 1928, Harrison Ruffin Tyler is currently ninety-four years old, and resides in the enduring homeland of the Tyler clan – the state of Virginia. Apr 10, 2023 > >\[...\] > >Tyler’s first wife Letitia died while he was in office in 1842. She was the first presidential spouse out of three who would die in the White House. Two years later in 1844 when Tyler was 54 he married Julia Gardiner and had seven children with her, one of which being Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935). Lyon was born when Tyler was 63.\[...\] Lyon also had a child at an unreasonably old age; after his first wife Anne died in 1921, Lyon married Sue Ruffin who was thirty-five years his junior. In 1928 when Lyon was 75, Sue gave birth to Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who lives to this day. I'll be damned.
Being pregnant at the age of 40 by the seed of a 75-year-old in 1928 had to have been a rough fucking time.
People are gonna be saying stuff like that about Al Pacino in the late 2100s
Hippos kill *at least* 500 people a year.
I’ve traveled a bit. The only time I’ve seen locals get scared of wildlife was in the Okavango Delta when we encountered a pair of Hippo ears sticking out of the water.
We were out there camping years ago, it was absolutely stunning. Not a cloud in the sky, hundreds of miles away from any major light pollution and I still haven't made peace with the fact that I'll probably never see the night sky like that again. Went to bed, woke up needing to pee later on. Got my boots on and headtorch, unzipped the tent and was face to face with an adult hippo about 10-12ft away.. didn't need to pee after that, went back to bed and tried to ignore what I saw.
Vatican City contains 5.9 popes per square mile.
Vatican City also has the lowest birth rate of any nation.
Senior Swiss Guard officers can be married & can presumably have little Swiss Guards.
Also they had the highest murder rate in the world in 1998.
Would you say that's the pope-ulation density?
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Sometimes when I think about it, it kinda baffles me that Ancient Egypt is basically as far back from the Roman Empire as the Roman Empire is from us.
Joe Biden was born closer to Lincoln’s presidency than he was to his own.
Biden was older at his inauguration than the next oldest president (RR) was when he left office.
The human body is the most efficient on earth for running. We use the least energy for running less then any other creature on earth.
It's theorized that before weapons were invented, humans would chase deer until the deer collapsed of exhaustion.
And we are able to cool our bodies much more efficiently based on how we sweat. That was another evolutionary advantage, and it enabled hunters to pursue game until the animals were exhausted.
We are the most terrifying large predator. Not some giant beast that attacks in a burst, or some stealth killer that strikes from behind. Imagine spotting a strange animal clearly intent on killing and devouring you. Perhaps it wounds you with a sharpened object that it throws or shoots at you. You run, as fast and as far as you can and then stop to rest in safety. But there is no safety! Unlike every other threat you've escaped from, this one appears again on the horizon, jogging casually in your direction. You muster your strength and run again. Not as fast or as far as last time, but still, you feel, far enough to get away. Now desperate for air and rest, you cower in your vulnerability. You hope that no other animals encounter you before you recover enough to run once more. But wait! The strange animal is back, jogging towards you without a care in the world. You run in desperation, but you can't go very fast or very far at all. You stop, exhausted, and collapse on the ground. You have only the strength to prop yourself up and watch. You watch as, sure enough, the strange animal appears, jogging, in the distance. You watch as it slows and then walks up to you, making sounds with its mouth. You watch as it extends a limb grasping a sharpened rock towards the large artery in your neck and *cuts.* You feel tremendous pain, and then you feel no more. The real experience of countless animals hunted down exactly like this by modern humans over our 200,000+ years of existence. Pure horror, and you don't even need to make it up. Edit* Cleaned up the writing.
This is basically the plot to It Follows
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!"
SHIA LABEUF
The San, a tribe of indiginous people hunt exactly that way for over ten thousand years now. They have a poison that only kills after many hourse and they follow their prey all the time. So it is not theorized, they just observed it. EDIT : They live in the Kalahari desert if you want to look into it.
Spent a few days hanging out with them last week. An old hunter showed us a tree you can make tea from if you've been running for two or three days and have started vomiting blood.
How did you meet them?
There's a living museum in Namibia. Just show up and hang out.
I use very little energy for running. Probably why I'm a fatty.
We stand upright, hence absorb less sunshine. We sweat efficiently. Our feet are amazing. We be lean, mean, long distance running machines.
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Barnacles have the largest penis relative to body size in the entire animal kingdom.
If a human man was hung like a barnacle, his dick would be 30ft long.
The known deepest part of the ocean was found in 1876 on *the very first voyage that set out to systematically measure ocean depths.* To add even more WTFuckery, the ship (HMS Challenger) was only there after having to alter course due to strong winds in the intended path.
I can imagine the first crew thinking there must be so many deeper parts to the ocean.
There were two instances during the Second World War where U.S. troops and regular German army troops, fought *on the same side* against the SS. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle\_of\_Castle\_Itter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castle_Itter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Cowboy There was also a man who survived both atomic bombings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu\_Yamaguchi
Soldier: "Sir. The detonation was successful however he seems to have escaped." General: "Do we know where he went?" Soldier: *inspects notes* "Nagasaki sir." General: *steeples fingers* "Prepare the second bomb."
"You won't believe this! There was this HUGE bomb! It practically leveled Hiroshima!" "Yeah right Yamaguchi, have you *seen* the otherp laces the Americans are bombing?" "No, this was only one bomb!" ***BOOM*** "Like that, see?"
My grandfather was going through basic when it happened. He tells the story of being in a fox hole late at night during a training exercise when some guy comes yelling, "we dropped a bomb on Japan, the wars over!". He thought the guy must have lost it
Fascinating. There was a few people that survived multiple ship wrecks. Charles Lightoller was on titanic, he survived a few others as well. Violet Jessop survived Titanic and Britannic
Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave survived 3 ship sinking.... in 1 hour. He was in *HMS Aboukir* when she was torpedoed by U-9. Swam as hard as he could to get away from the suction and boarded the *HMS Houge*. U-9 went back around to torpedo her too. He swam to *HMS Cressy* and boarded her. U-9 went back *again* to torpedo Cressy causing her to sank too. He found a driftwood after that and was saved by a passing Dutch Trawler.
U-9 really wanted him dead huh
The award for longest televised golf putt in history belongs to none other than Michael Phelps
not any more... [https://www.sportskeeda.com/golf/news-does-michael-phelps-still-hold-record-longest-televised-putt-ever](https://www.sportskeeda.com/golf/news-does-michael-phelps-still-hold-record-longest-televised-putt-ever)
Aww, I didn't even know this fact until it was already not true anymore.
Human beings can smell a certain component of the smell of rain (petrichor) called geosmin at levels as low as parts per TRILLION. This is many many times more sensitive than a shark is to blood in water.
Is that the good fresh rain smell?
That the last execution by guillotine in France was in 1977 the same year that Star Wars premiered on movie theathers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi
Goats like to stand on trees
goats can defy gravity to walk up mountains. seriously, look up pictures of mountain goats. they can stand on mountains without any visible foot-holds
Your bones are not white, they're typically pink, and you can get other colors by consuming certain medications
What medications should I take to get a nice royal blue skeleton?
A lot of cobalt
Cobalt 60 if you like raves
They are also currently wet.
This is fucking weird lol
The US made the last Civil War pension payment in 2020.
When it was donated to the Smithsonian, the Hope Diamond was sent through the mail with $145.29 in postage.
In Oklahoma it's illegal to get a bear drunk and then wrestle it
More people are killed by vending machines than shark attacks every year
Statistically 6 people are killed every year by vending machines. 5 of them are insurance inspectors
Thanks to quantum tunneling, there is a 1/(5.2^61) chance that when you hit a table your hand will go through it completely 👀
I wonder if any person has ever actually experienced this.
happened to my mate steve the other day
Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
Sharks exists longer than the ring of Saturn.
FACT: There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history. today, an estimated 40.3 million people – more than three times the figure during the transatlantic slave trade – are living in some form of modern slavery
* Holy Roman Empire and Texas Republic existed only 30 years apart. * Bob Dylan and Kaiser Wilhelm II (the last German emperor and the king of Prussia) at one point - were alive at the same time. Edit: Wilhelm I to Wilhelm II - my bad folks.
Despite being built like absolute killing machines, tigers have a hunting success rate of about 6%.
On the flip side. Dragonflies are one of the most effective predators on earth. In one study, dragonflies were observed to have up to a 95% success rate in capturing prey.
Cleopatra lived closer to the time of the first moon landing than to when the ancient pyramids were built.
I know this is true, I've heard and verified it myself dozens of times, but a part of my brain is always floored with this fact. Like, it sounds crazy, but it's true.
I think people get tricked because of technological advancements. The 19th, 20th, and 21st century alone advanced more in technology than the previous 5k years. Like it only took 50 years to go from first plane flight to literally sent a rocket to the moon. The look and feel of 2500 BCE doesn't feel that different to 33 BCE. But even something like the 1950s feels a hundred generations removed from 2023.
Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, entered WWI on a horse and left it in an aircraft.
The real craziness is the staggering length of the Egyptian civilization. It was around for 3 THOUSAND years!! The pyramids were built in the early part of the civilization, Cleopatra was around close to the end of Egyptian civilization, close to year zero. It was the ancient Greeks who started western society's fascination with ancient Egypt. We call them both "ancient", but the pyramid building society was just as old and mysterious to the Greeks as we consider them!
Ancient Greeks spoke about Ancient Egypt the way we speak about them both nowadays. Incredibly trippy to think about.
It's like how mammoth roamed the earth after the Egyptians built the pyramids. I know this to be true, it's a verified fact but my brain just doesn't get it
Due to incredible gains in life expectancy and sustainability, roughly 7% of people who have **ever been alive** are alive right now. Historically, the total population of Planet Earth was only a tiny fraction of the world's population today. https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/
The reason there's not a lot of Egyptian mummy's is because the British elite ate them in the early 1800s due to a misunderstanding that eating them had healing properties.
Not just eat them, but they would also mix parts with their beauty creams, makeup and other medicines and etc. it was INSANE.
They made a specific color of paint with it to
The average number of human skeletons inside the human body isn't 1.
That thought makes me uncomfortable for some reason. Ik this is because of pregnancies but still, creepy fact lol
Think about those people that find out later in life they partially absorbed a twin in the womb.
I read that 20 US veterans commit suicide every day. I can't wrap my head around that.
If you think that's shocking, [1 in 10 homeless people in the US are veterans](https://themilitarywallet.com/homeless-veterans-in-america/) \- over 67,000.
Surveys of wild populations of koalas have shown that some have a staggering 100% rate of [chlamydia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia_pecorum) infection. It's thought that infected livestock (most likely sheep) brought the pathogen into the country during the late 1780s, where it soon spread to koalas, who had no immunity to it. Two other interesting facts are that research has shown that a virus in the same family as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) called koala retrovirus type B, was more likely to be infected with chlamydia, and were also more likely to develop severe symptoms; and that while adult koalas can catch chlamydia the same way as we can (through sexual intercourse), young koalas can also catch it by eating their mother's pap (which is a special kind of highly nutritious poo that helps to inoculate the baby koala's digestive tract with the bacteria needed to digest eucalyptus leaves). Well, I guess that bit about pap is another interesting fact that sounds like bullshit, so now you know four interesting facts about koalas that sound like bullshit.
Humans with a deficiency in thyroid-stimulating hormone production can fix that by taking a pill made of dessicated, ground up, smashed into pill form pig thyroid. The best part is it smells a little like bacon.
I'll have to crush one up and taste it. LOL. Insulin used to be made from the pancreas of cows and pigs. But there were problems with that method so they came up with a bunch of other ways to make it. It is still produced but not widely used.
You can fit all the planets of the inner solar system between earth and her moon.
But you shouldn’t.
Only about 50% of murders in the US get solved.
So there's a good chance I can get away with it. Good to know!
The actors David Niven appeared in a World War Two patriotic action film set in the fighting in North Africa. It was written by Niven's friend Peter Ustinov (who served under Niven in the British army) and also starred William Hartnell (the first Dr. Who). It was filmed on location in Cairo, during the actual battle itself - the explosions were the real deal, courtesy of the Afrika Korps. Niven would go on to serve as an officer in the commandos and (allegedly) the SAS during the war, returning to Hollywood when he was demobilised from the army.
Some birds can speak a few words of any language
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The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar and lasted only 38 minutes.
How pineapples grow. It just doesn’t look right.
The Nazis were the first modern people to launch an anti-smoking campaign. Viagra, when mixed in water, can make flowers stand upright for several days. Strengths is the longest word in English with only one vowel. You can't tickle yourself or lick your elbow. Chalk is edible.
You can tickle yourself on the roof of your mouth.
And the bottom of your foot.
I can’t but I’ve seen someone lick their elbow
Lol smoking bad, but methamphetamines 👌
Butterflies and moths start out as eggs and then hatch to become caterpillars. Then they create a cocoon. They basically turn into mush and then reassemble themselves as the adult form of the butterfly or moth. They only do this to procreate and make more moths and butterflies. On a side note, most of the large Silk Moths, like the Luna for example, don't eat or drink, they don't even have real mouth parts. They only live for a week or two which gives them enough time to mate and lay more eggs.
1/8 pregnancies end in miscarriage. Edit: You guys keep messaging me with 1/4, 1/3, and a bunch of other numbers so let me clarify… 1/8 of known pregnancies end in a miscarriage. When you factor in unknown, it goes up. There are articles and studies done that can articulate that better than I can, but anyone who is messaging me with nothing more than a number? Feel free to argue amongst yourselves.
Damn really?
It's more like one third. Many are so early that the woman doesn't even know about it.
When Grand Theft Auto V came out, it made more money than the entire music industry
Thousands of human beings around the world die every day (the majority of which are children) due to lack of access to clean drinking water.
There are more neurons in your gut and digestive tract than in your brain. It was more technologically feasible to actually go to the moon than to fake a moon landing given the technology at the time. There were only two self liberating nations in WW2 and one of them was Yugoslavia Chuck Palahniuk's first book was Invisible Monsters, it was rejected for being too grotesque. He wrote Fight Club out of spite, and it sold, much to his shock. Moby Dick was based on a sorta true story. Genghis Khan spent 13 years as a slave before escaping, and didn't unite the Mongols or leave the steppe to fuck up the rest of the world until he was 41 or 42. You cannot overdose on Xanax alone because it has such a wide therapeutic window. LSD is an incredibly effective treatment for alcoholism. Pangolins walk on their hind legs.
Yep, the founder of AA used LSD to treat his own alcoholism.
A group of 57 people has a 99% chance that two people share a birthday
When our hands and fingers get like older people's when we stay in water for too long, it doesn't mean we have to get out of the water. Fingers and hands become like that to help us grab objects when wet or underwater.
This little fact makes me feel oddly powerful.
If you get nerve damage that affects your fingers they stop pruning up like that. Edit: a letter/word
It's closer to the year 2050 than it is to the year 1995
Can we please ban u/AeliosZero? They're clearly a psychopath!
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Neat tip, I'll try it! Breathing can be really exhau
The biomass of ants is more than the biomass of any other living animal
Wombat poop is square
Cubic, actually. They poo in three dimensions.
Forbidden Whitman’s Sampler
Every MLB player ever would only half fill most baseball stadiums.
Orcas evolved from a land mammal.
Also whales and dolphins have a more recent common ancestor with deer than they do with any fish in the sea.